Victory

8 best books like Victory (Joseph Conrad): Ashenden, The Power and the Glory, Deep Water, The Glass Bees, The Green Child, Existentialists and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and Literature, La loca de la casa, The Yellow Wallpaper

Ashenden
AuthorW. Somerset Maugham
ISBN0099289709
A celebrated writer by the time the war broke out in 1914, Maugham had the perfect cover for living in Switzerland. Multilingual and knowledgeable about many European countries, he was dispatched by the Secret Service to Lucerne - under the guise of completing a play. An assignment whose danger and...
The Power and the Glory
AuthorGraham Greene
ISBN0142437301
In a poor, remote section of Southern Mexico, the paramilitary group, the Red Shirts have taken control. God has been outlawed, and the priests have been systematically hunted down and killed. Now, the last priest is on the run. Too human for heroism, too humble for martyrdom, the nameless little worldly...
Deep Water
AuthorPatricia Highsmith
ISBN0393324559
In Deep Water, set in the quiet, small town of Little Wesley, Patricia Highsmith has created a vicious and suspenseful tale of love gone sour.

Vic and Melinda Van Allen's loveless marriage is held together only by a precarious arrangement whereby, in order to avoid the messiness of divorce,...
The Glass Bees
AuthorErnst Jünger
ISBN0940322552
In The Glass Bees the celebrated German writer Ernst Jünger presents a disconcerting vision of the future. Zapparoni, a brilliant businessman, has turned his advanced understanding of technology and his strategic command of the information and entertainment industries into a discrete form of...
AuthorHerbert Read
ISBN0811201724
First published in 1935, The Green Child is Herbert Read's only novel. But if he had written nothing else, this one inspired book would insure his fame. It is a Utopian novel, a unique blend of reality and fantasy which moves from the English countryside to the South American pampas and then to a mysterious...
AuthorIris Murdoch
ISBN0140264922
Best known as the author of twenty-six novels, Iris Murdoch also made significant contributions to the fields of ethics and aesthetics. Collected here for the first time in one volume are her most influential literary and philosophical essays. Tracing Murdoch's journey to a modern Platonism, this...
La loca de la casa
AuthorRosa Montero
ISBN9875780154
This novel, essay and/or autobiography is a journey through the mystery of fantasies, of artistic creation and Montero's most secret memories. She undertakes a trip to her inner self in a narrative game full of surprises. It is a magician's hat from which she reveals amazing and unexpected events....
The Yellow Wallpaper
AuthorCharlotte Perkins Gilman
ISBN0312132921
This edition of The Yellow Wallpaper features historical materials which include nineteenth-century advice manuals for young women and mothers; medical texts discussing the nature of women's sexuality; social reform literature concerning women's rights, the working classes, and immigration;...
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