An Ideal Husband; A Woman of No Importance
10 best books like An Ideal Husband; A Woman of No Importance (Oscar Wilde): Two Old Fools on a Camel: From Spain to Bahrain and Back Again, The Beggars' Strike, Xala, The Painted Veil, The Vicious Vet, El inventor de juegos, The Pastures of Heaven, The Return of Mister Campion, Crossing the Mangrove, Los santos inocentes
Two Old Fools on a Camel: From Spain to Bahrain and Back Again
I found the couple very naive; the points raised in their orientation about local culture was stuff that shouldn't have been as much of a surprise to them. The teaching jobs turned out quite badly with little to offset that downbeat atmosphere; the stories of their colleagues' experiences were largely...
| Author | Aminata Sow Fall |
| ISBN | 0582002435 |
The sight of disease-ridden beggars in the streets is giving the town a bad name, and the tourists are starting to stay away. If the Director of Public Health and Hygiene can get rid of them he will have done a great service to the health and economy of the nation - not to mention his own promotion prospects....
| Author | Ousmane Sembène |
| ISBN | 1556520700 |
Needing a book starting with the letter X for an A to Z title challenge, I selected Ousmane Sembene's Xala. Last year as I focused on reading books by women of color from around the globe, my books by men of color were lacking. Looking back I think I read less than five, so reading more men of color is a goal of...
| Author | W. Somerset Maugham |
| ISBN | 0307277771 |
Set in England and Hong Kong in the 1920s, The Painted Veil is the story of the beautiful, but love-starved Kitty Fane.
When her husband discovers her adulterous affair, he forces her to accompany him to the heart of a cholera epidemic. Stripped of the British society of her youth and the small...
| Author | M.C. Beaton |
| ISBN | 0312939450 |
After reading many glowing reviews of the Agatha Raisin series, I was pleased to find a copy of this book for 50c at our local thrift store. I just read it in a couple of days, but that does not mean that it was so gripping that I could scarcely put it down. It was because it's not that long a book, and I wanted to...
| Author | Pablo De Santis |
| ISBN | 9505118988 |
Iván Dragó participa en un concurso de juegos. Inventa un juego y recibe una carta en la que le dicen que ha resultado elegido entre otros diez mil chicos. Esta situación le cambia la vida. Sus padres desaparecen y se ve obligado a vivir, primero con su tía y luego con su abuelo, el famoso inventor de...
| Author | John Steinbeck |
| ISBN | 0141186097 |
Each of these delightful interconnected tales is devoted to a family living in a fertile valley on the outskirts of Monterey, California, and the effects that one particular family has on them all. Steinbeck tackles two important literary traditions here; American naturalism, with its focus on the...
| Author | Margery Allingham |
| ISBN | 0380714485 |
A jilted Japanese suitor who plots an exotic and melodic revenge… A phony fortuneteller whose bogus predictions put him behind his own crystal eight-ball… A diabolical cosmetician determined to prove that beauty is skin deep but evil goes to the bone… Now gentleman detective Albert Campion...
| Author | Maryse Condé |
| ISBN | 0385476337 |
In this beautifully crafted, Rashomon-like novel, Maryse Conde has written a gripping story imbued with all the nuances and traditions of Caribbean culture. Francis Sancher--a handsome outsider, loved by some and reviled by others--is found dead, face down in the mud on a path outside Riviere au...
| Author | Miguel Delibes |
| ISBN | 8408020471 |
Desgarrador retrato de la pobreza económica y moral de los años sesenta, que además supone una brutal crítica a la alta sociedad de la época, representada en esta novela por medio de unos señoritos, propietarios de un cortijo extremeño y propietarios, también, de una familia de campesinos....
| Author | Pío Baroja |
| ISBN | 8420660671 |
Aunque la fama de Pío Baroja (1872-1956) descanse en su obra novelística, de la cual es muestra destacada «El árbol de la ciencia» (BA 0374), también sus relatos breves expresan la sensibilidad lírica, la fuerza descriptiva, la imaginación argumental y la capacidad de creación de personajes...
« Rangez ces ouvrages compliqués, les livres comptables feront l’affaire. Ne soyez ni fier, ni spirituel, ni même à l’aise, vous risqueriez de paraître arrogant. Atténuez vos passions, elles font peur. Surtout, aucune “bonne idée”, la déchiqueteuse en est pleine. Ce regard...
| Author | Farley Mowat |
| ISBN | 0771066791 |
The Black Joke is a rousing sea story in the tradition of the great classic pirate tales. The time is the 1930s. The loot is bootleg liquor, not pirate gold. The ship is the “Black Joke”, the speediest, nimblest craft on the Newfoundland coast – with Jonathon Spence owner and master. An unwelcome...
| Author | Alan Cheuse |
| ISBN | 0977679918 |
Finely-honed portraits of hope and change, these two novellas are linked so skillfully that they achieve the intensity of a single novel in which some characters succeed and others fail on separate but equally compelling quests. In "The Fires," Gina Morgan makes a pilgrimage to Uzbekistan...
Olivia Puccini was only 24 years old when she left her cozy apartment in the Twin Cities, a promising career, and friends behind to move to the post-Soviet nation of Armenia—the last place that Olivia ever expected to call “home.” If anything, the adventure of living in an obscure, developing...
The Emperor and the Elephants: A Peace Corps Volunteer's Story of Life During the Late 1970s in the Central African Empire
| Author | Richard W. Carroll |
| ISBN | 1935925709 |
"The Emperor and the Elephants" is a deeply moving memoir chronicling one Peace Corps volunteer's fascinating experiences in the Central African Republic during the late 1970s.
After hiking the Appalachian Trail in 1975, author Richard W. Carroll joined the Peace Corps, signing on as a...
| Author | Graham Greene |
| ISBN | 0140185429 |
Bertram had no belief in luck. He was not superstitious. A conspicuously unsuccessful assistant accountant, he was planning to get married for the second time. Quite quietly: St Luke's, Maida Hill, and then two weeks in Bournemouth. But Dreuther, a director of Bertram's firm, whimsically switches...
| Author | Forrest D. Colburn |
| ISBN | 0292751249 |
Histories of revolutions often focus on military, political, or economic upheavals but sometimes neglect to connect these larger events to the daily lives of "ordinary" people. Yet the peoples' perception that "things are worse than before" can topple revolutionary governments, as shown by the...
