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The 100 Best Novels: In the English Language

By Robert McCrum (editor)

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Hardcover:

9781903385425 | Gardners Books, October 8, 2015, cover price $20.35

Train to Nowhere

By Robert McCrum

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Paperback:

9781907429828 | Gardners Books, September 30, 2014, cover price $15.45

The Love of the Last Tycoon / The Crack-up

Product Description: The Love of the Last Tycoon was originally published in 1941 as The Last Tycoon. The novel was inspired by the life of film producer Irving Thalberg, on whom its protagonist Monroe Stahr was based. The story follows Stahr's rise to power in Hollywood, and his conflicts with rival Pat Brady, a fictionalized version of Louis B...read more

By F. Scott Fitzgerald and Robert McCrum (foreword by)

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9781907429347 | Reprint edition (Casemate Pub & Book Dist Llc, November 15, 2012), cover price $17.99 | About this edition: The Love of the Last Tycoon was originally published in 1941 as The Last Tycoon.

Globish: How the English Language Became the World's Language

By Robert McCrum

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Hardcover:

9780393062557 | 1 edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, May 24, 2010), cover price $26.95

Paperback:

9780141027104 | Gardners Books, May 26, 2011, cover price $15.45

9780393339772 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, May 9, 2011), cover price $16.95

Miscellaneous:

9780307374578 | Doubleday of Canada, May 25, 2010, cover price $27.95

Just Enough Jeeves: Joy in the Morning / Very Good, Jeeves! / Right Ho, Jeeves

By Robert McCrum (introduced by) and P. G. Wodehouse

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Paperback:

9780393339437 | W W Norton & Co Inc, October 18, 2010, cover price $21.95

My Year Off: Rediscovering Life After a Stroke

Product Description: With an introduction by Henry Marsh, author of Do No Harm My brain, which had just let me down so badly, was perhaps never so active. The paramedics' question was a fundamental one. Who are you? Yes indeed. Who am I? Robert McCrum was forty-two when he suffered a massive stroke which left one side of his body totally paralysed, his speech drastically impaired, and his sense of himself radically altered...read more

By Robert McCrum

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Hardcover:

9780788198915 | Diane Pub Co, April 1, 1998, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: In July 1995, Robert McCrum age 42, woke to find he could not move.

Paperback:

9780330457118 | Pan Macmillan, May 2, 2008, cover price $16.10 | About this edition: With an introduction by Henry Marsh, author of Do No Harm My brain, which had just let me down so badly, was perhaps never so active.

Wodehouse: A Life

An affectionate portrait of the prolific twentieth-century comic writer discusses his creation of such characters as Jeeves, Psmith, and the Empress of Blandings; describes his contributions to Broadway and the London stage; details his internment in Berlin during World War II; and reveals a following of literary figures who are among his top fans. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

By Robert McCrum

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Hardcover:

9780393051599 | W W Norton & Co Inc, November 30, 2004, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: An affectionate portrait of the prolific twentieth-century comic writer discusses his creation of such characters as Jeeves, Psmith, and the Empress of Blandings; describes his contributions to Broadway and the London stage; details his internment in Berlin during World War II; and reveals a following of literary figures who are among his top fans.

Paperback:

9780393327519 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, November 1, 2005), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: A portrait of the prolific twentieth-century comic writer discusses his creation of such characters as Jeeves, Psmith, and the Empress of Blandings; describes his contributions to Broadway and the London stage; and details his internment in Berlin duringWorld War II.

9780141000480 | Gardners Books, September 1, 2005, cover price $19.35 | About this edition: One hundred years after his first novel was published P.

The Story of English

Thoroughly revised and updated, the new edition of the international bestseller tells the anecdotal history of the English language from its obscure Anglo-Saxon origins to its present status as the world's most prominent, expressive, and fast-growing international language. Original.

By Robert McCrum

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Hardcover:

9780670804672 | Mti edition (Viking Pr, September 1, 1986), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Tells the anecdotal history of the English language from its obscure Anglo-Saxon origins to its present status as the world's most prominent, expressive, and fast-growing international language

Paperback:

9780142002315 | 3 rev sub edition (Penguin USA, January 1, 2003), cover price $19.00 | About this edition: Presents the history of the English language from its obscure Anglo-Saxon origins to its present status as the world's most prominent and fast-growing international language.

9780140154054 | Rev sub edition (Penguin USA, June 1, 1993), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Tells the anecdotal history of the English language from its obscure Anglo-Saxon origins to its present status as the world's most prominent, expressive, and fast-growing international language

9780840340351, titled "Story of English" | Kendall Hunt Pub Co, June 1, 1986, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: The renowned and lavishly illustrated history of the evolution of the English language and the companion to PBS's acclaimed series--now completely revised and expanded.

My Year Off: Recovering Life After a Stroke

The author describes his struggle to cope with a stroke that felled him two months after his marriage and at the peak of his career, and his seemingly futile search for answers

By Robert McCrum

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9780767904001 | Reprint edition (Broadway Books, September 7, 1999), cover price $19.00 | About this edition: The author describes his struggle to cope with a stroke that felled him two months after his marriage and at the peak of his career, and his seemingly futile search for answers

My Year Off

The author describes his struggle to cope with a stroke that felled him two months after his marriage and at the peak of his career, and his seemingly futile search for answers

By Robert McCrum

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Hardcover:

9780783885841 | Large print edition (G K Hall & Co, April 1, 1999), cover price $28.95 | About this edition: The author describes his struggle to cope with a stroke that felled him two months after his marriage and at the peak of his career, and his seemingly futile search for answers

9780393046564 | W W Norton & Co Inc, September 1, 1998, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: The author describes his struggle to cope with a stroke that felled him two weeks after his marriage and at the peak of his career, and his seemingly futile search for answers

Suspicion

British barrister and district coroner Julian Whyte finds his peaceful, uneventful life jeopardized by the return of his older brother, Raymond, an expatriate communist intellectual, and his new German wife, Kristina, in a tale of brotherhood, guilt, betrayal, and death

By Robert McCrum

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Hardcover:

9780393040463 | W W Norton & Co Inc, March 1, 1997, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: British barrister and district coroner Julian Whyte finds his peaceful, uneventful life jeopardized by the return of his older brother, Raymond, an expatriate communist intellectual, and his new German wife, Kristina, in a tale of brotherhood, guilt, betrayal, and death

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780745153209 | Unabridged edition (Sterling Audio Books, September 1, 1997), cover price $69.95

Jubilee

Adrift in his career and marriage, former presidential speechwriter Sam Gilchrist retreats to Cape Cod, where he recalls his involvement in a covert plan to topple a liberal British administration, a plot that tests his personal and professional allegiances.

By Robert McCrum

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Hardcover:

9780679429876 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, June 1, 1994, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Adrift in his career and marriage, former presidential speechwriter Sam Gilchrist retreats to Cape Cod, where he recalls his involvement in a covert plan to topple a liberal British administration, a plot that tests his personal and professional allegiances

The World Is a Banana

By Robert McCrum

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Hardcover:

9780745116112 | Large print edition (Chivers, November 1, 1992), cover price $13.95

Mainland

After lobbying around the world, political consultant Stephen Mallory returns to his home office and gets involved in a dangerous assignment and risky love affair, both of which blur the lines between loyalty and betrayal. 12,500 first printing.

By Robert McCrum

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Hardcover:

9780679404736 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, March 1, 1992, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: After lobbying around the world, political consultant Stephen Mallory returns to his home office and gets involved in a dangerous assignment and risky love affair, both of which blur the lines between loyalty and betrayal

The Fabulous Englishman

The English author Christopher Iles through his correspondence with a Czech bookseller becomes involved in Czechoslovakian politics

By Robert McCrum

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Hardcover:

9780395377765 | Houghton Mifflin, May 1, 1985, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The English author Christopher Iles through his correspondence with a Czech bookseller becomes involved in Czechoslovakian politics

The Brontosaurus Birthday Cake

When Bobby's brontosaurus birthday cake turns into a real creature and begins to grow, both problems and joys begin.

By Michael Foreman (illustrator) and Robert McCrum

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Hardcover:

9780671507626 | Simon & Schuster, August 1, 1984, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: When Bobby's brontosaurus birthday cake turns into a real creature and begins to grow, both problems and joys begin.

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