Shelfology Book Pairing

Or the Evening Redness in the West

by Cormac McCarthy

25th ANNIVERSARY EDITION • From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road: an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, brilliantly subverting the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the Wild West. One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, Blood Meridian traces the fortunes of the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennesseean who stumbles into the nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving.

The Original 1855 Edition (Chump Change Edition)

by Walt Whitman

Unabridged original 1855 version of Leaves of Grass, offered here for chump change. The eclectic formatting of Whitman's original edition expresses best his most famous poems, including "Song of Myself," "I Sing the Body Electric," and "There Was a Child Went Forth."