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Here Lies: The Collected Stories of Dorothy Parker

10 best books like Here Lies: The Collected Stories of Dorothy Parker (Dorothy Parker): The Spring of My Life and Selected Haiku, Spring Essence: The Poetry of Hô Xuân Huong, Original Letters from India, Stories in an Almost Classical Mode, The Shape of the Journey: New & Collected Poems, Eugene Onegin and Other Poems, Down and Delirious in Mexico City: The Aztec Metropolis in the Twenty-First Century, The Crofter and the Laird: Life on an Hebridean Island, Naples Declared, Government

The Spring of My Life and Selected Haiku
AuthorKobayashi Issa
ISBN1570621446
Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827), along with Basho and Buson, is considered one of the three greatest haiku poets of Japan, known for his attention to poignant detail and his playful sense of humor. Issa's most-loved work, The Spring of My Life, is an autobiographical sketch of linked prose and haiku in the...
Spring Essence: The Poetry of Hô Xuân Huong
AuthorHồ Xuân Hương
ISBN1556591489
Hồ Xuân Hương — whose name translates as "Spring Essence" — is one of the most important and popular poets in Vietnam. A concubine, she became renowned for her poetic skills, writing subtly risqué poems which used double entendre and sexual innuendo as a vehicle for social, religious, and...
Original Letters from India
AuthorEliza Fay
ISBN1590173368
Eliza Fay’s origins are obscure; she was not beautiful, rich, or outlandishly accomplished. Yet the letters she wrote from her 1779 voyage across the globe captivated E. M. Forster, who arranged for their British publication in 1925. The letters have been delighting readers ever since with their...
Stories in an Almost Classical Mode
AuthorHarold Brodkey
ISBN0679724311

Harold Brodkey (1930 – 1996) is a major twentieth-century American writer of highly polished, highly poetic fiction first published in The New Yorker, Esquire and other magazines over a thirty years span, 1960s through the 1990s. Published as part of the 1980s Vintage Contemporaries series,...
The Shape of the Journey: New & Collected Poems
AuthorJim Harrison
ISBN1556590954
Astonishing poetry collection. One of the few poets that I read cover to cover and then again few more times, untill I know each poem by heart.

Looking Forward to Age

I will walk down to a marina
on a hot day and not go out to sea.

I will go to bed and get up early,
and carry...
Eugene Onegin and Other Poems
AuthorAlexander Pushkin
ISBN0375406727
Eugene Onegin (1833) is a comedy of manners, written in exquisitely crafted verse, about two young members of the Russian gentry, the eponymous hero and the girl Tatyana, who don't quite connect. It is also the greatest masterpiece of Russian literature—the source of the human archetypes and the...
Down and Delirious in Mexico City: The Aztec Metropolis in the Twenty-First Century
AuthorDaniel Hernandez
ISBN1416577033
MEXICO CITY, with some 20 million inhabitants, is the largest city in the Western Hemisphere. Enormous growth, raging crime, and tumultuous politics have also made it one of the most feared and misunderstood. Yet in the past decade, the city has become a hot spot for international business, fashion,...
The Crofter and the Laird: Life on an Hebridean Island
AuthorJohn McPhee
ISBN1899863249
There was a toast among the clans when they banqueted. A clansman would rise, lift a cup, and say, "To the land of the bens and the glens!" And up from the food the faces would move, and every man would roar out, "To the land of the bens and the glens!"

Och, a toast to start.

Our current President...
Naples Declared
AuthorBenjamin Taylor
ISBN0399159177
It is a city of seemingly irreconcilable opposites, simultaneously glorious and ghastly. And it is Ben Taylor’s remarkable ability to meld these contradictions into a whole that makes this the exciting and original book it is. He takes his stroll around the bay with the acute sensitivity of a lover,...
Government
AuthorB. Traven
In the 1930s B. Traven wrote an epic of the birth of the Mexican revolution in what have become known as the "Jungle Novels." Government is the first of the six novels that comprise the series.

Depicting the political corruption that infected even the smallest villages in Mexico, the novel tells...
A Russian Gentleman
AuthorSergei Aksakov
ISBN0192815733
At the center of this chronicle of Russian provincial life in the reign of Catherine the Great stands the patriarchal figure of the author's grandfather, Stepan Mikhailovich. A man of great natural dignity, imbued with respect for tradition and love of the land, he is also despotic and virtually illiterate....
The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry
AuthorRobert Chandler
An enchanting collection of the very best of Russian poetry, edited by acclaimed translator Robert Chandler together with poets Boris Dralyuk and Irina Mashinski

In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, poetry's pre-eminence in Russia was unchallenged, with Pushkin and...
El Sicario: The Autobiography of a Mexican Assassin
AuthorMolly Molloy
ISBN1568586582
In this unprecedented and chilling monologue, a repentant Mexican hitman tells the unvarnished truth about the war on drugs on the American. El Sicario is the hidden face of America's war on drugs. He is a contract killer who functioned as a commandante in the Chihuahuan State police, who was trained...
Agricultural Involution: The Processes of Ecological Change in Indonesia
AuthorClifford Geertz
ISBN0520004590
Agricultural Involution: The Processes of Ecological Change in Indonesia is one of the most famous of the early works of Clifford Geertz. It principal thesis is that many centuries of intensifying wet-rice cultivation in Indonesia had produced greater social complexity without significant...
The Celebrated Jumping Frog and Other Stories
AuthorMark Twain
ISBN0895774151
I was going to give this a two-star rating, but reading several of the other reviews, it’s just clear to me that I didn’t like the book that much. I don’t think Twain’s humor is that funny, rarely evokes a smile much less a laugh, and his writing is dull and wordy. I lose track of what he’s trying...
The Serial: A Year in the Life of Marin County
AuthorCyra McFadden
ISBN0394733614
"In Cyra McFadden's affluent San Francisco suburb, a health club is likely to be called a center for human potential. Her book The Serial: A Year in the Life of Marin County is a deadly satire on such pretensions.

The principal characters in this mock soap opera wander aimlessly from body to body...
In Dreams Begin Responsibilities and Other Stories
AuthorDelmore Schwartz
ISBN0811206807
Bi-Partisan Preview

I was introduced to Delmore Schwartz's writing from two different perspectives in the mid-70's.

It might come as little surprise that these introductions had to do with passions that persist to this day: music, literature and politics.

Firstly, I...
Russia: People and Empire, 1552-1917
AuthorGeoffrey Hosking
ISBN0674781198
The Soviet Union crumbles and Russia rises from the rubble, once again the great nation -- a perfect scenario, but for one point: Russia was never a nation. And this, says the eminent historian Geoffrey Hosking, is at the heart of the Russians' dilemma today, as they grapple with the rudiments of nationhood....
China: A Macro History
AuthorRay Huang
ISBN1563247313
A (content-wise) interesting thematic history of China, albeit one that shows its age. It's too dry to be a popular history, but does too little to situate itself in within contemporaneous scholarship to be academic.

As its title suggests, Huang's book is a macro-level treatment of Chinese...
The Ancient Maya
AuthorRobert J. Sharer
ISBN0804748179
This book traces the evolution of Maya civilization through the Pre-Columbian era, a span of some 2,500 years from the origins of complex society within Mesoamerica to the end of the Pre-Columbian world with the Spanish Conquest in the 16th century. The sixth edition presents new archaeological evidence...
Yucatan Before and After the Conquest
AuthorDiego de Landa
ISBN0486236226
These people also used certain characters or letters, with which they wrote in their books about the antiquities and their sciences. We found a great number of books in these letters and since they contained nothing but superstitions and falsehoods of the devil we burned them all, which they took most...
Imperial San Francisco: Urban Power, Earthly Ruin, With a New Preface
AuthorGray Brechin
ISBN0520250087
First published in 1999, this celebrated history of San Francisco traces the exploitation of both local and distant regions by prominent families—the Hearsts, de Youngs, Spreckelses, and others—who gained power through mining, ranching, water and energy, transportation, real estate, weapons,...
Mike (Psmith, #1)
AuthorP.G. Wodehouse
ISBN1426423543
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not...
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