Die Strudlhofstiege oder Melzer und die Tiefe der Jahre
10 best books like Die Strudlhofstiege oder Melzer und die Tiefe der Jahre (Heimito von Doderer): The Letters of Abélard and Héloïse, The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge, The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism, Parzival, A History of Western Philosophy, The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety, To Have or to Be? The Nature of the Psyche, On the Shortness of Life, Tristan: With the Tristran of Thomas, Lucien Leuwen
| Author | Pierre Abélard |
| ISBN | 0140448993 |
The story of the relationship between Abélard and Héloïse is one of the world’s most celebrated and tragic love affairs. It is told through the letters of Peter Abélard, a French philosopher and one of the greatest logicians of the twelfth century, and of his gifted pupil Héloïse. Through their...
The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge
| Author | Carlos Castaneda |
| ISBN | 0671227424 |
You may find this book has a lot of chaff on how they prepare peyote and other drugs, mundane descriptions in diary... yet when you less expect it, they hit you with a boulder of wisdom that leaves you freezed.
There is ONE core idea in the book that makes the price tag disappear. You cannot pay for...
| Author | Fritjof Capra |
| ISBN | 1570625190 |
After a quarter of a century in print, Capra's groundbreaking work still challenges and inspires. This updated edition of The Tao of Physics includes a new preface and afterword in which the author reviews the developments of the twenty-five years since the book's first publication, discusses criticisms...
| Author | Wolfram von Eschenbach |
| ISBN | 0140443614 |
Composed in the early thirteenth century, Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival is the re-creation and completion of the story left unfinished by its initiator Chretien de Troyes. It follows Parzival from his boyhood and career as a knight in the court of King Arthur to his ultimate achievement as King...
A History of Western Philosophy
| Author | Bertrand Russell |
| ISBN | 0671201581 |
Since its first publication in 1945 Lord Russell's A History of Western Philosophy has been universally acclaimed as the outstanding one-volume work on the subject—unparalleled in its comprehensiveness, its clarity, its erudition, its grace and wit. In seventy-six chapters he traces philosophy...
The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety
| Author | Alan W. Watts |
| ISBN | 0394704681 |
In this fascinating book, Alan Watts explores man's quest for psychological security, examining our efforts to find spiritual and intellectual certainty in the realms of religion and philosophy. The Wisdom of Insecurity underlines the importance of our search for stability in an age where human...
To Have or to Be? The Nature of the Psyche
| Author | Erich Fromm |
| ISBN | 0826417388 |
To Have Or to Be? is one of the seminal books of the second half of the 20th century. Nothing less than a manifesto for a new social and psychological revolution to save our threatened planet, this book is a summary of the penetrating thought of Eric Fromm. His thesis is that two modes of existence struggle...
| Author | Seneca |
| ISBN | 0143036327 |
The Stoic writings of the philosopher Seneca offer powerful insights into the art of living, the importance of reason and morality, and continue to provide profound guidance to many through their eloquence, lucidity and timeless wisdom.
Throughout history, some books have changed the...
| Author | Gottfried von Straßburg |
Gottfried's version of this legendary romance--in which Tristan and Isolde chance to drink a magic potion that causes them to fall in love--portrays Tristan in the round as an attractive and sophisticated pre-Renaissance man. While Gottfried adheres faithfully to the events as set down by Thomas,...
| Author | Stendhal |
| ISBN | 2070409104 |
Chassé de l’Ecole polytechnique dans les années 1830, Lucien Leuwen, grâce aux relations de son père, riche banquier parisien, obtient de devenir sous-lieutenant et gagne Nancy. Tandis que son régiment de lanciers entre dans la ville, il aperçoit, derrière une persienne entrouverte,...
| Author | Einhard |
| ISBN | 0140442138 |
Two revealingly different accounts of the life of the most important figure of the Roman Empire
Charlemage, known as the father of Europe, was one of the most powerful and dynamic of all medieval rulers. The biographies brought together here provide a rich and varied portrait of the king from...
| Author | Thomas Malory |
| ISBN | 1401307809 |
Le Morte d'Arthur (originally spelled Le Morte Darthur, Middle French for "the death of Arthur"[1]) is a reworking of existing tales by Sir Thomas Malory about the legendary King Arthur, Guinevere, Lancelot, Merlin, and the Knights of the Round Table. Malory interprets existing French and English...
| Author | Unknown |
| ISBN | 0669212121 |
Although Tolkien fans will no doubt disagree, Klaeber's Beowulf is undoubtably the most important work on the poem ever produced and after ninety years is still the most authoritative edition of the text.
First published in 1922, one of the most exciting periods in Beowulfian studies and...
| Author | Chrétien de Troyes |
| ISBN | 0820321419 |
Erec and Enide marks the birth of the Arthurian romance as a literary genre. Written circa 1170, this version of the Griselda legend tells the story of the marriage of Erec, a handsome and courageous Welsh prince and knight of the Round Table, and Enide, an impoverished noblewoman. When the lovers become...
| Author | Chrétien de Troyes |
| ISBN | 0820308129 |
In this verse translation of Perceval; or, The Story of the Grail, Ruth Harwood Cline restores to life the thematically crucial Arthurian tale of the education of a knight in his search for the Holy Grail.Cline's translation, faithful to the highly synthetic, deliberately ornate nature of medieval...
A Négyszögletű Kerek Erdő
Cả một thế giới trẻ em Hung-ga-ri đã lớn lên với những tính cách khó quên, được thể hiện bằng một phong cách riêng độc đáo, cùng cái nhìn ấm áp và tình yêu sâu xa trong thế giới nhân vật của Lázár Ervin, nhà văn viết cho thiếu nhi...
