Dostoevsky: The Mantle of the Prophet, 1871-1881
10 best books like Dostoevsky: The Mantle of the Prophet, 1871-1881 (Joseph Frank): Supercade: A Visual History of the Videogame Age, 1971-1984, Writings: The Autobiography / Poor Richard’s Almanack / Bagatelles, Pamphlets, Essays & Letters, Highbrow/Lowbrow: The Emergence of Cultural Hierarchy in America, Rousseau's Dog: Two Great Thinkers at War in the Age of Enlightenment, Coleridge: Darker Reflections, 1804-1834, The Innocents Abroad / Roughing It, Collected Essays, Al Qaeda and What It Means to Be Modern, The Future of Success: Working and Living in the New Economy, John Stuart Mill: Victorian Firebrand
| Author | Van Burnham |
| ISBN | 0262024926 |
Washington City Paper
Arts & Entertainment : Book Review
No Quarter
By Glenn Dixon • December 7, 2001
If you think videogame history is in its infancy, just get a load of videogame historiography. Stick to the stuff in English and it makes for a mighty short bookshelf:...
| Author | Benjamin Franklin |
| ISBN | 0940450291 |
Note: When first issued, the Library of America edition of Franklin's Writings was collected in one large volume; later, it was published as two separate volumes.
The library of America is dedicated to publishing America's best and most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes,...
| Author | Lawrence W. Levine |
| ISBN | 0674390776 |
In this wide-ranging study, spanning more than a century & covering such diverse forms of expressive culture as Shakespeare, Central Park, symphonies, jazz, art museums, the Marx Brothers, opera & vaudeville, America's leading cultural historian demonstrates how variable & dynamic...
In 1766 philosopher, novelist, composer, and political provocateur Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a fugitive, decried by his enemies as a dangerous madman. Meanwhile David Hume—now recognized as the foremost philosopher in the English language—was being universally lauded as a paragon of decency....
| Author | Richard Holmes |
| ISBN | 0375708383 |
Richard Holmes's Coleridge: Early Visions won the 1989 Whitbread Book of the Year Prize. Coleridge: Darker Reflections, the long-awaited second volume, chronicles the last thirty years of his career (1804-1834), a period of domestic and professional turmoil. His marriage foundered, his opium...
| Author | Mark Twain |
| ISBN | 0940450259 |
This Library of America volume contains the novels that, when published, transformed an obscure Western journalist into a national celebrity. The Innocents Abroad and Roughing It (sometimes called The Innocents at Home) were immensely successful when first published and they remain today the...
| Author | Aldous Huxley |
| ISBN | 0060902469 |
There are essays here on pretty much anything that struck Huxley's interest - which is, in itself, inspiring and admirable - but the unspoken theme running through much of the book is an effort to reconcile humanism with the colder truths of the 20th century (i.e. the long view of history, the long view...
| Author | John N. Gray |
| ISBN | 1565849876 |
While many Americans view the September 11th terrorist attack as the act of an anachronistic and dangerous sect, one that champions medieval and outmoded ideals, John Gray here argues that in fact the ideology of Al Qaeda is both Western and modern, a by-product of globalization’s transnational...
| Author | Robert B. Reich |
| ISBN | 0375725121 |
If you think it’s getting harder to both make a living and make a life, economist and former secretary of labor Robert Reich agrees with you. Americans may be earning more than ever before, but we’re paying a steep price: we’re working longer, seeing our families less, and our communities are fragmenting.
With...
| Author | Richard V. Reeves |
| ISBN | 1843546434 |
The definitive life of John Stuart Mill, one of the heroic giants of Victorian England
Richard Reeves' sparkling new biography can be read as an attempt to do justice to this eminent thinker, and it succeeds triumphantly. He reveals Mill as a man of action—a philosopher and radical MP...
| Author | Robert D. Richardson Jr. |
| ISBN | 0618433252 |
The definitive biography of the fascinating William James, whose life and writing put an indelible stamp on psychology, philosophy, teaching, and religion -- on modernism itself
Pivotal member of the Metaphysical Club, author of The Varieties of Religious Experience, eldest sibling...
| Author | Wendell Berry |
| ISBN | 1593760558 |
In these six essays, award-winning author Wendell Berry considers the degeneration of language that is manifest throughout our culture, from poetry to politics, from conversation to advertising, and he shows how the ever widening cleft between words and their referents mirrors the increasing...
| Author | Abraham Lincoln |
| ISBN | 0940450631 |
Abraham Lincoln, America’s heroic Civil War president, was also the greatest writer ever to occupy the White House. His addresses at Gettysburg and at his inaugurals, his presidential messages and public lectures, are an essential record of the war and have forever shaped the nation’s memories...
| Author | John Naisbitt |
| ISBN | 0380704374 |
Need a hobby? Take up trend-predicting. It's fun, it's easy, and you never loose.* It's like being psychic, only classier. And, if you want to avoid any culpability in stating something really stupid, you can always couch your inferences as questions, such as "Is YA too dark?".
I predict that...
| Author | Michael Ignatieff |
| ISBN | 0374524483 |
Until the end of the Cold War, the politics of national identity was confined to isolated incidents of ethnics strife and civil war in distant countries. Now, with the collapse of Communist regimes across Europe and the loosening pf the Cold War'd clamp on East-West relations, a surge of nationalism...
| Author | Garry Wills |
| ISBN | 0140296077 |
Ronald Reagan achieved magical accord with the American people, attuning them to his moral vision of a nation made up of optimistic individualists, tough yet God-fearing, blessed with a special destiny. In Reagan's America, Pulitzer Prize winning author and historian Garry Wills seeks to understand...
| Author | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
| ISBN | 0810115166 |
This is the first paperback edition of the complete collection of writings that has been called Dostoevsky's boldest experiment with literary form; it is a uniquely encyclopedic forum of fictional and nonfictional genres. A Writer's Diary began as a column in a literary journal, but by 1876 Dostoevsky...
في الرابع من كانون الثاني عام 1960 توفي البير كامو عن ستة وأربعين عاماً، ولم يكن قد مر على منحه جائزة نوبل للأدب إلا سنتان، فقد اصطدمت السيارة التي كان ذاهباً...
This book is basically an English translation, with additions, of the 1946 Kulturfahrplan (Culture timetables) produced by the German scholar Werner Stein. It became very popular in Europe immediately, but for various reasons resisted translation into English.
Finally, over twenty...
| Author | Jonathan Edwards |
| ISBN | 0300098383 |
Prepared by editors of the distinguished series The Works of Jonathan Edwards, this authoritative anthology includes selected treatises, sermons, and autobiographical material by early America’s greatest theologian and philosopher.
"Jonathan Edwards remains unequaled among...
| Author | Leo Tolstoy |
| ISBN | 0140444734 |
Religion is a very personal matter and all too often a very controversial one at that. My ancestors practiced a variety of different faiths, but I was raised in the Catholic Church. I attended Catholic school from kindergarten through the 12th grade and, like many “reformed Catholics,” I swallowed...
| Author | Aristotle |
| ISBN | 0451627830 |
Socrates and his God (May 2004)
Given what we hear from him in The Apology, it is not clear why Socrates “follows” his God, Apollo. There is evidence to support three explanations: 1) because he is compelled to; 2) because he wants to enable goodness; and 3) out of self-interest.
At...
| Author | George Steiner |
| ISBN | 0300069170 |
George Steiner's Tolstoy or Dostoevsky has become a classic among scholars of Russian literature. An essay in poetic and philosophic criticism that bears mainly on the Russian masters, Tolstoy or Dostoevsky deals also with larger themes: the epic tradition extending from Homer to Tolstoy; the continuity...
| Author | James Madison |
| ISBN | 1883011663 |
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Rakove (history and American studies, Stanford U.) made the selections and supplies notes for this one-volume collection of Madison's works. Arranged chronologically, it contains almost 200 documents written between 1772, the year after Madison's graduation...
| Author | Thomas Frank |
| ISBN | 0393316734 |
In the "old" Gilded Age, the barons of business accumulated vast wealth and influence from their railroads, steel mills, and banks. But today it is culture that stands at the heart of the American enterprise, mass entertainment the economic dynamo that brings the public into the consuming fold and...
