175 Books Guaranteed to Alter Your Perspectives & Expand Your Consciousness! Index of /books. COBISS.BH - Kooperativni online bibliografski sistem i servisi. Booklists - Classic Novels. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain Justice and honor are celebrated in this story about Huck’s adventures on the Mississippi River with the runaway slave Jim.
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque Though the war he describes is World War I, Remarque writes eloquently of all wars in this tale of a young German sent to fight in the trenches. Beloved by Toni Morrison Morrison’s heart-breaking novel tells the story of a woman who escapes from slavery to freedom in Cincinnati but remains haunted by her daughter’s murder. The Best Short Stories by O. Short vignettes display irony and coincidence in everyday life. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Huxley brilliantly satirizes contemporary society’s dehumanization in this grim novel of the future. The Call of the Wild by Jack London When his beloved master is killed, the dog Buck flees to the wild, where he becomes the leader of a wolf pack. 100 Best Novels « Modern Library. ULYSSES by James Joyce Written as an homage to Homer’s epic poem The Odyssey, Ulysses follows its hero, Leopold Bloom, through the streets of Dublin.
Overflowing with puns, references to classical literature, and stream-of-consciousness writing, this is a complex, multilayered novel about one day in the life of an ordinary man. Initially banned in the United States but overturned by a legal challenge by Random House’s Bennett Cerf, Ulysses was called “a memorable catastrophe” (Virginia Woolf), “a book to which we are all indebted” (T. S. Eliot), and “the most faithful X-ray ever taken of the ordinary human consciousness” (Edmund Wilson).
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The world's geniuses either kept their revelations to themselves and then died, or else they put it down on paper which has long since rotted or burned or been used to line some parakeet's cage. Obviously we'll never know what great books have been lost to time, but we have clues on some of them, and what those clues tell us is mind-boggling, and a little bit depressing. If you could make a library out of just books that didn't survive, you'd have a collection of some of the best freaking books ever written.
The Gospel of Eve, by Unknown What is it: It is apparently a totally sexually perverse lost book of the Bible. (Wait, what? Why it's Awesome: Ah ha! Why You'll Never Read It: In the 4th Century church officials like Epiphanius lashed out at the book, apparently having nothing better to do than stop everyone from having sex and eating a little bit of semen. Heh heh heh.