Books like Kornél Esti
Eighteen stories about Kornél Esti, the narrator's double, a Budapest dandy, traveller and trickster whose escapades and confessions light up the Europe between the wars.
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I Am a Cat
A nameless cat belonging to a Tokyo schoolteacher observes his owner and his owner's Meiji-era circle of scholars, businessmen and gossips with the cool contempt of his species.
Tevye the Dairyman
Tevye, a poor Jewish dairyman in a village in Ukraine, tells the author how his daughters, one after another, break with tradition.
Tristram Shandy
Tristram Shandy sets out to tell the story of his life and keeps getting sidetracked by digressions, opinions, black pages and his Uncle Toby's hobbyhorses, in the most modern novel of the eighteenth century.
Hark! A Vagrant
Kate Beaton's hit web comic collected: short historical and literary gags that send up the Brontës, Napoleon and Canadian prime ministers with equal affection.
Colas Breugnon
A year in the life of Colas Breugnon, a fifty-year-old carpenter and wine-lover of Clamecy in Burgundy in the early 1600s, who tells his story through war, plague and family with unshakeable good humour.
I Am Not Sidney Poitier
A young Black man named Not Sidney Poitier, raised with a fortune and Ted Turner as guardian, stumbles through a life that keeps replaying the plots of Sidney Poitier's films.
Baba Yaga Laid an Egg
A writer takes her ageing mother to Bulgaria, three old women go to a spa in the Czech Republic, and a folklorist explains the Baba Yaga myth behind them both.
The Importance of Being Earnest
Jack calls himself Ernest in town and Algernon visits an invented invalid friend called Bunbury in the country, and their courtship of Gwendolen and Cecily, who both insist on marrying a man named Ernest, collapses into comic confusion.
A Confederacy of Dunces
A slothful, brilliant, hot-dog-cart-pushing medievalist wages war against modern New Orleans in one of literature's great comic antiheroes.
Time Shelter
A Bulgarian writer works in a Zurich clinic where each floor recreates a decade of the 20th century for Alzheimer’s patients, and then nations begin choosing their own pasts.
Tom Jones
A foundling in eighteenth-century England careers through adventures, amorous encounters, and moral tests on his way to discovering his true parentage and winning the woman he loves.
Still Life with Woodpecker
Princess Leigh-Cheri, an exiled royal and environmentalist, falls for Bernard Mickey Wrangle, an outlaw bomber known as the Woodpecker, in a love story built out of dynamite, pyramids, a pack of Camels and the moon.