Master and Man and Other Stories
10 best books like Master and Man and Other Stories (Leo Tolstoy): The Periodic Table, Eugene Onegin, The House of the Dead, Mother, The Collected Stories, Mythologies, Poor Folk and Other Stories, A Parisian Affair and Other Stories, Lost for Words, The Secret of Fern Island
| Author | Primo Levi |
| ISBN | 0805210415 |
The Periodic Table by Primo Levi is an impassioned response to the Holocaust: Consisting of 21 short stories, each possessing the name of a chemical element, the collection tells of the author's experiences as a Jewish-Italian chemist before, during, and after Auschwitz in luminous, clear, and unfailingly...
| Author | Alexander Pushkin |
| ISBN | 0192838997 |
Eugene Onegin is the master work of the poet whom Russians regard as the fountainhead of their literature. Set in imperial Russia during the 1820s, Pushkin's novel in verse follows the emotions and destiny of three men - Onegin the bored fop, Lensky the minor elegiast, and a stylized Pushkin himself...
| Author | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
| ISBN | 0486434095 |
Accused of political subversion as a young man, Fyodor Dostoyevsky was sentenced to four years of hard labor at a Siberian prison camp — a horrifying experience from which he developed this astounding semi-autobiographical memoir of a man condemned to ten years of servitude for murdering his wife.
As...
| Author | Maxim Gorky |
| ISBN | 1406833266 |
1907. Maxim Gorky, pseudonym of Alexei Maksimovich Peshkov, Soviet novelist, playwright and essayist, who was a founder of social realism. Although known principally as a writer, he was closely associated with the tumultuous revolutionary period of his own country. The Mother, one of his best-known...
| Author | Alexander Pushkin |
| ISBN | 0375405496 |
Pushkin’s prose tales are the foundation stones on which the great novels of Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Dostoevsky were built, but they are also brilliant and fascinating in their own right. In both prose and verse, Pushkin was one of the world’s great storytellers: direct and dramatic, clear-sighted,...
| Author | Roland Barthes |
| ISBN | 0374521506 |
"No denunciation without its proper instrument of close analysis," Roland Barthes wrote in his preface to Mythologies. There is no more proper instrument of analysis of our contemporary myths than this book—one of the most significant works in French theory, and one that has transformed the way...
| Author | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
| ISBN | 0140445056 |
Poor Folk was Dostoyevsky's first great triumph in fiction and the work that looks forward to the double-acts and obsessions of his later genius. It takes place in a world of office , lodging-house and seamstress's rooms and consists of an impoverished love affair in letters between a copy clerk and...
| Author | Guy de Maupassant |
| ISBN | 0140448128 |
Set in the nouveau riche Paris of society women, prostitutes, and playboys; in the Normandy countryside; and on the French Riviera where Maupassant had lived, the thirty-four short stories in this volume are among the most darkly humorous and brilliant in French literature. They focus on the complexity...
| Author | Edward St. Aubyn |
| ISBN | 0374280290 |
The judges on the panel of the Elysian Prize for Literature must get through hundreds of submissions to find the best book of the year. Meanwhile, a host of writers are desperate for Elysian attention: the brilliant writer and serial heartbreaker Katherine Burns; the lovelorn debut novelist Sam Black;...
| Author | M.D. Spenser |
| ISBN | 1576570568 |
The Secret of Fern Island was surprisingly good. I was expecting another Goosebumps knockoff but this is definitely in a different league, and the writing is a bit more mature and deep compared to some others. It's not only a horror novel, but a great mystery book as well, with lots of peculiar happenings...
| Author | Nikolai Gogol |
| ISBN | 0393003043 |
The compassion, simplicity, and gentle humor with which he treats the poignant quest of a hapless civil servant for the return of his stolen overcoat—and the fantastic yet realistic manner in which he takes revenge on his nemesis, the Very Important Person—mark "The Overcoat" as one of the greatest...
That morning, Jim Sams, clever but by no means profound, woke from uneasy dreams to find himself transformed into a gigantic creature.
Jim Sams has undergone a metamorphosis. In his previous life he was ignored or loathed, but in his new incarnation he is the most powerful man in Britain –...
| Author | Primo Levi |
| ISBN | 0140188924 |
In this exuberant and wildly funny novel, Primo Levi celebrates the joys of work and the art of storytelling. The magic is worked through the mesmerizing tales told by Libertini Faussone, a construction worker, and by the narrator, a writer-chemist, who share stories of their adventures. Faussone...
