The Yeats Reader, Revised Edition: A Portable Compendium of Poetry, Drama, and Prose

5 best books like The Yeats Reader, Revised Edition: A Portable Compendium of Poetry, Drama, and Prose (W.B. Yeats): The House of the Dead, The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell, Island, The March, Point Counter Point

AuthorFyodor Dostoyevsky
ISBN0486434095
Accused of political subversion as a young man, Fyodor Dostoyevsky was sentenced to four years of hard labor at a Siberian prison camp — a horrifying experience from which he developed this astounding semi-autobiographical memoir of a man condemned to ten years of servitude for murdering his wife.
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The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell
AuthorAldous Huxley
ISBN0060595183
As only he can, Aldous Huxley explores the mind's remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human consciousness. These two astounding essays are among the most profound studies of the effects of mind-expanding drugs written in this century. Contains the complete texts of The Doors of Perception ...
Island
AuthorAldous Huxley
ISBN0060085495
In Island, his last novel, Huxley transports us to a Pacific island where, for 120 years, an ideal society has flourished. Inevitably, this island of bliss attracts the envy and enmity of the surrounding world. A conspiracy is underway to take over Pala, and events begin to move when an agent of the conspirators,...
AuthorE.L. Doctorow
ISBN0812976150
In 1864, Union general William Tecumseh Sherman marched his sixty thousand troops through Georgia to the sea, and then up into the Carolinas. The army fought off Confederate forces, demolished cities, and accumulated a borne-along population of freed blacks and white refugees until all that remained...
AuthorAldous Huxley
ISBN1564781313
Aldous Huxley's lifelong concern with the dichotomy between passion and reason finds its fullest expression both thematically and formally in his masterpiece Point Counter Point. By presenting a vision of life in which diverse aspects of experience are observed simultaneously, Huxley characterizes...
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