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The Other Side (Dedalus European Classics)
Alfred Kubin
Dedalus,, 2000
masterpiece of surrealism
+ amazing
+ From pedestrian beginnings to a searing nightmare of reason.
+ A prophetic classic
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Tales of the Hasidim
Martin Buber
Schocken, 1991
Khasiduth as metaphor
+ Literary, Not Historical, Merit
+ A pioneering work
+ Surprisingly good.
+ Charming and Informative but Not Historically Accurate
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The Devil and Daniel Webster (Penguin Classics)
Stephen Vincent Benet
Penguin Classics, 1999
a worthy legend for America and for Webster
+ Benet's Twain-Like Take: Is Lucifer a Foreigner?
+ Great Piece of American Literature
+ Great Stories
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Star Maker (SF Masterworks) (Millennium SF Masterworks S)
Olaf Stapledon, William Olaf Stapledon
Gollancz, 1999
Towering but overlooked sci-fi classic
+ Have a Pail of Cold Water Handy
+ Free SF Reader
+ Read no other scifi
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The Valley of the Moon (California Fiction)
Jack London
University of California Press, 1999
What a great book!!
+ A fresh breath of air
+ A Testament of Love
I read this book after biking through a lot of the California towns London mentions. I pedaled through Glen Ellen and saw some of the missions. Since I am male, I could relate to the character of Billy. He is an early 20th century renaissance man. I never got bored with this book. It has a lot of ...
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Six Masters of the Spanish Sonnet: Francisco de Quevedo, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Antonio Machado, Federico ...
Southern Illinois University Press, 1997
The Cream of Spanish Sonets
+ Six Masters of the Spanish Sonnet
+ Masterful Translations of Spanish Sonnets
+ A Delightfull Collection of Written Art
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The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories
Horacio Quiroga
University of Wisconsin Press, 2004
Table of Contents
+ Worthwhile
+ the dude a couple of reviews down is an imbecile
+ Say When
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Aeschylus I: Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides (The Complete Greek Tragedies)
Aeschylus
University Of Chicago Press, 1969
An excellent trilogy
+ Vengeance Is Mine
+ aeschylus I
Aeschylus (525-456 BC) is the father of Greek tragedies (one legend reports that Dionysus himself commanded Aeschylus to write them). Of the seventy tragedies that he wrote, only seven have survived to the present day. These three plays form the most complete tetralogy that we have (a tetralogy ...
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The Nature of the Gods (Penguin Classics)
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Penguin Classics, 1972
Theology without revelation --it will change your world view
+ Questions that still haven't gone away.
+ Fascinating!
+ "A Creative-Classic"
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Three Early Modern Utopias: Thomas More: Utopia / Francis Bacon: New Atlantis / Henry Neville: The Isle of ...
Thomas More, Francis Bacon, ...
Oxford University Press, USA, 2000
Prose which still affects our thinking
Literature before James Joyce, before Jane Austen, before Daniel Defoe: No Ulysses, no Emma, no Robinson Crusoe - for modern readers it is hard to imagine a stock of English literature without the existence of these and other important writers and their `novels'. What kind of literature could ...
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Edda and saga
Bertha Surtees Phillpotts
Kraus Reprint Co, 1973
A fine tribute to the 'Classics' of the North
This is the most accessible, yet detailed text on Scandinavian literature I have found. Dame Phillpott's work, although originally printed in 1931, is no less valuable to teachers and Nordic enthusiasts today. In just over 250 she manages to conscisely take us on a tour of all the major divisions ...
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A Hundred And Seventy Chinese Poems
Arthur Waley
Chapman Billies, 1997
A Sampler of Ancient Chinese Poetry
+ Fine collection superseded
+ Refreshing the roots of the mind.
Kenneth Rexroth cited this book of translations in his "One Hundred Poems from the Chinese" as among a handful that are outstanding sources for those interested in Chinese poetry. I love the directness of the old Chinese poets, particularly their simplicity and accessibility -- at least as they ...
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Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects
Bertrand Russell
Touchstone, 1967
Dogma or Progress?
+ A must read
+ Relevant Today
+ Stimulus
+ This and Ibn Warraq
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The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Padmasambhava
Viking Adult, 2006
Tibetan Book of the dead
+ Not for newcomers, but truly a "treasure-text"
+ A Perfectionists' Translation of Not Really Accessible Death-Transition Rites
An old book brought to life. interesting research in the india's believe system of reincarnation. The souls travels after death back to reincarnation.
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The Presocratic Philosophers: A Critical History with a Selection of Texts
G. S. Kirk, J. E. Raven, ...
Cambridge University Press, 1984
First Edition, My first professional Philosophy book
+ Aristotle should have read this!
+ One-volume English-language anthology of early Greek thought
+ On my third copy...
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