Editors: The Best from Five Decades

In over 1,100 pages of first-class writing, the reader will find works by Martin Amis, Saul Bellow, John Berryman, Keith Botsford, GV Desani, Herbert Gold, Mark Harris, Arthur Miller, SJ Perelman, Philip O'Connor, and many more. Plus fascinating, unseen writing by D.H Lawrence, Louis Guilloux and Victor Hugo. Little in this anthology has been published before in book form.

A literary giant, Saul Bellow loomed large over writers attempting the Great American Novel, since many would argue that he has already achieved this feat at least once over. He was considered a foremost chronicler of the Jewish-American post-war experience, but the "human understanding and subtle analysis of contemporary culture that are combined in his work" are what won him the Nobel, and helped him transcend cultural and national borders.