Red Rose, White Rose
8 best books like Red Rose, White Rose (Eileen Chang): Inferno, The Moon and Sixpence, The Briefcase, The Driver's Seat, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails, Raise the Red Lantern: Three Novellas, Short Treatise on the Joys of Morphinism, Fort comme la mort
| Author | Dante Alighieri |
| ISBN | 0812970063 |
I just want to start off by saying that "Through me you enter into the City of Woes" would make an EXCELLENT tramp stamp. Jump on it!
Being that I am an atheist living in the "Bible Belt," I was certain that reading this would lead to some sort of goodreads tirade, which can at times feel about as good...
| Author | W. Somerset Maugham |
| ISBN | 1598185217 |
Based on the life of Paul Gauguin, The Moon and Sixpence is W. Somerset Maugham's ode to the powerful forces behind creative genius.
Charles Strickland is a staid banker, a man of wealth and privilege. He is also a man possessed of an unquenchable desire to create art. As Strickland pursues his artistic...
| Author | Hiromi Kawakami |
| ISBN | 1582435995 |
Tsukiko, thirty-eight, works in an office and lives alone. One night, she happens to meet one of her former high school teachers, "Sensei" in a local bar. Tsukiko had only ever called him "Sensei" ("Teacher"). He is thirty years her senior, retired, and presumably a widower. Their relationship, traced...
| Author | Muriel Spark |
| ISBN | 0141188340 |
Was it murder or was it suicide? And did that matter to the 'heroine'? This is a novella, a quick read and perhaps one that is better read at one sitting so that the tension can build. Its totally upfront, we know what is going to happen a quarter of the way through the book and it just remains for the story to...
At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails
| Author | Sarah Bakewell |
| ISBN | 0701186585 |
Paris, near the turn of 1933. Three young friends meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue Montparnasse. They are Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and their friend Raymond Aron, who opens their eyes to a radical new way of thinking. Pointing to his drink, he says, 'You can make...
Raise the Red Lantern: Three Novellas
| Author | Su Tong |
| ISBN | 0060596333 |
The brutal realities of the dark places Su Tong depicts in this collection of novellas set in 1930s provincial China -- worlds of prostitution, poverty, and drug addiction -- belie his prose of stunning and simplebeauty. The title novella, "Raise the Red Lantern," which became a critically acclaimed...
| Author | Hans Fallada |
| ISBN | 0141195800 |
'...I stare at the coffee I poured myself, and I think: caffeine is a poison that stimulates the heart. There are plenty of instances of people killing themselves with coffee, hundreds and thousands of them. Caffeine is a deadly poison, maybe almost as deadly as morphine. Why didn't it ever occur to me...
| Author | Guy de Maupassant |
| ISBN | 2266091670 |
Olivier Bertin is at the height of his career as a painter. After making his name with his Cleopatra, he went on to establish himself as “the chosen painter of the Parisiennes, the most adroit and ingenious artist to reveal their grace, their figures, and their souls.” And though his hair may be white,...
