The Best of Wodehouse: An Anthology
10 best books like The Best of Wodehouse: An Anthology (P.G. Wodehouse): Carried Away: A Personal Selection of Stories, Naguib Mahfouz: Three Novels of Ancient Egypt, Sanditon and Other Stories, Auden: Poems, Shirley & The Professor, The Complete Henry Bech, Plays, Prose Writings and Poems, The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, The Bookshop, The Gate of Angels, The Blue Flower, Ethan Frome, Summer, Bunner Sisters
Carried Away: A Personal Selection of Stories
| Author | Alice Munro |
| ISBN | 0307264866 |
Carried Away is a dazzling selection of stories–seventeen favorites chosen by the author from across her distinguished career.
Alice Munro has been repeatedly hailed as one of our greatest living writers, a reputation that has been growing for years. The stories brought together here...
| Author | Naguib Mahfouz |
| ISBN | 1841593052 |
Mahfouz reaches back thousands of years to bring us tales from his homeland's majestic early history—tales of the Egyptian nobility and of war, star-crossed love, and the divine rule of the pharoahs. In Khufu's Wisdom, the legendary Fourth Dynasty monarch faces the prospect of the end of his rule...
| Author | Jane Austen |
| ISBN | 0679447199 |
Readers of Jane Austen’s six great novels are left hungering for more, and more there is: the marvelous unpublished manuscripts she left behind, collected here.
Sanditon might have been Austen’s greatest novel had she lived to finish it. Its subject matter astonishes: here is Austen...
| Author | W.H. Auden |
| ISBN | 0679443673 |
The Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover series is popular for its compact size and reasonable price which does not compromise content. Poems: Auden is just another reminder of his exhilarating lyric power and his understanding of love and longing in all their sacred and profane guises. One...
| Author | Charlotte Brontë |
| ISBN | 0307268217 |
Shirley is the story of a complicated friendship between two very different women: shy and socially constrained Caroline, the poor niece of a tyrannical clergyman; and the independent heiress Shirley, who has both the resources and the spirit to defy convention. The romantic entanglements of the...
| Author | John Updike |
| ISBN | 1857152646 |
From his birth in 1923 to his belated paternity and public apotheosis as a spry septuagenarian in 1999, Bech plugs away, globetrotting in the company of foreign dignitaries one day and schlepping in tattered tweeds on the college lecture circuit the next. By turns cynical and naïve, wry and avuncular,...
| Author | Oscar Wilde |
| ISBN | 1857150422 |
Brilliant and tragic, decadent yet radical, a socialist dandy and a witty moralist, Oscar Wilde embodied all the contradictions of the 1890s. The scope of his genius is indicated in this volume by the inclusion of the period’s most scintillating comedy – The Importance of Being Earnest; its most...
| Author | H.G. Wells |
| ISBN | 0307593843 |
Gathered together in one hardcover volume: three timeless novels from the founding father of science fiction.
The first great novel to imagine time travel, The Time Machine (1895) follows its scientist narrator on an incredible journey that takes him finally to Earth’s last moments—and...
| Author | Penelope Fitzgerald |
| ISBN | 1857152476 |
Penelope Fitzgerald, who died in 2000, emerged late in life as one of the most remarkable English writers of the last century. The three novels in this volume all display her characteristic wit, intellectual breadth and narrative brilliance, applied to the different traditional forms into which...
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) These three brilliantly wrought, tragic novellas explore the repressed emotions and destructive passions of working-class people far removed from the social milieu usually inhabited by Edith Wharton's characters. Ethan Frome is one of Wharton's most famous...
| Author | Plato |
| ISBN | 0486277984 |
On the Symposium:
First things first, the reason I found this translation so smooth and entertaining is the language, this is by far the easiest English book I've read.
In the Symposium, Agathon holds a supper with his friends (writers and philosophers) and they all decide to make their devotions...
| Author | Tacitus |
| ISBN | 0812966996 |
Cornelius Tacitus brilliantly chronicles the moral decline and rampant civil unrest in the Roman Empire in a period when the earliest foundations of modern Europe were being laid. The Annals commence in a.d. 14, at the death of Augustus, recounting the reigns of Tiberius, Gaius (Caligula), Claudius,...
| Author | Peter Washington |
| ISBN | 0307269248 |
A new anthology of classic ghost stories—the second volume in the beautiful and collectible Pocket Classics format.
The chilling classic stories gathered here offer a remarkable variety of approaches to the theme of haunting. Revenge comes from beyond the grave in Robert Louis Stevenson’s...
| Author | John Keats |
| ISBN | 0679433198 |
A thing of beauty is a joy for ever
As a dedicated book reviewer, it is my job to say why I like certain books and dislike others. When it comes to nonfiction, this is reasonably straightforward: if the exposition is clear, if the arguments are logical, if the ideas are reasonable—then it is a worthy...
| Author | Diana Secker Tesdell |
| ISBN | 0307594939 |
An irresistible anthology of classic tales of New York in the tradition of Christmas Stories, Love Stories, and Stories of the Sea.
Writers have always been enthralled and inspired by New York City, and their vibrant and varied stories provide a kaleidoscopic vision of the city’s high life,...
| Author | Flann O'Brien |
| ISBN | 0307267490 |
Flann O’Brien, along with Joyce and Beckett, is part of the holy trinity of modern Irish literature. His five novels–collected here in one volume–are a monument to his inspired lunacy and gleefully demented genius.
O’Brien’s masterpiece, At Swim-Two-Birds, is an exuberant...
| Author | Roald Dahl |
| ISBN | 0307264904 |
The only hardcover edition of Roald Dahl’s stories for adults, the Collected Stories amply showcases his singular gifts as a fabulist and a born storyteller.
Later known for his immortal children’s books, including Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, and The...
| Author | Irène Némirovsky |
| ISBN | 0307267083 |
Readers everywhere were introduced to the work of Irène Némirovsky through the publication of her long-lost masterpiece, Suite Française. But Suite Française was only the coda to the brief yet remarkably prolific career of this nearly forgotten, magnificent novelist. Here in one volume are...
| Author | W. Somerset Maugham |
| ISBN | 1400042534 |
31 stories:
In a strange land --
Rain --
The Fall of Edward Bernard --
The Pool --
Mackintosh --
The Happy couple --
Unconquered --
Before the party --
Yellow streak --
Vessel of wrath --
Force of circumstances --
Alien corn --
Virtue --
Bum...
| Author | John Steinbeck |
| ISBN | 1883011019 |
John Steinbeck, from the very start of his career, evoked the landscape and people of central California with lyrical intensity and unflinching frankness. The Library of America presents for the first time in one volume Steinbeck’s early writings, which expressed his abiding concerns for community,...
The Plague, The Fall, Exile and the Kingdom, and Selected Essays
| Author | Albert Camus |
| ISBN | 1400042550 |
From one of the most brilliant and influential thinkers of the twentieth century–two novels, six short stories, and a pair of essays in a single volume. In both his essays and his fiction, Albert Camus (1913—1960) de-ployed his lyric eloquence in defense against despair, providing an affirmation...
The Complete Stories of Evelyn Waugh
| Author | Evelyn Waugh |
| ISBN | 0316926604 |
Evelyn Waugh's short fiction reveals in miniaturized perfection the elements that made him the greatest satirist of the twentieth century. The stories collected here range from delightfully barbed portraits of the British upper classes to an alternative ending to Waugh's novel A Handful of Dust;...
