Winter Garden

7 best books like Winter Garden (Pablo Neruda): The Ambassadors, The Painted Bird, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, The Anti-Christ, The Passion According to G.H., Field Notes: The Grace Note of the Canyon Wren, Can't and Won't

The Ambassadors

Author	Henry James
ISBN	0140432337

Graham Greene and E.M. Forster marvelled at it, but F.R. Leavis considered it to be 'not only not one of his great books, but to be a bad one.' As for the author, he held The Ambassadors as the favorite among all his novels.

Sent from Massachusetts by the formidable Mrs. Newsome to recall her son,...

The Painted Bird

Author

Jerzy Kosiński

Originally published in 1965, The Painted Bird established Jerzy Kosinski as a major literary figure. Called by the Los Angeles Times "one of the most imposing novels of the decade," it was eventually translated into more than thirty languages.

A harrowing story that follows the wanderings...

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

Author	William Blake
ISBN	0486281221

Once regarded as a brilliant eccentric whose works skirted the outer fringes of English art and literature, William Blake (1757–1827) is today recognized as a major poet, a profound thinker, and one of the most original and exciting English artists. Nowhere is his glorious poetic and pictorial...

The Anti-Christ

Author	Friedrich Nietzsche
ISBN	1421270536

Monumento de escándalo para idiotas, arma arrojadiza en manos torpes, o cumbre póstuma del inquietante pensamiento y de la palabra pasional y devastadora de Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900). El Anticristo, como toda la obra filosófica del insigne alemán, ha sido interpretado de muy diversos...

The Passion According to G.H.

Author	Clarice Lispector
ISBN	0816617120

Aficionados of South American fiction as well as literary critics will welcome this posthumous translation of a nearly plotless novel by one of Brazil's foremost writers. Availing herself of a single character, Lispector transforms a banal situation—a woman at home, alone—into an amphitheater...

Field Notes: The Grace Note of the Canyon Wren

Author	Barry Lopez
ISBN	1400075122

In this collection of twelve stories, Barry Lopez—the National Book Award–winning author of Arctic Dreams and one of our most admired writers—evokes the longing we feel for beauty in our relationships with one another, with the past, and with nature.

An anthropologist traveling...

Can't and Won't

Author	Lydia Davis
ISBN	0374118582

Here is a new collection of short stories from the writer Rick Moody has called “the best prose stylist in America.”

Her stories may be literal one-liners: the entirety of “Bloomington” reads, “Now that I have been here for a little while, I can say with confidence that I have never...