A Great Unrecorded History: A New Life of E. M. Forster

9 best books like A Great Unrecorded History: A New Life of E. M. Forster (Wendy Moffat): The Last Sun, Silver in the Wood, Maurice, Hidden Warrior, Bakhita, Maggie & Me, On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life Through Great Books, Reading Judas: The Gospel of Judas and the Shaping of Christianity, Antisemitism: Here and Now

The Last Sun

Author

K.D. Edwards

Rune Saint John, last child of the fallen Sun Court, is hired to search for Lady Judgment's missing son, Addam, on New Atlantis, the island city where the Atlanteans moved after ordinary humans destroyed their original home.

With his companion and bodyguard, Brand, he questions Addam's relatives...

Silver in the Wood

Author	Emily Tesh
ISBN	1250229790

There is a Wild Man who lives in the deep quiet of Greenhollow, and he listens to the wood. Tobias, tethered to the forest, does not dwell on his past life, but he lives a perfectly unremarkable existence with his cottage, his cat, and his dryads.

When Greenhollow Hall acquires a handsome, intensely...

Maurice

Author	E.M. Forster
ISBN	0393310329

Maurice is heartbroken over unrequited love, which opened his heart and mind to his own sexual identity. In order to be true to himself, he goes against the grain of society’s often unspoken rules of class, wealth, and politics.
Forster understood that his homage to same-sex love, if published...

Hidden Warrior

Author	Lynn Flewelling
ISBN	0007113102

Um...Ms. Flewelling...may I call you Lynn...okay, Ms. Flewelling...if you ever see this review, I want you to know that this rating/review is a reflection of MY FAILURE and not yours. I don’t think this is a bad book and I don’t think there are serious flaws in its execution. I think the...

Bakhita

Author	Véronique Olmi
ISBN	2226393226

Elle a été enlevée à sept ans dans son village du Darfour et a connu toutes les horreurs et les souffrances de l'esclavage. Rachetée à l'adolescence par le consul d'Italie, elle découvre un pays d'inégalités, de pauvreté et d'exclusion. Affranchie à la suite d'un procès retentissant...

Maggie & Me

Author	Damian Barr
ISBN	1770893806

Long-listed for the Green Carnation Prize and The Sunday Times' selection for Memoir of the Year.


"This amazing book tells the story of an appalling childhood with truth and clarity unsmudged by self-pity. It grips from beginning to end." — Diana Athill, Costa Book Award–winning...

On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life Through Great Books

Author	Karen Swallow Prior
ISBN	1587433966

Reading great literature well has the power to cultivate virtue. Great literature increases knowledge of and desire for the good life by showing readers what virtue looks like and where vice leads. It is not just what one reads but how one reads that cultivates virtue. Reading good literature well requires...

Reading Judas: The Gospel of Judas and the Shaping of Christianity

Author	Elaine Pagels
ISBN	0670038458

The two leading, bestselling experts on the Gnostic Gospels weigh in on the meaning of the controversial newly discovered Gospel of Judas.

When the Gospel of Judas was published by the National Geographic Society in April 2006, it received extraordinary media attention and was immediately...

Antisemitism: Here and Now

Author	Deborah E. Lipstadt
ISBN	0805243372

The award-winning author of The Eichmann Trial and Denial: Holocaust History on Trial gives us a penetrating and provocative analysis of the hate that will not die, focusing on its current, virulent incarnations on both the political right and left: from white supremacist demonstrators in Charlottesville,...