The Stairway to the Sun & Dance of the Comets: Four Fairy Tales of Home and One Astral Pantomime
By: Paul Scheerbart
3.40
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
The Stairway to the Sun & Dance of the Comets brings together two short books, originally published…
Want to ReadIf you liked the fiction plot in The Stairway to the Sun & Dance of the Comets: Four Fairy Tales of Home and One Astral Pantomime by Paul Scheerbart , here is a list of 21 books like this:
1. The Phenomenon of Man
By: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
4.07
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin was one of the most distinguished thinkers and scientists of our time. H… read more
Want to Read $ 7.99Similar categories in Pierre Teilhard de Chardin's The Phenomenon of Man book and Paul Scheerbart's The Stairway to the Sun & Dance of the Comets: Four Fairy Tales of Home and One Astral Pantomime
"I am not a human being enjoying a spiritual life, I am a spiritual being enjoying a human life."-Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man
"Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves"-Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man
"(Evolution) general condition to which all theories, all hypotheses, all systems must bow and which they must satisfy henceforward if they are to be thinkable and true. Evolution is a light which ill…"-Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man
"The time has come to realise that an interpretation of the universe—even a positivist one—remains unsatisfying unless it covers the interior as well as the exterior of things; mind as well as matter.…"-Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man
2. The Waves
By: Virginia Woolf
4.15
Format: 297 pages, Paperback
Set on the coast of England against the vivid background of the sea, The Waves introduces six chara… read more
Want to Read $ 3.99Similar categories in Virginia Woolf's The Waves book and Paul Scheerbart's The Stairway to the Sun & Dance of the Comets: Four Fairy Tales of Home and One Astral Pantomime
- fiction
"Death is woven in with the violets,"-Virginia Woolf, The Waves
"Up here my eyes are green leaves, unseeing."-Virginia Woolf, The Waves
"I am not one and simple, but complex and many."-Virginia Woolf, The Waves
"But I pine in Solitude. Solitude is my undoing."-Virginia Woolf, The Waves
3. Three
By: Ann Quin
3.96
Format: 143 pages, Paperback
-- Ruth and Leonard's young female boarder, S., disappears under circumstances that suggest suicide… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Ann Quin's Three book and Paul Scheerbart's The Stairway to the Sun & Dance of the Comets: Four Fairy Tales of Home and One Astral Pantomime
- fiction
4. Hannah Coulter
By: Wendell Berry
4.38
Format: 190 pages, Paperback
Hannah Coulter is Wendell Berry's seventh novel and his first to employ the voice of a woman charac… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Wendell Berry's Hannah Coulter book and Paul Scheerbart's The Stairway to the Sun & Dance of the Comets: Four Fairy Tales of Home and One Astral Pantomime
- fiction
"Time doesn't stop. Your life doesn't stop and wait until you get ready to start living it."-Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter
"And so I learned about grief, and about the absence and emptiness that for a long time make grief unforgettable."-Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter
"Living right on called for nothing out of the ordinary. We made no changes. We only accepted the changes as they came."-Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter
"Grandmam came back from that distance in time that separates grandmothers from their grandchildren and made herself a mother to me."-Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter
5. Agli dèi ulteriori
By: Giorgio Manganelli
3.98
Format: 165 pages, Paperback
«Che io sia Re, mi pare sia cosa da non dubitare. V’è in me un modo regale di pensare, di opinare, … read more
Want to Read $ 10.99Similar categories in Giorgio Manganelli's Agli dèi ulteriori book and Paul Scheerbart's The Stairway to the Sun & Dance of the Comets: Four Fairy Tales of Home and One Astral Pantomime
6. The Ring of the Nibelung
By: Richard Wagner , Andrew Porter
3.55
Format: 199 pages, Paperback
Richard Wagner's vast Der Ring des Nibelungencycle comprises four full-length operas (Das Rheingold… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Richard Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelung book and Paul Scheerbart's The Stairway to the Sun & Dance of the Comets: Four Fairy Tales of Home and One Astral Pantomime
- fiction
7. Sam Dunn Is Dead: Futurist Novel
By: John Walker , Bruno Corra , Rosa Rosà
3.93
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Sam Dunn is Dead" was described by its author Bruno Corra (1892-1976) as a "Futurist Novel" and wa… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in John Walker's Sam Dunn Is Dead: Futurist Novel book and Paul Scheerbart's The Stairway to the Sun & Dance of the Comets: Four Fairy Tales of Home and One Astral Pantomime
- fiction
8. Daniel Deronda
By: George Eliot , Edmund White
3.98
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
George Eliot's final novel and her most ambitious work, Daniel Derondacontrasts the moral laxity of… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in George Eliot's Daniel Deronda book and Paul Scheerbart's The Stairway to the Sun & Dance of the Comets: Four Fairy Tales of Home and One Astral Pantomime
- fiction
9. The Aleph and Other Stories
By: Jorge Luis Borges , Andrew Hurley
4.33
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
Full of philosophical puzzles and supernatural surprises, these stories contain some of Borges's mo… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Jorge Luis Borges's The Aleph and Other Stories book and Paul Scheerbart's The Stairway to the Sun & Dance of the Comets: Four Fairy Tales of Home and One Astral Pantomime
- fiction
10. Brodie's Report
By: Jorge Luis Borges , Andrew Hurley
5.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
At the age of seventy, after a gap of twenty years, Jorge Luis Borges returned to writing short sto… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Jorge Luis Borges's Brodie's Report book and Paul Scheerbart's The Stairway to the Sun & Dance of the Comets: Four Fairy Tales of Home and One Astral Pantomime
- fiction
11. The Obscene Bird of Night
By: José Donoso , Hardie St. Martin , Leonard Mades
4.21
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
This haunting jungle of a novel has been hailed as "a masterpiece" by Luis Bunuel and "one of the g… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in José Donoso's The Obscene Bird of Night book and Paul Scheerbart's The Stairway to the Sun & Dance of the Comets: Four Fairy Tales of Home and One Astral Pantomime
- fiction
12. Zazie in the Metro
By: Barbara Wright , Raymond Queneau , Gilbert Adair
4.01
Format: 217 pages, Paperback
Impish, foul-mouthed Zazie arrives in Paris from the country to stay with her uncle Gabriel. All sh… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Barbara Wright's Zazie in the Metro book and Paul Scheerbart's The Stairway to the Sun & Dance of the Comets: Four Fairy Tales of Home and One Astral Pantomime
13. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
By: Italo Calvino , William Weaver
3.90
Format: 216 pages,
If on a Winter's Night a Traveleris a marvel of ingenuity, an experimental text that looks longingl… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Italo Calvino's If on a Winter's Night a Traveler book and Paul Scheerbart's The Stairway to the Sun & Dance of the Comets: Four Fairy Tales of Home and One Astral Pantomime
14. The Sound and the Fury
By: William Faulkner
3.86
Format: 366 pages, Paperback
The tragedy of the Compson family features some of the most memorable characters in literature: bea… read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury book and Paul Scheerbart's The Stairway to the Sun & Dance of the Comets: Four Fairy Tales of Home and One Astral Pantomime
- fiction
"I say money has no value; it's just the way you spend it."-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
"with that sort of gigantic delicacy of an elephant picking up a peanut."-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
"Caddy put her arms around me, and her shining veil, and I couldn't smell trees anymore and I began to cry."-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
"A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune"-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
15. The Woman in the Dunes
By: Kōbō Abe , E. Dale Saunders
3.89
Format: 241 pages, Paperback
The Woman in the Dunes, by celebrated writer and thinker Kobo Abe, combines the essence of myth, su… read more
Want to Read $ 13.99Similar categories in Kōbō Abe's The Woman in the Dunes book and Paul Scheerbart's The Stairway to the Sun & Dance of the Comets: Four Fairy Tales of Home and One Astral Pantomime
- fiction
"Timpului nu-i dai pinteni ca unui cal."-Kōbō Abe, The Woman in the Dunes
"Defeat begins with the fear that one had lost."-Kōbō Abe, The Woman in the Dunes
"Do you shovel to survive, or survive to shovel?"-Kōbō Abe, The Woman in the Dunes
"Aşa se spune, înfrangerea începe cu teama de a fi înfrant."-Kōbō Abe, The Woman in the Dunes
16. Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)
By: Ken Liu , Liu Cixin
4.42
Format: 604 pages, Hardcover
With The Three-Body Problem, English-speaking readers got their first chance to experience the mult… read more
Want to Read $ 11.99Similar categories in Ken Liu's Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3) book and Paul Scheerbart's The Stairway to the Sun & Dance of the Comets: Four Fairy Tales of Home and One Astral Pantomime
- fiction
"Time is the cruelest force of all."-Ken Liu, Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)
"We’re going to advance! Advance! We’ll stop at nothing to advance!"-Ken Liu, Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)
"Ignorance and weakness is not an impediment to survival. Arrogance is."-Ken Liu, Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)
"Life reached an evolutionary milestone when it climbed onto land from the ocean, but those first fish that climbed onto land ceased to be fish."-Ken Liu, Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)
17. The Satanic Verses
By: Salman Rushdie
4.25
Format: None pages, Paperback
One of the most controversial and acclaimed novels ever written, The Satanic Versesis Salman Rushdi… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses book and Paul Scheerbart's The Stairway to the Sun & Dance of the Comets: Four Fairy Tales of Home and One Astral Pantomime
18. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
By: James Joyce , Seamus Deane
3.64
Format: 329 pages, Paperback
The portrayal of Stephen Dedalus's Dublin childhood and youth, his quest for identity through art a… read more
Want to Read $ 3.99Similar categories in James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man book and Paul Scheerbart's The Stairway to the Sun & Dance of the Comets: Four Fairy Tales of Home and One Astral Pantomime
- fiction
"My heart is quite calm now. I will go back."-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
"God spoke to you by so many voices but you would not hear."-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
"Are you not weary of ardent ways? Tell no more of enchanted days."-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
"He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place."-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
19. The Hearing Trumpet
By: Leonora Carrington , Pablo Weisz Carrington
4.14
Format: None pages, Paperback
Leonora Carrington, the distinguished British-born Surrealist painter is also a writer of extraordi… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Leonora Carrington's The Hearing Trumpet book and Paul Scheerbart's The Stairway to the Sun & Dance of the Comets: Four Fairy Tales of Home and One Astral Pantomime
20. Infinite Jest
By: David Foster Wallace
4.31
Format: 66 pages, Paperback
A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America. Set in an addicts' ha… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest book and Paul Scheerbart's The Stairway to the Sun & Dance of the Comets: Four Fairy Tales of Home and One Astral Pantomime
21. The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.58
Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition
1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of… read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Cormac McCarthy's The Passenger (The Passenger #1) book and Paul Scheerbart's The Stairway to the Sun & Dance of the Comets: Four Fairy Tales of Home and One Astral Pantomime
- fiction
"All of history [is] a rehearsal for its own extinction."-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"...do you think if you died drunk you’d sober up before you met Jesus?"-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"The evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure"-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"She asked the girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said dead."-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
22. Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.87
Format: 190 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER. The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road returns with the second v… read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Cormac McCarthy's Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2) book and Paul Scheerbart's The Stairway to the Sun & Dance of the Comets: Four Fairy Tales of Home and One Astral Pantomime
- fiction
"I would like to belong but I dont."-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
"The notion of nothing is an inconceivable notion"-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
"Love is quite possibly a mental disorder itself."-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
"Rage is only for what you believe can be fixed. All the rest is grief."-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
23. Three Apples Fell from the Sky
By: Narine Abgaryan
4.25
Format: 256 pages, ebook
An unforgettable story of friendship and feuds in a remote Armenian mountain village In an isolated… read more
Want to Read $ 13.99Similar categories in Narine Abgaryan's Three Apples Fell from the Sky book and Paul Scheerbart's The Stairway to the Sun & Dance of the Comets: Four Fairy Tales of Home and One Astral Pantomime
- fiction
"Prasmė neturėtų keistis nuo to, kas tuos žodžius taria."-Narine Abgaryan, Three Apples Fell from the Sky
"...най - голямата болка е да не можеш да прегърнеш онези, които не са успели да те дочакат"-Narine Abgaryan, Three Apples Fell from the Sky
"Nėra rojaus, ir pragaro nėra, <....>. Laimė - tai ir yra rojus, sielvartas - tai ir yra pragaras."-Narine Abgaryan, Three Apples Fell from the Sky
"През май, свечери ли се, небето е ниско и лепкаво, с мастилен оттенък. Прокараш пръст по него и то се отдръпва уплашено, плисва се на вълни и оголва мекото си като кадифе живо лоно."-Narine Abgaryan, Three Apples Fell from the Sky
24. Victory City
By: Salman Rushdie
3.80
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Hidden in a clay pot. Sealed with wax. Buried at the heart of a ruined palace amidst the ashes of o… read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Salman Rushdie's Victory City book and Paul Scheerbart's The Stairway to the Sun & Dance of the Comets: Four Fairy Tales of Home and One Astral Pantomime
- fiction
"History is a consequence not only of people's actions, but also of their forgetfulness."-Salman Rushdie, Victory City
"History is the consequence not only of people’s actions, but also of their forgetfulness."-Salman Rushdie, Victory City
"fHistory is the consequence not only of people's actions, but also of their forgetfulness."-Salman Rushdie, Victory City
"In death do triumph and failure humbly meet. We learn far less from victory than from defeat."-Salman Rushdie, Victory City
25. Signal Fires
By: Dani Shapiro
3.91
Format: 229 pages, Hardcover
NATIONAL BEST SELLER • From the beloved author of INHERITANCE: “a haunting, moving, and propulsive … read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Dani Shapiro's Signal Fires book and Paul Scheerbart's The Stairway to the Sun & Dance of the Comets: Four Fairy Tales of Home and One Astral Pantomime
- fiction
"How long will molecular traces of the Wilfs remain inside 18 Division Street?"-Dani Shapiro, Signal Fires
"It wasn't scary. I mean, it was scary being in the dark and cold and everything, but when the lady, Mrs. Wilf, died, it was like everything had no beginning, and no end. Like we were lightyears away …"-Dani Shapiro, Signal Fires
26. Ducks, Newburyport
By: Lucy Ellmann
3.97
Format: 1022 pages, Paperback
LATTICING one cherry pie after another, an Ohio housewife tries to bridge the gaps between reality … read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Lucy Ellmann's Ducks, Newburyport book and Paul Scheerbart's The Stairway to the Sun & Dance of the Comets: Four Fairy Tales of Home and One Astral Pantomime
- fiction
"Italians answer the phone, “Pronto,"-Lucy Ellmann, Ducks, Newburyport
"I think that Inuit duck is at the Peabody, Bringing Up Baby, “Ducky! Ducky!"-Lucy Ellmann, Ducks, Newburyport
"...the fact that there’s a lot you have to blank out if you want to get through life..."-Lucy Ellmann, Ducks, Newburyport
"the fact that you’ll never know what sort of person you might have been if you’d read different stuff"-Lucy Ellmann, Ducks, Newburyport
27. An Evocation of Matthias Stimmberg
By: Alain-Paul Mallard
3.78
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
A miniature Borgesian portrait in misanthropy In a sequence of anecdotes imbued with haughty mel… read more
Want to Read $ 7.99Similar categories in Alain-Paul Mallard's An Evocation of Matthias Stimmberg book and Paul Scheerbart's The Stairway to the Sun & Dance of the Comets: Four Fairy Tales of Home and One Astral Pantomime
- fiction
28. The Central Laboratory
By: Max Jacob
3.25
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
The first English translation of the Cubist poet’s most important collection of verse poems―a wild … read more
Want to Read $ 11.99Similar categories in Max Jacob's The Central Laboratory book and Paul Scheerbart's The Stairway to the Sun & Dance of the Comets: Four Fairy Tales of Home and One Astral Pantomime
29. Berlin's Third Sex
By: Magnus Hirschfeld
4.02
Format: 150 pages, ebook
Rough trade, drag kings, tea dances, sporty dykes, coded classified ads, campy nicknames, passing, … read more
Want to Read $ 2.17Similar categories in Magnus Hirschfeld's Berlin's Third Sex book and Paul Scheerbart's The Stairway to the Sun & Dance of the Comets: Four Fairy Tales of Home and One Astral Pantomime
- germany
30. The Stairway to the Sun & Dance of the Comets: Four Fairy Tales of Home and One Astral Pantomime
By: Paul Scheerbart
3.40
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
The Stairway to the Sun & Dance of the Comets brings together two short books, originally published… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Paul Scheerbart's The Stairway to the Sun & Dance of the Comets: Four Fairy Tales of Home and One Astral Pantomime book and Paul Scheerbart's The Stairway to the Sun & Dance of the Comets: Four Fairy Tales of Home and One Astral Pantomime
- germany
- fiction
31. The Way Home: Selected Longer Prose
By: Harry Mathews
4.08
Format: 213 pages, Paperback
This selection of Harry Mathews’s longer prose writings attests his innovative genius in sevenradic… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Harry Mathews's The Way Home: Selected Longer Prose book and Paul Scheerbart's The Stairway to the Sun & Dance of the Comets: Four Fairy Tales of Home and One Astral Pantomime
