Unfinished Business
In the wake of the posthumous publication of David Foster Wallace's unfinished novel The Pale King, we've turned our minds to other books brought to a premature halt. Books that have attained classic status range from Plato's story of Atlantis, Critias, to Irene Nemirovsky's recently unearthed Suite Francaise, and include acknowledged classics such as Kafka's The Castle and Jane Austen's Sanditon.
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Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol; Robert A.... Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in the provincial town of 'N', visiting a succession of landowners and making each a strange offer. He proposes to buy the names of dead... | F. Scott Fitzgerald; Edmund Wilson The studio lot looks like 'thirty acres of fairyland' the night that a mysterious woman stands and smiles at Monroe Stahr, the last of the great Hollywood princes. Enchanted by... |
Plato; Desmond Lee; Thomas Kjeller... A Socratic dialogue in two parts. It begins with a theoretical exposition of the cosmos and his story describing the creation of the universe, from its very beginning to the... | Truman Capote P B Jones discovers that bed-hopping rather than literary ability is the way to get published. He discovers along the way that prayers that are answered cause more pain than... |
Roberto Bolano One of the most talked-about novels of 2008: the visionary epic from a Latin American genius | J. R. R. Tolkien; Alan Lee;... Painstakingly restored from Tolkien's manuscripts and presented for the first time as a fully continuous and standalone story, this illustrated paperback of the epic tale of The Children of Hurin... |
Irene Nemirovsky; Sandra Smith Set during a year that begins with France's fall to the Nazis in June 1940 and ending with Germany turning its attention to Russia, this book falls into two parts... | Jane Austen Following a chance meeting with Mr and Mrs Parker, Charlotte Heywood accompanies them to their home in Sanditon, extravagantly vaunted by her hosts as the future epicentre of society summers... |
James Agee; Blake Morrison On a sultry summer night in 1915, Jay Follet leaves his house in Knoxville, Tennessee, to tend to his father, who he believes is dying. The summons turns out to... | Gustave Flaubert; Mark Polizzotti;... Includes Flaubert's Dictionary of received ideas. |
Franz Kafka; J. A. Underwood Kafka's novel is a study of relationships, particularly between the individual and society and between thought and action. K's isolation and perplexity and his begging for the approval of elusive... | Brian Herbert; Kevin J. Anderson Using Frank Herbert's final outline - hidden in a bank safe deposit box for eleven years - Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson now tell the grand climax of the... |
Jaroslav Hasek; Josef Lada; Cecil... Hasek's most important work was centered around the deeply funny story of a hapless Czech soldier in the Austro-Hungarian army. Dsmissed for incompetence only to be pressed into service by... | Charles Dickens; Margaret Cardwell 'Where is my nephew?, asked Mr Jasper, wildly. 'Where is your nephew?' repeated Neveille. 'Why do you ask me?' 'I ask you,' retorted Jasper, 'because you were the... |
Mark Twain; William M. Gibson; John ... An authoritative text that reproduces the manuscript which Mark Twain wrote last. | Vladimir Nabokov; Dmitri Nabokov A novel about a wonderfully large man called Philip Wild, married to a very promiscuous woman, and whose meditations concern the nature of death. Delivery: To home, business or free to our stores. Click for more info. | | | |  Available through Foyles Online Marketplace only | Currently out of stock | Click & Collect:Order now to collect from 11am today. In stock items only. Click for more info. | | | | Currently out of stock in all stores. | Stores - out of stock | New & Used:Our marketplace sellers will deliver to your chosen address. Click for more info. | From | £17.25 | |  In stock at one or more sellers. | Buy - Select Seller |
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