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'A comic masterpiece' —Patrick Gale, Guardian. Pillar of society and stern upholder of Victorian values, god-fearing Norfolk merchant John Barnard presides over a large and largely unhappy family. This is their story—his brandy-swilling wife, their hapless offspring, and their changing fortunes—over the decades. Sylvia Townsend Warner's last novel, The Flint Anchor, gloriously overturns our ideas of history, family, and storytelling itself.

Annette runs away from her finishing school but learns more than she bargained for in the real world beyond; the fierce and melancholy Rosa is torn between two Polish brothers; Peter is obsessed by an indecipherable ancient script. This is a story of a group of people under a spell, and the centre of it all is the mysterious Mischa Fox, the enchanter.

In this touching memoir of his boyhood on a farm in the Ozark foothills, Harry Middleton joins the front rank of nature writers alongside Edward Hoagland and Annie Dillard. It is the year 1965, a year rife with change in the world and in the life of a boy whose tragic loss of innocence leads him to the healing landscape of the Ozarks. Haunted by indescribable longing, twelve-year-old Harry is turned over to two enigmatic guardians, men as old as the hills they farm and as elusive and beautiful as the trout they fish for with religious devotion.

This novel tells the story of Alfred Cameron and his family, who enjoy a life of luxury. However, their family firm faces a growing threat from the encroaching railways and the determined Luther Gunnet, who will stop at nothing to lift his family out of the slums.

Winner of the National Book Award. The publication of this extraordinary volume firmly established Flannery O’Connor’s monumental contribution to American fiction. There are thirty-one stories here in all, including twelve that do not appear in the only two story collections O’Connor put together in her short lifetime—Everything That Rises Must Converge and A Good Man Is Hard to Find. O’Connor published her first story, “The Geranium,” in 1946, while she was working on her master’s degree at the University of Iowa.

Shiva Naipaul was the brother of V. S. Naipaul and author of Fireflies and The Chip-Chip Gatherers. The Chip-Chip Gatherers, his second novel, won the Whitbread Literary Award in 1973 and is set in Naipaul's native Trinidad. It includes a new foreword by Amit Chaudhuri. The crowded, ramshackle community of the Settlement in Trinidad is at the mercy of a tyrant. Egbert Ramsaran, the proud owner of the Ramsaran Transport Company, has become the richest man in town through sheer strength of will. He is a capricious, eccentric despot who loves nobody and whom nobody can afford to ignore.

Introduction by Richard Howorth and foreword by the author. The incomparable Lewis Nordan's first two collections of short fiction-Welcome to the Arrow-Catcher Fair and The All-Girl Football Team-originally published in 1983 and 1986, have long been out of print in all editions. Collectors' items, these two books are now almost impossible for Nordan fans to find anywhere.

In 1919, the same year *Demian* was published, seven of these stories appeared as a book entitled *Märchen*—literally, *Fairy Tales*.

The short fiction of a writer who helped shape the course of American literature. With a determined commitment to the history of his native land, Nathaniel Hawthorne revealed, more incisively than any writer of his generation, the nature of a distinctly American consciousness. The pieces collected here deal with essentially American matters: the Puritan past, the Indians, the Revolution. But Hawthorne was highly—often wickedly—unorthodox in his account of life in early America, and his precisely constructed plots quickly engage the reader's imagination.

This collection brings together twenty-one of Lardner’s best pieces, including the six Jack Keefe stories that comprise You Know Me, Al, as well as such familiar favorites as “Alibi Ike,” “Some Like Them Cold,” and “Gullible’s Travels.” For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines.