20th-Century American Fiction
By: Arnold Weinstein
3.82
Format: None pages, Unknown Binding
Hemingway. Fitzgerald. Faulkner. No first names are needed. These giants of literature are immed…
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1. Too Much Happiness: Stories
By: Alice Munro
3.83
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In these ten stories, Alice Munro once again renders complex, difficult events and emotions into st… read more
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"It was comparable to getting sick from bad ventilation"-Alice Munro, Too Much Happiness: Stories
"Every year, when you're a child, you become a different person."-Alice Munro, Too Much Happiness: Stories
"It was a most insistent place but nobody seemed to be overwhelmed by all the insistence."-Alice Munro, Too Much Happiness: Stories
"You think that would have changed things? The answer is of course, and for a while, and never."-Alice Munro, Too Much Happiness: Stories
2. Diary of a Madman and Other Stories
By: Nikolai Gogol
4.35
Format: 26 pages, Paperback
Hailed by Nabokov as "the greatest artist that Russia has yet produced," Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852) … read more
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3. Beethoven - His Life and Music
By: Robert Greenberg
4.00
Format: 32 pages, Audio CD
Course Lecture Titles 1. The Immortal Beloved 2. What Comes down Must Go up, 18131815 3. What Goes … read more
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4. How Fiction Works
By: James Wood
4.16
Format: 84 pages, Paperback
What makes a story a story? What is style? What's the connection between realism and real life? The… read more
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5. An Experiment in Criticism
By: C.S. Lewis
3.94
Format: 456 pages, Paperback
Why do we read literature and how do we judge it? C.S. Lewis's classic analysis springs from the co… read more
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6. The Art of Reading
By: Timothy Spurgin
3.98
Format: 212 pages,
Artful reading - the way we read novels and short stories - is less about reading for specific info… read more
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7. Fathers and Sons
By: Ivan Turgenev , None , None
3.99
Format: 244 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Bazarov—a gifted, impatient, and caustic young man—has journeyed from school to the home of his fri… read more
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"He has no faith in principles, only in frogs."-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons
"Death's an old story, but new for each person."-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons
"I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze."-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons
"However, I know myself as a very unhappy person."-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons
8. Bloodchild and Other Stories
By: Octavia E. Butler
4.02
Format: 293 pages, Paperback
A perfect introduction for new readers and a must-have for avid fans, this New York Times Notable B… read more
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9. Great Minds of the Medieval World
By: Dorsey Armstrong
2.69
Format: 88 pages, Audible Audio
The Middle Ages was a time of major advances in many fields of knowledge, from theology and philoso… read more
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10. The Valley of Fear
By: Arthur Conan Doyle , David Timson
3.60
Format: 208 pages, Audio CD
The Sherlock Holmes series read in unabridged form by David Timson is widely regarded as one of the… read more
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11. The History Of World Literature (Great Courses, #2300)
By: Grant L. Voth
3.22
Format: 224 pages,
This is a series of 48 half-hour lectures by Professor Grant L Voth, professor emeritus of English … read more
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12. Masterpieces of Short Fiction
By: Michael Krasny
4.16
Format: 293 pages, Audiobook
This enlightening experience awaits you in Masterpieces of Short Fiction, a 24-lecture course that … read more
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13. Classics of British Literature
By: John Sutherland
3.83
Format: 32 pages,
For more than 1,500 years, the literature of Great Britain has taught, nurtured, thrilled, outraged… read more
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14. How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee
By: Bart D. Ehrman
3.87
Format: None pages,
New York Times bestselling author and Bible expert Bart Ehrman reveals how Jesus's divinity became … read more
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15. You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters
By: Kate Murphy
4.08
Format: 278 pages, Hardcover
Who listens to you? New York Times contributor Kate Murphy asked people on five continents this … read more
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"You’re not listening!"-Kate Murphy, You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters
"Silence is like white space in design, it surrounds what's important!"-Kate Murphy, You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters
"If someone is dull or uninteresting, it’s on you. You’re not listening."-Kate Murphy, You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters
"[E]verybody is interesting if you ask the right questions. If someone is dull or uninteresting, it's on you."-Kate Murphy, You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters
16. A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
By: George Saunders
4.54
Format: 403 pages, Kindle Edition
For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to … read more
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"Then do that again, over and over, until I'm pleased."-George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
"What transforms an anecdote into a story is escalation. Or, we might say: when escalation is suddenly felt to be occurring, it is a sign that our anecdote is transforming into a story."-George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
"There’s a vast underground network for goodness at work in this world—a web of people who’ve put reading at the center of their lives because they know from experience that reading makes them more ex…"-George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
"We tend, in discussion, to reduce stories to plot (what happens). We feel, correctly, that something of their meaning resides there. But stories also mean through their internal dynamics—the manner i…"-George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
17. Leave the Gun, Take the Cannoli: The Epic Story of the Making of The Godfather
By: Mark Seal
4.36
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
This “wickedly pacey page-turner” (Total Film) unfurls the behind-the-scenes story of the making of… read more
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18. How to Blow Up a Pipeline
By: Andreas Malm
3.96
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The science on climate change has been clear for a very long time now. Yet despite decades of appea… read more
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"The context for hope is radical uncertainty; anything could happen, and whether we act or not has everything to do with it."-Andreas Malm, How to Blow Up a Pipeline
"I once asked Bill McKibben, after an energising speech to a capacity crowd, when – given that the situation is as urgent as he portrayed it and we all know it is – we escalate. He was visibly ill at …"-Andreas Malm, How to Blow Up a Pipeline
19. Great Utopian and Dystopian Works of Literature
By: Pamela Bedore
4.24
Format: 13 pages, Audible Audio
12 hours 26 mins Can literature change our real world society? At its foundation, utopian and dy… read more
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20. Country Music: An Illustrated History
By: Dayton Duncan
4.52
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
A gorgeously illustrated and hugely entertaining story of America's most popular music and the sing… read more
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21. 20th-Century American Fiction
By: Arnold Weinstein
3.82
Format: None pages, Unknown Binding
Hemingway. Fitzgerald. Faulkner. No first names are needed. These giants of literature are immed… read more
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