The Oresteia
It is worth reading the entire trilogy (Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides), because the three plays form a much tighter unit than what we see in other Greek tragedies. If you read Antigone or...
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A Good Man
Asking around, in order to write about Sargent Schiver. Garry Wills: I could no one with a bad word to say about him. This book tells why. The mystery goodness is deeper than the mystery of evil.
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The Sixth Man
This excellent novel is the fifth in the King and Maxwell series, which consists of six books. Sean King and Michelle Maxwell are called in to help Edgar Roy, a suspected serial killer awaiting trial. Roy...
The Perfect Couple
The novel sold more than a million copies and stayed on the British bestseller lists for two years, which is why it has been described as a publishing phenomenon in the United Kingdom. Its author is also a...
The Power of One
This is a novel centered on the life of a boy of English origin who lives in South Africa, during the years before and after the Second World War.
The story begins when the boy is five years old and...
The Family Carnovsky
The saga of the Carnovsky begins with David, the patriarch, who, at the dawn of the twentieth century, leaves the Polish shtetl where he was born—an emblem of obscurantism in his eyes—to head to Berlin,...
Armadale
The old Allan Armadale confesses in writing, on his deathbed, a horrible secret that only his son should know when he comes of age. Twenty years later, this mixed-race son goes by the name Ozias Midwinter....
Desolation Island
Commissioned to rescue Governor Bligh, famous from the Bounty mutiny, Captain Jack Aubrey and his friend and ship’s surgeon Stephen Maturin sail the Leopard to Australia, carrying a hold full of convicts....
Confessions of a heretic
Collection of eleven essays with the common theme of “Europe’s castrated society.” Scruton is a conservative who is difficult to categorize, as “conservatism should be a defense of government against its...
Flynn of the Inland
The story of John Flynn, founder of the Royal Flying Doctor Service, who revolutionized medical care in remote areas of Australia. The book highlights his vision and determination to bring medical services...