In America
10 best books like In America (Susan Sontag): I and Thou, Winter Story, Home of the Gentry, Mohawk, The High Hills, Spring Story, Mr. Sammler's Planet, Way to Wisdom: An Introduction to Philosophy, Pictures & Tears: A History of People Who Have Cried in Front of Paintings, Summer Story
| Author | Martin Buber |
| ISBN | 0684717255 |
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Martin Buber's I and Thou has long been acclaimed as a classic. Many prominent writers have acknowledged its influence on their work; students of intellectual history consider it a landmark; and the generation born after World War II considers...
| Author | Jill Barklem |
| ISBN | 0689830572 |
It was the middle of winter and very, very cold. The mice of Brambly Hedge forecasted snow. And they were right. In the morning they awoke to find their doors and windows hidden behind deep drifts. There hadn't been snow like this for years.
"There's enough for a Snow Ball!" cried the mice with...
| Author | Ivan Turgenev |
| ISBN | 0140442243 |
"Home of the Gentry" is a novel by Ivan Turgenev published in the January 1859 issue of "Sovremennik". It was enthusiastically received by the Russian society and remained his least controversial and most widely-read novel until the end of the 19th century. It was turned into a movie by Andrey Konchalovsky...
| Author | Richard Russo |
| ISBN | 0375412867 |
Originally published in 1986 in the Vintage Contemporaries paperback series—and reissued now in hardcover alongside his masterful new novel, Empire Falls—Richard Russo’s Mohawk remains today as it was described then: A first novel with all the assurance of a mature writer at the peak of form...
| Author | Jill Barklem |
| ISBN | 0689830912 |
When Wilfred Toadflax learns that the mice of Brambly Hedge will be sending a delivery of blankets to the voles living in the nearby High Hills, the young mouse - fired up by stories of daring adventurers like Sir Hogweed Hoarhound - pleads to be allowed to accompany the mission. But his roadside exploration...
| Author | Jill Barklem |
| ISBN | 0689830580 |
The mice of Brambly Hedge are in high spirits! Fair weather and blossoms along the hedgerow have coaxed the mice out of their snug tree-stump homes, and they're eager for sunny day adventures, with old friends and new.In Spring Story, Mr. Apple takes advantage of an idyllic spring day to plan a surprise...
| Author | Saul Bellow |
| ISBN | 0142437832 |
“An enduring testament and prophecy.” –Chicago Sun-Times
Mr. Artur Sammler, Holocaust survivor, intellectual, and occasional lecturer at Columbia University in 1960s New York City, is a “registrar of madness,” a refined and civilized being caught among people crazy with...
| Author | Karl Jaspers |
| ISBN | 0300097352 |
One of the founders of existentialism, the eminent philosopher Karl Jaspers here presents for the general reader an introduction to philosophy. In doing so, he also offers a lucid summary of his own philosophical thought. In Jaspers’ view, the source of philosophy is to be found “in wonder, in...
| Author | James Elkins |
| ISBN | 0415970539 |
Does art leave you cold? And is that what it's supposed to do? Or is a painting meant to move you to tears? Hemingway was reduced to tears in the midst of a drinking bout when a painting by James Thurber caught his eye. And what's bad about that? In Pictures and Tears, art historian James Elkins tells the story...
| Author | Jill Barklem |
| ISBN | 0689830599 |
It was such a hot summer. The sky was deep blue and the sun never faltered.All along Brambly Hedge, the mice did their best to keep cool. Poppy Eyebright sought refuge in the mossy shadows of the mill wheel; Dusty Dogwood took to walking by the banks of the cooling stream. Dusty and Poppy spent more and more...
| Author | Lydia Davis |
| ISBN | 0374118582 |
Here is a new collection of short stories from the writer Rick Moody has called “the best prose stylist in America.”
Her stories may be literal one-liners: the entirety of “Bloomington” reads, “Now that I have been here for a little while, I can say with confidence that I have never...
