Sheppard Lee, Written by Himself
10 best books like Sheppard Lee, Written by Himself (Robert Montgomery Bird): The House of Mirth, The House of the Seven Gables, Second Treatise of Government, A Small Place, War is a Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America's Most Decorated Soldier, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States, German Ideology, The Garies and Their Friends, Wieland, or, The Transformation
| Author | Edith Wharton |
| ISBN | 1844082938 |
First published in 1905, The House of Mirth shocked the New York society it so deftly chronicles, portraying the moral, social and economic restraints on a woman who dared to claim the privileges of marriage without assuming the responsibilities.
Lily Bart, beautiful, witty and sophisticated,...
The House of the Seven Gables
| Author | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| ISBN | 0393924769 |
The sins of one generation are visited upon another in a haunted New England mansion until the arrival of a young woman from the country breathes new air into mouldering lives and rooms. Written shortly after The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables re-addresses the theme of human guilt in a style...
Second Treatise of Government
| Author | John Locke |
| ISBN | 0915144867 |
The Second Treatise is one of the most important political treatises ever written and one of the most far-reaching in its influence.
In his provocative 15-page introduction to this edition, the late eminent political theorist C. B. Macpherson examines Locke's arguments for limited, conditional...
| Author | Jamaica Kincaid |
| ISBN | 0374527075 |
Lyrical, sardonic, and forthright, A Small Place magnifies our vision of one small place with Swiftian wit and precision. Jamaica Kincaid's expansive essay candidly appraises the ten-by-twelve-mile island in the British West Indies where she grew up, and makes palpable the impact of European colonization...
War is a Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America's Most Decorated Soldier
| Author | Smedley D. Butler |
| ISBN | 0922915865 |
Major General Smedley D. Butler was a military hero of the first rank, the winner of two Medals of Honour, a true 'fighting marine' whose courage and patriotism could not be doubted. Yet he came to believe that the wars in which he and his men had fought and bled and died were all pre-planned conflicts, designed...
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
| Author | Edgar Allan Poe |
| ISBN | 0140437487 |
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....
Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States
| Author | James C. Scott |
| ISBN | 0300182910 |
An account of all the new and surprising evidence now available that contradicts the standard narrative for the beginnings of the earliest civilizations
Why did humans abandon hunting and gathering for sedentary communities dependent on livestock and cereal grains, and governed by precursors...
| Author | Karl Marx |
| ISBN | 0717803015 |
2011 Reprint of 1939 Edition. Parts I & III of "The German Ideology". Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Originally published by the Marx-Engels Institute in Moscow in 1939. "The German Ideology" was written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels...
| Author | Frank J. Webb |
| ISBN | 1426446241 |
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not...
| Author | Charles Brockden Brown |
| ISBN | 1598186213 |
Excerpt from Wieland or the Transformation
Genius and knowledge command respect; but superior genius and profound knowledge, combined with exalted moral purity, cannot fail to excite unmingled admiration. The reputation of an author in whom these qualities are united may be circumscribed...
Ruth Hall: A Domestic Tale of the Present Time
| Author | Fanny Fern |
| ISBN | 0140436405 |
In Ruth Hall, one of the bestselling novels of the 1850s, Fanny Fern drew heavily on her own experiences: the death of her first child and her beloved husband, a bitter estrangement from her family, and her struggle to make a living as a writer. Written as a series of short vignettes and snatches of overheard...
Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker
| Author | Charles Brockden Brown |
| ISBN | 0140390626 |
One of the first American Gothic novels, Edgar Huntly (1787) mirrors the social and political temperaments of the postrevolutionary United States.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than...
| Author | Susanna Rowson |
| ISBN | 0195042387 |
Charlotte Temple, a "best seller" that went through more than 200 editions, was the most popular American novel until Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin. It tells of a beautiful English girl who at the age of 15 is courted by and runs away with a British lieutenant named Montraville. Once in America,...
