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Poem a Day, Vol. 1

10 best books like Poem a Day, Vol. 1 (Nicholas Albery): Demons, Vanity Fair, Spring, The Only Harmless Great Thing, The History of the Kings of Britain, Golden Calf, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, Tristan: With the Tristran of Thomas, Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America, Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere

Demons
AuthorFyodor Dostoyevsky
Alternate Cover Edition ISBN 0679734511. (ISBN13: 9780679734512)

Inspired by the true story of a political murder that horrified Russians in 1869, Fyodor Dostoevsky conceived of Demons as a "novel-pamphlet" in which he would say everything about the plague of materialist ideology that...
Vanity Fair
AuthorWilliam Makepeace Thackeray
ISBN0141439831
Here I am, 54 years old, and for the very first time reading William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair. "Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero." I disagree with Thackeray. The 'Hero' of Vanity Fair is the steadfast and stalwart William Dobbin; of that there is no doubt. This novel is not the coming of age,...
Spring
AuthorAli Smith
ISBN0241207053
From the bestselling author of Autumn and Winter, as well as the Baileys Prize-winning How to be both, comes the next installment in the remarkable, once-in-a-generation masterpiece, the Seasonal Quartet

Spring will come. The leaves on its trees will open after blossom. Before it arrives,...
The Only Harmless Great Thing
AuthorBrooke Bolander
ISBN1250169488
In the early years of the 20th century, a group of female factory workers in Newark, New Jersey slowly died of radiation poisoning. Around the same time, an Indian elephant was deliberately put to death by electricity in Coney Island.

These are the facts.

Now these two tragedies are...
The History of the Kings of Britain
AuthorGeoffrey of Monmouth
ISBN0140441700
Completed in 1136, The History of the Kings of Britain traces the story of the realm from its supposed foundation by Brutus to the coming of the Saxons some two thousand years later. Vividly portraying legendary and semi-legendary figures such as Lear, Cymbeline, Merlin the magician and the most famous...
Golden Calf
AuthorIlya Ilf
ISBN5782700726
It's hard sometimes for a book or a movie to make me genuinely lol. I was giggling so hard while reading Zolotoi Telenok, it deserves four, if not five stars just for that.
Ilf and Petrov are a very witty couple, and even though the narration and the language of their books seem light-hearted, a lot of...
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
AuthorEdgar Allan Poe
ISBN0140437487
Poe found the germ of the story he would develop into ARTHUR GORDON PYM in 1836 in a newspaper account of the shipwreck and subsequent rescue of the two men on board. Published in 1838, this rousing sea adventure follows New England boy, Pym, who stows away on a whaling ship with its captain's son, Augustus....
Tristan: With the Tristran of Thomas
AuthorGottfried von Straßburg
Gottfried's version of this legendary romance--in which Tristan and Isolde chance to drink a magic potion that causes them to fall in love--portrays Tristan in the round as an attractive and sophisticated pre-Renaissance man. While Gottfried adheres faithfully to the events as set down by Thomas,...
Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America
AuthorKathleen Belew
ISBN0674286073
"Belew's book helps explain how we got to today's alt right."―Terry Gross, Fresh Air

The white power movement in America wants a revolution. Its soldiers are not lone wolves but highly organized cadres motivated by a coherent and deeply troubling worldview made up of white supremacy, virulent...
Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere
AuthorMike Carey
ISBN1401210074
I enjoyed seeing this depicted graphically. I thought it was an excellent story. Neil wrote this to highlight homelessness I remember he said. It is a topsy turvy world where there is more going on beneath the real world than we know. The magic is under the sewers.

It was interesting to see the...
The Complete Poetry
AuthorEdgar Allan Poe
ISBN0451526406
I'm a way too big of a fan of Edgar Allan Poe to rate it differently.

Out—out are the lights—out all!
And, over each quivering form,
The curtain, a funeral pall,
Comes down with the rush of a storm,
While the angels, all pallid and wan,
Uprising, unveiling, affirm
That...
Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics
AuthorCynthia Enloe
ISBN0520229126
This radical analysis of globalization reveals the crucial role of women in international politics today. Cynthia Enloe pulls back the curtain on the familiar scenes—governments promoting tourism, companies moving their factories overseas, soldiers serving on foreign soil—and shows that...
Mean Time
AuthorCarol Ann Duffy
ISBN0856463035
Winner of the Forward Poetry Prize and the Whitbread Poetry Award 1993 In her fourth collection, Mean Time, Carol Ann Duffy dramatizes scenes from childhood, adolescence and adulthood, finding moments of grace or consolation in memory, love and language amid the complexities of life. These are...
The World's Wife
AuthorCarol Ann Duffy
Be terrified.
It's you I love,
perfect man,
Greek God, my own;
but I know you'll go,
betray me, stray
from home.
So better by far for
me if you were stone.
—from "Medusa"

Stunningly original and haunting, the voices of Mrs. Midas, Queen Kong, and Frau...
Le Morte d'Arthur, Vol. 2
AuthorThomas Malory
An immortal story of love, adventure, chivalry, treachery and death. Edited and first published by William Caxton in 1485, Le Morte D'Arthur is Sir Thomas Malory's unique and splendid version of the Arthurian legend. Mordred's treason, the knightly exploits of Tristan, Lancelot's fatally divided...
Fables, Vol. 19: Snow White
AuthorBill Willingham
ISBN1401242480
With Castle Dark now back in the hands of the Fables, mysteries both young and old begin to challenge the residents of Fabletown.  Bigby and Stinky set off from Fabletown in Rose Red's blood-fueled sports car to track down the two abducted cubs.  Unfortunately for Snow White, besides suffering the...
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