Glory
9 best books like Glory (Vladimir Nabokov): To Each His Own, Los jefes y Los cachorros, Petersburg, Antwerp, Black Snow, Autumn in Peking, Tales from the Dead of Night: Thirteen Classic Ghost Stories, Shyness and Dignity, La Cantatrice chauve / La Leçon
| Author | Leonardo Sciascia |
| ISBN | 0940322528 |
This letter is your death sentence. To avenge what you have done you will die. But what has Manno the pharmacist done? Nothing that he can think of. The next day he and his hunting companion are both dead. The police investigation is inconclusive. However, a modest high school teacher with a literary bent...
Los jefes y Los cachorros
Los Jefes y Los cachorros sirvieron como antecedente, para la construcción de las obras de Vargas Llosa. Muchos de los elementos técnicos y narrativos que caracterizan la prosa del gran escritor peruano ya aparecen en estas primeras piezas breves: el espacio exterior, por ejemplo, que tiende a...
| Author | Andrei Bely |
| ISBN | 0253202191 |
Taking place over a short, turbulent period in 1905, 'Petersburg' is a colourful evocation of Russia's capital—a kaleidoscope of images and impressions, an eastern window on the west, a symbol of the ambiguities and paradoxes of the Russian character. History, culture, and politics are blended...
| Author | Roberto Bolaño |
| ISBN | 0811217175 |
As Bolano’s friend and literary executor, Ignacio Echevarría, once suggested, Antwerp can be viewed as the Big Bang of Roberto Bolano’s fictional universe. Reading this novel, the reader is present at the birth of Bolano’s enterprise in prose: all the elements are here, highly compressed,...
A masterpiece of black comedy by the author of The Master and Margarita.
When Maxudov's novel fails, he attempts suicide. When that fails, he dramatizes his novel. To Maxudov's surprise - and the resentment of literary Moscow - the play is accepted by the legendary Independent Theater, and Maxudov...
| Author | Boris Vian |
| ISBN | 0966234642 |
Boris Vian was a jack of all trades - although unfortunately his name was Boris and "Boris of all trades" never took off as a turn of phrase. But nevertheless Vian was a great songwriter, playwright, singer, jazz critic and, of course novelist so it should have been Boris instead of Jack. Vian's 1947 novel...
| Author | Cecily Gayford |
| ISBN | 1781250944 |
From a beautiful antique that gives its owner a show he'd rather forget, to 'ghost detective' whose exorcism goes horribly wrong and a sinister masked ball which seems to have one too many guests, these ghost stories of supernatural terror are guaranteed to make you shiver, thrill and look under the...
| Author | Dag Solstad |
| ISBN | 1555974465 |
An Ibsen scholar falls desperately out of society—publication coinciding with Ibsen's 100th anniversary celebrations
In front of him, twenty-nine young men and women about the age of eighteen who looked at him and returned his greeting. He asked them to take out their school edition of...
La Cantatrice chauve / La Leçon
| Author | Eugène Ionesco |
| ISBN | 2070362361 |
La cantatrice chauve / La leçon = The Bald Soprano and The Lesson: Two Plays, Eugène Ionesco
La Cantatrice Chauve — translated from French as The Bald Soprano or The Bald Prima Donna — is the first play written by Romanian-French playwright Eugène Ionesco. The play opens on Mrs. Smith reciting...
