The Collected Short Stories of Saki
10 best books like The Collected Short Stories of Saki (Saki): The Sheltering Sky, The Invention of Morel, Goldfinger, The World of Jeeves, Medieval Cities: Their Origins and the Revival of Trade, Maldoror, The Collected Stories, Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations, Innocent Erendira and Other Stories, Mouchette
| Author | Paul Bowles |
| ISBN | 0141023422 |
In this classic work of psychological terror, Paul Bowles examines the ways in which Americans apprehend an alien culture--and the ways in which their incomprehension destroys them. The story of three American travelers adrift in the cities and deserts of North Africa, The Sheltering Sky is at once...
| Author | Adolfo Bioy Casares |
| ISBN | 1590170571 |
Jorge Luis Borges declared The Invention of Morel a masterpiece of plotting, comparable to The Turn of the Screw and Journey to the Center of the Earth. This fantastic exploration of realities also bears comparison with the sharpest work of Philip K. Dick. It is both a story of suspense and a bizarre romance,...
| Author | Ian Fleming |
| ISBN | 0142002046 |
Auric Goldfinger is the richest man in England—though his wealth can’t be found in banks. He’s been hoarding vast stockpiles of his namesake metal, and it’s attracted the suspicion of 007’s superiors at MI6. Sent to investigate, Bond uncovers an ingenious gold-smuggling scheme, as well...
| Author | P.G. Wodehouse |
| ISBN | 0060972440 |
Ever since the destruction of The Great Lighthouse we've been truly short of Wonders of the World. Okay, there’s still The Pyramids and of course people make claims for other impressive items of beauty – for example The Great Barrier Reef, or The Great Wall of China – for a place on any modern list....
Medieval Cities: Their Origins and the Revival of Trade
| Author | Henri Pirenne |
| ISBN | 0691007608 |
Henri Pirenne is best known for his provocative argument--known as the "Pirenne thesis" and familiar to all students of medieval Europe--that it was not the invasion of the Germanic tribes that destroyed the civilization of antiquity, but rather the closing of Mediterranean trade by Arab conquest...
| Author | Comte de Lautréamont |
| ISBN | 0811200825 |
The macabre but beautiful work, Les Chants de Maldoror, has achieved a considerable reputation as one of the earliest and most extraordinary examples of Surrealist writing. It is a long narrative prose poem which celebrates the principle of Evil in an elaborate style and with a passion akin to religious...
| Author | Alexander Pushkin |
| ISBN | 0375405496 |
Pushkin’s prose tales are the foundation stones on which the great novels of Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Dostoevsky were built, but they are also brilliant and fascinating in their own right. In both prose and verse, Pushkin was one of the world’s great storytellers: direct and dramatic, clear-sighted,...
| Author | Georgina Howell |
| ISBN | 0374161623 |
A marvelous tale of an adventurous life of great historical import
She has been called the female Lawrence of Arabia, which, while not inaccurate, fails to give Gertrude Bell her due. She was at one time the most powerful woman in the British Empire: a nation builder, the driving force behind...
Innocent Erendira and Other Stories
| Author | Gabriel García Márquez |
| ISBN | 0060751584 |
"The stories are rich and startling in their matter and confident in their manner....They are--the word cannot be avoided--magical."--John Updike, The New Yorker
This collection of fiction, representing some of García Márquez's earlier work, includes eleven short stories and a novella,...
| 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...
