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- A General History of the Pirates no ficciónYou get a wonderfully scruffy blend of sailors’ gossip, moralizing, and adventure, with Blackbeard staging his terrifying entrance and Anne Bonny and Mary Read refusing the roles assigned to them. It’s episodic and sometimes doubtful, but the odd details make it feel like overhearing history in a dockside tavern.
- She writes about being lured from her mother's Dakota home to a missionary boarding school, and the scene where she hides under a bed while they come to cut her hair will stay with you. Quiet, angry, tender pieces, short enough to read in an evening.
- Shaw having fun with his own critics: a young woman's play gets staged anonymously, then actual reviewers bicker over who wrote it. Inside, two respectable kids come home from jail refusing to feel ashamed, and their parents' panic is funnier than it has any right to be.
- Martha starts as an Austrian countess who thinks war is glorious, then it takes her first husband at Solferino and keeps coming for everyone she loves. It's earnest and sometimes preachy, but her fury feels earned, and knowing Suttner wrote it decades before 1914 gives it a chill.
- Early Faulkner, before Yoknapatawpha, so it's rougher and more lyrical than you'd expect, but the story of Donald Mahon coming home scarred and half-alive while everyone around him decides what his return means still lands hard. Read it if you're curious how his voice started forming.
- You’d enjoy this for its wonderfully strange Pacific-island premise, where explorers uncover ancient beings preserved in a temple and get drawn into their old feud. It’s slower and more earnest than Haggard’s adventure novels, but the mix of lost-world romance, prophecy, and uneasy reflections on civilization has a peculiar, dreamlike pull.