![]() Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.” “Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. “The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”Ĥ. Think constantly on the changes of the elements into each other, for such thoughts wash away the dust of earthly life.”ģ. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them. Realize this, and you will find strength. “You have power over your mind - not outside events. Here are Marcus Aurelius’ 10 greatest hits:ġ. ![]() The last quote in the list still received over 1,600 likes. Below are the top 10 quotes from everyone’s favorite emperor, ranked based on votes from real readers on Goodreads. Wondering which Marcus Aurelius quotes are the most popular? I did the research for you. The 10 Most Popular Quotes From Marcus Aurelius ![]()
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![]() ![]() Thoreau's wooden shack has won a place for itself in the collective American psyche, a remarkable achievement for a book with such modest and rustic beginnings. The result is an intriguing work which blends natural history with philosophical insights and includes many illuminating quotations from other authors. Thoreau constructed the house himself, with the help of a few friends, and one of the reasons why he moved into it was in an attempt to see if he could live independently and away from society. It recounts the author's experiences living in a small house in the woods around Walden Pond near Concord in Massachusetts. ![]() ![]() Henry Thoreau is considered, along with Edgar Allan Poe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman and Nathaniel Hawthorne, as one of the leading figures in early American literature, and Walden is without doubt his most influential book. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. Walden is the outcome of a two-year experiment (from July 1845 to September 1847) carried out by Henry David Thoreau, who lived in an isolated place called Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts. Walden is a book written by American writer Henry David Thoreau. Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Henry David Thoreaus Waldenwas published in 1854. ![]() ![]() Though Leto tries to make his plan work, he loses to the House Harkonnen after betrayal by a close ally. Though Leto knows who his enemies are, he goes to Arrakis and tries to protect his family by joining forces with the Fremen, the original inhabitants of the planet Arrakis. However, Leto is sure his enemies are plotting against him. Obeying the command, Paul’s father, Leto, decides to leave Caladan, his home planet, for Arrakis. ‘Dune’ focuses on the story of Paul Atreides, the young heir to House Atreides whose father gets assigned by Shaddam IV, the Emperor, to govern the planet Arrakis, a desert world with a crucial commodity called Melange. ![]() With the spread of humans, noble houses are formed, with each governing a planetary system. ![]() In the novel, humanity becomes so advanced that it spreads across the known universe. ‘Dune’ is a literary piece of science fiction that tells the story of humanity thousands of years into the future. ![]() Frank Herbert’s intentional lack of focus on the technology and more on the characters and how they interacted with the story makes ‘ Dune‘ even better. Known for its accurate description of events, ‘Dune’s’ storytelling style has almost no rivals. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Clarke, was considered one of the "Big Three" science-fiction writers during his lifetime. He has works published in nine of the ten major categories of the Dewey Decimal System (lacking only an entry in the 100s category of Philosophy).Īsimov is widely considered a master of the science-fiction genre and, along with Robert A. Professor Asimov is generally considered one of the most prolific writers of all time, having written or edited more than 500 books and an estimated 90,000 letters and postcards. Isaac Asimov was a Russian-born, American author, a professor of biochemistry, and a highly successful writer, best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books. ![]() ![]() ![]() While in her isolated small town, during the middle of their seance in fact, a murder takes place and our stage magician is arrested, then has to flee a (rather hasty) lynch mob before stumbling across the previously mentioned Judge, who puts the details together and concludes that perhaps a werewolf is involved. Instead - an ex-stage magician/escape artist (and rationalist) teams up with a spiritualist/occultism expert (and believer) to investigate a woman purported to have great powers as a medium. Yet, Pursuivant is not the main character, and only enters the narrative at about the halfway point (he just happens to live nearby). ![]() "The Hairy Ones Shall Dance" - This novella (originally serialized in three parts in Weird Tales magazine in the 1930s) introduces another of Wellman's "Occult Detective" characters, one Judge Hilary Pursuivant. Placeholder review - I don't own a copy of this, but I'm reading a number of stories contained in it from scans of their original magazine appearances, and I needed to put the review somewhere. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Presented in a dual-language format, this is a wholly original book about exile, linguistic and otherwise, written with an intensity and clarity not seen since Vladimir Nabokov: a startling act of self-reflection and a provocative exploration of belonging and reinvention. In Other Words, an autobiographical work written in Italian, investigates the process of learning to express oneself in another language, and describes the journey of a writer seeking a new voice. ![]() For Jhumpa Lahiri, that love was for Italian, which first captivated and capsized her during a trip to Florence after college. There, she begins to read, and to write - initially in her journal - solely in Italian. In Other Words is at heart a love story-of a long and sometimes difficult courtship, and a passion that verges on obsession: that of a writer for another language. Seeking full immersion, she decides to move to Rome with her family, for "a trial by fire, a sort of baptism" into a new language and world. Although Lahiri studied Italian for many years afterward, true mastery always eluded her. It is at heart a love story - of a long and sometimes difficult courtship, and a passion that verges on obsession: that of a writer for another language. From the best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize winner, a powerful nonfiction debut - an "honest, engaging, and very moving account of a writer searching for herself in words." - Kirkus Reviews (starred) ![]() ![]() ![]() My latest favorite? The Rabbit Listened by Cori Doerrfeld. The best make it look effortless and easy. It is far more interesting to look at books that integrate their message seamlessly within their stories. Anyone can write a book that crams its morals down the throats of its young readers. I call these kinds of books “Message Books” and each year I collect the names of the ones that do their jobs well. As it turns out, children are not the only ones in need of instruction these days. I doubt very much that old Benjamin Harris could have foreseen the rise of the graduation gift picture book or the books kept in a psychiatrist’s office for the aid of his or her adult patients. These days, it's funny to think that picture books do not solely instruct just the young anymore. And because books like Little Goody Two-Shoes lie at the root of everything published in our day and age, we aren’t surprised by picture books that seek to instruct. Morally uplifting texts that will mold the little readers into fine, upstanding citizens. ![]() That is, in fact, the very backbone of the book business for youth today. ![]() Lest we forget, the only reason that children’s books were invented in the first place was to teach small human lessons. ![]() ![]() ![]() (3) It was attributed to King Alfred by Gaimar, a twelfth-century Anglo-Norman historian, who wrote that the King had "'caused a book to be written in English about events and about laws and about battles in the land and about kings who made war.'" (4) ![]() The project probably originated as part of the revival of learning and of " English national awareness" during Alfred's reign. ![]() The commonly (though not universally) accepted view is that the Chronicle was maintained at the principal English churches, after they had received copies of the original from Alfred the Great's court, and that this explains why the various versions differ from one another. It suggests that the traditional philological approach is not as rewarding in this regard as the newer focus on interpreting the Chronicle's content. (2) This paper examines some of the issues in interpreting the Chronicle, evaluates trends in Chronicle scholarship, and concludes by examining what the text reveals of the environment in which it was produced. (1) The basic scholarly consensus is that the manuscripts are descended from a now-lost original, copies of which were sent to churches from a central point in the 890s. ![]() The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is the collective name for a set of annals consisting of one fragment and seven manuscript versions, related to one another in intricate and hard-to-decipher ways. Approaches to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: A Comparison ![]() ![]()
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