StephenMcC

Stephen McClurg

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173 books

Criticism

Poetics
Gothic
More than Cool Reason: A Field Guide to Poetic Metaphor
Literary Theory : An Introduction
Anatomy of Criticism
Singular voices: American poetry today
The lifetime reading plan

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17 books

Deferred Reading

The Mystery of the Grail: Initiation and Magic in the Quest for the Spirit
The Discourses
Song of Solomon
The Trivium

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12 books

Detective Novels

And Then There Were None
Travels in the Scriptorium
Edgar Allan Poe: Complete & Unabridged
The Crying of Lot 49
City of Glass
The Final Solution
The Moonstone

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63 books

Drama

Macbeth
Julius Caesar
Romeo and Juliet
King Henry IV, Part 1
Richard II
Hamlet

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10 books

Economics

The Communist Manifesto
Stockhausen Serves Imperialism
Grunch of Giants
A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future
The Theory of the Leisure Class
The Essentials of Finance and Accounting for Nonfinancial Managers

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56 books

Education

The English Teacher's Companion: A Complete Guide to Classroom, Curriculum, and the Profession
Real Boys' Voices
Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?
How to Read a Book: the classic guide to intelligent reading

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4 books

Egypt

Come Swiftly to Your Love: Love Poems of Ancient Egypt
The Illustrated Golden Bough
The Book of Thoth
The book of the law, Liber al vel legis, with a facsimile of the manuscript as received by Aleister and Rose Edith Crowley on April 8,9,10, 1904 e.v.

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2 books

Engineering

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4 books

Environment

Into the Wild
The Sense of Wonder
The Worlds of Dune: The Places and Cultures that Inspired Frank Herbert

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11 books

Epics

Gilgamesh
The Odyssey
The Metamorphoses
Poetics
Beowulf
The Holy Bible: English Standard Version
The Portable Rabelais

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55 books

Essays

Bradbury Speaks: Too Soon from the Cave, Too Far from the Stars
Why I Write
Against Interpretation and Other Essays
Three Essays On The Theory Of Sexuality

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10 books

Existentialism

The Stranger
Fear and Trembling
Trout Fishing in America
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values
Snuff
The Naked Lunch

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12 books

Fables

Poems
The Illustrated Golden Bough
Myths of Greece and Rome
The Hero with a Thousand Faces
Beasts!

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14 books

Fairy Tales

Bound
The Illustrated Golden Bough
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories
The Hero with a Thousand Faces
Beasts!

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24 books

Fantasy

The Fellowship of the Ring
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Prince Caspian
The Gunslinger
The Drawing of the Three

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91 books

Favorites

1984
Endgame and ACT Without Words
A Perfect Vacuum
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Legal Study
I Am Legend
Pride and Prejudice

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38 books

Fiction

Mansfield Park
The Death of Ivan Ilych
Labyrinths
Too Loud a Solitude
Oliver Twist
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
The Best of Richard Matheson

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77 books

Film Theater

Danse Macabre
True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor
Bambi vs. Godzilla
Hitchcock

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6 books

Finance

On my own two feet
To Sell is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others
The Essentials of Finance and Accounting for Nonfinancial Managers
Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger

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25 books

Folklore

Black folktales
The Metamorphoses
The Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Dictionary of Classical Mythology
The Illustrated Golden Bough
Myths of Greece and Rome
Will Storr vs. The Supernatural

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7 books

Food

Roasting in Hell's Kitchen
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany
Food Rules: An Eater's Manual
Comfort Eating with Nick Cave: Vegan Recipes to Get Deep Inside of You
Our Harlem: Seven Days of Cooking, Music and Soul at the Red Rooster
Po’Boy

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19 books

Gothic

Gothic
Frankenstein
Edgar Allan Poe: Complete & Unabridged
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Three Gothic Novels: The Castle of Otranto, Vathek, The Vampyre, and a Fragment of a Novel
Dracula

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4 books

Grammar

The deluxe transitive vampire
Principles Of General Grammar: Adapted To The Capacity Of Youth, And Proper To Serve As An Introduction To The Study Of Languages

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71 books

Greek

The Odyssey
A History of Western Philosophy
Poetics
Republic
The Dictionary of Classical Mythology
The Illustrated Golden Bough

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4 books

Health

Starting Strength
Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Hippocrates