Arthur Mervyn: Revised Edition
10 best books like Arthur Mervyn: Revised Edition (Charles Brockden Brown): The Blithedale Romance, The Last of the Mohicans, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages, Hobomok Other Writings on Indians by Lydia Maria Child, Milton: A Poem (The Illuminated Books of William Blake, Vol 5), The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath, The World Broke in Two: Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, D.H. Lawrence, E.M. Forster and the Year that Changed Literature, Hope Leslie: or, Early Times in the Massachusetts, Wellen, How to Write a Thesis
| Author | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| ISBN | 1406501336 |
Abjuring the city for a pastoral life, a group of utopians set out to reform a dissipated America. But the group is a powerful mix of competing ambitions and its idealism finds little satisfaction in farmwork. Instead, of changing the world, the members of the Blithedale community individually pursue...
| Author | James Fenimore Cooper |
| ISBN | 0553213296 |
The wild rush of action in this classic frontier adventure story has made The Last of the Mohicans the most popular of James Fenimore Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales. Deep in the forests of upper New York State, the brave woodsman Hawkeye (Natty Bumppo) and his loyal Mohican friends Chingachgook...
The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
| Author | Harold Bloom |
| ISBN | 1573225142 |
Literary critic Harold Bloom's The Western Canon is more than a required reading list-it is a vision. Infused with a love of learning, compelling in its arguments for a unifying written culture, it argues brilliantly against the politicization of literature and presents a guide to the great works...
| Author | Lydia Maria Francis Child |
Hobomok, A Tale of Early Times is the provocative story of an upperclass white woman who marries an Indian chief, has a child, then leaves him--with the child--for another man. This novel, originally published in 1824, is a powerful first among antipatriarchal and antiracist novels in American literature....
| Author | William Blake |
| ISBN | 0691001480 |
The core of William Blake's vision, his greatness as one of the British Romantics, is most fully expressed in his Illuminated Books, masterworks of art and text intertwined and mutually enriching. Made possible by recent advances in printing and reproduction technology, the publication of new editions...
The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath
| Author | Leslie Jamison |
| ISBN | 0316259616 |
By the New York Times bestselling author of The Empathy Exams, an exploration of addiction, and the stories we tell about it, that reinvents the traditional recovery memoir.
With its deeply personal and seamless blend of memoir, cultural history, literary criticism, and journalistic reportage,...
| Author | Bill Goldstein |
| ISBN | 0805094024 |
A revelatory narrative of the intersecting lives and works of Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster and D. H. Lawrence during 1922, the birth year of modernism
The World Broke in Two tells the fascinating story of the intellectual journey four legendary writers, Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot,...
| Author | Catharine Maria Sedgwick |
| ISBN | 0140436766 |
Set in seventeenth-century New England in the aftermath of the Pequod War, Hope Leslie not only chronicles the role of women in building the republic but also refocuses the emergent national literature on the lives, domestic mores, and values of American women.
For more than seventy...
| Author | Eduard von Keyserling |
| ISBN | 3937793534 |
In stimmungsvollen Bildern schildert dieser baltische Sommerroman das Schicksal völlig unterschiedlicher, sich fremder Menschen. Das Meer und die Nähe des abgelegenen Ostseebadeort verbindet sie für kurze Zeit miteinander. Am Ende bleiben außer der Kraft des Meeres nur zerstörte Träume...
| Author | Umberto Eco |
| ISBN | 0262527138 |
By the time Umberto Eco published his best-selling novel "The Name of the Rose," he was one of Italy's most celebrated intellectuals, a distinguished academic and the author of influential works on semiotics. Some years before that, in 1977, Eco published a little book for his students, "How to Write...
| Author | Hannah Webster Foster |
| ISBN | 0195042395 |
The Coquette tells the much-publicized story of the seduction and death of Elizabeth Whitman, a poet from Hartford, Connecticut.
Written as a series of letters--between the heroine and her friends and lovers--it describes her long, tortuous courtship by two men, neither of whom perfectly...
