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Eugene Henderson, a huge, restless millionaire pig farmer from Connecticut with a voice in him crying I want, I want, flies to Africa and walks into the interior looking for something.
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Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man
Felix Krull, the handsome son of a bankrupt Rhineland champagne maker, sets out to make his way through Paris hotels and European society on charm, mimicry and imposture.
Herzog
Moses Herzog, a middle-aged Jewish academic whose second wife has left him for his best friend, writes frantic, unsent letters to everyone, friends, enemies, philosophers and God, as his life collapses around him.
Humboldt's Gift
Charlie Citrine, a successful writer in 1970s Chicago, is losing his money to an ex-wife, a small-time gangster and a demanding girlfriend while he mourns Von Humboldt Fleisher, the brilliant, self-destructive poet who was his mentor.
Murphy
Murphy, an Irishman in London who likes nothing better than to tie himself naked in a rocking chair, is pushed by Celia, the prostitute who loves him, into finding a job, and finds one in a mental hospital.
Middle Passage
In 1830 Rutherford Calhoun, a freed slave and petty thief in New Orleans, stows away on a ship to escape a forced marriage, and finds it is a slaver bound for Africa.
Man and Superman
A play: John Tanner, a radical writer who fears marriage above all things, is made guardian of Ann Whitefield, who has quietly decided to marry him.
One, No One and One Hundred Thousand
When his wife remarks that his nose tilts to the right, Vitangelo Moscarda realises that everyone sees a different man, and sets out to destroy every one of the Moscardas others believe in.
The Broom of the System
A Cleveland switchboard operator searches for her great-grandmother, who has vanished from a nursing home with several other residents, while her boss courts her and her cockatiel starts preaching.
Bridge of Birds
When the children of his village fall into a deathly sleep, Number Ten Ox, a strong and simple peasant, hires Master Li Kao, a sage with a slight flaw in his character, to find the Great Root of Power that might cure them.
The Late Mattia Pascal
Unhappily married and in debt in a small Ligurian town, Mattia Pascal wins a fortune at Monte Carlo and, reading of his own death in the newspaper, decides to start a new life under a new name.
The Good Soldier Švejk
Josef Švejk, a dealer in stolen dogs in Prague and possibly an idiot, is called up when the First World War begins, and goes through the Austro-Hungarian army causing chaos.
The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared
On his hundredth birthday Allan Karlsson climbs out of the window of his old people's home in his slippers, walks off with a suitcase of a gang's cash at a bus station and sets off, while the story of his improbable life through the twentieth century unfolds.