Guardian Essential Library

Given by The Guardian

100 obres 567,939 Llibres 7,949 Ressenyes ½ 3.9
Clear your shelves of dog-eared airport novels, forgettable potboilers and half-read works of non-fiction. We asked eminent writers to choose 10 books from their respective fields to make up a mostra'n més capsule library of indispensable volumes. The only rules were that the books had to be in print and readily available in the UK. From art to science via fiction and memoir, these are their selections for the Guardian's Essential Library of 100 vital books. Collect them, then read them... http://books.guardian.co.uk/guardianessentiallibrary/0,12530,814635,00.html mostra'n menys
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ObraCategoria
Essays on Music (2002) de Theodor Adorno
Art and Music
The Painter of Modern Life (1964) de Charles Baudelaire
Art and Music
Beethoven's Letters (1926) de Ludwig van Beethoven
Art and Music
Ways of Seeing (1972) de John Berger
Art and Music
Història de l'art (1950) de E. H. Gombrich
Art and Music
The Glenn Gould Reader (1984) de Glenn Gould
Art and Music
El doctor Faustus (1949) de Thomas Mann
Art and Music
The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven (1971) de Charles Rosen
Art and Music
Memories and Commentaries: New One-Volume Edition (2002) de Igor Stravinsky
Art and Music
The Lives of the Artists (1957) de Giorgio Vasari
Art and Music
Brief Lives (1898) de John Aubrey
Biografia
The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) de James Boswell
Biografia
Henry James: A Life (1985) de Leon Edel
Biografia
The Life of Charlotte Brontë (1857) de Elizabeth Gaskell
Biografia
Alan Turing: The Enigma (1983) de Andrew Hodges
Biografia
Dr. Johnson & Mr. Savage (1993) de Richard Holmes
Biografia
Eminent Victorians (1918) de Lytton Strachey
Biografia
The Quest for Corvo : An Experiment in Biography (1934) de A. J. A. Symons
Biografia
The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens (1990) de Claire Tomalin
Biografia
Orlando (1928) de Virginia Woolf
Biografia
Persuasió (1817) de Jane Austen
Ficció
Our Mutual Friend (1865) de Charles Dickens
Ficció
Middlemarch (1871) de George Eliot
Ficció
El gran Gatsby (1925) de F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ficció
The Good Soldier (1915) de Ford Madox Ford
Ficció
La lletra escarlata (1850) de Nathaniel Hawthorne
Ficció
Retrat d'una dama (1908) de Henry James
Ficció
Ulisses (1922) de James Joyce
Ficció
Rabbit Angstrom: A Tetralogy (1995) de John Updike
Ficció
Els Costums del país (1913) de Edith Wharton
Ficció
El mestre i Margarida (1966) de Mikhail Bulgakov
Fiction in Translation
Madame Bovary (1857) de Gustave Flaubert
Fiction in Translation
Effi Briest (1894) de Theodor Fontane
Fiction in Translation
A Hero of Our Time (1840) de Michail Jurjevič Lermontov
Fiction in Translation
A la recerca del temps perdut (1913) de Marcel Proust
Fiction in Translation
Eugene Onegin (1964) de Alexander Pushkin
Fiction in Translation
Anna Karènina (1875) de Leo Tolstoy
Fiction in Translation
Pares i fills (1862) de Ivan Turgenev
Fiction in Translation
Càndid o l'optimisme (1759) de Voltaire
Fiction in Translation
El Mediterráneo y el mundo mediterráneo en la época de Felipe II (1949) de Fernand Braudel
Història
Selected Writings (Oxford World's Classics) (1991) de William Hazlitt
Història
The Waning of the Middle Ages (1919) de Johan Huizinga
Història
The Face of Battle (1976) de John Keegan
Història
If Not Now, When? (1985) de Primo Levi
Història
The Armada (1959) de Garrett Mattingly
Història
English Society in the Eighteenth Century (1982) de Roy Porter
Història
Annals (117) de P. Cornelius Tacitus
Història
El guepard (1958) de Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Història
Experiència (2000) de Martin Amis
Memoir and Autobiography
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969) de Maya Angelou
Memoir and Autobiography
Testament of Youth (1933) de Vera Brittain
Memoir and Autobiography
Diaries (1993) de Alan Clark
Memoir and Autobiography
The Naked Civil Servant (1968) de Quentin Crisp
Memoir and Autobiography
C: Because Cowards Get Cancer Too... (1998) de John Diamond
Memoir and Autobiography
Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography (1929) de Robert Graves
Memoir and Autobiography
If This Is a Man / The Truce (1947) de Primo Levi
Memoir and Autobiography
Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela (1994) de Nelson Mandela
Memoir and Autobiography
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965) de Malcolm X
Memoir and Autobiography
The complete poems, 1927–1979 (1983) de Elizabeth Bishop
Poesia
Troilus and Cressida (1374) de Geoffrey Chaucer
Poesia
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (1955) de Emily Dickinson
Poesia
The Waste Land (1922) de T. S. Eliot
Poesia
The Poetry of Robert Frost (1968) de Robert Frost
Poesia
Thomas Hardy: The Complete Poems (1976) de Thomas Hardy
Poesia
The Complete Poems (1979) de Christina Rossetti
Poesia
Tots els sonets de Shakespeare (1609) de William Shakespeare
Poesia
Collected Poems (1921) de Edward Thomas
Poesia
The Prelude (1850) de William Wordsworth
Poesia
Politics (4 BCE) de Aristotle
Politics
Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) de Edmund Burke
Politics
The Federalist Papers (1787) de Alexander Hamilton
Politics
Leviathan (1651) de Thomas Hobbes
Politics
Manifest del Partit Comunista (1848) de Karl Marx
Politics
Orwell and Politics (Penguin Modern Classics) (2001) de George Orwell
Politics
Del contracte social o Principis del dret polític (1762) de Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Politics
Development as Freedom (1999) de Amartya Sen
Politics
Democracy in America (1835) de Alexis de Tocqueville
Politics
E=mc2: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation (2000) de David Bodanis
Science
Climbing Mount Improbable (1996) de Richard Dawkins
Science
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (1991) de Jared M. Diamond
Science
Trilobite! Eyewitness to Evolution (2000) de Richard Fortey
Science
Bully for Brontosaurus (1991) de Stephen Jay Gould
Science
The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdos and the Search for Mathematical Truth (1998) de Paul Hoffman
Science
Cosmos (1980) de Carl Sagan
Science
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography (1999) de Simon Singh
Science
Mendeleyev's Dream: The Quest for the Elements (2000) de Paul Strathern
Science
The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA (1969) de James D. Watson
Science
The Road to Oxiana (1937) de Robert Byron
Travel
In Xanadu: A Quest (1989) de William Dalrymple
Travel
Don Quixote's Delusions: Travels in Castilian Spain (2001) de Miranda France
Travel
Eothen (1844) de Alexander William Kinglake
Travel
A Time of Gifts (1977) de Patrick Leigh Fermor
Travel
El Danubi (1989) de Claudio Magris
Travel
Sun Dancing (1997) de Geoffrey Moorhouse
Travel
Old Glory: A Voyage Down the Mississippi (1981) de Jonathan Raban
Travel
The Great Railway Bazaar (1975) de Paul Theroux
Travel
In Siberia (1999) de Colin Thubron
Travel
Si això és un home (1947) de Primo Levi
El Príncep (1513) de Niccolò Machiavelli
The Social Contract and Discourses (1950) de Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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