The Hundred Books by Glyn Lloyd-Hughes The stuff you're supposed to have read, all squashed up into neat little afternoon reads. PRINT 488-page paperback ePub for Kobo, most e-readers, iPad, tablets, phones, lap & desktops Kindle for Amazon Kindle readers For Bloosmday 2013 Try the readable version of James Joyce's Ulysses for free

You should listen to this story, for when we get to the end,
we shall know more than we do now.
Hans Christian Andersen

THERE'S a certain set of books which you're just supposed to know about, at least if you live in The West and fancy the idea of being thought 'educated'. The polite world expects its members to have at least a rough working relationship with the Holy Books, and Shakespeare, of course, to be able to spot Brobdingnag on a map, to know that Gaul is divided into three parts, that a line has no width and to be at least on nodding terms with Dr Jekyll, Tiny Tim, Starbuck, Socrates, Mr. Scrooge, Leopold Bloom, Raskolnikov, Einstein and Enkidu.

So here they all are, but squashed up into nice little abridgements you can read in an hour or so. Not summaries or reworkings, but a bloody good attempt at making these Lilliputian versions still read like the originals - keeping the beam of the story, the guts of the style, and definitely all those quotable quotes. The words the author wrote, in the order they wrote them.

And there's something more... with The Hundred Books it becomes possible to read the whole thing as a single narrative, to discover a Pisgah View of the written history of the great grand thing of how We got where We are now, in way that's just impossible for ordinary mortals.

Read the lot, you'll love it, and you'll never, ever, be bored in an airport again.

 

The Hundred Books contains ...

The Epic of Gilgamesh - The Book of The Dead - The Bhagavad-Gita - The Torah - Homer The Odyssey - Aesop Fables - Confucius The Analects - Herodotus of Halicarnassos The Histories - Aristophanes of Athens Lysistrata - Plato of Athens The Republic - Aristotle of Stagira The Ethics - Euclid of Alexandria Elements of Geometry - Epicurus of Samos Sovran Maxims - Marcus Tullius Cicero On Old Age - Julius Caesar Commentaries on the Gallic Wars - Matthew, Mark, Luke, John The Gospels of Jesus Christ - Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Meditations - Saint Augustine of Hippo The Confessions - The Companions of the Prophet The Quran - Béowulf - Omar Khayyám The Rubáiyát - King John et al The Magna Carta - Rustichello of Pisa The Travels of Marco Polo - Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy - Giovanni Boccaccio The Decameron - Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales - Sir Thomas Mallory Le Morte D'Arthur - Leonardo Da Vinci Notebooks - Sir Thomas More Utopia - Niccolò Machiavelli The Prince - Nicolaus Copernicus The Revolutions of the Celestial Orbs - William Shakespeare The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare Hamlet - Miguel De Cervantes Don Quixote - Sir Francis Bacon The Advancement of Learning - William Harvey The Motion of the Heart and Blood - René Descartes Meditations on First Philosophy - Cyrano de Bergerac A Voyage to the Moon - Robert Hooke Micrographia - John Milton Paradise Lost - Samuel Pepys Diary - Isaac Newton Principles of Natural Philosophy - John Bunyan The Pilgrims Progress - Antoine Galland The Arabian Nights - George Berkeley Principles of Human Knowledge - Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe - Jonathan Swift Gulliver's Travels - Henry Fielding History of Tom Jones - David Hume Of Miracles - Laurence Sterne Tristram Shandy - Jean-Jacques Rousseau On The Social Contract - Adam Smith The Wealth of Nations - Capt. James Cook, et al Voyages of Discovery - Immanuel Kant Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals - Robert Burns Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect - Edward Gibbon Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson - Jeremy Bentham Principles of Morals and Legislation - Thomas Paine The Rights of Man - Mary Wollstonecraft A Vindication of the Rights of Women - William Blake Songs of Innocence and Experience - Le Marquis de Sade Philosophy in The Boudoir - Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice - Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - William Wordsworth I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud - John Dalton A New System of Chemical Philosophy - Mary Shelley Frankenstein - Sir Walter Scott Ivanhoe - Thomas de Quincey Confessions of an English Opium-Eater - Carl Von Clausewitz On War - Honoré de Balzac Father Goriot - Charles Dickens The Adventures of Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol - Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales - Karl Marx The Communist Manifesto - Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre - Emily Brontë Wuthering Heights - Herman Melville Moby-Dick - Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin - Henry D. Thoreau Walden - Thomas Hughes Tom Brown's Schooldays - John Stuart Mill On Liberty - Charles Darwin On The Origin of Species - Victor Hugo Les Misérables - Lewis Carroll Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Fyodor Dostoyevsky Crime and Punishment - Jules Verne Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea - Count Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina - Robert Louis Stevenson Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Friedrich Nietzsche Beyond Good and Evil - Arthur Conan Doyle A Study in Scarlet - Thomas Hardy Tess of the d'Urbervilles - Count Leo Tolstoy My Confession - Rudyard Kipling If - Oscar Wilde The Ballad of Reading Gaol - Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness - Kenneth Grahame The Wind in the Willows - Sigmund Freud Psychoanalysis - Robert Falcon Scott Antarctic Journals - Louis Saulnier Le Répertoire de La Cuisine - Franz Kafka Metamorphosis - Albert Einstein Relativity - Wilfred Owen Dulce et Decorum Est - James Joyce Ulysses - F Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby - DH Lawrence Lady Chatterley's Lover - Marcel Proust The Remembrance of Times Past

Publication Date: Jan 31 2012
ISBN/EAN13: 1463516487 / 9781463516482
Page Count: 488
Binding Type: Perfect
Size: Crown Quarto 18.91cm x 24.59cm
Language: English
Color: Black and White
Categories: Literary Collections / General