Billy Budd and Other Tales

10 best books like Billy Budd and Other Tales (Herman Melville): Chariots of Fire, The Life and Death of Harriett Frean, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady - Volume 1, Blind Man with a Pistol, Tom Jones: Volume 1, Main Street / Babbitt, ألف ليلة وليلة: المجلد الرابع, Aaron's Rod

AuthorWilliam J. Weatherby
ISBN0060692820
The story of two men—Harold Abrahams and Eric Liddell—who run not to run but to prove something to the world. They will sacrifice anything to achieve their goals, except their honor.

Two men, Abrahams and Liddell, one a Jew who runs to triumph over bigotry, the other a Scots missionary who...
AuthorMay Sinclair
ISBN0860681068
Harriett is the Victorian embodiment of all the virtues then viewed as essential to the womanly ideal: a woman reared to love, honour and obey. Idolising her parents, she learns from childhood to equate love with self-sacrifice, so that when she falls in love with the fiance of her closest friend, there...
AuthorTobias Smollett
ISBN1847024920


Does the above book cover for Tobias Smollett's The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle look like an invitation to a frolicking, sexually charged escapade all in the spirit of good, clean fun? That's precisely what the publisher of this edition is aiming for.

Much, much different from...
AuthorDaniel Defoe
ISBN0809594625
Defoe was a prolific and versatile writer, producing more than five hundred books, pamphlets, and journals on various topics, including politics, crime, religion, marriage, psychology, and the supernatural. We set out on the 5th of February from Ireland, and had a very fair gale of wind for some days....
AuthorSamuel Richardson
2133 pages, consisting of 536 letters (plus conclusion and author's postscript) all cross-referenced - the author must have been a madman. A madman with an impressive filing system.

This is the kind of book that draws you in slowly but completely, with not much happening most of the time. So...
AuthorChester Himes
ISBN0394759982
At once grotesquely comic and unflinchingly violent, Blind Man With a Pistol is the final entry in Chester Himes's trailblazing Harlem Detectives series.
 
New York is sweltering in the summer heat, and Harlem is close to the boiling point. To Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones,...
AuthorHenry Fielding
ISBN0460003550
Ισως το απολαυστικοτερο μυθιστορημα που εχω διαβασει. ενα βιβλιο γεματο αισιοδοξα μηνυματα,με τη γραφη του Φιλντινγκ να σε εντυπωσιαζει καθε λεπτο....
AuthorSinclair Lewis
ISBN0940450615
In Main Street and Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis drew on his boyhood memories of Sauk Centre, Minnesota, to reveal as no writer had done before the complacency and conformity of middle-class life in America. The remarkable novels presented here in this Library of America volume combine brilliant satire...
AuthorAnonymous
إن سير الأولين صارت عبرة للآخرين لكي يرى الإنسان العبر التي حصلت لغيره فيعتبر، ويطالع حديث الأمم السالفة وما جرى لهم فينزجر. فسبحان من جعل حديث الأولين عبرة...
AuthorD.H. Lawrence
ISBN0140007555
Written in the years following World War I and set in postwar England and Italy, Aaron's Rod questions many of the accepted social and political institutions of Lawrence's generation, and raises issues as valid for our own time as they were for his. The novel's hero is an Everyman who flees the destruction...
AuthorHenry James
ISBN1883011094
This Library of America volume is one of five that make available for the first time in new, complete, and authoritative editions the astonishing abundance of invention and unwavering intensity of the aesthetic vision of Henry James as displayed in more than one hundred world-famous stories ranging...
AuthorOlive Higgins Prouty
ISBN0060964499
She's ambitious, she's relentless, she's unstoppable - but she can't hide the stain of her working-class roots. A woman big enough for both Barbara Stanwyck and Bette Midler, Stella Dallas was a best-seller in its time - and a terrific read today.

One of the most entertaining, excellently...
AuthorWilliam Dean Howells
ISBN0140390278
A Modern Instance is a realistic novel written by William Dean Howells, and published in 1882 by J. R. Osgood & Co. The novel is about the deterioration of a once loving marriage under the influence of capitalistic greed. It is the first American novel by a canonical author to seriously consider divorce...
AuthorNathaniel Hawthorne
ISBN0449300129
With engaging writing, going through the supernatural and gothic world, Hawthorne is one of the exponents of this style in the early half of the 18th century, influencing many other writers who came after him.

Young Master Brown, for example, how many movie scenes we see were possibly inspired...
AuthorBrendan Burford
ISBN0345505298
The stories in Syncopated challenge convention, provide perspective, and search out secret truths–all in the inviting, accessible form of comics.

Syncopated will give you a daringly different view of the past–from the history of vintage postcards to the glory days of old Coney Island....
AuthorAnton Chekhov
I'm not sure if I read this exact edition. Mine was published by Black's Readers Service Company, and it's not 678 pages but rather 632. It is notably missing one of Chekhov's most famous plays, Uncle Vanya, and it only has one of his novellas, The Shooting Party.

That said, this was amazing. It's...
AuthorWalter Pater
ISBN0140432361
It was as a critic and a humanist that Pater (1839-1894), professor at Oxford, became a powerful influence on his own and succeeding generations, claiming disciples as diverse as Virginia Woolf and Ezra Pound. This has been described as "the most highly finished of all his works and the expression of...
AuthorWilliam Faulkner
ISBN0375701095
even in this collection of stories - many of which were never published, or were left out of collections (hence the strange title) or were massively revised and appeared as long sections of novels - even here, faulkner's genius shines. the way he constructs a story, the rhythms of his lines, the structure...
AuthorLian Hearn
ISBN0142404233
Lord Fujiwara's Treasures begins the second book in the Tales of the Otori, serving as the first act of Grass for His Pillow. If this is confusing, welcome to the club. Grass for His Pillow is the second book, but it's published in two parts, this one being the first. It's not even a complete story, since...
AuthorJohn Cassidy
ISBN0932592007
I think that I would give this book two and a half stars.

One of the things about The Klutz Book of Juggling that stands out most saliently in my mind is the surprisingly spare technical Juggling advice in its pages. All of the other beginning Juggling manuals that I've read put a definite emphasis...
AuthorPhil Brucato
A Limited Edition Collection of Stories and Art dedicated to the health of S.J. Tucker

Featuring Tales by:
Nathan Ballingrud
Ari Berk
Holly Black
Francesca Lia Block
Phil Brucato
Storm Constantine
Charles de Lint
Ben Dobyns
Alexandra Duncan
Jaymi...
AuthorPhyllis Reynolds Naylor
ISBN0689820062
Josh is hitchhiking his way from Massachusetts to Dallas and a new life he didn't ask for and doesn't want, when he is beaten, robbed, and abandoned beside a remote mountain road. He awakes in a strange, primitive village called Canara, seemingly hidden from the modern world, with no cars or telephones...
AuthorRod Serling
ISBN0552668001
Dall'ideatore e principale scrittore della serie TV Ai confini della realtà (The Twilght Zone) una raccolta di racconti tratti da alcuni degli episodi più famosi.
Nella sua fantascienza, forse poco pirotecnica, Serling partiva da un'idea spesso geniale e attorno ad essa costruiva una trama...
AuthorEdric S. Mesmer
ISBN0439296749
Just in time for National Poetry Month, a fantastic collection of some of the best poems ever.

These are some of the most amazing poems ever written, touching the heart, challenging the mind, and conjuring worlds of experience and imagination.

Included are poems by:
Emily Dickinson
Edgar...
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