18 books like A Son of the Sun

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The Sea-Wolf Jack London · 1900 · ★ 4.1 · 356p · ≈ 11h · Challenging Jack London's novel The Sea Wolf became an instant bestseller on its release in 1904. Ambrose Bierce wrote "The great thing - and it is among the greatest of things - is that tremendous creation, Wolf Larsen...the hewing out and setting up of such a figure is black for a man to do in one lifetime." The Sea Wolf tells the story of intellectual Humphrey van Weyden's toughening and growth in the… Shares: American Sea stories, American Adventure stories, Ship captains

In our time Ernest Hemingway · 1925 · ★ 3.7 · 156p · ≈ 5h · Challenging Short stories in the laconic style of a news reporter. Shares: American Autobiographical fiction, American Adventure stories

The Red Rover: A Tale James Fenimore Cooper · 1827 · ★ 3.7 · 361p · ≈ 12h · Challenging In "The Red Rover," a notorious pirate is chased by a disguised agent of the Royal Navy. Romance, adventure, political intrigue, revelations of mistaken identity--here is Cooper at his best: a painter of brilliant seascapes, a riveting narrator of suspense. --- The Library of America Shares: American Sea stories, Ship captains

The Secret Woman Eleanor Burford · 1970 · ★ 3.9 · 374p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Dark Secrets. Lost Treasure. Delicious Scandal. Anna Brett fears she's doomed to be a governess to an English family for the rest of her life. But when the dashing captain Redvers Stretton struts back into her life, she is whisked away from the bleak English countryside forever. But is that such a good thing? While the charming blue-eyed captain makes Anna forget her troubled past, he is hiding… Shares: Ship captains, Travel

Our Old Home Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1863 · 398p · ≈ 13h · Challenging Our Old Home, a series of English sketches by Nathaniel Hawthorne. This volume of charming sketches was published in 1863, and (in the words of the author) presents “a few of the external aspects of English scenery and life, especially those that are touched with the antique charm to which our countrymen are more susceptible than are the people among whom it is of native growth.” Shares: Americans, Travel

Dodsworth Sinclair Lewis · 1929 · ★ 4.0 · 389p · ≈ 12h · Challenging A middle-aged American retires and he and his wife go to Europe where they find a new set of values and relationships. Shares: Americans, Travel

Miracle in Seville James A. Michener · 1995 · ★ 3.6 · 107p · ≈ 3h · Moderate In Spain, a rancher prays to the Virgin Mary to have his bull cover him in glory. Meanwhile, the sister of the matador who will fight the bull prays to the devil to turn the bull into a weakling. A tale of bulls and miracles, narrated by an non-believing American journalist who in the process discovers faith in God. An American journalist is in Seville on assignment. He is to report on efforts… Shares: Americans, Travel

Daisy Miller Henry James · 1877 · ★ 3.4 · 62p · ≈ 2h · Challenging A beautiful American girl, Daisy Miller, is pursued by the sophisticated Winterbourne, who moves in fairly conservative circles. Their courtship is frowned upon by the other Americans they meet in Switzerland and Italy because Daisy is too vivacious and flirtatious and neither belongs to, nor follows the rules of, their society. The novella is a comment on American and European attitudes towards… Shares: Americans, Travel

The Sheltering Sky Paul Bowles · 1948 · ★ 3.9 · 342p · ≈ 11h · Challenging 'The Sheltering Sky is a book about people on the edge of an alien space; somewhere where, curiously, they are never alone' Michael Hoffman. Port and Kit Moresbury, a sophisticated American couple, are finding it more than a little difficult to live with each other. Endeavouring to escape this predicament, they set off for North Africa intending to travel through Algeria - uncertain of exactly… Shares: Americans, Travel

The Lands of the Saracen Bayard Taylor · 1854 · 451p · ≈ 15h · Challenging This volume comprises the second portion of a series of travels. This work includes author's adventure travels in Palestine, Syria, Asia Minor, Sicily and Spain. Shares: Travel

Journey Without Maps Graham Greene · 1936 · 249p · ≈ 8h · Challenging This is an account of a trip Graham Greene made in 1935 with his cousin, Barbara Greene, through the previously unexplored interior of Liberia. It was an extremely uncomfortable journey, with Greene falling seriously ill halfway through the trip. Possibly as a result of this he also made a point of noting the many illnesses with which the local inhabitants were assailed, particularly malaria and… Shares: Travel

Five Days in Paris Danielle Steel · 1995 · ★ 3.7 · 244p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Peter Haskell has everything.. power, position, a career and a family that mean everything to him and for which he has sacrificed a great deal. Compromise has been key, and integrity is the base on which he lives. Olivia Thatcher, the wife of a famous senator, is trapped in a web of duty and obligation, married to a man she once loved and no longer even knows. Peter and Olivia meet in Paris,… Shares: Americans, Travel

The Cruise of the Snark Jack London · 1911 · 180p · ≈ 6h · Challenging In April 1907 Jack London set out to sail around the world in the 45-foot ship The Snark, accompanied by his wife and a small crew. Although suffering from seasickness and tropical disease, London wrote prolifically, including a series of entertaining sketches of the voyage itself. These were later collected as The Cruise of the Snark, a remarkable record of adventure and love among the islands… Shares: Americans, Travel

The sketch-book of Geoffrey Crayon, Esq Washington Irving · 1819 · 322p · ≈ 10h · Challenging The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon is the compilation of 34 short stories and essays by Washington Irving. It includes some of his most famous stories, such as The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle, and was one of the first works of American fiction to become popular in Britain and Europe. The tone of the stories varies widely, and they are held together by the powerful charm of their… Shares: Americans, Travel

All the Pretty Horses Cormac McCarthy · 1992 · ★ 4.4 · 301p · ≈ 10h · Moderate All the Pretty Horses is a novel by American author Cormac McCarthy published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1992. Its romanticism (in contrast to the bleakness of McCarthy's earlier work) brought the writer much public attention. It was a bestseller, and it won both the U.S. National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Along with The Crossing (1994), and Cities of the Plain (1998), it… Shares: Americans, Travel

Italian journeys William Dean Howells · 1867 · 264p · ≈ 8h · Challenging "In the later part of his long and productive life - he wrote well over a dozen novels, thirty-one dramas, a few volumes of verse, several autobiographical works, eleven books of travel - W. D. Howells was considered one of America's foremost men of letters."--BOOK JACKET. "Italian Journeys, published in 1867 and written during the four years Howells spent as an American consul in Venice, is… Shares: Americans, Travel

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Mark Twain · 1889 · ★ 3.8 · 386p · ≈ 12h · Challenging A blow on the head transports a Yankee to 528 A.D. where he proceeds to modernize King Arthur's kingdom by organizing a school system, constructing telephone lines, and inventing the printing press. Shares: Americans, Travel

The French and Italian notebooks Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1871 · 576p · ≈ 19h · Challenging A travel writing by Hawthrone that is very occasional in nature. This travel writing also reflects his interesting observations and his descriptions that have been penned down in the form of huge paragraphs . Shares: Americans, Travel

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