Principia Mathematica to '56 (Mathematical Library)
10 best books like Principia Mathematica to '56 (Mathematical Library) (Bertrand Russell): The Brothers Karamazov, Beyond Good and Evil, Principles of Geology, A Little History of the World, Physics, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller, Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft, The Collected Short Stories of Maxim Gorky, Inny świat
| Author | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
| ISBN | 0374528373 |
The Brothers Karamasov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving the “wicked and sentimental” Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov and his three sons―the impulsive and sensual Dmitri; the coldly rational Ivan; and...
| Author | Friedrich Nietzsche |
Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil is translated from the German by R.J. Hollingdale with an introduction by Michael Tanner in Penguin Classics.
Beyond Good and Evil confirmed Nietzsche's position as the towering European philosopher of his age. The work dramatically rejects...
One of the key works in the nineteenth-century battle between science and Scripture, Charles Lyell's Principles of Geology (1830-33) sought to explain the geological state of the modern Earth by considering the long-term effects of observable natural phenomena. Written with clarity and a dazzling...
A Little History of the World
| Author | E.H. Gombrich |
| ISBN | 0300108834 |
In 1935, with a doctorate in art history and no prospect of a job, the 26-year-old Ernst Gombrich was invited by a publishing acquaintance to attempt a history of the world for younger readers. Amazingly, he completed the task in an intense six weeks, and Eine kurze Weltgeschichte für junge Leser was...
| Author | Aristotle |
| ISBN | 0192823108 |
For many centuries, Aristotle's Physics was the essential starting point for anyone who wished to study the natural sciences. Now, in the first translation into English since 1930, Aristotle's thought is presented accurately, with a lucid introduction and extensive notes to explain the general...
| Author | Walter Benjamin |
| ISBN | 0141036192 |
One of the most important works of cultural theory ever written, Walter Benjamin's groundbreaking essay explores how the age of mass media means audiences can listen to or see a work of art repeatedly - and what the troubling social and political implications of this are. Throughout history, some books...
The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller
| Author | John Truby |
| ISBN | 0865479518 |
John Truby is one of the most respected and sought-after story consultants in the film industry, and his students have gone on to pen some of Hollywood's most successful films, including Sleepless in Seattle, Scream, and Shrek. The Anatomy of Story is his long-awaited first book, and it shares all...
| Author | Janet Burroway |
| ISBN | 0321277368 |
The most widely used and respected text in its field, Writing Fiction, 7e guides the novice story writer from first inspiration to final revision. A bestseller through six editions, Writing Fiction by novelists Janet Burroway and Elizabeth Stuckey-French explores the elements of fiction, providing...
| Author | Maxim Gorky |
| ISBN | 0806510757 |
Maxim Gorky continues to be regarded as the greatest literary representative of revolutionary Russia. Born of the people, and having experienced in his own person their sufferings and their misery, he was enabled by his extraordinary genius to voice their grievances and their aspirations for a better...
| Author | Gustaw Herling-Grudziński |
| ISBN | 8308032303 |
Wspomnienia Gustawa Herlinga - Grudzińskiego z sowieckiego łagru w Jercewie pod Archagielskiem. Książka obok nieprzeciętnych walorów literackich jest przede wszystkim - co podkreśla w rozmowie Autor - dokumentalną relacją ofiary, kronikarza i badacza instytucji i mechanizmów...
| Author | Clement Greenberg |
| ISBN | 0807066818 |
As far as art criticism goes this is the good stuff, but I have been gradually lowering my expectations of what art criticism can accomplish. Greenberg is the most well known and influential American art critic of the 20th century, as David Sylvester was in the UK. I enjoy reading both of them but I've gradually...
| Author | Isaiah Berlin |
| ISBN | 0374527172 |
Isaiah Berlin was one of the leading thinkers of our time and one of its finest writers. The Proper Study of Mankind brings together his most celebrated writing: here the reader will find Berlin's famous essay on Tolstoy, "The Hedgehog and the Fox"; his penetrating portraits of contemporaries from...
| Author | Bolesław Prus |
| ISBN | 1858660653 |
Warsaw under Russian rule in the late 1870s is the setting for Prus’s grand panorama of social conflict, political tension, and personal suffering. The middle-aged hero, Wokulski, successful in business, is being destroyed by his obsessive love for a frigid society doll, Izabela. Embattled aristocrats,...
