The Complete Plays

7 best books like The Complete Plays (Anton Chekhov): Hannibal, Hannibal Rising, Skipping Christmas, Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, Selected Essays, The Iliad and the Odyssey, Extraordinary Voyages: Around the World in Eighty Days, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas

Hannibal

Author	Thomas Harris
ISBN	0099297701

Years after his escape, posing as scholarly Dr. Fell, curator of a grand family's palazzo, Hannibal lives the good life in Florence, playing lovely tunes by serial killer/composer Henry VIII and killing hardly anyone himself. Clarice is unluckier: in the novel's action-film-like opening scene,...

Hannibal Rising

Author	Thomas Harris
ISBN	0385339410

HE IS ONE OF THE MOST HAUNTING CHARACTERS
IN ALL OF LITERATURE.

AT LAST THE EVOLUTION OF HIS EVIL
IS REVEALED.

Hannibal Lecter emerges from the nightmare of the Eastern Front, a boy in the snow, mute, with a chain around his neck.

He seems utterly alone, but he has brought...

Skipping Christmas

Author	John Grisham
ISBN	0099481685

Imagine a year without Christmas. No crowded shops, no corny office parties, no fruitcakes, no unwanted presents. That's just what Luther and Nora Krank have in mind when they decide that, just this once, they'll skip the holiday altogether. Theirs will be the only house on the street without a rooftop...

Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha

Author	Roddy Doyle
ISBN	2264022442

I hate to be facetious about this, but it’s true. I love to read good books as much as I love to discover which ones are actual impostors—that is, which ones are overrated past the norm, books like “On the Road,” “Catcher in the Rye,” or anything by Ayn Rand. Yuck. Well, this one won the Booker,...

Selected Essays

Author	David Hume
ISBN	0192836218

In his writings, David Hume set out to bridge the gap between the learned world of the academy and the marketplace of polite society. This collection, drawing largely on his Essays Mortal, Political, and Literary (1776 edition), comprehensively shows how far he succeeded.

As seen in these...

The Iliad and the Odyssey

Author	Marcia Williams
ISBN	0763606448

The Iliad and the Odyssey, by Marcia Williams, is the retelling of the two most famous epics, by the same names. The Iliad starts with the marriage of king Peleus and the goddess Thetis, which later have a child by the name Achilles. In Troy, king Priam and Queen Hecuba also have a child, by the name of Paris....

Extraordinary Voyages: Around the World in Eighty Days, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas

Author	Jules Verne
ISBN	1435115554

In the nineteenth century, French author Jules Verne awed readers with astounding adventures that transported them to the ends of the Earth, plunged them into the oceans depths, and dropped them into mysterious subterranean realms. Dubbed Voyages Extraordinaries, these unique blends of action,...