The Geography of the Imagination: Forty Essays
8 best books like The Geography of the Imagination: Forty Essays (Guy Davenport): Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals, The Conspiracy Against the Human Race, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, The Gateless Gate: The Classic Book of Zen Koans, The Awakening and Selected Short Fiction, Billy Budd and The Piazza Tales, The Communist Manifesto and Other Writings, A Temple of Texts
| Author | John N. Gray |
| ISBN | 1862075964 |
This smallish book is one of the most depressing and pessimistic 200 pages I have read in a long time. John Gray has been getting darker and darker in his vision of the world and Straw Dogs finally brings him round to bleak nihilism.
The book has many virtues. It is written in an admirably simple...
The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
His fiction is known to be some of the most terrifying in the genre of supernatural horror, but Thomas Ligotti's first nonfiction book may be even scarier. Drawing on philosophy, literature, neuroscience, and other fields of study, Ligotti takes the penetrating lens of his imagination and turns it...
Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
| Author | Gilles Deleuze |
| ISBN | 0816612250 |
A major work in the development of critical theory in the late 20th century, ANTI-OEDIPUS is an essential text for feminists, literary theorists, social scientists, philosophers, and other interested in the problems of contemporary Western culture. "An important text in the rethinking of sexuality...
The Gateless Gate: The Classic Book of Zen Koans
| Author | Wumen Huikai |
| ISBN | 0861713826 |
In The Gateless Gate, one of modern Zen Buddhism's uniquely influential masters offers classic commentaries on the Mumonkan, one of Zen's greatest collections of teaching stories. This translation was compiled with the Western reader in mind, and includes Koan Yamada's clear and penetrating comments...
| Author | Kate Chopin |
| ISBN | 1593080018 |
When it first appeared in 1899, Kate Chopin’s The Awakening was greeted with cries of outrage. The novel’s frank portrayal of a woman’s emotional, intellectual, and sexual awakening shocked the sensibilities of the time and destroyed the author’s reputation and career. Many years passed...
| Author | Herman Melville |
| ISBN | 1593082533 |
Largely neglected in his own lifetime, Herman Melville mastered not only the great American novel but also the short story and novella forms. In Billy Budd and The Piazza Tales, Melville reveals an uncanny awareness of the inscrutable nature of reality.
Published posthumously...
| Author | Karl Marx |
| ISBN | 1593081006 |
The Communist Manifesto and Other Writings, by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted...
| Author | William H. Gass |
| ISBN | 0307262863 |
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...
