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Dawn's Early Light 27 reviews
Elswyth Thane
G K Hall & Co, 1981
Dawn's Early Light
This is the beginning book in a series of books called the Williamsburg novels. I have been reading and re-reading this series of 7 books for over 50 years. They are my all time favorite books. Each book deals with a war or pre-war action (except the war of 1812) in which the US has taken part from the Revolutionary War (Dawn's Early Light) to the Civil War (Yankee Stranger) to the Homing with ...
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Democracy In America32 reviews
Alexis Tocqueville
McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages, 1981
Relevant
As an American living in Europe, I read with great interest Alexis de Tocqueville's book about a European experiencing America.
Like most people, Mr. de Tocqueville started out with a characterization of the United States, believing that the country's early 19th century prosperity was a function of its distance from rivals in Europe. But after his famous trip, he concludes that the real ...
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Basic Writings of Nietzsche (Modern Library Classics)34 reviews
Friedrich Nietzsche
Modern Library, 2000
Kaufmann Translations with all Footnotes
The Birth of Tragedy-75 Aphorism-Beyond Good and Evil-The Genealogy of Morals (3 Essays)-The Case of Wagner-Interpretations/commentaries
A great collection, though a strange chronological leap from BOT to BGE. Right for the price and a great review of the later published books of FN. All of Kaufmann's footnotes are maintained. You'll at least want to have had read The Gay Science before coming ...
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The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs25 reviews
Friedrich Nietzsche
Vintage, 1974
THE FAVOURITE: JOY THANKS TO LUCIDITY
For the admirers of Nietzsche and those who love to read him, "The Gay Science" is somehow their FAVOURITE BOOK. In this work the hughe, great German philosopher and psychologist (honour to whom it deserves!) confronts us with a rather fleet-footed, almost "dancing" way of writing about his eternal themes that never ever have left his thoughts, his way of thinking and his brilliant pen.
HERE is ...
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Essays and Aphorisms (The Penguin Classics)26 reviews
Arthur Schopenhauer
Penguin Classics, 1973
with persistance and arrogance, brain and bile ...
Schopenhauer's father committed suicide. Son Arthur had been very devoted to his father Heinrich Floris. The high-sensitive son could not deal with the fact, that his mother Johanna had preferred to talk with Goethe in her Weimar Literary Salon instead of helping her husband, getting more and more depressed as a salesman in Hamburg. A typical, later on dialogue between mother (at that time a ...
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Constance26 reviews
Patricia Clapp
HarperTeen, 1991
A great book anyway . . .
I read this long before I knew a key fact about Constance Hopkins, and I thought it was terrific. Of course, I still do. The tone of high spirits forced into apparent submission is perfect. I do think the cover illustration on the Beech Tree edition is awful; the cover on the Dell edition is far better.
Key fact: she is my nine-times-great-grandmother. (Patricia Clapp, the author, is also ...
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Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence30 reviews
John Ferling
Oxford University Press, USA, 2007
Good Book
I really enjoy reading this book. I learned a lot about our country history. I agree with the author we were lucky to win the war. I found that I could not use the Table of content to go to the chapters. I've used that before to go to chapters in other books for the Kindle. Since the chapters in this book are really long ones suggest you bookmark each time you come to a new chapter. Makes ...
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Hearts and Dreams: Katherine (Hearts and Dreams)22 reviews
Cameron Dokey
Avon, 1997
AmAzInG!!!
This is by far the most amazing book i have ever read. The way that she will risk anything for her loved one really touched my heart. I am still waiting for the other books to arrive. I hope that it will be just as good as this book. This book shows courage and shows that someone doesn't have to be another person to be accepted. There will always be someone that will accept you as who you are.
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The Six Wives of Henry VIII138 reviews
Alison Weir
Arrow Books Ltd, 1995
Fill in the holes, if you have read other books about this period.
A must read if you have been enticed by the interesting tale of the period... Perhaps you have read some of the fluffier books with more romance and fictional license. This is book fills in many of the holes. This book is a nice enjoyable read with great details that touch on the people in a Titan's wake.
The women come to life.
The politics and decisions that baffle us, centuries later, ...
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The Discarded Image21 reviews
C.S. Lewis
Cambridge University Press, 1968
An excellent introduction to the medieval mind
C.S. Lewis is just such a pleasure to read. And this book is simply a joy. I am a PhD student in medieval history and have read an awful lot of books on the medieval mind and this is by far the best. There is a slight tendency in Lewis' writing to see philosophy as the sole motor of history--but this is to be expected from his generation and it doesn't detract from the picture he paints. The best ...
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Das Energi15 reviews
Paul Williams
Audio Literature, 1996
this was my bible
i found a copy of this book in a thrift store in okc when i was 17. for a year i would read it everyday. after the southern babtist had their way with me i was looking for some truth. i found this book and formed my belief system around it. it has guided me thru life and now that i have learned more about life from experience, i'm glad mr. williams book was there to arm me. i emailed paul ...
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The Devils of Loudun18 reviews
Aldous Huxley
Vintage Books, 2008
The Devils You Say
One of the joys of reading is how one subject can lead to a serendipitous find. Having recently come across a brief reference to the early 17th century barking nuns of Loudon I went in search of a more detailed exploration. In Aldous Huxley's book I found all that I sought and much more.
Urbain Grandier, the local parson of Loudon, is a very naughty cleric who partakes much too much of the ...
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Great Siege: Malta 1565 (Wordsworth Military Library.)20 reviews
Ernle Bradford
Wordsworth Military Library, 1999
Amazing siege, amazing story, amazing book...
What I read: An amazingly heroic defense of the knights and the Maltese against an amazing siege of the navy of the Magnificient and his generals. When I read in my middle school history class, this siege just was an unsuccessful one-sentence event in the hundreds of pages of the Ottoman Empire, but, while reading this book, I felt like I watched and lived the siege minute by minute. And I felt ...
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Cape Cod20 reviews
William Martin
Grand Central Publishing, 1991
Can't describe how much I love this book
This book is, without a doubt, one of the best books I have ever read. The characters aren't loveable, but they are so human and real that it pulls you right into the story. The plot never gets dull, as it keeps changing time periods with different points. Even though I just recently finished it, I feel as though I could pick it up right now and read it again. It is relatively long, but ...
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Human, All Too Human (I): A Book for Free Spirits, Volume 3 (The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsch)19 reviews
Friedrich Nietzsche
Stanford University Press, 2000
Nietzsche at his Aphoristic Best
If you like aphorisms and philosophy, this book will become one of your bibles. If nothing else, it's just plain fun to read for his incredible wit. Of course you have to put his ideas in the context of the period in which he wrote and understand that he has his own odd prejudices, but the brilliance of his understanding of the human condition really shines through. The biggest mistake any reader ...
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Kant: A Very Short Introduction18 reviews
Oxford University Press, USA, 2001
Great intro to Kant
Immanuel Kant's life work focused on solving the mistakes of the rationalist philosophy that he had learned from men, like Gottfried Leibnitz, and the mistakes of the empiricist philosophy that he was so intrigued with through the writings of David Hume. Kant wants to move beyond the mistakes both schools of philosophy made and synthesize their truths into a new philosophical understanding of ...
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The Philosophy of Schopenhauer16 reviews
Bryan Magee
Oxford University Press, USA, 1997
If you only study one philospher...
Perhaps the most unjustly neglected philosopher in the western world. I would hope this very readable introduction will encourage more people to take up the study of this great thinker. Bryan Magee, as usual does, what many professional philosphers are unable or unwilling to do: he makes philosophy accessible to almost everyone. While I haven't found Schopenahuer's writing all that difficult, ...
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Jubal Sackett (Sacketts, No 18)17 reviews
Louis L'Amour
Bantam, 1985
great audio book
This by far is the best audio book Ive listened to. The guy reading the story has an accent that fits the story perfectly. While this is a lengthy book it is never boring The pacing is perfect and the story itself is riviting. Do yourself a favor and get this on audio. You will not be dissappionted
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An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding15 reviews
David Hume
Hackett Pub Co Inc, 1993
As Exciting and Thought-Provoking as Philosophy Gets
Hume, I and many others think, was the greatest philosopher to have written in English, and this is the book to pick up if you want to introduce yourself to Saint David's distinctive brand of classical empiricism. This is a must-read for anyone with even a passing interest in philosophy, and it's hard for me to see how anyone interested in the history of modern thought can avoid reading this ...
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The Complete Essays of Michel de Montaigne18 reviews
Neeland Media LLC, 2004
Essays
Montaigne. He has lessons for us all, I've found.
Some of the lessons are hard. He writes about everything, but most of all, he writes about himself. There is a painful clarity to his work - but that cliche term does nothing to properly explain what it is he accomplishes with his writing.
At thirty-three, Montaigne decided to retire to his home and write. He had vague ideas about writing ...
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