Domestic Manners of the Americans

6 best books like Domestic Manners of the Americans (Frances Milton Trollope): Democracy in America, Shine Shine Shine, Tracks: A Woman's Solo Trek Across 1700 Miles of Australian Outback, The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West, Nightwood, In an Antique Land

Democracy in America

Author	Alexis de Tocqueville
ISBN	0140447601

Democracy in America has had the singular honor of being even to this day the work that political commentators of every stripe refer to when they seek to draw large conclusions about the society of the USA. Alexis de Tocqueville, a young French aristocrat, came to the young nation to investigate the functioning...

Shine Shine Shine

Author	Lydia Netzer
ISBN	1250007070

A debut unlike any other, Shine, Shine, Shine is a shocking, searing, breathless love story, a gripping portrait of modern family, and a stunning exploration of love, death and what it means to be human.

Sunny Mann has masterminded a life for herself and her family in a quiet Virginia town. Her...

Tracks: A Woman's Solo Trek Across 1700 Miles of Australian Outback

Author	Robyn Davidson
ISBN	0679762876

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Robyn Davidson's opens the memoir of her perilous journey across 1,700 miles of hostile Australian desert to the sea with only four camels and a dog for company with the following words: “I experienced that sinking feeling you get when you know you have conned...

The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West

Author	David McCullough
ISBN	1501168681

Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important and dramatic chapter in the American story—the settling of the Northwest Territory by dauntless pioneers who overcame incredible hardships to build a community based on ideals that would come to define our country.

As...

Nightwood

Author	Djuna Barnes
ISBN	0811216713

Nightwood, Djuna Barnes' strange and sinuous tour de force, "belongs to that small class of books that somehow reflect a time or an epoch" (TLS). That time is the period between the two World Wars, and Barnes' novel unfolds in the decadent shadows of Europe's great cities, Paris, Berlin, and Vienna—a...

In an Antique Land

Author	Amitav Ghosh
ISBN	0679727833

Once upon a time an Indian writer named Amitav Ghosh set out to find an Indian slave, name unknown, who some seven hundred years before had traveled to the Middle East. The journey took him to a small village in Egypt, where medieval customs coexist with twentieth-century desires and discontents. But...