A Window on the Universe
10 best books like A Window on the Universe (Jennifer Bassett): Pfitz, The Rough Guide to Cult Fiction, The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-de-Siècle France, The Oxford Book of English Short Stories, The Total Library: Non-Fiction 1922-1986, Aqua Erotica: 18 Stories for a Steamy Bath, The Unimaginable Mathematics of Borges' Library of Babel, Literature and Its Writers: A Compact Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama, Time For Bed, Crime Never Pays
| Author | Andrew Crumey |
| ISBN | 1909232807 |
"Pfitz manifests the same healthy disdain for realism that made his first novel, Music in a Foreign Language, such a pleasant surprise. His borrowings from Borges, Calvino and Pavic are here just as shameless. But at this rate Crumey may yet become a hero to fans of the postmodern Euro-novel who wonder...
| Author | Paul Simpson |
| ISBN | 1843533871 |
This new Rough Guide will make you a literary buff in the time it takes to say Jack Kerouac. Even if you already know your Hunter S Thompson from your Jim Thompson, you''ll still find it hard to resist a book which tells you which cult novel has been implicated in assassinations, which world famous novelist...
The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-de-Siècle France
| Author | Asti Hustvedt |
| ISBN | 1890951072 |
In France at the end of the nineteenth century, progress and material prosperity coincided with widespread alarm about disease and decay. The obsessions of our own culture as the twentieth century came to a close resonate strikingly with those of the last fin-de-siecle: crime, pollution, sexually...
From Anthony Trollope, Charles Dickens, and Thomas Hardy through Rudyard Kipling, H.G. Wells, D.H. Lawrence, and Virginia Woolf, right up to Graham Greene, J.G. Ballard, Angela Carter, Ian McEwan, and many others, The Oxford Book of English Short Stories exhibits the capacious and often capricious...
| Author | Jorge Luis Borges |
| ISBN | 0141183020 |
Though best known in the English speaking world for his short fictions and poems, Borges is revered in Latin America equally as an immensely prolific and beguiling writer of non-fiction prose. In The Total Library, more than 150 of Borges' most brilliant pieces are brought together for the first time...
| Author | Mary Anne Mohanraj |
| ISBN | 0609806564 |
Imagine a hot tub party where a married couple tests the boundaries of fidelity. A model who finds herself unaccountably aroused as she poses for a watercolor artist. A pool of water on a desert road and two lovers who know how to make the most of it. This is Aqua Erotica, a sensuous tasting of desire's liquid,...
The Unimaginable Mathematics of Borges' Library of Babel
| Author | William Goldbloom Bloch |
| ISBN | 0195334574 |
"The Library of Babel" is arguably Jorge Luis Borges' best known story--memorialized along with Borges on an Argentine postage stamp. Now, in The Unimaginable Mathematics of Borges' Library of Babel, William Goldbloom Bloch takes readers on a fascinating tour of the mathematical ideas hidden within...
Literature and Its Writers: A Compact Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama
Literature is a conversation — between writers and other writers, and between writers and readers. In Literature and Its Writers, Ann and Samuel Charters complement a rich and varied selection of stories, poems, and plays with an unparalleled array of commentaries about that literature by the...
| Author | David Baddiel |
| ISBN | 0349113556 |
Although this is his debut novel, this is my second David Baddiel book (also read Whatever Love Means), and I enjoyed both immensely. This is a very funny book (Brit humor) about relationships between two brothers and two sisters. One of the couples is married, and the other brother (an insomniac) is...
Murder: the unlawful, intentional killing of a human being - a terrible crime. But murder stories are always fascinating. Who did it? And how? Or why? And was it murder, or just an unfortunate accident? Who will triumph, the murderer or the detective? This collection contains a wide range of murder stories,...
| Author | Kingsley Amis |
| ISBN | 0312206577 |
A Parthian shot from one of the most important figures in post-war British fiction, The King's English is the late Kingsley Amis's last word on the state of the language. More frolicsome than Fowler's Modern Usage, lighter than the Oxford English Dictionary, and brimming with the strong opinions and...
| Author | Martin Amis |
| ISBN | 0224076108 |
"The English language bows deeper to Amis than anyone else." "The Daily Telegraph" (UK)
A master not only of fiction but also of fiercely controversial political engagement, Martin Amis here gathers fourteen pieces that constitute an evolving, provocative and insightful examination of the...
| Author | Mel R. Thompson |
| ISBN | 0340926953 |
از اخرین باری که توی گودریدز نوشتم بیشتر از دو ماه میگذره،مدتهاس این کتاب دستمه و حوصله نداشتم بخونمش،برای کسایی که فلسفه نخوندن میتونه مفید باشه ولی کسل...
This collection of more than five hundred quotations captures the wisdom and wit of the most insightful things ever said about books, spoken and written by such legendary figures as: Aeschylus; Ernest Hemingway; John Ruskin; Woody Allen; Thomas Jefferson; Charles Scribner; Maya Angelou; Franz...
| Author | Gardner Dozois |
| ISBN | 0312157029 |
Presents 23 of the finest science-fiction works of 1995, including stories by such diverse writers as Michael Bishop, Terry Bisson, Greg Egan, Nancy Kress, Ursula K. Le Guin, Maureen F. McHugh, Mike Resnick, and others.
Contents
ix • Summation: 1996 • essay by Gardner Dozois
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تحبك املي نصر الله نسيج روايتها هذه شاهدا على عصر وبيئة، ومرآة لحركة في الحضارة والتاريخ من خلال نماذج بشرية تعكس في تصرفها ومشاعرها وافكارها ادق تموجات...
| Author | Andrew Sanders |
| ISBN | 0198186967 |
The Short Oxford History of English Literature provides a comprehensive and authoritative introductory guide to the literature of the British Isles from the Anglo-Saxon period to the present day, including a full treatment of Irish, Scottish, and Welsh writing in English.
The chapters...
| Author | Pascal Bruckner |
| ISBN | 1892941562 |
"Democracy is a spiritual and moral treasure shared by all of humanity and which, in each society, can be a device to hold evil at bay, to prevent the triumph of force and arbitrary power. ... but are the Western democracies still interested in defending rights and freedom beyond their own borders, now...
Destruction of the Father/Reconstruction of the Father: Writings and Interviews, 1923–1997
| Author | Louise Bourgeois |
| ISBN | 0262522462 |
Since the age of twelve, the internationally renowned sculptor Louise Bourgeois has been writing - writing and drawing. First a diary precisely recounting the everyday events of her family life, then notes and reflections. Destruction of the Father - the title comes from the name of a sculpture she...
| Author | John Gross |
| ISBN | 0192840894 |
Now in a more readable format, this sweeping collection ranges from the early 1600s through the 1980s and includes 140 essays by 120 of the finest writers in the history of the English language. John Gross, former book critic for The New York Times, has collected classics and rare gems, representative...
The Outlaw Bible of American Literature
| Author | Alan Kaufman |
| ISBN | 1560255501 |
The Outlaw Bible of American Literature will serve as a primer for generational revolt and an enduring document of the visionary tradition of authenticity and nonconformity in literature. This exuberant manifesto includes lives of the writers, on-the-scene testimony, seminal underground articles...
| Author | João Carlos Marinho |
| ISBN | 8526010476 |
Este é o livro que inaugurou a turma do gordo. Seu Tomé é um homem bom, proprietário de uma fábrica de figurinhas de futebol. Existem as fáceis e as difíceis, fabricadas em menor quantidade. Quem enche o álbum ganha prêmios realmente bons. Mas surge uma fábrica clandestina que fabrica as figurinhas...
| Author | André Breton |
| ISBN | 0947757031 |
If the eyes are the mirror of the soul then the language is the mirror of the mind… It’s enough to make a mirror a little bit concave or convex and then the reflections will be full of new wondrous meanings and colours.
The corridors of the big hotels are empty and the cigar smoke is hiding. A man comes...
