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America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction

8 best books like America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction (John Steinbeck): Collected Fictions, Voss, The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations, Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow, The Last Train to London, Ashenden, The Piano Teacher, Chronicle in Stone

Collected Fictions
AuthorJorge Luis Borges
ISBN0140286802
Jorge Luis Borges has been called the greatest Spanish-language writer of our century. Now for the first time in English, all of Borges' dazzling fictions are gathered into a single volume, brilliantly translated by Andrew Hurley. From his 1935 debut with The Universal History of Iniquity, through...
Voss
AuthorPatrick White
ISBN0099324717
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ROBERT MACFARLANE

Set in nineteenth-century Australia, Voss is the story of the secret passion between an explorer and a naïve young woman. Although they have met only on a few occasions, Voss and Laura are joined by overwhelming, obsessive feelings for each other....
The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
AuthorToni Morrison
ISBN0525521038
Arguably the most celebrated and revered writer of our time now gives us a new nonfiction collection--a rich gathering of her essays, speeches, and meditations on society, culture, and art, spanning four decades.

The Source of Self-Regard is brimming with all the elegance of mind and style,...
Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
AuthorHenry Louis Gates Jr.
ISBN0525559531
The New York Times bestseller.

A profound new rendering of the struggle by African-Americans for equality after the Civil War and the violent counter-revolution that resubjugated them, as seen through the prism of the war of images and ideas that have left an enduring racist stain on the American...
The Last Train to London
AuthorMeg Waite Clayton
The New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Exiles conjures her best novel yet, a pre-World War II-era story with the emotional resonance of Orphan Train and All the Light We Cannot See, centering on the Kindertransports that carried thousands of children out of Nazi-occupied Europe—and...
Ashenden
AuthorW. Somerset Maugham
ISBN0099289709
A celebrated writer by the time the war broke out in 1914, Maugham had the perfect cover for living in Switzerland. Multilingual and knowledgeable about many European countries, he was dispatched by the Secret Service to Lucerne - under the guise of completing a play. An assignment whose danger and...
The Piano Teacher
AuthorElfriede Jelinek
ISBN0802118062
The Piano Teacher, the most famous novel of Elfriede Jelinek, who was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature, is a shocking, searing, aching portrait of a woman bound between a repressive society and her darkest desires.
Erika Kohut is a piano teacher at the prestigious and formal Vienna Conservatory,...
Chronicle in Stone
AuthorIsmail Kadare
ISBN1559708336
Masterful in its simplicity, Chronicle in Stone is a touching coming-of-age story and a testament to the perseverance of the human spirit. Surrounded by the magic of beautiful women and literature, a boy must endure the deprivations of war as he suffers the hardships of growing up. His sleepy country...
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