Cloud, Castle, Lake

8 best books like Cloud, Castle, Lake (Vladimir Nabokov): Nonsense Novels, Just an Ordinary Day: The Uncollected Stories, ApocalyptiGirl: An Aria for the End Times, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House, The Great Wall of China, Happy Birthday, Jack Nicholson, Caligula, On Being Ill

Nonsense Novels

Author	Stephen Leacock
ISBN	1590171187

A gift? Yes-a gift for you. You're welcome.—from the introduction by Daniel Handler

Nonsense Novels sends up the silliest conventions of the ghost story, the detective story, the rags-to-riches story, the adventure story, the shipwreck story, and, of course, the story itself. Among...

Just an Ordinary Day: The Uncollected Stories

Author	Shirley Jackson
ISBN	0553378333

Acclaimed in her own time for her short story “The Lottery” and her novel The Haunting of Hill House—classics ranking with the work of Edgar Allan Poe—Shirley Jackson blazed a path for contemporary writers with her explorations of evil, madness, and cruelty. Soon after her untimely death...

ApocalyptiGirl: An Aria for the End Times

Author	Andrew MacLean
ISBN	1616555661

The premiere graphic novel from underground sensation Andrew MacLean (Head Lopper), ApocalyptiGirl is an action-packed sci-fi epic!
Alone at the end of the world, Aria is woman with a mission! Traipsing through an overgrown city with her only companion, a cat named Jelly Beans, Aria's search...

The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

Author	Audre Lorde
ISBN	0241339723

From the self-described 'black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet', these soaring, urgent essays on the power of women, poetry and anger are filled with darkness and light.

Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with...

The Great Wall of China

Author	Franz Kafka
ISBN	1494712083

There is another review in Arabic after this review - مراجعتي بالانجليزية تليها مراجعة بالعربية
It is the temporal gap between the present and the past which not tangible,
The spatial gap,between the north and the south,..
the gap between the...

Happy Birthday, Jack Nicholson

Author	Hunter S. Thompson
ISBN	0141022434

High priest of hedonism and godfather of gonzo journalism, Hunter S. Thompson was renowned for his counterculture masterpiece Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, which described his chemical-addled adventures in 1970s America. Taken from Thompson's brilliantly entertaining autobiography, Kingdom...

Caligula

Author	Robert Graves
ISBN	0141022280

Published by Penguin for more than sixty years, the author and scholar Robert Graves wrote two of the greatest historical novels of the twentieth century: I Claudius and Claudius the God. Written as Claudius' autobiography, they follow his progress from a stammering figure of fun to the ruler of the...

On Being Ill

Author	Virginia Woolf
ISBN	1930464061

In this poignant and humorous work, Virginia Woolf observes that though illness is part of every human being’s experience, it has never been the subject of literature—like the more acceptable subjects of war and love. We cannot quote Shakespeare to describe a headache. We must, Woolf says, invent...