Losing Nelson
10 best books like Losing Nelson (Barry Unsworth): The Sea-Hawk, Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel, The I Ching or Book of Changes, Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves, Thistle and Thyme: Tales and Legends from Scotland, Honest to God, Some Tame Gazelle, أطياف, A History of Chinese Civilization, The Shaking of the Foundations
| Author | Rafael Sabatini |
| ISBN | 0393323315 |
Rafael Sabatini! Oh, this generation doesn't even KNOW. This is a classic swashbuckling novel by the author of Captain Blood, and it is deliciously over the top. Handsome, powerful Oliver Tressilian, in love with the fair Rosamund, is working to overcome the opposition that Rosamund's sleazy brother...
Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel
| Author | Jerome K. Jerome |
| ISBN | 0140437509 |
Martyrs to hypochondria and general seediness, J. and his friends George and Harris decide that a jaunt up the Thames would suit them to a 'T'. But when they set off, they can hardly predict the troubles that lie ahead with tow-ropes, unreliable weather-forecasts and tins of pineapple chunks - not to...
The I Ching, or Book of Changes, is one of the 1st efforts of the human mind to place itself within the universe. It has exerted a living influence in China for 3000 years and interest in it has spread in the West.
Set down in the dawn of history as a book of oracles, the Book of Changes deepened in meaning...
Bertie Wooster vows that nothing will induce him to return to Totleigh Towers, lair of former magistrate Sir Watkyn Bassett. Apart from Sir Watkyn himself, the place is infested with his ghastly daughter Madeline and her admirer, would-be dictator Roderick Spode. But when his old friend 'Stinker'...
| Author | Sorche Nic Leodhas |
| ISBN | 0370010663 |
A collection of ten Scottish legends passed down through the ages Scottish culture is rich with mythology. There are tales of monks and saints, fairies and witches, kings, nobles, and ordinary people doing extraordinary things. Some stories were never written down, shared instead through retellings...
| Author | John A.T. Robinson |
| ISBN | 0664244653 |
A LAUGH, A SONG, AND A HAND GRENADE
John Robinson was a Bishop, no less, and this little hand grenade of a book was published in 1963, and can be bracketed with The Silent Spring (1962), The Feminine Mystique (1963) and Lady Chatterley's Lover (finally published in 1960) – all books which kickstarted...
| Author | Barbara Pym |
| ISBN | 1559212640 |
Barbara Pym is a master at capturing the subtle mayhem that takes place in the apparent quiet of the English countryside. Fifty-something sisters Harriet and Belinda Bede live a comfortable, settled existence. Belinda, the quieter of the pair, has for years been secretly in love with the town's pompous...
| Author | Radwa Ashour |
| ISBN | 9770706256 |
مزجٌ مدهشٌ تقدمه رضوى عاشور في هذه الرواية الممتعة. إذ تتناول هنا أطيافًا من سيرتها الذاتية بالتضافر مع حكاية "شجر" التي رافقتها من البدء إلى المنتهى، في...
A History of Chinese Civilization
| Author | Jacques Gernet |
| ISBN | 0521497817 |
When published in 1982, this translation of Professor Jacques Gernet's masterly survey of the history and culture of China was immediately welcomed by critics and readers. This revised and updated edition makes it more useful for students and for the general reader concerned with the broad sweep...
The Shaking of the Foundations
A collection of twenty-two philisophical sermons by existentialist theologian Paul Tillich, crossing multiple historical and cultural influences; Marx, Buddha, Nietzsche, the Ancient Greeks, Rilke, Kierkegaard and Jesus of Nazareth all play a part in Tillich’s apologetic sermons, based...
The Courtesan, the Mahatma and the Italian Brahmin: Tales from Indian History
From a Maratha prince who parodied caste to a Muslim deity in a Hindu temple; from a courtesan who became a warrior princess to another who sang for the gramophone; from a woman with no breasts to a goddess with three; and from an Englishman who venerated sacred Sanskrit to imperious Victoria Maharani—the...
A Ved Mehta Reader: The Craft of the Essay
| Author | Ved Mehta |
| ISBN | 0300071892 |
Unsurpassed as a prose stylist, Ved Mehta is an acknowledged master of the essay form. In this book - the first special collection of Mehta's outstanding writings - the distinguished author demonstrates a wide range of possibilities available to the narrative and descriptive writer today. Addressing...
