18 books like Caitaani mũtharaba-inĩ

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Братья Карамазовы Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 1880 · ★ 4.4 · 680p · ≈ 22h · Demanding The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky’s crowning achievement, is a tale of patricide and family rivalry that embodies the moral and spiritual dissolution of an entire society (Russia in the 1870s). It created a national furor comparable only to the excitement stirred by the publication, in 1866, of Crime and Punishment. To Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov captured the quintessence of Russian… Shares Fiction Classics, Literary, Classics

Butcher's Crossing John Williams · 1960 · ★ 4.2 · 265p · ≈ 8h · Moderate In the 1870s, Will Andrews, fired up by Emerson to seek "an original relation to nature," drops out of Harvard and heads west. He washes up in Butcher's Crossing, a small Kansas town full of restless men looking for ways to make money and ways to waste it. One of these men regales Will with tales of the immense buffalo herds hidden away in the Colorado Rockies and convinces him to join an… Shares Literary, Classics

To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee · 1960 · ★ 4.5 · 309p · ≈ 10h · Moderate One of the best-loved stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than 40 languages, sold more than 30 million copies worldwide, served as the basis for an enormously popular motion picture, and voted one of the best novels of the 20th century by librarians across the United States. A gripping, heart-wrenching, and wholly remarkable tale of coming-of-age in a South… Shares Fiction Classics, Classics

Coniston Winston Churchill · 1906 · ★ 3.6 · 566p · ≈ 18h · Moderate This book is about a love-story of long ago, of a time some little while after General Jackson had got into the White House and had shown the world what a real democracy was. The Era of the first six presidents had closed, and a new Era had begun. I am speaking of political Eras. Certain gentlemen, with a pious belief in democracy, but with a firmer determination to get on top, arose,—and got on… Shares Politics and government

The bravo James Fenimore Cooper · 1831 · ★ 3.0 · 218p · ≈ 7h · Challenging Originally published in 1831, this novel is set in Venice in the bygone days of the Doges. It was inspired by Cooper's travels in Italy. The author has intended to give his countrymen, writes Cooper in his preface, "a picture of the social system of the soi-disant republics of the other hemisphere." Cooper aims to show, William Cullen Bryant said, that all systems which reserve power for the… Shares Politics and government

Novels (A Tale of Two Cities / Great Expectations) Charles Dickens · 1989 · 835p · ≈ 27h · Challenging Tale of Two Cities After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the ageing Doctor Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There the lives of the two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette. From the tranquil… Shares Fiction Classics, Classics

A continuation of the exercises, in Scurrility Hall

A continuation of the exercises, in Scurrility Hall Isaac Hunt · 1765 Shares Politics and government with this book.

The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway · 1926 · ★ 4.1 · 259p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Hemingway's profile of the Lost Generation captures life among the expatriates on Paris' Left Bank during the 1920s, the brutality of bullfighting in Spain, and the moral and spiritual dissolution of a generation. Shares Literary, Classics

The Portable James Joyce James Joyce · 1947 · 535p · ≈ 17h · Moderate Shares Fiction Classics, Classics with this book. Shares Fiction Classics, Classics

Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge Calvin Coolidge · 1929 · 262p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Today Americans of all backgrounds are on the hunt for a different politi­cal model. In fact, such a model awaits them, if only they turn their eyes to their own past . . . to America's thirtieth president, Calvin Coolidge. Coolidge's masterful autobiography offers urgent lessons for our age of exploding debt, increasingly centralized power, and fierce partisan division. This expanded and… Shares Politics and government

Pembroke Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman · 1894 · 330p · ≈ 11h · Challenging "Pembroke begins with a heated political argument between Barney Thayer and Cephas Barnard, the father of Barney's betrothed, Charlotte Barnard. The angry Cephas throws his prospective son-in-law out of the house and, because of his immense pride, Barney refuses to apologize, even though it means he cannot marry Charlotte. The Thayers and Barnards become locked in a clash of wills, and the broken… Shares Literary, Classics

Feeling is the Secret Neville Goddard · 2004 · ★ 4.4 · 44p · ≈ 1h · Light Your thoughts shape your life, create your reality, and ultimately limit or expand your true potential. This book describes how our thoughts and feelings affect who we become and what we achieve. When we have the power to change them, we gain the power to change our circumstances, our health, and our life's purpose. "The world, and all within it, is man's conditioned consciousness objectified.… Shares Classics

Bitter lemons Lawrence Durrell · 1957 · 271p · ≈ 9h · Moderate With the publication of Justine Lawrence Durrell became, almost overnight, one of the most talked about, widely acclaimed novelists of the decade. Now, in Bitter Lemons, his focus has shifted from the world of his imagination to life itself. Writing in the exquisite poetic prose that critics have hailed as unequalled in contemporary literature, he tells the perceptive, often humorous story of his… Shares Politics and government

The day boy and the night girl George MacDonald · 1904 · ★ 4.2 · 40p · ≈ 1h · Moderate A curse from a witch decrees that a boy will never wake at night nor sleep during the day; while a girl is doomed never to sleep at night nor wake during the day, until a twist of fate brings them together. Shares Classics

Magpie Murders

Magpie Murders Anthony Horowitz · 2016 · ★ 4.0 · 496p · ≈ 16h · Moderate From the New York Times bestselling author of Moriarty and Trigger Mortis, this fiendishly brilliant, riveting thriller weaves a classic whodunit worthy of Agatha Christie into a chilling, ingeniously original modern-day mystery. When editor Susan Ryeland is given the manuscript of Alan Conway's latest novel, she has no reason to think it will be much different from any of his others. After… Shares Literary

Anatomy of a Robot Despina Kakoudaki · 2014 · 272p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Shares Literary with this book.

Memoirs of an egoist Stendhal · 1927 · ★ 4.0 · 143p · ≈ 4h · Moderate Written in 1832, three years before The Life of Henry Brulard (which recounts the author?s boyhood and youth), Memoirs of Egotism forms the essential middle section of Stendhal?s intended autobiography. Along with Journals of Italy, these volumes comprise what Andr Gide has called one of the truly great autobiographies in any language. Unpublished until fifty years after the Stendhal?s death,… Shares Literary, Classics

Green Hills of Africa Ernest Hemingway · 1709 · ★ 3.5 · 294p · ≈ 9h · Challenging A 1930s African jungle safari as recorded in the journal of Ernest Hemingway describes the glory of the landscape while bringing to life the story of a land under threat of human incursion. Shares Kenya

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