The Cult of the Saints: Its Rise and Function in Latin Christianity

7 best books like The Cult of the Saints: Its Rise and Function in Latin Christianity (Peter R.L. Brown): The Day of the Owl, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, The Gates, The Gone-Away World, The Nose, Nightmare Alley, Le Morte D'Arthur - Volume I

The Day of the Owl

Author

Leonardo Sciascia

A man is shot dead as he runs to catch the bus in the piazza of a small Sicilian town. Captain Bellodi, the detective on the case, is new to his job and determined to prove himself. Bellodi suspects the Mafia, and his suspicions grow when he finds himself up against an apparently unbreachable wall of silence....

How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

Author	Charles Yu
ISBN	0307379205

A story of a son searching for his father . . . through quantum space–time.
 
Minor Universe 31 is a vast story-space on the outskirts of fiction, where paradox fluctuates like the stock market, lonely sexbots beckon failed protagonists, and time travel is serious business. Every day, people...

The Gates

Author	John Connolly
ISBN	0340995793

Young Samuel Johnson and his dachshund, Boswell, are trying to show initiative by trick-or-treating a full three days before Halloween which is how they come to witness strange goings-on at 666 Crowley Road. The Abernathys don't mean any harm by their flirtation with the underworld, but when they...

The Gone-Away World

Author	Nick Harkaway
ISBN	0434018422

DAG. Nick Harkaway is well into his third pint and his eleventh story when he looks around and realizes he's got half the bar hanging on his every word, and THAT's when he leans back a little, stretches his legs, and gives you a three-page backstory on a minor idiot whose chief role in the book is getting punched...

The Nose

Author	Nikolai Gogol
ISBN	0688104649

Gogol’s “The Nose” (1835), is an early triumph of surrealism, daring and delightful in the way it jars and disjoins one realitiy from another, but it is also a vivid realistic depiction of the sights and sounds of early 19th century St. Petersburg (including the essential bridges, buildings...

Nightmare Alley

Author	William Lindsay Gresham
ISBN	1590173481

Nightmare Alley begins with an extraordinary description of a freak-show geek—alcoholic and abject and the object of the voyeuristic crowd’s gleeful disgust and derision—going about his work at a county fair. Young Stan Carlisle is working as a carny, and he wonders how a man could fall so low....

Le Morte D'Arthur - Volume I

Author	Thomas Malory
ISBN	1401307809

Le Morte d'Arthur (originally spelled Le Morte Darthur, Middle French for "the death of Arthur"[1]) is a reworking of existing tales by Sir Thomas Malory about the legendary King Arthur, Guinevere, Lancelot, Merlin, and the Knights of the Round Table. Malory interprets existing French and English...