Chromos

7 best books like Chromos (Felipe Alfau): Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Three Men in a Boat, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, Haunted House, The Poor Mouth: A Bad Story about the Hard Life, The Canterbury Tales: A Retelling, Machine

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

Author	Olga Tokarczuk
ISBN	0525541330

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

In a remote Polish village, Janina devotes the dark winter days to studying astrology, translating the poetry of William Blake, and taking care of the summer homes of wealthy Warsaw residents. Her reputation as a crank and a recluse is amplified by her...

Three Men in a Boat

Author	Jerome K. Jerome
ISBN	0140621334

A comic masterpiece that has never been out of print since it was first published in 1889, Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat includes an introduction and notes by Jeremy Lewis in Penguin Classics.

Martyrs to hypochondria and general seediness, J. and his friends George and Harris decide...

Haroun and the Sea of Stories

Author	Salman Rushdie
ISBN	0670886580

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Discover Haroun and the Sea of Stories, Salman Rushdie’s classic fantasy novel

Set in an exotic Eastern landscape peopled by magicians and fantastic talking animals, Salman Rushdie's classic children's novel Haroun and the Sea...

Haunted House

Author	Jan Pieńkowski
ISBN	1844288749

Revisit – if you dare! – one of the best-loved pop-up books of all time, now more gleefully ghoulish then ever with the addition of several spooky surprises.

Come in, Doctor. Yes, it is a quaint old place - chilly, though...

The owner of the Haunted House is unwell, and it's not surprising....

The Poor Mouth: A Bad Story about the Hard Life

Author	Flann O'Brien
ISBN	1564780910

The Poor Mouth relates the story of one Bonaparte O'Coonassa, born in a cabin in a fictitious village called Corkadoragha in western Ireland equally renowned for its beauty and the abject poverty of its residents. Potatoes constitute the basis of his family's daily fare, and they share both bed and...

The Canterbury Tales: A Retelling

Author	Peter Ackroyd
ISBN	0670021229

God bless you, Peter Ackroyd for making this book very easy to read. It did not lose its original meaning. He only used the words that are familiar to us. Consider this example in the original 14th century English in London:My konnyng is so wayk, O blisful Queene,
For to declare thy grete worthynesse
That...

Machine

Author	Susan Steinberg
ISBN	1555978479

A haunting story of guilt and blame in the wake of a drowning, the first novel by the author of Spectacle

Susan Steinberg’s first novel, Machine, is a dazzling and innovative leap forward for a writer whose most recent book, Spectacle, gained her a rapturous following. Machine revolves...