Vintage international

Chaos prevails when the bubonic plague strikes the Algerian coastal city of Oran.

John Shade, a homebody poet in New Wye, U.S.A., writes a 999-line poem in the last twenty days of his life which is then acquired and annotated by his crazy neighbor, Charles Kinbote.

Presents the complete, unabridged text of James Joyce's "Ulysses," as corrected and reset in 1961, with page references to the 1934 edition, the author's original foreword, and a reprinting of the 1933 court decision to lift the federal ban on the book.

A history of the men in the author's family. Describes their pains and joys as they become American.

The portrait of a perfect English butler and of his fading, insular world in postwar England. He begins to question whether his long-time service to Lord Darlington was truly given to what he thought was "a great gentleman".