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If you loved Hidden Histories by Ian Jack, this shelf of 24 books shares the same pull — rooted in Rhetoric, Literary Collections, and Language Arts & Disciplines.

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Read-alikes chosen for how well they continue the mood, themes, and voice of Hidden Histories.

Literature Approaches to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama — Robert DiYanni

Literature Approaches to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama

Themes: Rhetoric • Literary Collections • Language Arts & Disciplines

Malcolm X at Oxford Union Racial Politics in a Global Era — Saladin M. Ambar

Malcolm X at Oxford Union Racial Politics in a Global Era

Saladin M. Ambar

Themes: Rhetoric • Literary Collections • Language Arts & Disciplines

Literature to Go — Michael Meyer

Literature to Go

Themes: Rhetoric • Literary Collections • Language Arts & Disciplines

Renaissance Literary Theory And Practice Classicism In The Rhetoric And Poetic Of Italy, France, And England, 1400-1600 — Charles Sears Baldwin

Renaissance Literary Theory And Practice Classicism In The Rhetoric And Poetic Of Italy, France, And England, 1400-1600

Charles Sears Baldwin

Themes: Rhetoric • Literary Collections • Language Arts & Disciplines

How to Write Like a Writer A Sharp and Subversive Guide to Ignoring Inhibitions, Inviting Inspiration, and Finding Your True Voice — Thomas C. Foster

How to Write Like a Writer A Sharp and Subversive Guide to Ignoring Inhibitions, Inviting Inspiration, and Finding Your True Voice

Thomas C. Foster

Themes: Rhetoric • Literary Collections • Language Arts & Disciplines

Conscience on Trial Three Public Religious Disputations Between Christians and Jews in the Thirteenth and Fifteenth Centuries — Morris Braude

Conscience on Trial Three Public Religious Disputations Between Christians and Jews in the Thirteenth and Fifteenth Centuries

Themes: Rhetoric • Literary Collections • Language Arts & Disciplines

Poems and Readings for Weddings — Julia Watson

Poems and Readings for Weddings

Themes: Rhetoric • Literary Collections • Language Arts & Disciplines

Farnsworth’s Classical English Rhetoric — Ward Farnsworth

Farnsworth’s Classical English Rhetoric

Ward Farnsworth

Themes: Rhetoric • Literary Collections • Language Arts & Disciplines

Reading and Writing about Literature A Portable Guide — Janet E. Gardner

Reading and Writing about Literature A Portable Guide

Janet E. Gardner

Themes: Rhetoric • Literary Collections • Language Arts & Disciplines

Farnsworth’s Classical English Argument — Ward Farnsworth

Farnsworth’s Classical English Argument

Ward Farnsworth

Themes: Rhetoric • Literary Collections • Language Arts & Disciplines

Curious Cats In Art and Poetry — The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Curious Cats In Art and Poetry

The Metropolitan Museum Of Art

Themes: Rhetoric • Literary Collections • Language Arts & Disciplines

Literature An Introduction to Reading and Writing — Edgar V. Roberts

Literature An Introduction to Reading and Writing — Edgar V. Roberts

Edgar V Roberts

Themes: Rhetoric • Literary Collections • Language Arts & Disciplines

The Oxford Book of Money — Kevin Jackson

The Oxford Book of Money

Themes: Rhetoric • Literary Collections • Language Arts & Disciplines

Patterns of Redemption in Virgil’s Georgics — Llewelyn Morgan

Patterns of Redemption in Virgil’s Georgics

Llewelyn Morgan

Themes: Rhetoric • Literary Collections • Language Arts & Disciplines

Slave Narratives — Alphonse Fletcher University Professor Chair of Afro-American Studies Director Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Jr.

Slave Narratives

Alphonse Fletcher University Professor Chair of Afro-American Studies Director Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Jr.

Themes: Rhetoric • Literary Collections • Language Arts & Disciplines

American Wildflowers: a Literary Field Guide — Susan Barba

American Wildflowers: a Literary Field Guide

Themes: Rhetoric • Literary Collections • Language Arts & Disciplines

The Art of Touch A Collection of Prose and Poetry from the Pandemic and Beyond — Joan Schweighardt

The Art of Touch A Collection of Prose and Poetry from the Pandemic and Beyond

Joan Schweighardt

Themes: Rhetoric • Literary Collections • Language Arts & Disciplines

Gateways to World Literature The Seventeenth Century to Today — David Damrosch

Gateways to World Literature The Seventeenth Century to Today

Themes: Rhetoric • Literary Collections • Language Arts & Disciplines

Changing Light The Eternal Cycle of Night and Day — Janet Ruth Gendler

Changing Light The Eternal Cycle of Night and Day

Janet Ruth Gendler

Themes: Rhetoric • Literary Collections • Language Arts & Disciplines

Literature and the Writing Process — Elizabeth McMahan

Literature and the Writing Process

Elizabeth McMahan

Themes: Rhetoric • Literary Collections • Language Arts & Disciplines

Moon In Praise of the Silver Lamp of Night — Paula Rees

Moon In Praise of the Silver Lamp of Night

Themes: Rhetoric • Literary Collections • Language Arts & Disciplines

The Art of Rhetoric — Aristotle

The Art of Rhetoric

Themes: Rhetoric • Literary Collections • Language Arts & Disciplines

The Ethics of Rhetoric — Richard M. Weaver

The Ethics of Rhetoric

Richard M. Weaver

Themes: Rhetoric • Literary Collections • Language Arts & Disciplines

Speeches That Changed the World — Quercus

Speeches That Changed the World

Themes: Rhetoric • Literary Collections • Language Arts & Disciplines

Fans of Hidden Histories by Ian Jack will find 24 titles here, all united by Rhetoric, Literary Collections, Language Arts & Disciplines. Authors represented include Robert DiYanni, Saladin M. Ambar, Michael Meyer, Charles Sears Baldwin, and others.

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