Yekl and the Imported Bridegroom and Other Stories of the New York Ghetto

7 best books like Yekl and the Imported Bridegroom and Other Stories of the New York Ghetto (Abraham Cahan): The Lamplighter, Trash Can Days: A Middle School Saga, Call It Sleep, Greek Myths, The Morgesons, Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker, The Tale of Custard the Dragon

The Lamplighter

Author	Maria Susanna Cummins
ISBN	0813513332

Excerpt from The Lamplighter

Haunted Hearts She became a frequent con tributor to The Atlantic Monthly and other magazines. But her sudden popularity left her quite unspoiled. A singular modesty, a childlike simplicity, a deep and beauti ful religious faith, were the qualities that endeared...

Trash Can Days: A Middle School Saga

Author

Teddy Steinkellner

Jake Schwartz is not looking forward to middle school. Puberty feels light-years away; he’s not keen on the cool clothes or lingo; and he has the added pressure of preparing for his bar mitzvah. The only saving grace is that Danny Uribe, his lifelong best friend, will be by his side…

Or will...

Call It Sleep

Author	Henry Roth
ISBN	0374522928

When Henry Roth published Call It Sleep, his first novel, in 1934, it was greeted with critical acclaim. But in that dark Depression year, books were hard to sell, and the novel quickly dropped out of sight, as did its twenty-eight-year-old author. Only with its paperback publication in 1964 did the...

Greek Myths

Author	Ann Turnbull
ISBN	0763651117

A gorgeous collection of classic Greek myths welcomes readers of all ages into a legendary world of beauty, tragedy, and miracle.

Enter a world where anything is possible. A god might be a mountain or a shower of gold. A nymph may be a stream or an echo in the wind. The myths of ancient Greece are...

The Morgesons

Author	Elizabeth Stoddard
ISBN	0140436510

Elizabeth Stoddard combines the narrative style of the popular nineteenth-century male-centered bildungsroman with the conventions of women's romantic fiction in this revolutionary exploration of the conflict between a woman's instinct, passion, and will, and the social taboos, family allegiances,...

Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker

Author	Charles Brockden Brown
ISBN	0140390626

One of the first American Gothic novels, Edgar Huntly (1787) mirrors the social and political temperaments of the postrevolutionary United States. 

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than...

The Tale of Custard the Dragon

Author	Ogden Nash
ISBN	0316590312

I saw this in the store and had to pick it up. Ogden Nash had a real ear for language, I tell you. The story flows along at a nice, bouncy, evocative pace, and the illustrations complement it nicely.

A few reviewers elsewhere have commented that they find the non-dragon characters mean-spirited...