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10 best books like The Dick Gibson Show (Stanley Elkin): The Moviegoer, History of the Peloponnesian War, The Tunnel, Lucky Jim, The Public Burning, The Glory of Their Times: The Story of the Early Days of Baseball Told by the Men Who Played It, The World Within the Word, A Temple of Texts, A Breath of Life, Finding a Form

The Moviegoer
AuthorWalker Percy
ISBN0375701966
The dazzling novel that established Walker Percy as one of the major voices in Southern literature is now available for the first time in Vintage paperback. The Moviegoer is Binx Bolling, a young New Orleans stockbroker who surveys the world with the detached gaze of a Bourbon Street dandy even as he...
History of the Peloponnesian War
AuthorThucydides
ISBN0140440399
Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the long life-and-death struggle between Athens and Sparta stands an excellent chance of fulfilling its author's ambitious claim. Thucydides himself (c.460-400 BC) was an Athenian and achieved the rank...
The Tunnel
AuthorWilliam H. Gass
ISBN1564782131
Thirty years in the making, William Gass's second novel first appeared on the literary scene in 1995, at which time it was promptly hailed as an indisputable masterpiece. The story of a middle aged professor who, upon completion of his massive historical study, Guilt and Innocence in Hitler's Germany,...
Lucky Jim
AuthorKingsley Amis
ISBN0140186301
Regarded by many as the finest, and funniest, comic novel of the twentieth century, Lucky Jim remains as trenchant, withering, and eloquently misanthropic as when it first scandalized readers in 1954. This is the story of Jim Dixon, a hapless lecturer in medieval history at a provincial university...
The Public Burning
AuthorRobert Coover
ISBN0802135277
A controversial best-seller in 1977, The Public Burning has since emerged as one of the most influential novels of our time. The first major work of contemporary fiction ever to use living historical figures as characters, the novel reimagines the three fateful days in 1953 that culminated with the...
The Glory of Their Times: The Story of the Early Days of Baseball Told by the Men Who Played It
AuthorLawrence S. Ritter
ISBN0688112730
All these were honored in their generation,
And were the glory of their times.
Ecclesiasticus 44:7




Boston Red Sox, spring traing, 1915. Hot Springs Arkansas
Highlighted players, left to right
Smokey Joe Wood
Dutch Leonard
Babe Ruth
Carl Mays
Germany...
The World Within the Word
AuthorWilliam H. Gass
ISBN0465026257
In this sequel to Fiction & the Figures of Life, one of America's most brilliant and eclectic minds examines literature, culture, writers (their lives and works), and the nature and uses of language and the written word. Included are discussions of Valéry, Henry Miller, Sartre, Freud, Faulkner,...
A Temple of Texts
AuthorWilliam H. Gass
ISBN0307262863
From one of the most admired essayists and novelists at work today: a new collection of essays—his first since Tests of Time, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism.

These twenty-five essays speak to the nature and value of writing and to the books that result from...
A Breath of Life
AuthorClarice Lispector
ISBN0811219623
A mystical dialogue between a male author (a thinly disguised Clarice Lispector) and his/her creation, a woman named Angela, this posthumous work has never before been translated. Lispector did not even live to see it published.

At her death, a mountain of fragments remained to be “structured”...
Finding a Form
AuthorWilliam H. Gass
ISBN0801484898
William Gass writes about literary language, about history, about the avant-garde, about minimalism's brief vogue, about the use of the present tense in fiction (Is it due to the lack of both a sense of history and a belief in the future?), about biography as a form, about exile - spiritual and geographical...
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