Shaken and Stirred

Now joining Everyman's Library — the permanent library of the world's greatest writers, printed on acid-free paper with sewn full cloth bindings — is an appealing new collection in a small Pocket Classics format, perfect for gift-giving and a pleasure to read.

Shaken and Stirred is an enticing literary cocktail Of stories about drinking and making merry by great writers from the past two centuries.

In this lively collection, wine snobs receive their comeuppance at the hands of Roald Dahl and Edgar Allan Poe; innocents over•-lmbibe in tales by Jack London and Alice Munro; riotous partying exacts a comic price in stories bv P. G. and Kingsley Amis; Charles Jackson and Jean Rhys chronicle liquor-soaked epiphanies; while John Cheever, Vladimir Nabokov and Robert Coover set their characters afloat on surreal, soul-revealing adventures. Here, too, are well-lubricated tales bv Dickens, Twain, Beckett, Colette, Dorothy Parker, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Doris Lessing, Frank O'Connor, Penelope Lively, and many more.

The settings include hotels and restaurants, a wine cellar in Italy, a café in Paris, a bar in Dublin, a New York nightclub, Jazz Age speakeasies, suburban lawn parties, and the occasional gaol cell, and are peopled by lovers and loners, barmen and chorus girls, youths taking their first sips and experienced tipplers waking with hangovers. Whether living it up or drowning their sorrows, the vividly drawn characters in these sparkling pages will leave you shaken and stirred.