Pigs Is Pigs
10 best books like Pigs Is Pigs (Ellis Parker Butler): The Story of a Bad Boy, The Four Million, The Hanging Game, Meet Me in St. Louis, 100 Great Breads, The Snows of Kilimanjaro/The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber, Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde: The Devoted Friend/The Nightingale and the Rose, Dandelion Cottage, Chip of the Flying U, Life in the Iron Mills and Other Stories
| Author | Thomas Bailey Aldrich |
| ISBN | 1406806641 |
In a time when children's books were populated with well-behaved little gentlemen, Thomas Bailey Aldrich dared to present an alternative point of view - childhood as he remembered it. Tom Bailey is no angel. At times a bully, a vandal, and a troublemaker, he has a healthy zest for life and a perhaps over-developed...
| Author | O. Henry |
| ISBN | 1434625818 |
O. Henry is the knight of the shop-girl and the waitress; of the wandering, homeless tramp; of poverty-stricken young married folk; of hundreds of lonely human beings who live within the dirty, gloomy wall of two-dollar-a-week boarding house rooms - of the great mass of humanity not included in the...
| Author | Helen Marshall |
| ISBN | 1466839252 |
Sometimes a game, even a sacred game, can have far-reaching consequences. In bear country young Skye learns just how far she is willing to go to play the game properly in order carry on the traditions that came before her and will most likely continue long after she is gone.
At the publisher's request,...
| Author | Sally Benson |
| ISBN | 1891442260 |
There are times when a film does a more enjoyable job with a book than the book does for itself. "Meet Me in Saint Louis" is one of the great old movie musicals, and probably provided the best performance ever given by Judy Garland. The book, on the other hand, is nothing extraordinary in the genre of happy-old-time-family...
| Author | Paul Hollywood |
| ISBN | 1844031438 |
I had to sign up to this site just to have a rant about how bad this book really is. I bake bread sometimes up to 4 times a week, kneading and shaping by hand mostly and was given this book as a Christmas present.
As suggested at the book's beginning, I tried making the first recipe - the Wheatsheaf Loaf...
| Author | Ernest Hemingway |
| ISBN | 0736650695 |
In The Snows of Kilimanjaro the protagonist perishes of gangrene alone out in the bush, recognizing his failure as a writer: a writer who never had the nerve to write. He dies with stoic acceptance and a view of the famous summit unseen by any alive. In The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber, Francis is...
| Author | P. Craig Russell |
| ISBN | 1561633917 |
In this graphic novel, Russell takes two fairytales by Oscar Wilde, "The Devoted Friend" and "The Nightingale and the Rose" and turns them into a comic strip story and changes some of the stories elements. The first fairytale, "The Devoted Friend" tells a story of a young boy named Hans, who has the most...
| Author | Carroll Watson Rankin |
| ISBN | 0938746006 |
A few years ago I bought this book for my sister, who has a thing for children's books in which the characters fix up houses and pull weeds -- whatever else may be said about it, Dandelion Cottage is an ideal exemplar of that genre. At the time, I tried to read it myself, but found it overly twee. Just a couple...
| Author | B.M. Bower |
| ISBN | 0803261217 |
B. M. (Bertha Muzzy) Bower was the first woman to make a career of writing popular westerns. And what a career it was—more than sixty novels published from 1904 to 1940, the year of her death, and still more posthumously. In the western orbit, Bower was—and still is—a star. Her first, Chip of the...
| Author | Rebecca Harding Davis |
| ISBN | 0935312390 |
"Life in the Iron Mills" (1861) was one of the first major Realist works in American literature and created an immediate sensation in the literary world when it was first published, though it was subsequently forgotten and only re-discovered in relatively recent times by editor Olsen. I'd read, and...
| Author | Mark Twain |
| ISBN | 0299234746 |
Mark Twain’s Own Autobiography stands as the last of Twain’s great yarns. Here he tells his story in his own way, freely expressing his joys and sorrows, his affections and hatreds, his rages and reverence—ending, as always, tongue-in-cheek: “Now, then, that is the tale. Some of it is true.”...
| Author | Ring Lardner |
| ISBN | 0020223420 |
"You Know me Al" is a classic of baseball--the game and the community. Jack Keefe, one of literature's greatest characters, is talented, brash, and conceited. Self-assured and imperceptive, impervious to both advice and sarcasm, Keefe rises to the heights, but his inability to learn makes for his...
| Author | Earl Derr Biggers |
| ISBN | 1587153017 |
The Agony Column is a perfect brew of mystery and romance of the very old-fashioned variety. Perhaps no one other than M.M. Kaye blended these two elements as well as Earl Derr Biggers. Forever remembered for his creation of Charlie Chan, the great detective from Hawaii, many of Biggers' other novels...
Philip Kindred Dick was an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist in the science fiction genre. Dick explored sociological, political and metaphysical themes in novels dominated by monopolistic corporations, authoritarian governments, and altered states.
In his later...
| Author | Anton Chekhov |
| ISBN | 0895986841 |
"Going to prison is like dying with your eyes open."
—Bernard Kerik
A wealthy banker holds a party at his commodious home, where a group of intellectuals argue as to which is the more humane punishment: a swift execution, or life imprisonment in a Russian jail. One kills swiftly, the...
| Author | Jerome K. Jerome |
| ISBN | 1406834041 |
And not only do the ghosts themselves always walk on Christmas Eve, but live people always sit and talk about them on Christmas Eve. Whenever five or six English-speaking people meet round a fire on Christmas Eve, they start telling each other ghost stories. Nothing satisfies us on Christmas Eve but...
I listened to Richard Ford read this on the New Yorker fiction podcast. It's a short read. Some might even say that nothing happens in it, and they would be right. A boy meets his dad while waiting for a train on Grand Cenral Station, they are going to have lunch together, and that is about it.
But...
| Author | Luis Alberto Urrea |
| ISBN | 1933693231 |
Mr. Mendoza, Mexico’s self-described king of graffiti, blesses the small town of Rosario with his sardonic wit. “Deflate your pomp or float away!” he paints on the body of an unexpectedly exhumed monk. “No intelligent life for 100 kilometers,” he proclaims on the sign that announces Rosario’s...
This early comic tale of Gogol’s is certainly effective, and almost as memorable as the Petersburg Tales (“The Overcoat,” “The Nose,” “The Diary of a Madman”), with which it is usually classed. It is simpler, though, less cosmic in its ironies, and takes place far from the capital...
The Heavenly Christmas Tree
| Author | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
| ISBN | 0886824923 |
I am a novelist, and I suppose I have made up this story. I write “I suppose,” though I know for a fact that I have made it up, but yet I keep fancying that it must have happened somewhere at some time, that it must have happened on Christmas Eve in some great town in a time of terrible frost.
It would...
Mr. Britling Sees it Through
H.G. Wells' attempt to make sense of World War I. It begins with a lighthearted account of an American visiting England for the first time, but the outbreak of war changes everything. Day by day and month by month, Wells chronicles the unfolding events and public reaction as witnessed by the inhabitants...
| Author | Willa Cather |
| ISBN | 0886820650 |
Do your students enjoy a good laugh? Do they like to be scared? Or do they just like a book with a happy ending? No matter what their taste, our Creative Short Stories series has the answer.We've taken some of the world's best stories from dark, musty anthologies and brought them into the light, giving them...
Never Bet the Devil Your Head
The narrator, presented as the author himself, is dismayed by literary critics saying that he has never written a moral tale. The narrator then begins telling the story of his friend Toby Dammit. Dammit is described as a man of many vices, presumably at least in part due to his left-handed mother flogging...
