7 best-selling 20th century books like Selected Poems (William Carlos Williams) by William Carlos Williams, Charles Tomlinson

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Selected Poems (William Carlos Williams)

By: William Carlos Williams , Charles Tomlinson

4.16

Format: 302 pages, Paperback

Opening with Professor Tomlinson's superbly clear and helpful introduction this selection reflects …

"they are mystified by certain instances."

-William Carlos Williams, Selected Poems (William Carlos Williams)

"they are mystified by certain instances."

-William Carlos Williams, Selected Poems (William Carlos Williams)

"Sun benches at the curb bespeak another season, truncated poplars that having served for shade served also later for the fire."

-William Carlos Williams, Selected Poems (William Carlos Williams)

"Sun benches at the curb bespeak another season, truncated poplars that having served for shade served also later for the fire."

-William Carlos Williams, Selected Poems (William Carlos Williams)

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1. The Bridge

By: Hart Crane , Waldo Frank , Thomas A. Vogler

4.08

Format: 76 pages, Paperback

Like Whitman, Hart Crane strove in his poetry to embrace America, to distill an image of America. B… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • american
  • unfinished
  • the united states of america
  • literature
  • 20th century
  • fiction
"O sleepless as the river under thee, / Vaulting the sea, the prairies' dreaming sod, / Onto us lowliest sometime sweep, descend / And of the curveship lend a myth to God."

-Hart Crane, The Bridge

"O Thou steeled Cognizance whose leap commits The agile precincts of the lark’s return; Within whose lariat sweep encinctured sing In single chrysalis the many twain — Of stars Thou art the stitch and…"

-Hart Crane, The Bridge

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2. The Voyage Out (The Virginia Woolf Library)

By: Virginia Woolf

3.75

Format: 375 pages, Paperback

Woolf’s first novel is a haunting book, full of light and shadow. It takes Mr. and Mrs. Ambrose and… read more

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  • classics
  • british literature
  • literature
  • fiction
  • 20th century
"I want to write a novel about Silence," he said; “the things people don’t say."

-Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out (The Virginia Woolf Library)

"J'ai un faible pour les gens qui ne se décident pas à commencer quelque chose."

-Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out (The Virginia Woolf Library)

"I can’t imagine anything nicer than to sit out in the moonlight and listen to music—"

-Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out (The Virginia Woolf Library)

"Ce qu'on attend de l'être avec qui l'on vit c'est qu'il vous maintienne au niveau le plus élevé de vous-même."

-Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out (The Virginia Woolf Library)

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3. Selected Poems (William Carlos Williams)

By: William Carlos Williams , Charles Tomlinson

4.16

Format: 302 pages, Paperback

Opening with Professor Tomlinson's superbly clear and helpful introduction this selection reflects … read more

Similar categories in William Carlos Williams's Selected Poems (William Carlos Williams) book and William Carlos Williams's Selected Poems (William Carlos Williams)

  • poetry
  • classics
  • american
  • unfinished
  • british literature
  • literature
  • the united states of america
  • united states
  • 20th century
  • fiction
"they are mystified by certain instances."

-William Carlos Williams, Selected Poems (William Carlos Williams)

"Sun benches at the curb bespeak another season, truncated poplars that having served for shade served also later for the fire."

-William Carlos Williams, Selected Poems (William Carlos Williams)

"I have found that Lost World in the Lost and Found Columns whose gray illegible advertisements My soul has memorized world after world: LOST - NOTHING. STRAYED FROM NOWHERE. NO REWARD."

-William Carlos Williams, Selected Poems (William Carlos Williams)

"When I was young and miserable and pretty And poor, I'd wish What all girls wish: to have a husband, A house and children. Now that I'm old, my wish Is womanish: That the boy putting groceries in my …"

-William Carlos Williams, Selected Poems (William Carlos Williams)

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4. Diane Arbus: Monograph

By: Diane Arbus , Doon Arbus , None , Marvin Israel

4.04

Format: 182 pages, Paperback

New technology has made possible this lustrous new printing from all new film. These landmark image… read more

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"what is ceremonious and curious and commonplace will be legendary."

-Diane Arbus, Diane Arbus: Monograph

"The birthday party was me and her, a whore friend of hers and her pimp, and the cake."

-Diane Arbus, Diane Arbus: Monograph

"I used to have a theory about photographing. It was a sense of getting in between two actions, or in between acton and repose."

-Diane Arbus, Diane Arbus: Monograph

"She lives always dressed as a woman and she whores as a woman. I would never think she was a man. I can't really see the man in her. Most of the time I absolutely know but she has none of the qualiti…"

-Diane Arbus, Diane Arbus: Monograph

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5. The Collected Poems

By: Wallace Stevens

4.27

Format: 560 pages, Paperback

This definitive poetry collection, originally published in 1954 to honor Stevens on his 75th birthd… read more

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  • unfinished
  • the united states of america
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  • 20th century
  • fiction
"Consider the odd morphology of regret."

-Wallace Stevens, The Collected Poems

"The death of one god is the death of all."

-Wallace Stevens, The Collected Poems

"The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream."

-Wallace Stevens, The Collected Poems

"Spring is umbilical or else it is not spring."

-Wallace Stevens, The Collected Poems

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6. To the Wedding

By: John Berger

4.03

Format: 202 pages, Paperback

Booker Prize-winning author John Berger gives a novel both tragic and joyous, intelligent and eroti… read more

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  • classics
  • british literature
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  • fiction
  • 20th century
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7. Selected Poems of Ezra Pound

By: Ezra Pound

4.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

The verse and criticism which he produced during the early years of the twentieth century very larg… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • american
  • the united states of america
  • literature
  • 20th century
  • fiction
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8. The Subjection of Women

By: John Stuart Mill

4.08

Format: 31 pages, Paperback

..".John Mill disagrees with the argument that women are naturally less good at some things than me… read more

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  • classics
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9. Is 5

By: E.E. Cummings

4.33

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

Fresh and candid, by turns earthy, tender, defiant, and romantic, Cummings's poems celebrate the un… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • american
  • fiction
  • 20th century

10. Between the Acts

By: Virginia Woolf

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

In Woolf's last novel, the action takes place on one summer's day at a country house in the heart o… read more

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  • british literature
  • literature
  • 20th century
  • fiction
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11. G.

By: John Berger

3.89

Format: 197 pages, Paperback

In this luminous novel -- winner of Britain's prestigious Booker Prize -- John Berger relates the s… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
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12. About Looking

By: John Berger

3.99

Format: 380 pages, Paperback

As a novelist, art critic, and cultural historian, John Berger is a writer of dazzling eloquence an… read more

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13. Complete Poems, 1904-1962

By: E.E. Cummings

3.95

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

At the time of his death in 1962, E. E. Cummings was, next to Robert Frost, the most widely read po… read more

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14. A Defence of Poetry

By: Philip Sidney , None

3.71

Format: 234 pages, Paperback

Often seen as a key to understanding Elizabethan poetry, Sidney's persuasive treatise follows the r… read more

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15. And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos

By: John Berger

3.51

Format: None pages, Paperback

Booker Prize-winning author John Berger reveals the ties between love and absence, the ways poetry … read more

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16. Illuminations: Essays and Reflections

By: Hannah Arendt , Walter Benjamin , Harry Zohn

3.89

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Studies on contemporary art and culture by one of the most original, critical and analytical minds … read more

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17. New Selected Poems, 1957-1994

By: Ted Hughes

3.98

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

This volume contains a large selection of poems from 1957 to 1994, including uncollected poems from… read more

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18. Leaves of Grass

By: Walt Whitman

3.50

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

A collection of quintessentially American poems, the seminal work of one of the most influential wr… read more

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19. Last Orders

By: Graham Swift

3.82

Format: 287 pages,

Four men once close to Jack Dodds, a London butcher, meet to carry out his peculiar last wish: to h… read more

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20. The Waste Land and Other Poems

By: T.S. Eliot

3.62

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Few readers need any introduction to the work of the most influential poet of the twentieth century… read more

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21. 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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9 best-selling fiction books like Selected Poems (William Carlos Williams) by William Carlos Williams, Charles Tomlinson

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4.08

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Virginia Woolf

3.75

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William Carlos Williams , Charles Tomlinson

4.16

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Wallace Stevens

4.27

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William Carlos Williams , Charles Tomlinson

4.16

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Ben Okri

3.73

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Howard Jacobson

2.83

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4.03

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