The Southern Tradition : The Achievement and Limitations of an American Conservatism
By: Eugene D. Genovese
3.84
Format: 154 pages, Hardcover
In recent years American conservatism has found a new voice, a new way of picking up the political …
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1. The Histories
By: Herodotus , Aubrey de Sélincourt , John M. Marincola
4.01
Format: 716 pages, Paperback
David Grene, one of the best known translators of the Greek classics, splendidly captures the pecul… read more
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"Hippocleides doesn't care."-Herodotus, The Histories
"So much, then, for the fish."-Herodotus, The Histories
"La muerte es para el hombre el más deseado refugio."-Herodotus, The Histories
"Muchos hombres opulentos son desdichados, y muchos que tienen hacienda moderada son dichosos."-Herodotus, The Histories
2. The Brothers K
By: David James Duncan
4.39
Format: 645 pages, Paperback
Duncan took almost 10 years to follow up the publication of his much-praised first novel, The River… read more
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"I started having doubts right on top of my certainty."-David James Duncan, The Brothers K
"I gave him everything from my lunches I hate, which is called Charity."-David James Duncan, The Brothers K
"We can't possibly know—and thank goodness not! What most of us become as adults would terrify us as children."-David James Duncan, The Brothers K
"Baseball is not life. It is a fiction, a metaphor. And a ballplayer is a man who agrees to uphold that metaphor as though lives were at stake."-David James Duncan, The Brothers K
3. 1776
By: David McCullough
4.09
Format: 386 pages, Paperback
In this masterful book, David McCullough tells the intensely human story of those who marched with … read more
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"I lament the want of a liberal education. I feel the mist of ignorance to surround me - Nathanael Greene"-David McCullough, 1776
"Indeed, bribery, favoritism, and corruption in a great variety of forms were rampant not only in politics, but in all levels of society."-David McCullough, 1776
"It was a day and age that saw no reason why one could not learn whatever was required - learn vitally anything - by the close study of books."-David McCullough, 1776
"as the Sword was the last resort for the preservation of our liberties, so it ought to be the first thing laid aside when those liberties are firmly established"-David McCullough, 1776
4. Ideas Have Consequences
By: Richard M. Weaver
4.13
Format: 190 pages, Hardcover
In what has become a classic work, Richard M. Weaver unsparingly diagnoses the ills of our age and … read more
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"The typical modern has the look of the hunted."-Richard M. Weaver, Ideas Have Consequences
"No society is healthy which tells its members to take no thought of the morrow because the state underwrites their future."-Richard M. Weaver, Ideas Have Consequences
"[I]f we feel that creation does not express purpose, it is impossible to find an authorization for purpose in our own lives."-Richard M. Weaver, Ideas Have Consequences
"The modern state does not comprehend how anyone can be guided by something other than itself. In its eyes pluralism is treason."-Richard M. Weaver, Ideas Have Consequences
5. The Southern Essays of Richard M. Weaver
By: George Core , Richard M. Weaver , James J. Thompson , None , George M Curtis III , George Munson Curtis
4.29
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Richard M. Weaver (1910–1963), one of the leading figures in the post-World War II development of a… read more
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"If we examine Lee first upon the art at which he surpassed, we find a curiously dispassionate understanding not just of the technique, but of the place of war in the life of civilized man. Napoleon t…"-George Core, The Southern Essays of Richard M. Weaver
6. The Bacchae
By: Euripides , Kenneth McLeish , None
3.92
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Euripides' classic drama about the often mortifying consequences of the unbridled--and frequently h… read more
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"Cleverness is not wisdom."-Euripides, The Bacchae
"He who believes needs no explanation."-Euripides, The Bacchae
"Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish."-Euripides, The Bacchae
"Prepare yourselves for the roaring voice of the God of Joy!"-Euripides, The Bacchae
7. 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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"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
8. Henry V
By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine
4.00
Format: 126 pages, Paperback
Henry Vis Shakespeare's most famous "war play"; it includes the storied English victory over the Fr… read more
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9. Prometheus Bound
By: Aeschylus , None , James Scully , C. John Herington
3.13
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Featuring an insightful introduction, comprehensive commentary on plot, characters, structure, and … read more
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11. Out of the Ashes: Rebuilding American Culture
By: Anthony Esolen
2.88
Format: None pages,
What do you do when an entire civilization is crumbling around you? You do everything. This is a bo… read more
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12. As I Lay Dying
By: William Faulkner
3.72
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
As I Lay Dying is Faulkner’s harrowing account of the Bundren family’s odyssey across the Mississip… read more
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"vomiting the crying"-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
"But peace is my heart: I know it is."-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
"it's better to build a tight chicken coop than a shoddy courthouse."-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
"sometimes i lose faith in human nature for a time; i am assailed by doubt."-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
13. The Communist Manifesto
By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Gareth Stedman Jones
3.66
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A rousing call to arms whose influence is still felt today Originally published on the eve of th… read more
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"The bourgeois sees in his wife a mere instrument of production."-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
"Study of the past often turns into love of the past and a desire to keep it."-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
"Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps"-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
"The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all."-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
14. Holiness
By: J.C. Ryle , Tom Phillips
4.36
Format: 59 pages, Paperback
Ryle calls us to live a life set apart from the world and set our minds on things above. Bishop … read more
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"Let us never measure our religion by that of others, and think we are doing enough if we have gone beyond our neighbors."-J.C. Ryle, Holiness
"A true Christian is one who has not only peace of conscience, but war within. He may be known by his warfare as well as by his peace."-J.C. Ryle, Holiness
"Most men hope to go to heaven when they die; but few, it may be feared, take the trouble to consider whether they would enjoy heaven if they got there. Heaven is essentially a holy place; it's inhabi…"-J.C. Ryle, Holiness
"Let it never be said that we cannot know whether a Christian really loves Christ. It can be known. It can be discovered. The proof can be seen. You have heard them this very day. Love to the Lord Jes…"-J.C. Ryle, Holiness
15. History of the Peloponnesian War
By: Thucydides , Moses I. Finley , Rex Warner
3.94
Format: 648 pages, Paperback
Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the lo… read more
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"Friendship or enmity is everywhere an affair of time and circumstance"-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
"Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and self-respect is the chief element in courage."-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
"Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear."-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
"Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must."-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
16. Medea
By: Euripides , Rex Warner
3.42
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
One of the most powerful and enduring of Greek tragedies, Medeacenters on the myth of Jason, leader… read more
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17. Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
By: Cormac McCarthy
4.16
Format: 351 pages, Paperback
Blood Meridian is an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expa… read more
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"See the child."-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
"If war is not holy man is nothing but antic clay."-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
"Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle."-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
"There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto."-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
18. The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex/Oedipus at Colonus/Antigone (The Theban Plays, #1–3)
By: Sophocles , Robert Fitzgerald , Dudley Fitts , None
5.00
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
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19. The Hundred Years War: The English in France 1337-1453
By: Desmond Seward
3.80
Format: 240 pages,
"DO YOU NOT KNOW THAT I LIVE BY WAR AND THAT PEACE WOULD BE MY UNDOING?" -Sir John Hawkwood From 13… read more
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20. In the House of Tom Bombadil
By: C.R. Wiley
4.54
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
What is Tom Bombadil doing in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings? His bright blue coat and yell… read more
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21. Gashmu Saith It: How to Build Christian Communities that Save the World
By: Douglas Wilson
4.38
Format: 110 pages, Hardcover
When Nehemiah was leading the Jews in their project of rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem, the enemi… read more
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"Husbands, the world is watching you. You are to model what the saving looks like. Wives, the world is watching you. You are to model what the salvation looks like. Why is the world not streaming to t…"-Douglas Wilson, Gashmu Saith It: How to Build Christian Communities that Save the World
"So it is a grace and a gift from God to excel in your work. It is another gift from God to reap the benefits of excelling in your work. Though they usually go together (but not always), the two must …"-Douglas Wilson, Gashmu Saith It: How to Build Christian Communities that Save the World
"It turns out that, however you might wish otherwise, you eventually wind up wherever it was you were going. If you get on the plane to Chicago, and I would ask you to follow me closely here, you are …"-Douglas Wilson, Gashmu Saith It: How to Build Christian Communities that Save the World
"One of the great accomplishments of the Reformation was the restoration of the idea of calling or vocation in every lawful endeavor. This abolished the old sacred/secular hierarchy, where it was assu…"-Douglas Wilson, Gashmu Saith It: How to Build Christian Communities that Save the World
22. The Southern Tradition at Bay: A History of Postbellum Thought
By: Richard M. Weaver
4.30
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Focuses on the basic concepts and principles ruling Southern life including the code of chivalry an… read more
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23. The Southern Tradition : The Achievement and Limitations of an American Conservatism
By: Eugene D. Genovese
3.84
Format: 154 pages, Hardcover
In recent years American conservatism has found a new voice, a new way of picking up the political … read more
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