Typhoon and Other Tales
10 best books like Typhoon and Other Tales (Joseph Conrad): Collected Stories, The Piazza Tales, Diary of a Madman, The Government Inspector, Selected Stories, Plays, Prose Writings and Poems, The Best of Wodehouse: An Anthology, The Bookshop, The Gate of Angels, The Blue Flower, Stories, Heart of the West, The Prussian Officer and Other Stories, Klondike Tales
| Author | Vladimir Nabokov |
| ISBN | 0141183454 |
A man at his desk is interrupted by the appearance of a woodland elf in his room; the piano maestro Bachmann ends his career; a barber shaves the face of a man who once tortured him; a shy dreamer makes a deal with the Devil. In these sixty-five stories of magic and melancholy, Nabokov displays an astonishing...
| Author | Herman Melville |
| ISBN | 1603120262 |
Included in this Herman Melville collection are six tales that range considerably -- from "The Encantadas" (an allegorical travelogue) to the haunting "Bartleby, the Scrivener." Opening the volume is "The Piazza," a pastoral sketch that frames the collection. "Benito Cereno" -- a subversive satire...
| Author | Nikolai Gogol |
| ISBN | 0140449078 |
Gogol's detailed, breathlessly sarcastic and mean spirited story telling is a joy to read.
Unfortunately some stories stop abruptly with no decent pay off for the gloriousness before it: The Carriage has an obvious and anti-climatic finale and The Government Inspector didn't finish as grandly...
| Author | Oscar Wilde |
| ISBN | 1857150422 |
Brilliant and tragic, decadent yet radical, a socialist dandy and a witty moralist, Oscar Wilde embodied all the contradictions of the 1890s. The scope of his genius is indicated in this volume by the inclusion of the period’s most scintillating comedy – The Importance of Being Earnest; its most...
| Author | P.G. Wodehouse |
| ISBN | 0307266613 |
P.G. Wodehouse (1881-1975) was perhaps the most widely acclaimed British humorist of the twentieth century. Throughout his career, he brilliantly examined the complex and idiosyncratic nature of English upper-crust society with hilarious insight and wit. The works in this volume...
| Author | Penelope Fitzgerald |
| ISBN | 1857152476 |
Penelope Fitzgerald, who died in 2000, emerged late in life as one of the most remarkable English writers of the last century. The three novels in this volume all display her characteristic wit, intellectual breadth and narrative brilliance, applied to the different traditional forms into which...
| Author | Doris Lessing |
| ISBN | 0394742494 |
This major collection contains all of Doris Lessing’s short fiction, other than the stories set in Africa, from the beginning of her career until now. Set in London, Paris, the south of France, the English countryside, these thirty-five stories reflect the themes that have always characterized...
| Author | O. Henry |
| ISBN | 0809531070 |
Like many of you, I suspect, I read The Gift of the Magi and The Ransom of Red Chief in school, enjoyed them both, and then never gave O. Henry another thought.
Man, was I an idiot...
This is a fantastic collection of western-themed stories, many feature the man's signature surprise endings....
The Prussian Officer and Other Stories
| Author | D.H. Lawrence |
| ISBN | 0140187804 |
His first published collection, these twelve stories were written between 1907 and 1914, during a crucial period of development for Lawrence from which he emerged a leading figure of the modernist movement. Reaching new levels of feeling and experience, these stories range from the tale of a Prussian...
As a young man in the summer of 1897, Jack London joined the Klondike gold rush. From that seminal experience emerged these gripping, inimitable wilderness tales, which have endured as some of London’s best and most defining work. With remarkable insight and unflinching realism, London describes...
| Author | Henry James |
| ISBN | 0393977102 |
"The Author on His Craft" again reprints James s critical essay "The Art of Fiction" and related passages from his notebooks, including a new passage on "In the Cage." "Criticism" has been entirely updated and includes ten new essays by critics who during the last twenty-five years have helped to establish...
Revolutionary Road / The Easter Parade / Eleven Kinds of Loneliness
| Author | Richard Yates |
| ISBN | 0307270890 |
Three classic works--including the virtuosic "Revolutionary Road, "soon to be a major motion picture--that exemplify the remarkable gifts of this great American master.
Richard Yates's first novel, "Revolutionary Road "is the unforgettable portrait of a marriage built on dreams that...
| Author | Poppy Z. Brite |
| ISBN | 1596061162 |
The work of almost every New Orleans writer has been irrevocably split into two periods: pre-Katrina and post-Katrina. As Poppy Z. Brite writes in the foreword to this new mini-collection, "After the events of 2005, I couldn't see pairing stories I'd written before the flood with those I'd written...
| Author | Flann O'Brien |
| ISBN | 0307267490 |
Flann O’Brien, along with Joyce and Beckett, is part of the holy trinity of modern Irish literature. His five novels–collected here in one volume–are a monument to his inspired lunacy and gleefully demented genius.
O’Brien’s masterpiece, At Swim-Two-Birds, is an exuberant...
| Author | Alfred Ollivant |
| ISBN | 1434487768 |
The extremely-- no, EXTREMELY gory and tragic story of an old Scotsman and his killer dog, Red Wull, which people inexplicably think is a nice rousing dog story for kids. Two feuding sheep farmers express their hatred and rivalry by entering their respective dogs in sheep-herding contests. It climaxes...
| Author | Brian W. Aldiss |
| ISBN | 0141188928 |
This new edition of Brian Aldiss' classic anthology brings together a diverse selection of science fiction spanning over sixty years, from Isaac Asimov's "Nightfall", first published in 1941, to the 2006 story "Friends in Need" by Eliza Blair. Including authors such as Clifford Simak, Harry Harrison,...
The Celebrated Jumping Frog and Other Stories
| Author | Mark Twain |
| ISBN | 0895774151 |
I was going to give this a two-star rating, but reading several of the other reviews, it’s just clear to me that I didn’t like the book that much. I don’t think Twain’s humor is that funny, rarely evokes a smile much less a laugh, and his writing is dull and wordy. I lose track of what he’s trying...
| Author | Elizabeth Bowen |
| ISBN | 1400096561 |
Widely known for her much-admired novels, including The Heat of the Day, The House in Paris, and The Death of the Heart, Elizabeth Bowen established herself in the front rank of the century's writers equally through her short fiction.
This collection brings together seventy-nine magnificent...
The Collected Stories of William Carlos Williams
| Author | William Carlos Williams |
| ISBN | 0811213285 |
New Directions has long published poet William Carlos Williams’ entire body of short fiction as The Farmers’ Daughters (1961). This new edition of The Collected Stories of William Carlos Williams contains all fifty-two stories combining the early collections The Knife of the Times (1932), Life...
| Author | Rita Indiana |
| ISBN | 9788416291 |
Esta apabullante novela, que supone la consagración de Rita Indiana como narradora, tiene tantas capas de lectura y tantos giros fascinantes que rehuye toda síntesis, todo encorsetamiento. Es más, sólo cabe una invitación entusiasta a la lectura por parte de los editores.
Aunque para...
| Author | David Malouf |
| ISBN | 0375724494 |
Here are nine haunting stories from the award-winning author of Remembering Babylon, in which history and geography, as well as the past and the present, combine and often collide, illuminating the landscape and revealing the character of Australia.
An eleven-year-old boy sees his father...
Swami and Friends, The Bachelor of Arts, The Dark Room, The English Teacher
| Author | R.K. Narayan |
| ISBN | 1400044766 |
R. K. Narayan (1906—2001) witnessed nearly a century of change in his native India and captured it in fiction of uncommon warmth and vibrancy. The four novels collected here, all written during British rule, bring colonial India into intimate focus through the narrative gifts of this...
