18 books like Sanctuary

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The Town William Faulkner · 1957 · 371p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Flem Snopes goes on to higher things in Jefferson, Yoknapatawpha's county seat. Shares American Manuscripts, Mississippi, Facsimiles, Manuscripts
Absalom, Absalom!
Absalom, Absalom! William Faulkner · 1936 · ★ 4.0 · 321p · ≈ 10h · Moderate The story of Thomas Sutpen, an enigmatic stranger who came to Jefferson in the early 1830s to wrest his mansion out of the muddy bottoms of the north Mississippi wilderness. He was a man, Faulkner said, "who wanted sons and the sons destroyed him." Shares American Manuscripts, Mississippi, Facsimiles, Manuscripts
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Intruder in the Dust William Faulkner · 1948 · 247p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Using his preferred stream-of-consciousness style the author tells a story of a black farmer in Mississippi accused of murdering a white man. Shares American Manuscripts, Facsimiles, Manuscripts, Crimes against
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Tender Is the Night F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1933 · ★ 3.8 · 399p · ≈ 13h · Moderate A psychiatrist, Dick Diver, treats and eventually marries a wealthy patient, Nicole. Eventually, this marriage destroys him. Shares American Manuscripts, Facsimiles, Manuscripts
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The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner · 1929 · ★ 3.9 · 335p · ≈ 11h · Moderate In many ways this was an experimental novel, using several differing narrative styles. Divided into four parts, the author relates the same episodes from four different viewpoints, using a different style for each. The story concerns various members of a Southern family, once wealthy landowners but now struggling to maintain their reputation. Shares American Manuscripts, Facsimiles, Manuscripts
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Master of the moor Ruth Rendell · 1982 · ★ 3.7 · 239p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Stephen Whalby loves to walk the moor. He considers it his, although he and his young wife Lyn are merely tenants in a flat nearby. But the senseless and frightening murder of a young woman invades Stephen's sense of privacy and pollutes his beloved moor with suspicion and dread. And then a second murder captures his imagination in an unpredictable and fascinating way . . . Shares Crimes against, Women
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The Europeans Henry James · 1878 · 196p · ≈ 6h · Challenging The Europeans concerns an expatriate American, Eugenia, and her artist brother, Felix Young. Eugenia is the morganatic wife of a German prince, but she is to be repudiated in favor of a state marriage; thus she leaves for Boston to make an appropriate match of her own. Shares American Manuscripts, Facsimiles, Manuscripts
A history of autobiography in antiquity
A history of autobiography in antiquity Georg Misch · 1950 · 364p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Shares Biography & Memoir with this book.
Missing Persons
Missing Persons Mary Evans · 1998 · 176p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Shares Biography & Memoir with this book.
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Two Sisters Gore Vidal · 1970 · ★ 5.0 · 236p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Originally published in 1970 this fairly short novel (174 pages) contains, according to the blurb on the dust jacket of the first edition, “Gore Vidal’s singular speculations on love, sex, death, literature and politics.” Shares Biography & Memoir
Autobiography
Autobiography Anderson L Staff · 2001 · 166p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Shares Biography & Memoir with this book.
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Marse Henry : An Autobiography Henry Watterson · 1919 · 325p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Shares Biography & Memoir with this book.
Cover of The Library of American Biography
The Library of American Biography Jared Sparks · 1846 · 402p · ≈ 13h · Challenging Shares Biography & Memoir with this book.
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Mr. Nice Howard Marks · 1996 · 468p · ≈ 15h · Moderate Shares Biography & Memoir with this book.
Cover of As I Lay Dying
As I Lay Dying William Faulkner · 1915 · ★ 3.7 · 250p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Written in stream-of-consciousness style with multiple narrators, the story follows a journey wherein the family of a dead woman try to transport her body to her birthplace in Mississippi in accordance with her wishes. When a ford across a river is flooded they are forced to take a roundabout route and it becomes a desperate race to complete their mission before the body begins to decompose. Shares American Manuscripts, Facsimiles, Manuscripts
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Proserpine & Midas Mary Shelley · 1922 · ★ 3.4 · 54p · ≈ 1h · Moderate Shares Facsimiles, Manuscripts with this book.
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The rose and the ring William Makepeace Thackeray · 1854 · ★ 3.8 · 144p · ≈ 4h · Challenging The Rose and the Ring is one of those special literary treats which happen when a writer for adults turns his attention to the world of children. It's a classic fairy tale, told with Thackeray's customary insight into characters, an excellent story for reading aloud to children. Shares Facsimiles, Manuscripts, Biography & Memoir
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Heartbreak House George Bernard Shaw · 1919 · ★ 3.7 · 160p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Published in 1919, Heartbreak House is an examination of the failings of the European leisure classes before World War I—failings that author George Bernard Shaw blamed for the war, and that he predicted would quickly lead to another, longer war. The play is set in an English country house, where representatives of every type of English society have gathered at the home of the seemingly-mad… Shares Facsimiles, Manuscripts

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