A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
9 best books like A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (Samuel Johnson): Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Sailing Alone around the World, Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth, The Rape of the Lock, A Sentimental Journey, Sodom and Gomorrah, Under Milk Wood, The Princess Casamassima
| Author | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| ISBN | 1843500965 |
The wild Cevennes region of France forms the backdrop for the pioneering travelogue Travels with a Donkey, written by a young Robert Louis Stevenson. Ever hopeful of encountering the adventure he yearned for and raising much needed finance at the start of his writing career, Stevenson embarked on...
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
| Author | James Hogg |
| ISBN | 0192835904 |
Set in early eighteenth-century Scotland, the novel recounts the corruption of a boy of strict Calvinist parentage by a mysterious stranger under whose influence he commits a series of murders. The stranger assures the boy that no sin can affect the salvation of an elect person. The reader, while recognizing...
| Author | Joshua Slocum |
| ISBN | 0140437363 |
The classic travel narrative of a Don Quixote-of-the-seas – the first man to circumnavigate the world singlehandedly.
Joshua Slocum’s autobiographical account of his solo trip around the world is one of the most remarkable – and entertaining – travel narratives of all time. Setting...
Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth
| Author | Chris Ware |
| ISBN | 0224063979 |
Jimmy Corrigan has rightly been hailed as the greatest graphic novel ever to be published. It won the Guardian First Book Award 2001, the first graphic novel to win a major British literary prize.
It is the tragic autobiography of an office dogsbody in Chicago who one day meets the father who...
| Author | Alexander Pope |
| ISBN | 1557429162 |
I’ve always believed that miracles can happen and that great physical and/or mental suffering can engender greatness. This indeed proved to be the case with this splendid work by Alexander Pope.
I find Pope a fascinating individual. He was a catholic, at a time when legislation was repressive...
| Author | Laurence Sterne |
| ISBN | 0140437797 |
A furiously witty response to Tobias Smollett's curmudgeonly 'Travels through France and Italy', Laurence Sterne's A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy became a hugely influential work of travel writing in its own right. This Penguin Classics edition includes an introduction and notes...
| Author | Marcel Proust |
| ISBN | 0143039318 |
Sodom and Gomorrah – now in a superb translation by John Sturrock – takes up the theme of homosexual love, male and female, and dwells on how destructive sexual jealousy can be for those who suffer it. Proust's novel is also an unforgiving analysis of both the decadent high society of Paris, and the...
| Author | Dylan Thomas |
| ISBN | 0811202097 |
Some works of literature just beg to be read out loud - This is the House that Jack Built and Hiawatha are two that most people are familiar with. Under Milk Wood too, is better appreciated read aloud.
Try it for yourself. A sample (read aloud with Welsh accent, sing-song, go up like a question at...
| Author | Henry James |
| ISBN | 1419178695 |
He sank upon the old yellow sofa, the sofa of his lifetime and of so many years before, and buried his head on the shabby, tattered arm. A succession of sobs broke from his lips -- sobs in which the accumulated emotion of months and the strange, acute conflict of feelings that had possessed him for the three...
