Leviathan  |
| Thomas Hobbes (1588 - 1679) |
Written in 1651 during the chaos of the English Civil War. Hobbes formulates the case for a powerful sovereign - or 'Leviathan' - to enforce peace and the law. The work was publicly burnt for sedition and blasphemy when it was first published. Hobbes' view that man's essential nature is competitive and selfish is as challenging today as it was when originally published, the work remains relevant to the modern world and stands as one of the most fascinating works of modern philosophy. |
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| Little Wars |
| H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946) |
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| Mankind in the Making |
| H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946) |
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| Metamorphosis |
| Franz Kafka (1883 - 1924) |
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| Mr. Britling Sees it Through |
| H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946) |
Publishers Weekly #1 Best Seller for 1917.
"Beyond question the greatest novel of the year" -- New York Times 1916
Tells the story of how Mr. Britling makes it though World War I.
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| Robinson Crusoe |
| Daniel Defoe (1660 - 1731) |
Published in 1719 and sometimes regarded as the first novel in English. A fictional autobiography of an English castaway who spends 28 years on a remote island, encountering savages, captives, and mutineers before being rescued. Novelist James Joyce said: "He is the true prototype of the British colonist... The whole Anglo-Saxon spirit is in Crusoe: the manly independence, the unconscious cruelty, the persistence, the slow yet efficient intelligence, the sexual apathy, the calculating taciturnity". |
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| The Black Tulip |
| Alexandre Dumas (1802 - 1870) |
Historical fiction novel. The story begins with an actual historical tragedy - the 1672 lynching of the Dutch Grand Pensionary (roughly equivalent to a modern Prime Minister) Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis, by a wild mob of their own countrymen - one of the most painful episodes in Dutch history, described by Dumas with a dramatic intensity. |
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