18 books like Memoranda during the war

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A Pale View of Hills Kazuo Ishiguro · 1982 · ★ 3.8 · 200p · ≈ 6h · Moderate In his highly acclaimed debut, A Pale View of Hills, Kazuo Ishiguro tells the story of Etsuko, a Japanese woman now living alone in England, dwelling on the recent suicide of her daughter. Retreating into the past, she finds herself reliving one particular hot summer in Nagasaki, when she and her friends struggled to rebuild their lives after the war. But then as she recalls her strange… Shares: History

Army Life in a Black Regiment Thomas Wentworth Higginson · 1870 · ★ 3.9 · 232p · ≈ 7h · Challenging "Army Life in a Black Regiment has some claim to be the best written narrative to come from the Union [side] during the Civil War," wrote historian Henry Steele Commander. "Higginson's picture of the battle which was the origin of 'praise the Lord and pass the ammunition' and his reading of the Emancipation Proclamation to the black regiment are unsurpassed for eloquence." A Union colonel wrote… Shares: United States Civil War, Personal narratives, United States, Biography & Memoir

Letters of Wallace Stevens Wallace Stevens · 1966 · ★ 4.3 · 890p · ≈ 29h · Moderate Long unavailable, now in paperback for the first time, these are the brilliant, subtle, illuminating letters of one of the great poets of the twentieth century. Wallace Stevens's famous criterion for poetry - "It should give pleasure" - informed his epistolary aesthetic as well; these letters stimulate one's appetite for poetry as they valorize the imagination and the senses. They also offer… Shares: American Poets, Poets, Biography & Memoir

Tennyson Harold Nicolson · 1923 · 308p · ≈ 10h · Challenging Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (; 6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892) was an English poet. He was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom during much of Queen Victorias reign. In 1829 he was awarded the Chancellor's Gold Medal at Cambridge for one of his first pieces, "Timbuktu". He published his first solo collection of poems, Poems, Chiefly Lyrical, in 1830. "Claribel" and "Mariana", which remain… Shares: 19th Century, Poets, Biography & Memoir

The Song of Hiawatha and Other Poems Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · 1800 · ★ 4.0 · 354p · ≈ 11h · Challenging Poetry and prose written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow List of Poems: The song of Hiawatha Evangeline The courtship of Miles Standish The village blacksmith A Psalm of life The rainy day The light of stars God's acre The reaper and the flowers The wreck of the Hesperus The arrow and the song Footsteps of angels Endymion The arsenal at Springfield In the churchyard at Cambridge The belfry of… Shares: American Poets, United States, Poetry

Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman · 1855 · ★ 4.1 · 288p · ≈ 9h · Challenging Leaves of Grass is a poetry collection by American poet Walt Whitman. First published in 1855, Whitman spent most of his professional life writing and rewriting Leaves of Grass, revising it multiple times until his death. There have been held to be either six or nine individual editions of Leaves of Grass, the count varying depending on how they are distinguished.[2] This resulted in vastly… Shares: American Poets, United States Civil War, Poetry, Biography & Memoir

Oliver Goldsmith Washington Irving · 1840 · 161p · ≈ 5h · Challenging Irving wrote this biographical sketch of the poet Goldsmith from his estate, Sunnyside, near Tarrytown, N.Y. It is a biography of the english author oliver Goldsmith a sad life and he didn't profit from his work. Shares: American Poets, Poets, Biography & Memoir

The Rough Riders Theodore Roosevelt · 1894 · 128p · ≈ 4h · Challenging "The Rough Riders (1899) is the story of the First U.S. Volunteer Cavalry, the regiment Roosevelt led to enduring fame in Cuba during the Spanish-American War. Roosevelt recounts how the regiment was raised from an unusual mixture of hardened southwestern frontiersmen and privileged northeastern college graduates, and how it trained in Texas and then sailed "southward through the topic seas… Shares: Personal narratives, United States, Biography & Memoir, History

A preface to Wordsworth John Arthur Purkis · 1970 · ★ 4.0 · 211p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Probably the most famous of the Romantic poets, William Wordsworth worked with and influenced many of the leading poets of the age. This excellent introduction to his life and works sets his writing firmly in the context of his times. John Purkis provides an outline of Wordsworth's life and cultural background and their effect on his work, and examines his verse, from the earliest school poems to… Shares: 19th Century, Poets, Poetry, Biography & Memoir

Tales of a wayside inn Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · 1863 · 237p · ≈ 7h · Challenging Mostly a collection of story-telling poems told by a group of friends in a tavern late one night. "Tales" includes the famous Paul Revere's ride, together with poems of many tales, countries and styles. Shares: American Poets, Poetry

Hospital Sketches Louisa May Alcott · 1863 · ★ 4.0 · 67p · ≈ 2h · Challenging An account of Alcott's stint as a nurse for wounded soldiers in Washington, D. C. during the winter of American Civil War in 1862-1863. Shares: Hospitals, Personal narratives, Biography & Memoir, History

The prelude William Wordsworth · 1850 · ★ 3.9 · 240p · ≈ 8h · Challenging Selected sonnets and poems with bibliography and chronology of the life of Wordsworth. Shares: Poets, Poetry, History

Recollections of an old soldier Capt. David Perry (b. 1741) · 1822 · 64p · ≈ 2h · Challenging As they were in those days, the full title of Capt David Perry's book is its own description: Recollections of an old soldier. The life of Captain David Perry, a soldier of the French and revolutionary wars, containing many extraordinary occurrences relating to his own private history, and an account of some interesting events in the history of the times in which he lived, no-where else… Shares: Personal narratives, Biography & Memoir, History

Just Kids Patti Smith · 2006 · ★ 4.2 · 310p · ≈ 10h · Moderate In this memoir, singer-songwriter Patti Smith shares tales of New York City : the denizens of Max's Kansas City, the Hotel Chelsea, Scribner's, Brentano's and Strand bookstores and her new life in Brooklyn with a young man named Robert Mapplethorpe--the man who changed her life with his love, friendship, and genius. Shares: American Poets, Poets, Poetry, Biography & Memoir

Andersonville; a story of rebel military prisons John McElroy · 1879 · 624p · ≈ 20h · Demanding "McElroy, with a detachment of his regiment, was guarding a supply route to Cumberland Gap when his entire company was captured in a surprise attack one morning during the winter of 1862-63. He and his comrades were taken to Lippy Prison, and from there they were sent to Andersonville. McElroy spent the rest of the war as a prisoner. His story of attempts at escape, of comrades tracked through… Shares: United States Civil War, Personal narratives, Biography & Memoir, History

Canto a Mi Mismo Walt Whitman · 1904 · ★ 3.9 · 127p · ≈ 4h · Challenging "This book offers the most comprehensive and detailed reading to date of Song of Myself. One of the most distinguished critics in Whitman Studies, Ed Folsom, and one of the nation's most prominent writers and literary figures, Christopher Merrill, carry on a dialog with Whitman, and with each other, section by section, as they invite readers to enter into the conversation about how the poem… Shares: American Poets, Poetry, Biography & Memoir

Presidents for Kids Presidents For Kids · 2025 TIME For Kids presents a complete overview of our nation's chief executives from George Washington to the newly elected 45th president!Did you know that James Monroe was the first president to appear without a wig in public? Or that George W. Bush appointed the first African-American secretary of state? Presidents of the United States invites the reader inside the White House to discover… Shares: United States, Biography & Memoir

Louisa May Alcott Louisa May Alcott · 1889 · 422p · ≈ 14h · Challenging Excerpts from the author's diaries, written between the ages of eleven and thirteen, reveal her thoughts and feelings and her early poetic efforts. Shares: 19th Century, Diaries, Biography & Memoir

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