Noblesse Oblige: An Enquiry Into the Identifiable Characteristics of the English Aristocracy
5 best books like Noblesse Oblige: An Enquiry Into the Identifiable Characteristics of the English Aristocracy (Nancy Mitford): Brideshead Revisited, Love in a Fallen City, Mao's Great Famine: The History Of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62, Swallows and Amazons, The Trivium: The Liberal Arts of Logic, Grammar, and Rhetoric
| Author | Evelyn Waugh |
| ISBN | 0316926345 |
The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age before the Second World War. It tells the story of Charles Ryder's infatuation with the Marchmains and the rapidly-disappearing world of privilege they inhabit. Enchanted first by Sebastian...
| Author | Eileen Chang |
| ISBN | 1590171780 |
Eileen Chang is one of the great writers of twentieth-century China, where she enjoys a passionate following both on the mainland and in Taiwan. At the heart of Chang's achievement is her short fiction—tales of love, longing, and the shifting and endlessly treacherous shoals of family life. Written...
Mao's Great Famine: The History Of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62
| Author | Frank Dikötter |
| ISBN | 0747595089 |
Between 1958 and 1962, China descended into hell. Mao Zedong threw his country into a frenzy with the Great Leap Forward, an attempt to catch up and overtake Britain in less than 15 years. The experiment ended in the greatest catastrophe the country had ever known, destroying tens of millions of lives....
Read as part of The Infinite Variety Reading Challenge, based on the BBC's Big Read Poll of 2003.
Swallows and Amazons, despite it being a popular old-fashioned children's book that almost every adult in England would have read, has never been on my radar and I don't think I'd ever even heard...
Who sets language policy today? Who made whom the grammar doctor? Lacking the equivalent of l'Académie française, we English speakers must find our own way looking for guidance or vindication in source after source. McGuffey's Readers introduced nineteenth-century students to "correct" English....
