Doré's Illustrations for Don Quixote
10 best books like Doré's Illustrations for Don Quixote (Gustave Doré): Papillon, Don Quixote, The Upanishads, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, The Sleeper and the Spindle, Asterix the Gaul, The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature, The Sandman: The Dream Hunters, The Redress of Poetry, Two Cures for Love: Selected Poems, 1979-2006
| Author | Henri Charrière |
| ISBN | 0061120669 |
Henri Charrière, called "Papillon," for the butterfly tattoo on his chest, was convicted in Paris in 1931 of a murder he did not commit. Sentenced to life imprisonment in the penal colony of French Guiana, he became obsessed with one goal: escape. After planning and executing a series of treacherous...
| Author | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra |
| ISBN | 0142437239 |
Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading chivalric romances that he determines to become a knight-errant himself. In the company of his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, his exploits blossom in all sorts of wonderful ways. While Quixote's fancy often leads him astray—he tilts at windmills,...
| Author | Anonymous |
| ISBN | 0140441638 |
The Upanishads, the earliest of which were composed in Sanskrit between 800 and 400 bce by sages and poets, form part of the Vedas - the sacred and ancient scriptures that are the basis of the Hindu religion. Each Upanishad, or lesson, takes up a theme ranging from the attainment of spiritual bliss to karma...
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Television has conditioned us to tolerate visually entertaining material measured out in spoonfuls of time, to the detriment of rational public discourse and reasoned public affairs. In this eloquent, persuasive book, Neil Postman alerts us to the real and present dangers of this state of affairs,...
The Sleeper and the Spindle
| Author | Neil Gaiman |
| ISBN | 1408859645 |
A thrillingly reimagined fairy tale from the truly magical combination of author Neil Gaiman and illustrator Chris Riddell – weaving together a sort-of Snow White and an almost Sleeping Beauty with a thread of dark magic, which will hold readers spellbound from start to finish.
On the eve...
| Author | René Goscinny |
| ISBN | 0752866052 |
A kindred spirit...
Family portrait.
Sport/recreation/favorite pastime.
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For those not familiar with the Asterix comics, let me give you a bit of background, both personal and general.
Let me start with Julius Caesar.
We...
| Author | C.S. Lewis |
| ISBN | 0521477352 |
To me, this might be C. S. Lewis' best book. I will have to cop to not really liking the Narnia books (too allegorical and those British schoolchildren are pretty annoying), and while I do quite like his "Space Trilogy" I think that Lewis was much better as a writer of academic non-fiction than he was as a...
The Sandman: The Dream Hunters
| Author | Neil Gaiman |
| ISBN | 1401224245 |
THE SANDMAN: THE DREAM HUNTERS is a comics adaptation of Gaiman's original prose novella by the same name illustrated by Yoshitako Amano. This graphic novel was illustrated by the legendary P. Craig Russell. A humble young monk and a magical, shape-changing fox find themselves romantically drawn...
| Author | Seamus Heaney |
| ISBN | 0374248532 |
This might seem an odd choice: a collection of lectures about poetry, some of them to an Oxford audience. Sounds stuffy as can be - but it isn't. Wherever they were first heard, each lecture was written to be understood by anyone, and send them back to the works they cover.
The best piece, and perhaps...
Two Cures for Love: Selected Poems, 1979-2006
| Author | Wendy Cope |
| ISBN | 0571240798 |
The idea for this book grew out of Wendy Cope's experience of meeting her audience, when reading her poems in schools. This is an edition of the poems which identifies the references, verse-forms, contexts and occasions of her work, and which offers readers a new arrangement of the poetry as a whole....
Change Anything: The New Science of Personal Success
| Author | Kerry Patterson |
| ISBN | 0446573914 |
A stunning new approach to how individuals can not only change their lives for the better in the workplace, but also their lives away from the office, including (but not limited to) finding ways to improve one's working relationship with others, one's overall health, outlook on life, and so on.
For...
