Seventeen |
Booth Tarkington (1869 - 1946) |
Publishers Weekly #1 Best Seller for 1916.
Tarkington was a widely read and prolific multiple Pulitzer Prize winning novelist and dramatist.
Here Tarkington satirizes first love.
"Every man and woman over fifty ought to read Seventeen. It is not only a skillful analysis of adolescent love, it is, with all its side-splitting mirth, a tragedy. No mature person who reads this novel will ever seriously regret his lost youth or wish he were young again...." -- William Lyon Phelps, The Advance of the English Novel
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The Harvester |
Gene Stratton-Porter (1863 - 1924) |
Publishers Weekly #1 Best Seller for 1912.
A young man leads a solitary life growing and harvesting medicinal herbs. He dreams of meeting his true love, subsequently sees her in a vision, and finally sets out to find her...
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Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion |
David Hume (1711 - 1776) |
In Dialogues Hume explores the question 'What can we infer about the nature of God using reason?' using a dialogue between three characters. All believe in the existence of God but disagree on his nature and relationship with mankind. These issues and augments are still at the centre of debate and conflict today. For example, Hume explores the issue of an Intelligent Designer and the argument from design that is convulsing the US school system. |
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Heart of Darkness |
Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924) |
English seaman Charlie Marlow recounts a journey to his shipmates, a journey up river to the heart of the Congo. Marlow had been tasked to find what had happened to Kurtz who had been an inexplicably productive procurer of ivory until contact was lost. Respected and feared, Kurtz has an aura of mystery and danger that lures Marlow closer and closer until ... |
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The Communist Manifesto |
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (1818/1820 - 1883/1895) |
First published in 1848, The Communist Manifesto summarises the communist thought and theories of Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx. A foundation document for the Marxist movement, The Communist Manifesto proposes ways for the proletarian working class to overthrow the ruling upper classes in order to achieve a communist society with no class boundaries. |
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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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Dance of Gods II: Spell of Intrigue Notes on The Dance of Gods |
Mayer Alan Brenner ( - ) http://www.mayerbrenner.com |
The plot thickens and larger issues may be at stake in the second book of Mayer Alan Brenner's "Dance of Gods" series. Originally published by DAW Books, the books are a witty and intelligent science / fantasy crossover.
"A winner ... I was utterly hooked. Its not a belly-laugh-inducing parody of a fantasy so much as an off-the-wall kind of fantasy in its own right..." --Interzone
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