Saturday, June 18, 2011

Important books written in other languages than English

1) The Maurizius Case – Jakob Wasserman
2) Pelle the Conqueror by Martin Andersen Nexo
3) Les enfants d'Attila - Georges Walter
4) Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht
5) Samlede dikt by Olaf Bull
6) War with the Newts by Karel Capek
7) Alphabet by Inger Christensen
8) Moderato Cantabile by Marguerite Duras
9) The People of Juvik Volume I: The Trough of the Wave by Olav Duun
10) Natten's Brod An-Magritt by Johan Falkberget
11) Fyr og flamme: Av handling by Kjartan Fløgstad
12) The Liar by Martin A. Hansen
13) Selected Poems by Olav H. Hauge
14) The Lost Musicians by William Heinesen
15) Rhinoceros and Other Plays by Eugene Ionesco
16) The King's Mirror (Speculum Regale--Konungs Skuggsja)
17) Rabelais and His World by Mikhail Bakhtin
18) Mythologies by Roland Barthes
19) Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity (Advances in Systems Theory, Complexity, and the Human Sciences) by Gregory Bateson
20) Modernity and the Holocaust by Zygmunt Bauman
21) Illuminations by Walter Benjamin
22) Atomic Theory and the Description of Nature: Four Essays, With an Introductory Survey by Niels Bohr
23) Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste by Pierre Bourdieu
24) The Cruel City - D. V. Grigorovich
25) The Logic of the Cultural Sciences: Five Studies by Ernst Cassirer
26) The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
27) Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
28) The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan
29) A Cultural History of the Modern Age: Volume I: Renaissance and Reformation by Egon Friedell
30) Truth And Method by Hans-Georg Gadamer
31) The Sacred and The Profane: The Nature of Religion by Mircea Eliade
32) Suicide by Emile Durkheim
33) The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought) by Jürgen Habermas
34) Selected Essays: by Ludvig Holberg
35) Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments by Max Horkheimer
36) The Muqaddimah: an Introduction to History by Ibn Khaldun
37) The Essential Alexandra Kollontai by Alexandra Kollontai
38) The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn
39) Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations by Christopher Lasch
40) Humanism of the Other by Emmanuel Levinas
41) Tristes Tropiques by Claude Levi-Strauss
42) Svensk flora =: Flora svecica by Carl von Linne
43) On Aggression (Routledge Classics) by Konrad Lorenz
44) One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society by Herbert Marcuse
45) Phenomenology of Perception (Routledge Classics) by Merleau-Ponty
46) Ecology, Community and Lifestyle by Arne Naess
47) Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by Neil Postman
48) Orientalism by Edward W. Said
49) Humanism - Ferdinand Canning Scott Schiller
50) Berlin Alexanderplatz: the story of Franz Biberkopf By Alfred Döblin51) The Man Without Qualities - Robert Musil
52) Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors by Susan Sontag
53) Heimskringla, or the Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson
54) Sexual Customs in Rural Norway: A Nineteenth-Century Study by Eilert Sundt
55) Vetenskapen och fornuftet: Ett forsok till orientering by G. H. von Wright
56) Om det tragiske by Peter Wessel Zapffe
57) North in the World: Selected Poems of Rolf Jacobsen, A Bilingual Edition By Rolf Jacobsen
58) Moominland Midwinter by Tove Jansson
59) The Fall of The King by Johannes V Jensen
60) The German Lesson by Siegfried Lenz
61) The Unknown Soldier by Vaino Linna
62) Godnatt Jord by Ivar Lo Johansson
63) Aniara: An Epic Science Fiction Poem by Harry Martinson
64) Lasso Round the Moon by Agnar Mykle
65) A Russian Priest- I. N. Potapenko
66) Alberta & Jacob, Alberta & Freedom, Alberta Alone (3 Volume Set) by Cora Sandel
67) A fugitive crosses his tracks by Aksel Sandemose
68) Complete Poems by Edith Sodergran
69) The Christmas Oratorio by Goran Tunstrom
70) Blackwater by Kerstin Ekman
71) The Royal Physician's Visit: A Novel by Per Olov Enquist
72) Shame by Bergljot Hobaek Haff
73) The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel by Haruki Murakami
74) A Season of Migration to the North - Tayeb Salih
75) Confessions of Zeno - Italo Svevo
76) Ramayana - Valmiki
77) Memoirs of Hadrian - Marguerite Yourcenar
75) Shyness and Dignity by Dag Solstad

Several books


  • Recollections of a policeman – Waters
  • Handy-book of literary curiosities By William Shepard
  • Few Thoughts for a Young Man – Horace Mann
  • The autocrat of the breakfast-table – Oliver Wendell Holmes
  • The Nature of Laughter - J. C. Gregory
  • An Essay on Laughter - James Sully
  • The history of drink By James Samuelson
  • The soldier's pocket-book for field service - Viscount Garnet Wolseley
  • Maxims of Le Duc De La Rochefoucauld.
  • The Complete Works of Josh Billings.
  • Confessions of a neurasthenic - William Taylor Marrs
  • Mr. Dooley's opinions By Finley Peter Dunne
  • Dan Leno; a volume of frivolities: autobiographical - Dan Leno
  • The life and writings of Henry Fuseli
  • John Inglesant - Joseph Henry Shorthouse
  • Hasty pudding poems - William Montgomery Clemens
  • Frank Merriwell's chums By Burt L. Standish
  • Fisher's ghost, and other essays - Louis Augustus Triebel
  • The principles of moral and political philosophy By William Paley
  • Phillips Brooks year book: selections from the writings - By Phillips Brooks
  • Essays upon several moral subjects - By Jeremy Collier
  • Essays philosophical and moral, historical and literary - William Belsham
  • On The Sublime – Longinus
  • Apologia Pro Vita Sua - Cardinal John Henry Newman
  • The 100 Most Important People in The World Today - Donald Robinson
  • Eli Perkins—wit, humor and pathos - Melville de Lancey Landon
  • Unhappy Loves of Men of Genius - Thomas Hitchcock
  • Success and its conditions. by Edwin Percy Whipple
  • Thoughts in the Cloister and The Crowd - Sir Arthur Helps
  • Essays and tales in prose. by barry cornwall (bryan waller procter)
  • Brevia: short essays and aphorisms. by Sir Arthur Helps
  • As We Were Saying - Charles Dudley Warner
  • Aphorisms - Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
  • Aphorisms and Reflections - John Lancaster Spalding
  • The confessions of a con man – Will Irwin
  • The Art of War - Antoine Henri Jomini
  • Newer ideals of peace - Jane Addams
  • Peace and bread in time of war - Jane Addams
  • Out of the hurly-burly; or, Life in an odd corner - Charles Heber Clark
  • Elbow-Room: A Novel Without A Plot - Max Adeler
  • Mind-training: a practical system for developing self-confidence, memory, mental concentration and character - Victor Gabriel Rocine
  • Personal efficiency, applied salesmanship, and sales administration - Irving Ross Allen
  • This world of ours - James Herbert Curle
  • The commonplace philosopher in town and country - Andrew Kennedy Hutchinson Boyd
  • The human wireless: a practical guide to telepathy and thought transference - Henry Parr Maskell
  • From Hobo to Hunter: The autobiography of C. T. Stoneham - Charles Thurley Stoneham
  • Eric Gill Autobiography
  • Nellie McClung, the complete autobiography: Clearing in the west and The Stream Runs Fast
  • Autobiography of Henry Taylor
  • The village transformed: aspects of change in New Zealand, 1900-1990 - Montague Harry Holcroft
  • Up and Down the London Streets - Mark Lemon
  • Suggestion and Auto Suggestion - Charles Baudouin
  • Magic, White and Black, or the Science of Finite and Infinite Life, Containing Practical Hints for Students in Occultism - Franz Hartmann
  • Afoot and Afloat in Burma - Alfred Henry Williams
  • Mountaineering Art - Harold Raeburn

GEORGE MATTHEW ADAMS on Mussolini

GEORGE MATTHEW ADAMS writes a lovely essay about the great Italian stateman Mussolini. Even if you oppose Mussolini's views or actions you can't deny that he was a very powerful and intelligent man, and that's an admirable thing indeed.

Click on the image to read the essay comfortably.


Gettysburg Times - Dec 3, 1926

100 HISTORY BOOKS

A nice list of 100 HISTORY BOOKS starting now!

1) The second empire - Philip Guedalla
2) Greece - Lewis Sergeant
3) A history of Greece - John Bagnell Bury (2 vols)
4) The history of Greece - Ernst Curtius (5 vols)
5) The history of Greece - George Finlay (2 vols)
6) The history of Greece - Julia Corner
7) A History of Greece - Connop Thirlwall (8 vols)
8) A history of Greece - George Grote (12 vols)
9) History of Greece – Adolf Holm (4 vols)
10) The history of modern Greece - James Emerson Tennent (2 vols)
11) History of the Greek revolution - John Lee Comstock
12) History of the Greek revolution - Thomas Gordon (2 vols)
13) A short history of Greece - William Spry Robinson
14) The story of the Greeks - Hélène Adeline Guerber
15) History of Greek literature - By Thomas Noon Talfourd
16) Stories of Greek gods - Samuel Bannister Harding
17) Hellas, her monuments and scenery By Thomas Chase
18) The Balkans: a history of Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece, Romania, Turkey - Nevill Forbes
19) The history of the Balkan Peninsula: from the earliest times - Ferdinand Schevill
20) Story of Italy – Guicciardini (10 vols)
21) The history of Italy - George Procter (2 vols)
22) The civil history of the Kingdom of Naples - Pietro Giannone (2 vols)
23) The roman history of Ammianus Marcellinus
24) The history of Rome - Julia Corner
25) The History of Rome – Niebuhr (3 vols)
26) History of Rome – Wilhelm Ihne (5 vols)
27) A short history of Rome - William Spry Robinson
28) The story of the Romans - Hélène Adeline Guerber
29) The Holy Roman empire - James Bryce
30) History of Rome, and of the Roman people - Victor Duruy (8 vols)
31) History of Egypt (6 vols)
1. Dynasties (Vols I – III) - Flinders Petrie
2. Ptolemaic Egypt/ Ptolemaic Dynasty (Vol IV) – Mahaffy
3. Roman Egypt/ Roman Rule (Vol V) – Milne
4. Arabic Egypt/ Middle Ages (Vol VI) - Lane-Poole
32) History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria - Gaston Maspero (9 vols)
33) Egypt, Burma and British Malaysia – William Eleroy Curtis
34) Egypt and western Asia in antiquity - Ferdinand Justi
35) Egypt as it is - James Carlile McCoan
36) A popular account of the ancient Egyptians By John Gardner Wilkinson
37) The ancient Egyptians - Sir Grafton Elliot Smith
38) Story of Persia – Samuel Greene Wheeler Benjamin
39) Eastern Persia - Frederic John Goldsmid
40) Ancient history: History of the Persians By Charles Rollin
41) Ancient history – Charles Rollin (8 vols)
42) A thousand years of the Tartars – Edward Harper Parker
43) world of the Scythians – Renate Rolle
44) Dark Ages – Charles Oman
45) Dark Ages – William Paton Kerr
46) The Hittites: the story of a forgotten empire - Archibald Henry Sayce
47) The ancient empires of the East - Archibald Henry Sayce (2 versions)
48) Babylonians and Assyrians: life and customs - Archibald Henry Sayce
49) Universal History – Gustaf Clemens Hebbe
50) Gleanings from Venetian history By Francis Marion Crawford
51) The chronicle ... concerning the conquest of Constantinople - By Geoffroy de Villehardouin
52) Ancient history: from the remotest times to the overthrow of the Western - Leonhard Schmitz
53) Lectures on Ancient history – Niebuhr
54) Student's Ancient history – Philip Smith
55) Ancient history: exhibiting a summary view of the rise, progress ... By John Robinson
56) Ancient India – Charlotte Speir
57) History of India - Romesh Chunder Dutt, Vincent Arthur Smith
58) The ancient history of the Near East, from the earliest times to the Battle ... By Harry Reginald Hall
59) The world of the Huns: studies in their history and culture By Otto Maenchen-Helfen
60) The Hungarians - Forster Bovill
61) Ancient civilizations By George Shelley Hughs
62) Ancient history of Egypt, Assyria and Babylonia - Elizabeth Missing Sewell
63) Prehistoric times: as illustrated by ancient remains and the manners and ... By Sir John Lubbock
64) The ruling races of prehistoric times in India, southwestern Asia - James Francis Katherinus Hewitt
65) Social history of the races of mankind - Americus Featherman
66) Great races of mankind: an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate - John Clark Ridpath
67) Essentials in ancient history: (from the earliest records to Charlemagne) By Arthur Mayer Wolfson
68) The races of mankind By Robert Brown
69) The living races of mankind - Henry Neville Hutchinson
70) A short history of the Crusades - Jacob Isidor Mombert
71) A dissertation on the origin and progress of the Scythians or Goths - By John Pinkerton
72) The history of the crusades - Joseph Fr. Michaud
73) History of our time, 1885-1911 By George Peabody Gooch
74) Outlines of the world's history By Edgar Sanderson
75) The Dawn of History - J L Myres
76) Ancient history By Philip Van Ness Myers
77) The Schleswig-Holstein war By Edward James S. Dicey
78) The story of the great war By Roland Greene Usher
79) A brief history of the great war By Carlton Joseph Huntley Hayes
80) The native races of South Africa - George William Stow
81) The story of South Africa By John Clark Ridpath
82) The war in South Africa: its causes and effects By John Atkinson Hobson
83) Impressions of South Africa - James Bryce
84) First Footsteps In East Africa by Richard F. Burton
85) Sir Archibald Hurd - The Sea Traders
86) The French encounter with Africans - William B. Cohen
87) A political chronology of the Middle East - David Lea
88) Outlines of the world's history: ancient, mediæval, and modern By William Swinton
89) An introduction to the study of the Middle Ages (375-814) By Ephraim Emerton
90) The Alps in nature and history - William Augustus Brevoort Coolidge
91) Denmark and Iceland - Elise C. Otté
92) Austria-Hungary By David Kay
93) Japan - Samuel Mossman
94) Peru - Clements R. Markham
95) Sweden and Norway By Francis Henry Woods
96) The West Indies By Charles Henry Eden
97) Spain - Wentworth Webster
98) Studies in the palaeopathology of Egypt - Sir Marc Armand Ruffer
99) The amazing Argentine: a new land of enterprise - John Foster Fraser
100) Germany - Sabine Baring-Gould
101) New Zealand as it is - John Bradshaw
102) Native life in East Africa - Karl Weule
103) Travels through Turkey in Asia - By Charles Thompson
104) Turkey - Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy
105) The Turks in Europe: a sketch-study - William Edward David Allen
106) The awakening of Turkey - Edward Frederick Knight
107) Madagascar in war time - Edward Frederick Knight
108) History of the war in Afghanistan - John William Kaye
109) The story of the middle ages - Samuel Bannister Harding
110) The Armies of to-day - Wesley Merritt
111) A history of sea power By William Oliver Stevens
112) The influence of sea power upon history - Alfred Thayer Mahan
113) The war in Europe: its causes and results By Albert Bushnell Hart
114) Cuba in war time By Richard Harding Davis
115) History of the Irish state to 1014 - Alice Stopford Green
116) The War: from the Landing at Gallipoli - W. H. Russell
117) Memorable events of modern history - John George Edgar
118) History of Modern Europe Epitomised - William Russell
119) History of the Conquest of Peru - Prescott
120) Belgium and Holland - Karl Baedeker
121) Holland - Edmondo De Amicis (2 vols)
122) The Sacred Theory of The Earth - Thomas Burnet (2 vols)
123) The world in the middle ages - Adolph Ludvig Køppen (2 vols)
124) The rise and fall of nations - Josephus Nelson Larned (2 vols)
125) A history of all nations - Samuel Griswold Goodrich (2 vols)
126) The history of France: from the final partition of the empire - Edward Smedley (3 vols)
127) The nineteenth century and after - Edwin Emerson (3 vols)
128) A Short History of the English people - John Richard Green (4 vols)
129) The world's history, a survey of man's record - Hans Helmolt (8 vols)
130) A history of the Romans under the Empire - Charles Merivale (8 vols)
131) The universal history of the world - Sir John Alexander Hammerton (8 vols)
132) History of Europe - Archibald Alison (9 vols)
133) The Unrivaled History of the World: Ancient oriental nations By Israel Smith Clare (9 vols)
134) The World's great events - Esther Singleton (10 vols)
135) The world's history and its makers - Edgar Sanderson, John Porter Lamberton (10 vols)
136) Six thousand years of history - Edgar Sanderson, John Porter Lamberton (10 vols)
137) The Great events by famous historians - Rossiter Johnson (20 vols)
138) A history of all nations - John Henry Wright (24 vols)
139) Universal History, Ancient and Modern: From the Earliest Records of Time - William Fordyce Mavor (25 vols)
140) The historians' history of the world - Henry Smith Williams (25 vols)
141) The history of nations - Henry Cabot Lodge (26 vols)
142) The world's great masterpieces - Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Richard Stockton (29 vols)
143) Khoisan people of South Africa – Isaac Schapera
144) Egypt, Greece, and Rome By Celia Richmond
145) World history, 1815-1920 - Eduard Fueter
146) History of world civilization from prehistoric times to the ... - Hermann Schneider
147) A short history of civilization - Lynn Thorndike
148) A short history of civilization - Henry Stephen Lucas
149) A History of Europe – H. A. L Fisher
150) Western civilizations: their history and their culture - Edward McNall Burns