The House of the Dead/Poor Folk
10 best books like The House of the Dead/Poor Folk (Fyodor Dostoyevsky): Kon-Tiki, Amerika, Essential Dialogues of Plato, The Communist Manifesto and Other Writings, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man / Dubliners, The Prince and Other Writings, The Four Horsemen: The Conversation That Sparked an Atheist Revolution, Middle Rages: Why the Battle for Medieval Studies Matters to America, Blessed Miguel Pro: 20th Century Mexican Martyr, The New Politics of Sex: The Sexual Revolution, Civil Liberties, and the Growth of Governmental Power
Author | Thor Heyerdahl |
ISBN | 0671726528 |
Kon-Tiki is the record of an astonishing adventure -- a journey of 4,300 nautical miles across the Pacific Ocean by raft. Intrigued by Polynesian folklore, biologist Thor Heyerdahl suspected that the South Sea Islands had been settled by an ancient race from thousands of miles to the east, led by a mythical...
Author | Franz Kafka |
ISBN | 0805210644 |
Kafka's first and funniest novel, Amerika tells the story of the young immigrant Karl Rossmann who, after an embarrassing sexual misadventure, finds himself "packed off to America" by his parents. Expected to redeem himself in this magical land of opportunity, young Karl is swept up instead in a whirlwind...
Essential Dialogues of Plato, by Plato, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable...
Author | Karl Marx |
ISBN | 1593081006 |
The Communist Manifesto and Other Writings, by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted...
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Dubliners, by James Joyce, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras....
Author | Niccolò Machiavelli |
ISBN | 1593080603 |
The Prince and Other Writings, by Niccolo Machiavelli, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some...
The Four Horsemen: The Conversation That Sparked an Atheist Revolution
Author | Christopher Hitchens |
At the dawn of the new atheist movement, the thinkers who became known as “the four horsemen,” the heralds of religion's unraveling—Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Daniel Dennett—sat down together over cocktails. What followed was a rigorous, pathbreaking, and...
Middle Rages: Why the Battle for Medieval Studies Matters to America
Medieval Studies is the critical study of Europe’s self-identity. No understanding of Western civilization is possible without it. Inevitably, Left-wing academics want to introduce gender studies and race theory to the field—and punish those who refuse to conform. When one University of...
Blessed Miguel Pro: 20th Century Mexican Martyr
Author | Ann Ball |
ISBN | 0895555425 |
This is the inspiring story of the famous Father Miguel Pro who was executed in Mexico in 1927 for the crime of being a Catholic priest. This young Jesuit spent most of his short life in the priesthood dodging the Mexican police as he ministered to the underground Church during the Mexican Revolution....
The New Politics of Sex: The Sexual Revolution, Civil Liberties, and the Growth of Governmental Power
Author | Stephen Baskerville |
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