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10 best books like Madame de Stäel (Maria Fairweather): The Ring of the Nibelung, The Baburnama: Memoirs of Babur, Prince and Emperor, The Tale of Genji, The Rose of Martinique: A Life of Napoleon's Josephine, The Lady in Red: An Eighteenth-Century Tale of Sex, Scandal, and Divorce, Caesar's Commentaries: On the Gallic War & On the Civil War, Records of the Grand Historian: Han Dynasty I, Talleyrand, Four Major Plays of Chikamatsu, The Selected Poems

The Ring of the Nibelung
AuthorRichard Wagner
ISBN0393008673
Richard Wagner's vast Der Ring des Nibelungen cycle comprises four full-length operas (Das Rheingold, Die Walkure, Siegfried and Gotterdammerung) and is arguably the most extraordinary achievement in the history of opera. His own libretto to the operas, translated by Andrew Porter, is an intricate...
The Baburnama: Memoirs of Babur, Prince and Emperor
AuthorZahirud-din Muhammad Babur
ISBN0375761373
Both an official chronicle and the highly personal memoir of the emperor Babur (1483–1530), The Baburnama presents a vivid and extraordinarily detailed picture of life in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India during the late-fifteenth and early-sixteenth centuries. Babur’s honest and intimate...
The Tale of Genji
AuthorYoshitaka Amano
ISBN1595820639
Yoshitaka Amano has been praised around the world for his lush watercolors and evocative work dealing with myth and legend. In The Tale of Genji Mr. Amano brings his considerable talent to retelling one of the most famous of Japanese myths: written by Murasaki Shikibu shortly after 1000 AD and considered...
The Rose of Martinique: A Life of Napoleon's Josephine
AuthorAndrea Stuart
ISBN0802142028
One of the most remarkable women of the modern era, Josephine Bonaparte was born Rose de Tasher on her family's sugar plantation in Martinique. She embodied all the characteristics of a true Creole-sensuality, vivacity, and willfulness. Using diaries and letters, Andrea Stuart expertly re-creates...
The Lady in Red: An Eighteenth-Century Tale of Sex, Scandal, and Divorce
AuthorHallie Rubenhold
ISBN0312359942
She was a spirited young heiress. He was a handsome baronet with a promising career in government. The marriage of Lady Seymour Dorothy Fleming and Sir Richard Worsley had the makings of a fairy tale—but ended as one of the most scandalous and highly publicized divorces in history.

In February...
Caesar's Commentaries: On the Gallic War & On the Civil War
AuthorGaius Julius Caesar
ISBN0976072610
This complete edition of Caesar's Commentaries contains all eight of Caesar's books on the Gallic War as well as all three of his books on the Civil War masterfully translated into English by W. A. MacDevitt. Caesar's Commentaries are an outstanding account of extraordinary events by one of the most...
Records of the Grand Historian: Han Dynasty I
AuthorSima Qian
ISBN0231081650
WHAT EVERY EDUCATED CITIZEN OF THE WORLD NEEDS TO KNOW IN THE 21ST CENTURY: THE GREAT HISTORIANS OF WORLD HISTORY--HERODOTUS, THUCYDIDES, SIMA QIAN, IBN KHALDUN, THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE MONGOLS, JULIUS CAESAR, PLUTARCH, LIVY, POLYBIUS, TACITUS, GIBBON, MARX, SPENGLER & TOYNBEE----FROM...
Talleyrand
AuthorDuff Cooper
ISBN0802137679
Unique in his own age and a phenomenon in any, Charles-Maurice, Prince de Talleyrand, was a statesman of outstanding ability and extraordinary contradictions. He was a world-class rogue who held high office in five successive regimes. A well-known opportunist and a notorious bribe taker, Talleyrand's...
Four Major Plays of Chikamatsu
AuthorChikamatsu Monzaemon
ISBN0231111010
Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653-1725) wrote some 130 plays, chiefly for the puppet theater, many of which are still performed today by puppet operators and Kabuki actors. Chikamatsu is thought to have written the first major tragedies about the common man. This edition of four of his most important plays...
The Selected Poems
AuthorWang Wei
ISBN0811216187
Wang Wei (701-761 C.E.) is often spoken of, with his contemporaries Li Po and Tu Fu, as one of the three greatest poets in China's 3,000-year poetic tradition. Of the three, Wang was the consummate master of the short imagistic landscape poem that came to typify classical Chinese poetry. He developed...
Jin Ping Mei
AuthorLanling Xiaoxiao Sheng
ISBN1596544643
The fullest translation of Jin Ping Mei available in English. This edition was derived from the Egerton translation, minus the Latin, with a few euphemisms thrown in, but is considerably more complete than the Olympia Press version most Westerners are familiar with. Given the fine academic tradition...
The Three Kingdoms: The Sacred Oath (The Three Kingdoms, 1 of 3)
AuthorLuo Guanzhong
ISBN0804843937
This exciting new translation will appeal to modern readers who find the twists and turns of Game of Thrones so compelling.

The Three Kingdoms is an epic Chinese novel written over six centuries ago. It recounts in vivid historical detail the turbulent years at the close of the Han Dynasty,...
Diwan Al Hallaj
AuthorMansur al-Hallaj
ISBN9799373034
Mansur al-Hallaj, died 0919, was born near Shiraz on 0858, and tortured and executed in Baghdad for declaring: "I am the Truth (An-al Haq)." Much has been written about his famous (and infamous) statement, but few of his powerful, often mysteries and always deeply conscious and spiritual poems in Arabic...
Conversations of Goethe
AuthorJohann Peter Eckermann
ISBN0306808811
It is a delightful book. I cannot help giving this book full five stars (This feels weird, though, to give such books stars).

I like every page of the book. Right at the beginning, Eckermann writes about his impoverished childhood and his realization that he is gifted.

Later in the Book,...
A Sister to Scheherazade
AuthorAssia Djebar
ISBN0435086227
Isma and Hajila are both wives of the same man, but they are not rivals.

Isma - older, vibrant, passionate, emancipated - is in stark contrast to the passive, cloistered Hajila. In alternating chapters, Isma tells her own story in the first person, and then Hajila's in the second person. She...
The Secret History of the Mongols
AuthorFrancis Woodman Cleaves
ISBN0674796705
Questo libro è l'epopea delle gesta del temibile Gengis Khan dalla nascita fino al racconto della sua eredità. Ci porta in sella a un cavallo, nelle vastità della steppa eurasiatica, dove un uomo venuto dal nulla, disprezzato e allontanato perché di padre dubbio, mette in piedi uno degli imperi...
The Life of an Amorous Woman and Other Writings
AuthorSaikaku Ihara
ISBN0811201872
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One of the great writers of Japan, Ihara Saikaku (1623-93) wrote of the lowest class in the Tokugawa world — the townsmen who were rising in wealth and power but not in official status. The title story in this collection of 12 works, told by an aging beauty whose highly erotic nature...
مختارات من مقدمة ابن خلدون
AuthorIbn Khaldun
في البداية، ربما علي أن أذكر أن النسخة "التراثية" المستعارة من "متحف آل الغرياني" -على حد تعبير "الزوار"- كانت سبب في زيادة أهمية قراءتي لهذا الكتاب، وسبب في...
We, the Children of Cats
AuthorTomoyuki Hoshino
ISBN1604865911
By turns teasing and terrifying, laconic and luminous, the stories in this anthology are drawn from sources as diverse as Borges, Nabokov, Garcia-Marquez, and traditional Japanese folklore, and yet they ultimately reside in a slyly subversive literary world that is all their own. Blending an uncompromising...
Dancing to the Precipice: Lucie de la Tour du Pin and the French Revolution
AuthorCaroline Moorehead
Born Lucie Dillon, to a half-French mother and an Anglo-Irish father, her world was Versailles and the court of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. She married a French aristocrat, and narrowly survived the French Revolution, escaping to America at the time of Washington and Jefferson. Here, she lived...
Napoleon: His Wives and Women
AuthorChristopher Hibbert
ISBN0393052028
Christopher Hibbert Introduces US to the many intriguing women behind Napoleon -- from his strong-willed mother and three sisters to his varied wives and mistresses. This lively historical account reveals Napoleon's often neglected private life and passionate relationships, in which he wildly...
Diaries
AuthorGeorge Orwell
ISBN0871404109
This groundbreaking volume, never before published in the United States, at last introduces the interior life of George Orwell, the writer who defined twentieth-century political thought. Written as individual books throughout his career, the eleven surviving diaries collected here record...
Mrs. Adams in Winter: A Journey in the Last Days of Napoleon
AuthorMichael O'Brien
ISBN0374215812
This would not be everyone's cup of tea but I found it fascinating. In the winter of 1815, Louisa Catherine Adams, the wife of future President John Quincey Adams left ST Petersburg with her 7 year old son to travel by coach to Paris, nearly 2000 miles away across a Europe torn and dangerous from the aftermath...
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