In the Cage
9 best books like In the Cage (Henry James): Geek Love, The Crying of Lot 49, Poor Things, The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry, Loitering with Intent, همهی افتادگان, Two on a Tower, Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown, Caricature
| Author | Katherine Dunn |
| ISBN | 0375713344 |
Geek Love is the story of the Binewskis, a carny family whose mater- and paterfamilias set out—with the help of amphetamine, arsenic, and radioisotopes—to breed their own exhibit of human oddities. There’s Arturo the Aquaboy, who has flippers for limbs and a megalomaniac ambition worthy of...
Suffused with rich satire, chaotic brilliance, verbal turbulence and wild humor, The Crying of Lot 49 opens as Oedipa Maas discovers that she has been made executrix of a former lover's estate. The performance of her duties sets her on a strange trail of detection, in which bizarre characters crowd...
| Author | Alasdair Gray |
| ISBN | 0747562288 |
One of Alasdair Gray's most brilliant creations, Poor Things is a postmodern revision of Frankenstein that replaces the traditional monster with Bella Baxter - a beautiful young erotomaniac brought back to life with the brain of an infant. Godwin Baxter's scientific ambition to create the perfect...
'To burn always with this hard gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.'
The Renaissance (1873) at once became the touchstone for the decadent imagination for a generation of Oxford undergraduates. Pater was shocked at the reaction his book inspired: 'I wish they would...
| Author | Muriel Spark |
| ISBN | 0811214745 |
"How wonderful to be an artist and a woman in the twentieth century," Fleur Talbot rejoices. Happily loitering about London, c. 1949, with intent to gather material for her writing, Fleur finds a job "on the grubby edge of the literary world," as secretary to the peculiar Autobiographical Association....
| Author | Samuel Beckett |
| ISBN | 9643127737 |
داستان در یک شهر خیلی کوچک آغاز میشود، وقتی خانم رونی قدمزنان دارد به سمت ایستگاه راهآهن میرود. خیلی چاق شده و تازه از بستر بیماری بلند شده است. قدم میزند...
Lady Constantine breaks all the rules of social decorum when she falls in love with the beautiful youth Swithin St Cleeve, her social inferior and ten years her junior. The tower in question is a monument converted into an astronomical observatory where together the lovers 'sweep the heavens'. Science...
Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown
| Author | Virginia Woolf |
| ISBN | 0848269624 |
The essay was written in 1923, and in 1924 it was read to the Heretics, Cambridge. The essay is a polemical piece that attempts to go beyond Arnold Bennett’s thesis that character is the essence of novel writing, and his too easy conclusion as to why the young writers have failed to create credible characters....
| Author | Daniel Clowes |
| ISBN | 1560974583 |
The dramatic short stories included in Caricature have drawn comparisons to Nabokov for their complex naturalism and sense of humor. Anchored by the title story, considered the first apotheosis of Clowes' seminal Eightball underground comic book series, Caricature also includes eight other stories,...
