Roman de Brut
10 best books like Roman de Brut (Wace): Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, The City & the City, Lady Audley's Secret, After Dark, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72, Parzival, The Purloined Letter, Cligès, The Dream of the Rood
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
| Author | Robin Sloan |
| ISBN | 0374214913 |
The Great Recession has shuffled Clay Jannon away from life as a San Francisco web-design drone and into the aisles of Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, but after a few days on the job, Clay discovers that the store is more curious than either its name or its gnomic owner might suggest. The customers are...
| Author | China Miéville |
| ISBN | 0345497511 |
When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks to be a routine case for Inspector Tyador Borlú of the Extreme Crime Squad. But as he investigates, the evidence points to conspiracies far stranger and more deadly than anything he could have imagined.
Borlú...
| Author | Mary Elizabeth Braddon |
| ISBN | 0192835203 |
whatever could be Lady Audley's secret? could it be... murder? miscegenation? malfeasance? misdirected malevolence ending in tears, tragedy, and general tawdriness? an assumed identity? flatulence? that not-so-fresh feeling? bigamy? bigotry? child abuse? child abandonment? une affaire...
| Author | Haruki Murakami |
| ISBN | 0307265838 |
A short, sleek novel of encounters set in Tokyo during the witching hours between midnight and dawn, and every bit as gripping as Haruki Murakami’s masterworks The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and Kafka on the Shore.
At its center are two sisters—Eri, a fashion model slumbering her way into...
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
In these first five stories about Poe's detective Auguste Dupin, he establishes many of the traditions or motifs we know from classic detective fiction. The eccentric but brilliant detective who solves the mystery merely by analysing the facts from his armchair, the mystery of how a murder was committed...
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72
| Author | Hunter S. Thompson |
| ISBN | 0446698229 |
Hilarious, terrifying, insightful, and compulsively readable, these are the articles that Hunter S. Thompson wrote for Rolling Stone magazine while covering the 1972 election campaign of President Richard M. Nixon and his unsuccessful opponent, Senator George S. McGovern. Hunter focuses largely...
| Author | Wolfram von Eschenbach |
| ISBN | 0140443614 |
Composed in the early thirteenth century, Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival is the re-creation and completion of the story left unfinished by its initiator Chretien de Troyes. It follows Parzival from his boyhood and career as a knight in the court of King Arthur to his ultimate achievement as King...
| Author | Edgar Allan Poe |
| ISBN | 0886820618 |
Dans cette nouvelle, le détective Auguste Dupin est informé par G..., le préfet de police de Paris, qu'une lettre de la plus haute importance a été volée dans le boudoir royal. Le moment précis du vol et le voleur, D..., sont connus du policier, mais celui-ci est dans l'incapacité d'accabler...
| Author | Chrétien de Troyes |
| ISBN | 0300070217 |
In this extraordinarily fine translation of Cligès, the second of five surviving Arthurian poems by twelfth-century French poet Chrétien de Troyes, Burton Raffel captures the liveliness, innovative spirit, and subtle intentions of the original work. In this poem, Chrétien creates his most...
| Author | Cynewulf |
| ISBN | 0859895033 |
The Dream of the Rood is a poem that has entranced generations of scholars. It is one of the greatest religious poems in English literature, the work of a nameless poet of superb genius.
This edition presents a conservative text with variant reading described in the notes. In his introduction...
| Author | Marie de France |
| ISBN | 2253138134 |
When I led my Survey of British Lit class in a discussion of this short tale, I suggested a Freudian interpretation of the story; eyes got wide and the discussion got going.
Maybe that story of fairy love in the deep forest away from everyone is a different kind of fantasy!
Maybe the story...
Layamon's Arthur: The Arthurian Section of Layamon's Brut
| Author | Layamon |
| ISBN | 0859896854 |
Layamon's Brut is a landmark in English literature, the first major work in English after the Norman Conquest, and the precursor of a rich Arthurian literature, from Malory to Tennyson and on to our own time. This edition combines a fully-edited version of the original text with a close parallel prose...
The Mystery of Marie Rogêt
Brilliant follow-up to 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue'. Who killed Marie Roget, the perfumery girl? Was it a group of blackguards or a single perpetrator? Dupin investigates at his very best here. In some long analysis he's taking the press articles apart and comes up with great findings who might have...
Un escándalo en Bohemia (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, #1)
Fusioni di musica e letteratura, narrazioni parallele offerte da grandi talenti, capaci di restituire non solo il senso e il significato, ma anche l'anima dei racconti più belli. Per Sherlock Holmes c'era soltanto una donna, e tale donna rispondeva al nome di Irene Adler, il cui ricordo è senz'altro...
| Author | David Mitchell |
| ISBN | 0375724508 |
A gallery attendant at the Hermitage. A young jazz buff in Tokyo. A crooked British lawyer in Hong Kong. A disc jockey in Manhattan. A physicist in Ireland. An elderly woman running a tea shack in rural China. A cult-controlled terrorist in Okinawa. A musician in London. A transmigrating spirit in Mongolia....
| Author | Lauren Groff |
| ISBN | 1594634521 |
In Lauren Groff’s Florida, the hot sun shines, but a wild darkness lurks.
In her thrilling new book, Lauren Groff brings the reader into a physical world that is at once domestic and wild—a place where the hazards of the natural world lie waiting to pounce, yet the greatest threats and mysteries...
