BooksList.Best
Search

The Magna Carta

8 best books like The Magna Carta (Anonymous): Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, The Declaration of Independence, Martin and John, Star Trek: The Next Generation/Doctor Who: Assimilation 2, King of the Dead, The Beauty of Men, The Usual Suspects, Enuma Elish: The Seven Tablets of the History of Creation

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
AuthorUnknown
ISBN0451528182
Contains the greatest "OH FUCK" moment in medieval literature!

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - listed here as written by Unknown, though I believe it may have been penned by that prolific Greek author Anonymous - is a classic tale from Arthurian legend in which the code of honor attributed...
The Declaration of Independence
AuthorThomas Jefferson
ISBN1844671577

My first thoughts, on the morning of July 4, 2017.

Put aside slavery and hypocrisy—if you can—for a moment, and read the first paragraph (71 words, 405 characters): When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected...
Martin and John
AuthorDale Peck
ISBN0374530300
In Martin and John, Dale Peck weaves together two sets of stories to create a haunting, heartrending portrait of an artist in our time. The first is told episodically by John, a hustler in New York, who falls in love with Martin, a man dying of AIDS. Interwoven with these stories is a second set, in which...
Star Trek: The Next Generation/Doctor Who: Assimilation 2
AuthorScott Tipton
ISBN1613777825
The two greatest science-fiction properties of all time crossover for the first time! Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the USS Enterprise have joined forces with the Doctor and his companions to combat an unholy alliance between the Federation's most terrifying enemy and one of the Doctor's...
King of the Dead
AuthorChristopher Golden
ISBN0743411870
DOPPELGANGLAND Sunnydale. Five years into the future. A bleak, post- apocalyptic future for which the Slayer herself is responsible. Her mother has been killed. Angel is missing and presumed dead. Her friends are different, harder.

But that's not the worst of it.

Buffy's "enemies...
The Beauty of Men
AuthorAndrew Holleran
ISBN0452277744
A universal tale of loneliness, aging, and the desires of the human heart, Holleran's long-awaited third novel tells the brilliant, passionate story of a man ashamed to be mourning the loss of his own youth as so many around him die young. Lark is obsessed with the beauty of youth and his own mortality,...
The Usual Suspects
AuthorErnest Larson
ISBN0851708692
These BFI books are very addictive...

This is a fabulous examination of a film that deserves time and intellectual effort to be spent on it; what I really like about it is how it examines all aspects - the writer, the director, the influences, the performances - like the film itself all the pieces...
Enuma Elish: The Seven Tablets of the History of Creation
AuthorUnknown
ISBN1599869195
The Enuma Elish is one of the most important sources which provides an understanding of the Babylonian worldview. The Babylonian worldview is centered on the supremacy of Marduk, and contributes the belief that mankind exists to service god. This Babylonian creation epic was first discovered by...
About
Feedback
© BooksList.Best 2024