Aldous Huxley: An English Intellectual
10 best books like Aldous Huxley: An English Intellectual (Nicholas Murray): Strange Conflict (Duke de Richleau, #9), Teacher, T.S. Eliot: An Imperfect Life, The Collected Fiction, Vol. 2: The House on the Borderland and Other Mysterious Places, Advertisements for Myself, The American Years, The Historical Novel, Poets in a Landscape, Dr. Johnson and Mr. Savage, Ford: The Men and the Machine
Strange Conflict (Duke de Richleau, #9)
| Author | Dennis Wheatley |
| ISBN | 0090435311 |
Oct 1940 - 1941
When the bombs fall on London the elderly Duke de Richleau considers a problem of the utmost urgency. What methods are the Germans using to discover – with sinister effect – the secret routes of the Atlantic convoys? His answer is bizarre and fantastic. The enemy are in touch with...
| Author | Sylvia Ashton-Warner |
| ISBN | 0671617680 |
TEACHER was first published in 1963 to excited acclaim. Its author, Sylvia Ashton-Warner, who lived in New Zealand and spent many years teaching Maori children, found that Maoris taught according to British methods were not learning to read. They were passionate, moody children, bred in an ancient...
| Author | Lyndall Gordon |
| ISBN | 0393320936 |
In this "nuanced, discerning account of a life famously flawed in its search for perfection" (The New Yorker), Gordon captures Eliot's "complex spiritual and artistic history . . . with tact, diligence, and subtlety" (Boston Globe). Drawing on recently discovered letters, she addresses in full...
| Author | William Hope Hodgson |
| ISBN | 1892389401 |
The second of a five volume set collecting all of Hodgson's published fiction. Each volume contains one of Hodgson's novels, along with a selection of thematically-linked short fiction.
Skyhorse Publishing, under our Night Shade and Talos imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of titles...
| Author | Norman Mailer |
| ISBN | 0674005902 |
An essential guide to the life and work of one of America's most controversial writers, Advertisements for Myself is a comprehensive collection of the best of Norman Mailer's essays, stories, interviews and journalism from the Forties and Fifties, linked by anarchic and riotous autobiographical...
| Author | Brian Boyd |
| ISBN | 0691024715 |
“...every dimension presupposes a medium within which it can act, and if, in the spiral unwinding of things, space warps into something akin to time, and time, in its turn, warps into something akin to thought, then, surely, another dimension follows.”
-Speak, Memory
Above...
| Author | György Lukács |
| ISBN | 0850363780 |
Bastante difícil, mas também bastante iluminador. Os estudos sobre realismo europeu (Thomas Mann e outros) e as diversas considerações sobre Épica e Dramática na historiografia literária são sensacionais. O estudo que Lukács faz sobre o desenvolvimento e o "futuro" do romance histórico...
| Author | Gilbert Highet |
| ISBN | 1853753017 |
Gilbert Highet was a legendary teacher at Columbia University, admired both for his scholarship and his charisma as a lecturer. Poets in a Landscape is his delightful exploration of Latin literature and the Italian landscape. As Highet writes in his introduction, “I have endeavored to recall some...
Dr. Johnson and Mr. Savage
| Author | Richard Holmes |
| ISBN | 0679757708 |
Dr. Johnson & Mr. Savage recounts a story of a mysterious eighteenth-century friendship between Richard Savage - poet, playwright, and convicted murderer - and the young Samuel Johnson, an unknown provincial schoolmaster just arrived in London to seek his literary fortune. In a book that the...
Ford: The Men and the Machine
| Author | Robert Lacey |
| ISBN | 0316511668 |
Spanning more than a hundred years and four generations, the story of Henry Ford, the automobile company he created, and the dynasty he founded is one of the great dramas of our time, yet never before has it been told from beginning to end in all its richness. Now Robert Lacey has captured in one volume the...
The Enlightenment: The Science of Freedom
| Author | Peter Gay |
| ISBN | 0393313662 |
Gay provides an interesting dialectical model: the philosophes opposed ancient paganism to medieval Christianity in order to create an autonomous "modern paganism" (vol. I). And his writing is beautiful.
Ultimately, though, his picture of the Enlightenment is thoroughly teleological...
| Author | Madan Sarup |
| ISBN | 0820315311 |
Madan Sarup has now revised his accessible and popular introduction to post-structuralist and postmodern theory. A new introductory section discusses the meaning of such concepts as modernity, postmodernity, modernization, modernism, and postmodernism. A section on feminist criticism of...
| Author | Sybille Bedford |
| ISBN | 1582433518 |
Her first new book in over 10 years. Bedford is back with what will surely (she says) be her last, and the moving culmination of a story that began in 1956 (when Legacy pubbed in the UK).
Acclaim, acclaim, and acclaim. Sybille Bedford is, simply put, one of the finest writers of her generation....
| Author | Frank Furedi |
| ISBN | 0826490964 |
The intellectual is an endangered species. In place of such figures as Bertrand Russell, Raymond Williams or Hannah Arendt - people with genuine learning, breadth of vision and a concern for public issues - we now have only facile pundits, think-tank apologists, and spin doctors. In the age of the knowledge...
| Author | Tom Wolfe |
| ISBN | 0425103455 |
Wolfe was educated at Washington and Lee Universities and also at Yale, where he received a PhD in American studies.
Tom Wolfe spent his early days as a Washington Post beat reporter, where his free-association, onomatopoetic style would later become the trademark of New Journalism. In books...
| Author | A.N. Wilson |
| ISBN | 0374134685 |
For William Butler Yeats, Dante Alighieri was "the chief imagination of Christendom." For T. S. Eliot, he was of supreme importance, both as poet and philosopher. Coleridge championed his introduction to an English readership. Tennyson based his poem "Ulysses" on lines from the Inferno. Byron chastised...
| Author | Fiona MacCarthy |
| ISBN | 0394585313 |
This is my first review, and I dedicate it to my friend, Margaret Unger, who suggested that I join Goodreads. If you love the Arts and Crafts movement as I do, and yearn to understand William Morris, then this is the book for you. I selected this book as my first to review because Morris was fascinated with...
| Author | Adam Zamoyski |
| ISBN | 0141002239 |
"Entertaining and thought-provoking." (Times Literary Supplement)
"Zamoyski skillfully brings together all the strains of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century nationalism, from the American Revolution to the Paris Commune, showing how quasi-religious idealism prepared the way...
| Author | Anthony Pagden |
| ISBN | 1400060672 |
Spanning two and a half millennia, Anthony Pagden’s mesmerizing Worlds at War delves deep into the roots of the “clash of civilizations” between East and West that has always been a battle over ideas, and whose issues have never been more urgent.
Worlds At War begins in the ancient world,...
| Author | Evan Mawdsley |
| ISBN | 1933648155 |
In St. Petersburg on October 25, 1917, the A commanding chronicle of the three Bolshevik Party stormed the capital city and turbulent years that brought the ironfisted seized the power over the Russian Provisional Soviet regime to political power. Government, which had been operating ineffectively...
| Author | Herbert Read |
| ISBN | 0415289939 |
Herbert Read was a maverick character in the cultural life of the twentieth century. A radical leader of the avant garde in the 1930s, and an anarchist revolutionary during the war years, by the time of his death in 1968 he had become a key figure at the heart of the British cultural establishment. To Hell...
| Author | John Calvert |
| ISBN | 0231701047 |
Sayyid Qutb (1906-1966) was an influential Egyptian ideologue who established the theoretical basis for radical Islamism in the postcolonial Sunni Muslim world. Lacking a pure understanding of the leader's life and work, the popular media has conflated Qutb's moral purpose with the aims of Osama...
| Author | Michael Freeman |
| ISBN | 9749863259 |
Like many people, I purchased my copy of Ancient Angkor from a local vendor at the Angkor Wat temple in the midst of my visit to Cambodia.
I read the book after the trip, which is not the primary way in which it is intended to be read, but I still found it an enjoyable read that brought back memories...
Television: Technology and Cultural Form
| Author | Raymond Williams |
| ISBN | 0415314569 |
Television: Technology and Cultural Form was first published in 1974, long before the dawn of multi-channel TV, or the reality and celebrity shows that now pack the schedules. Yet Williams' analysis of television's history, its institutions, programmes and practices, and its future prospects,...
