The Red and the Green
9 best books like The Red and the Green (Iris Murdoch): Virginia Woolf, One of Ours, Nightwood, The Bostonians, Moon Tiger, A Far Cry from Kensington, Occultism, Witchcraft & Cultural Fashions: Essays in Comparative Religion, Cara de pan, Utz
| Author | Hermione Lee |
| ISBN | 0375701362 |
While Virginia Woolf--one of our century's most brilliant and mercurial writers--has had no shortage of biographers, none has seemed as naturally suited to the task as Hermione Lee. Subscribing to Virginia Woolf's own belief in the fluidity and elusiveness of identity, Lee comes at her subject from...
| Author | Willa Cather |
| ISBN | 1600969798 |
One of Ours is Willa Cather's 1923 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the making of an American soldier. Claude Wheeler, the sensitive but aspiring protagonist, has ready access to his family's fortune but refuses to settle for it. Alienated from his uncaring father and pious mother, and rejected...
| Author | Djuna Barnes |
| ISBN | 0811216713 |
Nightwood, Djuna Barnes' strange and sinuous tour de force, "belongs to that small class of books that somehow reflect a time or an epoch" (TLS). That time is the period between the two World Wars, and Barnes' novel unfolds in the decadent shadows of Europe's great cities, Paris, Berlin, and Vienna—a...
| Author | Henry James |
| ISBN | 0812969960 |
This brilliant satire of the women’s rights movement in America is the story of the ravishing inspirational speaker Verena Tarrant and the bitter struggle between two distant cousins who seek to control her. Will the privileged Boston feminist Olive Chancellor succeed in turning her beloved ward...
| Author | Penelope Lively |
| ISBN | 0802135331 |
The elderly Claudia Hampton, a best-selling author of popular history; lies alone in a London hospital bed. Memories of her life still glow in her fading consciousness, but she imagines writing a history of the world. Instead, Moon Tiger is her own history, the life of a strong, independent woman, with...
A Far Cry from Kensington
| Author | Muriel Spark |
| ISBN | 0811214575 |
Set on the crazier fringes of 1950s literary London, A Far Cry from Kensington is a delight, hilariously portraying love, fraud, death, evil, and transformation. Mrs. Hawkins, the majestic narrator of A Far Cry from Kensington, takes us well in hand and leads us back to her threadbare years in postwar...
Occultism, Witchcraft & Cultural Fashions: Essays in Comparative Religion
| Author | Mircea Eliade |
| ISBN | 0226203921 |
In the period domoninated by the triumphs of scientific rationalism, how do we account for the extraordinary success of such occult movements as astrology or the revival of witchcraft? From his perspective as a historian of religions, the eminent scholar Mircea Eliade shows that such popular trends...
«La primera vez la coge tan desprevenida que se sobresalta al verlo.» El encuentro se produce en un parque. Ella es Casi, una adolescente de «casi» catorce años; él, el Viejo, tiene muchos más.
El primer contacto es casual, pero volverán a verse en más ocasiones. Ella huye de las imposiciones...
| Author | Bruce Chatwin |
| ISBN | 0140115765 |
Utz collects Meissen porcelain with a passion. His collection, which he has protected and enlarged through both World War II and Czechoslovakia's years of Stalinism, numbers more than 1,000 pieces, all crammed into his two-room Prague flat. Utz is allowed to leave the country each year, and although...
