Mortal Leap
7 best books like Mortal Leap (MacDonald Harris): Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings, A High Wind in Jamaica, The Moviegoer, The Collected Poems, Thirst for Love, Nights as Day, Days as Night, Then and Now
Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings
| Author | Jorge Luis Borges |
| ISBN | 0811200124 |
Although his work has been restricted to the short story, the essay, and poetry, Jorge Luis Borges of Argentina is recognized all over the world as one of the most original and significant figures in modern literature. In his preface, Andre Maurois writes: "Borges is a great writer who has composed only...
| Author | Richard Hughes |
| ISBN | 0940322153 |
New edition of a classic adventure novel and one of the most startling, highly praised stories in English literature - a brilliant chronicle of two sensitive children's violent voyage from innocence to experience.
After a terrible hurricane levels their Jamaican estate, the Bas-Thorntons...
| Author | Walker Percy |
| ISBN | 0375701966 |
The dazzling novel that established Walker Percy as one of the major voices in Southern literature is now available for the first time in Vintage paperback. The Moviegoer is Binx Bolling, a young New Orleans stockbroker who surveys the world with the detached gaze of a Bourbon Street dandy even as he...
| Author | Sylvia Plath |
| ISBN | 0808595040 |
The aim of the present complete edition, which contains a numbered sequence of the 224 poems written after 1956 together with a further 50 poems chosen from her pre-1956 work, is to bring Sylvia Plath's poetry together in one volume, including the various uncollected and unpublished pieces, and to...
| Author | Yukio Mishima |
| ISBN | 0375705074 |
In Thirst for Love, Japan's greatest modern writer created a portrait of sexual torment and corrosive jealousy that is as delicately nuanced as Madame Bovary and as remorseless as Justine. Yukio Mishima's protagonist is Etsuko, whose philandering husband has died horribly from typhoid. The young...
French surreal fiction writer Michel Leiris in 1922.
Nights as Day, Days as Night - More than one hundred entries in this book, the author's dream journal, composed over a span of forty years. Here is the very first entry: "In front of a crowd of gawking spectators - of whom I am one - a series...
| Author | W. Somerset Maugham |
| ISBN | 0405078226 |
Amazing historical fiction. Utterly amazing author and prose!
Then and Now by W. Somerset Maugham follows four months of the year 1502 in the life of Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527)--Florentine author, playwright, philosopher, politician and diplomat. It is about the man Machiavelli...
