Naguib Mahfouz: Three Novels of Ancient Egypt
10 best books like Naguib Mahfouz: Three Novels of Ancient Egypt (Naguib Mahfouz): The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity, Mildred Pierce and Selected Stories, The Songs of the Kings, Shirley & The Professor, The Complete Henry Bech, The Best of Wodehouse: An Anthology, Ethan Frome, Summer, Bunner Sisters, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and Agnes Grey, Helen in Egypt, Novels 1942–1952: The Moon Is Down / Cannery Row / The Pearl / East of Eden, Revolutionary Road / The Easter Parade / Eleven Kinds of Loneliness
These three classics from the master of the noir novel, along with five otherwise unavailable short stories, are electric with the taut narrative voice, the suspense, and the explosive violence and eroticism that were James M. Cain’s indelible hallmarks.The Postman Always Rings Twice, Cain’s...
| Author | Barry Unsworth |
| ISBN | 0393322831 |
"Troy meant one thing only to the men gathered here, as it did to their commanders. Troy was a dream of wealth; and if the wind continued the dream would crumble." As the harsh wind holds the Greek fleet trapped in the straits at Aulis, frustration and political impotence turn into a desire for the blood...
| Author | Charlotte Brontë |
| ISBN | 0307268217 |
Shirley is the story of a complicated friendship between two very different women: shy and socially constrained Caroline, the poor niece of a tyrannical clergyman; and the independent heiress Shirley, who has both the resources and the spirit to defy convention. The romantic entanglements of the...
| Author | John Updike |
| ISBN | 1857152646 |
From his birth in 1923 to his belated paternity and public apotheosis as a spry septuagenarian in 1999, Bech plugs away, globetrotting in the company of foreign dignitaries one day and schlepping in tattered tweeds on the college lecture circuit the next. By turns cynical and naïve, wry and avuncular,...
| Author | P.G. Wodehouse |
| ISBN | 0307266613 |
P.G. Wodehouse (1881-1975) was perhaps the most widely acclaimed British humorist of the twentieth century. Throughout his career, he brilliantly examined the complex and idiosyncratic nature of English upper-crust society with hilarious insight and wit. The works in this volume...
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) These three brilliantly wrought, tragic novellas explore the repressed emotions and destructive passions of working-class people far removed from the social milieu usually inhabited by Edith Wharton's characters. Ethan Frome is one of Wharton's most famous...
| Author | Anne Brontë |
| ISBN | 0862250560 |
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall was a superb novel! It had a gripping plot that grabbed me from the first page and didn't let up until the last page. I liked the narrative style of the novel too. Anne Bronte uses the perspectives of her two primary protagonists, Mr. Gilbert Markham, and Mrs. Helen Graham, extraordinarily...
The fabulous beauty of Helen of Troy is legendary. But some say that Helen was never in Troy, that she had been conveyed by Zeus to Egypt, and that Greeks and Trojans alike fought for an illusion. A fifty-line fragment by the poet Stesichorus of Sicily (c. 640-555 B.C.), what survives of his Pallinode,...
| Author | John Steinbeck |
| ISBN | 1931082073 |
The third volume in The Library of America’s authoritative edition of John Steinbeck’s writings shows him continuing to explore new subject matter and new approaches to storytelling. These four novels display the versatility and emotional directness that have made Steinbeck one of America’s...
Revolutionary Road / The Easter Parade / Eleven Kinds of Loneliness
| Author | Richard Yates |
| ISBN | 0307270890 |
Three classic works--including the virtuosic "Revolutionary Road, "soon to be a major motion picture--that exemplify the remarkable gifts of this great American master.
Richard Yates's first novel, "Revolutionary Road "is the unforgettable portrait of a marriage built on dreams that...
| Author | Raymond Chandler |
| ISBN | 0375415025 |
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Creator of the famous Philip Marlowe, Raymond Chandler elevated the American hard-boiled detective genre to an art form. Chandler’s last four novels, published here in one volume, offer ample opportunity to savor the unique and utterly compelling fictional...
| Author | Irène Némirovsky |
| ISBN | 0307267083 |
Readers everywhere were introduced to the work of Irène Némirovsky through the publication of her long-lost masterpiece, Suite Française. But Suite Française was only the coda to the brief yet remarkably prolific career of this nearly forgotten, magnificent novelist. Here in one volume are...
The Raj Quartet (1): The Jewel in the Crown, The Day of the Scorpion
| Author | Paul Scott |
| ISBN | 0307263967 |
The Raj Quartet, Paul Scott's epic study of British India in its final years, has no equal. Tolstoyan in scope and Proustian in detail but completely individual in effect, it records the encounter between East and West through the experiences of a dozen people caught up in the upheavals...
| Author | Ian Shaw |
| ISBN | 0192854194 |
The ancient Egyptians are an enduring source of fascination--mummies and pyramids, curses and rituals have captured our imaginations for generations. We all have a mental picture of ancient Egypt, but is it the right one? How much do we really know about this once great civilization?
In this...
Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms
| Author | Miriam Lichtheim |
| ISBN | 0520248422 |
First published in 1973 – and followed by Volume II in 1976 and Volume III in 1980 – this anthology has assumed classic status in the field of Egyptology and portrays the remarkable evolution of the literary forms of one of the world’s earliest civilizations.
Volume I outlines the early...
| Author | Faith L. Justice |
| ISBN | 1601458134 |
Since I'm the author, no one would give any credence to my review, so I want to take the time and make the space to thank all the folks who have reviewed Selene of Alexandria here, at Library Thing, on Amazon.com, BN.com, Smashwords, personal blogs and all the other places reviews keep popping up. I really...
| Author | Judith Tarr |
| ISBN | 0812520793 |
Judith Tarr should be placed under arrest, tried and convicted for the first-degree murder of an historical figure via a fictional account of that person's life!
Judith Tarr's portrayal of the legendary Cleopatra VII was at the very least a mockery of the very life she sought to do honour through...
| Author | Rosalie David |
| ISBN | 0140262520 |
The ancient Egyptians believed that the Nile - their life source - was a divine gift. Religion and magic permeated their civilization, and this book provides a unique insight into their religious beliefs and practices, from 5000 BC to the 4th century AD, when Egyptian Christianity replaced the earlier...
Chronicle of the Queens of Egypt: From Early Dynastic Times to the Death of Cleopatra
| Author | Joyce A. Tyldesley |
| ISBN | 0500051453 |
This fascinating saga spans 3,000 years of Egyptian queenship from Early Dynastic times until the suicide of Cleopatra in 30 BC. Starting with the unique role enjoyed by Egypt's women in the ancient world, the book goes on to present a biographical portrait of every queen, supplemented by a wealth of...
The Ancient Egyptians for Dummies
| Author | Charlotte Booth |
| ISBN | 0470065443 |
Unravel the history behind of one of the most fascinating ancient civilisations with this engaging, entertaining and educational guide to the ancient Egyptians. With a complete rundown of ancient Egyptian history and culture alongside insights in to the everyday lives of the Egyptians, you'll...
How to Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs: A Step-by-Step Guide to Teach Yourself
| Author | Mark Collier |
| ISBN | 0520239490 |
Hieroglyphs are pictures used as signs in writing. When standing before an ancient tablet in a museum or visiting an Egyptian monument, we marvel at this unique writing and puzzle over its meaning. Now, with the help of Egyptologists Mark Collier and Bill Manley, museum-goers, tourists, and armchair...
