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10 best books like The Fox / The Captain's Doll / The Ladybird (D.H. Lawrence): Valerie Solanas: The Defiant Life of the Woman Who Wrote SCUM (and Shot Andy Warhol), The China Price: The True Cost of Chinese Competitive Advantage, Off the Beaten Track, At the Bay, If I Were You, Shiva: The Wild God of Power and Ecstasy, Mistress of the Pearl, Dorothy Dandridge, Dr. Wortle's School, The Secret Rose: Love Poems by W.B. Yeats

Valerie Solanas: The Defiant Life of the Woman Who Wrote SCUM (and Shot Andy Warhol)
AuthorBreanne Fahs
ISBN1558618481
Too drastic, too crazy, too "out there," too early, too late, too damaged, too much—Valerie Solanas has been dismissed but never forgotten. She has become, unwittingly, a figurehead for women's unexpressed rage, and stands at the center of many worlds. She inhabited Andy Warhol's Factory scene,...
The China Price: The True Cost of Chinese Competitive Advantage
AuthorAlexandra Harney
ISBN1594201579
A landmark eyewitness exposé of how China's factory economy competes for Western business by selling out its workers, its environment, and its future

In The China Price, acclaimed Financial Times correspondent Alex Harney uncovers the truth about how China is able to offer such amazingly...
Off the Beaten Track
AuthorMartin Heidegger
ISBN0521805074
Originally published in German under the title Holzwege, this collection of texts is Heidegger's first post-war work and contains some of the major expositions of his later philosophy. Although translations of the essays have appeared individually in a variety of places, this is the first English...
At the Bay
AuthorKatherine Mansfield
ISBN1857997425
Well, she was married to him. And what was more she loved him. Not the Stanley whom everyone saw, not the everyday one; but a timid, sensitive, innocent Stanley who knelt down every night to say his prayers, and who longed to be good. Stanley was simple. If he believed in people­as he believed in her, for...
If I Were You
AuthorP.G. Wodehouse
ISBN1558820582
‘If I Were You’ published in Wodehouse’s greatest age harks back to his earlier novels without the looseness of relying on his stock characters from the Drones club or the Blandings or Dolly the Dip sagas. Despite the more Edwardian feel to the novel it is a great Wodehouse yarn that underplays...
Shiva: The Wild God of Power and Ecstasy
AuthorWolf-Dieter Storl
An extensive look at all the aspects of multi-natured Shiva

• Explores the shamanic roots of world spirituality as exemplified by this Hindu god who shares many of the attributes of the Norse Odin and the Celtic Cernunnos

• Looks at Shiva’s relation to contemporary culture,...
Mistress of the Pearl
AuthorEric Van Lustbader
ISBN0812572351
Kundala is Miina's world, created by that Goddess with the help of the dragons. But Miina is missing, and her people have been enslaved by the alien V'ornn. Now a savior has come, the Dar Sala-at, a messiah promised by prophecy yet unlike anyone's expectations: within the body of a beautiful young woman...
Dorothy Dandridge
AuthorDonald Bogle
ISBN1567430341
Dorothy Dandridge -- like Marilyn and Liz--was a dream goddess of the fifties. All audiences ever had to do was take one look at her -- in a nightclub, on television, or in the movies -- and they were hooked. She was unforgettable, Hollywood's first full-fledged African American movie star.

This...
Dr. Wortle's School
AuthorAnthony Trollope
ISBN0140434046
Mr Peacocke, a Classical scholar, has come to Broughtonshire with his beautiful American wife to live as a schoolmaster. But when the blackmailing brother of her first husband - a reprobate from Louisiana - appears at the school gates, a dreadful secret is revealed and the county is scandalized. Ostracised...
The Secret Rose: Love Poems by W.B. Yeats
AuthorW.B. Yeats
Četla jsem výtisk z edice Atlantis, kde byly ještě tři krátké povídky Rosa Alchemica - ty mě příliš nezaujaly. Hvězdičky se vztahují pouze na Tajemnou růži. Tu tvoří několik krátkých povídek inspirovaných irskými legendami, mystikou, romantikou a trochou křesťanské...
Collected Shorter Poems, 1927-1957
AuthorW.H. Auden
ISBN0571087353
W. H. Auden was once described as the Picasso of modern poetry - a tribute to his ceaseless experimentation with form and subject matter. Beginning with Anglo-Saxon poetry and ending with an Horatian expansiveness and conversational sweep, this volume is essential reading for anyone seriously interested...
Stalky & Co.
AuthorRudyard Kipling
ISBN1406503258
Kipling portrays school as the first stage of a much larger game, a pattern maker for the experiences of life. Implied throughout the book is the question 'What happened to the fifteen-year boys, and how did the lessons they learned at school apply to the world of warfare and imperial government?' These...
The Parliament of Birds
AuthorGeoffrey Chaucer
ISBN1843911019
In this collection of poems, among his very best, Chaucer showcases his lyrical skills to perfection. Verging from tragic to comic, the overriding theme of the poetry is love, in its many guises. Chaucer tells of his passion for reading, which allows him to eavesdrop on a "parliament of birds" on St Valentine’s...
Common Nonsense
AuthorAndy Rooney
ISBN1586482009
I can take five minutes of Andy Rooney and not be too bothered by his crotchety befuddlement. These 150+ essays, however, are redundantly crammed with balderdash and misspellings (which made it through spell-check, but were—obviously—never eyeballed). One strikingly obtuse slice of balderdash,...
Candy Is Dandy: The Best of Ogden Nash
AuthorOgden Nash
ISBN0233988920
Nash is the product of a literary age of dandies; those who came of age in the interwar years and always had a clever killer line in readiness. If it were a duel of wits their weapon would be superior to yours; not bigger, not better but sharper and aesthetically gorgeous.

It’s a style that palls...
The Flight from the Enchanter
AuthorIris Murdoch
ISBN0099283697
Description: Annette runs away from her finishing school but learns more than she bargained for in the real world beyond; the fierce and melancholy Rosa is torn between two Polish brothers; Peter is obsessed by an indecipherable ancient script. This is a story of a group of people under a spell, and the...
Galileo's Finger: The Ten Great Ideas of Science
AuthorPeter Atkins
ISBN0198609418
Why Galileo's finger? Galileo, one of whose fingers is preserved in a vessel displayed in Florence, provided much of the impetus for modern science, pointing the way out of medieval ignorance. In this brilliant account of the central ideas of contemporary science, Peter Atkins celebrates the effectiveness...
The Divine Romance: Collected Talks and Essays on Realizing God in Daily Life
AuthorParamahansa Yogananda
ISBN0876122411
This is part of an anthology of collected talks by the beloved Yogi, Paramahansa Yogananda, which includes, The Divine Romance, Man's Eternal Quest and Journey to Self-Realization. They are beyond review. They are what I keep in my own nightstand and what I open during times of trouble. They are what...
Flux
AuthorOrson Scott Card
ISBN0812516850
This second volume of Orson Scott Card's five-volume anthology of short stories features seven tales exploring possible future scenarios for the human race. A fascistic government's capital punishment extends beyond death. Intellectually superior aliens from a doomed world choose Earth's dogs...
Modigliani: A Life
AuthorMeryle Secrest
ISBN0307263681
“People like us . . . have different rights, different values than do ordinary people because we have different needs which put us . . . above their moral standards.” —Modigliani

Amedeo (“Beloved of God”) Modigliani was considered to be the quintessential bohemian artist, his...
Jeremy Thrane
AuthorKate Christensen
ISBN0385720343
Jeremy Thrane seems to have everything. As the long-time boyfriend of the handsome (but deeply closeted) movie star Ted Masterson, he lives rent-free in a beautiful apartment on the top floor of Ted's Manhattan brownstone and has an easy job that gives him plenty of time to read books and write his novel....
The Return
AuthorJoseph Conrad
ISBN1843910780
An intense, psychologically charged domestic drama, The Return is a brilliant and haunting exploration of the insecurities that lie at the heart of human relationships. When successful businessman Alvan Hervey begins his daily journey back from the city, he has no idea what awaits him at home—for...
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