Selected Writings
10 best books like Selected Writings (Gérard de Nerval): Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, Lanny, Outline, Ruslan and Ludmila, Field Work, The Loser, Why You Should Read Kafka Before You Waste Your Life, French Decadent Tales, Poems and Ballads Atalanta in Calydon, Der Hofmeister oder Vorteile der Privaterziehung
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
| Author | John le Carré |
| ISBN | 0143119788 |
A modern classic in which John le Carré expertly creates a total vision of a secret world, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy begins George Smiley's chess match of wills and wits with Karla, his Soviet counterpart.
It is now beyond a doubt that a mole, implanted decades ago by Moscow Centre, has burrowed...
| Author | Max Porter |
| ISBN | 0571340288 |
There’s a village sixty miles outside London. It’s no different from many other villages in England: one pub, one church, red-brick cottages, council cottages and a few bigger houses dotted about. Voices rise up, as they might do anywhere, speaking of loving and needing and working and dying and...
| Author | Rachel Cusk |
| ISBN | 0571233627 |
A woman writer goes to Athens in the height of summer to teach a writing course. Though her own circumstances remain indistinct, she becomes the audience to a chain of narratives, as the people she meets tell her one after another the stories of their lives.
Beginning with the neighbouring passenger...
| Author | Alexander Pushkin |
| ISBN | 5050047730 |
Had I been 15, I would've certainly fallen in love with or say fantasized about Ruslan and though I'm not, this poetical work has been successful in charming me. Pushkin's dedication, "Queens of my heart, you lovely girls, they're meant for you and only you" was something I felt throughout. He weaves...
| Author | Seamus Heaney |
| ISBN | 0374516200 |
"Field Work," which first appeared in 1979, is a superb collection of lyrics and narrative poems from one of the literary masters of our time. As the critic Dennis Donoghue wrote in "The New York Times Book Review": "In 1938, not a moment too soon, W. B. Yeats admonished his colleagues: 'Irish poets, learn...
| Author | Thomas Bernhard |
| ISBN | 1400077540 |
Thomas Bernhard was one of the most original writers of the twentieth century. His formal innovation ranks with Beckett and Kafka, his outrageously cantankerous voice recalls Dostoevsky, but his gift for lacerating, lyrical, provocative prose is incomparably his own.
One of Bernhard's most...
| Author | James Hawes |
| ISBN | 0312376510 |
Everybody knows the face of Franz Kafka, whether they have read any of his works or not. And that brooding face carries instant images: bleak and threatening visions of an inescapable bureaucracy, nightmarish transformations, uncanny predictions of the Holocaust. But while Kafka’s genius is...
| Author | Stephen Romer |
| ISBN | 0199569274 |
'He had become the dandy of the unpredictable.' A quest for new sensations, and an avowed desire to shock possessed the Decadent writers of fin-de-siècle Paris. The years 1880-1900 saw an extraordinary, hothouse flowering of talent, that produced some of the most exotic, stylized, and cerebral...
| Author | Algernon Charles Swinburne |
| ISBN | 0140422501 |
This volume brings together Swinburne's major poetic works, ATALANTA IN CALYDON (1865) and POEMS AND BALLADS (1866). ATALANTA IN CALYDON is a drama in classical Greek form, which revealed Swinburne's metrical skills and brought him celebrity. POEMS AND BALLADS brought him notoriety and demonstrates...
| Author | Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz |
| ISBN | 3150013763 |
Mit Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz' 1774 anonym erschienenem Sturm-und-Drang-Drama Der Hofmeister oder Vorteile der Privaterziehung beginnt das sozialkritische Milieudrama in Deutschland, das über Büchner und Wedekind zu Bertolt Brecht führt. In der Handlung um den Hofmeister Läuffer,...
Into the Woods: A Five Act Journey Into Story
| Author | John Yorke |
| ISBN | 1846146437 |
Into The Woods is a revelation of the fundamental structure and meaning of all stories, from the man responsible for more hours of drama on British television than anyone else, John Yorke.
We all love stories. Many of us love to tell them, and even dream of making a living from it too. But what is a story?...
