The Vanity of Human Wishes
10 best books like The Vanity of Human Wishes (Samuel Johnson): Capital, Vol. 1: A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production, Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded, A Modest Proposal, The Rape of the Lock, An Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard, Kubla Khan; or, A Vision in a Dream, Holy Kural - Thirukkural in Tamil with English Translations, How to Write about Africa, The Houses of Belgrade, Critias
Capital, Vol. 1: A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production
| Author | Karl Marx |
| ISBN | 0140445684 |
Capital, one of Marx's major and most influential works, was the product of thirty years close study of the capitalist mode of production in England, the most advanced industrial society of his day. This new translation of Volume One, the only volume to be completed and edited by Marx himself, avoids...
Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded
| Author | Samuel Richardson |
| ISBN | 0192829602 |
One of the most spectacular successes of the flourishing literary marketplace of eighteenth-century London, Pamela also marked a defining moment in the emergence of the modern novel. In the words of one contemporary, it divided the world "into two different Parties, Pamelists and Anti-pamelists,"...
| Author | Jonathan Swift |
| ISBN | 1605977276 |
Last night my daughter asked me to watch what passes for comedy to pre-teens on Nickelodeon; a show low on laughs but high on laugh track. It's Halloween week and of course the thematic drum of cheap scares and slutty costumes (those of you dads that have 11 year old girls know what it is like to take a knee...
| Author | Alexander Pope |
| ISBN | 1557429162 |
I’ve always believed that miracles can happen and that great physical and/or mental suffering can engender greatness. This indeed proved to be the case with this splendid work by Alexander Pope.
I find Pope a fascinating individual. He was a catholic, at a time when legislation was repressive...
| Author | Thomas Gray |
| ISBN | 1857362233 |
Personal Response:
Poetry is not my favorite thing to read. I kind of struggled through this poem, but I do think I took away the main point the author was trying to get across to me. This poem really made me think about what was going on. Unlike many books, this plot wasn't spoon fed to me.
Plot:
I...
Kubla Khan; or, A Vision in a Dream
| Author | Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
Kubla Khan or, A Vision in a Dream: A Fragment is a poem written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, completed in 1797 and published in 1816. According to Coleridge's Preface to Kubla Khan, the poem was composed one night after he experienced an opium-influenced dream after reading a work describing Xanadu,...
Holy Kural - Thirukkural in Tamil with English Translations
Thirukkural (or the Kural) is a collection of 1330 Tamil couplets organised into 133 chapters. Each chapter has a specific subject ranging from "ploughing a piece of land" to "ruling a country". According to the LIFCO Tamil-Tamil-English dictionary, the Tamil word Kural means Venpa verse with two...
How to Write about Africa
| Author | Binyavanga Wainaina |
This trio of sharp-witted essays takes irony to a new level. In 'How to Write About Africa', Wainaina dissects the cliché of Africa and the preconceptions dear to western writers and readers with ruthless precision. In the same fashion, ‘My Clan KC’ undresses the layers of meaning shrouding the...
| Author | Borislav Pekić |
| ISBN | 0810111411 |
Arsenije Njegovan’s portrait through his obsessive love towards houses which are in his possession. He is able to fall in love with buildings as if they were humans. Symbolically the houses here are a metaphor for mens' yearning for property and beauty. From 1941 to 1968 Arsenije is isolated from...
| Author | Plato |
| ISBN | 1576467627 |
Plato (428/427 BC-348/347 BC), whose original name was Aristocles, was an ancient Greek philosopher, the second of the great trio of ancient Greeks - succeeding Socrates and preceding Aristotle - who between them laid the philosophical foundations of Western culture. Plato was also a mathematician,...
| Author | Benjamin H. Bratton |
Programme Director of Strelka Institute describes his vision for how design should approach and intervene in the new normal and what kinds of cities we should be planning for now
What is the new normal? Something has shifted, it seems. We are making new worlds faster than we can keep track of...
THE HYMN: Song of the Soul
| Author | Anonymous* |
| ISBN | 0994644418 |
“I sing a freedom song.
I walk a victory march.
I dance naked,
and enter the void.
Follow me —"
THE HYMN is a song of spiritual awakening. The hypnotic and iconoclastic verse of this small talisman of a book is published with the hope that the reader...
| Author | John Milton |
| ISBN | 0333045076 |
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important,...
| Author | Timothy Leary |
| ISBN | 1561840505 |
Written in the 70's with all the influence of the wild and counterculture rebelliousness of the 60s, The Game of Life reflects the depth of mind of one of the unique human beings of the 20th century. From famed psychologist and Harvard professor to LSD Guru, to stage and film star, computer junky, and more....
Abstract: I argue that if David Lewis’ modal realism is true, modal realists from different possible worlds can fall in love with each other. I offer a method for uniquely picking out possible people who are in love with us and not with our counterparts. Impossible lovers and trans-world love letters...
Enchantment: On Charisma and the Sublime in the Arts of the West
| Author | C. Stephen Jaeger |
| ISBN | 0812243293 |
What is the force in art, C. Stephen Jaeger asks, that can enter our consciousness, inspire admiration or imitation, and carry a reader or viewer from the world as it is to a world more sublime? We have long recognized the power of individuals to lead or enchant by the force of personal charisma--and indeed,...
| Author | Shaikh Abu-Saeed Abil-Kheir |
| ISBN | 1890772089 |
Readers who swoon within the love-intoxicated poetry of Rumi must read the poetry of Shaikh Abil-Kheir. This renowned but little-known Sufi mystic of the 10th century preceded Rumi by over two hundred years on the same path of annihilation into God. He referred to himself as -- Nobody Son of Nobody his...
| Author | Sarah Kane |
| ISBN | 0413728803 |
Set in an unnamed city from which voices and images spring, Crave charts the disintegration of a human mind under the pressures of love, loss and desire.
Produced by Paines Plough and Bright Ltd (Guy Chapman and Paul Spyker), Crave premiered at the Traverse Theatre for the 1998 Edinburgh Festival....
