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10 best books like Basic Writings (Immanuel Kant): Porno, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays, The Complete Yes Minister, The Twins at St Clare's, The Rise of the Roman Empire, Rumpole of the Bailey, Trainspotting: A Screenplay (Based on the Novel by Irvine Welsh), Basic Writings of Existentialism, Selected Writings, A Kierkegaard Anthology

Porno
AuthorIrvine Welsh
ISBN8433972618
In the last gasp of youth, Simon "Sick Boy" Williamson is back in Edinburgh. He taps into one last great scam: directing and producing a porn film. To make it work, he needs bedfellows: the lovely Nikki Fuller-Smith, a student with ambition, ego, and troubles to rival his own; old pal Mark Renton; and a...
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
AuthorAlbert Camus
One of the most influential works of this century, this is a crucial exposition of existentialist thought. Influenced by works such as Don Juan, and the novels of Kafka, these essays begin with a meditation on suicide: the question of living or not living in an absurd universe devoid of order or meaning....
The Complete Yes Minister
AuthorJonathan Lynn
ISBN0563206659
'We have had diaries from other Cabinet Ministers, but none I
think which have been quite so illuminating... It is a
fascinating diary... It is shorter than Barbara Castle's... and
although it is rather more accurate than Dick Crossman's, it
is distinctly funnier' - Lord Allen of...
The Twins at St Clare's
AuthorEnid Blyton
ISBN0603559581
The Twins at St Clare's (St Clare's, #1), Enid Blyton
The Twins at St Clare's is a children's novel by Enid Blyton set in an English girls' boarding school. It is the first of the original six novels in the St. Clare's series of school stories. First published in 1941, it tells the story of twin sisters...
The Rise of the Roman Empire
AuthorPolybius
ISBN0140443622
Polybius, himself a Greek and an active contemporary participant in political relations with Rome, wrote the forty books of his Universal History primarily to chronicle and account for the Roman conquest of Greece between 200 and 167 B.C. He saw that Mediterranean history, under Rome's influence,...
Rumpole of the Bailey
AuthorJohn Mortimer
ISBN0140046704
Rumpole of the Bailey is a British television series created and written by the British writer and barrister John Mortimer. It stars Leo McKern as Horace Rumpole, an ageing London barrister who defends any and all clients. The original show has been spun off into a series of short stories, novels, and...
Trainspotting: A Screenplay (Based on the Novel by Irvine Welsh)
AuthorJohn Hodge
ISBN0786882212
Trainspotting, based on the novel by Irvine Welsh


Trainspotting is a phenomenal work that has achieved cult status, provocative, challenging, intriguing, creative, humorous, edgy as it is, the motion picture that has launched the career of a few excellent performers, from Ewan McGregor...
Basic Writings of Existentialism
AuthorGordon Daniel Marino
ISBN0375759891
Edited and with an Introduction by Gordon Marino

Basic Writings of Existentialism, unique to the Modern Library, presents the writings of key nineteenth- and twentieth-century thinkers broadly united by their belief that because life has no inherent meaning humans can discover, we must...
Selected Writings
AuthorThomas Aquinas
ISBN0140436324
In his reflections on Christianity, Saint Thomas Aquinas forged a unique synthesis of ancient philosophy and medieval theology.
Preoccupied with the relationship between faith and reason, he was influenced both by Aristotle's rational world view and by the powerful belief that wisdom and...
A Kierkegaard Anthology
AuthorSøren Kierkegaard
ISBN0691019789
This anthology covers the whole of Kierkegaard's literary career. The selections range from the terse epigrams of the Journal through the famous -Diary of the Seducer- and the -Banquet- scene, in which Soren Kierkegaard reveals his great lyric and dramatic gifts, on to the philosophical and psychological...
The Beauty of Men
AuthorAndrew Holleran
ISBN0452277744
A universal tale of loneliness, aging, and the desires of the human heart, Holleran's long-awaited third novel tells the brilliant, passionate story of a man ashamed to be mourning the loss of his own youth as so many around him die young. Lark is obsessed with the beauty of youth and his own mortality,...
Reason in History
AuthorGeorg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
ISBN0023513209
The "greatness" of a nation and the individuals who illustrate this greatness, which, according to Hegel, has only one time and corresponds to a phase of expansion that can not last forever: it is the genius of a nation or people that captures that and brings the human, artistic, cultural, economic,...
Ralph's Party
AuthorLisa Jewell
ISBN0452281636
Meet the residents of the London brownstone on 31 Almanac Road who together weave a tangled web of romance. Ralph, a ne'er-do-well artist, suddenly realizes he's head over heels in love with his new flatmate Jem, the most fun and sensible girl he's ever encountered. Unfortunately, Ralph's best friend,...
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