The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyce's Ulysses
By: Kevin Birmingham
3.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
For more than a decade, the book that literary critics now consider the most important novel in the…
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1. Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution (The American Revolution Series)
By: Nathaniel Philbrick
4.12
Format: 427 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of In The Heart of the Sea, comes a surprising account o… read more
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"Midshipman Edward Pellew was in the British boat right behind Arnold's. The American general had escaped, but in his haste he had left behind his stock and buckle, which Pellew took as a keepsake. Ye…"-Nathaniel Philbrick, Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution (The American Revolution Series)
"In an October 6 letter to Lord Stirling, he set forth the principle that would guide his increasingly sophisticated intelligence-gathering efforts. "As we are often obliged to reason the designs of t…"-Nathaniel Philbrick, Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution (The American Revolution Series)
2. The Melancholy of Resistance
By: George Szirtes , László Krasznahorkai
2.50
Format: 62 pages, Paperback
The Melancholy of Resistance, Laszlo Krasznahorkai's magisterial, surreal novel, depicts a chain of… read more
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3. Tobacco Road (Brown Thrasher Books)
By: Lewis Nordan , Erskine Caldwell
4.38
Format: None pages,
Set during the Depression in the depleted farmlands surrounding Augusta, Georgia, Tobacco Roadwas f… read more
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4. The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyce's Ulysses
By: Kevin Birmingham
3.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
For more than a decade, the book that literary critics now consider the most important novel in the… read more
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5. The New Bloomsday Book: A Guide Through Ulysses
By: Harry Blamires
3.91
Format: 241 pages, Paperback
Since 1966 readers new to James Joyce have depended upon this essential guide to Ulysses. Harry Bla… read more
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6. Why Homer Matters
By: Adam Nicolson
3.86
Format: 262 pages, Hardcover
"Adam Nicolson writes popular books as popular books used to be, a breeze rather than a scholarly s… read more
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7. Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
By: Marcel Proust , Simon Vance , Lydia Davis
4.15
Format: 710 pages, Mass Market Paperback
«Et tout d'un coup le souvenir m'est apparu. Ce goût, c'était celui du petit morceau de madeleine q… read more
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"Longtemps, je me suis couché de bonne heure."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"the comfort of reclusion, the poetry of hibernation"-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
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"Fall in love with a dog's bum, And thou'll think it pretty as a plum."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
8. How Proust Can Change Your Life
By: Alain de Botton
3.76
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
For anyone who ever wondered what Marcel Proust had in mind when he wrote the one-and-a-quarter-mil… read more
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"Deprivation quickly drives us into a process of appreciation."-Alain de Botton, How Proust Can Change Your Life
"It is, unfortunately, easier to lose a lover than complete In Search of Lost Time. "-Alain de Botton, How Proust Can Change Your Life
"One cannot read a novel without ascribing to the heroine the traits of the one we love."-Alain de Botton, How Proust Can Change Your Life
"For Proust, an injection of jealousy is the only thing capable of rescuing a relationship ruined by habit."-Alain de Botton, How Proust Can Change Your Life
9. Roughing It
By: Mark Twain , None
3.67
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Though known throughout the world for his fictional novels The Adventures of Tom Sawyerand Adventur… read more
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10. Ulysses
By: James Joyce
3.75
Format: 925 pages, Paperback
Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It was first serialized in parts in the A… read more
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"Shite and onions!"-James Joyce, Ulysses
"Let my country die for me."-James Joyce, Ulysses
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"no more pain. wake no more. nobody owns"-James Joyce, Ulysses
11. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
By: James Joyce , Seamus Deane
3.64
Format: 329 pages, Paperback
The portrayal of Stephen Dedalus's Dublin childhood and youth, his quest for identity through art a… read more
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"My heart is quite calm now. I will go back."-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
"God spoke to you by so many voices but you would not hear."-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
"Are you not weary of ardent ways? Tell no more of enchanted days."-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
"He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place."-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
12. Now in November
By: Nancy Hoffman , Josephine Winslow Johnson
3.20
Format: None pages, Paperback
Brilliant, evocative, poetic, savage, this Pulitzer Prize-winning first novel (1934) written when J… read more
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13. The Score (Parker, #5)
By: Richard Stark
3.93
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
It was an impossible crime: knock off a huge plant payroll, all the banks, and all the stores in on… read more
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14. Dubliners
By: James Joyce , Jeri Johnson
3.44
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
This work of art reflects life in Ireland at the turn of the last century, and by rejecting euphemi… read more
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15. Speak, Memory
By: Vladimir Nabokov
4.00
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
'Speak, memory' said Vladimir Nabokov. And immediately there came flooding back to him a host of en… read more
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16. Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1)
By: John Updike
3.58
Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition
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"You were never in Texas,"-John Updike, Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1)
"They’ve not forgotten him: worse, they never heard of him."-John Updike, Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1)
"If you have the guts to be yourself, other people'll pay your price."-John Updike, Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1)
"The only way to get somewhere, you know, is to figure out where you’re going before you go there."-John Updike, Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1)
17. A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency of Grover Cleveland
By: Troy Senik
4.16
Format: 384 pages, ebook
“A thoroughly engaging and enjoyable” (National Review) biography of Grover Cleveland—the honest, p… read more
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18. The Guide to James Joyce's Ulysses
By: Patrick Hastings
4.48
Format: 316 pages, Paperback
From the creator of UlyssesGuide.com, this essential guide to James Joyce's masterpiece weaves toge… read more
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19. The Children's Bach
By: Helen Garner
3.53
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Helen Garner has been a literary institution in Australia for decades. Her perfectly formed novels … read more
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20. William Blake vs the World
By: John Higgs
4.17
Format: 280 pages, Kindle Edition
Poet, artist, visionary and author of the unofficial English national anthem 'Jerusalem', William B… read more
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21. The Cambridge Centenary Ulysses: The 1922 Text with Essays and Notes
By: James Joyce
4.76
Format: 963 pages, Hardcover
James Joyce's Ulysses is considered one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century. This new e… read more
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