The Works of Anton Checkov (100+ stories and plays with an active table of contents)
10 best books like The Works of Anton Checkov (100+ stories and plays with an active table of contents) (Anton Chekhov): The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Volume 2, Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom, Nabokov's Dozen: A Collection of Thirteen Stories (Anchor Literary Library), Billy Budd and Other Tales, Ethan Frome and Selected Stories, The Fur Hat, The Overcoat and Other Tales of Good and Evil, Harmony of the World: Stories, A Gentle Creature and Other Stories, Beasts and Super-Beasts
| Author | William Shakespeare |
Julius Caesar
Hamlet
All's Well That Ends Well
Measure for Measure
Troilus and Cressida
Othello
King Lear
Macbeth
Antony and Cleopatra
Coriolanus
Timon of Athens
Pericles
Cymbeline
Tempest
Winter's Tale
King Henry VIII
Venus...
| Author | Clarence Darrow |
| ISBN | 0226136493 |
Transcripts of his closing arguments, all of which were delivered without notes. Passionate as hell. They say he never opened a law book; he argued and won by appealing to morality alone. The man was a philosopher and a student (professor?) of the human condition. An extremely important and worthwhile...
| Author | Vladimir Nabokov |
| ISBN | 0385191170 |
Nabokov's Dozen (1958) a collection of 13 short stories by Vladimir Nabokov previously published in American magazines. (Nine of them also previously appeared in Nine Stories.)
All were later reprinted within The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov.
Spring in Fialta --
Forgotten poet --
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| Author | Herman Melville |
| ISBN | 0451526872 |
Unbelievably, Melville had a hard time making a living from his writing.
[That was sarcasm.]
His style is overly archaic. I read a fair amount of classic literature, but this is just ridiculous. In the mid to late 19th century, were people still saying "Hark!"? And "Blah, blah,...
| Author | Edith Wharton |
| ISBN | 1593080905 |
One of Edith Wharton’s few works of fiction that takes place outside of an urban, upper-class setting, Ethan Frome draws upon the bleak, barren landscape of rural New England. A poor farmer, Ethan finds himself stuck in a miserable marriage to Zeenie, a sickly, tyrannical woman, until he falls in...
| Author | Vladimir Voinovich |
| ISBN | 0156340305 |
I read Vladimir Voinovich's short comic masterpiece back in 1989 when first published in English and read it three more times over the years, including this past week. One thing has remained consistent – I laughed out loud on nearly each page. This is a very funny book.
Hardly a whopping...
| Author | Nikolai Gogol |
| ISBN | 0393003043 |
The compassion, simplicity, and gentle humor with which he treats the poignant quest of a hapless civil servant for the return of his stolen overcoat—and the fantastic yet realistic manner in which he takes revenge on his nemesis, the Very Important Person—mark "The Overcoat" as one of the greatest...
Harmony of the World: Stories
| Author | Charles Baxter |
| ISBN | 0679776516 |
In these ten stories, Charles Baxter shows his genius in making his characters' everyday sufferings--and occasional fragile joys--seem utterly unprecedented, even as he reminds us, gently and with a sly comic twist, that everything they feel is only the collateral damage of being human. Whether...
| Author | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
| ISBN | 0192822802 |
In these stories, Dostoevsky explores both the figure of the dreamer divorced from reality, and also his own ambiguous attitude toward utopianism, themes central to his great novels. In White Nights, the apparent idyll of the dreamer's romantic fantasies disguises profound loneliness and estrangement...
Saki (1870 -1916), was the pen name of the British author Hector Hugh Munro, whose witty and sometimes macabre stories satirised Edwardian society and culture. The name Saki is often thought to be a reference to the cupbearer in the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, a poem mentioned disparagingly by the eponymous...
| Author | Karl Iagnemma |
| ISBN | 0385335946 |
Winner of the Paris Review Discovery Prize for best first fiction and anthologized in The Best American Short Stories 2002, Karl Iagnemma has been recognized as a writer of rare talent. His literary terrain is the world of science, with its charged boundary between the rational mind and the restless...
| Author | Ken Kalfus |
| ISBN | 0743400755 |
With the publication of his first story collection, Thirst -- also a New York Times Notable Book of the Year -- Ken Kalfus made "a dazzling debut," emerging as "a major literary talent" (Salon.com). Now, in this eagerly anticipated follow-up -- drawn from his four years living in Moscow and traveling...
| Author | Mark Twain |
| ISBN | 0451530160 |
For nearly two decades before Mark Twain published his finest novel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, he was refining his craft and winning tremendous popularity with his short stories and sketches. This richly entertaining and comprehensive collection presents sixty-five of the very best of Mark...
The Tattered Cloak and Other Stories
| Author | Nina Berberova |
| ISBN | 0811214737 |
The greatest collection by one of the great Russian writers is now back in print. First published in Europe in the 1930s and '40s, these searing, evocative stories by the late emigre writer Nina Berberova (1901-1993) are portraits of the lives of Russian exiles in Paris on the eve of World War II. The protagonists...
| Author | Ramachandra Guha |
| ISBN | 8178240033 |
'Inside every thinking there is a Gandhian and a Marxist struggling for supremacy', says Ramachandra Guha in the opening sentence of this wonderfully readable book of ideas, opinions and reflections. A substantial portion of the book expands on this salvo: it analyses Gandhians and psuedo-Gandhians,...
The Allure of Immortality: An American Cult, a Florida Swamp, and a Renegade Prophet
| Author | Lyn Millner |
| ISBN | 0813061237 |
“Brilliantly written and strangely moving. Millner has resurrected the lost history of a cult devoted to a utopian vision as pure as it was outlandish.”—Steve Almond, author of God Bless America: Stories
“A fascinating look at the American search for meaning and ultimate answers....
| Author | Lieve Joris |
| ISBN | 9029021438 |
In 1985 reisde Lieve Joris naar Zaïre, op zoek naar sporen van haar heeroom die missionaris was geweest in de Kongo. Te midden van oud-kolonialen voer zij met de Fabiolaville naar de vroegere Belgische kolonie. In heerooms voetspoor trok zij door de brousse. In deze rimboe riepen oude paters en zusters...
| Author | Dave Eggers |
| ISBN | 1934781088 |
With our biggest line-up in quite a while – fifteen stories from writers like Yannick Murphy, Roddy Doyle, Ben Greenman, and Peter Orner – McSweeney's 29 offers everything a good book should: there is jungle warfare, there are boomerang factories, there are tragedies and romances and animals...
The Collected Works of Nathanael West
| Author | Nathanael West |
| ISBN | 1840226587 |
I had already read Miss Lonelyhearts and The Day of the Locust before I came across this collection. I was very impressed with Nathaneal West's style that I had to dig into the rest of his novels. Alas, there are only four of them in total.
A Cool Million is about the myth surrounding the American...
Hermit Of Peking: The Hidden Life Of Sir Edmund Backhouse
Hermit of Peking is one of the most remarkable pieces of literary detection of recent years.
It all began when Hugh Trevor-Roper acquired the voluminous memoirs of Sir Edmund Backhouse, uo till then known only as a distinguished Chinese scholar who had lived quietly until his death in 1944.
The...
The Russian Revolution: History in an Hour
In 1917 the world changed for ever. One of the most influential and contentious events in recent history, the Russian Revolution unleashed the greatest political experiment ever conducted, one which continues to influence both Eastern and Western politics today.
‘The Russian Revolution:...
| Author | Jerome Agel |
| ISBN | 0451071395 |
The critics loved it.
The critics hated it.
The Making of Kubrick's 2001 takes you behind the sets and scenes of the most controversial film of the decade. Here is the inside story of a monumental achievement conceded even by its enemies to mark a turning point in the art of cinema.
"If...
