The Things That Matter: What Seven Classic Novels Have to Say About the Stages of Life
8 best books like The Things That Matter: What Seven Classic Novels Have to Say About the Stages of Life (Edward Mendelson): Inferno, The Saturday Night Ghost Club, Orange World and Other Stories, The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, Address Unknown, The Alcoholic, Murder by the Book: A Sensational Chapter in Victorian Crime, The Four Horsemen: The Conversation That Sparked an Atheist Revolution
| Author | Dante Alighieri |
| ISBN | 0812970063 |
I just want to start off by saying that "Through me you enter into the City of Woes" would make an EXCELLENT tramp stamp. Jump on it!
Being that I am an atheist living in the "Bible Belt," I was certain that reading this would lead to some sort of goodreads tirade, which can at times feel about as good...
The Saturday Night Ghost Club
| Author | Craig Davidson |
| ISBN | 0735274827 |
A short, irresistible, and bittersweet coming-of-age story in the vein of "Stranger Things" and "Stand by Me" about a group of misfit kids who spend an unforgettable summer investigating local ghost stories and urban legends.
Growing up in 1980s Niagara Falls--a seedy but magical, slightly...
Orange World and Other Stories
| Author | Karen Russell |
| ISBN | 1984892215 |
From the Pulitzer Finalist and universally beloved author of the New York Times best sellers Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove, a stunning new collection of short fiction that showcases Karen Russell's extraordinary, irresistible gifts of language and imagination.
Karen Russell's...
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase
| Author | Joan Aiken |
| ISBN | 0385327900 |
Wicked wolves and a grim governess threaten Bonnie and her cousin Sylvia when Bonnie's parents leave Willoughby Chase for a sea voyage. Left in the care of the cruel Miss Slighcarp, the girls can hardly believe what is happening to their once happy home. The servants are dismissed, the furniture is sold,...
| Author | Kathrine Kressmann Taylor |
| ISBN | 0743412710 |
A rediscovered classic, originally published in 1938 and now an international bestseller.When it first appeared in Story magazine in 1938, Address Unknown became an immediate social phenomenon and literary sensation. Published in book form a year later and banned in Nazi Germany, it garnered high...
| Author | Jonathan Ames |
| ISBN | 1401210562 |
Acclaimed novelist Jonathan Ames writes his first comics work with the original graphic novel THE ALCOHOLIC, illustrated by THE QUITTER artist Dean Haspiel.
This touching, compassionate, ultimately humorous story explores the heart of a failing writer who's coming off a doomed romance...
Murder by the Book: A Sensational Chapter in Victorian Crime
A gripping investigation into the crime that scandalized literary London, from Dickens to Thackeray.
On a spring morning in 1840, on an ultra-respectable Mayfair street, a household of servants awoke to discover that their unobtrusive master, Lord William Russell, was lying in bed with...
The Four Horsemen: The Conversation That Sparked an Atheist Revolution
| Author | Christopher Hitchens |
At the dawn of the new atheist movement, the thinkers who became known as “the four horsemen,” the heralds of religion's unraveling—Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Daniel Dennett—sat down together over cocktails. What followed was a rigorous, pathbreaking, and...
