Half a dozen of the greatest novels of the last century, each highly original and, once read, never forgotten. Smiley won a Pulitzer for her transposition of King Lear to the American Mid-West, just as Robinson did with her compassionate and gentle novel about two sisters growing up in Idaho. Bedford and Lampedusa’s novels are both semi-autobiographical, set in vanished worlds. The Good Soldier – a perennial favourite at Sandoe’s – remains one of the most brilliantly executed novels in the English language, with its careful layers and slow revelations about two marriages. Carr’s spare and haunting short novel about lost love and the consolation of art is likewise a constant favourite.

This bundle includes:

The Leopard, Guiseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
A Month in the Country, J. L. Carr
A Legacy, Sybille Bedford
The Good Soldier, Ford Madox Ford
A Thousand Acres, Jane Smiley
Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson

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