The Modern Library: 200 Best Novels in English Since 1950

by Colm Toibin (Editor), Carmen Callil (Editor), Colm Toibin (Editor), Colm Toibin (Editor), Carmen Callil (Editor)

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  Hardcover
  1999

  $3.22

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  Paperback
  2000

  $3.22

  The indispensable guide for every readerAlarmed by the ignorance often displayed towards our literary past, Carmen Callil and Colm Toibin have chosen the 194 books since 1950 that they consider to be the best. Some familiar names - Naipaul, Updike, Bellow and Nabokov - rub shoulders with some real surprises like Mario Puzo and Thomas Harris. Witty, controversial and written to encourage reading, no household should be without The Modern Library