The Collected Stories
10 best books like The Collected Stories (Leonard Michaels): Lord Darcy, Kees de jongen, Jesus' Son, Soldier of Sidon, The Friends of Eddie Coyle, Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex: A Collection of Her Short Stories, Fables, and Lesser-Known Writings, Revised Edition, The Diary of Anne Frank: The Revised Critical Edition, The Hammer and the Cross, Mistress of Mistresses, Agent of Byzantium
Author | Randall Garrett |
ISBN | 0743435486 |
Welcome to an alternate world where Richard the Lion-Heart did not die in the year 1199... where magic is a science and science is an art... where the great detective Lord Darcy and the sorcerer Sean O'Lochlainn combine occult skills and brilliant deductions to bring criminals to the King's Justice...
Author | Theo Thijssen |
ISBN | 9026956037 |
“Vele mensen schijnen Kees Bakels niet eens te hebben gekend, en dat is eigenlijk niet goed te begrijpen. Is hij niet zowat de belangrijkste jongen geweest, die er ooit heeft bestaan?”
Na de vele herdrukken en verfilming van Kees de jongen sinds de eerste druk in 1923, kunnen we rustig stellen...
Author | Denis Johnson |
ISBN | 0060975776 |
Jesus' Son, the first collection of stories by Denis Johnson, presents a unique, hallucinatory vision of contemporary American life unmatched in power and immediacy and marks a new level of achievement for this acclaimed writer. In their intensity of perception, their neon-lit evocation of a strange...
Author | Gene Wolfe |
ISBN | 0765316641 |
Latro forgets everything when he sleeps. Writing down his experiences every day and reading his journal anew each morning gives him a poignantly tenuous hold on himself, but his story's hold on readers is powerful indeed. The two previous novels, combined in Latro in the Mist (Soldier of the Mist and...
The Friends of Eddie Coyle
Author | George V. Higgins |
ISBN | 1841192627 |
Eddie Coyle works for Jimmy Scalisi, supplying him with guns for a couple of bank jobs. But a cop named Foley is on to Eddie and he's leaning on him to finger Scalisi, a gang leader with a lot to hide. And then there's Dillon-a full-time bartender and part-time contract killer--pretending to be Eddie's...
Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex: A Collection of Her Short Stories, Fables, and Lesser-Known Writings, Revised Edition
Author | Anne Frank |
ISBN | 0553586386 |
Hiding from the Nazis in the "Secret Annexe" of an old office building in Amsterdam, a thirteen-year-old girl named Anne Frank became a writer. The now famous diary of her private life and thoughts reveals only part of Anne's story, however. This book completes the portrait of...
The Diary of Anne Frank: The Revised Critical Edition
Author | Anne Frank |
ISBN | 0385508476 |
The only complete collection of writings by Anne Frank, this impressive volume contains three of the extant versions of her Diary (including pages that came to light in 1998), Tales from the Secret Annex (he lesser known short stories, fables, and personal reminiscences), and Cady's Life (her unfinished...
Author | Harry Harrison |
ISBN | 0812523482 |
865 A.D. Warring kings rule over the British Isles, but the Church rules over the kings, threatening all who oppose them with damnation. Only the dreaded Vikings of Scandinavia do not fear the priests.
Shef, the bastard son of a Norse raider and a captive English lady, is torn by divided loyalties...
Author | E.R. Eddison |
ISBN | 0575072849 |
The second volume in the fantasy classic most often compared with J.R.R. Tolkien
The Worm Ouroboros was the first work from E.R. Eddison that excited deeply felt enthusiasm from figures of literary stature. THE MISTRESS OF MISTRESSES, part of "The Worm" group, has long been unavailable in...
Author | Harry Turtledove |
ISBN | 0865531838 |
This particular book isn't really a novel. It's a collection of short stories about Basil Argyros, essentially a secret agent in 14th century Byzantine empire.
Except this Byzantine empire is a bit different than the one in our past due to a few minor changes:
1) An Arab named Moaumet,...
Author | Richard Yates |
ISBN | 0312420811 |
Richard Yates was acclaimed as one of the most powerful, compassionate and accomplished writers of America's post-war generation. Whether addressing the smothered desire of suburban housewives, the white-collar despair of Manhattan office workers or the heartbreak of a single mother with artistic...
Author | Paul Park |
ISBN | 0765349507 |
This is a truly magical tale, full of strangeness, terrors and wonders. Many girls daydream that they are really a princess adopted by commoners. In the case of teenager Miranda Popescu, this is literally true. Because she is at the fulcrum of a deadly political battle between conjurers in an alternate...
Author | Leon de Winter |
ISBN | 9023414462 |
Lekker spannend boek wat je niet makkelijk weglegt. Dankzij een stevige griep in een dag uitgelezen.
Maar ook een boek dat tot nadenken stemt. De fel-realistische beschrijving van Israël dat in 2024 is gereduceerd tot een verpauperde stadstaat te midden van onverminderd vijandige moslim...
Author | Anne Frank |
ISBN | 0837172063 |
Revised and expanded version of the Critical Edition, originally published in 1986. A complete collection of Anne Frank's known writings -- different versions of her diary (as well as five recently discovered diary pages), fables, personal reminiscences and her unfinished novel, Cady's Life....
Author | Amy Fusselman |
ISBN | 0142002356 |
Named "It" Discovery Writer of the Year by Entertainment Weekly, Amy Fusselman took readers and critics alike by storm when McSweeney's published this powerful little book. In The Pharmacist's Mate, she writes of her father's death and her own attempts to become pregnant, weaving in excerpts from...
Jacoba, Dochter van Holland
Author | Simone van der Vlugt |
ISBN | 9041415319 |
In deze historische roman kruipt Simone van der Vlugt op overtuigende wijze in de huid van Jacoba van Beieren (1401-1436). Jacoba was haar tijd ver vooruit, stak haar feministische ideeen niet onder stoelen of banken en koos ook in de liefde niet altijd voor de makkelijkste weg. We leren een vrouw kennen...
Author | Grégoire Bouillier |
ISBN | 0374185700 |
When the phone rang on a gloomy fall afternoon in 1990, Grégoire Bouillier had no way of knowing that it was the woman who’d left him, without warning, ten years before. And he couldn’t have guessed why she was calling—not to apologize for, or explain, the way she’d vanished from his life, but...
How to Be an Existentialist: or How to Get Real, Get a Grip and Stop Making Excuses
Author | Gary Cox |
ISBN | 1441188436 |
How to Be an Existentialist is a witty and entertaining book about the philosophy of existentialism. It is also a genuine self-help book offering clear advice on how to live according to the principles of existentialism formulated by Nietzsche, Sartre, Camus, and the other great existentialist philosophers....