The Spotted Sphinx
9 best books like The Spotted Sphinx (Joy Adamson): My Family and Other Animals, The Selected Poems, The Shadow Over Innsmouth, A Celtic Miscellany: Translations from the Celtic Literatures, Fillets of Plaice, The Forger: An Extraordinary Story of Survival in Wartime Berlin, Schijnbewegingen, Fata care citea în metrou, If Only They Could Talk
My Family and Other Animals
| Author | Gerald Durrell |
| ISBN | 0142004413 |
When the unconventional Durrell family can no longer endure the damp, gray English climate, they do what any sensible family would do: sell their house and relocate to the sunny Greek isle of Corfu. My Family and Other Animals was intended to embrace the natural history of the island but ended up as a delightful...
| Author | Osip Mandelstam |
| ISBN | 1590170911 |
Osip Mandelstam is a central figure not only in modern Russian poetry but in world poetry, the author of some of the most haunting and memorable poems of the twentieth century. A contemporary of Anna Akhmatova, Marina Tsvetayeva, and Boris Pasternak, a touchstone for later masters such as Paul Celan...
The Shadow Over Innsmouth
| Author | H.P. Lovecraft |
| ISBN | 1450562795 |
”One night I had a frightful dream in which I met my grandmother under the sea. She lived in a phosphorescent palace of many terraces, with gardens of strange leprous corals and grotesque brachiate efflorescences, and welcomed me with a warmth that may have been sardonic. She had changed--as those...
| Author | Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson |
| ISBN | 0140442472 |
Including works from Welsh, Irish and Scottish Gaelic, Cornish, Breton and Manx, this Celtic Miscellany offers a rich blend of poetry and prose from the eighth to the nineteenth century, and provides a unique insight into the minds and literature of the Celtic people. It is a literature dominated...
Durrell's hilarious and warm My Family and Other Animals (1957) began a trio of reminiscences of his life growing up with a slightly dotty family—the overbearing and omniscient Larry; the affectionate and loving siblings, Margot and Leslie; and, of course, the overburdened and patient Mother—on...
| Author | Cioma Schönhaus |
| ISBN | 0786720581 |
In Nazi Germany, 20-year-old graphic artist Cioma Schönhaus found a unique outlet for his talent: he forged documents for people fleeing the Reich, ultimately helping to save hundreds of lives. Yet, even as the Gestapo posted his photo in public, he lived a daring life, replete with fine restaurants...
| Author | Floortje Zwigtman |
| ISBN | 9026132204 |
1894. Adrian Mayfield is zestien jaar en ontevreden met zijn leven en zijn suffe baantje bij Victor Procopius' Herenmodepaleis. Waneer hij op straat komt te staan, begint hij aan een zwerftocht door Londen, op zoek naar zijn dromen, de Grote Liefde en het Grote Geld. Maar dat valt nog niet mee als je voor...
Fata care citea în metrou
| Author | Christine Féret-Fleury |
Juliette merge cu metroul din Paris în fiecare zi, la aceeaşi oră. Cea mai mare plăcere a ei este să vadă ce citesc cei din jur: doamna în vârstă, colecţionarul de ediţii rare, studenta la matematică sau fata care plânge la pagina 247. Îi priveşte pe toţi cu tandreţe şi curiozitate,...
| Author | James Herriot |
| ISBN | 0330237837 |
When the newly qualified vet, James Herriot, arrives in the small Yorkshire village of Darrowby, he has no idea of the new friends he will meet or adventures that lie ahead. From the author whose books inspired the BBC series "All Creatures Great and Small", this first volume of unforgettable memoirs...
