Voyage
10 best books like Voyage (Tom Stoppard): Sixty Stories, How I Live Now, The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare, How Proust Can Change Your Life, An Enemy of the People, The Family of Pascual Duarte, 'Art', Le passe-muraille, The Queen's Necklace, Good People
| Author | Donald Barthelme |
| ISBN | 0141180935 |
With these audacious and murderous witty stories, Donald Barthelme threw the preoccupation of our time into the literary equivalent of a Cuisinart and served up a gorgeous salad of American culture, high and low. Here are urban upheavals reimagined as frontier myth; travelogues through countries...
| Author | Meg Rosoff |
| ISBN | 0553376055 |
"Every war has turning points and every person too."
Fifteen-year-old Daisy is sent from Manhattan to England to visit her aunt and cousins she's never met: three boys near her age, and their little sister. Her aunt goes away on business soon after Daisy arrives. The next day bombs go off as London...
The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
| Author | G.K. Chesterton |
| ISBN | 0375757910 |
G. K. Chesterton's surreal masterpiece is a psychological thriller that centers on seven anarchists in turn-of-the-century London who call themselves by the names of the days of the week. Chesterton explores the meanings of their disguised identities in what is a fascinating mystery and, ultimately,...
How Proust Can Change Your Life
| Author | Alain de Botton |
| ISBN | 0679779159 |
Words Are Your Homeland
One of the most important deficiencies in the philosophy of science (and business, which prides itself as a practical science) is the idea of efficiency of inquiry in scientific method - how to get an answer to a question at hand with the least possible effort. Efficiency...
| Author | Henrik Ibsen |
| ISBN | 1595406441 |
In An Enemy of the People, Ibsen places his main characters, Dr. Thomas Stockman, in the role of an enlightened and persecuted minority of one confronting an ignorant, powerful majority. When the physician learns that the famous and financially successful baths in his hometown are contaminated,...
The Family of Pascual Duarte
| Author | Camilo José Cela |
| ISBN | 1564783596 |
For fans of Spanish miserablism set in a heartless deterministic universe (i.e. this one), Pascal Duarte is the brief novel for you. Duarte’s confession, written from prison, is a beautiful recounting of a life of violent poverty and aimless murder, told in simple and frequently moving prose. Cela’s...
| Author | Yasmina Reza |
| ISBN | 0571190146 |
Friendship and Honesty
Think of your oldest, closest friends: the shared experiences and interests that your friendship is rooted in, and the unspoken understanding, support, and private jokes that nurture it. These friends are the background of your life, but the foreground,...
| Author | Marcel Aymé |
| ISBN | 2070369617 |
Il y avait à Montmartre, au troisième étage du 75 bis de la rue d'Orchampt, un excellent homme nommé Dutilleul qui possédait le don singulier de passer à travers les murs sans en être incommodé. Il portait un binocle, une petite barbiche noire et il était employé de troisième classe au ministère...
| Author | Italo Calvino |
| ISBN | 0141195835 |
'The inspector ordered that the bird be searched.One of the agents stalled saying it made him feel sick, and after some fierce pecking another withdrew sucking a bleeding finger.'
In these two stories from an inventive, comic master of the form, old friends and friendly rivals Pietro and Tommasso...
| Author | David Lindsay-Abaire |
| ISBN | 1559363932 |
Good People is set in South Boston, the blue-collar neighborhood where Lindsay-Abaire himself grew up: Margie Walsh, let go from yet another job and facing eviction, decides to appeal to an old flame who has made good and left his Southie past behind. Lindsay-Abaire offers us both his "quiet three-dimensional...
| Author | Christopher Durang |
| ISBN | 0802122388 |
Nominated for six Tony Awards®, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike is one of the most lauded and beloved Broadway plays of recent years. Vanya and his adopted sister Sonia live a quiet life in the Pennsylvania farmhouse where they grew up, but their peace is disturbed when their movie star sister Masha...
| Author | Friedrich Dürrenmatt |
Der Verdacht = Suspicion (The Inspector Bärlach Mysteries #2), Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Suspicion is a detective novel by the Swiss writer Friedrich Durrenmatt in 1950 featuring the Inspector Barlach. It has also been published as The Quarry. It is the sequel to Dürrenmatt's The Judge and His...
CatStronauts: Mission Moon
| Author | Drew Brockington |
| ISBN | 0316307475 |
CatStronauts, you are needed!
When the world is thrust into darkness due to a global energy shortage, the World's Best Scientist comes up with a bold plan to set up a solar power plant on the moon. But someone has to go up there to set it up, and that adventure falls to the CatStronauts, the best...
An avid member of the Hitler Youth in 1940s Vienna, Johannes Betzler discovers his parents are hiding a Jewish girl named Elsa behind a false wall in their home. His initial horror turns to interest—then love and obsession. After his parents disappear, Johannes is the only one aware of Elsa’s existence...
