Genesis
10 best books like Genesis (Robert Alter): Confessions, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides, Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth, Troilus and Criseyde, Electra, The Nicomachean Ethics, Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo, Blood Dazzler, Phaedo, The Way Things are
| Author | Augustine of Hippo |
| ISBN | 0192833723 |
Augustine's Confessions is one of the most influential and most innovative works of Latin literature. Written in the author's early forties in the last years of the fourth century A.D. and during his first years as a bishop, they reflect on his life and on the activity of remembering and interpreting...
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
| Author | Aeschylus |
| ISBN | 0140443339 |
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In the Oresteia—the only trilogy in Greek drama which survives from antiquity—Aeschylus took as his subject the bloody chain of murder and revenge within the royal family of Argos.
Moving from darkness to light, from...
Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth
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In 2010, the words “earthquake swarm” entered the lexicon in Oklahoma. That same year, a trove of Michael Jackson memorabilia—including his iconic crystal-encrusted white glove—was sold at...
| Author | Geoffrey Chaucer |
| ISBN | 0140442391 |
Set against the epic backdrop of the battle of Troy, Troilus and Criseyde is an evocative story of love and loss. When Troilus, the son of Priam, falls in love with the beautiful Criseyde, he is able to win her heart with the help of his cunning uncle Pandarus, and the lovers experience a brief period of bliss...
| Author | Sophocles |
| ISBN | 1854597566 |
While I loved the dialogue, the pacing of this Hamlet and Antigone caper was a bit rushed. The chorus was particularly effective, the atmosphere resonates with revenge. Electra pines but does not waste. Her timid sister cringes in comparison to this inferno of vengeance. Then suddenly she has a cohort...
| Author | Aristotle |
| ISBN | 0140449493 |
‘One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly neither can one day, or a brief space of time, make a man blessed and happy’
In the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle sets out to examine the nature of happiness. He argues that happiness consists in ‘activity of the soul...
Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo
| Author | Plato |
| ISBN | 0872206335 |
Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo, by Plato, G.M.A. Grube (Translator), John M. Cooper (Editor)
Five dialogues, Plato; Introduction by A.D.Lindsay. London: J.M.Dent & sons Ltd, 1947...
In minute-by-minute detail, Patricia Smith tracks Hurricane Katrina as it transforms into a full-blown mistress of destruction. From August 23, 2005, the day Tropical Depression Twelve developed, through August 28 when it became a Category Five storm with its “scarlet glare fixed on the trembling...
| Author | Plato |
| ISBN | 0192839535 |
The Phaedo is acknowledged to be one of Plato's masterpieces, showing him both as a philosopher and as a dramatist at the height of his powers. For its moving account of the execution of Socrates, the Phaedo ranks among the supreme literary achievements of antiquity. It is also a document crucial to the...
ALL MATTER?
NEVER MIND!
-Bertrand Russell’s Grandmother
(Mocking his Materialist Philosophy)
When I was in my late teens I had a stunning Lucretian prise de conscience that utterly knocked the wind out of my youthful sails. It seemed the overwhelming answer to Eliot’s...
| Author | Ptolemy |
| ISBN | 0691002606 |
Ptolemy's Almagest is one of the most influential scientific works in history. A masterpiece of technical exposition, it was the basic textbook of astronomy for more than a thousand years, and still is the main source for our knowledge of ancient astronomy. This translation, based on the standard...
| Author | Plutarch |
| ISBN | 0375756779 |
Plutarch's Lives, written at the beginning of the second century A.D., is a brilliant social history of the ancient world by one of the greatest biographers and moralists of all time. In what is by far his most famous and influential work, Plutarch reveals the character and personality of his subjects...
| Author | William T. Vollmann |
| ISBN | 0140131965 |
The time is the tenth century A.D. The newcomers are a proud and bloody-minded people whose kings once changed themselves into wolves. The Norse have advanced as implacably as a glacier from Iceland to the wastes of Greenland and from there to the place they call Vinland the Good. The natives are a bronze-skinned...
The Birds and Other Plays
| Author | Aristophanes |
| ISBN | 0140449515 |
Offering a window into the world of ordinary Athenians, Aristophanes' The Birds and Other Plays is a timeless set of comedies, combining witty satire and raucous slapstick to wonderful effect. This Penguin Classics edition is translated from the Greek by David Barrett and Alan H. Sommerstein.
The...
| Author | Toni Morrison |
| ISBN | 0674976452 |
America's foremost novelist reflects on the themes that preoccupy her work and increasingly dominate national and world politics: race, fear, borders, the mass movement of peoples, the desire for belonging. What is race and why does it matter? What motivates the human tendency to construct Others?...
| Author | Cressida Cowell |
| ISBN | 0340893044 |
---The books are starting to seem a bit repetitive. Hiccup and Fishlegs get bullied in the beginning, manage to mess up their lessons and land somewhere completely different, encounter something/someone, get back but nobody believes them then save the day/themselves.
---It still made me LOL...
| Author | Mark Nowak |
| ISBN | 1566892287 |
A singular, genre-defying treatise from one of America’s most innovative political poets, Coal Mountain Elementary remixes verbatim testimony from the surviving Sago, West Virginia miners and rescue teams, the American Coal Foundation’s curriculum for schoolchildren, newspaper accounts...
The Great Poems of the Bible: A Reader's Companion with New Translations
| Author | James L. Kugel |
| ISBN | 0743253264 |
Non-fiction- a series of essays.
While this book dwells on forms of Biblical poetry, it's main focus is on taking the more famous poetic sections of the Old Testament and using them to examine the beliefs, ideals and lives of the people of ancient Israel. It definitely introduced me to what scholars...
