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The Royal Game and Other Stories

10 best books like The Royal Game and Other Stories (Stefan Zweig): Cousin Pons, The Salterton Trilogy: Tempest-Tost; Leaven of Malice; A Mixture of Frailties, The Irish R.M., Bug Jack Barron, The Attack on the Mill and Other Stories, Chess Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes: Fifty Tantalizing Problems of Chess Detection, From Death to Morning, Detective Story, Configurations: Poetry, Everything and Nothing

Cousin Pons
AuthorHonoré de Balzac
ISBN0140442057
Mild, harmless and ugly to behold, the impoverished Pons is an ageing musician whose brief fame has fallen to nothing. Living a placid Parisian life as a bachelor in a shared apartment with his friend Schmucke, he maintains only two passions: a devotion to fine dining in the company of wealthy but disdainful...
The Salterton Trilogy: Tempest-Tost; Leaven of Malice; A Mixture of Frailties
AuthorRobertson Davies
The Salterton Trilogy consists of the first three novels by Davies: Tempest-Tost (1951), Leaven of Malice (1954), and A Mixture of Frailties (1958). Davies was awarded the Stephen Leacock Award for Humour in 1955 for Leaven of Malice.

The trilogy revolves around the residents of the imaginary...
The Irish R.M.
AuthorEdith Anna Oenone Somerville
ISBN0349101469
"Major Sinclair Yeates leaves England to work as an Irish Resident Magistrate convinced that two and two make four. But as he passes judgment on a range of cases and characters that would have driven Solomon to drink he learns that in Ireland two and two are just as likely to make five, or three, or even nothing...
Bug Jack Barron
AuthorNorman Spinrad
ISBN1585675857
With over a hundred million viewers, Jack Barron is a media star of the highest celebrity—think Jerry Springer crossed with Ted Koppel—and his call-in talk show is the perfect platform for reform. But every man has his price, and when a cryogenics millionaire makes Jack an offer he can't refuse—immortality—anything...
The Attack on the Mill and Other Stories
AuthorÉmile Zola
ISBN0192836617
Zola is famous for his novels, especially the excellent Rougon-Macquart series, so I was a little bit nervous approaching a book of his short stories. Would Zola continue to impress or would he falter in this format? In my experience novelists aren't always good short story writers and vice versa; they...
Chess Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes: Fifty Tantalizing Problems of Chess Detection
AuthorRaymond M. Smullyan
ISBN0812923898
Here -- from philosopher/logician/puzzlemaker Raymond Smullyan -- are fifty elegant, witty, and altogether unique "chess mysteries." In each problem the solver has to deduce certain events in a game's past. For example: On what square was the White queen captured? or, Is the White queen promoted...
From Death to Morning
AuthorThomas Wolfe
ISBN0684179806
With his reputation again in full flower, Thomas Wolfe stands among our nation's greatest writers. William Faulkner admired his breathtakingly stylish prose, which also inspired Jack Keroac's experimental lyricism. From Death to Morning is the second collection of Thomas Wolfe's short stories...
Detective Story
AuthorImre Kertész
ISBN0307266443
As readers, we are accustomed to reading stories of war and injustice from the victims’ point of view, sympathizing with their plight. In Detective Story, the tables have been turned, leaving us in the mind of a monster, as Nobel Laureate Imre Kertész plunges us into a story of the worst kind, told...
Configurations: Poetry
AuthorOctavio Paz
ISBN0811201503
Configurations was his first major collection to be published in this country, and includes in their entirety Sun Stone (1957) and Blanco (1967). Paz himself translated many of the poems from the Spanish. Some distinguished contributors to this bilingual edition include, among others, Paul Blackburn,...
Everything and Nothing
AuthorJorge Luis Borges
ISBN0811214001
Celebrating the centennial of his birth, Everything and Nothing compiles the most anthologized and widely read fictions by Jorge Luis Borges, "a giant of world literature" (John Updike, The New Yorker). Some of the narrative pieces herein contained are: "Pierre Menard" in which a modern writer reconstructs...
The Sea-Wolf and Selected Stories
AuthorJack London
ISBN0451529367
JL is not the most thematically subtle writer, but his prose in The Sea-Wolf is much better than I'd anticipated. In fact, I think he's better than Conrad at describing the frightening power of an sea storm. Quite entertaining, and the Wolf is a wickedly vibrant villain who transcends JL's attempts to...
Guignol's Band
AuthorLouis-Ferdinand Céline
ISBN0811200183
In Guignol's Band, first published in France in 1943, Céline explores the horror of a disordered world. The hero, the semi-autobiographical Ferdinand, moves through the nightmare of London's underworld during the years of World War I. In this distressing setting, he meets pimps and prostitutes,...
The Legend of the Glorious Adventures of Tyl Ulenspiegel in the Land of Flanders & Elsewhere
AuthorCharles de Coster
ISBN1596054247
Ulenspiegel was living at Koolkerke, in the intimate favour of a farmer's widow, a sweet and gentle person who refused him nothing of what was hers to give. He was very happy there, petted and made much of, until one day a treacherous rival, an alderman of the village, lay in wait for him early in the morning...
Paradise News
AuthorDavid Lodge
ISBN0140165215
Paradise, tourist style. It's a very long way from home.Bernard Walsh is in Hawaii on family business, escorting his querulous father to the bedside of a long-forgotten aunt. His mission transports him from quiet obscurity in Rummridge, England, to a lush tropical playground, from cloistered solitude...
Alice in Wonderland / Hunting of the Snark
AuthorLewis Carroll
ISBN0393958043
In Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland" a very real little girl named Alice follows a very remarkable rabbit and experiences one of the strangest adventures, and meets some of the oddest and best-loved characters in all literature: the Mad Hatter, the Queen of Hearts, the Cheshire Cat, and the White...
Complete Verse
AuthorRudyard Kipling
I really like Rudyard Kipling's writings despite all of the criticism leveled against him as nothing more than a Victorian rascist. I really like the time he has born in (late 19th century british india) and how his poems and stories are filled with adventure and nature.

If - is wisdom incarnate....
Masquerade and Other Stories
AuthorRobert Walser
ISBN0801839777
Born in Switzerland in 1878, Robert Walser worked as a bank clerk, a butler in a castle, and an inventor's assistant before discovering what William H. Gass calls his "true profession." From 1899 until he was misdiagnosed a schizophrenic and hospitalized in 1933, Walser produced nine novels and more...
Mangeclous
AuthorAlbert Cohen
ISBN2070371700
Mangeclous, un des sommets de la littérature contemporaine. Mangeclous, livre plein d'une verve triomphale, livre d'une liberté extraordinaire (nous sommes à l'époque des livres contraints), livre riche (nous sommes à l'époque des livres pauvres), livre gras (nous sommes à l'époque...
Exemplary Stories
AuthorMiguel de Cervantes Saavedra
ISBN0192832433
More popular in their day than Don Quxixote, Cervantes's Exemplary Stories (1613) surprise, challenge and delight. Ranging from the picaresque to the satirical, the Exemplary Stories defy the conventions of heroic chivalric literature through a combination of comic irony, moral ambiguity, realism,...
Spychips: How Major Corporations and Government Plan to Track Your Every Move with RFID
AuthorKatherine Albrecht
ISBN1595550208
Big Brother gets up close and personal.

Do you  know about RFID (Radio Frquency IDentification)? Well, you should, because in just a few short years, this explosive new technology could tell marketers, criminals, and government snoops everything about you.

Welcome to the world...
Problems: And Other Stories
AuthorJohn Updike
ISBN0449211037
In this midcareer collection of twenty-three short stories, John Updike tackles such problems as separation, divorce, and remarriage, parents and children, guns and prostitution, leprosy, swooning, suffocation, and guilt. His self-seeking heroes tend to be forty; his heroines are asleep, seductive,...
Respected Sir, Wedding Song, The Search
AuthorNaguib Mahfouz
ISBN0385498365
A new volume of three novels–previously published separately by Anchor–by Naguib Mahfouz, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Together with The Beggar, The Thief and The Dogs, and Autumn Quail (published by Anchor in December 2000), these novels represent a comprehensive collection of...
The Weight of the World
AuthorPeter Handke
ISBN0374287457
A combination of professional notebook and personal diary that records -- both in short, informal jottings and through more formal, extended meditations -- the details of Handke's daily life in Paris from November 1975 through March 1977. Along with references to such mentors as Truffaut, John Cowper...
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