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10 best books like A Tale of a Tub (Jonathan Swift): Euphues the Anatomy of Wit: Euphues & His England, On Friendship, An Attack on an Enemy of Freedom, Miracles and Idolatry, The Making of Americans, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady - Volume 1, Amelia, Ennui, The Unfortunate Traveller and Other Works

Euphues the Anatomy of Wit: Euphues & His England
AuthorJohn Lyly
ISBN0781272130
EARLY ENGLISH WIT, POETRY & SATIRE. Imagine holding history in your hands. Now you can. Digitally preserved and previously accessible only through libraries as Early English Books Online, this rare material is now available in single print editions. Thousands of books written between 1475...
On Friendship
AuthorMichel de Montaigne
ISBN0141018860
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings...
An Attack on an Enemy of Freedom
AuthorMarcus Tullius Cicero
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings...
Miracles and Idolatry
AuthorVoltaire
ISBN0141023929
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings...
The Making of Americans
AuthorGertrude Stein
ISBN1564780880

"I am all unhappy in this writing. I know very much of the meaning of the being in men and women. I know it and feel it and I am always learning more of it and now I am telling it and I am nervous and driving and unhappy in it. Sometimes I will be all happy in it." p348

This is not the novel I thought it...
The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
AuthorTobias Smollett
ISBN1847024920


Does the above book cover for Tobias Smollett's The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle look like an invitation to a frolicking, sexually charged escapade all in the spirit of good, clean fun? That's precisely what the publisher of this edition is aiming for.

Much, much different from...
Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady - Volume 1
AuthorSamuel Richardson
2133 pages, consisting of 536 letters (plus conclusion and author's postscript) all cross-referenced - the author must have been a madman. A madman with an impressive filing system.

This is the kind of book that draws you in slowly but completely, with not much happening most of the time. So...
Amelia
AuthorHenry Fielding
ISBN1426413807
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not...
Ennui
AuthorMaria Edgeworth
ISBN1409765539
The shiftless Lord Glenthorn has money and a title but suffers from ennui—from boredom. When it is revealed to him that he is not, in fact, an Anglo-Irish earl, but the peasant Christy O’Donoghoe, he must face his changed circumstances in order to provide for a life and future for the woman with whom...
The Unfortunate Traveller and Other Works
AuthorThomas Nashe
ISBN0140430679
Thomas Nashe, a contemporary of Shakespeare, was writing in the 1590s, the zenith of the English Renaissance. Rebellious in spirit, conservative in philosophy, Nashe's brilliant and comic invective earned him a reputation as the 'English Juvenal' who 'carried the deadly stockado in his pen.' In...
Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus
AuthorAlexander Pope
Rich with hilarious episodes, Scriblerus is an ingenious satire of false learning and bad taste that has much to say to the pseudo-intellectual world of today. By taking one ambitious father and his determination to do everything in his power to produce a child of genius, Pope exposes the true folly...
White Man Falling
AuthorMike Stocks
ISBN1846880246
White Man Falling is a tale of domestic catastrophe, deluded match-making and mystical absurdity set in a small town in South India. Police sub-inspector Swami has lost his job after suffering a stroke while beating up a Very Guilty Suspect. He can no longer talk properly, command the respect of his...
My Search for Warren Harding
AuthorRobert Plunket
ISBN0060973900
This is an out-of-print book. It used to be harder tracking such things down. Then I realized there are places to go for them. I found a copy of this through 3rd-party selling at Amazon.

Robert Plunket has apparently stopped writing novels, and more's the pity. He made his debut with this and,...
Alphabetical Africa
AuthorWalter Abish
ISBN0811205339
Alphabetical Africa, Walter Abish's delightful first novel, is an extraordinary linguistic tour de force, high comedy set in an imaginary dark continent that expands and contracts with ineluctable precision, as one by one the author adds the letters of the alphabet to his book, and then subtracts...
The Christians and the Fall of Rome (Great Ideas)
AuthorEdward Gibbon
ISBN0143036246
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings...
Of Empire
AuthorFrancis Bacon
ISBN0143037560
The perfect books for the true book lover, Penguin’s Great Ideas series features twelve more groundbreaking works by some of history’s most prodigious thinkers. Each volume is beautifully packaged with a unique type-driven design that highlights the bookmaker’s art. Offering great literature...
The Inner Life
AuthorThomas à Kempis
ISBN0143036262
'We are all frail; consider none more frail than yourself.'
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted....
Conspicuous Consumption
AuthorThorstein Veblen
ISBN0143037595
What a wretched little book. I don't know much about the author, I know the book, Theory of the Leisure Class, is a famous sociology text, and that these parts all come from that whole. What I don't know if there is something missing in these parts that in the full text, would say, "I'm joking of course about...
On Art and Life
AuthorJohn Ruskin
ISBN0143036289
Nietzsche said that with the death of the sacred, Beauty would continue, albeit accidentally.

Mr. John Ruskin, however, set his sights on an earlier age, developing six principles that could be applied to gothic beauty, and in so doing, in my eyes, set down the principles for Beauty in general.

The...
On the Pleasure of Hating
AuthorWilliam Hazlitt
ISBN0143036319


"All traces of life, of natural expression, were gone from him. His face was like a human skull, a death's head...He was not like an actual man, but like a preternatural, spectral appearance." -- The Fight



"Man, thou art a wonderful animal, and thy ways past finding out!...
On Natural Selection
AuthorCharles Darwin
ISBN0143036300
Finally wrapped up this slim volume. I'll go through my notes later, but for now I'll just say it was fascinating how many aspects of evolution Darwin described in almost exactly the same way I learned it in school, from the basics of natural selection to sexual selection, even selection acting upon traits...
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