Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris
10 best books like Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris (Paul Gallico): The House in Paris, One Pair of Hands, The Wonderful O, The Slightly True Story of Cedar B. Hartley, Who Planned to Live an Unusual Life, An Ethiopian Romance, Asphodel, Henrietta's War: News from the Home Front 1939-1942, Mrs. Tim Carries On, East Wind, Rain, Amateurs
| Author | Elizabeth Bowen |
| ISBN | 0385721250 |
One of Elizabeth Bowen’s most artful and psychologically acute novels, The House in Paris is a timeless masterpiece of nuance and construction, and represents the very best of Bowen’s celebrated work.
When eleven-year-old Henrietta arrives at the Fishers’ well-appointed house...
| Author | Monica Dickens |
| ISBN | 0897333047 |
What does a young, well-off English woman do with herself when she's thrown out of acting school and is tired of being a debutante? Well, if you're Monica Dickens, you become a cook. She makes the plunge to a life "below the stairs," confident in her abilities to be a cook because she once took a course in...
| Author | James Thurber |
| ISBN | 0440405793 |
This book was one of my favorites when I was about eight, and I read it innumerable times. I can still remember many passages verbatim. In case you don't know it, here is a brief summary of the plot. Two disreputable pirates, Black and Littlejack, arrive at the island of Ooroo. They have reason to believe...
I don’t usually read a lot of middle grade fiction but whenever I do, I enjoy the whole reading experience so much that I wonder why I don’t read more frequently from this genre. There was this one particular book which kept falling at my feet every time I opened my bookshelf. I took this as a sign and moreover,...
| Author | Heliodorus of Emesa |
| ISBN | 0812216725 |
"Upon a rock sat a maiden of such inexpressible beauty as to be supposed divine. . . . Her head inclined forward without moving, for she was looking fixedly at a young man who lay at her feet. The man was disfigured with wounds, but seemed to rouse himself a little as from a deep sleep, almost of death itself....
"DESTROY," H.D. had pencilled across the title page of this autobiographical novel. Although the manuscript survived, it has remained unpublished since its completion in the 1920s. Regarded by many as one of the major poets of the modernist period, H.D. created in Asphodel a remarkable and readable...
| Author | Joyce Dennys |
| ISBN | 1408802813 |
Spirited Henrietta wishes she was the kind of doctor's wife who knew exactly how to deal with the daily upheavals of war. But then, everyone in her close-knit Devonshire village seems to find different ways to cope: there's the indomitable Lady B, who writes to Hitler every night to tell him precisely...
| Author | D.E. Stevenson |
| ISBN | 0030074916 |
Here is a glimpse behind the scenes of an army post in Scotland in war time, without the constant borrowing of the tragedies of wartime Britain. Social-gossipy recording, pleasant, humorous, popular minutiac, of family and military backdrop. ""Mrs. Tim of the regiment"" carries on through 1940;...
| Author | Caroline Paul |
| ISBN | 0060780754 |
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Gutsy Girl comes this provocative, compelling novel of irrevocable consequences for people thrust unwittingly into a devastating war of nations and American identity—based on a little-known true event.
December 1941. The inhabitants...
| Author | Donald Barthelme |
| ISBN | 0374103798 |
322. Amateurs (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1976), Donald Barthelme
Donald Barthelme (April 7, 1931 – July 23, 1989) was an American short story writer and novelist known for his playful, postmodernist style of short fiction. Barthelme also worked as a newspaper reporter for the Houston Post,...
| Author | Zhang Jie |
| ISBN | 0860687643 |
Published in 1980, Heavy Wings focuses on the Morning Light Auto Works in Beijing, a microcosm of the ongoing struggle between reformers who want to allow a measure of freedom and party hardliners clinging to the ideology that justifies their privilege and power. It provoked a storm of controversy...
| Author | Lari Don |
| ISBN | 1847806813 |
Eleven amazing stories from the Viking Sagas, packed with warriors and battles, heroes and heroines, berserkers, monsters and zombies. AND LOTS OF MAGIC.
Stories include:
* The Dragon's Hoard
* The Swan Warrior
* The Berserker's Baby
* Tusker versus the Earl...
| Author | Beverley Nichols |
| ISBN | 0881924601 |
I have read part of Nichols trilogy years ago and have never forgotten it. These are "gardening books" but they really are a sweet memoir to a time and place gone by. I had laughter in my heart after reading them.
Laughter on the Stairs is a wonderful book in Nichols' long list of writings. I loved...
| Author | B.S. Johnson |
| ISBN | 0811209814 |
Eight residents in a home for the elderly sit down to dinner, along with the House Mother herself, and each takes it in turn to relay the proceedings of the evening from their own, individual perspective. By virtue of the novel’s clever structure, the reader’s comprehension of events is limited...
| Author | Mordecai Richler |
| ISBN | 0887764258 |
When his parents return from Kenya with a cute little green lizard on his eighth birthday (he’s two times two times two), Jacob Two-Two is thrilled. But it isn’t long before Jacob realizes that his new pet Dippy isn’t a lizard after all. And as months pass, it is apparent Dippy isn’t so little either....
"قال: ما ذهب لا يعود، ولن يعود أبداً.
وقد رقَّ صوته أثناء نطقه بهذه العبارة.
قلت وأنا أضع يدي على كتفه: بل عاد كل شيء منذ الآن.
فأمسك يدي يشد عليها وقال: الحق...
| Author | Ivy Pochoda |
| ISBN | 0312385854 |
How do you know if love is real or just an illusion?
When Mel Snow meets the talented magician Toby Warring in a dusty roadside bar, she is instantly drawn to the brilliant performer whose hands can effortlessly pull stray saltshakers and poker chips from thin air and conjure castles out...
| Author | Margery Sharp |
| ISBN | 0060805781 |
Note: I see that when I originally posted this to my shelf (book was read in March) I forgot to include my little review. I was quite taken with Margery Sharp's writing and hope to read more:
Author's Quote added: "I absolutely believe it is fatal ever to write below your best, even if what you write...
| Author | Giovanni Papini |
| ISBN | 1417923806 |
Last Tuesday morning, a 45-year old woman jumped from the 27th floor of the building where she used to work. That building was just across where I work. She was there, lying on the pavement, lifeless, headless. When she jumped, her head caught one of the ledges of the building and so her head got severed....
Child of Twilight
Venice, Italy, 2039. When Michael Danvers witnesses a vampire attack, his latent ability to shapeshift awakens. Revealed as a Sentinel, the natural enemy of Nightwalkers, 13-year-old Michael must turn his back on his family and his safe, predictable life. But a supernatural...
| Author | Maurice Blanchot |
| ISBN | 1886449414 |
This long awaited reprint of a book about which John Hollander wrote: 'A masterful version of one of the most remarkable novels in any language since World War II,' is the story of the narrator's relations with two women, one terminally ill, the other found motionless by him in a darkened room after a bomb...
