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10 best books like Selected Poetry and Prose (Stéphane Mallarmé): The Lottery and Other Stories, Early Work, The Charterhouse of Parma, Out of Africa, Cranford, The Poems of St. John of the Cross, Brute: Poems, The Blue Flower, Hav, Improvement

The Lottery and Other Stories
AuthorShirley Jackson
ISBN0374529531
The Lottery, one of the most terrifying stories written in this century, created a sensation when it was first published in The New Yorker. "Power and haunting," and "nights of unrest" were typical reader responses. This collection, the only one to appear during Shirley Jackson's lifetime, unites...
Early Work
AuthorAndrew Martin
ISBN0374146128
A wry, supersmart, seriocomic first novel from a prodigious talent—a Sentimental Education for our time

For young writers of a certain temperament—if they haven’t had such notions beaten out of them by MFA programs and the Internet—the delusion persists that great writing must...
The Charterhouse of Parma
AuthorStendhal
ISBN0679783180
Richard Howard's exuberant and definitive rendition of Stendhal's stirring tale has brought about the rediscovery of this classic by modern readers. Stendhal narrates a young aristocrat's adventures in Napoleon's army and in the court of Parma, illuminating in the process the whole cloth of European...
Out of Africa
AuthorIsak Dinesen
ISBN0679600213
Out of Africa is Isak Dinesen's memoir of her years in Africa, from 1914 to 1931, on a four-thousand-acre coffee plantation in the hills near Nairobi. She had come to Kenya from Denmark with her husband, and when they separated she stayed on to manage the farm by herself, visited frequently by her lover,...
Cranford
AuthorElizabeth Gaskell
ISBN0141439882
'It is very pleasant dining with a bachelor...I only hope it is not improper; so many pleasant things are!'

A portrait of the residents of an English country town in the mid nineteenth century, Cranford relates the adventures of Miss Matty and Miss Deborah, two middle-aged spinster sisters...
The Poems of St. John of the Cross
AuthorJuan de la Cruz
ISBN0226401103
San Juan de la Cruz, the great sixteenth-century Spanish mystic, is regarded by many as Spain's finest poet. Passionate, ecstatic, and spiritual, his poems are a blend of exquisite lyricism and profound mystical thought. In The Poems of St. John of the Cross John Frederick Nims presents his superlative...
Brute: Poems
AuthorEmily Skaja
ISBN1555978355
Selected by Joy Harjo as the winner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets

Emily Skaja’s debut collection is a fiery, hypnotic book that confronts the dark questions and menacing silences around gender, sexuality, and violence. Brute arises, brave and furious, from...
The Blue Flower
AuthorPenelope Fitzgerald
ISBN0395859972
Penelope Fitzgerald wrote her first novel 20 years ago, at the age of 59. Since then, she's written eight more, three of which have been short-listed for England's prestigious Booker Prize, and one of which, Offshore, won. Now she's back with her tenth and best book so far, The Blue Flower. This is the...
Hav
AuthorJan Morris
ISBN0571229832
There are two works here: Last Letters from Hav, first published in 1985, followed by Hav of the Myrmidons, a sequel published twenty years later. I will speak of them separately.

LAST LETTERS FROM HAV:

They say that Hav is not real, that there is no city, no country named Hav. True, travel...
Improvement
AuthorJoan Silber
ISBN1640091130
One of our most gifted writers of fiction returns with a bold and piercing novel about a young single mother living in New York, her eccentric aunt, and the decisions they make that have unexpected implications for the world around them.

Reyna knows her relationship with Boyd isn’t perfect,...
Selected Poems
AuthorPaul Verlaine
ISBN0520012984
Like a loud flight of birds, dark complexity,
All my memories beating down on me,
Beating down through the yellow foliage
Of my heart’s bent alder-trunk, its gaze
Silvered violet in the lake of Regret,
Whose melancholy is still flowing yet,
Beat down, and then the evil murmur
That...
No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
AuthorGreta Thunberg
The groundbreaking speeches of Greta Thunberg, the young climate activist who has become the voice of a generation, including her historic address to the United Nations

In August 2018 a fifteen-year-old Swedish girl, Greta Thunberg, decided not to go to school one day in order to protest...
The Summer of Dead Birds
AuthorAli Liebegott
ISBN1936932504
My essay for the Poetry Foundation:

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/arti...

The writer Jean Rhys, a great miner of autobiographical ore, once said, “The things you remember have no form. When you write about them, you have to give them a beginning, a middle, and an end. To give...
Tender Buttons
AuthorGertrude Stein
ISBN0486298973
Tender Buttons is the best known of Gertrude Stein's "hermetic" works. It is a small book separated into three sections - Food, Objects and Rooms each containing prose under subtitles. (Kellner, 1988, p. 61-62). Its publication in 1914 caused a great dispute between Mabel Dodge Luhan and Gertrude,...
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