Self and Soul: A Defense of Ideals

8 best books like Self and Soul: A Defense of Ideals (Mark Edmundson): The Twenty-One Balloons, This Boy's Life, Underland, Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories, Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst, The Faerie Queene, Back in the World, Letters from an American Farmer

The Twenty-One Balloons

Author	William Pène du Bois
ISBN	0140320970

One month after graduating from college, I started working. That was in 1984. I am now in my 4th company and except for my paid vacation leaves and rare sick days, I have never been, even a single day, out of the corporate rate race.

27 years of working and trying to earn a living.

I know it...

This Boy's Life

Author	Tobias Wolff
ISBN	0802136680

This unforgettable memoir, by one of our most gifted writers, introduces us to the young Toby Wolff, by turns tough and vulnerable, crafty and bumbling, and ultimately winning. Separated by divorce from his father and brother, Toby and his mother are constantly on the move, yet they develop an extraordinarily...

Underland

Author	Robert Macfarlane
ISBN	0393242145

An exploration of the Earth’s underworlds as they exist in myth, literature, memory, and the land itself.

In this sequel to The Old Ways, Macfarlane takes us on an journey into our relationship with darkness, burial, and what lies beneath the surface of both place and mind. Traveling through...

Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories

Author	Raymond Carver
ISBN	0679722319

By the time of his early death in 1988, Raymond Carver had established himself as one of the greatest practitioners of the American short story, a writer who had not only found his own voice but imprinted it in the imaginations of thousands of readers.

'Where I'm Calling From', his last collection,...

Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

Author	Robert M. Sapolsky
ISBN	1594205078

Why do we do the things we do?
More than a decade in the making, this game-changing book is Robert Sapolsky's genre-shattering attempt to answer that question as fully as perhaps only he could, looking at it from every angle. Sapolsky's storytelling concept is delightful but it also has a powerful...

The Faerie Queene

Author	Edmund Spenser
ISBN	0140422072

The Faerie Queene was the first epic in English and one of the most influential poems in the language for later poets from Milton to Tennyson. Dedicating his work to Elizabeth I, Spenser brilliantly united medieval romance and renaissance epic to expound the glory of the Virgin Queen. The poem recounts...

Back in the World

Author	Tobias Wolff
ISBN	0679767967

To American soldiers in Vietnam, "back in the world" meant America and safety. To Tobias Wolff's characters, Back in the World is where lives that have veered out of control just might become normal again. Unfortunately, the men and women in these gripping, pungent, and wonderfully skewed stories...

Letters from an American Farmer

Author	J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur
ISBN	0192838989

Written by an emigrant French aristocrat turned farmer, the Letters from an American Farmer (1782) posed the famous question: "What, then, is the American, this new man?," as a new nation took shape before the eyes of the world. Addressing some of American literature's most pressing concerns and identity...