The Golden Bough: The Roots of Religion and Folklore
8 best books like The Golden Bough: The Roots of Religion and Folklore (James George Frazer): Greyfriars Bobby, Little Dorrit, Burmese Days, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, The Prince and the Pauper, Lucky Jim, The War of 1812: A Forgotten Conflict, Salvation
| Author | Eleanor Atkinson |
| ISBN | 1406806773 |
When the time-gun boomed from Edinburgh Castle, Bobby gave a startled yelp. He was only a little country dog - the very youngest and smallest and shaggiest of Skye terriers-bred on a heathery slope of the Pentland hills, where the loudest sound was the bark of a collie or the tinkle of a sheep-bell. That...
| Author | Charles Dickens |
| ISBN | 0141439963 |
A novel of serendipity, of fortunes won and lost, and of the spectre of imprisonment that hangs over all aspects of Victorian society, Charles Dickens's Little Dorrit is edited with an introduction by Stephen Wall in Penguin Classics.
When Arthur Clennam returns to England after many years...
| Author | George Orwell |
| ISBN | 1421808307 |
Totally rewritten 19th May 2013.
Set in the days of the Empire, with the British ruling in Burma, this book describes corruption and imperial bigotry. Although this was Orwell's first book and no doubt based in part on his experiences in his first job as a policeman in Burma, his talent is already...
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
One of the greatest satires in American literature, Mark Twain's 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court' begins when Hank Morgan, a skilled mechanic in a nineteenth-century New England arms factory, is struck on the head during a quarrel and awakens to find himself among the knights and magicians...
The Prince and the Pauper
| Author | Mark Twain |
| ISBN | 0451528352 |
This treasured historical satire, played out in two very different socioeconomic worlds of 16th-century England, centers around the lives of two boys born in London on the same day: Edward, Prince of Wales and Tom Canty, a street beggar. During a chance encounter, the two realize they are identical...
| Author | Kingsley Amis |
| ISBN | 0140186301 |
Regarded by many as the finest, and funniest, comic novel of the twentieth century, Lucky Jim remains as trenchant, withering, and eloquently misanthropic as when it first scandalized readers in 1954. This is the story of Jim Dixon, a hapless lecturer in medieval history at a provincial university...
| Author | Donald R. Hickey |
| ISBN | 0252060598 |
Like all nations, Americans remember the parts of our history that we want to remember, the stuff that makes us look like we’re number one. Because there was very little to want to remember about the War of 1812, we chose to forget most of it.
Hickey covers all aspects of this conflict, at least...
Trauma surgeon Ronan Grisham lost everything the day the man he loved was stolen from him in a brutal attack. Driven by a thirst for vengeance, he turns his hatred into building an underground group that can do what he couldn’t that fateful day…take the lives of the guilty to save the lives of the innocent....
