Martha Quest
10 best books like Martha Quest (Doris Lessing): Berlin Alexanderplatz, Hotel Savoy, The Door in the Hedge, The Driver's Seat, Narrative of Sojourner Truth, Paragon Walk, The Wapshot Chronicle, The Very Thought of You, Empire V, Me and You
| Author | Alfred Döblin |
| ISBN | 3423002956 |
Biberkopf hat geschworen, er will anständig sein, und ihr habt gesehen, wie er wochenlang anständig ist, aber das war gewissermaßen nur eine Gnadenfrist. Das Leben findet das auf die Dauer zu fein und stellt ihm hinterlistig ein Bein. Die Geschichte des Transportarbeiters Franz Biberkopf, der,...
| Author | Joseph Roth |
| ISBN | 1585674478 |
Still bearing the scars from gulag experiences, a freed POW traverses Russia to arrive at the Polish town of Lodz. In its massive Hotel Savoy, he meets there a surreal cast of characters, each eagerly awaiting the return from America of a rich man named Bloomfield. Like Europe itself in 1932, the hotel...
| Author | Robin McKinley |
| ISBN | 0698119606 |
Master storyteller Robin McKinley here spins two new fairy tales and retells two cherished classics. All feature princesses touched with or by magic. There is Linadel, who lives in a kingdom next to Faerieland, where princesses are stolen away on their seventeenth birthdays-and Linadel's seventeenth...
| Author | Muriel Spark |
| ISBN | 0141188340 |
Was it murder or was it suicide? And did that matter to the 'heroine'? This is a novella, a quick read and perhaps one that is better read at one sitting so that the tension can build. Its totally upfront, we know what is going to happen a quarter of the way through the book and it just remains for the story to...
Narrative of Sojourner Truth
One of the most famous and admired African-American women in U.S. history, Sojourner Truth sang, preached, and debated at camp meetings across the country, led by her devotion to the antislavery movement and her ardent pursuit of women's rights. Born into slavery in 1797, Truth fled from bondage some...
In the posh London street of Paragon Walk, a young woman is brutally raped and murdered. Once again the incomparable team of sleuths, Inspector Thomas Pitt and his young wife, Charlotte, peer beneath the elegant masks of the well-born suspects and reveal that something ugly lurks behind the handsome...
| Author | John Cheever |
| ISBN | 0060528877 |
Meet the Wapshots of St Botolphs. There is Captain Leander Wapshot, venerable sea-dog and would-be suicide; his licentious older son, Moses; and Moses's adoring and errant younger brother, Coverly. Tragic and funny, ribald and splendidly picaresque, and partly based on Cheever's adolescence...
| Author | Rosie Alison |
| ISBN | 1846880866 |
England, 31st August 1939: the world is on the brink of war. As Hitler prepares to invade Poland, thousands of children are evacuated from London to escape the impending Blitz. Torn from her mother, eight-year-old Anna Sands is relocated with other children to a large Yorkshire estate which has been...
| Author | Victor Pelevin |
| ISBN | 5699190856 |
Юноша становится вампиром, сверхчеловеком, одним из представителей расы, выведшей людей для прокорма как скот. В новой жизни ему предстоит изучить...
| Author | Niccolò Ammaniti |
| ISBN | 0857861972 |
Lorenzo has a few issues. They include the fact that he doesn’t have, or want, any friends. Because this is making his parents unhappy, he tells them he has been invited on a skiing holiday with a group from school. In fact, he is planning to spend the week happily ensconced in the cellar of their apartment...
| Author | Ahmet Ümit |
| ISBN | 9750845552 |
İstanbul’da bir kanun adamı, sokaklarda bir suç bilgesi. Başkomser Nevzat, karmaşık cinayetleri çözerken insan ruhunun derinliklerinde gezinmeye devam ediyor...
Edebiyat bazen çok tehlikeli olabilir. Anna Karenina, Madam Bovary, Esmeralda ve daha birçok kadın roman...
| Author | Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais |
Forcé de parcourir la route où je suis entré sans le savoir, comme j'en sortirai sans le vouloir, je l'ai jonchée d'autant de fleurs que ma gaieté me l'a permis ; encore je dis ma gaieté, sans savoir si elle est à moi plus que le reste, ni même quel est ce Moi dont je m'occupe : un assemblage informe...
