Jean Paul Marat: Tribune of the French Revolution (Revolutionary Lives)
By: Clifford D. Conner
4.22
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Jean-Paul Marat’s role in the French Revolution has long been a matter of controversy among histori…
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1. A Passage to India
By: E.M. Forster , Pankaj Mishra , Oliver Stallybrass
3.68
Format: 376 pages, Paperback
When Adela Quested and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandrapore, th… read more
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"Adventures do occur, but not punctually."-E.M. Forster, A Passage to India
"There are different ways of evil and I prefer mine to yours."-E.M. Forster, A Passage to India
"A friendliness, as of dwarfs shaking hands, was in the air..."-E.M. Forster, A Passage to India
"I think everyone fails, but there are so many kinds of failure."-E.M. Forster, A Passage to India
2. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
By: Hannah Arendt
4.20
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
Originally appearing as a series of articles in The New Yorker, Hannah Arendt’s authoritative and s… read more
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"Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it—the quality of temptation."-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
"During the war, the lie most effective with the whole of the German people was the slogan of “the battle of destiny for the German people"-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
"In the Third Reich evil lost its distinctive characteristic by which most people had until then recognized it. The Nazis redefined it as a civil norm."-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
"It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent."-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
3. The Lady or the Tiger? And, the Discourager of Hesitancy
By: Frank R. Stockton
3.94
Format: 36 pages, Paperback
Story summary: In ancient times, a king devised a system of justice where guilt or innocence was de… read more
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4. The Three Musketeers
By: Alexandre Dumas , Richard Pevear , John Lee
4.09
Format: 625 pages, Paperback
First published in 1844, The Three Musketeers is the most famous of Alexandre Dumas' historical nov… read more
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"All for one and one for all."-Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers
"Love is the most selfish of all the passions."-Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers
"The merit of all things lies in their difficulty."-Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers
"I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death."-Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers
5. SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
By: Mary Beard
3.59
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
New York TimesBestseller * National Book Critics Circle Finalist * Wall Street JournalBest Books of… read more
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6. God and the State
By: Paul Avrich , Mikhail Bakunin
4.23
Format: None pages, Paperback
Among the 19th-century founders of modern philosophical anarchism, none is more important than Mich… read more
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7. Robespierre: A Revolutionary Life
By: Peter McPhee
4.11
Format: 188 pages, Hardcover
For some historians and biographers, Maximilien Robespierre (1758-94) was a great revolutionary mar… read more
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8. At the Mountains of Madness
By: H.P. Lovecraft , China Miéville , S.T. Joshi
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Long acknowledged as a master of nightmarish vision, H.P. Lovecraft established the genuineness and… read more
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9. Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
By: Daron Acemoğlu , James A. Robinson
4.08
Format: 529 pages, Hardcover
Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the expert… read more
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"Central planning was just not good at replacing what the great eighteenth-century economist Adam Smith called the “invisible hand"-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
"As mudanças graduais também impediram aventuras em territórios inexplorados. O derrube violento do sistema significa que é necessário construir algo inteiramente novo, em vez daquilo que foi eliminad…"-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
"Sem o petróleo, os países do Médio Oriente são também todos pobres. (…) Foi a expansão e consolidação do Império Otomano, e é devido ao legado institucional desse império que o Médio Oriente continua…"-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
"A América do Norte tornou-se mais próspera precisamente porque adotou com entusiasmo as tecnologias e os progressos da Revolução Industrial. (…) A desigualdade no mundo atual é, em grande medida, uma…"-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
10. The Complete Fairy Tales
By: Oscar Wilde
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde includes the two definitive story collections The Happy Pri… read more
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11. A Place of Greater Safety
By: Hilary Mantel
4.80
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
It is 1789, and three young provincials have come to Paris to make their way. Georges-Jacques Danto… read more
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12. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
By: Susanna Clarke
1.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Sophisticated, witty, and ingeniously convincing, Susanna Clarke's magisterial novel weaves magic i… read more
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13. Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
By: James C. Scott
4.20
Format: 461 pages, Paperback
Compulsory ujamaa villages in Tanzania, collectivization in Russia, Le Corbusier’s urban planning t… read more
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"An urban space where the police are the sole agents of order is a very dangerous place."-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
"Just as the general design of the city militates against an autonomous public life, so the design of the residential city militates against individuality."-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
"The authorized histories of revolutions, as Milovan Djilas points out, “describe the revolution as if it were the fruit of the previously planned action of its leaders."-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
"After seizing state power, the victors have a powerful interest in moving the revolution out of the streets and into the museums and schoolbooks as quick as possible, lest the people decide to repeat…"-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
14. Twelve Who Ruled: The Year of the Terror in the French Revolution
By: Isser Woloch , R.R. Palmer
4.21
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Reign of Terror continues to fascinate scholars as one of the bloodiest periods in French histo… read more
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15. Homage to Catalonia
By: George Orwell , Lionel Trilling
4.00
Format: 592 pages, Paperback
In 1936 Orwell went to Spain to report on the Civil War and instead joined the fight against the Fa… read more
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16. Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution
By: Ruth Scurr
3.67
Format: 542 pages, Paperback
Since his execution by guillotine in July 1794, Maximilien Robespierre has been contested terrain f… read more
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17. Liberty or Death: The French Revolution
By: Peter McPhee
4.43
Format: 269 pages, Hardcover
The French Revolution has fascinated, perplexed, and inspired for more than two centuries. It was a… read more
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18. War and Peace
By: Leo Tolstoy , Louise Maude , Aylmer Maude , Henry Gifford
4.16
Format: 1392 pages, Paperback
In Russia's struggle with Napoleon, Tolstoy saw a tragedy that involved all mankind. War and Pe… read more
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"God is the same everywhere."-Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
"Kings are the slaves of history."-Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
"Everything depends on upbringing. "-Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
"We are asleep until we fall in Love!"-Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
19. The Inugami Curse (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #2)
By: Seishi Yokomizo
3.87
Format: 321 pages, Kindle Edition
A fiendish classic murder mystery, from one of Japan’s greatest crime writers. In 1940s Japan, t… read more
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"Detective you have to arrest her. You have to arrest her and put her to death. Not just the regular death penalty - that's not good enough for her. I want her to hang by her heels, rip her to shreds,…"-Seishi Yokomizo, The Inugami Curse (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #2)
20. Jean Paul Marat: Tribune of the French Revolution (Revolutionary Lives)
By: Clifford D. Conner
4.22
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Jean-Paul Marat’s role in the French Revolution has long been a matter of controversy among histori… read more
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21. La terreur. Vérités et légendes (French Edition)
By: Jean-Clément Martin
4.25
Format: 187 pages, Kindle Edition
Cet ouvrage éclaire d'un jour nouveau la Terreur, et au-delà, la Révolution française, période-clef… read more
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22. Robespierre : la fabrication d'un monstre
By: Jean-Clément Martin
4.10
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
Comment fabrique-t-on un monstre, un nouveau portrait de "l'Incorruptible" Le parti pris de cette … read more
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23. The Glory and the Sorrow: A Parisian and His World in the Age of the French Revolution
By: Timothy Tackett
4.18
Format: 230 pages, Hardcover
An intimate history of an ordinary Parisian citizen and his neighbors that reflects on the origins … read more
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