Bite Sized Classics, Anne Enright, Unusual Narrators and Pulitzer Prize

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Bite Sized Classics A selection of classic novels have just been re-published by Orion, all edited down to under 400 pages. Are these compact editions butchery of works of art, or in a country where 98% of adults don't read the classics at all, a good way of making these books more accessible? Mariella is joined by the Deputy Chief Executive Officer and publisher at Orion, Malcolm Edwards, and John Bowen, Professor of Literature at York University. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy Publisher: Orion David Copperfield – Charles Dickens Publisher: Orion Moby Dick – Herman Melville Publisher: Orion The Mill On The Floss – George Eliot Publisher: Orion Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray Publisher: Orion Wives and Daughters – Elizabeth Gaskell Publisher: Orion Anne Enright As her new book, The Gathering, is published, Mariella talks to Anne Enright about large families, materialism and whether knowledge traps you or sets you free. The Gathering – Anne Enright Publisher: Jonathan Cape The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch – Anne Enright Publisher: Vintage What Are You Like – Anne Enright Publisher: Vintage Unusual Narrators Authors have often turned to unorthodox narrators, so Mariella hears from Francis Spufford, Leonie Swann and Joshua Ferris about the benefits of speaking through bananas, sheep and toasters. Three Bags Full – Leonie Swann Publisher: Black Swan Then We Came To The End – Joshua Ferris Publisher: Viking Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens Publisher: Penguin Then We Came To The End – Joshua Ferris Publisher: Viking The Child That Books Built - Francis Spufford Publisher: Faber and Faber I May Be Some Time: Ice And The English Imagination - Francis Spufford Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan The Vintage Book Of The Devil - Francis Spufford Publisher: Vintage The Last Witch Finder - James Morrow Publisher: Phoenix The Brave Little Toaster - Thomas M Disch Publisher: Doubleday A Rose For Emily - William Faulkner Publisher: Dramatic Pulitzer Prize This year see's the 90th anniversary of the Pulitzer Prize, named after the media baron and philanthropist Joseph Pulitzer. To hear more about the prize, and this year's winner Cormac McCarthy, Mariella is joined by Sig Gissler, administrator of the prize since 2002. The Road – Cormac McCarthy Publisher: Picador March - Geraldine Brooks Publisher: HarperPerennial For Whom The Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway Publisher: Arrow The Old Man And The Sea - Ernest Hemingway Publisher: Arrow