The Letter Killers Club
10 best books like The Letter Killers Club (Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky): The Enchanted Wanderer: Selected Tales, Rusty Brown, Envy, Invitation to a Beheading, The Slynx, First Love and Other Stories, Against Nature, A Werewolf Problem in Central Russia: And Other Stories, Selected Stories, Mysteries
| Author | Nikolai Leskov |
| ISBN | 0812966961 |
زنجیره قصههای قهرمان داستان (ایوان سیوریانیچ) قدری مسلسلوار و پیدرپی نقل میشه که امان از مخاطب میگیره و کنار گذاشتن کتاب رو سخت میکنه
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| Author | Chris Ware |
| ISBN | 0224078135 |
Discover the long-awaited new book from the author of Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth and Building Stories. The perfect gift for graphic novel fans!
‘The week after I finished the last page of Jimmy Corrigan I immediately started a new long story based on characters who had originated...
| Author | Yury Olesha |
| ISBN | 1590170865 |
One of the delights of Russian literature, a tour de force that has been compared to the best of Nabokov and Bulgakov, Yuri Olesha's novella brings together cutting social satire, slapstick humor, and a wild visionary streak. Andrei is a model Soviet citizen, a swaggeringly self-satisfied mogul of...
Invitation to a Beheading
| Author | Vladimir Nabokov |
| ISBN | 0679725318 |
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Like Kafka's The Castle, Invitation to a Beheading embodies a vision of a bizarre and irrational world. In an unnamed dream country, the young man Cincinnatus C. is condemned to death by beheading for "gnostical turpitude", an imaginary...
| Author | Tatyana Tolstaya |
| ISBN | 1590171969 |
Two hundred years after civilization ended in an event known as the Blast, Benedikt isn’t one to complain. He’s got a job—transcribing old books and presenting them as the words of the great new leader, Fyodor Kuzmich, Glorybe—and though he doesn’t enjoy the privileged status of a Murza,...
| Author | Ivan Turgenev |
| ISBN | 0192836897 |
This collection brings together six of Turgenev's best-known `long' short stories, in which he turns his skills of psychological observation and black comedy to subjects as diverse as the tyranny of serfdom, love, and revenge on the Russian steppes. These stories all display the elegance and clarity...
| Author | Joris-Karl Huysmans |
| ISBN | 0140447636 |
With a title translated either as Against Nature or as Against The Grain, this wildly original fin-de-siècle novel follows its sole character, Des Esseintes, a decadent, ailing aristocrat who retreats to an isolated villa where he indulges his taste for luxury and excess. Veering between nervous...
| Author | Victor Pelevin |
| ISBN | 0811213943 |
An anthology of eight short stories by the critically acclaimed young Russian novelist. The writing is colloquial and often whimsical, and many of the stories take supernatural phenomena very much for granted, as with the werewolves of the title story, or another in which the protagonist discovers...
| Author | Robert Walser |
| ISBN | 0940322986 |
How to place the mysterious Swiss writer Robert Walser, a humble genius who possessed one of the most elusive and surprising sensibilities in modern literature? Walser is many things: a Paul Klee in words, maker of droll, whimsical, tender, and heartbreaking verbal artifacts; an inspiration to such...
In a Norwegian coastal town, society's carefully woven threads begin to unravel when an unsettling stranger named Johan Nagel arrives. With an often brutal insight into human nature, Nagel draws out the townsfolk, exposing their darkest instincts and suppressed desires. At once arrogant and unassuming,...
| Author | Renata Adler |
| ISBN | 0060971436 |
One of the most acclaimed novels of the late 20th century is back.
When members of the National Book Critics Circle were polled to see which book they would most like to see republished, they chose Speedboat—“by far.” This story of a young female newspaper reporter coming of age in New York City...
| Author | Darius James |
| ISBN | 0312093500 |
A satire in which a snotty, overprivileged, and despite trying-too-hard-to-be-with-it, racist brat is hexed after being insulting & disrespectful to the family maid. But rather than bringing external curses on her, it does what the best hexes should----stirs up all of her own subconscious...
