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Collects Tolstoy's shorter fiction, offering insight into his life as a soldier, married life, interest in peasantry, belief in truth and simplicity, and interest in religion. (view table of contents)

A complete collection of short fiction by the creator of Philip Marlowe includes stories from two prior anthologies--Trouble Is My Business and The Simple Art of Murder--as well as 'Blackmailers Don't Shoot,' 'The Pencil,' 'English Summer,' and more. 35,000 first printing.

Presents a collection of both familiar and many unfamiliar short stories, including 'The Private Life,' 'A Round of Visits,' and 'The Turn of the Screw.' (view table of contents)

Presents a collection of both familiar and many unfamiliar short stories, including 'The Private Life,' 'A Round of Visits,' and 'The Turn of the Screw.' (view table of contents)

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The author describes life with his wife, Iris Murdoch, and her struggle with Alzheimer's disease

This 1981 book suggests an insightful approach to Hardy as a poet and novelist. With the novels in particular it concentrates not so much on ideas and attitudes as on the texture of the writing, and on the crucial importance in it between one kind of exposition and another. John Bayley starts by establishing a difference between Hardy the private 'noticer' of things and people, and Hardy the professional author committed to interpreting these observations to his readers. The vital ingredients of eroticism and humour are analysed in detail, as are the unusual ways in which passiveness, 'pessimism', and anthropomorphism function in the poems and novels, and an insightful reading of Tess is put forward. Professor Bayley shows that the rewards of reading Hardy are greater than ever, although they are not necessarily those which the reader expects, or has been taught to look for.

A collection of prose and poetry that has travelled with John Bayley for most of his 75 years. Unlike many anthologies, Bayley's is highly personal He remembers favourite books from his childhood and teenage years, and considers the ways in which books can raise the spirits.

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Product Description: John Bayley's only novel explores the effect of `the first cold winter of peace' on a group of British servicemen stationed after the war in a small town on the Rhine.

Author and literary critic John Bayley was married to novelist Iris Murdoch until her death in February 1999. In this memoir he recounts their life together, up to and including their realization that Dame Iris was suffering from Alzheimer's disease.

The husband of Iris Murdoch and author of Elegy for Iris, follows up his moving memoir of his wife's struggle with memory loss by recalling his own past, describing vivid scenes of his childhood in colonial India, his vacations on the English coast, his early love of literature, and his romance with Iris. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

The last year or so of Iris Murdoch's life provides the framework for this book, but within this structure, John Bayley returns to memories of his own earlier life, and of more than 40 years of marriage to Iris. He describes how he coped with her illness by using memory as a friend and consolation.

A collection of essays on the benefits and challenges of being, or living with, a writer includes Nadine Gordimer's reflections on living with herself, Margaret Drabble on her relationship with Malcolm Holroyd, and Paul Theroux's experiences with V. S. Naipaul.