The Gypsy Crown
10 best books like The Gypsy Crown (Kate Forsyth): The Selfish Giant, 1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West, The Nightingale and the Rose, The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays, Zac and Mia, The Model Millionaire, The Bet, Those Other Women, Soul Keeping: Caring For the Most Important Part of You, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime
| Author | Oscar Wilde |
| ISBN | 0399224483 |
Don't you tell me that you have not read this one!
The sign that got trapped in the labyrinth of my 3rd grade mind reading his English Gulmohar was this :
Got burnt into my memory. And that is how I dug this books out of my pensive to add it here on Goodreads - by searching...
1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West
| Author | Roger Crowley |
| ISBN | 1401308503 |
Now in trade paperback, a gripping exploration of the fall of Constantinople and its connection to the world we live in today The fall of Constantinople in 1453 signaled a shift in history, and the end of the Byzantium Empire. Roger Crowley's readable and comprehensive account of the battle between...
The Nightingale and the Rose
| Author | Oscar Wilde |
| ISBN | 1430439866 |
An allegorical fable of love, sacrifice and selfishness. As with all of Wilde's short stories it embodies strong moral values and is told with an effervescence akin to that of the 1001 nights.
It is the tale of a lovestruck student who must provide his lover with a red rose in order to win her heart....
The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
| Author | Oscar Wilde |
| ISBN | 0140436065 |
Combining epigrammatic brilliance and shrewd social observation, the works collected in Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays are edited with an introduction, commentaries and notes by Richard Allen Cave in Penguin Classics.
'To lose one parent may be regarded...
When I was little I believed in Jesus and Santa, spontaneous combustion, and the Loch Ness monster. Now I believe in science, statistics, and antibiotics.
So says seventeen-year-old Zac Meier during a long, grueling leukemia treatment in Perth, Australia. A loud blast of Lady Gaga alerts...
First published in The World in June 1887. Hughie Erskine is in love and wants to marry, but the girl's father will not allow it, since Erskine has no money. Erskine's friend, Alan Trevor is a painter, and he visits him at his studio one day to find him with a pitiable beggar—the model for his painting....
| Author | Anton Chekhov |
| ISBN | 0895986841 |
"Going to prison is like dying with your eyes open."
—Bernard Kerik
A wealthy banker holds a party at his commodious home, where a group of intellectuals argue as to which is the more humane punishment: a swift execution, or life imprisonment in a Russian jail. One kills swiftly, the...
From the author of The Fifth Letter comes a controversial and darkly comic story about the frustrations of being a childless woman in the modern baby-obsessed world... .
Poppy's world has been tipped sideways: the husband who never wanted children has betrayed her with her broody best friend.
At...
Soul Keeping: Caring For the Most Important Part of You
| Author | John Ortberg |
| ISBN | 0310275962 |
When is the last time you thought about the state of your soul?
The health of your soul isn’t just a matter of saved or unsaved. It’s the hinge on which the rest of your life hangs. It’s the difference between deep, satisfied spirituality and a restless, dispassionate faith.
In...
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime
| Author | Oscar Wilde |
| ISBN | 1853260665 |
It was Lady Windermere's last reception before Easter, and Bentinck House was even more crowded than usual. Six Cabinet Ministers had come on from the Speaker's Levee in their stars and ribands, all the pretty women wore their smartest dresses, and at the end of the picture-gallery stood the Princess...
The Fisherman and His Soul
To get what we want is often the greatest curse of all. The fisherman here accidentally catches a mermaid in his net. He falls in love with the Mermaid and tells her that he wants to marry her. She tells him that he can only marry her if he sends away his soul. From a Witch, the Fisherman learns how to send his...
| Author | Oscar Wilde |
| ISBN | 0061923192 |
Playwright, poet, essayist, flamboyant man-about-town, Oscar Wilde pack an astonishing amount of work, genius, and controversy into two short decades, producing masterworks in every literary genre. This selection includes almost all of his short stories, including "The Canterville Ghost,"...
The Devoted Friend is a satirical fairy tale about friendship. With Wilde I have since learnt there is method behind the madness in the infuriating stories he tells.
A pompous and opinionated old water-rat is heard to be waxing lyrical about the rarity and nobility of a devoted friendship....
| Author | Fernando Vallejo |
| ISBN | 9703703267 |
Con gran rigor histórico y académico, Fernando Vallejo desenmascara una fe dogmática que durante mil setecientos años ha derramado la sangre de los hombres y los animales invocando la entelequia de Dios o la extraña mezcla de mitos del Oriente que llamamos Cristo, cuya existencia real nadie...
Satanás: Una biografía no autorizada
Este libro encierra todo lo que usted quiere saber sobre el Maligno. La Sociología la Teología y la Magia del Diablo en occidente. ¿Cuándo se originó la idea del Diablo? ¿Qué dicen las escrituras bíblicas, los Rollos del Mar Muerto y los libros apócrifos sobre los ángeles caídos? Salvador...
Three SCUBA instructors, who happen to be sexual dominants, are about to take the ultimate plunge. If you’re extraordinarily lucky, you’ll be invited to join them on The Divemaster, where work and pleasure go hand in hand. Welcome aboard!
Archer Banks relishes his carefree lifestyle....
Fake: A startling true story of love in a world of liars, cheats, narcissists, fantasists and phonies
Women the world over are brought up to hope, even expect, to find the man of their dreams, marry and live happily ever after. When Stephanie Wood meets a sweet man who owns a farm and property, she embarks on an exhilarating romance with him. He seems compassionate, truthful and loving. He talks about the...
Una infancia en el pais de los libros/ A Childhood in the Land of Books
| Author | Michèle Petit |
| ISBN | 6074000441 |
Había escuchado hablar de esta mujer en el ámbito de la mediación de la lectura y había leído algunas cosas sueltas. Este libro es un testimonio visceral sobre la importancia de la lectura en nuestras vidas, sobre cómo nos puede sostener y acompañar en los momentos más difíciles. Me imaginaba...
