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10 best books like The Golem (Isaac Bashevis Singer): The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, 1400-1580, The King of the Golden River, A Pin To See The Peepshow, Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang, The Cruise of the Snark, Northwest Smith, Not the Israel My Parents Promised Me, The Adventures of Rabbi Harvey: A Graphic Novel of Jewish Wisdom and Wit in the Wild West, Pagans and Christians, The Juniper Tree and Other Tales from Grimm

The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, 1400-1580
AuthorEamon Duffy
ISBN0300108281
This prize-winning account of the pre-Reformation church recreates lay people’s experience of religion in fifteenth-century England. Eamon Duffy shows that late medieval Catholicism was neither decadent nor decayed, but was a strong and vigorous tradition, and that the Reformation represented...
The King of the Golden River
AuthorJohn Ruskin
ISBN1599151251
There are many starting points within the fantasy genre. J. R. R. Tolkien is often, with good reason, regarded as the father of fantasy, despite the fact that there was a vast expanse of stories before his time. Going further back, one can find the early 20th century classics that inspired the master,...
A Pin To See The Peepshow
AuthorF. Tennyson Jesse
ISBN0860680843
4.5 stars
This is a powerful and moving representation in novel form of a true crime in the 1920s. Published in 1934 by F Tennyson Jesse (great niece of the poet Tennyson) it is well written and the characterisation is strong. I must say at this point that there are inevitably spoilers ahead, although...
Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang
AuthorMordecai Richler
ISBN0887766862
We all grew up with television, right? I still remember when I was a 5-y/o toddler and I was sitting on the floor right in front of our black-and-white television. I was watching a belly dancer and my parents and siblings were laughing because I was having a hard-on.

I also remember the many times...
The Cruise of the Snark
AuthorJack London
ISBN0924486465
THE CRUISE OF THE SNARK by Jack London

I loved Jack London's life when I was much younger, and well, I still do. I dreamed of sailing the seas as he had. I loved his stone house in Glen Ellen and wished to live there, and I loved and wanted all of his souvenirs from the different islands that he had visited....
Northwest Smith
AuthorC.L. Moore
ISBN0441586139
In 1933 C. L. Moore contributed the first of her famous Northwest Smith stories to the old Weird Tales magazine. (Remarkable in that she was not only young, but a woman who was featured in a magazine dominated by male authors.)

That shadowy tale was called "Shambleau" and it took the Gorgon/Medusa...
Not the Israel My Parents Promised Me
AuthorHarvey Pekar
ISBN0809094827
Harvey Pekar's mother was a Zionist by way of politics. His father was a Zionist by way of faith. Whether Harvey was going to daily Hebrew classes or attending Zionist picnics, he grew up a staunch supporter of the Jewish state. But soon he found himself questioning the very beliefs and ideals of his parents.

In...
The Adventures of Rabbi Harvey: A Graphic Novel of Jewish Wisdom and Wit in the Wild West
AuthorSteve Sheinkin
ISBN1580233104
A fresh look at Jewish folktales--wise, witty, hilarious.

After finishing school in New York, Rabbi Harvey traveled west in search of adventure and, hopefully, work as a rabbi. His journey took him to Elk Spring, Colorado, a small town in the Rocky Mountains. When he managed to outwit the ruthless...
Pagans and Christians
AuthorRobin Lane Fox
ISBN0670808482
Fox recreates the period from the 2nd to the 4th century, when the Olympians lost their dominion and Christianity, with Constantine's conversion, triumphed in the Mediterranean world.

CONTENTS
List of Maps
Preface
Pagans & Christians
Pagans & their cities
Pagan...
The Juniper Tree and Other Tales from Grimm
AuthorJacob Grimm
ISBN0374339716
Back in Print!

Originally published as a two-volume set forty years ago, The Juniper Tree is distinguished first by the selection of stories. Lore Segal and Maurice Sendak jointly culled 27 from the 210 in the complete collection, and their contents page presents a fascinating critical statement....
Les Malheurs de Sophie
AuthorComtesse de Ségur
ISBN2012011411
Les malheurs de Sophie will forever have a special place in my heart, because it was the book which started it all. My love of reading, my desire to collect books and build my own library, my obsession with the 19th century, my preference for all things historical...this is an important book.

I...
The Complete Nonsense of Edward Lear
AuthorEdward Lear
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat, Calico Pie and The Pobble Who Has No Toes, together with Edward Lear's crazy limericks, have entertained adults and children alike for over 100 years.

This edition, illustrated by the author, contains all the verse and stories of the Book of Nonsense, More Nonsense,...
Eothen
AuthorAlexander William Kinglake
ISBN1426410794
A solitary Western traveler in the Middle East in 1834, this is an extraordinary work of travel writing that is more about the author's internal journey than it is about monuments and museums, one that replicates the personal experience of travel and how it changes who we are. Kinglake's intimate, conversational...
The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century
AuthorJohn Brewer
ISBN0374234582
This is a difficult book to review, mostly because I don’t consider myself qualified to properly criticize the amount of work that went into this well-crafted, well-written brick (and it is a brick – it’s a read-at-a-table-because-it’s-too-heavy-to-comfortably-hold-for-long-stretches-of-time...
The Death of Sigmund Freud: The Legacy of His Last Days
AuthorMark Edmundson
ISBN1582345376
A dramatic revisiting of Freud's escape from Nazi-occupied Vienna, his final days on earth, and his most controversial work—Moses and Monotheism.

When Hitler invaded Vienna in March of 1938, Sigmund Freud, old and desperately ill, was among the city's 175,000 Jews dreading Nazi occupation....
Daily Life in Ancient Rome: The People and the City at the Height of the Empire
AuthorJérôme Carcopino
ISBN0300101864
This classic book brings to life imperial Rome as it was during the second century A.D., the time of Trajan and Hadrian, Marcus Aurelius, and Commodus. It was a period marked by lavish displays of wealth, a dazzling cultural mix, and the advent of Christianity. The splendor and squalor of the city, the...
Poisson Scorpion
AuthorNicolas Bouvier
ISBN2070394956
Ce pourrait être le récit d'un séjour exotique, c'est le voyage intérieur d'un homme arrivé à Ceylan après un long périple, pour achever le voyage intérieur au bout de lui-même. Le narrateur fait lentement naufrage, enlisé dans la solitude et la maladie, frôlé par la folie. Et là, sous...
The Age of the Cathedrals: Art and Society, 980-1420
AuthorGeorges Duby
ISBN0226167704
Recognizing that a work of art is the product of a particular time and place as much as it is the creation of an individual, Duby provides a sweeping survey of the changing mentalities of the Middle Ages as reflected in the art and architecture of the period.

"If Age of the Cathedrals has a fault,...
As Good as Anybody: Martin Luther King and Abraham Joshua Heschel's Amazing March Toward Freedom
AuthorRichard Michelson
ISBN0375833358
MARTIN LUTHER KING, Jr. and Abraham Joshua Heschel. Their names stand for the quest for justice and equality.

Martin grew up in a loving family in the American South, at a time when this country was plagued by racial discrimination. He aimed to put a stop to it. He became a minister like his daddy,...
Amiel's Journal
AuthorHenri-Frédéric Amiel
ISBN1406508578
I have completed my journey with Henri. I was a little sad to lose him. Of course technically he died over 100 years ago and I could just start over at the beginning...maybe someday I will. It is not an easy read and it took me a long time to get through it but I feel my life a little enriched because I was able to...
La Guerre des Boutons
AuthorLouis Pergaud
ISBN2070367584
O Περγκώ σε αυτό το βιβλίο αποδίδει φόρο τιμής στην περασμένη παιδική του ηλικία, όπως μάλιστα με πολύ νοσταλγία μας λέει και ο ίδιος, στον πρόλογο του βιβλίου,...
Bliss & Other Stories
AuthorKatherine Mansfield
Another cover edition can be found HERE.

A collection of short stories by Katherine Mansfield, widely recognized as one of the greatest writers of her period, that capture with accuracy those emotionally-charged moments when an individual is most revealing.

Prelude --
Je...
Tales Of The Grotesque and Arabesque
AuthorEdgar Allan Poe
ISBN1903025591
Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, the com­pan­ion vol­ume to Poe’s better-​known Tales of Mys­tery and Imag­i­na­tion, con­tains a selec­tion of his very best sto­ries, many of which first appeared in book form in the orig­i­nal Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque in 1840....
The Brick Bible: The New Testament: A New Spin on the Story of Jesus
AuthorBrendan Powell Smith
ISBN1620871726
“What Brendan Powell Smith has done with LEGOs goes beyond remarkable; it borders on genius.”—The Chicago Tribune

Brendan Powell Smith has spent years using LEGO to illustrated scenes from The Bible. Here he shares over 1,000 LEGO “brick” photographs depicting the narrative...
Millennium: A History of the Last Thousand Years
AuthorFelipe Fernández-Armesto
ISBN0684825368
This is a difficult book evaluate, for me at least, it was, by turns, fascinating, infuriating, superficial, insightful, polemical and haphazard, so I am torn between giving it two, three or four stars.

It is, to put it mildly, very difficult to write a history of the world. Fernández-Armesto...
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