Journeys of the Mind: A Life in History
By: Peter Brown
4.62
Format: 736 pages, Hardcover
A beautifully told personal account of the discovery of Late Antiquity by one of the world's most i…
Want to Read $ 31.99"So I had to explain myself by becoming a historian of myself"-Peter Brown, Journeys of the Mind: A Life in History
"So I had to explain myself by becoming a historian of myself"-Peter Brown, Journeys of the Mind: A Life in History
"Lack of instruction is not necessarily the way to true originality. A graduate training often gives the students an ability to stand on their own feet that they would not have enjoyed if they had been left entirely to themselves."-Peter Brown, Journeys of the Mind: A Life in History
"Lack of instruction is not necessarily the way to true originality. A graduate training often gives the students an ability to stand on their own feet that they would not have enjoyed if they had been left entirely to themselves."-Peter Brown, Journeys of the Mind: A Life in History
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1. Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe
By: François-René de Chateaubriand
3.96
Format: 1504 pages, Paperback
The only available edition in English of the greatest of all French autobiographies By the time … read more
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- history
- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- nonfiction
"It is a long way from these strict parents to the child-spoilers of today."-François-René de Chateaubriand, Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe
"Purgatory surpasses heaven and hell in poetry, because it represents a future and the others do not."-François-René de Chateaubriand, Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe
"There are only two true things: intelligent religion and youthful love, which is to say the future and the present. The rest is not worth the trouble"-François-René de Chateaubriand, Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe
"Life is spent hovering round our tomb. Our various sicknesses are but the winds which carry us more or less near to the haven. … Death is our friend, nevertheless we do not recognise it as such, beca…"-François-René de Chateaubriand, Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe
2. The World of Late Antiquity
By: None , Peter Brown
4.09
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
This remarkable study in social and cultural change explains how and why the Late Antique world, be… read more
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- ancient history
- nonfiction
- history
- european history
3. The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #1)
By: Robert A. Caro
4.36
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
This is the story of the rise to national power of a desperately poor young man from the Texas Hill… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
- biography memoir
4. The Consolation of Philosophy
By: Boethius , None
4.27
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
Boethius was an eminent public figure under the Gothic emperor Theodoric, and an exceptional Greek … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
5. The Man in the Wooden Hat (Old Filth, #2)
By: Jane Gardam
4.10
Format: 233 pages, Paperback
The New York Times called Sir Edward Feathers one of the most memorable characters in modern litera… read more
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6. Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome & the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD
By: None
3.72
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Jesus asserted it's easier for a camel to go thru the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter … read more
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7. The Rise of Western Christendom: Triumph & Diversity 200–1000
By: None
3.80
Format: 275 pages, Paperback
This book offers a vivid, compelling history of the first thousand years of Christianity. For the s… read more
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8. Nora Webster
By: Colm Tóibín
3.63
Format: 56 pages, Hardcover
From one of contemporary literature's most acclaimed and beloved authors comes this magnificent new… read more
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9. Middlemarch
By: Michel Faber , George Eliot
4.02
Format: 912 pages, Mass Market Paperback
"People are almost always better than their neighbours think they are" George Eliot’s most ambit… read more
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"After all, the true seeing is within."-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
"I protest against any absolute conclusion."-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
"I shall do everything it becomes me to do."-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
"What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?"-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
10. Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
By: Katherine Rundell
4.18
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From standout scholar Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite presents a sparkling and very modern biogra… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
- biography memoir
"To adore and to devour and to be devoured is its own kind of focus: a gasp of a different kind of oxygen."-Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
11. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
By: Hampton Sides
4.51
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage … read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
- biography memoir
12. Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
By: Evelyn Waugh
4.00
Format: 452 pages, Paperback
An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found here. The most nostalgic and reflective of Evely… read more
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"Here my last love had died."-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
"No one is ever holy without suffering."-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
"I had been there before; I knew all about it."-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
"So through a world of piety I made my way to Sebastian."-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
13. Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World
By: Mary Beard
4.11
Format: 493 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping account of the social and political world of the Roman emperors by “the world’s most fam… read more
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- ancient history
- nonfiction
- history
14. Winters in the World: A Journey through the Anglo-Saxon Year
By: Eleanor Parker
4.17
Format: 268 pages, Hardcover
Interweaving literature, history, and religion, an exquisite meditation on the turning of the seaso… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"A man cannot grow wise before he has had his share of winters in the world."-Eleanor Parker, Winters in the World: A Journey through the Anglo-Saxon Year
"Whatever one thing we give to God's needy for the sake of his love, he will repay us for it a hundredfold in the life to come."-Eleanor Parker, Winters in the World: A Journey through the Anglo-Saxon Year
"In a time of ecological crisis, Anglo-Saxon poems which recognize how fundamentally we are connected to the rhythms of nature - how dependent we are on the well-being of the earth, how grateful we sh…"-Eleanor Parker, Winters in the World: A Journey through the Anglo-Saxon Year
"The cycle of the seasons, to which poets have so often turned as a reminder that nothing in this world is stable, is in fact one of the great constants in life. In some ways, the thousand years or mo…"-Eleanor Parker, Winters in the World: A Journey through the Anglo-Saxon Year
15. The Wolves of Eternity (Morgenstjernen, #2)
By: Karl Ove Knausgård
4.03
Format: 800 pages, Hardcover
From the internationally bestselling author Karl Ove Knausgaard, a sprawling and deeply human novel… read more
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16. Reading Genesis
By: Marilynne Robinson
4.10
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
One of our greatest novelists and thinkers presents a radiant, thrilling interpretation of the book… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
17. Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury
By: Drew Gilpin Faust
3.99
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A memoir of coming of age in a conservative Southern family in postwar America. To grow up in th… read more
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- history
- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
"I knew I had had no choice. I had had to fight with my mother in order to survive."-Drew Gilpin Faust, Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury
"In an increasingly serious world, these young women had never been asked or expected to be serious. (p. 13)"-Drew Gilpin Faust, Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury
"There is a clarity about how children see the world that the complexities of adult life often muddy. And there is a fervor children feel when they believe adults have misled them or disguised or hidd…"-Drew Gilpin Faust, Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury
18. A Ghost in the Throat
By: Doireann Ní Ghríofa
4.04
Format: 326 pages, Paperback
A true original. In this stunningly unusual prose debut, Doireann Ni Ghriofa sculpts essay and auto… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"Swift, the twist from ordinary to catastrophe."-Doireann Ní Ghríofa, A Ghost in the Throat
"Instead, I'll think of new words, and then I'll follow them."-Doireann Ní Ghríofa, A Ghost in the Throat
"We cannot know from whose mouths the echoes of our lives will chime."-Doireann Ní Ghríofa, A Ghost in the Throat
"We cannot permit reason to intrude upon this moment. Do not deny us this."-Doireann Ní Ghríofa, A Ghost in the Throat
19. The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England, 1603-1689
By: Jonathan Healey
4.20
Format: 492 pages, Hardcover
A fresh, exciting, “readable and informative ” history ( The New York Times ) of seventeenth-centur… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- european history
20. Journeys of the Mind: A Life in History
By: Peter Brown
4.62
Format: 736 pages, Hardcover
A beautifully told personal account of the discovery of Late Antiquity by one of the world's most i… read more
Want to Read $ 31.99Similar categories in Peter Brown's Journeys of the Mind: A Life in History book and Peter Brown's Journeys of the Mind: A Life in History
- history
- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- ancient history
- nonfiction
- european history
"So I had to explain myself by becoming a historian of myself"-Peter Brown, Journeys of the Mind: A Life in History
"Lack of instruction is not necessarily the way to true originality. A graduate training often gives the students an ability to stand on their own feet that they would not have enjoyed if they had bee…"-Peter Brown, Journeys of the Mind: A Life in History
21. The Message
By: Ta-Nehisi Coates
4.58
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set off to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell’s cla… read more
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- history
- memoir
"My sense is that if I spend more time talking to you than I spend complaining about you, then something wonderful often happens and the enlightenment is mutual. So I don't really worry about the youn…"-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message
