The Twenty Science Fiction Novels that Will Change Your Life. The City & The City: Amazon.co.uk: China Mieville. Shadow and Claw: The First Half of the Book of the New Sun: Amazon.co.uk: Gene Wolfe. The Sot-Weed Factor. A satirical epic set in the 1680s–90s in London and colonial Maryland, the novel tells of a fictionalized Ebenezer Cooke, who is given the title "Poet Laureate of Maryland" by Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore and commissioned to write a Marylandiad to sing the praises of the colony.
He undergoes adventures on his journey to and within Maryland while striving to preserve his virginity. The complicated Tom Jones-like plot is interwoven with numerous digressions and stories-within-stories, and is written in a style patterned on the writing of 18th-century novelists such as Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne and Tobias Smollett. Plot[edit] Writing process[edit] The The Sot-Weed Factor was initially intended, with Barth's first two, as the concluding novel on a trilogy on nihilism, but the project took a different direction as a consequence of Barth's maturation as a writer.[1] The Sot–Weed Factor began with the title and, of course, Ebenezer Cooke's original poem. . . .
A Humument: A Treated Victorian Novel: Amazon.co.uk: Tom Phillips. The Interpretation of Cultures Basic Books Classics: Amazon.co.uk: Clifford Geertz. The Concept of Mind (Penguin Modern Classics): Amazon.co.uk: Gilbert Ryle, Daniel Dennett. Jonathan Meades. Jonathan Turner Meades (born 21 January 1947) is a British writer on food, architecture, and culture, as well as an author and broadcaster.
He is an Honorary Associate of the National Secular Society[1] and a Distinguished Supporter of the British Humanist Association.[2] Education[edit] Meades was born in Salisbury, Wiltshire, and educated at King's College, an independent school in the market town of Taunton in Somerset. He studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in 1968.[3] Food writing[edit] Meades wrote reviews and articles for The Times for many years, and was specifically the restaurant critic of The Times newspaper between 1986 and 2001.[4] He was voted Best Food Journalist in the 1999 Glenfiddich Awards.[5] Having given up food writing in 2001 after being the Times restaurant critic for fifteen years, Meades estimated, in an interview with Restaurant magazine, that he had put on 5 lb a year during his reviewing period, which works out around an ounce per restaurant.
Against Nature (Penguin Classics): Amazon.co.uk: Joris-Karl Huysmans, Patrick McGuinness. The Gospel According To Jesus Christ (Panther): Amazon.co.uk: Jose Saramago. The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge Penguin Social Sciences: Amazon.co.uk: Thomas Luckmann, Peter L. Berger. La Bête humaine. La Bête Humaine is an 1890 novel by Émile Zola.
The story has been adapted for the cinema on several occasions. It is based upon the railway between Paris and Le Havre in the 19th century and is a tense, psychological thriller. Ideas: A History: Amazon.co.uk: Peter Watson. Theodore Zeldin. Theodore Zeldin (born 22 August 1933) is an Oxford scholar and thinker whose books have searched for answers to three questions.[1] Where can a person look to find more inspiring ways of spending each day and each year?
What ambitions remain unexplored, beyond happiness, prosperity, faith, love, technology or therapy? What role could there be for individuals with independent minds, or who feel isolated or different, or misfits? [2] Each of Zeldin’s books illuminates from a different angle what people can do today that they could not in previous centuries.[3] A History of French Passions[edit] Secondly, Zeldin treats each human activity as deserving of equal attention and having a more or less independent vitality.
Lud-in-the-Mist. The Master and Margarita. The Master and Margarita (Russian: «Ма́стер и Маргари́та») is a novel by Mikhail Bulgakov, written between 1928 and 1940 but unpublished in book form until 1967.
It is woven around a visit by the Devil to the fervently atheistic Soviet Union. Riddley Walker. Hoban began writing the novel in 1974, inspired by the medieval wall painting of the legend of Saint Eustace at Canterbury Cathedral.
It is Hoban's best-known adult novel and a drastic departure from his other work, although he continued to explore some of the same themes in other settings. Plot summary[edit] Riddley Walker is set about two thousand years after a nuclear war has devastated world civilizations. Lanark: A Life in Four Books. Its publication in 1981 prompted Anthony Burgess to call Gray "the best Scottish novelist since Walter Scott".[1] Lanark won the inaugural Saltire Society Book of the Year award in 1982, and was also named Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year.[2] The book, still his best known, has since become a cult classic.
In 2008, The Guardian heralded Lanark as "one of the landmarks of 20th-century fiction.