Penguin twentieth-century classics

The saga of three generations of the Trask and Hamilton families in the early 1900s in Northern California.

Reprint of a 1934 text in which the author meditates upon the design and goals of literary culture, chronicling the conditions, ideas, and experiences that shaped American writing in the early twentieth century, and paying homage to the nurturing atmosphere of Paris in the 1920s.

Stella Gibbons' 1932 novel in which a young, educated orphan girl arrives at Cold Comfort Farm and sets her melodramatic relatives straight; has been called a satire of such authors as Thomas Hardy and D. H. Lawrence.