The Life Of Brian: Screenplay
10 best books like The Life Of Brian: Screenplay (Graham Chapman): The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales, The Crow Road, Aesop's Fables, The Collected Works of St. John of the Cross, Dover Beach and Other Poems, Letters to a Young Catholic, Metaphysics, Tales of Belkin and Other Prose Writings, Selected Poems, Fat
The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales
| Author | Edgar Allan Poe |
| ISBN | 0451526759 |
The eerie tales of Edgar Allan Poe remain among the most brilliant and influential works in American literature. Some of the celebrated tales contained in this unique volume include: the world's first two detective stories -- "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" and "The Purloined Letter"; and three stories...
'It was the day my grandmother exploded. I sat in the crematorium, listening to my Uncle Hamish quietly snoring in harmony to Bach's Mass in B Minor, and I reflected that it always seemed to be death that drew me back to Gallanach.'
Prentice McHoan has returned to the bosom of his complex but enduring...
| Author | Aesop |
| ISBN | 0192840509 |
Aesop's Fables or Aesopica refers to a collection of fables credited to Aesop (620-560 BC), a slave and story-teller who lived in Ancient Greece. Aesop's Fables have become a blanket term for collections of brief fables, usually involving anthropomorphic animals. Many stories included in Aesop's...
The Collected Works of St. John of the Cross
| Author | Juan de la Cruz |
| ISBN | 0935216146 |
The fourth centenary of the death of St. John of the Cross inspired this revised edition of the English translation of his writings. The result is an edition that preserves the true meaning of the great mystic's writings, presents them as clearly as possible, and at the same time gives the reader the doctrinal...
| Author | Matthew Arnold |
| ISBN | 0486280373 |
This superb selection of the poetry of Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) offers rich evidence of the poetic gifts that made him famous in his day, and that continue to rank him among the most loved and admired of Victorian poets. In addition to the title poem, it includes such masterpieces as "The Scholar...
Letters to a Young Catholic
| Author | George Weigel |
| ISBN | 0465092705 |
In this remarkable tour of the Catholic world, George Weigel helps us understand how Catholicism fosters what Flannery O'Connor called "the habit of being." Taking the reader by the hand, Weigel embarks on a journey to Catholic landmarks as diverse as Chartres Cathedral and St. Mary's Church in Greenville,...
| Author | Aristotle |
| ISBN | 1888009039 |
I have very mixed feelings about Aristotle.
On the one hand, he's so tedious and uninspiring. This is only partially his fault: everything we have of his are lecture notes, and so it is no surprise that they are stylistically wanting. Many scholars think that Metaphysics contains many sections...
| Author | Alexander Pushkin |
| ISBN | 0140446753 |
Alexander Pushkin was Russia's first true literary genius. Best known for his poetry, he also wrote sparkling prose that revealed his national culture with elegance and understated humour. Here, his gift for portraying the Russian people is fully revealed. "The Tales of Belkin", his first prose...
Fabulous poetry book by Oscar Wilde. I actually reckon I found in his poetry (especially in the poems "From the Garden of Eros" and "The Harlot's house" the inspiration for the celebrated George Sanders novel " Lincoln in the Bardo". The language is eerily similar. Novel's musings aside. My favourite...
| Author | Rob Grant |
| ISBN | 0575078200 |
'It's unclear precisely when it became illegal to be fat.
Of course, technically, it's not, even in this day and age. Even with the blatant persecution of tubbies, there's no official legislation on any statute book that comes right out and says fatness is against the law.
But it is.'
Rob...
| Author | Augustine of Hippo |
| ISBN | 0911782966 |
Upon reading the first 8 books of Augustin’s ‘On The Trinity’ it’s hard to know what I have learned. In many ways I may ask ‘have I been left with more questions then answers? At times reading this work was frustrating and I found myself saying out loud “What on earth are you talking about you...
