The Last Demon

9 best books like The Last Demon (Isaac Bashevis Singer): Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, The Clown, Last Ones Left Alive, Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, Journey's End, Semicolon: The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark, The Magic Paint, Exercises in Style

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

Author	Olga Tokarczuk
ISBN	0525541330

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

In a remote Polish village, Janina devotes the dark winter days to studying astrology, translating the poetry of William Blake, and taking care of the summer homes of wealthy Warsaw residents. Her reputation as a crank and a recluse is amplified by her...

The Clown

Author

Heinrich Böll

Acclaimed entertainer Hans Schnier collapses when his beloved Marie leaves him because he won’t marry her within the Catholic Church. The desertion triggers a searing re-examination of his life—the loss of his sister during the war, the demands of his millionaire father and the hypocrisies...

Last Ones Left Alive

Author	Sarah Davis-Goff
ISBN	1472255208

LAST ONES LEFT ALIVE is the story of Orpen, a young woman who must walk on foot across a ravaged Ireland in the desperate hope of saving herself, and her guardian Maeve, from the zombie-like menace known as the skrake. Sarah Davis-Goff's strikingly original debut will appeal to readers of dystopian literary...

Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness

Author	William Styron
ISBN	0679736395

This very small volume was not an easy read. Mr. Styron eases us into his own story by relating stories of other writers and artists who experienced deep depression. Some made it through but most did not. His stories are liberally laced with a depth of understanding that he acknowledged could only come...

Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats

Author	T.S. Eliot
ISBN	0151686564

T.S. Eliot is known for masterworks of poetry like The Waste Land, but somehow also the author of this delightful collection of cat poems. The full book consists of 15 very short poems, most of which describe a distinct personality of cat. There's the cat who can never be pleased, for example, the thieving...

Journey's End

Author	R.C. Sherriff
ISBN	0435232908

Journey's End is considered a classic of First World War literature now, but at the time, it was rejected by almost every producer in the West End (‘How can I put on a play with no leading lady?’ one manager complained, providing Sherriff with the title to his future autobiography). It finally...

Semicolon: The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark

Author	Cecelia Watson
ISBN	0062917935

A page-turning, existential romp through the life and times of the world’s most polarizing punctuation mark

The semicolon. Stephen King, Hemingway, Vonnegut, and Orwell detest it. Herman Melville, Henry James, and Rebecca Solnit love it. But why? When is it effective? Have we been misusing...

The Magic Paint

Author	Primo Levi
ISBN	0141196092

داستان های ترکیبی جالب از فانتزی و جدیت هستند. همچنین در چند داستان این فانتزی ها با اشارات و انتقادات سیاسی-تاریخی هم همراهند. به نظرم داستان های به خواندنشان...

Exercises in Style

Author	Raymond Queneau
ISBN	0811207897

Meta

From what point of view should I review the book? Evidently: from all possible points of view.

Snobbish

Needless to say, I am reading the original French edition. I can hardly believe that his delicate linguistic irony would survive translation into English. Quelle...