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Talmage Explores the Life of Christ Brilliantly – Much more than a simple outline of the Saviors life, Jesus the Christ is a detailed, penetrating account of Christs life and ministry. <p> Talmage approaches the subject with the zeal of both a scholar and a true disciple. This book is must reading for anyone interested in not only God, but also in the historical Christ and the events in the New Testament. <p> Truly a moving work and one which has brought many men and women closer to a personal relationship with their religion. <p> This is the definitive work on the Savior by a terrific Mormon scholar. Talmage explores all aspects of the Saviors life including the premortal existence, Christs visit to the American continent and the spirit world. It is not a quick overview of Jesuss life but is amazingly in depth. Make sure to read the notes as they contain many interesting insights into Jesuss world from the temple tax to formation of the Sanhedrein. <p> Not only is it a great scholarly account but its spiritual content is unparrelled. It will bring you closer to Christ than any other (non scriptoral) book can. <p> I cannot recommend it highly enough. A must read for anyone wants to understand better the life of Christ.
New Royal Cook Book - The Original Classic Edition
The new Royal Cook Book has been prepared to meet the large and ever increasing demand for a guide to wholesome and palatable home cooking. The young housewife will find here complete simple directions for making delicious cakes and other culinary delights. <p> Experienced cooks and those more skilled in the art will find here many of their favorite recipes and in addition helpful suggestions, especially in the matter of saving eggs and other expensive materials. <p> Every recipe has been tested many times and all have been found excellent.
Swann's Way - The Original Classic Edition
A challenge and a pleasure at the same proportion – To read Marcel Prousts Remembrance of Things Past is a pleasure and a challenge in the same proportion that any brave read can have. Not only is it a hard task, but also a very pleasant one. The book is written in such a way that readers are transported to another time and place, and get to know the characters as if they were old friends of ours. Of course, if it werent like that, not many people would dare to try and read the seven novels that compound the whole series. But Proust is a master to keep your interested glued to his words. Even when this words are in a paragraph that lasts four pages. <p> Swanns Way is the first novel and it is a blessing and a curse at the same time. It is good because everything is new to us, so the `nameless narrator takes his time to explain a lot of things, introduce people, describe places and the action is built up bit by bit. On the other hand, the reader is not used to Proust style and when we come across a paragraph that lasts four pages we get scared. <p> To make things more complicated, when he was writing Remembrance of Things Past Proust wanted to make a novel, but he also wanted to philosophize. Therefore, there is a lot of philosophy in his books. At first this device seems to be difficult to understand, to get the gist, but with time, one gets used to it, and is able to realize that were not supposed to read this books in the same way we read any other novel. <p> Prousts work is about senses. He does not expect you to understand everything he is saying. His narrative is not cumulative. What he wants, in fact, is to make his reader feel what he was saying, to feel things like time passing through our lives and its effects on our memories. Bearing this in mind, any reader is able to focus on the poetic narrative and the authors idea rather than understanding the events. <p> Of course there is a plot in the book, but there are things that are more important to produce the effect Proust wanted. Swanns Way begins with the `nameless narrator remembering experiences from his childhood in Combray. But the largest section of the novel is not about him, but about Swann, a friend of his family. Fifteen years before the events described in the first part, Swann felt in love with Odette, a woman with a terrible reputation. And this love affair will affect his life forever. <p> Despite Prousts language being evocative, it is not difficult to understand his sentences. His work is replete of references and allusions, mostly to visual arts, namely painting. Some descriptions are like the works of Monet and Botticelli. The writer also has interest in literature. The main character relationship to his mother echoes works as Oedipus Rex. <p> Qualities like these make Remembrance of Things Past one of the most important works produced ever. With his caldron of references, ideas and images, Proust has created one of the most beloved works from the XX Century. It is certain that this series of books will be read for many many years to come, and will be seen as a definition of what we used to think.
The Innocents Abroad - The Original Classic Edition
The funniest book ever written-in the history of time! – Ok, maybe that is a minor overstatement, but this is one hilarous book, to be read by people who have travelled, who plan to travel, and generally, people who want to laugh. A lot. <p> The book is also surprising for its timeless points about the journeying of certain upper white, middle class people going on a grand tour of Europe. I frequently had to remind myself that it was written in 1869 because his observations and the behavior of his shipmates is so close to the way people I studied abroad with acted-only a few years ago. <p> Twain also puts those cosmopolitan people who claim to have traveled, but dont know anything about any place they have been but and just like to lord it over everyone else that they have travelled and you have not. <p> Reading this book is like listening to a very wise, old man tell you about his adventures. Its not like a book, more like one long conversation. Twain takes nothing seriously-not himself, his fellow travelers or the places they visit. The words are another adventure-sometimes, you know he is setting you up for something, other times he is serious for a while, then you end up in the middle of a joke. <p> Twain is making humorous observations, at a time when a different standard was acceptable. Not to mention, he does manage to get a few zingers in there about what people are willing to accept and what they do not. <p> You will laugh yourself silly and want to book a trip-not to Europe, just to anywhere, after reading this book.
The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare - The Original Classic Edition
Kind of weird but worth it – Kingsley Amis (writer of the introduction) says that it was the most thrilling book he has ever read. Chesterton weaves together a combination detective story, wierd dream (Nightmare as he says on his cover page), and social commentary. Its certainly not an apologetic book (as C.S. Lewis said, one cant always be defending the faith, sometimes one has to encourage those already converted), but elements of Christianity do come through (especially Chestertons sensible view that your faith should affect every area of your life and outlook to the world). <p> The hero, Symes (who is called Thursday) is a detective and a Christian who provokes an anarchist and infiltrates a world-wide underground anarchist society. From there, there are many adventures, twists, and turns. This part is very well written. Every new discovery Symes makes literally has you on the edge of your seat. Things become more and more bizarre (right in line with Chestertons own description of his book as a Nightmare) until a very bizarre ending. <p> There is a great deal of symbolism and allegory in the book, which is not clear until at least a third of the way through the book. In this way, the book is similar to C.S. Lewiss book That Hideous Strength (the third book in his space trilogy that includes Perelandra). Like Lewiss book, Thursday starts off very realistic (although with some hints of the bizarre twists to come) and gets more and more strange as the book goes on. <p> Finally, after you read through the book once, think about it and read comments then go back and read it again. As Amis says in his introduction, you can read this book many times and get new things out of it every time.
Meditations - The Original Classic Edition
Timeless wisdom for a weary world – Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill will, and selfishness-all of them due to the offenders ignorance of what is good or evil. But for my part I have long perceived the nature of good and its nobility, the nature of evil and its meanness, and also the nature of the culprit himself, who is my brother; therefore none of those things can injure me, for nobody can implicate me in what is degrading (To Himself, II.1). <p> This selection from Meditations (To Himself was the original Greek title) captures so much of the essence of this incredibly powerful book. Marcus Aurelius at times sounds more like the Buddha, Lao Tzu, Hesiod, or James Allen than he does his Stoic forerunners: proof once again that true wisdom resides in every mans heart and mind and transcends the boundaries of time, place, ethnicity,and doctrine. <p> The job of the philosopher is to reintroduce his pupils to THEMSELVES, and once the self is realized, the reality of the universe becomes much clearer (evil derives from delusions) and the temptations of excess and the fears of deprivation become less powerful. These are true words to live by, more so now than they have ever been before. <p> Happiness can be found in simplicity; hard work DOES pay off; the cooler head always prevails; immoderate pleasures can kill and fear is often unfounded. Marcus, like Buddha, was born in the lap of luxury, but he was destined to hold a position in society for which he was not well suited by virtue of his sensitive and studious nature: the ruler of an ancient and corrupt civilization that dominated most of the known world. <p> Meditations is Marcuss attempt to cope with a life and a job that he never really wanted. Thankfully, we can apply Marcuss self conversation to the trials and tribulations of everyday life. I urge you to read this. Once you do, I guarantee you will read it over and over again and it will take its place on your list of personal, life changing favorites.
The Aeneid - The Original Classic Edition
Publius Vergilius Maro was commisioned by Caesar Augustus to author a national epic for Rome. The work which Virgil composed for this purpose was the Aeneid. It is an epic poem that tells the story of a minor character from Homers Iliad who leads a rag-tag band from the smouldering ruins of Troy in order to found a New Troy to the west: Rome. <p> It is in the Aeneid, not the Iliad (as most people who have not read the works tend to believe) that we see the spectacle of the Trojan Horse and the famous line I do not trust Greeks bearing gifts. The Iliad ends with the death of Hektor – before the plan of the Trojan Horse is devised by Odysseus. The Odyssey picks up after the sack of Troy. The Aeneid fills in the gaps and narrates the story of the few Trojans who escape the wrath of the Greeks. According to legend, Romulus and Remes (the two brothers who eventually founded the city itself) were descendents of Aeneas. <p> As is usual, Fitzgeralds translation is top notch. The book also contains a useful glossary and postscript which help elucidate the allusions to Hannibal and Cleopatra which the Romans of Virgils day would have picked up right away, but which might be unfamiliar to modern day readers. <p> Read the Aeneid. You will be glad you did, for this is an extraordinary epic.
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds - The Original Classic Edition
An important, engaging, shrewd historical treatise – Charles Mackays highly recommended Extraordinary Popular Delusions And The Madness Of Crowds was first published in 1841 and studies the psychology of crowds and mass mania throughout history. <p> Mackay included accounts of classic scams, grand-scale madness, and deceptions. Some of these include the Mississippi scheme that swept France in 1720, the South Sea bubble that ruined thousands in England at the same time, and the tulip mania of Holland when fortunes were made and lost on single tulip bulbs. <p> Other chapters deal with fads and delusions that often sprang from valid ideas and causes – many of which still have their followers today: alchemy and the philosophers stone, the prophecies of Nostradamus, the coming of comets and judgment day, the Rosicrucians, and astrology. <p> Extraordinary Popular Delusions And The Madness Of Crowds is an important historical treatise that modern readers will find fascinating, engaging, and shrewd as they see how history repeats itself, but that disastrous pitfalls can be avoided by understanding the cycles and patterns of greed based ignorance plays in promoting and perpetuating group hysteria in the fields of business and finance, politics and superstitions. <p> When you are done with the book, I also hope you will also consider where else mania take over. These occur in consumption patterns (not unlike tulip bulbs), activities (remember disco?), businesses (franchised door-to-door selling), and entertainment (quiz shows will come and go many times). Be sure you watch out for your exposure to these mania as well. Avoiding wastes of time and resources are an important part of achieving true growth. <p> An excellent book. It should be required reading for everyone. <p> I hope you will buy and read this book, and share it with your children when they start to invest.
This Side of Paradise - The Original Classic Edition
The first thing that will strike you on reading this book will be the timelessness of its subject matter, no matter how dated the setting is. The Ivy League of Fitzgeralds indifferent hero, Amory Blaine, is a thing of the past, with only the faintest reminders of its aura of American royalty remaining today. Reading about Amorys days at Princeton is a bit like looking at the ancient photographs of 19th century football teams that every university seems to have on display in some corner of the campus, with the added twist that most of those long-ago jocks were presumably the sons of bankers and senators. And yet, Fitzgeralds depiction of a whirlwind of exhilaration, alienation, eagerness for the future and a sense that it should all be more meaningful is still all too recognizable to those of us who are just a few years out of college. So like all the best fiction, the story works both on a historical and a contemporary level. <p> Amory isnt the most sympathetic of protagonists. Coming from a non-aristocratic but quite cushy background, hes all you would expect from a Fitzgerald hero: full of himself, indifferent to the less fortunate, somewhat lazy, and at once condescending to and inept with women. But this is a story of young adulthood in the last gasps of the pre-World War I upper-crust, and Amory is the perfect vehicle for illustrating the youth of that time and place. Although the relative lack of details provided about Amorys experience in the war is odd, it adds to his Everyman quality for the generations since his, all of which have had their own reasons for a bleak outlook at some point even if few could match the sheer trauma of 1917-18. The one real flaw in the story is an inconsistent, and often unconvincing, quality when it comes to how and why Amory falls for the several women he endures romantic misadventures with. For all the heartbreak he endures, the reader is often left wondering where his attraction stemmed from in the first place – an odd shortcoming considering how good Fitzgerald was at illustrating that issue in later works. But the romantic episodes that do work are vivid enough to forgive the weaker ones. Also, as usual, Fitzgeralds narrative style is somewhat purple; but hes so good at it that it usually doesnt strike the reader as a problem. <p> Bleak as it may be, this is a great book for anyone who has survived young adulthood and remembers it honestly. Just try not to laugh or cringe next time somebody wants to talk about the good old days.