Remembrance of Things Past: Volume II - The Guermantes Way & Cities of the Plain

7 best books like Remembrance of Things Past: Volume II - The Guermantes Way & Cities of the Plain (Marcel Proust): Bastard Out of Carolina, The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings, Spoon River Anthology, Master and Commander, The Red House Mystery, Marcel Proust's Search for Lost Time: A Reader's Guide to the Remembrance of Things Past, La morte indifferente. Proust nel gulag

Bastard Out of Carolina

Author	Dorothy Allison
ISBN	0452287057

Greenville County, South Carolina, is a wild, lush place that is home to the Boatwright family—a tight-knit clan of rough-hewn, hard-drinking men who shoot up each other's trucks, and indomitable women who get married young and age too quickly. At the heart of this story is Ruth Anne Boatwright,...

The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings

Author	Edgar Allan Poe
ISBN	0553212281

Edgar Allan Poe remains the unsurpassed master of works of mystery and madness in this outstanding collection of Poe's prose and poetry are sixteen of his finest tales, including "The Tell-Tale Heart", "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Pit and the Pendulum," "William...

Spoon River Anthology

Author	Edgar Lee Masters
ISBN	1406946133

From spoonriveranthology.net: "Edgar Lee Masters's Spoon River Anthology was an immediate commercial success when it was published in 1915. Unconventional in both style and content, it shattered the myths of small town American life. A collection of epitaphs of residents of a small town, a full...

Master and Commander

Author	Patrick O'Brian
ISBN	0393307050

As the Royal Navy takes part in the wars against Napoleonic France, young Jack Aubrey receives his first command, the small, old, and slow HMS Sophie. Accompanied by his eccentric new friend, the physician and naturalist Stephen Maturin, Aubrey does battle with the naval hierarchy, with his own tendency...

The Red House Mystery

Author	A.A. Milne
ISBN	0486401294

The creator of such beloved storybook characters for children as Winnie-the-Pooh, Piglet, and Eeyore, A. A. Milne was also the author of numerous dramas, essays, and novels for adults — among them, this droll and finely crafted whodunit.
In it, Milne takes readers to the Red House, a comfortable...

Marcel Proust's Search for Lost Time: A Reader's Guide to the Remembrance of Things Past

Author	Patrick Alexander
ISBN	0307472329

An accessible, irreverent guide to one of the most admired--and entertaining--novels of the past century: Rememberance of Things Past. There is no other guide like this; a user-friendly and enticing entry into the marvelously enjoyable world of Proust.

At seven volumes, three thousand...

La morte indifferente. Proust nel gulag

Author	Józef Czapski
ISBN	8883251520

Settembre 1939. La Polonia è invasa. Come migliaia di polacchi, Joseph Czapski è fatto prigioniero dai russi e rinchiuso nel gulag di Griazowietz. Per vincere la prostrazione e l'angoscia della loro condizione, alcuni prigionieri organizzano incontri dove "ognuno di noi parlava di ciò che meglio...