Daisy Miller and Other Stories
10 best books like Daisy Miller and Other Stories (Henry James): The Tamer Tamed; or, The Woman's Prize, Complete Short Stories, Hedda Gabler and Other Plays, The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha: Apocalyptic Literature and Testaments, Wessex Tales, Ethan Frome and Selected Stories, The Big Red Train Ride, Crime Stories and Other Writings, The Romance of Arthur: An Anthology of Medieval Texts in Translation, Western Europe in the Middle Ages 300-1475
The Tamer Tamed; or, The Woman's Prize
| Author | John Fletcher |
| ISBN | 0719053676 |
This is the first edition for students and general readers of this pro-woman reply to Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew by a playwright (John Fletcher) who was more admired than Shakespeare in the seventeenth century. A unique and essential companion to the numerous textbook editions of Shakespeare's...
| Author | Elizabeth Taylor |
| ISBN | 1844088405 |
Elizabeth Taylor, highly acclaimed author of classic novels such as Angel, A Game of Hide and Seek and Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont, is also renowned for her powerful, acutely observed stories. Here for the first time, the stories - including some only recently discovered - are collected in one volume....
In these three unforgettably intense plays, Henrik Ibsen explores the problems of personal and social morality that he perceived in the world around him and, in particular, the complex nature of truth. The Pillars of the Community (1877) depicts a corrupt shipowner’s struggle to hide the sins of...
The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha: Apocalyptic Literature and Testaments
| Author | James H. Charlesworth |
| ISBN | 0385096305 |
This is the standard 2 vol. collection of translated OT Pseudepigrapha. The introductions are helpful, but perhaps dated by now. This collection does not contain editions of the ancient texts, but the bibliographies are helpful in locating the relevant editions and important bibliographic items....
| Author | Thomas Hardy |
| ISBN | 1603120165 |
In addition to his great "Wessex Novels," Thomas Hardy wrote Wessex Tales (1896), a collection of six stories written in the 1880s and 1890s that, for the most part, are as bleakly ironic and unforgiving as the darkest of his great novels -- Jude the Obscure. But this great novelist began and ended his...
| Author | Edith Wharton |
| ISBN | 1593080905 |
One of Edith Wharton’s few works of fiction that takes place outside of an urban, upper-class setting, Ethan Frome draws upon the bleak, barren landscape of rural New England. A poor farmer, Ethan finds himself stuck in a miserable marriage to Zeenie, a sickly, tyrannical woman, until he falls in...
| Author | Eric Newby |
| ISBN | 1888173890 |
The only continuous land route between Western Europe and the Pacific coast of the USSR, the Trans-Siberian Railway covers nearly a 100 degrees of longitude, seven time zones and 5900 miles in a journey lasting 192 hours and 35 minutes. In 1977 Eric Newby set out with his wife, an official guide and a photographer...
| Author | Dashiell Hammett |
| ISBN | 1931082006 |
In scores of stories written for Black Mask and other pulp magazines in the 1920s and 1930s, Dashiell Hammett used the vernacular adventure tale to register the jarring textures and revved-up cadences of modern America. His stories opened up crime fiction to the realities of American streets and American...
The Romance of Arthur: An Anthology of Medieval Texts in Translation
| Author | James J. Wilhelm |
| ISBN | 0815315112 |
Since their first appearance, the three volumes of "The Romance of Arthur" have become the standard anthologies of Arthurian literature. Now, combined into a single convenient volume, the New, Expanded Edition of "The Romance of Arthur" covers nearly a thousand years of translated texts in a broad...
| Author | Sidney Painter |
| ISBN | 0070648433 |
(Fourth Edition, copywrite 1983)
by Brian Tierney and Sidney Painter
This is the most boring book I ever tried to read. I have plodded through it for almost a year because I wanted to learn the subject matter, but with a ho-hum presentation of the Magna Carta story at about the two-thirds...
| Author | Stephen Romer |
| ISBN | 0199569274 |
'He had become the dandy of the unpredictable.' A quest for new sensations, and an avowed desire to shock possessed the Decadent writers of fin-de-siècle Paris. The years 1880-1900 saw an extraordinary, hothouse flowering of talent, that produced some of the most exotic, stylized, and cerebral...
The Sexes is a small collection of Dorothy Parker's short stories about relationships, and is published as part of Penguin's mini modern classics series.
The first story, the Sexes, is a masterclass in dialogue: taught, lucid, and oozing with an admixture of cultural, emotional and interpersonal...
Speculative Japan: Outstanding Tales of Japanese Science Fiction and Fantasy
| Author | Gene van Troyer |
| ISBN | 4902075261 |
The time is long overdue to present the work of Japanese science fiction and fantasy writers to the world in English. The first book in a planned series, Speculative Japan presents a selection of outstanding works of Japanese science fiction and fantasy in English translation... and a glimpse into...
| Author | Hugh Garner |
| ISBN | 0070915520 |
Had Hugh MacLennan been an anarcho-syndicalist and a D.H. Lawrence devotee, he might have written books like Cabbagetown, a voluminous tale of depression-era Canada that's arguably Hugh Garner's finest novel. First published in a bowdlerized edition in 1950, Cabbagetown is one of the few Canadian...
The Open Boat and Other Stories
| Author | Stephen Crane |
| ISBN | 0486275477 |
Four prized selections by one of America's greatest writers: "The Open Boat," based on a harrowing incident in the author's life: the 1897 sinking of a ship on which he was a passenger; "The Blue Hotel" and "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky," reflecting Crane's early travels in Mexico and the American Southwest;...
The Apocalyptic Imagination: An Introduction to Jewish Apocalyptic Literature
| Author | John J. Collins |
| ISBN | 0802843719 |
This second edition of John J. Collins's widely praised study of Jewish apocalyptic literature represents a complete updating and rewriting of the original work. Especially noteworthy is the chapter on the Dead Sea Scrolls, which now takes into account all of the recently published texts. Other...
Film: A Critical Introduction
| Author | Maria Pramaggiore |
| ISBN | 0205518699 |
Film: A Critical Introduction, 2e, provides a comprehensive framework for studying films, with an emphasis on writing as a means of exploring film's aesthetic and cultural significance. This text's consistent and comprehensive focus on writing allows students to master film vocabulary and concepts...
| Author | Leo Tolstoy |
| ISBN | 1600964079 |
Uncluttered by the complexities of plot and character that daunt so many readers of the longer Russian masterpieces, Tolstoy's tales illumine eternal truths with forceful brevity. While inspired by the sense of spiritual certainty, their narrative quality, subtle humor, and visionary power lift...
Oroonoko and Other Writings
| Author | Aphra Behn |
| ISBN | 0192834606 |
The most complete collection of the work of Aphra Behn (1640-89) available, this volume contains Oroonoko and five other works of fiction ranging from comedy and high melodrama to tragedy. The works included are The Fair Jilt, Memoirs of the Court of the King of Bantam, The History of the Nun, The Adventure...
Youth and the Bright Medusa
| Author | Willa Cather |
| ISBN | 1406844381 |
Paul had just come in to dress for dinner; he sank into a chair, weak in the knees, and clasped his head in his hands. It was to be worse than jail, even; the tepid waters of Cordelia Street were to close over him finally and forever. The grey monotony stretched before him in hopeless, unrelieved years; Sabbath-school,...
| Author | Enrique Vila-Matas |
| ISBN | 0811223469 |
Gathered for the first time in English, and spanning his entire career, Vampire in Love offers a selection of the Spanish master Enrique Vila-Matas’s finest short stories. An effeminate, hunchbacked barber on the verge of death falls in love with a choirboy. A fledgling writer on barbiturates visits...
| Author | William Trevor |
| ISBN | 0143035916 |
In these twelve stories, a waiter divulges a shocking life of crime to his ex-wife; a woman repeats the story of her parents’ unstable marriage after a horrible tragedy; a schoolgirl regrets gossiping about the cuckolded man who tutors her; and, in the volume’s title story, a middle-aged accountant...
Castle Rackrent and Ennui
| Author | Maria Edgeworth |
| ISBN | 0140433201 |
Thady Quirk, devoted steward to the decaying estate of the Rackrent family, narrates a riotous story of four generations of a dying dynasty in Castle Rackrent (1800). Thady will defend his masters to the end, but eventually his naivety and blind loyalty cause him to ignore the warning signs as the family's...
