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…
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1. Fat City
By: Leonard Gardner
4.02
Format: 183 pages, Paperback
Fat City is a novel about the indestructibility of of hope, the anguish and comedy of the human con… read more
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"Profoundly moved, he kissed the lax waiting mouth with exquisite unhappiness."-Leonard Gardner, Fat City
"At times as he lay in bed listening to her breathing, a fear came over him that after marriage death was the next major event."-Leonard Gardner, Fat City
"He felt the guilt of inaction, of simply waiting while his life went to waste. No one was worth the gift of his life, no one could possibly be worth that. It belonged to him alone, and he did not des…"-Leonard Gardner, Fat City
"Out in the fog, weary, yet buoyant from the drinks, his mind dulled along with his aches and his energy returning, Tully was free of the sense of impending ordeal that had been with him for weeks. He…"-Leonard Gardner, Fat City
2. Studies in Classic American Literature
By: D.H. Lawrence
4.06
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Lawrence asserted that 'the proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who cre… read more
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"Non fidatevi mai dell'artista. Fidatevi del racconto."-D.H. Lawrence, Studies in Classic American Literature
"The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted."-D.H. Lawrence, Studies in Classic American Literature
"... o uniune cu adevărat perfectă este aceea în care fiecare acceptă faptul că în celălalt există mari spații necunoscute."-D.H. Lawrence, Studies in Classic American Literature
"The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just."-D.H. Lawrence, Studies in Classic American Literature
3. Benito Cereno
By: Herman Melville , Wyn Kelley
3.60
Format: 316 pages, Paperback
"What has cast such a shadow upon you?" "The Negro." With its intense mix of mystery, adventure, an… read more
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4. Herman Melville
By: Elizabeth Hardwick
3.82
Format: None pages,
A single novel, an eternal classic, established him as a founding father of American literature. No… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- criticism
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5. 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
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- united states
- nonfiction
- criticism
- literary criticism
6. Redburn
By: Herman Melville , Harold Beaver
3.43
Format: 375 pages, Paperback
Wellington Redburn is a fifteen-year-old from the state of New York, with only one dream - to run a… read more
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7. 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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- history
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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?
8. All Things Shining: Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular Age
By: Hubert L. Dreyfus , Sean Dorrance Kelly
4.33
Format: None pages, ebook
An unrelenting flow of choices confronts us at nearly every moment of our lives, and yet our cultur… read more
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9. Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature
By: None , Willard R. Trask , Erich Auerbach
3.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
A half-century after its translation into English, Erich Auerbach's "Mimesis" still stands as a mon… read more
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10. 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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"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
11. Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life
By: Herman Melville , John Bryant
3.56
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Typee is a fast-moving adventure tale, an autobiographical account of the author's Polynesian stay,… read more
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"Strange as it may seem, there is nothing in which a young and beautiful female appears to more advantage than in the art of smoking."-Herman Melville, Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life
12. Call Me Ishmael
By: Charles Olson
2.60
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
First published in 1947, this acknowledged classic of American literary criticism explores the infl… read more
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13. Cinema Speculation
By: Quentin Tarantino
4.06
Format: 391 pages, Hardcover
The long-awaited first work of nonfiction from the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Once… read more
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"Elvis movies weren't real movies, they were "Elvis Presley movies"-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
"Who wants to spend three months making a fucked-up version of their movie?"-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
"I don't know how he died, where he died, or where he's buried. But I do know I should've thanked him."-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
"Then the movie started playing like a real movie. But frankly, a more real movie than we were used to."-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
14. Eastbound
By: Maylis de Kerangal
3.97
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
From Wellcome Prize winner Maylis de Kerangal comes a fast-paced story of two fugitives set on the … read more
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15. Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World
By: John Vaillant
4.35
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A stunning account of a colossal wildfire that collided with a city and a panoramic exploration of … read more
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- history
16. Dayswork
By: Chris Bachelder
3.83
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
In wry, epigrammatic prose, Dayswork tells the story of a woman who spends the endless days of the … read more
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17. Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants
By: Mathias Énard
3.86
Format: 151 pages, Kindle Edition
In 1506, Michelangelo – a young but already renowned sculptor – is invited by the sultan of Constan… read more
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"We all ape God in His absence."-Mathias Énard, Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants
"Calligraphies are our images, Maestro, images of our faith."-Mathias Énard, Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants
"Entscheide dich für mich und meine erloschenen Geschichten."-Mathias Énard, Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants
"How many works of art will there have to be to put beauty into the world?"-Mathias Énard, Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants
18. Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears
By: Michael Schulman
4.09
Format: 589 pages, Hardcover
The author of the New York Times bestseller Her Becoming Meryl Streep returns with a lively histor… read more
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19. Ahab’s Rolling Sea: A Natural History of “Moby-Dick”
By: Richard J. King
4.21
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Although Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick is beloved as one of the most profound and enduring works of A… read more
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20. Natural History
By: Andrea Barrett
3.76
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
In Natural History, Andrea Barrett completes the beautiful arc of intertwined lives of a family of … read more
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21. 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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