Centuries. Reading Lists. Great books. 100 best first lines from novels. Following is a list of the 100 best first lines from novels, as decided by the American Book Review, a nonprofit journal published at the Unit for Contemporary Literature at Illinois State University: 1. Call me Ishmael. - Herman Melville, Moby-Dick (1851) 2. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. - Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (1813) 3.
A screaming comes across the sky. - Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow (1973) 4. 5. 6. 7. riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs. - James Joyce, Finnegans Wake (1939) 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 124 was spiteful. - Toni Morrison, Beloved (1987) 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. 58. 59. 60. 61. 62. 63. 64. 65. 66. 67. 68. 69. 70. 71.
Barnes & Noble books to buy. Books that will induce a mindfuck. Here is the list of books that will officially induce mindfucks, sorted alphabetically by author. Those authors in bold have been recommended by one or more people as being generally mindfucking - any books listed under their names are particularly odd. You're welcome to /msg me to make an addition to this list. And finally, although he's way down at the bottom, my personal recommendation is definitely Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States, as it turns the ultimate mindfuck: inverting the world-view of our entire culture, and it is non-fiction.
Www.ebooklobby.com. Thomas Jefferson's Reading Lists. Think Like a Founding Father Home · Psychology and Religion · Society · [Jefferson's Reading Lists] 1. Ancient History 2. Philosophy 3. Literature 4. 5. 6. 7. . - c. 450 BC, 'Father of History' - wealth of information about the ancient world - c. 395 BC - Athens vs. . - c. 400 BC, philosopher, student of Socrates, general - incredible saga of a Greek army lost in the Persian Empire - Greek history 411-362 BC – c. 150 BC – rise of the Roman Republic - c. 50 BC - Caesar describes Gaul and its conquest . - wars of 49–45 BC , ending with Julius as first Roman Emperor - Roman war in North Africa - political intrigues of the Roman, Catiline – c. 1 AD; Roman historian - Roman Historian, c. 50 AD – c. 80 AD, Jewish general and historian - Jewish revolt against Rome - history of the Jewish people - c. 100 AD; Greek philosopher, Delphic priest, biographer, prolific writer – lives of eminent Greek and Romans , paired side by side Theseus/Romulus, Lycurgus/Numa, Solon/Publicola Pericles/Fabius Maximus, Nicias/Crassus Letters.
List of books banned by governments. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In many territories, distribution, promotion, or certain translations of the Bible have historically been prohibited or impeded. See Censorship of the Bible.[1] Many countries throughout the world have their own methods of restricting access to books, although the prohibitions vary strikingly from one country to another. [citation needed] Despite the opposition from the American Library Association (ALA), books continue to be banned by school and public libraries across the United States.
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