The Quaker City: The Monks of Monk Hall
10 best books like The Quaker City: The Monks of Monk Hall (George Lippard): The Castle of Otranto, Scott Pilgrim, Volume 3: Scott Pilgrim & The Infinite Sadness, The Masque of the Red Death, Giovanni’s Room, Wieland and Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist, Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, Cancer Vixen, Poems of Phillis Wheatley, Wieland, or, The Transformation
| Author | Horace Walpole |
| ISBN | 0192834401 |
First published pseudonymously in 1764, The Castle of Otranto purported to be a translation of an Italian story of the time of the crusades. In it Walpole attempted, as he declared in the Preface to the Second Edition, "to blend the two kinds of romance: the ancient and the modern." Crammed with invention,...
Scott Pilgrim, Volume 3: Scott Pilgrim & The Infinite Sadness
Ramona's third evil ex-boyfriend, Todd Ingram, is currently dating the former love of Scott Pilgrim's life! Envy Adams broke Scott's heart a year and a half ago. Now she and her evil art-rock band are back, and they're getting Scott's band to open a show two days from now! That's just enough time for Scott...
The Masque of the Red Death
| Author | Edgar Allan Poe |
| ISBN | 1594567395 |
The story follows Prince Prospero's attempts to avoid a dangerous plague known as the Red Death by hiding in his abbey. He, along with many other wealthy nobles, has a masquerade ball within seven rooms of his abbey, each decorated with a different color.
In the midst of their revelry, a mysterious...
| Author | James Baldwin |
| ISBN | 0141186356 |
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Baldwin's haunting and controversial second novel is his most sustained treatment of sexuality, and a classic of gay literature. In a 1950s Paris swarming with expatriates and characterized by dangerous liaisons and hidden violence, an...
| Author | Charles Brockden Brown |
| ISBN | 0140390790 |
I read WIELAND: OR THE TRANSFORMATION for different reasons than I think the majority will read it. I'll bet a lot of people read it because it's a very early example of the "American Novel". Most are probably assigned it for a class. Perhaps some read it because of interest in a particular aspect (religious...
Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing
| Author | Caroline Myss |
| ISBN | 0609800140 |
Building on wisdom from Hindu, Christian, and Kaballah traditions, this comprehensive guide to energy healing reveals the hidden stresses, beliefs, and attitudes that cause illness.
Anatomy of the Spirit is the boldest presentation to date of energy medicine by one of its premier practitioners,...
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....
| Author | Marisa Acocella Marchetto |
| ISBN | 0307263576 |
What happens when a shoe-crazy, lipstick-obsessed, wine-swilling, pasta-slurping, fashion-fanatic, single-forever, about-to-get-married big-city girl cartoonist with a fabulous life finds... a lump in her breast?
That/s the question that sets this powerful, funny, and poignant...
| Author | Phillis Wheatley |
| ISBN | 1557092338 |
“Some view our sable race with scornful eye, ‘Their colour is a diabolic dye.’ Remember, Christians... Negros, black as Cain, May be refin'd, and join th' angelic train.”
This was a for-school-read that I really ended up enjoying. First published in 1770, Phillis Wheatley was...
| 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...
