The Spectacle of the Scaffold
10 best books like The Spectacle of the Scaffold (Michel Foucault): Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth, Superfudge, Red Scarf Girl, Introducing Buddha, Liber Kaos, The Parenticide Club, Η φόνισσα, Soldier X, Dans le café de la jeunesse perdue, The Sculptor
Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth
| Author | Chris Ware |
| ISBN | 0224063979 |
Jimmy Corrigan has rightly been hailed as the greatest graphic novel ever to be published. It won the Guardian First Book Award 2001, the first graphic novel to win a major British literary prize.
It is the tragic autobiography of an office dogsbody in Chicago who one day meets the father who...
| Author | Judy Blume |
| ISBN | 0142408808 |
From Judy Blume, bestselling author of Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing!
Fans young and old will laugh out loud at the irrepressible wit of Peter Hatcher, the hilarious antics of mischievous Fudge, and the unbreakable confidence of know-it-all Sheila Tubman in Judy Blume’s five Fudge...
| Author | Ji-li Jiang |
| ISBN | 0439063000 |
Moving, honest, and deeply personal, Red Scarf Girl is the incredible true story of one girl’s courage and determination during one of the most terrifying eras of the twentieth century.
It's 1966, and twelve-year-old Ji-li Jiang has everything a girl could want: brains, popularity, and...
| Author | Jane Hope |
| ISBN | 1840460768 |
Informative yet ironic.
TW: images of suicide, abuse of women and orgies are in this book. Unnecessarily attacks Christianity.
I'm a Roman Catholic, yet I wished to learn more of what my Buddhist friends practiced. At first, this book was very informative and nice to learn about....
| Author | Peter J. Carroll |
| ISBN | 0877287422 |
A complete, advanced magical training course for the individual or for groups, with details of the author's magical order, an outline for setting up a temple, and instructions for carrying out the essential rituals of Chaos Magic. Includes a fresh look at aeonics, cosmogenesis, auric magic, and shadow...
..Έχοντας ως βασικά και στέρεα υλικά της αλλόκοτης γραφής του, το μαύρο χιούμορ κ το γκροτέσκο ο Ambrose Pierce διηγείται μέσα από τους αντιήρωες του, την εξόντωση...
| Author | Alexandros Papadiamantis |
| ISBN | 9600509379 |
When I learned that C.P. Cavafy and Odysseus Elytis both admired the prose of Alexandros Papadiamantis (1851-1911), I knew I had to read some of his work. Advised that his shorter pieces are much better than his novels, I read the collection Tales From a Greek Island and then the novella The Murderess,...
| Author | Don L. Wulffson |
| ISBN | 0142500739 |
Sixteen-year-old Erik Brandt barely knows what Germany is fighting for when he is drafted into Hitler's army in 1944. Sent to the killing fields of the Eastern Front, he is surrounded by unimaginable sights, more horrific than he ever thought possible. It's kill or be killed, and it seems clear that...
Dans le café de la jeunesse perdue
| Author | Patrick Modiano |
| ISBN | 2070786064 |
« Encore aujourd'hui, il m'arrive d'entendre, le soir, une voix qui m'appelle par mon prénom, dans la rue. Une voix rauque. Elle traîne un peu sur les syllabes et je la reconnais tout de suite : la voix de Louki. Je me retourne, mais il n'y a personne. Pas seulement le soir, mais au creux de ces après-midi...
| Author | Scott McCloud |
| ISBN | 1596435739 |
David Smith is giving his life for his art—literally. Thanks to a deal with Death, the young sculptor gets his childhood wish: to sculpt anything he can imagine with his bare hands. But now that he only has 200 days to live, deciding what to create is harder than he thought, and discovering the love...
