The Tripods Boxed Set of 4

10 best books like The Tripods Boxed Set of 4 (John Christopher): Daddy-Long-Legs, Ragtime, Civilization and Its Discontents, Beautiful Oops!, The Lady with the Little Dog, City of Glass, The Egyptian, Le Petit Nicolas, The Art of Biblical Narrative, H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds (Graphic Novel)

Daddy-Long-Legs
AuthorJean Webster
When Jerusha Abbott, an eighteen-year-old girl living in an orphan asylum, was told that a mysterious millionaire had agreed to pay for her education, it was like a dream come true. For the first time in her life, she had someone she could pretend was "family." But everything was not perfect, for he chose...
Ragtime
AuthorE.L. Doctorow
ISBN0812978188
Published in 1975, Ragtime changed our very concept of what a novel could be. An extraordinary tapestry, Ragtime captures the spirit of America in the era between the turn of the century & the First World War. The story opens in 1906 in New Rochelle, NY, at the home of an affluent American family. One...
Civilization and Its Discontents
AuthorSigmund Freud
ISBN0393301583
It stands as a brilliant summary of the views on culture from a psychoanalytic perspective that he had been developing since the turn of the century. It is both witness and tribute to the late theory of mind—the so-called structural theory, with its stress on aggression, indeed the death drive, as...
Beautiful Oops!
AuthorBarney Saltzberg
A spill. A smear. A smudge. A tear. When you think you have made a mistake, think of it as an opportunity to make something beautiful!

A life lesson that all parents want their children to learn: It’s OK to make a mistake. In fact, hooray for mistakes! A mistake is an adventure in creativity,...
The Lady with the Little Dog
AuthorAnton Chekhov
*Illustrated
*Includes Table of Contents

Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) may have suffered an untimely death, but he squeezed the most out of his 44 years of life. Chekhov was a Russian physician, dramatist and author who is considered to be one of the greatest writers in history, particularly...
City of Glass
AuthorPaul Auster
ISBN0140097317
Nominated for an Edgar award for best mystery of the year, City of Glass inaugurates an intriguing New York Trilogy of novels that The Washington Post Book World has classified as "post-existentialist private eye... It's as if Kafka has gotten hooked on the gumshoe game and penned his own ever-spiraling...
The Egyptian
AuthorMika Waltari
The only Finnish novel adopted into a Hollywood film Mika Waltari's 1945 novel The Egyptian was turned into a DeLuxe Color epic film by 20th Century Fox in 1954 and was nominated for an academy award a year later. A 1940s #1 Bestseller and a Historic Novel All-Time Favorite A historic novel all-time favorite,...
Le Petit Nicolas
AuthorRené Goscinny
ISBN2070364232
La maîtresse est inquiète, le photographe s'éponge le front, le Bouillon devient tout rouge, les mamans ont mauvaise mine, les papas font les guignols, le directeur part à la retraite, quant à l'inspecteur, il est reparti aussi vite qu'il était venu. Pourtant, à l'école ou en famille, Geoffroy,...
AuthorRobert Alter
The Art of Biblical Narrative is the best critical work I have read. It does more than just explain. It teaches. It encourages. It makes the reader want to read the [Hebrew] Bible for the pure pleasure of practicing what has been learned, to discover the literary secrets of the Bible and to enjoy anew the...
AuthorIan Edginton
ISBN1593074743
For me what makes a really good graphic novel are the illustrations. Being a reader who has focused primarily upon literature in the past I find the heavily abridged text in graphic novels to require some getting used to. At this stage in my graphic novel reading career I focus on the "graphic" aspect of...
همنوایی شبانه‌ی ارکستر چوبها
Authorرضا قاسمی
همنوایی شبانهٔ ارکستر چوب‌ها، رمانی از رضا قاسمی نخستین بار نشر کتاب آن را در سال ۱۹۹۱ در آمریکا منتشر کرد، در ایران نیز اجازهٔ انتشار یافت و برنده بهترین...
چهل نامه‌ی کوتاه به همسرم
AuthorNader Ebrahimi
عنوان: چهل نامه ­ی کوتاه به همسرم، نویسنده: نادر ابراهیمی؛ تهران، نشر روزبهان، 1369، در 146 ص؛ چاپ نوزدهم در 1390.
پیراهنی بر آب
Authorلیلا باقری
رمانی فانتزی پیرآهنی بر آب در روزگاری كه خشكی به هستی مردم زده و آن‌ها در آرزوی آب هستند روایت می‌شود. روایت بخشی از زندگی «پری» كه همراه با مادرش زندگی می‌كند...
بیوتن
AuthorReza Amirkhani
بیوتن عنوان رمانی از رضا امیرخانی است که در سال ۱۳۸۷ هجری شمسی توسط انتشارات علم به چاپ رسید.
این کتاب، داستان یکی از بازمانده‌های جنگ تحمیلی ایران است...
Basic Socialism: Why Socialism is Sexy Now
AuthorEdward Lawrence
Why is everyone talking about socialism?

In an age of political disillusionment, when all politicians seem to be carbon copies of one another, people are shunning the mainstream and looking for radical ideas. Socialism is one such idea. This book aims to explain why people are turning to socialism...
دیدن
Authorبیژن الهی
ISBN6005193466
Didan = Vision, (2014), Bijan Elahi
Bijan Elahi (7 July 1945 – 1 December 2010) was an Iranian modernist poet and translator. He was for most of his life known as a leading figure of a modernist poetry movement in Iran called The Other Poetry. Vision is a collection of four poem cycles that indicate...
جوانی‌ها
Authorبیژن الهی
تنها سرو خیانت کرد
که پذیرفته‌ی همه‌ی فصل‌ها بود
دیگرْ درختان امّا
جمگلی به عصیان برخاستند.
یکی به ابتدای پاییز
و دیگری به انتهای پاییز.
چرا...
Children of the Fleet
AuthorOrson Scott Card
ISBN0765377047
From Orson Scott Card, award-winning and bestselling author of Ender's Game, his first solo Enderverse novel in years.

Children of the Fleet is a new angle on Card's bestselling series, telling the story of the Fleet in space, parallel to the story on Earth told in the Ender's Shadow series.

Ender...
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