The Comedians
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Published: September 30, 1976
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780140027662
First sentence: WHEN I think of all the grey memorials erected in London to equestrian generals, the heroes of old colonial wars, and to frock-coated politicians who are even more deeply forgotten, I can find no reason to mock the modest stone that commemorates Jones on the far side of the international road which he failed to cross in a country far from home, though I am not to this day absolutely sure of where, geographically speaking, Jones's home lay.