Sesame and Lilies
7 best books like Sesame and Lilies (John Ruskin): Money, Hadrian the Seventh, Shakespeare's Bawdy, Pleasures and Days, İnsan Ne İle Yaşar?, Sırça Köşk, The Theory of Moral Sentiments
| Author | Martin Amis |
| ISBN | 0099461889 |
Here to Stay
The enduring legacy of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher isn’t conservatism as a political programme but narcissism as a mode of living. As the aptly named John Self says in Money, “You just gave us some money... but you hate me, don’t you. Yes you do. Because I’m the new...
| Author | Frederick Rolfe |
| ISBN | 0940322625 |
One day George Arthur Rose, hack writer and minor priest, discovers that he has been picked to be Pope. He is hardly surprised and not in the least daunted. "The previous English pontiff was Hadrian the Fourth," he declares. "The present English pontiff is Hadrian the Seventh. It pleases Us; and so, by...
| Author | Eric Partridge |
| ISBN | 0415254000 |
This classic of Shakespeare scholarship begins with a masterly introductory essay analysing and exemplifying the various categories of sexual and non-sexual bawdy expressions and allusions in Shakespeare's plays and sonnets. The main body of the work consists of an alphabetical glossary of all...
A stunning volume of philosophical reflections, short narratives, and prose poems, Pleasures and Days provides an early glimpse into Proust’s genius as a collector of exquisitely poignant sensations and recollections. Set amid the salon society of fin-du-siècle Paris, these sketches and...
"İnsan Ne İle Yaşar" ünlü düşünür ve yazar Tolstoy'un okuyucunun manevi dünyasına hitap eden hikâyelerinden oluşan en önemli eserlerinden biridir. Kitaba ismini veren hikâyede, fakir bir ayakkabıcı ustası olan Simon tarafından kurtarılan Michael, şu temel soruların...
'Niçin hep acı şeyler yazayım? Dostlar, yufka yürekli dostlar bundan hoşlanmıyorlar. 'Hep kötü, sakat şeyleri mi göreceksin?' diyorlar. 'Hep açlardan, çıplaklardan, dertlilerden mi bahsedeceksin? Geceleri gazete satıp izmarit toplayan serseri çocuklardan; bir kaşık...
The Theory of Moral Sentiments
| Author | Adam Smith |
| ISBN | 0486452913 |
The foundation for a general system of morals, this 1749 work is a landmark in the history of moral and political thought. Readers familiar with Adam Smith from The Wealth of Nations will find this earlier book a revelation. Although the author is often misrepresented as a calculating rationalist who...
