A Reader’s Delight
If you like book A Reader’s Delight here is the list of books you may also like
Buy this book on AmazonA Reader’s Delight similar books
-
Death at the Sign of the Rook (Jackson Brodie, #6)
The stage is set. Marooned overnight by a snowstorm in a grand country house are a cast of characters and a setting that even Agatha Christie might recognize – a vicar, an Army major, a Dowager, a sle…
Buy this book on Amazon -
Death in Venice
The world-famous masterpiece by Nobel laureate Thomas Mann -- here in a new translation by Michael Henry Heim.
Buy this book on Amazon
Published on the eve of World War I, a decade after Buddenbrooks had established Thomas Ma… -
-
Excellent Women
One of Barbara Pym’s richest and most amusing high comedies, Excellent Women has at its center Mildred Lathbury, a clergyman’s daughter and a mild-mannered spinster in 1950s England. She is one of tho…
Buy this book on Amazon -
Snow Country
Nobel Prize recipient Yasunari Kawabata's Snow Country is widely considered to be the writer's masterpiece, a powerful tale of wasted love set amid the desolate beauty of western Japan.
Buy this book on Amazon
At an isolated … -
The Carter of "La Providence"
Buy this book on Amazon -
The Natural
The classical novel (and basis for the acclaimed film) now in a new edition
Buy this book on Amazon
Introduction by Kevin Baker
The Natural, Bernard Malamud's first novel, published in 1952, is also the first—and some would sa… -
-
Village School (Fairacre, #1)
The first novel in the beloved Fairacre series, Village School introduces the remarkable schoolmistress Miss Read and her lovable group of children, who, with a mixture of skinned knees and smiles, ar…
Buy this book on Amazon -
-
A Lost Lady
Marian Forrester is the symbolic flower of the Old American West. She draws her strength from that solid foundation, bringing delight and beauty to her elderly husband, to the small town of Sweet Wate…
Buy this book on Amazon -
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to his MFA students at Syracuse University. In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, he shares a version of that…
Buy this book on Amazon -
-
The Maltese Falcon
Sam Spade is hired by the fragrant Miss Wonderley to track down her sister, who has eloped with a louse called Floyd Thursby. But Miss Wonderley is in fact the beautiful and treacherous Brigid O'Shaug…
Buy this book on Amazon -
-
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
Longitude is the dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest. The "longitude problem" was the thorniest dilemma of the eighteenth century. Lacking the ability to measure longitude, sailors throug…
Buy this book on Amazon -
The Red Badge of Courage
Enriched Classics offer readers accessible editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and commentary. Each book includes educational tools alongside the text, enabling students an…
Buy this book on Amazon -
Love and Freindship: and Other Youthful Writings
Austen’s hilarious early stories and sketches—complete with her delightfully quirky spelling habits—now collected in one gorgeous clothbound volume
Buy this book on Amazon
Jane Austen’s earliest writing dates from when she wa… -
-
Dubliners
'I regret to see that my book has turned out un fiasco solenne.' James Joyce's disillusion with the publication of Dubliners in 1914 was the result of ten years battling with publishers, resisting the…
Buy this book on Amazon