8 Top nonfiction books like La educación de Henry Adams by Henry Adams

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La educación de Henry Adams

By: Henry Adams

3.63

Format: 561 pages, Hardcover

La educación de Henry Adams (1907), recientemente elegida por el consejo de la prestigiosa Modern L…

"Friends are born, not made."

-Henry Adams, La educación de Henry Adams

"Friends are born, not made."

-Henry Adams, La educación de Henry Adams

"A friend in power is a friend lost."

-Henry Adams, La educación de Henry Adams

"A friend in power is a friend lost."

-Henry Adams, La educación de Henry Adams

If you liked the nonfiction plot in La educación de Henry Adams by Henry Adams , here is a list of 8 books like this:

Cover of The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6) by Marcel Proust, None, Terence Kilmartin, D.J. Enright

1. The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

By: Marcel Proust , None , Terence Kilmartin , D.J. Enright

4.39

Format: 957 pages, Paperback

The Modern Library’s fifth volume of In Search of Lost Time contains both The Captive (1923) and Th… read more

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  • classics
"...every social class has its own pathology..."

-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

"Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination."

-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

"Love is space and time made perceptible to the heart."

-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

"There are optical errors in time as there are in space."

-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

Cover of My Dog Tulip by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, J.R. Ackerley

2. My Dog Tulip

By: Elizabeth Marshall Thomas , J.R. Ackerley

3.31

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

J.R. Ackerley's German shepherd Tulip was skittish, possessive, and wild, but he loved her deeply. … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • classics
  • biography
  • memoir
"Was she happy? I suppose she was happy. She had, after all, fulfilled a dog's most urgent need, she had managed to bestow her heart, and upon steady people whose dull, uneventful lives required the c…"

-Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, My Dog Tulip

Cover of The Varieties of Religious Experience by William  James

3. The Varieties of Religious Experience

By: William James

3.56

Format: 304 pages,

Being the Gifford Lectures on Natural Religion Delivered in Edinburgh 1901/2 "I am neither a theolo… read more

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  • classics
  • nonfiction
Cover of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by James Agee, Walker Evans

4. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

By: James Agee , Walker Evans

3.84

Format: 528 pages, Paperback

In the summer of 1936, Agee and Evans set out on assignment for "Fortune" magazine to explore the d… read more

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  • history
  • classics
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Cousin Bette by Honoré de Balzac, Francine Prose, Kathleen Raine

5. Cousin Bette

By: Honoré de Balzac , Francine Prose , Kathleen Raine

4.67

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

Poor, plain spinster Bette is compelled to survive on the condescending patronage of her socially s… read more

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  • classics
Cover of The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides by Robert Fagles, Aeschylus, William Bedell Stanford

6. The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

By: Robert Fagles , Aeschylus , William Bedell Stanford

4.01

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Alternate covers of this ISBN here, here, here, here. Most recent cover is here. In the Oresteia… read more

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  • classics
"I cannot not grieve."

-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

"Learning comes through pain."

-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

"Do I not live? Badly, I know, but I live."

-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

"Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know Except pain"

-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

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7. Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan

By: Herbert P. Bix

3.52

Format: None pages, Paperback

Winner of the Pulitzer PrizeIn this groundbreaking biography of the Japanese emperor Hirohito, Herb… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom

8. The Closing of the American Mind

By: Allan Bloom

3.93

Format: 233 pages,

The Closing of the American Mind,a publishing phenomenon in hardcover, is now a paperback literary … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • education
Cover of The Civil War: A Narrative by Shelby Foote

9. The Civil War: A Narrative

By: Shelby Foote

3.41

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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10. Lucky Jim

By: Kingsley Amis , David Lodge

4.73

Format: None pages, Paperback

Regarded by many as the finest, and funniest, comic novel of the twentieth century, Lucky Jimremain… read more

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  • classics
Cover of A Coffin for Dimitrios by Eric Ambler

11. A Coffin for Dimitrios

By: Eric Ambler

3.71

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A chance encounter with a Turkish colonel with a penchant for British crime novels leads mystery wr… read more

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  • classics

12. Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus

By: Rick Perlstein

3.00

Format: 108 pages, Paperback

A bold and astute narrative history of conservatism's climb and one of the best-reviewed books of 2… read more

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13. She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth

By: Helen Castor

3.80

Format: 275 pages, Hardcover

When Edward VI - Henry VIII's longed-for son - died in 1553, extraordinarily, there was no one left… read more

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14. Lord Jim

By: Joseph Conrad

5.00

Format: 30 pages, Paperback

Haunted by the memory of a moment of lost nerve during a disastrous voyage, Jim submits to condemna… read more

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15. The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics

By: Christopher Lasch

3.95

Format: 473 pages, Paperback

Can we continue to believe in progress? In this sobering analysis of the Western human condition, C… read more

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16. Eminent Victorians

By: Lytton Strachey , John Sutherland

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Eminent Victorians is a groundbreaking work of biography that raised the genre to the level of high… read more

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17. Wizard: The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla: Biography of a Genius

By: Marc J. Seifer , None

4.34

Format: 132 pages, Paperback

Nikola Tesla (1856-1943), credited as the inspiration for radio, robots, and even radar, has been c… read more

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18. Margaret Fuller: A New American Life

By: Megan Marshall

4.43

Format: 269 pages, Hardcover

The award-winning author of The Peabody Sisterstakes a fresh look at the trailblazing life of a gre… read more

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19. La educación de Henry Adams

By: Henry Adams

3.63

Format: 561 pages, Hardcover

La educación de Henry Adams (1907), recientemente elegida por el consejo de la prestigiosa Modern L… read more

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  • american history
  • classics
  • biography
  • memoir
  • history
  • american
  • politics
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • education
"Friends are born, not made."

-Henry Adams, La educación de Henry Adams

"A friend in power is a friend lost."

-Henry Adams, La educación de Henry Adams

"Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man."

-Henry Adams, La educación de Henry Adams

"The tourist was the great conservative who hated novelty and adored dirt."

-Henry Adams, La educación de Henry Adams

Cover of When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s by John Ganz

20. When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s

By: John Ganz

4.23

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A lively, revelatory look back at the convulsions at the end of the Reagan era―and their dark legac… read more

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  • american history
  • american
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
Cover of Framed & Hunted: A True Story of Occult Persecution by Edward        Williams

21. Framed & Hunted: A True Story of Occult Persecution

By: Edward Williams

4.37

Format: 425 pages, Kindle Edition

Backpacking around Australia in the year 2000, the author unwittingly found himself the target of o… read more

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"Do you want to live, Sander?"

-Edward Williams, Framed & Hunted: A True Story of Occult Persecution

"Scopolamine never asks for permission"

-Edward Williams, Framed & Hunted: A True Story of Occult Persecution

"was it even my own mind making the decisions?"

-Edward Williams, Framed & Hunted: A True Story of Occult Persecution

"was he connected to the hitman? I didn't worry about it"

-Edward Williams, Framed & Hunted: A True Story of Occult Persecution

9 must-read classics books like La educación de Henry Adams by Henry Adams

Transform Your Habits

The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

Marcel Proust , None , Terence Kilmartin , D.J. Enright

4.39

Transform Your Habits

My Dog Tulip

Elizabeth Marshall Thomas , J.R. Ackerley

3.31

Transform Your Habits

The Varieties of Religious Experience

William James

3.56

Transform Your Habits

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

James Agee , Walker Evans

3.84

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11 best-selling fiction books like The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides by Robert Fagles, Aeschylus, William Bedell Stanford

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Hippolytos

Euripides , Robert Bagg

3.81

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Electra

Euripides , Janet Lempke

2.86

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Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)

Sophocles , J.E. Thomas , Elizabeth Osborne

4.00

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The Bacchae

Euripides , Kenneth McLeish , None

3.92

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