Collected Stories, 1939-1976
10 best books like Collected Stories, 1939-1976 (Paul Bowles): The Hall of a Thousand Columns, Personal Narrative of a Journey to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent, Insel, Nabokov's Dozen: A Collection of Thirteen Stories (Anchor Literary Library), The Granta Book of the American Short Story, Night & Horses & the Desert: An Anthology of Classical Arabic Literature, Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories / Letting Go, The Stories of Richard Bausch, Town Smokes: Stories, Eothen
| Author | Tim Mackintosh-Smith |
| ISBN | 0719565871 |
Born in 1304, Ibn Battutah left his native Tangier as a young scholar of law; over the 30 years that followed he visited most of the known world between Morocco and China. In this enchanting travelogue, Tim Mackintosh-Smith retraces one leg of the Moroccan’s journey: the dizzy ladders and terrifying...
Personal Narrative of a Journey to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent
| Author | Alexander von Humboldt |
| ISBN | 0140445536 |
One of the greatest nineteenth-century scientist-explorers, Alexander von Humboldt traversed the tropical Spanish Americas between 1799 and 1804. By the time of his death in 1859, he had won international fame for his scientific discoveries, his observations of Native American peoples and his...
| Author | Mina Loy |
| ISBN | 0876858531 |
“He has an evening suit, but never an occasion to wear it, so he puts it on when he paints his pictures.”
Insel, the only novel by the surrealist master Mina Loy, is a book like no other—about an impossible friendship amid the glamorous artistic bohemia of 1930s Paris.
German painter...
| Author | Vladimir Nabokov |
| ISBN | 0385191170 |
Nabokov's Dozen (1958) a collection of 13 short stories by Vladimir Nabokov previously published in American magazines. (Nine of them also previously appeared in Nine Stories.)
All were later reprinted within The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov.
Spring in Fialta --
Forgotten poet --
First...
| Author | Richard Ford |
| ISBN | 1862071098 |
The Granta Book of the American Short Story is a selection of the best works of American short fiction published in the last 50 years. Stories featured here include “A Day in the Open” by Jane Bowles; “Blackberry Winter” by Robert Penn Warren; “O City of Broken Dreams” by John Cheever; “The...
| Author | Robert Irwin |
| ISBN | 0385721552 |
Spanning the fifth to sixteenth centuries and societies that range from Afghanistan to Spain, this anthology is a testament to the astonishing grandeur and variety of classical Arabic literature. Here are excerpts from dozens of works–both renowned (The Qur’an, The Thousand and One Nights)...
| Author | Philip Roth |
| ISBN | 1931082790 |
"The title novella, Goodbye, Columbus, the story of a summer romance between a poor young man from Newark and a rich Radcliffe co-ed, is both a tightly wrought tale of youthful desire and a satiric gem that takes aim at the comfortable affluence of the postwar boom. Here and in the stories that accompany...
| Author | Richard Bausch |
| ISBN | 0060956224 |
A 2004 PEN/Malamud Award winner, this collection celebrates the work of American artist Richard Bausch -- a writer the New York Times calls "a master of the short story." By turns tender, raw, heartbreaking, and riotously funny, the many voices of this definitive forty-two-story collection (seven...
| Author | Pinckney Benedict |
| ISBN | 0749395567 |
Town Smokes is a book of short stories, which often centered on the interactions between rural people and animals—which particularly interested me. We see occasional compassion, such as that of a family that became too attached to the rabbits they bred to sell them for meat, but the majority of these...
| Author | Alexander William Kinglake |
| ISBN | 1426410794 |
A solitary Western traveler in the Middle East in 1834, this is an extraordinary work of travel writing that is more about the author's internal journey than it is about monuments and museums, one that replicates the personal experience of travel and how it changes who we are. Kinglake's intimate, conversational...
A History of Christian Missions
| Author | Stephen Neill |
| ISBN | 0140137637 |
A very complete, succint global history of Christian missions up to the 1980s. Feels dated today, because of facts it could hardly deal with, each for a different reason:
* takes an œcumenical approach, for instance to Romanist and Greek/Russian iconodulic missions;
* takes seriously liberation...
رحلات داوتي في الجزيرة العربية
بدأ داوتي رحلاته بإسبانيا وإيطاليا ثم ذهب إلى اليونان فمصر حيث وصل القاهرة عام 1875م، ثم عبر صحراء سيناء حتى وصل مدينة البتراء حيث سمع عن مدائن صالح المدينة...
| Author | Charles Bukowski |
| ISBN | 1574231367 |
"A testament to a fierce inverted work ethic, a belief in self-help through unending self-attention, a refusal to waste even the smallest table scrap of world or time": that same tenacity and commitment to his art which New York Times critic Jennifer Schuessler found in the Bukowski collection What...
| Author | Bernard Lewis |
| ISBN | 0192803107 |
Now brought completely up to date, this classic study by one of the world's premier historians of the Middle East considers the achievement of the Arab peoples and their place in world history, from pre-Islamic times to the present-day. In a concise and readable account, Lewis examines the awakening...
| Author | Justin Marozzi |
| ISBN | 0306816210 |
During the classical age of Greece, Herodotus wrote the first history text. But what he created was much more than this. Informed by his own travels, his historical work digresses more than it chronicles, with tales of the lands and peoples he visited. As Michael Ondaatje once famously suggested, “What...
| Author | Dan Fante |
| ISBN | 0941543455 |
In this collection of 8 short fictions the author of A-Gin-Pissing-Raw-Meat-Duel-Carburetor-V8-Son-Of-A-Bitch From Los Angeles and Chump Change gives "a running commentary on the truth behind Los Angeles's gleaming fa ade a life of brief encounters, desperation, addiction and the chasm-sized...
| Author | Stefan Zweig |
| ISBN | 1906548226 |
Fantastic Night is the story of one transforming evening in the life of a rich and bored young man. He spends a day at the races and an evening in the seedy but thrilling company of the dregs of society. His experiences jolt him out of his languor and give him a newfound relish for life, which is then cut short...
| Author | William S. Burroughs |
| ISBN | 1559702109 |
Acclaimed by Norman Mailer more than twenty years ago as "possibly the only American writer of genius," William S. Burroughs has produced a body of work unique in our time. In these scintillating essays, he writes wittily and wisely about himself, his interests, his influences, his friends and foes....
| Author | Edmondo de Amicis |
| ISBN | 1843911183 |
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references,...
| Author | Anton Chekhov |
| ISBN | 0140449221 |
From his teenage years in provincial Russia, to his premature death in 1904, Anton Chekhov wrote thousands of letters to a wide range of correspondents. This fascinating new selection tells Chekhov's story as a man and a writer through affectionate bulletins to his family, insightful discussions...
