Novels 1967–1972: When She Was Good / Portnoy’s Complaint / Our Gang / The Breast
10 best books like Novels 1967–1972: When She Was Good / Portnoy’s Complaint / Our Gang / The Breast (Philip Roth): Silk, The Dead, Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle, The Kreutzer Sonata, On the Shortness of Life, The Way Things are, Авиатор, Troubling Love, Considering Kate, Essais 1
| Author | Alessandro Baricco |
| ISBN | 0375703829 |
When an epidemic threatens to destroy the silk trade in France, the young merchant Herve Joncour leaves his doting wife and his comfortable home in the small town of Lavilledieu and travels across Siberia to the other end of the world, to Japan, to obtain eggs for a fresh breeding of silk worms. It is the...
Can a story leave your heart aching like this after just a few short pages?! I’ve just learned that it can indeed. The beautiful, expressive prose delighted me. The nostalgic quality charmed me. The melancholic air indulged my current state of emotion while reading. I don’t know what I was expecting,...
Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
| Author | Vladimir Nabokov |
| ISBN | 0679725229 |
Published two weeks after his seventieth birthday, Ada, or Ardor is one of Nabokov's greatest masterpieces, the glorious culmination of his career as a novelist. It tells a love story troubled by incest. But more: it is also at once a fairy tale, epic, philosophical treatise on the nature of time,...
| Author | Leo Tolstoy |
| ISBN | 0812968239 |
When Marshal of the Nobility Pozdnyshev suspects his wife of having an affair with her music partner, his jealousy consumes him and drives him to murder. Controversial upon publication in 1890, The Kreutzer Sonata illuminates Tolstoy’s then-feverish Christian ideals, his conflicts with lust...
| Author | Seneca |
| ISBN | 0143036327 |
The Stoic writings of the philosopher Seneca offer powerful insights into the art of living, the importance of reason and morality, and continue to provide profound guidance to many through their eloquence, lucidity and timeless wisdom.
Throughout history, some books have changed the...
ALL MATTER?
NEVER MIND!
-Bertrand Russell’s Grandmother
(Mocking his Materialist Philosophy)
When I was in my late teens I had a stunning Lucretian prise de conscience that utterly knocked the wind out of my youthful sails. It seemed the overwhelming answer to Eliot’s...
Евгений Водолазкин - прозаик, филолог. Автор. В России его называют "русским Умберто Эко", в Америке - после выхода "Лавра" на английском - "русским Маркесом"....
| Author | Elena Ferrante |
| ISBN | 1933372168 |
Set in Naples, Italy, this debut novel by New York Times bestselling author Elena Ferrante (My Brilliant Friend, The Days of Abandonment) tells a story about mothers and daughters and the complicated knot of lies, emotions, and shared history than binds them.
Following her mother's untimely...
| Author | Nora Roberts |
| ISBN | 0373243790 |
She'd turned her back on glamour and fame and Kate Stanislaski Kimball had come home to begin a new life. The only thing more perfect than the beautiful--dilapidated--building she'd bought for her new dance school was Brody O'Connell, the frustrating, surprisingly fascinating contractor she'd...
| Author | Michel de Montaigne |
| ISBN | 2080702106 |
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references,...
| Author | Theodor W. Adorno |
| ISBN | 0804736332 |
Dialectic of Enlightenment is undoubtedly the most influential publication of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory. Written during the Second World War and circulated privately, it appeared in a printed edition in Amsterdam in 1947. "What we had set out to do," the authors write in the Preface,...
«Amos Oz narra en Judas las grandes preguntas y conflictos de la historia y de la religión en Oriente Próximo».
Judas, el regreso de Amos Oz a la novela, género que no había frecuentado desde Una historia de amor y oscuridad, plantea una audaz y novedosa interpretación de la figura de...
| Author | Vladimir Nabokov |
| ISBN | 0679726209 |
Mary is a gripping tale of youth, first love, and nostalgia--Nabokov's first novel. In a Berlin rooming house filled with an assortment of seriocomic Russian émigrés, Lev Ganin, a vigorous young officer poised between his past and his future, relives his first love affair. His memories...
The Crime of Olga Arbyelina
| Author | Andreï Makine |
| ISBN | 0140298428 |
Tea and Sympathy
Andreï Makine's third novel begins with a scene lurid enough to headline a ten o'clock news show. On a hot July morning in the summer of 1947, two bodies wash up on a dust-caked riverbank in the provincial village of Villiers-La-Forêt. It is an unlikely pairing. The woman is the...
Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree
| Author | Tariq Ali |
| ISBN | 0860916766 |
Tariq Ali tells us the story of the aftermath of the fall of Granada by narrating a family saga of those who tried to survive after the collapse of their world. Ali is particularly deft at evoking what life must have been like for those doomed inhabitants, besieged on all sides by intolerant Christendom....
La verdad de las mentiras
| Author | Mario Vargas Llosa |
| ISBN | 8466310835 |
The greatest power of literature is to break any limits and this book allows us to partake in this. Vargas Llosa discusses here some literary works such as "Lolita, Death in Venice, The Stranger, Manhattan Transfer, Tropic of Cancer and "The Tin Drum. This splendid work is an immersion in the views of...
| Author | Michel Tournier |
| ISBN | 2070379086 |
«Donne-moi la photo.»Idriss gardait ses chèvres et ses moutons non loin de l'oasis de Tabelbala quand une Land Rover a surgi. Une jeune femme blonde aux jambes nues a pris en photo le petit berger saharien. Sa photo, elle la lui enverra dès son retour à Paris.Idriss a attendu en vain. Son image volée...
| Author | Alain-René Le Sage |
| ISBN | 2070375919 |
Imité, traduit, objet de multiples contrefaçons, Le Diable boîteux fut l'un des grands succès de librairie du XVIIIe siècle. On comprend que le public ait été séduit par cette étrange aventure d'un étudiant qui, ayant délivré un diable enfermé dans une fiole, se retrouve entraîné...
