Love and Death in the American Novel
5 best books like Love and Death in the American Novel (Leslie A. Fiedler): The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, The Bostonians, The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation, The Rise of the Novel, Updated Edition, War in Human Civilization
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
Author | Laurence Sterne |
ISBN | 0141439777 |
No one description will fit this strange, eccentric, endlessly complex masterpiece. It is a fiction about fiction-writing in which the invented world is as much infused with wit and genius as the theme of inventing it. It is a joyful celebration of the infinite possibilities of the art of fiction, and...
Author | Henry James |
ISBN | 0812969960 |
This brilliant satire of the women’s rights movement in America is the story of the ravishing inspirational speaker Verena Tarrant and the bitter struggle between two distant cousins who seek to control her. Will the privileged Boston feminist Olive Chancellor succeed in turning her beloved ward...
The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation
Author | Rod Dreher |
ISBN | 0735213291 |
In a radical new vision for the future of Christianity, NYT bestselling author and conservative columnist Rod Dreher calls on American Christians to prepare for the coming Dark Age by embracing an ancient Christian way of life.
The light of the Christian faith is flickering out all over the...
Author | Ian P. Watt |
ISBN | 0520230698 |
The Rise of the Novel is Ian Watt's classic description of the interworkings of social conditions, changing attitudes, and literary practices during the period when the novel emerged as the dominant literary form of the individualist era.
In a new foreword, W. B. Carnochan accounts for the...
Author | Azar Gat |
ISBN | 0199262136 |
In this truly global study, major military historian Azar Gat sets out to unravel the "riddle of war" throughout human history, from the early hunter-gatherers right through to the unconventional terrorism of the twenty-first century. In the process, the book generates an astonishing wealth of...