History of Magic and the Occult

6 best books like History of Magic and the Occult (Kurt Seligmann): Planet of the Apes, The Eagle of the Ninth, Children of the Arbat, The Kreutzer Sonata, Adultery, Inferno

Planet of the Apes
AuthorPierre Boulle
ISBN0345447980
"I am confiding this manuscript to space, not with the intention of saving myself, but to help, perhaps, to avert the appalling scourge that is menacing the human race. Lord have pity on us!"

With these words, Pierre Boulle hurtles the reader onto the Planet of the Apes. In this simian world,...
The Eagle of the Ninth
AuthorRosemary Sutcliff
ISBN0192750453
Classic historical fiction

At the age of eight, I read Eagle of the Ninth, my first encounter with historical fiction. I became hooked. Since then, I have been read Nigel Tranter, John Prebble, Conn Igguden, Simon Scarrow, Ruth Downie, and many others.

Forty-four years later, re-reading...
AuthorAnatoli Rybakov
ISBN0099633302
To the two people among my goodreads friends, who are interested in Russian history and culture - this novel (first in a trilogy) covers the era of Stalin's reign of terror and is both riveting and historically accurate. It is mostly about a group of young people caught up in the workings of Stalin's totalitarian...
The Kreutzer Sonata
AuthorLeo Tolstoy
ISBN0812968239
When Marshal of the Nobility Pozdnyshev suspects his wife of having an affair with her music partner, his jealousy consumes him and drives him to murder. Controversial upon publication in 1890, The Kreutzer Sonata illuminates Tolstoy’s then-feverish Christian ideals, his conflicts with lust...
Adultery
AuthorPaulo Coelho
ISBN1101874082
Waste of time.
SPOILERS AHEAD!
It is not a story about love. It's a story about adrenaline rush and how bit of excitement and doing something different and new with your husband can save your marriage.
Spoiler alert!
Its a story of egoistic and bored woman who has everything- money,...
AuthorRoger MacBride Allen
ISBN0441005144
When a key politician is murdered, suspicion falls on Caliban...the only robot without guilt or conscience, with no need to obey or respect humanity... a robot without the Three Laws.But the stakes go deeper than one man's life. Caliban is challenging long-held ideas of a robot's place in society....
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