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10 best books like The Oxford Book of Irish Short Stories (William Trevor): The Antigone Poems, Collected Stories, Thirst, Maybe This Time, Stained Glass Elegies, Short Treatise on the Joys of Morphinism, Seven Houses in France, The Secret History of Science Fiction, Collected Poems, Black Water: The Book of Fantastic Literature

The Antigone Poems
AuthorMarie Slaight
ISBN0980644704
Passionate, brutal, and infused with extraordinary lyricism, The Antigone Poems provides a special expedition into the depths of the ancient Sophocles tragedy. The work’s obsessive, ritualistic and ultimately mysterious force brings into sharp focus the heroic, tragic figure at the center...
Collected Stories
AuthorFrank O'Connor
ISBN0394710487
The definitive collection of short stories by a master of the form and one of Ireland’s most celebrated authors

This indispensable volume contains the best of Frank O’Connor’s short fiction. From “Guests of the Nation” to “The Mad Lomasneys” to “First Confession” to...
Thirst
AuthorKen Kalfus
ISBN1571310185
A few quite good stories, reminiscent of Calvino and Borges, surrounded by some okay stories. And then I remembered, Calvino and Borges do a pretty good Calvino and Borges as well--so I'll read them instead. If you only read one story from this collection, though read "Night And Day You Are The One"

I'll...
Maybe This Time
AuthorAlois Hotschnig
ISBN0956284051
A spellbinding short story collection by one of Austria's most critically acclaimed authors. A man becomes obsessed with observing his neighbors. A large family gathers for Christmas only to wait for the one member who never turns up. An old woman lures a man into her house where he finds dolls resembling...
Stained Glass Elegies
AuthorShūsaku Endō
ISBN0811211428
The arresting beauty of Shusaku Endo's fiction is best known in the West through his highly acclaimed novels The Samurai and Silence. His consummately wrought short stories, with their worlds of deep shadows and achieved clarity, are less familiar. The dozen stories of Stained Glass Elegies, selected...
Short Treatise on the Joys of Morphinism
AuthorHans Fallada
ISBN0141195800
'...I stare at the coffee I poured myself, and I think: caffeine is a poison that stimulates the heart. There are plenty of instances of people killing themselves with coffee, hundreds and thousands of them. Caffeine is a deadly poison, maybe almost as deadly as morphine. Why didn't it ever occur to me...
Seven Houses in France
AuthorBernardo Atxaga
ISBN1555976239
A brooding novel of colonial intrigue in the Congo, from the author of The Accordionist's Son and Obabakoak

The year is 1903, and the garrison of Yangambi on the banks of the Congo is under the command of Captain Lalande Biran. The captain is also a poet whose ambition is to amass a fortune and return...
The Secret History of Science Fiction
AuthorJames Patrick Kelly
ISBN1892391937
This ingeniously conceived anthology raises the intriguing question, If Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow had won the Nebula award in 1973, would the future distinction between literary fiction and science fiction have been erased? Exploring the possibility of an alternate history of speculative...
Collected Poems
AuthorPatrick Kavanagh
ISBN0393006948
I was introduced to Kavanagh’s work through several quotations in Christian Wiman’s My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer. Those lines convinced me I had to seek out Kavanagh’s poetry.

Patrick Kavanagh wrote of Irish farm life, which he knew so well, without romantic sentimentality....
Black Water: The Book of Fantastic Literature
AuthorAlberto Manguel
ISBN0517552698
This huge anthology offers a kaleidoscope of brilliant writing from the Magi of the imagination. Alberto Manguel has selected 72 fantastic tales from life on the edge of the twilight zone, with stories from Marguerite Yourcenar, Herman Hesse, Italo Calvino, Vladimir Nabokov, and many, many more....
A Fanatic Heart
AuthorEdna O'Brien
ISBN0753813084
In these selections from twenty years of her best short fiction, Edna O'Brien pulls the reader into a woman's experience. Her stories portray a young Irish girl's view of obsessive love and its often wrenching pain, while tales of contemporary life show women who open themselves to sexuality, to disappointment,...
London Noir
AuthorCathi Unsworth
Brand-new stories by: Desmond Barry, Ken Bruen, Stewart Home, Barry Adamson, Michael Ward, Sylvie Simmons, Daniel Bennett, Cathi Unsworth, Max Décharné, Martyn Waites, Joolz Denby, John Williams, Jerry Sykes, Mark Pilkington, Joe McNally, Patrick McCabe, and Ken Hollings.

Cathi...
Hate: A Romance
AuthorTristan Garcia
ISBN0865479119
In a controversial first novel that took the French literary world by storm and won the Prix de Flore, Tristan Garcia uses sex, friendships, and love affairs to show what happens to people when political ideals--Marxism, gay rights, sexual liberation, nationalism--come to an end. As Elizabeth Levallois,...
Map: Collected and Last Poems
AuthorWisława Szymborska
ISBN0544126025
A new collected volume from the Nobel Prize–winning poet that includes, for the first time in English, all of the poems from her last Polish collection

One of Europe’s greatest recent poets is also its wisest, wittiest, and most accessible. Nobel Prize–winner Wislawa Szymborska draws...
Otogizōshi: The Fairy Tale Book of Dazai Osamu
AuthorOsamu Dazai
ISBN4902075407
Dazai Osamu wrote The Fairy Tale Book (Otogizōshi) in the last months of the Pacific War. The traditional tales upon which Dazai's retellings are based are well known to every Japanese schoolchild, but this is no children's book. In Dazai's hands such stock characters as the kindhearted Oji-san to...
The Cape and Other Stories from the Japanese Ghetto
AuthorKenji Nakagami
ISBN1880656396
The fiction of Kenji Nakagami has no peer in contemporary Japan. Born into the burakumin -- an outcast class shunned in feudal Japan and still suffering discrimination today -- Nakagami depicts the lives of his people in powerful, sensual prose and stark, sometimes horrifying detail. The Cape is his...
The Best Japanese Science Fiction Stories
AuthorJohn L. Apostolou
Most Americans would describe Japanese science fiction with one word: Godzilla. However, true fans of the genre know that for decades, Japan has been turning out some of the most innovative stories ever published. Unfortunately, those that make it into English are often difficult to find. The Best...
Warrior Lore: Scandinavian Folk Ballads
AuthorIan Cumpstey
Warrior Lore is the second collection of Scandinavian folk ballads translated into English verse by Ian Cumpstey, following Lord Peter and Little Kerstin. These narrative ballads were part of an oral tradition in Scandinavia, and were first written down around 1600. Included in this book are stories...
The 47 Ronin: Japanese Tales of Vampires, Ghosts, and Renegade Samurai
AuthorAlgernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford
In this lavishly illustrated volume, A.B. Mitford presents ancient Japanese tales filled with action, romance, and the supernatural. Proud lords and their loyal retainers, a brave samurai and his faithless wife, a vampire cat, and howling spirits are all featured in the engaging stories that follow,...
Wheel with a Single Spoke: and other poems
AuthorNichita Stănescu
ISBN1935744151

"...The poet comes into possession of an important, essential message, one that has the prestige and mystery of eternity…." —Daniel Cristea-Enache

For the first time in English: the beloved poems of Nichita Stanescu, Romania's most influential postwar poet. In his world, angels...
Ireland: A History
AuthorThomas Bartlett
ISBN0521197201
Finished. I have read this book, on and off, for the last six months. I have read, stopped reading, begun again, taken hundreds of pages of notes. Bartlett's history of Ireland is a very personal one. It is the work of a historian who is, I felt, angry against the misconceptions and even lies that are used...
The Treasury of the Fantastic
AuthorDavid Sandner
ISBN1616960965
The fantastic, the supernatural, the poetic, and the macabre entwine in this incomparable culmination of storytelling. Imaginative stories of wit and intelligence weave through vivid landscapes that are alternately wondrous and terrifying. Bringing together major literary figures from the...
The Oxford Book of English Short Stories
AuthorA.S. Byatt
From Anthony Trollope, Charles Dickens, and Thomas Hardy through Rudyard Kipling, H.G. Wells, D.H. Lawrence, and Virginia Woolf, right up to Graham Greene, J.G. Ballard, Angela Carter, Ian McEwan, and many others, The Oxford Book of English Short Stories exhibits the capacious and often capricious...
Chicago Noir: The Classics
AuthorJoe Meno
ISBN1617752940
"In this superior entry in Akashic's noir series, Meno offers nearly a century of Chicago crime fiction....Familiar bylines abound: Max Allan Collins, Richard Wright, Nelson Algren, Sherwood Anderson, Fredric Brown, Patricia Highsmith (with an excerpt from her novel The Price of Salt), Stewart...
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