Trial and Error
8 best books like Trial and Error (Anthony Berkeley): What a Carve Up!, The Unity of Philosophical Experience, The Murder of My Aunt, The Closed Circle, The Woman Next Door, Hur man förälskar sig i en man som bor i en buske, The Rain Before it Falls, A Late Phoenix
| Author | Jonathan Coe |
| ISBN | 0140294562 |
One of the true joys in life, in my opinion, is the right to differ. Few things can be compared to the feeling you get when you read a book (or see a movie) which everyone has been raving about and realize that it's utter crap. I really wanted that to be the case with What A Carve Up, although, having read Coe in...
| Author | Étienne Gilson |
| ISBN | 0870610759 |
The best summary of this book is in the authors words from the foreword: "It is the proper aim and scope of the present book to show that the history of philosophy makes philosophical sense, and to define its meaning in regard to the nature of philosophical knowledge itself. For that reason, the various...
| Author | Richard Hull |
| ISBN | 1558820388 |
In this darkly comic, quite immoral masterwork, Edward is an effete, poor young man who has something in store for his only relative, his wealthy aunt. First published in 1934, this classic mystery is considered a masterpiece of the inverted detective story, in which it is known "whodunit." The question...
| Author | Jonathan Coe |
| ISBN | 0375713956 |
Coe writes about frustration - professional, creative, and sexual; frustrations in relationships and a loss of faith amidst the crumbling of personal verities. It can be a little depressing, but it's also cathartic and very, very compelling, with a subtle humor rooted in a very dark sense of irony....
Hortensia James and Marion Agostino are neighbours. One is black, one white. Both are successful women with impressive careers. Both have recently been widowed. And both are sworn enemies, sharing hedge and hostility which they prune with a zeal that belies the fact that they are both over eighty.
But...
Hur man förälskar sig i en man som bor i en buske
Julia lever ensam med sin katt i Wien. En dag kommer hon att bli kompis med Elfriede Jelinek och sluta med att ständigt besvara enkäter som tidsfördriv. Till dess får hon arbeta som språklärare för överambitiösa företagsledare och underpresterande ungdomar.
På en parkbänk...
| Author | Jonathan Coe |
| ISBN | 0670917281 |
Following "The Rotters' Club "and its sequel, "The Closed Circle, "Jonathan Coe now offers his first stand-alone novel in a decade, a story of three generations of women whose destinies reach from the English countryside in World War II to London, Toronto, and southern France at the turn of the new century.
Evacuated...
| Author | Catherine Aird |
| ISBN | 0553254421 |
The title may refer to evidence rising from the rubble and ashes. Set only a few decades after WW2, memories are the best way to reveal who shot and buried a pregnant young woman beneath a bombed-out building site under new construction. When one suspect is murdered, the perpetrator pool shrinks.
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