Once Upon a Time — a Floating Opera Countries and restore the family's imagined

and restore the family's imagined former glory

the Best European Fiction series has become a mainstay in the literary landscape

Andrej Blatnik [Slovenia] From You Do Understand

Winner of a 2007 American Academy of Arts and Letters

this edition includes Flaubert's Dictionary of Received Ideas

Once Upon a Time — a Floating Opera Countries and restore the family's imaginedA celebration of the power of narrative, of the questions it must ask and can answer New York Times A celebration of the power of narrative, of the questions it must ask and can answer [It is] brilliantly conceived, elegantly written, bursting with life, profound in its understanding, bawdy and funny, and comic in the wisest and best sense of the word. New York Times John Barth, a moderately successful novelist just turned sixty, decides to take a