9 Best literature books like The Military Philosophers (A Dance to the Music of Time, #9) by Anthony Powell

The Military Philosophers (A Dance to the Music of Time, #9)

By: Anthony Powell

2.33

Format: None pages,

A Dance to the Music of Time- his brilliant 12-novel sequence, which chronicles the lives of over t…

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Cover of Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West

1. Miss Lonelyhearts

By: Nathanael West

3.58

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

NYC. Height of Depression. The male Miss G columnist is weighted down by gloom. Obscene rhymes rep… read more

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"It's solitary drinking that makes drunkards."

-Nathanael West, Miss Lonelyhearts

"Humanity...I'm a humanity lover. All the broken bastards..."

-Nathanael West, Miss Lonelyhearts

"He's an escapist. He wants to cultivate his interior garden."

-Nathanael West, Miss Lonelyhearts

"He read it for the same reason an animal tears at a wounded foot: to hurt the pain."

-Nathanael West, Miss Lonelyhearts

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2. The Recognitions

By: William H. Gass , William Gaddis

4.20

Format: 976 pages, Paperback

The book Jonathan Franzen dubbed the "ur-text of postwar fiction" and the "first great cultural cri… read more

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"Women get desperate, but they don't understand despair."

-William H. Gass, The Recognitions

"That fever had passed; but for the rest of his life it never left his eyes."

-William H. Gass, The Recognitions

"Reading Proust isn't just reading a book, it's an experience and you can't reject an experience."

-William H. Gass, The Recognitions

"Most people are clever because they don't know how to be honest." William Gaddis, The Recognitions."

-William H. Gass, The Recognitions

Cover of Clea (The Alexandria Quartet, #4) by Lawrence Durrell

3. Clea (The Alexandria Quartet, #4)

By: Lawrence Durrell

4.17

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The magnificent final volume of one of the most widely acclaimed fictional masterpieces of the post… read more

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  • british literature
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"First you have to know and understand intellectually what you want to do - then you have to sleepwalk a little to reach it."

-Lawrence Durrell, Clea (The Alexandria Quartet, #4)

Cover of In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (In Search of Lost Time, #2) by Marcel Proust, Christopher Prendergast, James Grieve

4. In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (In Search of Lost Time, #2)

By: Marcel Proust , Christopher Prendergast , James Grieve

4.35

Format: 26 pages, Paperback

In the Shadow of Young Girls in Floweris Proust's spectacular dissection of male and female adolesc… read more

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5. Lucky Jim

By: Kingsley Amis , David Lodge

4.73

Format: None pages, Paperback

Regarded by many as the finest, and funniest, comic novel of the twentieth century, Lucky Jimremain… read more

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  • british literature
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Cover of A House for Mr Biswas by V.S. Naipaul

6. A House for Mr Biswas

By: V.S. Naipaul

4.06

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

Mohun Biswas has spent his 46 years of life striving for independence. Shuttled from one residence … read more

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7. Parade's End

By: Ford Madox Ford , Robie MacAuley

3.15

Format: None pages, Paperback

In creating his acclaimed masterpiece Parade's End, Ford Madox Ford wanted the Novelist in fact to … read more

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8. The Military Philosophers (A Dance to the Music of Time, #9)

By: Anthony Powell

2.33

Format: None pages,

A Dance to the Music of Time- his brilliant 12-novel sequence, which chronicles the lives of over t… read more

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  • literature
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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
Cover of Wolverine by Chris Claremont, Frank Miller, Paul Smith

9. Wolverine

By: Chris Claremont , Frank Miller , Paul Smith

4.04

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

The master of mutants joins the master of ninjas in Wolverine's first solo series - replete with ro… read more

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"The better to slay me?! Mt healing factors make me a mutant. Lacing my bones with adamantium and giving me these claws, that was done to me. but, you asked to be changed. You did this to yourself. Th…"

-Chris Claremont, Wolverine

10. The Ambassadors

By: Henry James , Harry Levin

3.76

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Graham Greene and E.M. Forster marvelled at it, but F.R. Leavis considered it to be 'not only not o… read more

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11. The Wings of the Dove

By: Henry James , Amy Bloom , Pierre A. Walker

3.51

Format: 235 pages, Paperback

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time Set amid the splendor of L… read more

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12. The Golden Bowl

By: Henry James , Gore Vidal , Patricia Crick

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

'A thing to marvel at, a thing to be grateful for.'A rich American art-collector and his daughter M… read more

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13. The Confessions of Nat Turner

By: William Styron

3.95

Format: 453 pages, Paperback

In 1831 Nat Turner awaits death in a Virginia jail cell. He is a slave, a preacher, and the leader … read more

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14. The Death of the Heart

By: Elizabeth Bowen

3.00

Format: 81 pages, Paperback

The Death of the Heartis perhaps Elizabeth Bowen's best-known book. As she deftly and delicately ex… read more

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15. Women in Love (Brangwen Family, #2)

By: D.H. Lawrence

3.34

Format: None pages, Paperback

"An analytical study of sexual depravity" and "an epic of vice" were two of the critical expression… read more

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16. Lord Jim

By: Joseph Conrad

5.00

Format: 30 pages, Paperback

Haunted by the memory of a moment of lost nerve during a disastrous voyage, Jim submits to condemna… read more

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17. A Perfect Spy

By: John Le Carré

3.76

Format: None pages, Paperback

John le Carre's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of inter… read more

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18. The Fear Index

By: Robert Harris

3.86

Format: None pages, Hardcover

His name is carefully guarded from the general public but within the secretive inner circles of the… read more

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19. 1919 (U.S.A., #2)

By: E.L. Doctorow , John Dos Passos

3.26

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

With 1919, the second volume of his U.S.A. trilogy, John Dos Passos continues his "vigorous and swe… read more

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20. As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning

By: Laurie Lee , Leonard Rosoman

4.28

Format: 120 pages,

It was 1934 and a young man walked to London from the security of the Cotswolds to make his fortune… read more

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21. The Big Money (U.S.A., #3)

By: E.L. Doctorow , John Dos Passos

2.60

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

THE BIG MONEY completes John Dos Passos's three-volume "fable of America's materialistic success an… read more

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