18 books like Tales of lonely trails

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You Can't Go Home Again Thomas Wolfe · 1940 · ★ 3.9 · 727p · ≈ 24h · Challenging George Webber has written a successful novel about his family and hometown. When he returns to that town he is shaken by the force of the outrage and hatred that greets him. Family and friends feel naked and exposed by the truths they have seen in his book, and their fury drives him from his home. He begins a search for his own identity that takes him to New York and a hectic social whirl; to… Shares: American Novelists, Novelists

A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway · 1964 · ★ 4.0 · 207p · ≈ 6h · Moderate A Moveable Feast is a 1964 memoir belles-lettres by American author Ernest Hemingway about his years as a struggling expat journalist and writer in Paris during the 1920s. It was published posthumously.[1] The book details Hemingway's first marriage to Hadley Richardson and his associations with other cultural figures of the Lost Generation in Interwar France. The memoir consists of various… Shares: American Novelists, Novelists, Homes and haunts, Intellectual life

Stand before your God Paul Watkins · 1993 · ★ 4.1 · 240p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Watkins re-creates the joy and pain of growing up as he recalls his own experiences at two of Britain's greatest boarding schools, Dragon and Eton. Shares: American Novelists, Novelists, Homes and haunts, Biography & Memoir

The English notebooks Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1870 · 394p · ≈ 13h · Challenging The author's notebooks.According to Wikipedia: ""Nathaniel Hawthorne (born Nathaniel Hathorne; July 4, 1804 – May 19, 1864) was an American novelist and short story writer." Shares: American Novelists, Homes and haunts, Intellectual life, Description and 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: American Novelists, Homes and haunts, Description and travel, Travel

Galatea 2.2 Richard Powers · 1995 · ★ 3.7 · 329p · ≈ 10h · Moderate "Dazzling...a cerebral thriller that's both intellectually engaging and emotionally compelling, a lively tour de force."—Michiko Kakutani, The New York TimesAfter four novels and several years living abroad, the fictional protagonist of Galatea 2.2—Richard Powers—returns to the United States as Humanist-in-Residence at the enormous Center for the Study of Advanced Sciences. There he runs afoul… Shares: American Novelists, Novelists

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: Homes and haunts, Description and travel, Travel, History

Palm Sunday Kurt Vonnegut · 1981 · ★ 3.9 · 330p · ≈ 11h · Moderate "In this self-portrait by an American genius, Kurt Vonnegut writes with beguiling wit and poignant wisdom about his favorite comedians, country music, a dead friend, a dead marriage, and various cockamamie aspects of his all-too-human journey through life. This is a work that resonates with Vonnegut’s singular voice: the magic sound of a born storyteller mesmerizing us with truth.” From… Shares: American Novelists, Novelists, Biography & Memoir

Misery Stephen King · 1978 · ★ 4.2 · 384p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Novelist Paul Sheldon has plans to make the difficult transition from writing historical romances featuring heroine Misery Chastain to publishing literary fiction. Annie Wilkes, Sheldon's number one fan, rescues the author from the scene of a car accident. The former nurse takes care of him in her remote house, but becomes irate when she discovers that the author has killed Misery off in his… Shares: American Novelists, Novelists

Roughing It Mark Twain · 1872 · ★ 3.9 · 369p · ≈ 12h · Challenging Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), better known as "Mark Twain," left Missouri in 1861 to work with his brother, the newly appointed Secretary of the Nevada Territory. Once settled in Nevada, Clemens fell victim to gold fever and went to the Humboldt mines. When prospecting lost its attractions, Clemens found work as a reporter in Virginia City. In 1864, Clemens moved to California and worked… Shares: Homes and haunts, Intellectual life, Description and travel, Travel

Passages from the American note-books of Nathaniel Hawthorne Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1860 · ★ 4.0 · 460p · ≈ 15h · Challenging The American Notebooks follows chronological order, tracing Hawthorne's development over a period of eighteen years. The individual entries, however, are quite random in their makeup and contain adages, animal folklore, and biblical references that captivated Hawthorne. Observations of people whom he saw in the streets of nineteenth century Salem, Boston, and North Adams, Massachusetts, are mixed… Shares: Homes and haunts, Intellectual life, Description and travel, Travel

Far away and long ago W. H. Hudson · 1918 · ★ 3.9 · 332p · ≈ 11h · Challenging Argentinian-English ornithologist and writer William Henry Hudson recounts his early years in Argentina and his move to England in this 1918 autobiography. Shares: Homes and haunts, Intellectual life, Description and travel, 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: Description and travel, 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: Description and travel, Travel

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test Tom Wolfe · 1968 · ★ 3.9 · 416p · ≈ 13h · Moderate One of the most essential works on the 1960s counterculture, Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Test is the seminal work on the hippie culture, a report on what it was like to follow along with Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters as they launched out on the "Transcontinental Bus Tour" from the West Coast to New York, all the while introducing acid (then legal) to hundreds of like-minded folks,… Shares: American Novelists, Travel, Biography & Memoir

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: American Novelists, Description and travel, Travel, Biography & Memoir

A little tour in France Henry James · 1884 · 255p · ≈ 8h · Challenging | caption = Cover of the 1900 edition, published by Houghton Mifflin Shares: American Novelists, Description and travel, Travel

Life on the Mississippi Mark Twain · 1883 · ★ 3.9 · 273p · ≈ 9h · Challenging At once a romantic history of a mighty river, an autobiographical account of Twains early steamboat days, and a storehouse of humorous anecdotes and sketches, here is the raw material from which Mark Twain wrote his finest novel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Shares: Intellectual life, Description and travel, Travel, Biography & Memoir

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