18 books like The education of Henry Adams

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The life of Washington Mason Locke Weems · 1800 · 297p · ≈ 9h · Challenging The first of these works contains both factual and mythical material about George Washington; the second is an early reader combining moral lessons with reading and spelling. Shares: State & Local, Historical, Biography & Memoir, History

Dictionary of Phrase and Fable Ebenezer Cobham Brewer · 1860 · 990p · ≈ 33h · Demanding Character Sketches of Romance - Volume I Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, Compiler of Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, and The Reader's Handbook, Victorian reference works (1810-1897) This ebook presents «Character Sketches of Romance - Volume I», from Ebenezer Cobham Brewer. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. Table of Contents About This Book Character… Shares: Dictionaries, English language

The Maine Woods Henry David Thoreau · 1803 · ★ 3.9 · 127p · ≈ 4h · Challenging The Maine Woods is a characteristically Thoreauvian book: a personal account of exploration, of exterior and interior discovery in a natural setting, conveyed in taut, workmanlike prose. Thoreau's evocative renderings of the life of the primitive forest--its mountains, waterways, fauna, flora, and inhabitants--are valuable in themselves. But his impassioned protest against despoilment in the name… Shares: State & Local, Biography & Memoir, History

Furious Hours Casey Cep · 2019 · ★ 3.9 · 336p · ≈ 11h · Moderate "'A triumph on every level. One of the losses to literature is that Harper Lee never found a way to tell a gothic true-crime story she'd spent years researching. Casey Cep has excavated this mesmerizing story and tells it with grace and insight and a fierce fidelity to the truth.'--David Grann,author of Killers of the Flower Moon."--Back of jacket. "The stunning story of an Alabama serial killer… Shares: State & Local, Biography & Memoir, History

Entick's new spelling dictionary John Entick · 1787 · 492p · ≈ 16h · Demanding Shares: Dictionaries, English language

Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief James Fenimore Cooper · 1897 · 148p · ≈ 4h · Challenging Autobiography of a Pocket Handkerchief is a serial novel by James Fennimore Cooper first published by Graham's Magazine in 1843. The novel explores the upper crust of New York Society from the perspective of a woman's handkerchief. Shares: Classic Literature, Biography & Memoir

Making History Stephen Fry · 1996 · ★ 3.9 · 402p · ≈ 13h · Moderate A history student travels back in time to prevent Hitler's birth by dropping an infertility pill into his father's beer. The scheme backfires when a more intelligent dictator comes to power, conquering more territory and developing the atom bomb ahead of the U.S. The student, Michael Young, gets back into his time machine to allow Hitler to be born after all. By the author of The Hippopotamus. Shares: Historians, History

Don Quijote de la Mancha Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra · 1600 · ★ 3.9 · 506p · ≈ 16h · Demanding Don Quijote de la Mancha es una novela escrita por el español Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Publicada su primera parte con el título de El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha a comienzos de 1605, es la obra más destacada de la literatura española y una de las principales de la literatura universal. En 1615 apareció su continuación con el título de Segunda parte del ingenioso caballero don… Shares: Dictionaries, Classic Literature, Biography & Memoir, History

Character & opinion in the United States George Santayana · 1920 · 233p · ≈ 7h · Challenging This is an essay book. About the middle of the nineteenth century, in the quiet sunshine of provincial prosperity, New England had an Indian summer of the mind; and an agreeable reflective literature showed how brilliant that russet and yellow season could be. There were poets, historians, orators, preachers, most of whom had studied foreign literatures and had travelled; they demurely kept up… Shares: State & Local, History

Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass · 1845 · ★ 4.1 This book is an autobiographical account by runaway slave Frederick Douglass that chronicles his experiences with his owners and overseers and discusses how slavery affected both slaves and slaveholders. Shares: Dictionaries, English language, Biography & Memoir, History

Alcatraz Frederick Faust · 1922 · ★ 4.0 · 182p · ≈ 6h · Challenging The Max Brand Megapack assembles 20 classic Max Brand tales—novels and short stories—set primarily in the American West. For pure Old West adventure, it doesn't get better than this -- more than 3,300 pages of action-packed reading! Included are: HARRIGAN (1918) THE GHOST (1919) HOLE-IN-THE-WALL BARRETT (1919) TRAILIN’! (1919) THE UNTAMED (1920) OUT OF THE DARK (1920) RIDERS OF THE SILENCES… Shares: Classic Literature, Biography & Memoir

Troilus and Cressida William Shakespeare · 1609 · ★ 3.4 · 544p · ≈ 18h · Demanding With new editors who have incorporated the most up-to-date scholarship, this revised Pelican Shakespeare series will be the premiere choice for students, professors, and general readers well into the twenty-first century.Each volume features: Authoritative, reliable texts High quality introductions and notes New, more readable trade trim size An essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare and… Shares: Dictionaries, English language, Biography & Memoir, History

Torches Together Emmy Arnold · 1964 · 220p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Not many people talk about "joy" these days. Emmy Arnold's memoir radiates just that - an enthusiasm for life and an unflagging optimism grounded in faith. In a genre awash in sordid sex and dysfunctional relationships, she offers a refreshing account of a hard life lived victoriously, of people brought together, despite their own weakness and turbulent times, to experience new levels of freedom,… Shares: Biography & Memoir, History

Retrospect of Western Travel-3VOLS Harriet Martineau · 1838 · 165p · ≈ 5h · Challenging "This new abridgement of the original 1838 edition offers a view of Jacksonian America. Here are Martineau's condemnation of slavery and her championship of abolition and women's rights; her incisive portraits of Jackson, Clay, Calhoun, Webster, Garrison, Emerson, and the Beechers; her observations of American schools, asylums, colleges, and prisons; and her eyewitness accounts of a presidential… Shares: State & Local, History

Timeline Michael Crichton · 1999 · ★ 3.9 · 465p · ≈ 15h · Moderate Timeline is a science fiction novel by American writer Michael Crichton, his twelfth under his own name and twenty-second overall, published in November 1999. It tells the story of a group of history students who travel to 14th-century France to rescue their professor. The book follows in Crichton's long history of combining science, technical details, and action in his books, this time… Shares: Historians, History

The biographical dictionary of musicians Rupert Hughes · 1900 · 678p · ≈ 22h · Challenging Biographies of key composers and musicians selected and abridged from Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, including Claudio Montverdi, Johann Sebastian Bach, Wolfgang Mozart, John Cage, Billie Holliday, and John Lennon. Shares: Dictionaries, Biography & Memoir

Shakespeare's bawdy Eric Partridge · 1947 · 226p · ≈ 7h · Challenging This classic work fully explains the whole range of sexual, scatological language and allusion in Shakespeare's works. Consisting of an alphabetical glossary with cross-references, this book helps the modern reader to make sense of the bawdy. Shares: Dictionaries, English language

Poems of rural life William Barnes · 1844 · 211p · ≈ 7h · Challenging Beautiful poems in the Dorset dialect. Quite comprehensible but containing a number of words which might not be understood outside Dorset. Barnes inspired Thomas Hardy to a large extent. Shares: Dictionaries, English language

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