Lonesome Dove, Letter to Parents
This novel is often called “the Great Western Novel”; when it was released in 1985, The New York Times called it “thrilling and perfectly realized.”
Our Mutual Friend
“I suppose you,” said Eugene, “judging from what I see as I look at you, to be rather too passionate for a good schoolmaster.”
The Sense of an Ending
“Some days since: nay, I can number them — four; it was last Monday night, a singular mood came over me: one in which grief replaced frenzy..."
For Sam or George
“They pant for an opportunity of revenging that humiliation; and if a contest, ending in a victory on their part, should ensue, elating them..."