The Book of Ebenezer Le Page
10 best books like The Book of Ebenezer Le Page (G.B. Edwards): The Slaves of Solitude, A Month in the Country, The Vet's Daughter, Fancies and Goodnights, Skylark, The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll, The Pilgrim Hawk, Great Granny Webster, The Exploits and Adventures of Brigadier Gerard, Mr. Fortune's Maggot; and, The Salutation
| Author | Patrick Hamilton |
| ISBN | 1590172205 |
England in the middle of World War II, a war that seems fated to go on forever, a war that has become a way of life. Heroic resistance is old hat. Everything is in short supply, and tempers are even shorter.
Overwhelmed by the terrors and rigors of the Blitz, middle-aged Miss Roach has retreated...
| Author | J.L. Carr |
| ISBN | 0940322471 |
In J. L. Carr's deeply charged poetic novel, Tom Birkin, a veteran of the Great War and a broken marriage, arrives in the remote Yorkshire village of Oxgodby where he is to restore a recently discovered medieval mural in the local church. Living in the bell tower, surrounded by the resplendent countryside...
| Author | Barbara Comyns |
| ISBN | 1590170296 |
The Vet’s Daughter combines shocking realism with a visionary edge. The vet lives with his bedridden wife and shy daughter Alice in a sinister London suburb. He works constantly, captive to a strange private fury, and treats his family with brutality and contempt. After his wife’s death, the vet...
| Author | John Collier |
| ISBN | 1590170512 |
John Collier's edgy, sardonic tales are works of rare wit, curious insight, and scary implication. They stand out as one of the pinnacles in the critically neglected but perennially popular tradition of weird writing that includes E.T.A. Hoffmann and Charles Dickens as well as more recent masters...
| Author | Dezső Kosztolányi |
| ISBN | 1590173392 |
It is 1900, give or take a few years. The Vajkays—call them Mother and Father—live in Sárszeg, a dead-end burg in the provincial heart of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Father retired some years ago to devote his days to genealogical research and quaint questions of heraldry. Mother keeps house....
| Author | Álvaro Mutis |
| ISBN | 0940322919 |
Maqroll the Gaviero (the Lookout) is one of the most alluring and memorable characters in the fiction of the last twenty-five years. His extravagant and hopeless undertakings, his brushes with the law and scrapes with death, and his enduring friendships and unlooked-for love affairs make him a Don...
| Author | Glenway Wescott |
| ISBN | 0940322560 |
This powerful short novel describes the events of a single afternoon. Alwyn Towers, an American expatriate and sometime novelist, is staying with a friend outside of Paris, when a well-heeled, itinerant Irish couple drops in—with Lucy, their trained hawk, a restless, sullen, disturbingly totemic...
| Author | Caroline Blackwood |
| ISBN | 1590170075 |
Great Granny Webster is Caroline Blackwood's masterpiece. Heiress to the Guinness fortune, Blackwood was celebrated as a great beauty and dazzling raconteur long before she made her name as a strikingly original writer. This macabre, mordantly funny, partly auto-biographical novel reveals the...
| Author | Arthur Conan Doyle |
| ISBN | 0940322730 |
Having killed off Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle began a new series of tales on a very different theme. Brigadier Gerard is an officer in Napoleon's army—recklessly brave, engagingly openhearted, and unshakable, if not a little absurd, in his devotion to the enigmatic Emperor. The Brigadier's...
| Author | Sylvia Townsend Warner |
| ISBN | 0940322838 |
After a decade in one South Seas mission, a London bank-clerk-turned-minister sets his heart on serving a remote volcanic island. Fanua contains neither cannibals nor Christians, but its citizens, his superior warns, are like children—immoral children. Still, Mr. Timothy Fortune lights out...
Rachel Waring is deliriously happy. Out of nowhere, a great-aunt leaves her a Georgian mansion in another city--and she sheds her old life without delay. Gone is her dull administrative job, her mousy wardrobe, her downer of a roommate. She will live as a woman of leisure, devoted to beauty, creativity,...
| Author | Victor Serge |
| ISBN | 1590172477 |
Unforgiving Years is a thrilling and terrifying journey into the disastrous, blazing core of the twentieth century. Victor Serge’s final work, here translated into English for the first time, is at once the most ambitious, bleakest, and most lyrical of this neglected major writer’s works.
The...
| Author | L.P. Hartley |
| ISBN | 0940322803 |
The three books gathered together as Eustace and Hilda explore a brother and sister's lifelong relationship. Hilda, the older child, is both self-sacrificing and domineering, as puritanical as she is gorgeous; Eustace is a gentle, dreamy, pleasure-loving boy: the two siblings could hardly be more...
| Author | Mavis Gallant |
| ISBN | 1590173279 |
A New York Review Books Original
Mavis Gallant is renowned as one of the great short-story writers of our day. This new gathering of long-unavailable or previously uncollected work presents stories from 1951 to 1971 and shows Gallant's progression from precocious virtuosity, to accomplished...
| Author | Olivia Manning |
| ISBN | 1590173031 |
Jerusalem in 1945 is a city in flux: refugees from the war in Europe fill its streets and cafés, the British colonial mandate is coming to an end, and tensions are on the rise between the Arab and Jewish populations. Felix Latimer, a recently orphaned teenager, arrives in Jerusalem from Baghdad, biding...
| Author | Edmund Wilson |
| ISBN | 1590170938 |
Hecate is the Greek goddess of sorcery, and Edmund Wilson's Hecate County is the bewitched center of the American Dream, a sleepy bedroom community where drinks flow endlessly and sexual fantasies fill the air. Memoirs of Hecate County, Wilson's favorite among his many books, is a set of interlinked...
| Author | Georges Bernanos |
| ISBN | 1590171519 |
One of the great mavericks of French literature, Georges Bernanos combined raw realism with a spiritual focus of visionary intensity. Mouchette stands with his celebrated Diary of a Country Priest as the perfection of his singular art.
“Nothing but a little savage” is how the village school-teacher...
| Author | Theodor Fontane |
| ISBN | 1590173740 |
Opposites attract, and Helmut Holk and Christine Arne, the appealing married couple at the center of this engrossing book by one of Germany’s greatest novelists, could not be less alike. Christine is a serious soul from a devout background. She is brooding and beautiful and devoted to her husband...
| Author | Janet Hobhouse |
| ISBN | 1590170857 |
Sirene
Le Furie di Janet Hobhouse, è “un romanzo intimamente autobiografico”, affascinante nella prima parte - perché la famiglia di lei è ebreo tedesca arrivata a New York nella metà dell’Ottocento - spregiudicata nella seconda, quando l’autrice ha circa vent’anni...
| Author | Bruce Duffy |
| ISBN | 0395900573 |
If I wrote a book called The World As I Found It, I should have to include a report on my body, and should have to say which parts were subordinate to my will, and which were not, etc., this being a method of isolating the subject, or rather of showing that in an important sense there is no subject; for it...
| Author | William Attaway |
| ISBN | 1590171349 |
This brutally gripping novel about the African-American Great Migration follows the three Moss brothers, who flee the rural South to work in industries up North. Delivered by day into the searing inferno of the steel mills, by night they encounter a world of surreal devastation, crowded with dogfighters,...
| Author | Alfred Hayes |
| ISBN | 1590176677 |
Alfred Hayes is one of the secret masters of the twentieth century novel, a journalist, scriptwriter and poet who possessed an immaculate ear and who wrote with razorsharp intelligence about passion and its payback.
My Face for the World to See is set in Hollywood, where the tonic for anonymity...
