Memoirs of My Life
7 best books like Memoirs of My Life (Edward Gibbon): Democracy in America, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes, Sailing Alone around the World, A Sentimental Journey, A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, The Princess Casamassima, More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun Control Laws
| Author | Alexis de Tocqueville |
| ISBN | 0140447601 |
Democracy in America has had the singular honor of being even to this day the work that political commentators of every stripe refer to when they seek to draw large conclusions about the society of the USA. Alexis de Tocqueville, a young French aristocrat, came to the young nation to investigate the functioning...
| Author | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| ISBN | 1843500965 |
The wild Cevennes region of France forms the backdrop for the pioneering travelogue Travels with a Donkey, written by a young Robert Louis Stevenson. Ever hopeful of encountering the adventure he yearned for and raising much needed finance at the start of his writing career, Stevenson embarked on...
| Author | Joshua Slocum |
| ISBN | 0140437363 |
The classic travel narrative of a Don Quixote-of-the-seas – the first man to circumnavigate the world singlehandedly.
Joshua Slocum’s autobiographical account of his solo trip around the world is one of the most remarkable – and entertaining – travel narratives of all time. Setting...
| Author | Laurence Sterne |
| ISBN | 0140437797 |
A furiously witty response to Tobias Smollett's curmudgeonly 'Travels through France and Italy', Laurence Sterne's A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy became a hugely influential work of travel writing in its own right. This Penguin Classics edition includes an introduction and notes...
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| ISBN | 0140432213 |
Samuel Johnson's A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and James Boswell's The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides recounts their tour of Scotland in 1773. While Johnson focuses on Scotland itself, Boswell is even keener on presenting his friend to the notables of his homeland. Together they form...
| Author | Henry James |
| ISBN | 1419178695 |
He sank upon the old yellow sofa, the sofa of his lifetime and of so many years before, and buried his head on the shabby, tattered arm. A succession of sobs broke from his lips -- sobs in which the accumulated emotion of months and the strange, acute conflict of feelings that had possessed him for the three...
More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun Control Laws
| Author | John R. Lott Jr. |
| ISBN | 0226493644 |
Does allowing people to own or carry guns deter violent crime? Or does it simply cause more citizens to harm each other? Directly challenging common perceptions about gun control, legal scholar John Lott presents the most rigorously comprehensive data analysis ever done on crime statistics and right-to-carry...
