Fiction
- John Updike: Couples (M,F)
"...Yet in his preoccupations, the indulgent sage of the East Coast perhaps had more in common with Mortimer. Not for nothing was he known as a "chronicler of suburban adultery". Updike's most famous novels – Couples, the Rabbit tetrology, The Witches of Eastwick – were peopled by characters, such as Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, who were lax-conscienced pleasure-seekers barely troubled by illicit sexual adventure."
- Kingsley Amis: That Uncertain Feeling (M,F)
- Leopoldo Alas: La Regenta (F)
- Malcolm Bradbury: The History Man (M,F)
- John Braine: The Jealous God (M,F)
- Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre (M,F)
- James M. Cain: The Postman Always Rings Twice (F)
- Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales (M,F)
- Kate Chopin: The Awakening (F)
- Albert Cohen: Belle du Seigneur (F)
- Ivy Compton-Burnett: A Heritage and Its History (F)
- F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby (M,F); Tender Is the Night (M,F)
- Gustave Flaubert: Madame Bovary (F)
- Theodor Fontane: Effi Briest (M,F)
- Ford Maddox Ford: The Good Soldier (M,F)
- C.S. Forester: Flying Colours, Lord Hornblower (M)
- Ellen Glasgow: Virginia (M)
- Graham Greene: The end of the affair (F); The Heart of the Matter (M)
- Mark Haddon: A Spot of Bother (F)
- Josephine Hart: Damage (M)
- Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter (F)
- Carl Hiaasen: Skinny Dip (M)
- Francis Iles: Malice Aforethought (M)
- John Irving: The World According to Garp (M,F)
- Milan Kundera: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (M)
- D. H. Lawrence: Lady Chatterley's Lover (F)
- David Lodge: Thinks ... (M)
- William Somerset Maugham: Liza of Lambeth (M)
- Arthur Miller: The Crucible (M,F)
- Nicholas Mosley: Natalie Natalia (M)
- Iris Murdoch: A Severed Head (M,F)
- John O'Hara: Elizabeth Appleton (F)
- Boris Pasternak: Doctor Zhivago (M)
- Raymond Radiguet: Le Bal du Comte d'Orgel (F)
- Irwin Shaw: Lucy Crown (F)
- Rabindranath Tagore: The Home and the World (F)
- Leo Tolstoy: Anna Karenina (M,F)
- Scott Turow: Presumed Innocent (M)
- Fay Weldon: The Life and Loves of a She-Devil (M)
- Edith Wharton: Ethan Frome (M)
- A. N. Wilson: Scandal (M,F)
- Richard Yates: Revolutionary Road (M,F)
- Stefan Zweig: Confusion: The Private Papers of Privy Councillor R. Von D (M)
- James Joyce: Ulysses (F)
- Machado de Assis: Dom Casmurro (F)
- Émile Zola: Thérèse Raquin (F)
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“If one doubts whether Grecian valor and patriotism are not a fiction of the poets, he may go to Athens and see still upon the walls of the temple of Minerva the circular marks made by the shields taken from the enemy in the Persian war, which were suspended there. We have not far to seek for living and unquestionable evidence. The very dust takes shape and confirms some story which we had read.”
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