By David C. Major, John S. Major
Readers in every single place comprehend that not anything soothes the spirit like sinking right into a very good e-book. in case you are one in every of that chuffed band, you are going to speedy realize the authors of this encouraged interpreting advisor as kindred spirits. right here David and John significant have selected 100 books that could each one be delightfully fed on in a single quiet night. protecting different types from delusion to fiction, historical past to humor, secret to memoir, this addictive quantity good points books to check your whole moods—by either celebrated writers and talented unknowns, including:
• Russell Baker • Willa Cather • Raymond Chandler • F. Scott Fitzgerald • Graham Greene • Edith Hamilton • Dashiell Hammett • Helene Hanff • Ernest Hemingway • Patricia Highsmith • Shirley Jackson • Henry James • W. Somerset Maugham • Mary McCarthy • Walter Mosley • Vladimir Nabokov • Patrick O'Brian • Barbara Pym • Phillip Roth • Vikram Seth • Isaac Bashevis Singer • C. P. Snow • Dylan Thomas • Evelyn Waugh • Edith Wharton • Laura Ingalls Wilder • Virginia Woolf
Each choice includes an unique dialogue of what makes the publication specified, from an adventurous writing sort to a different humorousness. The Majors additionally percentage insights in regards to the authors and literary anecdotes, in addition to suggest different gem stones on the same topic or via an identical author.
A literary better half to savour and confer with repeatedly, a hundred One-Night Reads is a masterpiece in its personal correct!
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W. C. SELLAR AND R. J. YEATMAN 1066 and All That each people every now and then has to play the function of teacher—if no longer inevitably within the career of that identify, then a minimum of by way of education a brand new worker at paintings, via educating one's personal childrens, by way of creating a company presentation. This splendidly fun e-book is essentially approximately instructing: How scholars (that is, we all) recognize and combine evidence and ideas. it really is subversively installed phrases of background taught to kids in British colleges, written to teach how what the historical past instructor is asserting (or droning on approximately) is really grasped within the brain of a tender student scribbling desperately to get every little thing down. the nice good fortune of 1066 and All that's that it manages to be either hilarious and deeply insightful. The booklet originated partially in articles in Punch, the humor magazine that for many years was once loved by way of trained readers in nice Britain and through the English-speaking global for its perception and wit. The publication is equipped as a speedy journey via British background. we've got, in fact, the recognized actual Dates, fifty five B. C. for the invasion of england by means of Julius Caesar and A. D. 1066 for the invasion of england via William the Conqueror. those are the one dates in all of historical past that must be remembered. (The authors document that different dates have been thought of for the publication yet have been discarded on the final second for the reason that they weren't memorable. ) there's additionally an entire menu of excellent issues and undesirable issues. for instance, Magna constitution (sic) used to be an outstanding factor, being the executive explanation for democracy in England (leaving apart the typical folk). St. Paul's Cathedral in London is an efficient factor, inasmuch because it prompted Sir Christopher Wren. however, Edward III's manipulation of the wool alternate in the course of the Hundred Years' battle was once a nasty factor, being the reason for Political financial system (many will agree here). The authors are devilishly smart within the manner within which they control and current evidence, or what cross for evidence. the best goods are misspellings or misapprehensions. Joan of Ark, it sort of feels, is a French descendant of Noah. Perkin Warbeck and Lambert Simnel, fifteenthcentury pretenders to the throne, have names which are sufficiently alike that they plow through diversifications (Perkin Warmel) within the brain of the younger pupil. those gents ultimately appear on one of many quizzes scattered during the publication as Lamnel Simkin and Percy Warmneck. There are extra advanced confusions of rules in addition. within the dialogue of Caesar's invasions, we research that fifty four B. C. comes after fifty five B. C. , owing completely to the ordinary Roman approach to counting. William of Orange and his queen, Mary, are conflated as Williamanmary and known as both they or it, with nice confusion as to why an orange should still sit down at the throne. And, in fact, no volume of earnest schoolmasterly guide approximately Ethelred the Unready (from the Anglo-Saxon for “without counsel”) will persuade a teen that Ethelred used to be a person except a king who forgot to snatch his sword prior to operating off to conflict.