Robert Nye Book order (chronological)

In this raucous, rollicking romp, the most beloved comic figure in English literature tells his own unbuttoned story to set the record straight.

A half century after Shakespeare has departed, an old actor who claims to be an original member of the Bard's acting troupe sits down in an attic to write and set the record straight about his friend and mentor.

Now hailed as an American classic, Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller’s masterpiece, was banned as obscene in this country for twenty-seven years after its first publication in Paris in 1934. Only a historic court ruling that changed American censorship standards, ushering in a new era of freedom and frankness in modern literature, permitted the publication of this first volume of Miller’s famed mixture of memoir and fiction, which chronicles with unapologetic gusto the bawdy adventures of a young expatriate writer, his friends, and the characters they meet in Paris in the 1930s. Tropic of Cancer is now considered, as Norman Mailer said, "one of the ten or twenty great novels of our century."

He comes out of the darkness, moving in on his victims in deadly silence. When he leaves, a trail of blood is all that remains. He is a monster, Grendel, and all who know of him live in fear. Hrothgar, the king of the Danes, knows something must be done to stop Grendel. But who will guard the great hall he has built, where so many men have lost their lives to the monster while keeping watch? Only one man dares to stand up to Grendel's fury --Beowulf.

In gezelschap van een vriend, twaalf meisjes en een aantal dieren trekt Dr. Faust over de Alpen naar Rome om te proberen zijn lot te keren.