The Soul of Man Under Socialism, and Selected Critical Prose
10 best books like The Soul of Man Under Socialism, and Selected Critical Prose (Oscar Wilde): The Complete Stories and Poems, As I Lay Dying, The Crying of Lot 49, Invisible Cities, Gogol's Wife and Other Stories, The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway, The Complete Stories, The Death of Ivan Ilych And Other Stories, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Pensées
The Complete Stories and Poems
| Author | Edgar Allan Poe |
| ISBN | 0385074077 |
I’ve been reading this book for almost three years and it feels so good to finally have finished it!
I was surprised by what I found in here. Poe was slightly different to what I thought. He is very much shrouded in shadow and the macabre, at least, his more successful stories and poems were. But...
As I Lay Dying is Faulkner’s harrowing account of the Bundren family’s odyssey across the Mississippi countryside to bury Addie, their wife and mother. Narrated in turn by each of the family members—including Addie herself—as well as others, the novel ranges in mood, from dark comedy to the...
Suffused with rich satire, chaotic brilliance, verbal turbulence and wild humor, The Crying of Lot 49 opens as Oedipa Maas discovers that she has been made executrix of a former lover's estate. The performance of her duties sets her on a strange trail of detection, in which bizarre characters crowd...
| Author | Italo Calvino |
| ISBN | 0156453800 |
"Kublai Khan does not necessarily believe everything Marco Polo says when he describes the cities visited on his expeditions, but the emperor of the Tartars does continue listening to the young Venetian with greater attention and curiosity than he shows any other messenger or explorer of his." So...
| Author | Tommaso Landolfi |
| ISBN | 0811200809 |
Much admired in Europe, Landolfi has been called "the Italian Kafka"; he is often linked with the Surrealists, and in the intellectual quality of his fantasy there are certain affinities with Borges; but beyond these superficial comparisons, his is a truly unique—and fascinating—art. It is...
The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
| Author | Ernest Hemingway |
| ISBN | 0684843323 |
THE ONLY COMPLETE COLLECTION BY THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR
In this definitive collection of Ernest Hemingway's short stories, readers will delight in the author's most beloved classics such as "The Snows of Kilimanjaro," "Hills Like White Elephants," and "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place,"...
| Author | Franz Kafka |
| ISBN | 0805210555 |
The Complete Stories brings together all of Kafka’s stories, from the classic tales such as “The Metamorphosis,” “In the Penal Colony,” and “A Hunger Artist” to shorter pieces and fragments that Max Brod, Kafka’s literary executor, released after Kafka’s death. With the exception...
The Death of Ivan Ilych And Other Stories
| Author | Leo Tolstoy |
| ISBN | 0451528808 |
With an Introduction and Notes by Dr T.C.B.Cook
Count Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) is best known for War and Peace and Anna Karenina, commonly regarded as amongst the greatest novels ever written. He also, however, wrote many masterly short stories, and this volume contains four of the longest...
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
| Author | Philip K. Dick |
| ISBN | 1407247425 |
Dick at his wildest and strangest - a mystifying but brilliant book - SF: 100 Best Novels
In the overcrowded world and cramped space colonies of the late 21st century, tedium can be endured through the drug Can-D, which enables users to inhabit a shared illusory world. When industrialist Palmer...
| Author | Blaise Pascal |
| ISBN | 0140446451 |
Blaise Pascal, the precociously brilliant contemporary of Descartes, was a gifted mathematician and physicist, but it is his unfinished apologia for the Christian religion upon which his reputation now rests. The Penseés is a collection of philosohical fragments, notes and essays in which Pascal...
| Author | Wallace Stevens |
| ISBN | 0679726691 |
i fell in love with two men in my undergrad senior seminar. it was on wallace stevens and t.s. eliot.
the way i loved both of these writers hurt. (i'll set eliot aside for another time).
stevens kills me when he uses very innocent symbols - making ice cream, in "the emperor of ice cream",...
| Author | Herman Melville |
| ISBN | 1593082533 |
Largely neglected in his own lifetime, Herman Melville mastered not only the great American novel but also the short story and novella forms. In Billy Budd and The Piazza Tales, Melville reveals an uncanny awareness of the inscrutable nature of reality.
Published posthumously...
