The House in Paris
10 best books like The House in Paris (Elizabeth Bowen): Paris Stories, Pictures from an Institution, Fools of Fortune, Stories in an Almost Classical Mode, Vintage Baldwin, Ormond, Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories / Letting Go, Collected Stories and Later Writings, Persian Nights, Sleepwalker in a Fog
| Author | Mavis Gallant |
| ISBN | 1590170229 |
Mavis Gallant is a contemporary legend, a frequent contributor to The New Yorker for close to fifty years who has, in the words of The New York Times, “radically reshaped the short story for decade after decade.” Michael Ondaatje’s new selection of Gallant’s work gathers some of the most memorable...
| Author | Randall Jarrell |
| ISBN | 0226393747 |
Beneath the unassuming surface of a progressive women’s college lurks a world of intellectual pride and pomposity awaiting devastation by the pens of two brilliant and appalling wits. Randall Jarrell’s classic novel was originally published to overwhelming critical acclaim in 1954, forging...
| Author | William Trevor |
| ISBN | 0143039628 |
Penguin Classics is proud to welcome William Trevor—"Ireland’s answer to Chekhov" (The Boston Globe) and "one of the best writers of our era" (The Washington Post)—to our distinguished list of literary masters. In this award-winning novel, an informer’s body is found on the estate of a wealthy...
Stories in an Almost Classical Mode
| Author | Harold Brodkey |
| ISBN | 0679724311 |
Harold Brodkey (1930 – 1996) is a major twentieth-century American writer of highly polished, highly poetic fiction first published in The New Yorker, Esquire and other magazines over a thirty years span, 1960s through the 1990s. Published as part of the 1980s Vintage Contemporaries series,...
| Author | James Baldwin |
| ISBN | 1400033942 |
Vintage Readers are a perfect introduction to some of the great modern writers presented in attractive, accessible paperback editions.
“One of the few genuinely indispensable writers.” —The Saturday Review
In his internationally acclaimed novels, short stories, plays...
| Author | Maria Edgeworth |
| ISBN | 0140436448 |
A great early nineteenth-century episodic novel of an orphan boy's rise to the upper classes, in the tradition of Tom Jones, Joseph Andrews et al. The eponymous Harry Ormand is raised side-by-side with the son of the local lord, Sir Ulick O'Shane; his low-birth, however, keeps him from developing the...
| Author | Philip Roth |
| ISBN | 1931082790 |
"The title novella, Goodbye, Columbus, the story of a summer romance between a poor young man from Newark and a rich Radcliffe co-ed, is both a tightly wrought tale of youthful desire and a satiric gem that takes aim at the comfortable affluence of the postwar boom. Here and in the stories that accompany...
Collected Stories and Later Writings
| Author | Paul Bowles |
| ISBN | 1931082200 |
Paul Bowles had already established himself as an important composer when at age 39 he published The Sheltering Sky and became recognized as one of the most powerful writers of the postwar period. From his base in Tangier he produced globally ranging novels, stories, and travel writings that set exquisite...
| Author | Diane Johnson |
| ISBN | 0452279585 |
Chloe Fowler is the most unliberated woman she knows: disarmingly delicate and pretty, and not averse to putting either attribute to its best use, married, young, and satisfied with her normal American life as wife and mother. Yet Chloe is about to be liberated from everything she has ever known—in...
By "the most original, tactile, luminous voice in Russian prose today" (Joseph Brodsky), Sleepwalker in a Fog is a collection of seven stories and a novella set in contemporary Russia. Here is Denisov, who fears his greatest accomplishment in life will be the treatise he wrote and tore up. He is betrothed...
| Author | Henry Green |
| ISBN | 1564782662 |
Written almost completely in dialogue, Henry Green's final novel is a biting comedy of manners that exposes the deceptive difference between those who love and those who "dote." Arthur Middleton is a middle-aged member of the upper-middle class living in post-World War II London with his wife. Stuck...
| Author | Stuart Dybek |
| ISBN | 0312424116 |
Following his renowned The Coast of Chicago and Childhood, story writer Stuart Dybek returns with eleven masterful and masterfully linked stories about Chicago's fabled and harrowing South Side. United, they comprise the story of Perry Katzek and his widening, endearing clan. Through these streets...
| Author | Stanley Elkin |
| ISBN | 0879232536 |
In Searches & Seizures, Elkin tells the story of the criminal, the lovelorn, and the grieving, each searching desperately for fulfillment, while on the verge of receiving much more than they bargained for. Infused with Elkin's signature wit and richly drawn characters, The Bailbondsman, The...
| Author | James Wood |
| ISBN | 0375752633 |
This book recalls an era when criticism could change the way we look at the world. In the tradition of Matthew Arnold and Edmund Wilson, James Wood reads literature expansively, always pursuing its role and destiny in our lives. In a series of essays about such figures as Melville, Flaubert, Chekhov,...
| Author | Zbigniew Herbert |
| ISBN | 0880010991 |
Blessed is the nation that in the course of a century could give the world two poets of Czeslaw Milosz's and Zbigniew Herbert's scope. Doubly blessed is the English-reader, for in this volume he gets Zbigniew Herbert's work rendered by Czeslaw Milosz: like the poor, or better yet like nature herself,...
| Author | Konstantin Georgiyevich Paustovsky |
| ISBN | 0394710142 |
Đây là cuốn sách lí luận văn học gối đầu giường từ thời học chuyên. Hầu hết các truyên trong đó như Bụi quý, Vết khắc trên đá, Tuyết, Lẵng quả thông, Bình minh mưa... đã trở thành những điển cố nằm lòng, luôn được thủ sẵn...
| Author | David Gates |
| ISBN | 0575068248 |
The author of the highly acclaimed novels Jernigan (Pulitzer Prize Finalist) and Preston Falls (National Book Critics Cirlce Award Finalist) offers up a mordantly funny collection of short stories about the faulty bargains we make with ourselves to continure the high-wire act of living meaningful...
| Author | Deborah Eisenberg |
| ISBN | 0374524920 |
When Deborah Eisenberg's first book of stories, Transactions in a Foreign Currency, was published, John Updike noted: "Whenever a new writer arrives, a new window of life is opened, and this has happened here." The scope and depth of Eisenberg's idiosyncratic vision were even more apparent in her...
| Author | Joy Williams |
| ISBN | 0679733310 |
These prize winning stories confirm what readers of 'State Of Grace' and 'Taking Care' already suspected: that Joy Williams is a writer of unparalleled empathy and emotional candor, who can render the 'hopeless and uncomprehending love' between a little girl and her alcoholic mother, the panicky...
| Author | Francis Steegmuller |
| ISBN | 1590171160 |
Francis Steegmuller's beautifully executed double portrait of Madame Bovary and her maker is a remarkable and unusual biographical study, a sensitive and detailed account of how an unpromising young man turns himself into one of the world's greatest novelists. Steegmuller starts with the young...
| Author | Rebecca West |
| ISBN | 0860686620 |
Through a vivid canvas layered with intrigue, conspiracy and murder, Rebecca West has created a story that is at once a family saga, a political thriller, a philosophical drama and a historical novel.
Rebecca West’s gripping psychological mystery—part thriller, part historical novel—The...
| Author | Edna O'Brien |
| ISBN | 0686408233 |
There I was, feeling the beginnings of a mid-life crisis starting to emerge. . . contemplating the merits of a navel piercing. . . or worse. . . when, suddenly, I spotted a black and white book cover featuring a snarky gal with a cigarette dangling from her mouth. A definite look of devil-may-care sitting...
| Author | Anton Chekhov |
| ISBN | 0140449221 |
From his teenage years in provincial Russia, to his premature death in 1904, Anton Chekhov wrote thousands of letters to a wide range of correspondents. This fascinating new selection tells Chekhov's story as a man and a writer through affectionate bulletins to his family, insightful discussions...
| Author | Charles Baxter |
| ISBN | 0679776532 |
Believers: A Novella and Stories is another brilliant collection of stories from writer Charles Baxter. I had not read Baxter in some time so when I started this book, I was struck again with Baxter's freshness of tone and command of craft. However, I not only love Baxter for his skill and talent and inventiveness...
| Author | Stanley Karnow |
| ISBN | 0812931378 |
In July 1947, fresh out of college and long before he would win the Pulitzer Prize and become known as one of America's finest historians, Stanley Karnow boarded a freighter bound for France, planning to stay for the summer. He stayed for ten years, first as a student and later as a correspondent for Time...
