The Dhammapada  |
| F. Max Muller (1823 - 1900) |
The Dhammapada contains verses that are the answers to questions put to the Buddha himself. In these verses the Buddha illustrates the path to enlightenment, the liberation from suffering and ultimately the achievement of Nirvana which also ends the cycle of birth, old age, sickness, and death. |
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| The Picture of Dorian Gray |
| Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900) |
Eternal youth and beauty is a temptation hard to resist. But at what price? .The subject of a painting and admired for his beauty, Dorian Gray trades his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Amidst a lifestyle of hedonism and secret lives, he nonetheless manages to maintain the persona of a very proper gentleman in the eyes of society. But his portrait tells a very different story.... Brilliant. Very interesting reading. |
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| Through the Looking-Glass |
| Lewis Carroll (1832 - 1898) |
Through the Looking-Glass is the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. In this story, Alice wonders what the world is like on the other side of a mirror when magically she is able to pass through it. She discovers that the world through the looking glass is quite different. By holding up a mirror, she learns that she can read a book with looking-glass poetry, Jabberwocky. What is the meaning of all this? Talking flowers, Red Queen and Kings, Chess games, Humpty Dumpty ... When will all this nonsense end? More magical Lewis Carroll. Be enchanted again and again. |
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| The Man Who Would be King |
| Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936) |
Two British ex-soldiers find adventure in Kafiristan which is now part of Afghanistan
The story was inspired by real life characters who became the Rajah of Sarawak in Boreno and the Prince of Ghor.
In 1975 the story was made into a John Huston film starring Sean Connery and Michael Caine.
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| The Man-eaters of Tsavo |
| John Henry Patterson (1867 - 1947) |
The books tells the true story of attacks by man-eating lions on the Uganda railway in Tsavo Kenya in 1898.
Over one hundred people were killed in under a year. The attacks stopped only after the all the lions had been tracked down and killed by Patterson.
In the 1996 film The Ghost and the Darkness Val Kilmer played Patterson.
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| An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (vol 2) |
| John Locke (1632 - 1704) |
This essay is Locke's most famous work. It concerns that nature of human knowledge and understanding. It was one of the primary sources for empiricism, influenced many enlightenment philosophers like David Hume and Bishop Berkeley. The main thrust of the essay is that man does not have innate ideas or principals, that all are developed by experience. Volume one is devoted to disproving the theory of innate ideas. Volume two shows how ideas, principals, and morals are formed from experience. |
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| David Copperfield |
| Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870) |
David Copperfield is a marvellous showcase for Dickens' writing brilliance. In it, the title character David Copperfield relates the story of his life, growing up in a world that has kinder moments but which too often can be so cruel. As usual, Dickens has created a cast of interesting characters who at times add comic moments to the story and almost always present Copperfield with many a life lesson. In part autobiographical, this story has been described by Dickens himself as his "favourite son". A must read. |
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