The Trials of Persiles and Sigismunda: A Northern Story
9 best books like The Trials of Persiles and Sigismunda: A Northern Story (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra): Elective Affinities, The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss, The Second Sleep, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle, Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus, Inside Mr. Enderby, Lectura fácil, The Adversary: A True Story of Monstrous Deception
| Author | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| ISBN | 0192837761 |
Elective Affinities was written when Goethe was sixty and long established as Germany's literary giant. This is a new edition of his penetrating study of marriage and passion, bringing together four people in an inexorable manner. The novel asks whether we have free will or not and confronts its characters...
The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss
| Author | Edmund de Waal |
| ISBN | 0374105979 |
The Ephrussis were a grand banking family, as rich and respected as the Rothschilds, who “burned like a comet” in nineteenth-century Paris and Vienna society. Yet by the end of World War II, almost the only thing remaining of their vast empire was a collection of 264 wood and ivory carvings, none...
All civilisations think they are invulnerable. History warns us none is.
1468. A young priest, Christopher Fairfax, arrives in a remote Exmoor village to conduct the funeral of his predecessor. The land around is strewn with ancient artefacts – coins, fragments of glass, human bones –...
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
| Author | Laurence Sterne |
| ISBN | 0141439777 |
No one description will fit this strange, eccentric, endlessly complex masterpiece. It is a fiction about fiction-writing in which the invented world is as much infused with wit and genius as the theme of inventing it. It is a joyful celebration of the infinite possibilities of the art of fiction, and...
Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
| Author | Vladimir Nabokov |
| ISBN | 0679725229 |
Published two weeks after his seventieth birthday, Ada, or Ardor is one of Nabokov's greatest masterpieces, the glorious culmination of his career as a novelist. It tells a love story troubled by incest. But more: it is also at once a fairy tale, epic, philosophical treatise on the nature of time,...
Rich with hilarious episodes, Scriblerus is an ingenious satire of false learning and bad taste that has much to say to the pseudo-intellectual world of today. By taking one ambitious father and his determination to do everything in his power to produce a child of genius, Pope exposes the true folly...
| Author | Anthony Burgess |
| ISBN | 0070089736 |
Publishing the first edition under the pseudonym Joseph Kell allowed Burgess to review himself in The Yorkshire Post: “This is, in many ways, a dirty book. It is full of bowel-blasts and flatulent borborygyms, emetic meals (‘thin but over-savoury stews,’ Enderby calls them) and halitosis....
Son cuatro: Nati, Patri, Marga y Àngels. Son parientas, tienen diversos grados de lo que la Administración y la medicina consideran «discapacidad intelectual» y comparten un piso tutelado. Han pasado buena parte de sus vidas en RUDIS y CRUDIS (residencias urbanas y rurales para personas con...
The Adversary: A True Story of Monstrous Deception
| Author | Emmanuel Carrère |
| ISBN | 0312420609 |
On the Saturday morning of January 9, 1993, while Jean Claude Romand was killing his wife and children, I was with mine in a parent-teacher meeting...
With these chilling first words, acclaimed master of psychological suspense Emmanuel Carrère begins his exploration of the double life...
