Herland, The Yellow Wall-Paper, and Selected Writings
7 best books like Herland, The Yellow Wall-Paper, and Selected Writings (Charlotte Perkins Gilman): Danse Macabre, Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley & Livingstone, Last Words, Dreaming in Cuban, Lafayette in the Somewhat United States, Call of the Wild, Fox 8
Before he gave us the “one of a kind classic” (The Wall Street Journal) memoir On Writing, Stephen King wrote a nonfiction masterpiece in Danse Macabre, “one of the best books on American popular culture” (Philadelphia Inquirer).
From the author of dozens of #1 New York Times bestsellers...
Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley & Livingstone
| Author | Martin Dugard |
| ISBN | 0767910745 |
What really happened to Dr. David Livingstone? The New York Times bestselling coauthor of Survivor: The Ultimate Game investigates in this thrilling account.
With the utterance of a single line--"Doctor Livingstone, I presume?"--a remote meeting in the heart of Africa was transformed...
| Author | George Carlin |
| ISBN | 1439172951 |
As one of America’s preeminent comedic voices, George Carlin saw it all throughout his extraordinary fifty-year career and made fun of most of it. Last Words is the story of the man behind some of the most seminal comedy of the last half century, blending his signature acerbic humor with never-before-told...
Here is the dreamy and bittersweet story of a family divided by politics and geography by the Cuban revolution. It is the family story of Celia del Pino, and her husband, daughter and grandchildren, from the mid-1930s to 1980. Celia's story mirrors the magical realism of Cuba itself, a country of beauty...
Lafayette in the Somewhat United States
| Author | Sarah Vowell |
| ISBN | 1594631743 |
From the bestselling author of Assassination Vacation and Unfamiliar Fishes, a humorous and insightful account of the Revolutionary War hero Marquis de Lafayette--the one Frenchman we could all agree on--and an insightful portrait of a nation's idealism and its reality.
On August 16,...
| Author | Guy Grieve |
| ISBN | 0340898259 |
Guy Grieve's life was going nowhere - trapped in a job he hated, commuting 2,000 miles a month and up to his neck in debt. But he dreamed of escaping it all to live alone in one of the wildest, most remote places on earth - Alaska.
And just when he'd given up hope, the dream came true. Suddenly Guy was...
| Author | George Saunders |
| ISBN | 0812995325 |
A darkly comic short story, a fable about the all too real impact that we humans have on the environment
Fox 8 has always been known as the daydreamer in his pack, the one his fellow foxes regarded with a knowing snort and a roll of the eyes. That is, until Fox 8 develops a unique skill: He teaches himself...
