"This is a Borzoi Book published by Alfred A. Knopf"--Title page verso.

The lost traveller's dream -- Don Quixote / Miguel de Cervantes -- Clarissa / Samuel Richardson -- Tom Jones / Henry Fielding -- Pride and prejudice / Jane Austen -- Emma / Jane Austen -- Persuasion / Jane Austen -- I promessi sposi (the bethrothed) / Alessandro Manzoni -- The red and black / Stendhal -- The charterhouse of Parma / Stendhal -- The vautrin saga: old goriot, lost illusions, the splendor and misery of the courtesans / Honoré de Balzac -- The captain's daughter / Alexander Pushkin -- Wuthering heights / Emily Brontë -- Vanity fair / William Makepeace Thackeray -- Moby-Dick / Herman Melville -- Bleak house / Charles Dickens -- Our mutual friend / Charles Dickens -- Madam Bovary / Gustave Flaubert -- Les Misérables / Victor Hugo -- A sportsman's notebook / Ivan Turgenev -- First love / Ivan Turgenev -- The cossacks / Leo Tolstoy -- War and peace / Leo Tolstoy -- Anna Karenina / Leo Tolstoy -- Hadji Murat / Leo Tolstoy -- The return of the native / Thomas Hardy -- The brothers Karamazov / Fyodor Dostoevsky -- The Princess Casamassima / Henry James -- The ambassadors / Henry James -- Nostromo / Joseph Conrad -- The secret agent / Joseph Conrad -- Under western eyes / Joseph Conrad -- The reef / Edith Wharton -- The rainbow / D. H. Lawrence -- Women in love / D. H. Lawrence -- Ulysses / James Joyce -- The magic mountain / Thomas Mann -- To the lighthouse / Virginia Woolfe -- In search of lost time / Marcel Proust -- The master and the margarita / Mikhail Bulgakov -- Absalom, Absalom! / William Faulkner -- The death of the heart / Elizabeth Bowen -- Invisible man / Ralph Ellison -- The left hand of darkness / Ursula K. Le Guin -- The dispossessed / Ursula K. Le Guin -- The loser / Thomas Bernhard -- Blood meridian / Cormac McCarthy -- The rings of Saturn / W. G. Sebald -- Book of numbers / Joshua Cohen -- Afterward : the changeling.