Selected Essays
10 best books like Selected Essays (Virginia Woolf): The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice, The Woman Warrior, All the President's Men, The Art of Memoir, Ghosts, São Bernardo, An American Childhood, Rien ne s'oppose à la nuit, What a Time to Be Alone: The Slumflower's Guide to Why You Are Already Enough, L'Ordre du jour
The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice
| Author | Wilkie Collins |
| ISBN | 1587156911 |
Is there no explanation of the mystery of The Haunted Hotel? Is The Haunted Hotel the tale of a haunting -- or the tale of a crime? The ghost of Lord Montberry haunts the Palace Hotel in Venice --- or does it? Montberry's beautiful-yet-terrifying wife, the Countess Narona, and her erstwhile brother are...
| Author | Maxine Hong Kingston |
| ISBN | 0679721886 |
This was an intense book full of both women's power and violence against women set against the backdrop of the Cultural Revolution and the emigration of many Chinese people fleeing Mao to California. It is a mixture of autobiography and folklore and is beautifully written. Maxine Hong Kingston received...
| Author | Carl Bernstein |
| ISBN | 1416522913 |
This book was truly unbelievable. The entire time I was reading it, I kept reminding myself that this was real history and it all happened. There was so much drama in all the proceedings, and to realize that it’s the select few (in great positions) of the government beneath it all. I completely admire...
| Author | Mary Karr |
| ISBN | 0062223062 |
Credited with sparking the current memoir explosion, Mary Karr’s The Liars’ Club spent more than a year at the top of the New York Times list. She followed with two other smash bestsellers: Cherry and Lit, which were critical hits as well.
For thirty years Karr has also taught the form, winning...
| Author | Henrik Ibsen |
| ISBN | 1420927957 |
Ghosts is the story of Helen Alving, a widow who is haunted by the many mistresses of her deceased husband and by her son who has inherited syphilis from his philandering father. Ghosts is a scathing indictment of Victorian society in which Ibsen refutes the notion that if one simply fulfills one's duty...
| Author | Graciliano Ramos |
| ISBN | 8501066656 |
O livro conta a história de Paulo Honório, um homem simples, que movido por uma ambição sem limites, acaba transformando-se em um grande fazendeiro do sertão de Alagoas e casa-se com Madalena para conseguir um herdeiro. Incapaz de entender a forma humanitária pela qual a mulher vê o mundo, ele...
Annie Dillard remembers. She remembers the exhilaration of whipping a snowball at a car and having it hit straight on. She remembers playing with the skin on her mother's knuckles, which "didn't snap back; it lay dead across her knuckle in a yellowish ridge." She remembers the compulsion to spend a whole...
Rien ne s'oppose à la nuit
| Author | Delphine de Vigan |
| ISBN | 2709635798 |
La douleur de Lucile, ma mère, a fait partie de notre enfance et plus tard de notre vie d’adulte, la douleur de Lucile sans doute nous constitue, ma sœur et moi, mais toute tentative d’explication est vouée à l’échec. L’écriture n’y peut rien, tout au plus me permet-elle de poser les...
What a Time to Be Alone: The Slumflower's Guide to Why You Are Already Enough
| Author | Chidera Eggerue |
| ISBN | 1787132110 |
Sometimes it's not easy to find self-worth in a world that seems obsessed with telling us we're not good enough. Empowering, intimate and full of heart: this highly-anticipated debut book from the online sensation 'The Slumflower', aka Chidera Eggerue, the unstoppable force behind the ground-breaking...
L’Allemagne nazie a sa légende. On y voit une armée rapide, moderne, dont le triomphe parait inexorable. Mais si au fondement de ses premiers exploits se découvraient plutôt des marchandages, de vulgaires combinaisons d’intérêts ? Et si les glorieuses images de la Wehrmacht entrant triomphalement...
