18 books like How to Be Alone

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Hey rub-a-dub-dub Theodore Dreiser · 1920 · ★ 4.0 · 312p · ≈ 10h · Challenging This collection contains numerous essays about the idea of the literary American character and several dramatic works from Dreiser. Dreiser held the collection in high regard, but it was panned by critics on its release. Many of Dreiser's unique obsessions, from the political to the scientific, are explored in these essays. Shares: American essays, Essays

Let Me Tell You What I Mean Joan Didion · 2021 · ★ 4.2 · 184p · ≈ 6h · Moderate From one of our most iconic and influential writers: a timeless collection of mostly early pieces that reveal what would become Joan Didion's subjects, including the press, politics, California robber barons, women, and her own self-doubt. Here are six pieces written in 1968 from the "Points West" Saturday Evening Post column Joan Didion shared from 1964 to 1969 with her husband, John Gregory… Shares: American essays, Essays

One Man's Meat E. B. White · 1941 · 350p · ≈ 11h · Challenging First published in 1942, this collection of essays on Maine life has been in print almost without interruption. The author began this collection as a series of pieces for Harper's Magazine when he left New York City and moved to a saltwater farm in Brooklin, Maine. His observations on town meetings, poultry, the weather, songbirds, compost, taxes, war, winter, and much more will resonate just as… Shares: Essais américains, American essays, Essays

Essays, first series Ralph Waldo Emerson · 1876 · ★ 3.5 · 376p · ≈ 12h · Challenging Emerson, Alfred Kazin observes in his Introduction, "was a great writer who turned the essay into a form all his own." His celebrated essays--the twelve published in Essays: First Series (1841) and eight in Essays: Second Series (1844)--are here presented for the first time in an authoritative one-volume edition, which incorporates all the changes and corrections Emerson made after their initial… Shares: American essays, Essays

When You Are Engulfed in Flames David Sedaris · 2007 · ★ 4.3 · 321p · ≈ 10h · Moderate "David Sedaris's ability to transform the mortification of everyday life into wildly entertaining art," (The Christian Science Monitor) is elevated to wilder and more entertaining heights than ever in this remarkable new book. Trying to make coffee when the water is shut off, David considers using the water in a vase of flowers and his chain of associations takes him from the French countryside… Shares: Essais américains, American essays, Essays

Modern essays Christopher Morley · 1921 · 351p · ≈ 11h · Challenging "A collection of representative contemporary essays" written by British and American authors. Shares: American essays, Essays

Stranger Than Fiction Chuck Palahniuk · 2004 · ★ 3.6 · 256p · ≈ 8h · Moderate From the bestselling author of Fight Club and Diary, a collection of essays and journalistic pieces that prove that real life has imagination beaten cold in the strangeness and wonder departmentsChuck Palahniuk's world has always been, well, different from yours and mine. The pieces that comprise Stranger Than Fiction, his first nonfiction collection, prove just how different, in ways both… Shares: American essays, Essays

slouching towards bethlehem Joan Didion · 1967 · ★ 4.2 · 238p · ≈ 7h · Moderate American novelist Joan Didion's first volume of nonfiction essays, first published in 1968, consisting of twenty works that reflect the atmosphere in America during the 1960s, especially in California. Shares: American essays, Essays

Emerson Ralph Waldo Emerson · 1910 · 380p · ≈ 12h · Challenging Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the preeminent figures of the American literature. The leading expositor of the transcendentalist movement, he helped shape modern American Philosophy and religion, and his legacy continued through Thoreau, Melville, Whitman, and Dickinson. Shares: American essays, Essays

Yet again Sir Max Beerbohm · 1909 · 86p · ≈ 2h · Challenging This book is perfectly adapted and layout for a pleasant reading on a tablet, smartphone or computer. To improve your reading experience, this digital version has been edited and formatted according to the requirements of this platform. Shares: Essays

And Even Now Sir Max Beerbohm · 1920 · 150p · ≈ 5h · Challenging This book is perfectly adapted and layout for a pleasant reading on a tablet, smartphone or computer. To improve your reading experience, this digital version has been edited and formatted according to the requirements of this platform. Shares: Essays

Revolutionist's Handbook and Pocket Companion George Bernard Shaw · 1900 · 58p · ≈ 1h · Challenging The French Revolution overthrew one set of rulers and substituted another with different interests and different views. That is what a general election enables the people to do in England every seven years if they choose. Revolution is therefore a national institution in England; and its advocacy by an Englishman needs no apology. Every man is a revolutionist concerning the thing he understands.… Shares: Essays

Hausblätter F. W. Hackländer · 1855 · 480p · ≈ 16h · Challenging Shares: Essays

Escape, and other essays Arthur Christopher Benson · 1915 · ★ 5.0 · 302p · ≈ 10h · Challenging This book is romantic story, I walked to-day down by the river side. The Cam is a stream much slighted by the lover of wild and romantic scenery; and its chief merit, in the eyes of our boys, is that it approaches more nearly to a canal in its straightness and the deliberation of its slow lapse than many more famous floods--and is therefore more adapted for the maneuvres of eight-oared boats! But… Shares: Essays

The thread of gold Arthur Christopher Benson · 1905 · 271p · ≈ 9h · Challenging This is biographical book. I have for a great part of my life desired, perhaps more than I have desired anything else, to make a beautiful book; and I have tried, perhaps too hard and too often, to do this, without ever quite succeeding; by that I mean that my little books, when finished, were not worthy to be compared with the hope that I had had of them. I think now that I tried to do too many… Shares: Essays

Essays Ralph Waldo Emerson · 1800 · ★ 4.2 · 274p · ≈ 9h · Challenging Welcome to the Essays collection. A special selection of the nonfiction prose from influential and noteworthy authors. This book brings some of best essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson, across a wide range of subjects, including individuality, freedom, society and many more topics. Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American philosopher and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.… Shares: American essays, Essays

Essays, literary, moral & philosophical Benjamin Rush · 1798 · 378p · ≈ 12h · Demanding Shares: American essays, Essays

Barrel Fever David Sedaris · 1994 · ★ 3.8 · 202p · ≈ 6h · Moderate In David Sedaris’ world, no one is safe and no cow is sacred. A manic cross between Mark Leyner, Fran Lebowitz, and the National Enquirer, Sedaris’ collection of essays is a rollicking tour through the national Zeitgeist: a do-it-yourself suburban dad saves money by performing home surgery; a man who is loved too much flees the heavyweight champion of the world; a teenage suicide tries to incite… Shares: American essays, Essays

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