Beneath the American Renaissance: The Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and Melville
By: David S. Reynolds
4.25
Format: 640 pages, Paperback
In this landmark work, the seven great writers of the American Renaissance--Emerson, Thoreau, Writ…
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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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"...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)
2. Beyond Good and Evil
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , R.J. Hollingdale
4.02
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil is translated from the German by R.J. Hollingdale with a… read more
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- 19th century
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- history
"The noble soul reveres itself"-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
"...all that is rare is for the rare."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
"In music the passions enjoy themselves."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
"One is punished most for one’s virtues."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
3. Culture and Anarchy
By: Matthew Arnold , Jane Garnett
3.42
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Matthew Arnold's famous series of essays, which were first published in book form under the title C… read more
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- 19th century
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- history
"The fewer there are who follow the way to perfection, the harder that way is to find."-Matthew Arnold, Culture and Anarchy
"Let me go back for a moment to Bishop Wilson, who says:−−'First, never go against the best light you have; secondly, take care that your light be not darkness."-Matthew Arnold, Culture and Anarchy
"One has often wondered whether upon the whole earth there is anything so unintelligent, so unapt to perceive how the world is really going, as an ordinary young Englishman of our upper class"-Matthew Arnold, Culture and Anarchy
"Therefore, when we speak of ourselves as divided into Barbarians, Philistines, and Populace, we must be understood always to imply that within each of these classes there are a certain number of alie…"-Matthew Arnold, Culture and Anarchy
4. In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (In Search of Lost Time, #2)
By: Marcel Proust , Christopher Prendergast , James Grieve
4.35
Format: 26 pages, Paperback
In the Shadow of Young Girls in Floweris Proust's spectacular dissection of male and female adolesc… read more
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5. The Leatherstocking Tales, Vol. 1
By: James Fenimore Cooper , None , Blake Nevins
4.16
Format: 1342 pages, Hardcover
The library of America is dedicated to publishing America's best and most significant writing in ha… read more
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- american
6. Das Kapital
By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky
4.22
Format: None pages, Paperback
Das Kapital, Karl Marx's seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth centu… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- history
7. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
By: Anne Brontë , Stevie Davies
3.52
Format: None pages, Paperback
Note: Editions of The Tenant that start with: "You must go back with me..." are incomplete. Actual … read more
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- 19th century
8. Mosses from an Old Manse
By: Nathaniel Hawthorne , Mary Oliver , None
4.04
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Mosses from an Old Manseis Nathaniel Hawthorne's second story collection, first published in 1846 i… read more
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- 19th century
- american
9. Thus Spoke Zarathustra
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Walter Kaufmann
4.07
Format: 327 pages, Paperback
Thus Spoke Zarathustra is a foundational work of Western literature and is widely considered to be … read more
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- 19th century
- philosophy
- nonfiction
"He who obeys, does not listen to himself!"-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
"Something unappeased, unappeasable, is within me."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
"Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
"Blessed are the sleepy ones: for they shall soon nod off."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
10. Living a Feminist Life
By: Sara Ahmed
4.10
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In Living a Feminist LifeSara Ahmed shows how feminist theory is generated from everyday life and t… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
11. The Interpretation of Dreams
By: Sigmund Freud
3.86
Format: 136 pages,
The Interpretation of Dreams 1st appeared in German in 11/1899 as Die Traumdeutung (publisher postd… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
12. Outline
By: Rachel Cusk
4.20
Format: 488 pages, Hardcover
A woman writer goes to Athens in the height of summer to teach a writing course. Though her own cir… read more
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13. H is for Hawk
By: Helen Macdonald
3.65
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Obsession, madness, memory, myth, and history combine to achieve a distinctive blend of nature writ… read more
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14. Gulliver’s Travels
By: Louis Rhead , Jonathan Swift , William Dean Howells , Robert DeMaria Jr.
3.58
Format: 306 pages, Paperback
A wickedly clever satire uses comic inversions to offer telling insights into the nature of man and… read more
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"Anlamadığınız bir insanı "delidir" diye nitelemek o kadar kolaydır ki!"-Louis Rhead, Gulliver’s Travels
"we neither of us are able to deliver our conceptions in a manner intelligible to the other."-Louis Rhead, Gulliver’s Travels
"معظم ابناء جلدتك هم أخبث سلالة من الحشرات المؤذية البغيضة التي سمحت لها الطبيعة بالزحف على وجخ الأرض"-Louis Rhead, Gulliver’s Travels
"... a wife should be always a reasonable and agreeable companion, because she cannot always be young."-Louis Rhead, Gulliver’s Travels
15. The Epic of Gilgamesh
By: Anonymous , N.K. Sandars
3.74
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
Miraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as much as four thousand years, the poem of Gilg… read more
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"As for man, his days are numbered, whatever he might do, it is but wind."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"Now let the gate of sorrow be closed behind me, and let it be sealed with tar and pitch."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"Gilgamesh was called a god and a man; Enkidu was an animal and a man. It is the story of their becoming human together."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"When all the illusions of personal immortality are stripped away, there is only the act to maintain the freedom to act."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
16. 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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17. The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
By: Amitav Ghosh
4.05
Format: 196 pages, Hardcover
Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"[T]he great, irreplaceable potentiality of fiction is that it makes possible the imagining of possibilities."-Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
"[C]apitalist trade and industry cannot thrive without access to military and political power. State interventions have always been critical to its advancement."-Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
"Where it concerns human beings, it is almost always true that the more anxiously we look for purity the more likely we are to come upon admixture and interbreeding."-Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
"As an instrument of empowerment oil has been spectacularly effective in removing the levers of power from the reach of the populace. "No matter how many people take to the streets in massive marches,…"-Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
18. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
By: Judith Butler
3.81
Format: None pages,
Since its publication in 1990, Gender Troublehas become one of the key works of contemporary femini… read more
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19. The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
By: Arna Bontemps , James Weldon Johnson
4.27
Format: 127 pages,
James Weldon Johnson's emotionally gripping novel is a landmark in black literary history and, more… read more
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20. The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft
By: H.P. Lovecraft
3.00
Format: 18 pages,
The weird fiction short stories of H.P. Lovecraft from 1917-1935. Excludes collaborations. The eBoo… read more
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21. Moby-Dick or, The Whale
By: Herman Melville , Tom Quirk , Andrew Delbanco
3.55
Format: 720 pages, Paperback
"It is the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships' cables and hawsers. A Polar … read more
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- 19th century
- american
"Call me Ishmael."-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
"Ignorance is the parent of fear"-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
"Ignorance is the parent of fear."-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
"Speak, thou vast and venerable head,"-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
22. A Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Trials and the American Experience
By: Emerson W. Baker
5.00
Format: 29 pages,
Beginning in January 1692, Salem Village in colonial Massachusetts witnessed the largest and most l… read more
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23. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
By: William Blake
3.72
Format: 294 pages, Paperback
Once regarded as a brilliant eccentric whose works skirted the outer fringes of English art and lit… read more
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24. The Book of Form and Emptiness
By: Ruth Ozeki
4.03
Format: 548 pages, Hardcover
A brilliantly inventive new novel about loss, growing up, and our relationship with things, by the … read more
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"Those are your divisions, the false dichotomies and the hegemonic hierarchies of materialist colonizers. We, too, have been the slaves of your desires, unwitting tools, forging the destruction of the…"-Ruth Ozeki, The Book of Form and Emptiness
25. frank: sonnets
By: Diane Seuss
4.50
Format: 137 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE 2022 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY WINNER OF THE 2021 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD … read more
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- nonfiction
"I saw a little movie of a person stroking a small bird with two Q-tips, one held between the forefinger and thumb of each hand. It tipped back its head to receive the minor tenderness, which to the b…"-Diane Seuss, frank: sonnets
26. Robert E. Lee: A Life
By: Allen C. Guelzo
4.25
Format: 588 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of Gettysburg: The Last Invasion comes a sweeping, intimate biography of … read more
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- american history
- nonfiction
- biography
- history
27. Beneath the American Renaissance: The Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and Melville
By: David S. Reynolds
4.25
Format: 640 pages, Paperback
In this landmark work, the seven great writers of the American Renaissance--Emerson, Thoreau, Writ… read more
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- american history
- american
- biography
- history
- 19th century
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- criticism
- literary criticism
28. Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century
By: Charles King
4.27
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling group portrait of Franz Boas, the founder of cultural anthropology, and his circle of wo… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
29. Calhoun: American Heretic
By: Robert Elder
4.20
Format: 656 pages, Hardcover
The first biography in a quarter century of the intellectual father of Southern secessionJohn C. Ca… read more
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- american history
- american
- biography
- history
- nonfiction
30. American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman
By: F.O. Matthiessen
3.97
Format: 678 pages, Paperback
This text has taken its place as the definitive treatment of the most distinguished age of American… read more
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- american history
- american
- history
- 19th century
- nonfiction
- criticism
- literary criticism
31. The Transcendentalists and Their World
By: Robert A. Gross
3.94
Format: 836 pages, Hardcover
The Transcendentalists and Their World offers a fresh view of the thinkers whose outsize impact on … read more
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- american
- biography
- history
- 19th century
- philosophy
- nonfiction
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