The Journal, 1837-1861
10 best books like The Journal, 1837-1861 (Henry David Thoreau): The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, The Kreutzer Sonata, A Field Guide to Getting Lost, Mayakovsky: A Biography, Avsked från världen, Sociologiska perspektiv på religion i Sverige, Hinduismen, Vi och dom, Buddhismen
The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
| Author | G.K. Chesterton |
| ISBN | 0375757910 |
G. K. Chesterton's surreal masterpiece is a psychological thriller that centers on seven anarchists in turn-of-the-century London who call themselves by the names of the days of the week. Chesterton explores the meanings of their disguised identities in what is a fascinating mystery and, ultimately,...
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
| Author | William Blake |
| ISBN | 0486281221 |
Once regarded as a brilliant eccentric whose works skirted the outer fringes of English art and literature, William Blake (1757–1827) is today recognized as a major poet, a profound thinker, and one of the most original and exciting English artists. Nowhere is his glorious poetic and pictorial...
| Author | Leo Tolstoy |
| ISBN | 0812968239 |
When Marshal of the Nobility Pozdnyshev suspects his wife of having an affair with her music partner, his jealousy consumes him and drives him to murder. Controversial upon publication in 1890, The Kreutzer Sonata illuminates Tolstoy’s then-feverish Christian ideals, his conflicts with lust...
A Field Guide to Getting Lost
| Author | Rebecca Solnit |
| ISBN | 0143037242 |
Whether she is contemplating the history of walking as a cultural and political experience over the past two hundred years (Wanderlust), or using the life of photographer Eadweard Muybridge as a lens to discuss the transformations of space and time in late nineteenth-century America (River of Shadows),...
Few poets have led lives as tempestuous as that of Vladimir Mayakovsky. Born in 1893 and dead by his own hand in 1930, Mayakovsky packed his thirty-six years with drama, politics, passion, and—most important—poetry. An enthusiastic supporter of the Russian Revolution and the emerging Soviet...
Barockskalden Jacob Frese tillhörde länge de mest omtyckta svenskspråkiga poeterna från första hälften av 1700-talet, men idag är det få som hittar fram till hans diktskatt. Frese var född i Viborg omkring 1690. Sedan ryssarna 1710 ockuperat staden kom han till Stockholm och fick...
Sociologiska perspektiv på religion i Sverige
Hinduismen är en pluralistisk, tolerant och mycket färgrik och komplex religiös tradition. Den är både en religiös praxis och en av mänsklighetens största religiösa kunskapstraditioner. De flesta av religionens närmare en miljard anhängare bor och lever i dag i Indien, Sri Lanka och...
Allt ifrån Peter den store till Vladimir Putin har frågan om Rysslands förhållande till Väst och västerländska värderingar upptagit och splittrat landet. Samma dualism präglar ett annat särdrag i rysk historia, nämligen relationen mellan härskare och folk. I den koncisa och klargörande...
| Author | Knut A. Jacobsen |
| ISBN | 8253022085 |
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| Author | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
| ISBN | 1482064987 |
At that time I was nearly eleven, I had been sent in July to spend the holiday in a village near Moscow with a relation of mine called T., whose house was full of guests, fifty, or perhaps more.... I don't remember, I didn't count. The house was full of noise and gaiety. It seemed as though it were a continual...
