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Our Southern Highlanders by Horace Kephart

A Genuine Narrative of the Deplorable Deaths of the English G... by John Zephaniah Holwell

Thrilling And Authentic 'Narratives'

252 books — 5 voters

A Blind Man's Experiences and Adventures in Crossing the Coun... by Jack Lockett

The Life and Adventures of Peter Porcupine by William Cobbett

The Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary R... by Mary Rowlandson

Snatched from the Jaws of Death by Charles Ridgway

An Oldtime Ephemerama and Miscellaneum

143 books — 3 voters

Memoirs of My Nervous Illness by Daniel Paul Schreber

Behind the Door of Delusion by Marle Woodson

The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky by Vaslav Nijinsky

Annoying Responses to Counterfeit Realities

106 books — 4 voters

The Privileged Poor by Anthony Abraham Jack

Books about First-Generation College Students

57 books — 12 voters

The E-myth Revisited by Michael E. Gerber

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99 books — 1 voter

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

Books with Non-Linear Time

83 books — 27 voters

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“ Not every story needs a hero. Some need healers. Some need witnesses. Some just need someone who stayed. ”
― Lawrence Nault

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“ ...while epic fantasy is based on the fairy tale of the just war, that’s not one you’ll find in Grimm or Disney, and most will never recognize the shape of it. I think the fantasy genre pitches its tent in the medieval campground for the very reason that we even bother to write stories about things that never happened in the first place: because it says something subtle and true about our own world, something it is difficult to say straight out, with a straight face. Something you need tools to ...while epic fantasy is based on the fairy tale of the just war, that’s not one you’ll find in Grimm or Disney, and most will never recognize the shape of it. I think the fantasy genre pitches its tent in the medieval campground for the very reason that we even bother to write stories about things that never happened in the first place: because it says something subtle and true about our own world, something it is difficult to say straight out, with a straight face. Something you need tools to say, you need cheat codes for the human brain--a candy princess or a sugar-coated unicorn to wash down the sour taste of how bad things can really get. See, I think our culture has a slash running through the middle of it, too. Past/Future, Conservative/Liberal, Online/Offline. Virgin/Whore. And yes: Classical/Medieval. I think we’re torn between the Classical Narrative of Self and the Medieval Narrative of Self, between the choice of Achilles and Keep Calm and Carry On. The Classical internal monologue goes like this: do anything, anything, only don’t be forgotten. Yes, this one sacrificed his daughter on a slab at Aulis, that one married his mother and tore out his eyes, and oh that guy ate his kids in a pie. But you remember their names, don’t you? So it’s all good in the end. Give a Greek soul a choice between a short life full of glory and a name echoing down the halls of time and a long, gentle life full of children and a quiet sort of virtue, and he’ll always go down in flames. That’s what the Iliad is all about, and the Odyssey too. When you get to Hades, you gotta have a story to tell, because the rest of eternity is just forgetting and hoping some mortal shows up on a quest and lets you drink blood from a bowl so you can remember who you were for one hour. And every bit of cultural narrative in America says that we are all Odysseus, we are all Agamemnon, all Atreus, all Achilles. That we as a nation made that choice and chose glory and personal valor, and woe betide any inconvenient “other people” who get in our way. We tell the tales around the campfire of men who came from nothing to run dotcom empires, of a million dollars made overnight, of an actress marrying a prince from Monaco, of athletes and stars and artists and cowboys and gangsters and bootleggers and talk show hosts who hitched up their bootstraps and bent the world to their will. Whose names you all know. And we say: that can be each and every one of us and if it isn’t, it’s your fault. You didn’t have the excellence for it. You didn’t work hard enough. The story wasn’t about you, and the only good stories are the kind that have big, unignorable, undeniable heroes. ...more ”
― Catherynne M. Valente

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