The Notable Brain of Maximilian Ponder

5 best books like The Notable Brain of Maximilian Ponder (John Ironmonger): The Wall, Donnybrook, The Story of Kullervo, Admissions: Life as a Brain Surgeon, Der Club

The Wall
AuthorJean-Paul Sartre
'The Wall', the lead story in this collection, introduces three political prisoners on the night prior to their execution. Through the gaze of an impartial doctor--seemingly there for the men's solace--their mental descent is charted in exquisite, often harrowing detail. And as the morning draws...
AuthorFrank Bill
ISBN0374532893
The raw and as-insane-as-anticipated first novel from Frank Bill, author of Crimes in Southern Indiana

The Donnybrook is a three-day bare-knuckle tournament held on a thousand-acre plot out in the sticks of southern Indiana. Twenty fighters. One wire-fence ring. Fight until only one...
The Story of Kullervo
AuthorJ.R.R. Tolkien
ISBN0008131376
The world first publication of a previously unknown work of fantasy by J.R.R. Tolkien, which tells the powerful story of a doomed young man who is sold into slavery and who swears revenge on the magician who killed his father.

Kullervo son of Kalervo is perhaps the darkest and most tragic of all...
Admissions: Life as a Brain Surgeon
AuthorHenry Marsh
ISBN1250127262
Henry Marsh has spent a lifetime operating on the surgical front line. There have been exhilarating highs and devastating lows, but his love for the practice of neurosurgery has never wavered.

Following the publication of his celebrated New York Times bestseller Do No Harm, Marsh retired...
Der Club
AuthorTakis Würger
ISBN3036957537
Eine raffinierte Kombination aus berührender Liebesgeschichte, Entwicklungsroman und spannungsreicher Ermittlung eines Verbrechens in einem hermetisch geschlossenen Kreis.

Hans Stichler stammt aus einfachen Verhältnissen. Als ihm seine einzige Verwandte ein Stipendium für...
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