The Stations of the Sun: A History of the Ritual Year in Britain
10 best books like The Stations of the Sun: A History of the Ritual Year in Britain (Ronald Hutton): Foucault's Pendulum, Corelli's Mandolin, The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs, The Faerie Queene, The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, The Journey Through Wales & The Description of Wales, Screen Burn, The Green Child, Nation and Narration
Foucault's Pendulum is divided into ten segments represented by the ten Sefiroth. The novel is full of esoteric references to the Kabbalah. The title of the book refers to an actual pendulum designed by the French physicist Léon Foucault to demonstrate the rotation of the earth, which has symbolic...
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin is set in the early days of the second world war, before Benito Mussolini invaded Greece. Dr Iannis practices medicine on the island of Cephalonia, accompanied by his daughter, Pelagia, to whom he imparts much of his healing art. Even when the Italians do invade, life isn’t...
The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs
| Author | Jon Scieszka |
| ISBN | 0140544518 |
You thought you knew the story of the “The Three Little Pigs”… You thought wrong.
In this hysterical and clever fracture fairy tale picture book that twists point of view and perspective, young readers will finally hear the other side of the story of “The Three Little Pigs.”.
| Author | Edmund Spenser |
| ISBN | 0140422072 |
The Faerie Queene was the first epic in English and one of the most influential poems in the language for later poets from Milton to Tennyson. Dedicating his work to Elizabeth I, Spenser brilliantly united medieval romance and renaissance epic to expound the glory of the Virgin Queen. The poem recounts...
| Author | Gene Kemp |
| ISBN | 0745103308 |
An interesting children's book from the 1970s, which succeeds largely on the strength of it's fine grasp of child psychology and language, and its naturalistically rambling, inconclusive plot. I liked it as a child because it felt less like a "story", and more like a slice of life of a real person - albeit...
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
| Author | Benedict Anderson |
| ISBN | 0860915468 |
What makes people love and die for nations, as well as hate and kill in their name? While many studies have been written on nationalist political movements, the sense of nationality--the personal and cultural feeling of belonging to a nation--has not received proportionate attention. In this widely...
| Author | Gerald of Wales |
| ISBN | 0140443398 |
Gerald of Wales was one of the most dynamic and colorful churchmen of the 12th century. His JOURNEY describes a mission to Wales undertaken in 1188 by Baldwin, Archbishop of Canterbury, with Gerald as his companion. THE DESCRIPTION provides a picture of the day-to-day existence of ordinary Welshmen...
| Author | Charlie Brooker |
| ISBN | 0571227554 |
Cruel, acerbic, impassioned, gleeful, frequently outrageous and always hilarious, Charlie Brooker's Screen Burn collects the best of the much-loved Guardian Guide columns in one easy-to-read-on-the-toilet package. Sit back and roar as Brooker rips mercilessly into Simon Cowell, Big Brother,...
| Author | Herbert Read |
| ISBN | 0811201724 |
First published in 1935, The Green Child is Herbert Read's only novel. But if he had written nothing else, this one inspired book would insure his fame. It is a Utopian novel, a unique blend of reality and fantasy which moves from the English countryside to the South American pampas and then to a mysterious...
| Author | Homi K. Bhabha |
| ISBN | 0415014832 |
This book draws on the example of the major cities of Leipzig and Dresden to illustrate continuity and change in public health in the German Democratic Republic. Based on archival work it will demonstrate how members of the medical profession successfully manipulated their pre-1945 past in order...
Fantasy: The Literature of Subversion
| Author | Rosemary Jackson |
| ISBN | 0415025621 |
This study argues against vague interpretations of fantasy as mere escapism and seeks to define it as a distinct kind of narrative. A general theoretical section introduces recent work on fantasy, notably Tzventan Todorov's The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre (1973). Dr Jackson,...
