The Liberal Imagination: Essays on Literature and Society

8 best books like The Liberal Imagination: Essays on Literature and Society (Lionel Trilling): Diamonds Are Forever, Grand Hotel, Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West, Adventures of Sindbad, Skylark, Shakespeare, The Stalin Front: A Novel of World War II, Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking

Diamonds Are Forever

Author	Ian Fleming
ISBN	0142002054

"Listen, Bond," said Tiffany Case. "It’d take more than Crabmeat Ravigotte to get me into bed with a man. In any event, since it’s your check, I’m going to have caviar, and what the English call 'cutlets,' and some pink champagne. I don’t often date a good-looking Englishman and the dinner’s...

Grand Hotel

Author

Vicki Baum

Cruel Berlin. Cruel loneliness.

Weimar Germany, March 1929, shortly before the economic crisis. Flipping in through the revolving doors, Austrian author Vicki Baum (1888 1960) draws the reader into the lobby of the ‘Grand Hotel’ – the archetype of which is so sumptuously conveyed...

Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West

Author	Tom Holland
ISBN	0385513119

In 480 B.C., Xerxes, the King of Persia, led an invasion of mainland Greece. Its success should have been a formality. For seventy years, victory—rapid, spectacular victory—had seemed the birthright of the Persian Empire. In the space of a single generation, they had swept across the Near East,...

Adventures of Sindbad

Author	Gyula Krúdy
ISBN	9639116122

In these marvellously written tales, Sindbad, a voyager in the realms of memory and imagination, travels through the centuries in pursuit of an ideal of love that is directed as much at the feminine essence as at his individual lovers. Whether the women he seduces and loves are projections of his desire,...

Skylark

Author	Dezső Kosztolányi
ISBN	1590173392

It is 1900, give or take a few years. The Vajkays—call them Mother and Father—live in Sárszeg, a dead-end burg in the provincial heart of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Father retired some years ago to devote his days to genealogical research and quaint questions of heraldry. Mother keeps house....

Shakespeare

Author	Mark Van Doren
ISBN	1590171683

This legendary book by an esteemed poet and beloved professor at Columbia University features a series of smart, witty, deeply perceptive essays about each of Shakespeare's plays, together with a further discussion of the poems. Writing with an incomparable knowledge of his subject but without...

The Stalin Front: A Novel of World War II

Author	Gert Ledig
ISBN	1590171640

1942, at the Eastern Front. Soldiers crouch in horrible holes in the ground, mingling with corpses. Tunneled beneath a radio mast, German soldiers await the order to blow themselves up. Russian tanks, struggling to break through enemy lines, bog down in a swamp, while a German runner, bearing messages...

Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking

Author	William James
ISBN	0486282708

A profoundly influential figure in American psychology, William James (1842–1910) was also a philosopher of note, who used Charles S. Peirce's theories of pragmatism as a basis for his own conception of that influential philosophy. For James, this meant an emphasis on "radical empiricism" and...