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First Novels: The English Teacher Looks at Some Great (And Not So Great) Beginnings - Page 3

Our maverick English Teacher looks at the first novels of 136 well-known writers, and is fascinated by the range of titles, which run the gamut from world renown to total obscurity. He wants to point out that first novel is not necessarily the same as first book; "Dubliners", for example, is Joyce's first book, but it's a collection of short stories, not a novel. Several were originally published under pseudonyms ( Gill Hunt was indeed John Brunner), and one author, Kenneth Millar, is better known by his pseudonym, Ross MacDonald.
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Night Soldiers
Night Soldiers
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovtich
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovtich
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One Man's Initiation: 1917 (John Dos Passos)
One Man's Initiation: 1917 (John Dos Passos)
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The Ox-Bow Incident (Walter Van Tilburg Clark)
The Ox-Bow Incident (Walter Van Tilburg Clark)
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The Path to the Nest of Spiders (Italo Calvino)
The Path to the Nest of Spiders (Italo Calvino)
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Patternmaster (Octavia Butler)
Patternmaster (Octavia Butler)
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Payment Deferred (C.S. Forester)
Payment Deferred (C.S. Forester)
88
Pebble in the Sky (Asimov)
Pebble in the Sky (Asimov)
89
The Pickwick Papers
The Pickwick Papers
90
Plan B
Plan B
91
Player Piano
Player Piano
92
Poor Folk and Other Stories (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
Poor Folk and Other Stories (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
93
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
94
The Postman Always Rings Twice (James M. Cain)
The Postman Always Rings Twice (James M. Cain)
95
Postmortem
Postmortem
96
Practical Demonkeeping (Christopher Moore)
Practical Demonkeeping (Christopher Moore)
97
The Primrose Path (Bram Stoker)
The Primrose Path (Bram Stoker)
98
A Princess of Mars (Edgar Rice Burroughs)
A Princess of Mars (Edgar Rice Burroughs)
99
The Professor
The Professor
100
Red Harvest (Dashiell Hammett)
Red Harvest (Dashiell Hammett)
101
Refiner's Fire (Mark Helprin)
Refiner's Fire (Mark Helprin)
102
The Revelation
The Revelation
103
The Road Through the Wall (Shirley Jackson)
The Road Through the Wall (Shirley Jackson)
104
Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe)
Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe)
105
Rocannon's World (Ursula K. Le Guin)
Rocannon's World (Ursula K. Le Guin)
106
Rules of Prey
Rules of Prey
107
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (Alan Sillitoe)
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (Alan Sillitoe)
108
Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen)
Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen)
109
The Skating Rink (Roberto Bolano)
The Skating Rink (Roberto Bolano)
110
The So Blue Marble (Dorothy B. Hughes)
The So Blue Marble (Dorothy B. Hughes)
111
Solar Lottery
Solar Lottery
112
Soldier's Pay (William Faulkner)
Soldier's Pay (William Faulkner)
113
Someone Is Bleeding (Richard Matheson)
Someone Is Bleeding (Richard Matheson)
114
Song of Kali
Song of Kali
115
The Stranger (Albert Camus)
The Stranger (Albert Camus)
116
A Study in Scarlet (Doyle)
A Study in Scarlet (Doyle)
117
A Summer to Die (Lois Lowry)
A Summer to Die (Lois Lowry)
118
The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway)
The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway)
119
The Surgeon by Tess Gerritsen
The Surgeon by Tess Gerritsen
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This Immortal (A.K.A. ...And Call Me Conrad)
This Immortal (A.K.A. ...And Call Me Conrad)
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