To the Finland Station
10 best books like To the Finland Station (Edmund Wilson): Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov, Ten Days that Shook the World, Homage to Catalonia, The Age of Revolution, 1789-1848, Escape from Freedom, Mother, Left-Wing Communism, an Infantile Disorder: A Popular Essay in Marxian Strategy and Tactics, Main Currents of Marxism: The Founders, the Golden Age, the Breakdown, Raízes do Brasil, All That Is Solid Melts Into Air: The Experience of Modernity
Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov
| Author | Anton Chekhov |
| ISBN | 0553381008 |
Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the highly acclaimed translators of War and Peace, Doctor Zhivago, and Anna Karenina, which was an Oprah Book Club pick and million-copy bestseller, bring their unmatched talents to The Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov, a collection of thirty of Chekhov’s...
Ten Days that Shook the World
| Author | John Reed |
| ISBN | 0486452409 |
I just finished this one, after meaning to check it out since college.
Sometimes you know a book is great even if you yourself have a hard time reading it. That was the case for me in the very well written and detailed personal account of the October Revolution in Russia, as experienced by American...
| Author | George Orwell |
| ISBN | 0156421178 |
“All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.”
George Orwell is one of my favourite writers. 1984 and Animal Farm were game-changers for me when I first picked them up at 12 years old, and they fostered an interest in politics...
The Age of Revolution, 1789-1848
| Author | Eric Hobsbawm |
| ISBN | 0679772537 |
Having read this first in 2011, I decided to read it again. I've learned a fair bit about the period since then, and so better appreciate the virtues and limits of this volume.
It contains a great deal of condensed analysis - hence it is rich, but often dry. It is also very British -- not only in its...
| Author | Erich Fromm |
| ISBN | 0805031499 |
If humanity cannot live with the dangers and responsibilities inherent in freedom, it will probably turn to authoritarianism. This is the central idea of Escape from Freedom, a landmark work by one of the most distinguished thinkers of our time, and a book that is as timely now as when first published...
| Author | Maxim Gorky |
| ISBN | 1406833266 |
1907. Maxim Gorky, pseudonym of Alexei Maksimovich Peshkov, Soviet novelist, playwright and essayist, who was a founder of social realism. Although known principally as a writer, he was closely associated with the tumultuous revolutionary period of his own country. The Mother, one of his best-known...
Left-Wing Communism, an Infantile Disorder: A Popular Essay in Marxian Strategy and Tactics
| Author | Vladimir Lenin |
| ISBN | 0898754488 |
"Left-Wing" Communism, An Infantile Disorder: A Popular Essay in Marxian Strategy and Tactics Vladimir Ilich Lenin (1870-1924) was the founder of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), inspirer and leader of Bolshevik Revolution (1917), and the architect, builder, and first head (1917-24)...
| Author | Leszek Kołakowski |
| ISBN | 0393060543 |
From philosopher Leszek Kolakowski, one of the giants of twentieth-century intellectual history, comes this highly infuential study of Marxism. Written in exile, this 'prophetic work' presents, according to the Library of Congress, 'the most lucid and comprehensive history of the origins, structure,...
| Author | Sérgio Buarque de Holanda |
| ISBN | 8503001772 |
Publicada em 1936, Raízes do Brasil aborda aspectos centrais da história da cultura brasileira. O texto consiste de uma macro-interpretação do processo de formação da sociedade brasileira. Destaca, sobretudo, a importância do legado cultural da colonização portuguesa do Brasil, e...
All That Is Solid Melts Into Air: The Experience of Modernity
All That Is Solid Melts into Air is a dazzling exploration of modern consciousness. In this unparalleled book, Marshall Berman takes account of the social changes that swept millions of people into the capitalist world and the impact of modernism on art, literature and architecture. This new edition...
Memoirs of a Revolutionary
| Author | Victor Serge |
| ISBN | 0877458278 |
Victor Serge (1890-1947) was an anarchist who initially supported the Russian Revolution. More important, he was also a writer of rare integrity, who left behind a remarkable eyewitness record in fiction, journalism, and above all his masterwork, Memoirs of a Revolutionary. In it he tells the story...
| Author | Isaac Bashevis Singer |
| ISBN | 0374515387 |
ИНТЕРВЮИРАЩ
Според вас, има ли нещо, което ще спаси човечеството?
СИНГЕР
Нищо няма да ни спаси. Ще постигнем огромен напредък, но страданията ни...
The Centaur in the Garden
| Author | Moacyr Scliar |
| ISBN | 0299187845 |
In The Garden of Delights, a Tunisian restaurant in Sao Paulo, Guedali Tartakovsky celebrates his 38th birthday--that splendid age of newfound maturity and comprehension. It is only now that Guedali is able to revel in memories of glorious times past. Born a centaur--a mythical creature half-horse,...
| Author | Isaac Bashevis Singer |
| ISBN | 9991659277 |
Given that the latest book by Isaac Bashevis Singer I read ('The King of the Fields') turned out to be a big disappointment, I didn't lose my trust in one of my favourite authors overall.
With 'Love and Exile' the good old I.B. I knew came back to send his regards from a very special time: his formative...
Dark Tower: The Gunslinger - The Battle of Tull #1
In a saloon in the town of Tull, the last gunslinger is approached by a bizarre figure that has a message for him. The message is terrifying. What’s worse, it is delivered by a dead man named Nort whose corpse was animated to serve this very purpose. And that is only the beginning of the horrors awaiting...
The Age of Capital, 1848-1875
| Author | Eric Hobsbawm |
| ISBN | 0679772545 |
In the wake of the French Revolution & the Industrial Revolution, Europe underwent another revolution--this time a revolution of values. The author examines the rise of industrial capitalism and the consolidation of bourgeois culture, exploring the effects of mounting concentration of wealth,...
Reading the Early Republic
Reading the Early Republic focuses attention on the forgotten dynamism of thought in the founding era. In every case, the documents, novels, pamphlets, sermons, journals, and slave narratives of the early American nation are richer and more intricate than modern readers have perceived.
Rebellion,...
| Author | W.E.B. Du Bois |
| ISBN | 0679783539 |
This title is among my favorite biographies of all time.
The profs teaching the class I took in college featured John Brown as a small figure in American contemporary history and dismissed him fairly quickly. He meant well, but was not stable, they said; in the end, he took extreme, hopeless...
