Great American Short Stories
10 best books like Great American Short Stories (Paul Negri): Capital, Vol. 1: A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, Lord Jim, The Heart of the Matter, A Handful of Dust, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?, The American Evasion of Philosophy: A Genealogy of Pragmatism, Sound and Sense: An Introduction to Poetry, Point Counter Point, Room to Breathe
Capital, Vol. 1: A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production
| Author | Karl Marx |
| ISBN | 0140445684 |
Capital, one of Marx's major and most influential works, was the product of thirty years close study of the capitalist mode of production in England, the most advanced industrial society of his day. This new translation of Volume One, the only volume to be completed and edited by Marx himself, avoids...
Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
| Author | Gilles Deleuze |
| ISBN | 0816612250 |
A major work in the development of critical theory in the late 20th century, ANTI-OEDIPUS is an essential text for feminists, literary theorists, social scientists, philosophers, and other interested in the problems of contemporary Western culture. "An important text in the rethinking of sexuality...
| Author | Joseph Conrad |
| ISBN | 1551111721 |
Jim, a young British seaman, becomes first mate on the Patna, a ship full of pilgrims travelling to Mecca for the hajj. When the ship starts rapidly taking on water and disaster seems imminent, Jim joins his captain and other crew members in abandoning the ship and its passengers. A few days later, they...
| Author | Graham Greene |
| ISBN | 0099478420 |
In a British colony in West Africa, Henry Scobie is a pious and righteous man of modest means enlisted with securing borders. But when he’s passed over for a promotion as commissioner of police, the humiliation hits hardest for his wife, Louise. Already oppressed by the appalling climate, frustrated...
| Author | Evelyn Waugh |
| ISBN | 0316926051 |
Laced with cynicism and truth, "A Handful of Dust" satirizes a certain stratum of English life where all the characters have wealth, but lack practically every other credential. Murderously urbane, it depicts the breakup of a marriage in the London gentry, where the errant wife suffers from terminal...
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
| Author | Mark Fisher |
| ISBN | 1846943175 |
After 1989, capitalism has successfully presented itself as the only realistic political-economic system - a situation that the bank crisis of 2008, far from ending, actually compounded. The book analyses the development and principal features of this capitalist realism as a lived ideological...
| Author | Cornel West |
| ISBN | 0299119645 |
Taking Emerson as his starting point, West’s basic task in this enterprise is to chart the emergence, development, decline & recent resurgence of American pragmatism. Dewey is the central figure in this pantheon of pragmatists, but he treats as well such varied mid-century representatives...
| Author | Laurence Perrine |
| ISBN | 0155826107 |
Sound and Sense in a nutshell:
Poetry is deep and thought-provoking. Let me tell you exactly how and what you're supposed to think about it.
No, sorry, it doesn't work that way. Telling me what to think kills the process of allowing me to think for myself, and I feel like that defeats the...
| Author | Aldous Huxley |
| ISBN | 1564781313 |
Aldous Huxley's lifelong concern with the dichotomy between passion and reason finds its fullest expression both thematically and formally in his masterpiece Point Counter Point. By presenting a vision of life in which diverse aspects of experience are observed simultaneously, Huxley characterizes...
| Author | Liz Talley |
| ISBN | 1978691335 |
A funny, emotional novel full of southern charm about a mother and daughter ready to start over.
For a good part of Daphne Witt’s life, she was a supportive wife and dutiful mother. Now that she’s divorced and her daughter, Ellery, is all grown up, Daphne’s celebrating the best part of...
| Author | Gertrude Stein |
| ISBN | 0486298973 |
Tender Buttons is the best known of Gertrude Stein's "hermetic" works. It is a small book separated into three sections - Food, Objects and Rooms each containing prose under subtitles. (Kellner, 1988, p. 61-62). Its publication in 1914 caused a great dispute between Mabel Dodge Luhan and Gertrude,...
