American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman
By: F.O. Matthiessen
3.97
Format: 678 pages, Paperback
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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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- 20th century
"...every social class has its own pathology..."-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)
"Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination."-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. The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories
By: Henry James , None
3.65
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
A young, inexperienced governess is charged with the care of Miles and Flora, two small children ab… read more
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- literature
- 19th century
3. 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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4. Melville: His World and Work
By: Andrew Delbanco
4.21
Format: 324 pages, Paperback
If Dickens was nineteenth-century London personified, Herman Melville was the quintessential Americ… read more
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- history
- literature
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- literary criticism
5. Why Read Moby-Dick?
By: Nathaniel Philbrick
3.75
Format: 131 pages, Hardcover
Moby-Dick is perhaps the greatest of the Great American Novels, yet its length and esoteric subject… read more
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"As Starbuck discovers, simply being a good guy with a positive worldview is not enough to stop a force of nature like Ahab, who feeds on the fears and hatreds in us all."-Nathaniel Philbrick, Why Read Moby-Dick?
"This is where Melville is perhaps the most profound in his portrait of Ahab as the demagogue and dictator. In the end, even the fiercest of tyrants is done in, not by his own sad, used-up self, but b…"-Nathaniel Philbrick, Why Read Moby-Dick?
"To be in the presence of a great leader is to know a blighted soul who has managed to make the darkness work for him. Ishmael says it best: "For all men tragically great are made so through a certain…"-Nathaniel Philbrick, Why Read Moby-Dick?
"To write timelessly about the here and now, a writer must approach the present indirectly. The story has to be about more than it at first seems. Shakespeare used the historical sources of his plays …"-Nathaniel Philbrick, Why Read Moby-Dick?
6. The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of '89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin and Prague
By: Timothy Garton Ash
4.48
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Magic Lanternis one of those rare books that define a historic moment, written by a brilliant w… read more
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- history
7. 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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- academic
8. 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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9. Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
By: Aeschylus , Patricia E. Easterling , John Harrison , Judith Affleck , None
3.83
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Treating ancient plays as living drama. Classical Greek drama is brought vividly to life in this se… read more
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- literature
"Every medicine is vain."-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
"A curse burns bright on crime."-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
"There is no avoidance in delay."-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
"In war, the first casualty is truth."-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
10. 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
11. Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
By: Immanuel Kant , Christine M. Korsgaard , Mary J. Gregor
4.27
Format: 197 pages, paper
Immanuel Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals ranks alongside Plato's Republic and Aristo… read more
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12. 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
13. Four Plays: Anna Christie / The Hairy Ape / The Emperor Jones / Beyond the Horizon
By: A.R. Gurney , Eugene O'Neill
3.95
Format: 132 pages, Paperback
The first American dramatist to ever receive the Nobel Prize, Eugene O'Neill is the most renowned A… read more
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14. 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
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- american
"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)
15. 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
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- american
"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)
16. 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
17. 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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"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
18. The Hurting Kind: Poems
By: Ada Limon
4.34
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing collection about interconnectedness—between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ou… read more
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- nonfiction
"There is a solitude in this world I cannot pierce. I would die for it."-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems
"Before, the only thing I was interested in was love, how it grips you, how it terrifies you, how it annihilates and resuscitates you. I didn’t know then that it wasn’t even love that I was interested…"-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems
19. 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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- history
- 19th century
- nonfiction
- criticism
- literary criticism
20. 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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- academic
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- criticism
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21. My Pinup
By: Hilton Als
3.66
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
In this brilliant two-part memoir, the Pulitzer Prize–winning writer Hilton Als distills into one c… read more
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