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Tristram Shandy; and A Sentimental Journey

10 best books like Tristram Shandy; and A Sentimental Journey (Laurence Sterne): Complete Novels: The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter / Reflections in a Golden Eye / The Ballad of the Sad Cafe / The Member of the Wedding / Clock Without Hands, The Vanity of Human Wishes, Rousseau's Dog: Two Great Thinkers at War in the Age of Enlightenment, 5 Novels: Alan Mendelsohn, the Boy from Mars / Slaves of Spiegel / The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death / The Last Guru / Young Adult Novel, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, Get Your War On, Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Edmund Spenser's Poetry, The Major Works, The Innocents Abroad / Roughing It

Complete Novels: The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter / Reflections in a Golden Eye / The Ballad of the Sad Cafe / The Member of the Wedding / Clock Without Hands
AuthorCarson McCullers
ISBN1931082030
When The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter was published in 1940, Carson McCullers was instantly recognized as one of the most promising writers of her generation. The novels that followed established her as a master of Southern Gothic.

"McCullers' gift," writes Joyce Carol Oates, "was to evoke, through...
The Vanity of Human Wishes
AuthorSamuel Johnson
ISBN0948807326
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment...
Rousseau's Dog: Two Great Thinkers at War in the Age of Enlightenment
AuthorDavid Edmonds
In 1766 philosopher, novelist, composer, and political provocateur Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a fugitive, decried by his enemies as a dangerous madman. Meanwhile David Hume—now recognized as the foremost philosopher in the English language—was being universally lauded as a paragon of decency....
5 Novels: Alan Mendelsohn, the Boy from Mars / Slaves of Spiegel / The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death / The Last Guru / Young Adult Novel
AuthorDaniel Pinkwater
ISBN0374423296
5 Novels contains five classic novels by Daniel Pinkwater, who has been quietly, subversively producing books for the most intelligent and creative children and young people in America for more than twenty-five years. (Adults may know him as a frequent commentator on National Public Radio, essayist,...
The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
AuthorTobias Smollett
ISBN1847024920


Does the above book cover for Tobias Smollett's The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle look like an invitation to a frolicking, sexually charged escapade all in the spirit of good, clean fun? That's precisely what the publisher of this edition is aiming for.

Much, much different from...
Get Your War On
AuthorDavid Rees
A series of strips in which office workers rant to each other about bin Laden, anthrax, suicide bombers, Enron, the war on terror, and the suspect motivation and methods of the post-9/11 American government.

The strips begin in October 2001 and run for about a year. At first they're all AMERICA...
Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
AuthorSamuel Taylor Coleridge
ISBN1853264202
There are some truly outstanding poems in this collection. The most well known among them would be 'The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner', although Christabel is one of my personal favourites.

There are varying themes within this volume, ranging from love and loss and bereavement, to praise for...
Edmund Spenser's Poetry
AuthorEdmund Spenser
ISBN0393962997
To facilitate discussion of the place of the body and of pastoral elements in Spenser's epic, the Third Edition includes more of The Faerie Queene: from Book II, canto ix (the House of Alma), and from Book VI, the remainder of canto x and all of cantos xi-xii. The Shepheardes Calender is represented by...
The Major Works
AuthorFrancis Bacon
ISBN0192840819
This authoritative edition brings together an extensive collection of Bacon's writing - the major prose in full, together with sixteen other pieces not otherwise available - that reveals the essence of his work and thinking.

Francis Bacon held some of the highest public offices in the land...
The Innocents Abroad / Roughing It
AuthorMark Twain
ISBN0940450259
This Library of America volume contains the novels that, when published, transformed an obscure Western journalist into a national celebrity. The Innocents Abroad and Roughing It (sometimes called The Innocents at Home) were immensely successful when first published and they remain today the...
Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus
AuthorAlexander Pope
Rich with hilarious episodes, Scriblerus is an ingenious satire of false learning and bad taste that has much to say to the pseudo-intellectual world of today. By taking one ambitious father and his determination to do everything in his power to produce a child of genius, Pope exposes the true folly...
Prisoner's Dilemma
AuthorRichard Powers
ISBN0060977086
Something is wrong with Eddie Hobson Sr., father of four, sometime history teacher, quiz master, black humorist and virtuoso invalid. His recurring fainting spells have worsened, and with his ingrained aversion to doctors, his worried family tries to discover the nature of his sickness. Meanwhile,...
The Complete Tales of Nikolai Gogol, Volume 1
AuthorNikolai Gogol
ISBN0226300684
Nikolai Gogol was an artist who, like Rabelais, Cervantes, Swift, and Sterne, "knew how to walk upside down in our valley of sorrows so as to make it to a merry place." This two-volume edition at last brings all of Gogol's fiction (except his novel Dead Souls) together in paperback. Volume 1 includes Evenings...
Collected Essays
AuthorAldous Huxley
ISBN0060902469
There are essays here on pretty much anything that struck Huxley's interest - which is, in itself, inspiring and admirable - but the unspoken theme running through much of the book is an effort to reconcile humanism with the colder truths of the 20th century (i.e. the long view of history, the long view...
The Oak And The Calf: Sketches Of Literary Life In The Soviet Union
AuthorAleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
ISBN0002626039
An intriguing peak under the permafrosted layers of the crypto-literary underground of Stalinist Russia, the memorization of books in prison camps, the division of scraps and films and fragments of manuscripts in walls and light sockets and immigree's apartments...of publishing and sudden fame...
The Portable Oscar Wilde
AuthorOscar Wilde
ISBN0140150935
I managed to get through about a third of "The Critic as Artist," the two plays, Salome and The Importance of Being Earnest, his novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, about one-fifth of "De Profundis" which is the amazingly (amazingly) long letter to his ex-boyfriend, and some of his poems. What an interesting...
La double inconstance
AuthorPierre de Marivaux
ISBN2035881080
Dans un royaume imaginaire, deux villageois, Arlequin et Silvia, s'aiment d'un amour si profond que rien ni personne ne semble pouvoir les séparer...
Mais un jour, le Prince, en simple tenue d'officier du palais, rencontre Silvia et n'a dès lors plus qu'une seule idée en tête : l'épouser....
A Group of Noble Dames
AuthorThomas Hardy
ISBN1406924660
(I wonder if Agatha Christie read this book. It certainly reminded me of one of her books - a group of people swap mystery stories one evening?) Hardy gets his people together to swap stories about notable women. I like this method a lot, it gives a theme and continuity to the stories - something I miss in...
Al Qaeda and What It Means to Be Modern
AuthorJohn N. Gray
ISBN1565849876
While many Americans view the September 11th terrorist attack as the act of an anachronistic and dangerous sect, one that champions medieval and outmoded ideals, John Gray here argues that in fact the ideology of Al Qaeda is both Western and modern, a by-product of globalization’s transnational...
The Essential Tales of Chekhov
AuthorAnton Chekhov
ISBN0060956569
Of the two hundred stories that Anton Chekhov wrote, the twenty stories that appear in this extraordinary collection were personally chosen by Richard Ford--an accomplished storyteller in his own right. Included are the familiar masterpieces--"The Kiss," "The Darling," and "The Lady with the...
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