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From Plato to Bradbury : A Personal Tour of Some of the World's Best Books
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Publisher:
Baltimore : - Bancroft Press
Pages:
243
Edition:
1st ed
ISBN:
0963124676
Language:
English
Contents:
One. On everyone's list of literary classics: Look homeward, angel / Thomas Wolfe
The portrait of a lady / Henry James
As I lay dying / William Faulkner
Wuthering heights / Emily Brontë
Kim / Rudyard Kipling
Alice's adventures in wonderland / Lewis Carroll
Justine / Lawrence Durrell
Oliver Twist / Charles Dickens
Pride and prejudice / Jane Austen
A passage to India / E. M. Forster
My Ántonia / Willa Cather
Madame Bovary / Gustave Flaubert
Two. On many a list for burning (Heretics, subversives, demagogues): Stories / Dorothy Parker
The prince / Niccolo Machiavelli
The Devil's dictionary / Ambrose Bierce
Mein Kampf / Adolf Hitler
Nana / Emile Zola
Ten days that shook the world / John Reed
Native son / Richard Wright
[cont'd.] Three. Books that shaped the western world: Essays / Montaigne
Dialogues / Plato
The welth of nations / Plato
An essay on the principle of population / Thomas Malthus
The decline and fall of the Roman Empire / Edward Gibbon
The origin of species / Charles Darwin
The histories / Herodotus
The Federalist Papers / Hamilton, Madison, Jay
The annals of imperial Rome / Tacitus
The Peloponnesian War / Thucydides
Democracy in America / Alexis de Tocqueville
[cont'd.] Four. Making hard work easy (The great popularizers): Only yesterday / Frederick Lewis Allen
Microbe hunters / Paul de Kruif
Selected works / Cicero
Coming of age in Samoa / Margaret Mead
The outermost house / Henry Beston
The amiable Baltimoreans / Francis F. Beirne
What to listen for in music / Aaron Copland
Gods, graves, and scholars / C.W. Ceram
The stress of life / Hans Selye
The Greek way / Edith Hamilton
Five. Not Robinson Crusoe, not Brave new world: A journal of the plague year / Daniel Defoe
The doors of perception / Aldous Huxley
Elective affinities / John Wolfgang von Goethe
Homage to Catalonia / George Orwell
Civilization and its discontents / Sigmund Freud
Arrowsmith / Sinclair Lewis
Roughing it / Mark Twain
[cont'd.] Six. Lighter fare (Good reads, best sellers): A study in scarlet / Arthur Conan Doyle
The song of Hiawatha / H.W. Longfellow
The rise of David Levinsky / Abraham Cahan
Java head / Joseph Hergesheimer
Mr. Pottermack's oversight / R. Austin Freeman
A bell for Adano / John Hersey
The Martian chronicles / Ray Bradbury
Gentleman's agreement / Laura Z. Hobson
Seven. "But I know what I like": The ten books of architecture / Vitruvius
The lives of the most eminent Italian architects, painters, and sculptors / Giorgio Vasari
The seven lamps of architecture /John Ruskin
The nude: a study in ideal form / Kenneth Clark
The elements of style / Strunk and White
[cont'd.] Eight. One-of-a-kinds: A room of one's own / Virginia Woolf
The American language / H.L. Mencken
The little prince / Antoine de Saint Éxupery
The education of Henry Adams / Henry Adams
Flatland / Edwin A. Abbott
Their eyes were watching God / Zora Neal Hurston
A mathematician's apology / Godfrey H. Hardy
My life / Isadora Duncan
The structure of scientific revolutions / Thomas Kuhn
Nine. The realm of the spirit (Holy and human): Gilgamesh / Babylonian epic
Confessions / Saint Augustine
The golem / Gustav Meyrink
The razor's edge / W. Somerset Maugham
The seven storey mountain / Thomas Merton
Death be not proud / John Gunther
Ecclesiastes / Old Testament
Lost horizon / James Hilton
The Bhagavad Gita / Sanskrit poem
Night / Elie Wiesel
The varieties of religious experience / William James.
The portrait of a lady / Henry James
As I lay dying / William Faulkner
Wuthering heights / Emily Brontë
Kim / Rudyard Kipling
Alice's adventures in wonderland / Lewis Carroll
Justine / Lawrence Durrell
Oliver Twist / Charles Dickens
Pride and prejudice / Jane Austen
A passage to India / E. M. Forster
My Ántonia / Willa Cather
Madame Bovary / Gustave Flaubert
Two. On many a list for burning (Heretics, subversives, demagogues): Stories / Dorothy Parker
The prince / Niccolo Machiavelli
The Devil's dictionary / Ambrose Bierce
Mein Kampf / Adolf Hitler
Nana / Emile Zola
Ten days that shook the world / John Reed
Native son / Richard Wright
[cont'd.] Three. Books that shaped the western world: Essays / Montaigne
Dialogues / Plato
The welth of nations / Plato
An essay on the principle of population / Thomas Malthus
The decline and fall of the Roman Empire / Edward Gibbon
The origin of species / Charles Darwin
The histories / Herodotus
The Federalist Papers / Hamilton, Madison, Jay
The annals of imperial Rome / Tacitus
The Peloponnesian War / Thucydides
Democracy in America / Alexis de Tocqueville
[cont'd.] Four. Making hard work easy (The great popularizers): Only yesterday / Frederick Lewis Allen
Microbe hunters / Paul de Kruif
Selected works / Cicero
Coming of age in Samoa / Margaret Mead
The outermost house / Henry Beston
The amiable Baltimoreans / Francis F. Beirne
What to listen for in music / Aaron Copland
Gods, graves, and scholars / C.W. Ceram
The stress of life / Hans Selye
The Greek way / Edith Hamilton
Five. Not Robinson Crusoe, not Brave new world: A journal of the plague year / Daniel Defoe
The doors of perception / Aldous Huxley
Elective affinities / John Wolfgang von Goethe
Homage to Catalonia / George Orwell
Civilization and its discontents / Sigmund Freud
Arrowsmith / Sinclair Lewis
Roughing it / Mark Twain
[cont'd.] Six. Lighter fare (Good reads, best sellers): A study in scarlet / Arthur Conan Doyle
The song of Hiawatha / H.W. Longfellow
The rise of David Levinsky / Abraham Cahan
Java head / Joseph Hergesheimer
Mr. Pottermack's oversight / R. Austin Freeman
A bell for Adano / John Hersey
The Martian chronicles / Ray Bradbury
Gentleman's agreement / Laura Z. Hobson
Seven. "But I know what I like": The ten books of architecture / Vitruvius
The lives of the most eminent Italian architects, painters, and sculptors / Giorgio Vasari
The seven lamps of architecture /John Ruskin
The nude: a study in ideal form / Kenneth Clark
The elements of style / Strunk and White
[cont'd.] Eight. One-of-a-kinds: A room of one's own / Virginia Woolf
The American language / H.L. Mencken
The little prince / Antoine de Saint Éxupery
The education of Henry Adams / Henry Adams
Flatland / Edwin A. Abbott
Their eyes were watching God / Zora Neal Hurston
A mathematician's apology / Godfrey H. Hardy
My life / Isadora Duncan
The structure of scientific revolutions / Thomas Kuhn
Nine. The realm of the spirit (Holy and human): Gilgamesh / Babylonian epic
Confessions / Saint Augustine
The golem / Gustav Meyrink
The razor's edge / W. Somerset Maugham
The seven storey mountain / Thomas Merton
Death be not proud / John Gunther
Ecclesiastes / Old Testament
Lost horizon / James Hilton
The Bhagavad Gita / Sanskrit poem
Night / Elie Wiesel
The varieties of religious experience / William James.
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