The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories
9 best books like The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories (Leo Tolstoy): Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality, A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599, Count Zero, Meno, On Christian Doctrine, A Gentle Creature and Other Stories, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings: A 21st Century Bestiary, La Disparition de Josef Mengele, Black Dogs
Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality
| Author | Sarah McBride |
| ISBN | 1524761478 |
A timely and captivating memoir about gender identity set against the backdrop of the transgender equality movement, by a leading activist and the National Press Secretary for the Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest LGBTQ civil rights organization.
Sarah McBride is on a mission...
| Author | James Shapiro |
| ISBN | 0060088745 |
1599 was an epochal year for Shakespeare and England Shakespeare wrote four of his most famous plays: Henry the Fifth, Julius Caesar, As You Like It, and, most remarkably, Hamlet; Elizabethans sent off an army to crush an Irish rebellion, weathered an Armada threat from Spain, gambled on a fledgling...
| Author | William Gibson |
| ISBN | 0441013678 |
The coolest thing about reading Gibson is jacking in to his urbane and hip way of descriptive narration.
William Gibson, as prophet of cyber punk and also as the herald of his later Blue Ant works, returns to The Sprawl for a continuation of the setting he began in his masterwork, Neuromancer.
But...
| Author | Plato |
| ISBN | 0915144247 |
Is virtue the same for different people?
Yes, if ‘virtue’ consists in realising the destiny laid out for one before birth by the Self.
That is ‘what’ is the same about it in all people.
The famous ‘ignorance’ argument is laid out by Meno: ‘Those who think bad things benefit...
| Author | Augustine of Hippo |
| ISBN | 0024021504 |
The words in his title have gotten an offputting reputation in other contexts, and that's a shame. Doctrine is guidance in love. Augustine himself, probably from somebody's frightening childhood experience with City of God, would tend to offer an intimidating nameplate.
Try anyway. He...
| Author | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
| ISBN | 0192822802 |
In these stories, Dostoevsky explores both the figure of the dreamer divorced from reality, and also his own ambiguous attitude toward utopianism, themes central to his great novels. In White Nights, the apparent idyll of the dreamer's romantic fantasies disguises profound loneliness and estrangement...
From the Axolotl to the Zebrafish, our planet contains a host of barely imagined beings: real creatures that are often more astonishing that anything dreamt of in the pages of a medieval bestiary. Ranging from the depths of the ocean to the most arid corners of the land, Caspar Henderson captures the...
La Disparition de Josef Mengele
1949 : Josef Mengele arrive en Argentine.
Caché derrière divers pseudonymes, l’ancien médecin tortionnaire à Auschwitz croit pouvoir s’inventer une nouvelle vie à Buenos Aires. L’Argentine de Peron est bienveillante, le monde entier veut oublier les crimes nazis. Mais la traque...
| Author | Ian McEwan |
| ISBN | 0385494327 |
Set in late 1980s Europe at the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Black Dogs is the intimate story of the crumbling of a marriage, as witnessed by an outsider. Jeremy is the son-in-law of Bernard and June Tremaine, whose union and estrangement began almost simultaneously. Seeking to comprehend how...
