The Celestial Omnibus and other Stories
7 best books like The Celestial Omnibus and other Stories (E.M. Forster): Busman's Honeymoon, Time for the Stars (Heinlein's Juveniles, #10), Understood Betsy, The Cross, The Necklace, The Country and the City, Goodbye Summer, Hello Autumn
| Author | Dorothy L. Sayers |
| ISBN | 0061043516 |
Lord Peter Wimsey and his bride, mystery writer Harriet Vane, start their honeymoon with murder. The former owner of Talboys estate is dead in the cellar with a misspelled "notise" to the milkman, not a spot of blood on his smashed skull, and £600 in his pocket..
| Author | Robert A. Heinlein |
| ISBN | 0765314932 |
This is one of the classic titles originally know as the "Heinlein Juveniles," written in the 1950 and published for the young adult market. It has since been in print for 50 years in paperback, and now returns to hardcover for a new generation.
Travel to other planets is a reality, and with overpopulation...
| Author | Dorothy Canfield Fisher |
| ISBN | 1887840133 |
For all of her nine years, fragile Elizabeth Ann has heard her Aunt Frances refer in whispers to her "horrid Putney cousins." But when her aunt can no longer care for her, Elizabeth Ann must leave her sheltered life to live in the wilds of Vermont with those distant relatives.
In the beginning,...
| Author | Sigrid Undset |
| ISBN | 0141182350 |
Kristin Lavransdatter interweaves political, social, and religious history with the daily aspects of family life to create a colorful, richly detailed tapestry of Norway during the fourteenth-century. The trilogy, however, is more than a journey into the past. Undset's own life--her familiarity...
| Author | Guy de Maupassant |
| ISBN | 1568461933 |
Short and captivating story about a wife (Mathilde) whose husband tells her they are invited to a ballroom party. He really thought this invitation would please his wife. But she doesn't want to go because she has nothing to wear. (She wishes she was wealthy and wants better things in life.) Her husband...
| Author | Raymond Williams |
| ISBN | 0195198107 |
"ALL I KNOW IS I HAD A COW AND PARLIAMENT TOOK IT AWAY FROM ME" - A COUNTRYMAN SPEAKING OF ENCLOSURE
It was with a little trepidation that I began to read the Marxist critic Raymond Williams 35 year old book "The Country And The City". I need not have been worried.
Its obvious that Williams,...
Goodbye Summer, Hello Autumn
| Author | Kenard Pak |
| ISBN | 1627794158 |
A young girl greets the world around her - the morning, the trees, the animals, the wind, and so on - in this lovely picture-book examination of the turning of the seasons. Each entity returns the girl's greeting, describing how they are changing or what they are doing in preparation for the coming of autumn....
