By-Line: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades

8 best books like By-Line: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades (Ernest Hemingway): Amerika, The Power and the Glory, Picture Palace, Personality: What Makes You the Way You Are, How to Read the Air, Sonny's Blues, Im Frühling sterben, Goodbye to Berlin

Amerika

Author	Franz Kafka
ISBN	0805210644

Kafka's first and funniest novel, Amerika tells the story of the young immigrant Karl Rossmann who, after an embarrassing sexual misadventure, finds himself "packed off to America" by his parents. Expected to redeem himself in this magical land of opportunity, young Karl is swept up instead in a whirlwind...

The Power and the Glory

Author	Graham Greene
ISBN	0142437301

In a poor, remote section of Southern Mexico, the paramilitary group, the Red Shirts have taken control. God has been outlawed, and the priests have been systematically hunted down and killed. Now, the last priest is on the run. Too human for heroism, too humble for martyrdom, the nameless little worldly...

Picture Palace

Author	Paul Theroux
ISBN	0140050728

World-famous photographer Maude Coffin Pratt has pointed her lens at the beautiful, obscure, and obscene, and at the private places and public parts of the famous, from Gertrude Stein to Graham Greene. When the seventy-year-old Maude rummages through her archives in preparation for a triumphant...

Personality: What Makes You the Way You Are

Author	Daniel Nettle
ISBN	0199211426

It is one of the great mysteries of human nature. Why are some people worriers, and others wanderers? Why are some people so easy-going and laid-back, while others are always looking for a fight?

Written by Daniel Nettle--author of the popular book Happiness--this brief volume takes the reader...

How to Read the Air

Author	Dinaw Mengestu
ISBN	1594487707

A heartbreaking literary masterwork about love, family, and the power of imagination, which confirms Mengestu's reputation as one of the brightest talents of his generation.

Dinaw Mengestu's first novel, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears, earned the young writer comparisons to...

Sonny's Blues

Author	James Baldwin
ISBN	3125765005

I guess Sonny's Blues is OK if you like that sort of thing. In this case, that sort of thing being nearly perfectly crafted fiction. That sort of thing being a story that's so universal and so timeless that it can be felt by any and everybody on the face of the earth. This sort of thing being the kind of story...

Im Frühling sterben

Author	Ralf Rothmann
ISBN	3518424750

»Sprach ich meinen Vater in der Kindheit auf sein starkes Haar an, sagte er, das komme vom Krieg; man habe sich täglich frischen Birkensaft in die Kopfhaut gerieben. Ich fragte nicht weiter nach, hätte wohl auch, wie so oft, wenn es um die Zeit ging, keine genauere Antwort bekommen. Die stellte sich...

Goodbye to Berlin

Author	Christopher Isherwood
ISBN	0586047956

Here, meine Damen und Herren, is Chrisopther Isherwood's brilliant farewell to a city which was not only buildings, streets, and people, but was also a state of mind which will never come around again.

In linked short stories, he says goodbye to Sally Bowles, to Fraulein Schroeder, to pranksters,...