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Novels 1930-1935: As I Lay Dying / Sanctuary / Light in August / Pylon

10 best books like Novels 1930-1935: As I Lay Dying / Sanctuary / Light in August / Pylon (William Faulkner): Politics, Swann's Way, The World as Will and Representation, Vol. 2, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, El Llano en llamas, Novels and Stories: The Call of the Wild / White Fang / The Sea-Wolf / Klondike and Other Stories, Collected Works: Wise Blood / A Good Man is Hard to Find / The Violent Bear it Away / Everything that Rises Must Converge / Essays and Letters, Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy, Poetry and Tales, Complete Novels: The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter / Reflections in a Golden Eye / The Ballad of the Sad Cafe / The Member of the Wedding / Clock Without Hands

Politics
AuthorAristotle
ISBN0486414248
What is the relationship of the individual to the state? What is the ideal state, and how can it bring about the most desirable life for its citizens? What sort of education should it provide? What is the purpose of amassing wealth? These are some of the questions Aristotle attempts to answer in one of the...
Swann's Way
AuthorMarcel Proust
ISBN0142437964
Swann's Way tells two related stories, the first of which revolves around Marcel, a younger version of the narrator, and his experiences in, and memories of, the French town Combray. Inspired by the "gusts of memory" that rise up within him as he dips a Madeleine into hot tea, the narrator discusses his...
The World as Will and Representation, Vol. 2
AuthorArthur Schopenhauer
ISBN0486217620
Arthur Schopenhauer's Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung is one of the most important philosophical works of the 19th century, the basic statement of one important stream of post-Kantian thought. It is without question Schopenhauer's greatest work, and, conceived and published before the philosopher...
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
AuthorEmily Dickinson
ISBN0316184136
THE ONLY ONE-VOLUME EDITION CONTAINING ALL 1,775 OF EMILY DICKINSON’S POEMS

Only eleven of Emily Dickinson’s poems were published prior to her death in 1886; the startling originality of her work doomed it to obscurity in her lifetime. Early posthumously published collections-some...
El Llano en llamas
AuthorJuan Rulfo
ISBN9500718030
An outstanding collection of snippets, ever-literary and uniquely blissfully Mexican. These stories are timeless. And it is precisely that quality, that of timelessness, which best describes the setting which pervades throughout these incendiary vignettes. The best are short enough to be parables--"We're...
Novels and Stories: The Call of the Wild / White Fang / The Sea-Wolf / Klondike and Other Stories
AuthorJack London
ISBN0940450054
This Library of America volume of Jack London’s best-known work is filled with thrilling action, an intuitive feeling for animal life, and a sense of justice that often works itself out through violence. London enjoyed phenomenal popularity in his own time (which included the depressions of the...
Collected Works: Wise Blood / A Good Man is Hard to Find / The Violent Bear it Away / Everything that Rises Must Converge / Essays and Letters
AuthorFlannery O'Connor
ISBN0940450372
In her short lifetime, Flannery O'Connor became one of the most distinctive American writers of the twentieth century. By birth a native of Georgia and a Roman Catholic, O'Connor depicts, in all its comic and horrendous incongruity, the limits of worldly wisdom and the mysteries of divine grace in...
Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy
AuthorRené Descartes
ISBN0872204200
La figura de Descartes como filósofo no ha sido objeto de unánime interpretación. Sobre todo en la actualidad se juzga y pondera su obra. no menos que su personalidad, de manera diferente. Para algunos, Descartes es de preferencia un metodólogo (W. Windelband, P. Natorp...) . Su preocupación,...
Poetry and Tales
AuthorEdgar Allan Poe
ISBN0940450186
Read throughout the world, admired by Dostoyevsky and translated by Baudelaire, Edgar Allan Poe has become a legendary figure, representing the artist as obsessed outcast and romantic failure. His nightmarish visions, shaped by cool artistic calculation, reveal some of the dark possibilities...
Complete Novels: The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter / Reflections in a Golden Eye / The Ballad of the Sad Cafe / The Member of the Wedding / Clock Without Hands
AuthorCarson McCullers
ISBN1931082030
When The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter was published in 1940, Carson McCullers was instantly recognized as one of the most promising writers of her generation. The novels that followed established her as a master of Southern Gothic.

"McCullers' gift," writes Joyce Carol Oates, "was to evoke, through...
Complete Novels: Red Harvest / The Dain Curse / The Maltese Falcon / The Glass Key / The Thin Man
AuthorDashiell Hammett
ISBN1883011671
Complete in one volume, the five books that created the modern American crime novel

In a few years of extraordinary creative energy, Dashiell Hammett invented the modern American crime novel.

The five novels that Hammett published between 1929 and 1934, collected here in one volume,...
The Palm-Wine Drinkard & My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
AuthorAmos Tutuola
ISBN0802133630
When Amos Tutuola's first novel, The Palm-Wine Drinkard, appeared in 1952, it aroused exceptional worldwide interest. Drawing on the West African Yoruba oral folktale tradition, Tutuola described the odyssey of a devoted palm-wine drinker through a nightmare of fantastic adventure. Since then,...
The Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950
AuthorT.S. Eliot
John Milton, too - intensely flawed, tormented but Christian to the end. Try his Samson Agonistes for starters! Cause even if a guy loses on Social Media, he wins eternally. Graham Greene’s another - A Burnt-Out Case! Same idea. Loser takes all!.
The Gay Science
AuthorFriedrich Nietzsche
ISBN0394719859
If you read Nietzsche while not in the midst of some variety of emo existential crisis, Nietzsche is hilarious and insightful. If, however, you choose to read Nietzsche in high school in order to be counter-culture, odds are good Nietzsche will temporarily turn you into a horrible, pompous ass. Nietzsche...
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Poems and Other Writings
AuthorHenry Wadsworth Longfellow
No American writer of the 19th century was more universally enjoyed and admired than Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. His works were extraordinary bestsellers for their era, achieving fame both here and abroad. Now, for the first time in over 25 years. Poems and Other Writings offers a full-scale literary...
When You Learn the Alphabet
AuthorKendra Allen
ISBN1609386299
Kendra Allen’s first collection of essays—at its core—is a bunch of mad stories about things she never learned to let go of. Unifying personal narrative and cultural commentary, this collection grapples with the lessons that have been stored between parent and daughter. These parental relationships...
The Waste Land and Other Writings
AuthorT.S. Eliot
ISBN0375759344
Also includes Prufrock and Other Observations, Poems (1920), and The Sacred Wood
Introduction by Mary Karr
 
First published in 1922, “The Waste Land,” T. S. Eliot’s masterpiece, is not only one of the key works of modernism but also one of the greatest poetic achievements of the...
Collected Poems, Prose, and Plays
AuthorRobert Frost
Justly celebrated at home and abroad, Robert Frost is perhaps America’s greatest twentieth-century poet and a towering figure in American letters. From the publication of his first collections, A Boy’s Will (1913) and North of Boston (1914), Frost was recognized as a poet of unique power and...
Collected Essays: Notes of a Native Son / Nobody Knows My Name / The Fire Next Time / No Name in the Street / The Devil Finds Work / Other Essays
AuthorJames Baldwin
ISBN1883011523
Though one of the giants of 20th-century American letters he's often been marginalized, relegated to the ghetto of writers about race. This perception of Baldwin solely as a black writer--and thus one whose interest lies primarily in the sociological or the documentary--undercuts the real importance...
Diary of a Madman, The Government Inspector, Selected Stories
AuthorNikolai Gogol
ISBN0140449078
Gogol's detailed, breathlessly sarcastic and mean spirited story telling is a joy to read.
Unfortunately some stories stop abruptly with no decent pay off for the gloriousness before it: The Carriage has an obvious and anti-climatic finale and The Government Inspector didn't finish as grandly...
Poor Folk and Other Stories
AuthorFyodor Dostoyevsky
ISBN0140445056
Poor Folk was Dostoyevsky's first great triumph in fiction and the work that looks forward to the double-acts and obsessions of his later genius. It takes place in a world of office , lodging-house and seamstress's rooms and consists of an impoverished love affair in letters between a copy clerk and...
Collected Poetry & Prose
AuthorWallace Stevens
ISBN1883011450
The Library of America is not a cheap publishing house, but their editions are worth every penny you pay for them.
Stevens is an incredibly enigmatic poet you'll spend hours trying to figure out. Sometimes you'll crack his works, sometimes you won't, sometimes you will and you won't like what you...
The Grapes of Wrath and Other Writings 1936–1941: The Long Valley / The Grapes of Wrath / The Log from the Sea of Cortez / The Harvest Gypsies
AuthorJohn Steinbeck
ISBN1883011159
The second volume in the Library of America’s authoritative edition of John Steinbeck features his acknowledged masterpiece, The Grapes of Wrath. Written in an incredibly compressed five-month period, the novel had an electrifying impact upon publication in 1939, unleashing a political storm...
Mississippi Writings: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer / Life on the Mississippi / Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Pudd’nhead Wilson
AuthorMark Twain
ISBN0940450070
Here are my ratings for the individual books included in this collection:

- Life On The Mississippi: 4 stars. The best part of this collection. Entertaining, informative, and funny, too! Your best reason for picking up this book.
- The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer: 3 stars. It has its moments....
Poetry and Prose
AuthorWalt Whitman
ISBN1883011353
Started on the expanded 530 page edition (1891-92) of "Leaves of Grass," the so called deathbed version. Reading as a periodic alternative to prose, this should keep me busy for a month or more. I had finished 1855 edition a few years ago, which is exquisite. His main device is the catalog. He inventories...
Redburn / White-Jacket / Moby-Dick
AuthorHerman Melville
ISBN0940450097
Between 1849 and 1851, Melville wrote three masterful stories of the sea (including the classic Moby-Dick) that captured colorful and comic glimpses of shipboard life, the excitement of the whale hunt, and seascapes that move from the brutal to the sublime; they also displayed a marvelous command...
Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung
AuthorArthur Schopenhauer
ISBN3423306718
“The world is my idea:”



And so with these words Schopenhauer begins his magnum opus with one of the most provocative opening lines in all of literature. He continues, “a truth which holds good for every thing that lives and knows,… [Man] knows not a sun, and not an earth, but...
Michael Maier's Atalanta Fugiens: Sources of an Alchemical Book of Emblems
AuthorMichael Maier
ISBN0892540605
Michael Maier was a 17th-century alchemist and physician to the court of Emperor Rudolf II in Prague. Between 1614 and his death in 1622, Maier published a number of alchemical works, of which Atalanta Fugiens was undoubtedly the richest and most important. First published in 1617, it is one of the finest...
The Unknown Kerouac: Rare, Unpublished & Newly Translated Writings
AuthorJack Kerouac
ISBN1598534998
In On the Road and other iconic works, Jack Kerouac created a quintessentially American voice and a revolutionary prose style. This remarkable gathering of previously unpublished writings reveals as never before the extraordinary literary journey that led to his phenomenal success—a journey...
Collected Poems 1991–2000: Flow Chart / Hotel Lautréamont / And the Stars Were Shining / Can You Hear, Bird / Wakefulness / Girls on the Run / Your Name Here / Uncollected Poems
AuthorJohn Ashbery
ISBN1598535358
After receiving wide acclaim and numerous awards during the early and middle years of his career, John Ashbery continued to strike out in new directions in the 1990s, writing in a style at once playful and cerebral, relaxed and precise, dreamlike in its imagery and associations yet exquisitely attuned...
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