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Books like Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
Loved Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow by Jerome Klapka Jérôme? Here are 10 books with a similar appeal — drawn mostly from essays, ranked by how confidently we'd recommend them next.
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Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Sharp, cool essays on 1960s America; the book that set the standard for the personal essay.
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The Fire Next Time
Two searing essays on race, faith and America; as urgent now as when they were written.
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The Life of the Fields
This book is a reprint of the following stories printed in the following publications: Time, Longman's Magazine, The Graphic, The Standard, The Magazine of Art, The Gentleman's Magazine, The St. James
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The writings of Henry David Thoreau
Naturalist, philosopher, champion of self-reliance and moral independence, Henry David Thoreau remains not only one of our most influential writers but also one of our most contemporary. The Writings
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The Open Air
Papers originally contributed to various English periodicals. Saint Guido.--Golden-brown.--Wild flowers.--Sunny Brighton.--The pine wood.--Nature on the roof.--One of the new voters.--The modern Thame
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A Woman of No Importance
Oscar Wilde's audacious drama of social scandal centres around the revelation of Mrs Arbuthnot's long-concealed secret. A house party is in full swing at Lady Hunstanton's country home, when it is ann
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882) was a prominent English painter and poet who helped found the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, known for their non-arcade-mic approach to religious, moral, and medieval s
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Little rivers
Early printing. Includes tinted black and white frontispiece and 7 additional tinted illustrations after drawings by F. V. DuMond. Top edge gilt, deckle edges. A signed Margaret Armstrong Art Nouveau
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Unpopular Essays
A classic collection of Bertrand Russell's more controversial works, reaffirming his staunch liberal values, Unpopular Essays is one of Russell's most characteristic and self-revealing books. Written
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The autocrat of the breakfast-table
Oliver Wendell Holmes was a physician, professor, author. This was his first book of essays based on his life in a boarding house in Boston in the 19th century.