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Ideal Commonwealths
Ideal Commonwealths – Henry Morley In “Ideal Commonwealths” Professor Henry Morley offers a selection of the most known writings on this topic, as well as his own reflections. Included are Plutarch’s Lycurgus, More’s Utopia, Bacon’s New Atlantis, Campanella’s City of the sun and a fragment of Hall’s Mundus alter et ide. Format: Paperback Ideal Commonwealths. […]
Twilight
Twilight – Julia Frankau Not perhaps since Henry James gave us the inimitable „Daisy Miller“ has modern fiction presented the character of a woman so sensitive, so innately innocent in her faults and weaknesses, so inevitably tragic in her fate, as the heroine of this book, Margaret Capel. The story develops in this fashion: A […]
The New Atlantis
The New Atlantis – Sir Francis Bacon The ‚New Atlantis‘, first published in 1627, but probably written between 1622 and 1624, is a fragmentary sketch of an ideal commonwealth, and in particular of an ideal „palace of invention“ called „Solomon’s House,“—a great establishment of scientific research such as Bacon longed to see founded. The book, […]
Essays
Essays – Sir Francis Bacon Of Bacon’s literary, as distinct from his philosophical and professional, works, far the most popular and important are the ‚Essays.‘ But it may not be superfluous to remark that the ‚Essays‘ are the most original of all Bacon’s works, those which, in detail, he seems to have thought out most […]
Novum Organum
Novum Organum – Sir Francis Bacon The ‚Novum Organum,‘ in the shape in which its author left it, is only a fragment of the larger work which Bacon contemplated under that title, as adequately representing the second part of the ‚Great Instauration.‘ Nevertheless, though only a fragment, the ‚Novum Organum,‘ and especially the first book, […]
The Advancement of Learning
The Advancement of Learning – Sir Francis Bacon The Advancement of Learning is a splendid attempt to defend and magnify the pursuit of learning and then to survey the existing state of human knowledge. Part of the argument of the first part has lost its cogency, or even its relevancy, today. But in breadth of […]
The Soliloquies
The Soliloquies – St. Augustine of Hippo The Soliloquies were written by St. Augustine in the 4th-century. The two books contain an „inner dialogue“ with questions, answers and thorough discussions, that finally aim to gain self-knowledge. While in the first book the dialogue longs to know a soul, it becomes evident in the second book […]
From the Mountains to the Sea – A History of Los Angeles
From the Mountains to the Sea – A History of Los Angeles – John Steven McGroarty What the author of this book has to tell is the true story of a great City that was founded „by order of the King,“ in the old days when the Western World was new. It is the story […]
A History of California and an Extended History of Los Angeles
A History of California and an Extended History of Los Angeles – James Miller Guinn Few states of the United States have a more varied, a more interesting or a more instructive history than California, and few have done so little to preserve their history. In narrating the story of California, the author has endeavored […]
Glinda of Oz
Glinda of Oz – L. Frank Baum This is the story of the adventures of Ozma and Dorothy when they set out to prevent a war between the Flatheads (who, for lack of a cranium, carry their brains in a can) and the Skeezers, whose island home can be submerged by their Queen. The two […]