Strangers: Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Century

6 best books like Strangers: Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Century (Graham Robb): Orientalism, Indiana, They All Love Jack: Busting the Ripper, The Life of Monsieur de Molière, Life's Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe, Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain

Orientalism

Author

Edward W. Said

More than three decades after its first publication, Edward Said's groundbreaking critique of the West's historical, cultural, and political perceptions of the East has become a modern classic.

In this wide-ranging, intellectually vigorous study, Said traces the origins of "orientalism"...

Indiana

Author	George Sand
ISBN	0192837974

Esta apasionante y conmovedora novela narra la historia de Indiana, una bella e inocente joven obligada a contraer un matrimonio de conveniencia con el señor Delmare, un estricto y anciano coronel ya retirado. Bajo el ala protectora de su primo, el fiel y taciturno sir Ralph, la joven e infeliz esposa...

They All Love Jack: Busting the Ripper

Author

Bruce Robinson

The iconoclastic writer and director of the revered classic Withnail & I—"The funniest British film of all time" (Esquire)—returns to London in a decade-long examination of the most provocative murder investigation in British history, and finally solves the identity of the killer known...

The Life of Monsieur de Molière

Author	Mikhail Bulgakov
ISBN	0811209563

Ένας συγγραφέας που γράφει για τη ζωή ενός άλλου συγγραφέα. Μια υπέροχη μυθιστορηματική βιογραφία του Μολιέρου που διαβάζεται σαν παραμύθι με πολλές...

Life's Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe

Author	Simon Conway Morris
ISBN	0521603250

Life's Solution builds a persuasive case for the predictability of evolutionary outcomes. The case rests on a remarkable compilation of examples of convergent evolution, in which two or more lineages have independently evolved similar structures and functions. The examples range from the aerodynamics...

Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain

Author

Fintan O'Toole

'There will not be much political writing in this or any other year that is carried off with such style' The Times. In exploring the answers to the question: 'why did Britain vote leave?', Fintan O'Toole finds himself discovering how trivial journalistic lies became far from trivial national obsessions;...