Win complete set of Vintage Classic Twins
Suggest the pre-twentieth-century classic novel to twin with Midnight’s Children
6 August 2007
Perspective readers are being offered a chance to win the complete set of all ten Vintage Classic Twins.
The Question: In 1993 the first ever Booker of Bookers was awarded to Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie, when it was judged to be the best novel to have won the prize in the first 25 years of its history. For a chance to win the complete set of all ten Vintage Classic Twins (full list below) please send us your suggestion for the best pre-twentieth-century classic novel to twin with Midnight’s Children, and your reasons for this choice by 31st August 2007.
The winner will receive all twenty books in the Vintage Classic Twins set (full list below):
- Vintage Crime: Ripley’s Game by Patricia Highsmith & Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Vintage Fantasy: The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami & Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
- Vintage Fear: The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter & The Complete Fairy Tales by the Brothers Grimm
- Vintage Lies: Atonement by Ian McEwan & What Maisie Knew by Henry James
- Vintage Love: Possession by A.S. Byatt & Middlemarch by George Eliot
- Vintage Lust: The Rachel Papers by Martin Amis & Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
- Vintage Monsters: Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson & Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
- Vintage Satire: Atomised by Michel Houellebecq & Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
- Vintage Sin: Inferno by Dante Alighieri & Sabbath’s Theater by Philip Roth
- Vintage Youth: Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh & Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Entry Details: Please add Man Booker Competition in the subject bar of your email and send your entry to vintageclassics@randomhouse.co.uk. www.vintage-classics.com
The winning suggestion will be announced in the News section of the Man Booker website and the winner will be notified.
To read Vintage Classics Editorial Director, Liz Foley’s article on how to define a classic, go to Perspective magazine.
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