Thomas Of Reading
10 best books like Thomas Of Reading (Thomas Deloney): Camera Obscura, Euphues the Anatomy of Wit: Euphues & His England, The Unfortunate Traveller: Or, the Life of Jack Wilton, The Conquest of New Spain, The Commandant, The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, Pepita Jiménez, Leaden Wings, Anton Reiser, A Day in Spring
| Author | Hildebrand |
| ISBN | 9025320376 |
Title: La chambre obscure
Author: Nicolaas Beets
Translator: Léon Wocquier
Release Date: October 14, 2015 [EBook #50211]
Language: French
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| Author | John Lyly |
| ISBN | 0781272130 |
EARLY ENGLISH WIT, POETRY & SATIRE. Imagine holding history in your hands. Now you can. Digitally preserved and previously accessible only through libraries as Early English Books Online, this rare material is now available in single print editions. Thousands of books written between 1475...
The Unfortunate Traveller: Or, the Life of Jack Wilton
The Unfortunate Traueller: or, The Life of Jacke Wilton is a picaresque novel by Thomas Nashe first published in 1594 but set during the reign of Henry VIII of England.
Jack Wilton adventures through the European continent and finds himself swept up in the currents of sixteenth-century history....
The Conquest of New Spain
| Author | Bernal Díaz del Castillo |
| ISBN | 0140441239 |
Vivid and absorbing, this is a first-person account of one of the most startling military episodes in history: the overthrow of Montezuma’s Aztec empire by the ruthless Hernan Cortes and his band of adventurers. Bernal Díaz del Castillo, himself a soldier under Cortes, presents a fascinatingly...
| Author | Jessica Anderson |
| ISBN | 0333179277 |
In the 1830s, the penal settlement of Moreton Bay on the Brisbane River is under the command of Patrick Logan. His administration has been denounced by the liberal press in Sydney, but he scorns such criticism. How can it harm him when he had governed according to the rules?
Flogged and brutalised,...
| Author | Anonymous |
| ISBN | 4770023294 |
Preface by Donald Keene
Taketori Monogatari, The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter is the oldest surviving Japanese work of fiction; The Tale of Genji (written about 1010) referred to it as the "ancestor of all romances." The names of five suitors, resembling those of members of the Japanese court of the...
| Author | Juan Valera |
| ISBN | 9871136145 |
La obra de Juan Valera en general y Pepita Jiménez , en particular, ha sido considerada por la crítica como una anomalía dentro de las etapas que marcan el desarrollo de la historia de la literatura española, ni romántica, ni realista, la ya clásica novela del escritor cordobés asoma como una...
| Author | Zhang Jie |
| ISBN | 0860687643 |
Published in 1980, Heavy Wings focuses on the Morning Light Auto Works in Beijing, a microcosm of the ongoing struggle between reformers who want to allow a measure of freedom and party hardliners clinging to the ideology that justifies their privilege and power. It provoked a storm of controversy...
| Author | Karl Philipp Moritz |
| ISBN | 0140446095 |
Well received in its own day and all but forgotten in the last century, Anton Reiser (1785) has regained in our times the popular attention it richly merits. Subtitled a "psychological novel" by its author, who also called it a biography, the work is actually a highly authentic autobiography. The work...
[narrator has returned home as WWII ends, after 15 years of fighting as a partisan; his aunt shows him the Latin verb study sheets still tacked to the ceiling of his bedroom where he studied as he lay in bed]
“Right you Are,” I smiled. “Amo--amas--amat…How odd!” I shook my head. “How odd…”
“Eh,...
Потрясающая книга, даже потрясающе безысходная книга! Гибрид "Замка" Кафки и "Чумы" сами знаете кого. Плюс вот эта вот восточная абсурдность, которая...
| Author | Mykhaylo Osadchy |
| ISBN | 0156155508 |
this book more than any deserves a new press run and some attention. the translation, to my ears, is already near-flawless.
it's ukrainian, but sits at the pinnacle of soviet literature, which is to say, soviet dissident literature. solzhenitsyn and shalamov and yermakov are...
| Author | Martin Walser |
| ISBN | 3518365940 |
Der 35-jährige Anselm Kristlein, verheiratet und Vater dreier Kinder, versucht sich seit dem Abbruch seines Studiums als Vertreter. Als ihm ein Bekannter das Abgebot unterbreitet, als Werbetexter zu arbeiten, steigt er innerhalb eines Jahres zum gefragten Experten auf. Diesen Karrieresprung...
| Author | Oles Honchar |
| ISBN | 0880541571 |
The Cathedral pits the utilitarian and filthy ore smelting plant against the dilapidated, but inspiring cathedral, ignored during the Soviet era and used as a grain store. "The plants covered the whole horizon with smoke. They had no days off. Day and night they smoked with epic calm. The cathedral...
| Author | Edmund Wilson |
| ISBN | 0877457697 |
It took me awhile before I got really interested on this book's story. The prose is in the first person and told by an unnamed narrator. He tells the reader not only the daily happenings in his life but also more importantly, about the two women that he just met at the beginning of the story. Their names are...
| Author | Xosé Neira Vilas |
| ISBN | 1412028922 |
We are in front of a masterpiece of galician literature,i obviously have read it in galician but have put the title in english with the goal of give to it more universality.
I think it is in some USA list of the 1000 book one have to read before die.
Tells in first person the memories written...
A ridiculously overheated melodrama set on a decaying southern plantation, featuring a prideful, spoiled young "aristocrat", his mother who encourages him in those traits, his neglected, weepy wife, their downtrodden servants and field hands, a "modern" cousin, an earthy lower-class tenant......
| Author | Saunders Lewis |
| ISBN | 1854111957 |
Opinion on Monica has been deeply divided since its publication in 1930. Saunders Lewis's first novel was fiercely attacked by Welsh-speaking critics for its portrayal of sexual obsession and manipulation. For the first time the psychology which was such a feature of the work of contemporary authors...
| Author | Felix Timmermans |
| ISBN | 3458331301 |
Der lebensfrohe und naturverbundene Pallieter, über dessen Alter und bisheriges Leben der Leser nichts Genaueres erfährt, lebt auf einem kleinen Hof im Tal des Flüsschens Nethe zusammen mit seiner frommen Schwester Charlot, die ihm den Haushalt führt, sowie dem Pferd Beiaard, dem Hund Lubas...
| Author | Ward Ruyslinck |
| ISBN | 0720622255 |
This is the story of a married couple who have lived in semi-isolation in a tumbledown shack on the outskirts of a town. Theirs has become almost an animal existence. Silvester, the husband, does not believe in love, beauty, God, or even in himself. His wife Margriet lives in constant fear of war. Whatever...
| Author | S.Y. Agnon |
| ISBN | 0805206477 |
Shmuel Yosef Agnon (1888-1970) won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1966 "for his profoundly characteristic narrative art with motifs from the life of the Jewish people."
The book is basically about a group of Jewish men (rabbis mostly) from Poland who decides to go to a pilgrimage to Jerusalem....
| Author | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra |
| ISBN | 0520063155 |
So this is a love story supposedly, with innumerable sup-plots. Every time a new character shows up we get yet another tangent. Whats odd is that not only do the actual characters get bored with some of the sub-stories but the author apologises to the reader at least ten times about how repetitive it can...
| Author | Shahan Shahnour |
| ISBN | 0903039109 |
aras yayıncılık'ın geçen sene yayımladığı şaheserlerden biri. diasporada yaşayan bir ermeni'nin sessiz çığlıkları, unutmaya çalıştığı geçmişi, yaşadığı tutkulu aşk hikâyesi...
1915'te fransa'ya göç eden bir ermeni'nin hayatta kalma savaşı, zanaatiyle...
Escrita a partir de 1460 i publicada per primera vegada el 1490, Tirant lo Blanc de Joanot Martorell és una novel·la cavalleresca que narra les aventures d'armes i d'amor del seu protagonista, Tirant, al servei d'un bell ideal: alliberar l'Imperi Grec, Constantinoble, del setge dels turcs. Qualificada...
| Author | Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo |
| ISBN | 1146644310 |
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part...
