The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie / The Girls of Slender Means / The Driver's Seat / The Only Problem
10 best books like The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie / The Girls of Slender Means / The Driver's Seat / The Only Problem (Muriel Spark): The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity, Mildred Pierce and Selected Stories, The Talented Mr. Ripley / Ripley Under Ground / Ripley's Game, Carried Away: A Personal Selection of Stories, A Dance to the Music of Time: 4th Movement, Loving / Living / Party Going, Sanditon and Other Stories, Shirley & The Professor, The Complete Henry Bech, The Bookshop, The Gate of Angels, The Blue Flower, Later Novels: A Lost Lady / The Professor’s House / Death Comes for the Archbishop / Shadows on the Rock / Lucy Gayheart / Sapphira and the Slave Girl
These three classics from the master of the noir novel, along with five otherwise unavailable short stories, are electric with the taut narrative voice, the suspense, and the explosive violence and eroticism that were James M. Cain’s indelible hallmarks.The Postman Always Rings Twice, Cain’s...
| Author | Patricia Highsmith |
| ISBN | 0375407928 |
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)Three classic crime novels by a master of the macabre appear here together in hardcover for the first time.Suave, agreeable, and completely amoral, Patricia Highsmith's hero, the inimitable Tom Ripley, stops at nothing--not even murder-- to accomplish his goals....
Carried Away: A Personal Selection of Stories
| Author | Alice Munro |
| ISBN | 0307264866 |
Carried Away is a dazzling selection of stories–seventeen favorites chosen by the author from across her distinguished career.
Alice Munro has been repeatedly hailed as one of our greatest living writers, a reputation that has been growing for years. The stories brought together here...
| Author | Anthony Powell |
| ISBN | 0226677184 |
Anthony Powell's universally acclaimed epic encompasses a four-volume panorama of twentieth century London. Hailed by Time as "brilliant literary comedy as well as a brilliant sketch of the times," A Dance to the Music of Time opens just after World War I. Amid the fever of the 1920s and the first chill...
| Author | Henry Green |
| ISBN | 0140186913 |
Read:Living
Series of extended metaphors in Living orchestrate feelings with image of sea and ships with bright flashes of tropical birds or coral reefs, shoals of flying fish, dolphins playing. I would hope to set sail on Stately Spanish galleon coming from the Isthmus, but that would be...
| Author | Jane Austen |
| ISBN | 0679447199 |
Readers of Jane Austen’s six great novels are left hungering for more, and more there is: the marvelous unpublished manuscripts she left behind, collected here.
Sanditon might have been Austen’s greatest novel had she lived to finish it. Its subject matter astonishes: here is Austen...
| Author | Charlotte Brontë |
| ISBN | 0307268217 |
Shirley is the story of a complicated friendship between two very different women: shy and socially constrained Caroline, the poor niece of a tyrannical clergyman; and the independent heiress Shirley, who has both the resources and the spirit to defy convention. The romantic entanglements of the...
| Author | John Updike |
| ISBN | 1857152646 |
From his birth in 1923 to his belated paternity and public apotheosis as a spry septuagenarian in 1999, Bech plugs away, globetrotting in the company of foreign dignitaries one day and schlepping in tattered tweeds on the college lecture circuit the next. By turns cynical and naïve, wry and avuncular,...
| Author | Penelope Fitzgerald |
| ISBN | 1857152476 |
Penelope Fitzgerald, who died in 2000, emerged late in life as one of the most remarkable English writers of the last century. The three novels in this volume all display her characteristic wit, intellectual breadth and narrative brilliance, applied to the different traditional forms into which...
| Author | Willa Cather |
| ISBN | 0940450526 |
This Library of America volume collects six novels by Willa Cather, who is among the most accomplished American writers of the twentieth century. Their formal perfection and expansiveness of feeling are an expression of Cather’s dedication both to art and to the open spaces of America.
A...
| Author | Nathanael West |
| ISBN | 1883011280 |
In this volume the Library of America offers the most complete literary portrait ever published of Nathanael West. Along with the four novels for which he is famous, this authoritative collection gathers his work in other genres, including stories, poetry, essays and plays, film scripts and treatments,...
| Author | Elizabeth Bowen |
| ISBN | 1400096561 |
Widely known for her much-admired novels, including The Heat of the Day, The House in Paris, and The Death of the Heart, Elizabeth Bowen established herself in the front rank of the century's writers equally through her short fiction.
This collection brings together seventy-nine magnificent...
Swami and Friends, The Bachelor of Arts, The Dark Room, The English Teacher
| Author | R.K. Narayan |
| ISBN | 1400044766 |
R. K. Narayan (1906—2001) witnessed nearly a century of change in his native India and captured it in fiction of uncommon warmth and vibrancy. The four novels collected here, all written during British rule, bring colonial India into intimate focus through the narrative gifts of this...
| Author | W. Somerset Maugham |
| ISBN | 1400042534 |
31 stories:
In a strange land --
Rain --
The Fall of Edward Bernard --
The Pool --
Mackintosh --
The Happy couple --
Unconquered --
Before the party --
Yellow streak --
Vessel of wrath --
Force of circumstances --
Alien corn --
Virtue --
Bum...
The Complete Stories of Evelyn Waugh
| Author | Evelyn Waugh |
| ISBN | 0316926604 |
Evelyn Waugh's short fiction reveals in miniaturized perfection the elements that made him the greatest satirist of the twentieth century. The stories collected here range from delightfully barbed portraits of the British upper classes to an alternative ending to Waugh's novel A Handful of Dust;...
| Author | Paule Marshall |
| ISBN | 0394726332 |
The chosen place is Bourneville, a remote, devastated part of a Carribean island; the timeless people are its inhabitants -- black, poor, inextricably linked to their past enslavement. The advance team for an ambitious American research project arrives, and the tense ambivalent relationships...
| Author | Sybille Bedford |
| ISBN | 1582431590 |
In this sequel to The Favourite of the Gods, seventeen-year-old Flavia, on her own in the south of France in the late 1930s, lives with the confidence and ardor of youth. She knows her destiny-it lies at Oxford, where she will begin a great career of public service. But this view of herself is at odds with...
| Author | Angela Thirkell |
| ISBN | 1559213132 |
Bartsetshire during wartime finds Mr. Downing, Miss Pemberton, and Mrs. Turner engaged in a love triangle; a chorus of officers raucously quartered at the rectory; and village ladies with violent leanings. In Mrs. Major Spender, Thirkell offers a devastating sketch of the good-natured egoist,...
| Author | Kurt Vonnegut |
| ISBN | 1598530984 |
Like his idol Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut was a sly and skeptical Midwestern everyman outraged by the depravity of the damned human race. A consummate entertainer—few storytellers are as dependably funny—he was also a clear-eyed critic of American life. Among the targets of his ridicule were the...
