Moloch: or, This Gentile World

7 best books like Moloch: or, This Gentile World (Henry Miller): Collected Poems, 1909-1962, Jazz, The Conference of the Birds, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined, Tortilla Flat, Dear Theo, Bronze Age Mindset

Collected Poems, 1909-1962
AuthorT.S. Eliot
ISBN0151189781
There is no more authoritative collection of the poetry that T.S. Eliot himself wished to preserve than this volume, published two years before his death in 1965.

Poet, dramatist, critic, and editor, T. S. Eliot was one of the defining figures of twentieth-century poetry. This edition of...
Jazz
AuthorToni Morrison
ISBN0452269652
In the winter of 1926, when everybody everywhere sees nothing but good things ahead, Joe Trace, middle-aged door-to-door salesman of Cleopatra beauty products, shoots his teenage lover to death. At the funeral, Joe’s wife, Violet, attacks the girl’s corpse. This passionate, profound story...
AuthorAttar of Nishapur
ISBN0393355543
Considered by Rumi to be “the master” of Sufi mystic poetry, Attar is best known for this epic poem, a magnificent allegorical tale about the soul’s search for meaning. He recounts the perilous journey of the world’s birds to the faraway peaks of Mount Qaf in search of the mysterious Simorgh,...
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
AuthorSteven Pinker
ISBN0143122010
“If I could give each of you a graduation present, it would be this—the most inspiring book I've ever read."
—Bill Gates (May, 2017)

A provocative history of violence—from the New York Times bestselling author of The Stuff of Thought, The Blank Slate and the forthcoming Enlightenment...
Tortilla Flat
AuthorJohn Steinbeck
ISBN0582461502
"Steinbeck is an artist; and he tells the stories of these lovable thieves and adulterers with a gentle and poetic purity of heart and of prose." -- New York Herald Tribune

Adopting the structure and themes of the Arthurian legend, Steinbeck created a "Camelot" on a shabby hillside above the...
Dear Theo
AuthorVincent van Gogh
ISBN0452275040
An extraordinary document! What other inner view of a great artist's creative processes and life do we have like this one? (The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini perhaps, but it is boastful precisely where Dear Theo is introspective, materialistic where Dear Theo is threadbare, highly social where...
Bronze Age Mindset
AuthorBronze Age Pervert
The Atlantic named this author as possibly Steve Bannon's contact in the White House (Rosie Gray, The Atlantic Feb 10 2017: " 'Think you should speak directly to my WH cutout / cell leader,' Yarvin said in an email. 'I've never met him and don't know his identity, we just DM on Twitter. He's said to be ‘very...
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