Lazarillo de Tormes and The Swindler: Two Spanish Picaresque Novels
6 best books like Lazarillo de Tormes and The Swindler: Two Spanish Picaresque Novels (Anonymous): Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life, The Other, Historia de la vida del Buscón, Fierce Attachments: A Memoir, El alcalde de Zalamea, Thanks a Lot, Mr. Kibblewhite: My Story
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
| Author | William Finnegan |
| ISBN | 1594203474 |
A deeply rendered self-portrait of a lifelong surfer by the acclaimed New Yorker writer
Barbarian Days is William Finnegan’s memoir of an obsession, a complex enchantment. Surfing only looks like a sport. To initiates, it is something else entirely: a beautiful addiction, a demanding...
| Author | Thomas Tryon |
| ISBN | 0440167361 |
Entranced and terrified, the reader of The Other is swept up in the life of a Connecticut country town in the thirties—and in the fearful mysteries that slowly darken and overwhelm it.
Originally published in 1971, The Other is one of the most influential horror novels ever written. Its impeccable...
Historia de la vida del Buscón
| Author | Francisco de Quevedo |
| ISBN | 1594566534 |
Sepan Vuestras Mercedes que hablamos de la aportación novelesca de Francisco de Quevedo y Villegas al género picaresco, escrita en su periodo de juventud y de la que él renegaría después, quizás para evitarse más problemas de los que ya tenía, porque solía tenerlos. Conceptista, grotesca...
| Author | Vivian Gornick |
| ISBN | 0374529965 |
In this deeply etched and haunting memoir, Vivian Gornick tells the story of her lifelong battle with her mother for independence. There have been numerous books about mother and daughter, but none has dealt with this closest of filial relations as directly or as ruthlessly. Gornick's groundbreaking...
| Author | Pedro Calderón de la Barca |
| ISBN | 8449417848 |
Zalamea es un pueblo tranquilo. Un sitio sin demasiados dramas, hasta que un día un grupo de soldados camino a Portugal deciden hacer un alto para descansar. La casa elegida es la del labrador más rico - o el menos pobre, según se mire - de la zona: Pedro Crespo. El hombre se huele el drama, y junto con su...
Thanks a Lot, Mr. Kibblewhite: My Story
The frontman of one of the greatest bands of all time tells the story of his rise from nothing to rock 'n' roll megastar, and his wild journey as the voice of The Who.
“It’s taken me three years to unpack the events of my life, to remember who did what when and why, to separate the myths from the...
