London Journal, 1762-1763

9 best books like London Journal, 1762-1763 (James Boswell): Civil Disobedience, The Beggar's Opera, The Ravenmaster: My Life with the Ravens at the Tower of London, A Life of My Own, Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling With D.H. Lawrence, German Ideology, Taken Hostage: The Iran Hostage Crisis and America's First Encounter with Radical Islam, Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker, Gotta Get Theroux This: My Life and Strange Times on Television

Civil Disobedience

Author

Henry David Thoreau

Book Review
I read this nearly twenty years ago in a college course. I recently found my notes and listed a few below, so this isn’t a typical review you’ve seen from me.
My reaction to this work is pretty complicated. It had some thought-invoking ideas, but it was boring from a readability...

The Beggar's Opera

Author	John Gay
ISBN	0140432205

An 18th Century parody of the Italian Opera
23 December 2013

I want to give this play a high score simply because of it's context and content, and as it is one of the only satirical operas that has survived from the early 18th Century should also give this play, or more properly opera, some...

The Ravenmaster: My Life with the Ravens at the Tower of London

Author	Christopher Skaife
ISBN	1443455938

For centuries, the Tower of London has been home to a group of famous avian residents: the ravens. Each year they are seen by millions of visitors, and they have become as integral a part of the Tower as its ancient stones. But their role is even more important than that—legend has it that if the ravens...

A Life of My Own

Author

Claire Tomalin

Acclaimed biographer Claire Tomalin, the bestselling author of The Invisible Woman and Jane Austen, turns her critical eye to another fascinating literary life: her own.

In this intimate and insightful memoir, Claire remembers moments of national literary history as well as intense personal...

Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling With D.H. Lawrence

Author	Geoff Dyer
ISBN	0865475407

Geoff Dyer had always wanted to write a book about D. H. Lawrence. He wanted, in fact, to write his "Lawrence book." The problem was, he had no idea what his "Lawrence book" would be, though he was determined to write a "sober academic study." Luckily for the reader, he failed miserably.Out of Sheer Rage...

German Ideology

Author	Karl Marx
ISBN	0717803015

2011 Reprint of 1939 Edition. Parts I & III of "The German Ideology". Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Originally published by the Marx-Engels Institute in Moscow in 1939. "The German Ideology" was written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels...

Taken Hostage: The Iran Hostage Crisis and America's First Encounter with Radical Islam

Author

David Farber

On November 4, 1979, Iranian militants stormed the United States Embassy in Tehran and took sixty-six Americans captive. Thus began the Iran Hostage Crisis, an affair that captivated the American public for 444 days and marked America's first confrontation with the forces of radical Islam. Using...

Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker

Author	Charles Brockden Brown
ISBN	0140390626

One of the first American Gothic novels, Edgar Huntly (1787) mirrors the social and political temperaments of the postrevolutionary United States. 

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than...

Gotta Get Theroux This: My Life and Strange Times on Television

Author	Louis Theroux
ISBN	1509880364

In 1994 fledgling journalist Louis Theroux was given a one-off gig on Michael Moore's TV Nation, presenting a segment on apocalyptic religious sects. Gawky, socially awkward and totally unqualified, his first reaction to this exciting opportunity was panic. But he'd always been drawn to off-beat...