Books similar like Ornamentalism: How the British Saw Their Empire

King Lear

Shakespeare’s King Lear challenges us with the magnitude, intensity, and sheer duration of the pain that it represents. Its figures harden their hearts, engage in violence, or try to alleviate the suf…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Epic of Gilgamesh

Miraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as much as four thousand years, the poem of Gilgamesh, king of Uruk, is the world’s oldest epic, predating Homer by many centuries. The story tells o…

Buy this book on Amazon

Waiting for Godot

The story revolves around two seemingly homeless men simply waiting for someone—or something—named Godot. Vladimir and Estragon wait near a tree, inhabiting a drama spun of their own consciousness. Th…

Buy this book on Amazon

Liberalism and Empire: A Study in Nineteenth-Century British Liberal Thought

Buy this book on Amazon

Waiting for the Barbarians

For decades the Magistrate has been a loyal servant of the Empire, running the affairs of a tiny frontier settlement and ignoring the impending war with the barbarians. When interrogation experts arri…

Buy this book on Amazon

Disgrace

Set in post-apartheid South Africa, J. M. Coetzee’s searing novel tells the story of David Lurie, a twice divorced, 52-year-old professor of communications and Romantic Poetry at Cape Technical Univer…

Buy this book on Amazon

Orientalism

More than three decades after its first publication, Edward Said's groundbreaking critique of the West's historical, cultural, and political perceptions of the East has become a modern classic.

In this…

Buy this book on Amazon

Abroad in Japan: Ten Years In The Land Of The Rising Sun

When Englishman Chris Broad landed in a rural village in northern Japan he wondered if he'd made a huge mistake. With no knowledge of the language and zero teaching experience, was he about to be the …

Buy this book on Amazon

The Making of the Middle Ages

Buy this book on Amazon

Storm of Steel

A memoir of astonishing power, savagery, and ashen lyricism, 'Storm of Steel' illuminates not only the horrors but also the fascination of total war, seen through the eyes of an ordinary German soldie…

Buy this book on Amazon

Mrs. Dalloway

Heralded as Virginia Woolf's greatest novel, this is a vivid portrait of a single day in a woman's life. When we meet her, Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-minute details of party p…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Lonely Londoners

From the brilliant, sharp, witty pen of Sam Selvon, his classic award-winning novel of immigrant life in London in the 1950s.

In the hopeful aftermath of war they flocked to the Mother Country — West I…

Buy this book on Amazon

Hercule Poirot's Christmas (Hercule Poirot, #20)

In Hercule Poirot's Christmas, the holidays are anything but merry when a family reunion is marred by murder — and the notoriously fastidious investigator is quickly on the case. The wealthy Simeon Le…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Lottery and Other Stories

The Lottery, one of the most terrifying stories written in this century, created a sensation when it was first published in The New Yorker. "Power and haunting," and "nights of unrest" were typical re…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Curse of Pietro Houdini

From the Dagger Award–winning author of Norwegian by Night comes a vivid, thrilling, and moving World War II art-heist-adventure tale where enemies become heroes, allies become villains, and a child l…

Buy this book on Amazon

Hex Hall (Hex Hall, #1)

Three years ago, Sophie Mercer discovered that she was a witch. It's gotten her into a few scrapes. Her non-gifted mother has been as supportive as possible, consulting Sophie's estranged father—an el…

Buy this book on Amazon

Five Decembers

December 1941: America teeters on the brink of war, and in Honolulu, Hawaii, police detective Joe McGrady is assigned to investigate a homicide that will change his life forever. Because the trail of …

Buy this book on Amazon

How To Be a Tudor: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Tudor Life

Buy this book on Amazon

Aliss at the Fire

In her old house by the fjord, Signe lies on a bench and sees a vision of herself as she was more than twenty years earlier: standing by the window waiting for her husband Asle, on that terrible late …

Buy this book on Amazon

The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era

The most sweeping account of how neoliberalism came to dominate American politics for nearly a half century before crashing against the forces of Trumpism on the right and a new progressivism on the l…

Buy this book on Amazon

Ornamentalism: How the British Saw Their Empire

Ornamentalism: How the British Saw Their Empire similar books