A Nasty Story
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky | 
Cold Comfort Farm
by Stella Gibbons | 
Portnoy's Complaint
by Philip Roth | 
Tortilla Flat
by John Steinbeck | 
The Pickwick Papers
by Charles Dickens | 
Lucky Jim
by Kingsley Amis | 
A Handful of Dust
by Evelyn Waugh | 
Excellent Women
by Barbara Pym | 
Scoop
by Evelyn Waugh | 
Decline and Fall
by Evelyn Waugh | 
The Loved One
by Evelyn Waugh | 
The Diary of a Nobody
by George Grossmith | 
The Poor Mouth
by Flann O'Brien | 
Travels with My Aunt
by Graham Greene | 
Ferdydurke
by Witold Gombrowicz | 
The House of God
by Samuel Shem | 
Harold and Maude
by Colin Higgins | 
Zazie in the Metro
by Raymond Queneau | 
A Far Cry from Kensington
by Muriel Spark | 
Tristram Shandy
by Laurence Sterne |
In this classic of Russian humor and social commentary, a fired cable fitter goes on a binge and hops a train to Petushki (where his "most beloved of trollops" awaits). On the way he bestows upon angels, fellow passengers, and the world at large a magnificent monologue on alcohol, politics, society, alcohol, philosophy, the pains of love, and, of course, alcohol.