Read The Grapes of Wrath

George and Lennie and the farm they will never have; a hundred pages every school reads.

Cain and Abel in the Salinas Valley across two generations; Steinbeck's own favourite.

Steinbeck drives around America with a poodle in 1960 to see what it has become.

Four generations of a Lubeck merchant family in decline; Mann's Nobel novel at 26.

Seven years in a Davos sanatorium arguing about Europe before 1914.

Expatriates drink through Paris and Pamplona; Hemingway's lost generation.

The Compson family through four narrators, one of them Benjy; Faulkner's hardest and greatest.

A family carries their mother's coffin across Mississippi in fifty-nine monologues; "my mother is a fish".