Robert Schneider: 5 books

Shylock, the Roman explains Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice in light of the Renaissance ethos of ancient Roman honor and the tradition of ancient Rome’s festive comedy. This close reading of The Merchant of Venice illuminates Shakespearean comedy generally and provides a basis for understanding the logic of Shakespeare's artistry as a dramatist.

The Girl with Tiger's Eyes is a short version of my longer book, Serendipity Road: between heaven and hell. It is about Sopheak, a Cambodian girl who lived in the jungle alone as a child for up to two years. She returned home to find her parents had moved on, so she lived in a Phnom Penh orphanage...

A Ghost in Cambodia is an imaginary story about a ghost who dictates his story to the author. Travel with the ghost from Cambodia to Thailand, the United States, South America and India. See the world through a ghost's eyes and discover things you may not believe exist, like auras and chakras....

Take a magic carpet ride through the honeycomb of time. Serendipity Road is set in Cambodia, where the author has lived for over 10 years. He tells the remarkable story of Sopheak, who wandered into the jungle at the age of eight and didn't return home for nearly two years. Sopheak introduced the...

Paul Avalon had it made. He was a great surfer and, at one time, the star of a TV show. He was as vain as it was possible to be until his world came crashing down. He traded in his Land Rover for a fading yellow Daihatsu and headed north to a hard to reach surf spot he loved. Before he got there,...