Rising Up and Rising Down
A collection of books connected with William T. Vollmann's seven-volume work on the nature of violence.

PLEASE DO NOT ADD BOOKS - THIS IS TAKEN FROM A BIBLIOGRAPHY.
1 War and Peace
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4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 79,110 ratings
2 The Brothers Karamazov
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4.26 of 5 stars 4.26 avg rating — 78,686 ratings
3 All Quiet on the Western Front
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3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 111,377 ratings
4 One Day in the Life of Ivan...
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3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 36,738 ratings
5 Quiet Flows the Don
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3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 3,391 ratings
6 The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus ...
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3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 25,461 ratings
7 Politics
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3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 9,852 ratings
8 Prometheus Bound and Other ...
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3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 5,636 ratings
9 Njal's Saga
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4.02 of 5 stars 4.02 avg rating — 1,408 ratings
10 The Wretched of the Earth
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4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 5,492 ratings
11 Hesiod: The Works and Days,...
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3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 488 ratings
12 Summa Theologica (5 Vols.)
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3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 1,104 ratings
13 The Decline and Fall of the...
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4.32 of 5 stars 4.32 avg rating — 265 ratings
14 Democracy in America
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3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 8,394 ratings
15 The Man Without Qualities
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4.26 of 5 stars 4.26 avg rating — 1,531 ratings
16 On Revolution
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3.97 of 5 stars 3.97 avg rating — 599 ratings
17 Egil's Saga
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4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 700 ratings
18 History of the Conquest of ...
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4.16 of 5 stars 4.16 avg rating — 115 ratings
19 Guerrilla Warfare
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3.6 of 5 stars 3.60 avg rating — 1,103 ratings
20 Jean's Way
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3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 11 ratings
21 American Boys Handy Book
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4.26 of 5 stars 4.26 avg rating — 251 ratings
22 The Tale of the Heike
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3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 244 ratings
22 Sophocles II: Ajax/Women of...
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22 Kolyma Tales
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4.32 of 5 stars 4.32 avg rating — 952 ratings
25 Medea and Other Plays
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25 The Gulag Archipelago 1918-...
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27 History of the United State...
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27 History of the Russian Revo...
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27 Euripides I: Alcestis / The...
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27 Story of the Volsungs & Nib...
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31 Earth Abides
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32 Four Plays: The Clouds / Th...
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32 A Testament of Hope: The Es...
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34 The Politics Of Righteousne...
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34 The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyon...
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36 Twenty Letters to a Friend
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36 The Conquest of Gaul
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3.87 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 2,602 ratings
36 The Outline of History, 2 Vols
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39 The Civil War
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39 Walden
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41 Selected Political Speeches
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41 Babi Yar: A Document in the...
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43 The Collected Stories of Is...
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43 Murder Trials
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43 God and the State
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46 Patterns of Culture
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46 The Enneads
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46 Writings on Civil Disobedie...
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49 Hitler and Stalin: Parallel...
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49 Lives, Vol 1
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49 Gandhi and Civil Disobedien...
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52 Lives, Vol 2
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52 The Life of Maximilien Robe...
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54 Life and Death in Shanghai
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54 Essays
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54 The Epic of Gilgamesh
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57 The Digest of Roman Law: Th...
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57 The Indians: Portrait Of A ...
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59 The Theory and Practice of ...
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59 The Secret History
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59 My Life
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62 Letters to Atticus
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62 The Social History of the M...
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62 On Guerrilla Warfare
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62 The Twelve Caesars
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66 The Talmud: A Selection
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66 The Provinces of the Roman ...
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66 Spitz and Fisher's Medicole...
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69 Brother Number One: A Polit...
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70 Industrial Society and Its ...
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70 Runaway Horses
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72 Lee's Lieutenants: A Study ...
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72 Japan at War:  An Oral History
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74 The Dark Side Of Man
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74 Life and Labor in Ancient M...
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76 King Harald's Saga
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76 Tania, la guerrillera
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78 Eyrbyggja Saga
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78 The Private Life of Chairma...
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80 Panzer Leader
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80 Two Lives of Charlemagne
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80 The Civil War: With the Ano...
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83 The Exeter Book Riddles
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83 I Cried, You Didn't Listen:...
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85 The Song of Roland
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85 Revolution for the Hell of It
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3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 280 ratings
85 Sir Walter Raleigh: Selecte...
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88 The Perennial Philosophy
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4.2 of 5 stars 4.20 avg rating — 1,350 ratings
88 Joan of Arc: By Herself and...
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4.11 of 5 stars 4.11 avg rating — 65 ratings
88 Cortes: The Life of the Con...
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3.29 of 5 stars 3.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
91 Baron Von Steuben's Revolut...
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3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 11 ratings
92 On Thermonuclear War
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4.11 of 5 stars 4.11 avg rating — 36 ratings
92 The Poems Of Sir Walter Ral...
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92 Tarawa: The Story Of A Battle
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3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 27 ratings
95 The Conquest of New Spain
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4.03 of 5 stars 4.03 avg rating — 777 ratings
95 The Real Bluebeard
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3.26 of 5 stars 3.26 avg rating — 19 ratings
97 Conquest of New Spain: 1585...
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97 The Mask of Command: Alexan...
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4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 933 ratings
99 A Tomb for Boris Davidovich
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4.18 of 5 stars 4.18 avg rating — 706 ratings
99 The Execution of Mayor Yin ...
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3.4 of 5 stars 3.40 avg rating — 10 ratings
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message 1: by Nathan "N.R." (new)

Nathan "N.R." Gaddis Nicely done.


message 2: by Themis-Athena (new)

Themis-Athena How in the world did you manage to enter more than 100 books singlehandedly ... AND make them stick?

Also: Would there happen to be an online link to the bibliography in question anywhere? (That would make it easier to help monitoring this list for unwanted additions.)

Great one, in any event!


message 3: by Hadrian (new)

Hadrian Themis-Athena: I just added the first 100 books, then removed my votes for all of them, and then added the next 100. I'm not sure if that's how it's supposed to work, but it did! It probably also explains why some books have negative votes.

As far as I know, this is the only online database for RURD's bibliography. I could type up the whole thing later, though.

Thank you! I appreciate your thoughts and votes.


message 4: by Themis-Athena (new)

Themis-Athena Ah -- that explains it! It had to have something to do with the negative votes ... I'm just surprised the books are still in the list. Typically, if you remove your vote, the book disappears as well (not necessarily at once, but eventually), unless somebody else has voted for it in the interim. So I guess the next thing will be to find other folks to vote for as many of the remaining books as possible to make sure they remain included! :)

Don't go typing up the whole thing if it doesn't already exist as an online reference elsewhere ... with 400 books, that sounds like a LOT of trouble!!


message 5: by Brian (new)

Brian As I am reading RUARD and come across referenced books that are not listed here, may I add them, Hadrian? (e.g. Jean's Way on p. 248 of Vol 1


message 6: by Hadrian (new)

Hadrian Please do!


message 7: by Brian (new)

Brian Hadrian wrote: "Please do!"

Awesome - just wanted to be sure before I messed with this awesome list.


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