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Books like The Life of the Fields
Loved The Life of the Fields by Richard Jefferies? 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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The Fire Next Time
Two searing essays on race, faith and America; as urgent now as when they were written.
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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 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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Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow is a collection of humorous essays by Jerome K. Jerome. The essays cover a range of topics from "On Being in Love" to "On Furnished Apartments" to "On Getting on in the
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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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Collected papers
Presents a selection of the important writings of the nineteenth-century psychiatrist, including "Psychopathology of Everyday Life," "The Interpretation of Dreams," and "Totem and Taboo."
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The Aran Islands
"In the late 1890s, John M. Synge, in his middle twenties and unsure of his vocations made his way to Paris intending to study French literature and become a literary critic. There he met William Butl