20th Century Books for the 21st Century Man

Discover the best 20th century books that resonate with the 21st century man. Explore timeless classics and influential reads that bridge generations and inspire modern thought.

The Magus Cover
Book

The Magus

by John Fowles

A man trapped in a millionare's deadly game of political and sexual betrayal Filled with shocks and chilling surprises, The Magus is a masterwork of …
Ulysses Cover
Book

Ulysses

by James Joyce

This revised volume of the acclaimed novel follows the complete unabridged text as corrected in 1961. Set entirely on one day, 16 June 1904, Ulysses …
The Unbearable Lightness of Being Cover
Book

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

by Milan Kundera

A young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing; one of his mistresses and her humbly …
The Master and Margarita Cover
Book

The Master and Margarita

by Mikhail Bulgakov

Originally published: Dana Point, Calif.: Ardis, 1995.
Suttree Cover
Book

Suttree

by Cormac McCarthy

From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road, here is the story of Cornelius Suttree, who has forsaken a …
Item Not Found
ID: 0802131794
(Type: book)
The Crying of Lot 49 Cover
Book

The Crying of Lot 49

by Thomas Pynchon

Oedipa Maas finds herself enmeshed in a worldwide conspiracy.
Blood Meridian Cover
Book

Blood Meridian

by Cormac McCarthy

25th ANNIVERSARY EDITION • From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road: an epic novel of the violence and …
Finnegans wake Cover
Book

Finnegans wake

 

No summary available.
Invitation to a Beheading Cover
Book

Invitation to a Beheading

by Vladimir Nabokov

Like Kafka's The Castle, Invitation to a Beheading embodies a vision of a bizarre and irrational world. In an unnamed dream country, the young man …
The Woman in the Dunes Cover
Book

The Woman in the Dunes

by Kobo Abe

The Woman in the Dunes, by celebrated writer and thinker Kobo Abe, combines the essence of myth, suspense and the existential novel. After missing the …
Pale Fire Cover
Book

Pale Fire

by Vladimir Nabokov

A darkly comic novel of suspense, literary idolatry and one-upmanship, and political intrigue from one of the leading writers of the twentieth century, the acclaimed …
Light in August Cover
Book

Light in August

by William Faulkner

From the Nobel Prize winner—one of the most highly acclaimed writers of the twentieth century—a novel set in the American South during Prohibition about hopeful …
My Name Is Red Cover
Book

My Name Is Red

by Orhan Pamuk

The Nobel Prize winner and one of today's most prominent contemporary Turkish writers delivers a novel that is a fiendishly devious mystery, a beguiling love …
Ada, Or Ardor Cover
Book

Ada, Or Ardor

by Vladimir Nabokov

Originally published by McGraw Hill Book Company in 1969.
Seize the Day Cover
Book

Seize the Day

by Saul Bellow

“What makes all of this so remarkable is not merely Bellow’s eye and ear for vital detail. Nor is it his talent for exposing the …
Item Not Found
ID: 067086577X
(Type: book)
Don Quixote Cover
Book

Don Quixote

 

No summary available.
Item Not Found
ID: 014100200X
(Type: book)
Gravity's Rainbow Cover
Book

Gravity's Rainbow

by Thomas Pynchon

In the mid-1960s, the publication of Pynchon's V and The Crying of Lot 49 introduced a brilliant new voice to American literature. Gravity's Rainbow, his …
Item Not Found
ID: 0679727256
(Type: book)
Love in the Time of Cholera Cover
Book

Love in the Time of Cholera

by Gabriel García Márquez

Set on the Caribbean coast of South America, this love story brings together Fermina Daza and Florentino Ariza, a man who has secretly loved her …
The French Lieutenant's Woman Cover
Book

The French Lieutenant's Woman

by John Fowles

The scene is the village of Lyme Regis on Dorset's Lyme Bay ... "the largest bite from the underside of England's out-stretched southwestern leg." The …
The Reivers Cover
Book

The Reivers

by William Faulkner

One of Faulkner’s comic masterpieces, The Reivers is a picaresque that tells of three unlikely car thieves from rural Mississippi. Eleven-year-old Lucius Priest is persuaded …