Thế kỷ 20

Thế kỷ 20 đầy biến động đã sinh ra những tư tưởng cách mạng và các phong trào nghệ thuật cấp tiến, mãi mãi thay đổi cách chúng ta nhìn nhận bản thân và xã hội. Giữa hai cuộc chiến tranh thế giới và những biến động xã hội, các nhà văn đã vật lộn với chủ nghĩa hiện sinh, dòng ý thức và bóng tối ngày càng lan rộng của chủ nghĩa toàn trị qua những tác phẩm đột phá định hình nền văn học hiện đại.

Thế kỷ 20 Tóm tắt sách

Bruce Lee

của Bruce Lee • 2001

A basement jersey gave a boy superpowers. His mission: vaporize every adult who ruined the fun.

4.21

1.000+

🏙️ Midcentury America 🧒 American Childhood 📷 Nostalgia Memoir ☢️ Cold War Culture 🚬 Teenage Rebellion

Bruce Lee

A basement jersey gave a boy superpowers. His mission: vaporize every adult who ruined the fun.

của Bruce Lee 2001 288 trang

4.21

1.000+ đánh giá

🏙️ Midcentury America 🧒 American Childhood 📷 Nostalgia Memoir ☢️ Cold War Culture 🚬 Teenage Rebellion

Iron Man

của Tony Iommi • 2011

A factory press severs his fingertips. Leather thimbles, detuned strings: heavy metal is born.

4.01

4.000+

🎸 Heavy Metal Memoirs 💰 Music Industry Greed 🩹 Post-Injury Creativity 🥁 Band Dynamics 🔮 Occult Rock

Iron Man

A factory press severs his fingertips. Leather thimbles, detuned strings: heavy metal is born.

của Tony Iommi 2011 381 trang

4.01

4.000+ đánh giá

🎸 Heavy Metal Memoirs 💰 Music Industry Greed 🩹 Post-Injury Creativity 🥁 Band Dynamics 🔮 Occult Rock

The Old Capital

của Yasunari Kawabata • 2006

A Kyoto adopted daughter meets her mountain-dwelling twin, and their reunion redefines belonging.

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8.000+

🏯 Postwar Japan 👯 Separated Twins 🍂 Elegiac Tone ⛩️ Old Kyoto 📖 Quiet Novel

The Old Capital

A Kyoto adopted daughter meets her mountain-dwelling twin, and their reunion redefines belonging.

của Yasunari Kawabata 2006 160 trang

3.72

8.000+ đánh giá

🏯 Postwar Japan 👯 Separated Twins 🍂 Elegiac Tone ⛩️ Old Kyoto 📖 Quiet Novel

Foucault’s Pendulum

của Umberto Eco • 1988

A mock conspiracy among editors turns real when believers decide the secret is worth killing for.

3.91

75.000+

🧠 Philosophical Thriller 🕵️ Conspiracy Fiction 🔍 Pattern Seeking 🗝️ Secret Societies 📜 Occult Scholars

Foucault’s Pendulum

A mock conspiracy among editors turns real when believers decide the secret is worth killing for.

của Umberto Eco 1988 623 trang

3.91

75.000+ đánh giá

🧠 Philosophical Thriller 🕵️ Conspiracy Fiction 🔍 Pattern Seeking 🗝️ Secret Societies 📜 Occult Scholars

In the Country of Others

của Leïla Slimani • 2021

A French bride follows her Moroccan husband to his farm. He is already married to the land.

3.78

21.000+

📜 Family Saga 💍 Intercultural Marriage 🇲🇦 Postwar Morocco 👧 Growing Up Mixed Race 🖋️ Lyrical Historical

In the Country of Others

A French bride follows her Moroccan husband to his farm. He is already married to the land.

của Leïla Slimani 2021 305 trang

3.78

21.000+ đánh giá

📜 Family Saga 💍 Intercultural Marriage 🇲🇦 Postwar Morocco 👧 Growing Up Mixed Race 🖋️ Lyrical Historical

The Water Is Wide

của Pat Conroy • 1972

The island kids couldn't tell time. Their teacher drove them to Washington.

4.17

27.000+

📚 Teaching Memoir ⚖️ School Inequality 🌴 American South 🧑‍🏫 Progressive Education 🏛️ Teacher Vs Bureaucracy

The Water Is Wide

The island kids couldn't tell time. Their teacher drove them to Washington.

của Pat Conroy 1972 260 trang

4.17

27.000+ đánh giá

📚 Teaching Memoir ⚖️ School Inequality 🌴 American South 🧑‍🏫 Progressive Education 🏛️ Teacher Vs Bureaucracy

Edge of Eternity

của Ken Follett • 2014

Three families fight the Cold War from their kitchens: East Berlin, Washington, and Moscow.

4.21

100.000+

🧱 Cold War Saga 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Multi-Generational Epic 🏛️ Political Intrigue 💞 Interracial Romance 👁️ Surveillance State

Edge of Eternity

Three families fight the Cold War from their kitchens: East Berlin, Washington, and Moscow.

của Ken Follett 2014 36 trang

4.21

100.000+ đánh giá

🧱 Cold War Saga 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Multi-Generational Epic 🏛️ Political Intrigue 💞 Interracial Romance 👁️ Surveillance State

Faking It

của Hugh Barker • 2007

Elvis was an imitator, punk was theater, and disco was realer than anyone admitted.

3.67

243

Faking It

Elvis was an imitator, punk was theater, and disco was realer than anyone admitted.

của Hugh Barker 2007 400 trang

3.67

243 đánh giá

Rasputin and the Fall of the Romanovs

của Colin Wilson • 1964

The mad monk wasn't a fraud: his powers were real, and they brought down a dynasty.

3.41

234

🏛️ Imperial Russia 🕯️ Court Intrigue 🔮 Mystic Biography 🩸 Dynastic Collapse 🏥 Royal Illness

Rasputin and the Fall of the Romanovs

The mad monk wasn't a fraud: his powers were real, and they brought down a dynasty.

của Colin Wilson 1964

3.41

234 đánh giá

🏛️ Imperial Russia 🕯️ Court Intrigue 🔮 Mystic Biography 🩸 Dynastic Collapse 🏥 Royal Illness

In My Time

của Dick Cheney • 2011

From Yale dropout to the man who ran Desert Storm and picked himself for vice president.

3.79

2.000+

🐘 American Conservatism 🏛️ White House Insider 🌍 Gulf War 🗺️ Post-Cold War Era 🛡️ Defense Policy

In My Time

From Yale dropout to the man who ran Desert Storm and picked himself for vice president.

của Dick Cheney 2011 576 trang

3.79

2.000+ đánh giá

🐘 American Conservatism 🏛️ White House Insider 🌍 Gulf War 🗺️ Post-Cold War Era 🛡️ Defense Policy

The Perfect Mile

của Neal Bascomb • 2004

The four-minute mile was declared impossible. For three rivals, that was the starting line.

4.22

10.000+

🏃‍♂️ Track And Field 🧠 Sports Psychology 📜 History Of Sports 📋 Coaching Philosophies 🏟️ Amateur Athletics

The Perfect Mile

The four-minute mile was declared impossible. For three rivals, that was the starting line.

của Neal Bascomb 2004 322 trang

4.22

10.000+ đánh giá

🏃‍♂️ Track And Field 🧠 Sports Psychology 📜 History Of Sports 📋 Coaching Philosophies 🏟️ Amateur Athletics

White Malice

của Susan Williams • 2021

Africa's Cold War was a lie. America's real mission: control the uranium, crush independent leaders.

4.17

1.000+

🕵️ Cia Covert Operations 🌍 African Decolonization ✊ Pan-Africanism 🔗 Neocolonialism ⛏️ Resource Extraction

White Malice

Africa's Cold War was a lie. America's real mission: control the uranium, crush independent leaders.

của Susan Williams 2021 651 trang

4.17

1.000+ đánh giá

🕵️ Cia Covert Operations 🌍 African Decolonization ✊ Pan-Africanism 🔗 Neocolonialism ⛏️ Resource Extraction

The Pleasures of the Damned

của Charles Bukowski • 2007

A hard-drinking poet buries his tenderness in the grit of L.A.'s gutters and bars.

4.35

7.000+

🖋️ Confessional Poetry 🍺 Dirty Realism 🥃 Hard-Drinking Narrator 🖤 Gallows Humor 🌴 Mid-Century LA

The Pleasures of the Damned

A hard-drinking poet buries his tenderness in the grit of L.A.'s gutters and bars.

của Charles Bukowski 2007 557 trang

4.35

7.000+ đánh giá

🖋️ Confessional Poetry 🍺 Dirty Realism 🥃 Hard-Drinking Narrator 🖤 Gallows Humor 🌴 Mid-Century LA

The Age of Entitlement

của Christopher Caldwell • 2020

Civil rights built a rival constitution. Debt papered over the conflict. Now the bill is due.

4.04

1.000+

⚖️ Civil Rights Law 🇺🇸 Postwar America 🏛️ Constitutional Crisis 🎓 Political Correctness 🏰 Elite Capture

The Age of Entitlement

Civil rights built a rival constitution. Debt papered over the conflict. Now the bill is due.

của Christopher Caldwell 2020 352 trang

4.04

1.000+ đánh giá

⚖️ Civil Rights Law 🇺🇸 Postwar America 🏛️ Constitutional Crisis 🎓 Political Correctness 🏰 Elite Capture

The Great Influenza

của John M. Barry • 2004

Modern medicine was just being born. Then the deadliest pandemic hit and killed the young first.

3.98

42.000+

🏥 Medical History 🦠 Pandemic History 🧫 Viral Outbreaks 🛡️ Immune System 🧪 Germ Theory

The Great Influenza

Modern medicine was just being born. Then the deadliest pandemic hit and killed the young first.

của John M. Barry 2004 546 trang

3.98

42.000+ đánh giá

🏥 Medical History 🦠 Pandemic History 🧫 Viral Outbreaks 🛡️ Immune System 🧪 Germ Theory

Speedboat

của Renata Adler • 1976

A reporter drifts through parties, lovers, and city chaos, searching for whatever might hold weight.

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7.000+

🌀 Postmodern Fiction 🧩 Fragmented Narrative 🏙️ Urban Dislocation 📰 Journalist Narrator 😐 Deadpan Narrator

Speedboat

A reporter drifts through parties, lovers, and city chaos, searching for whatever might hold weight.

của Renata Adler 1976 192 trang

3.75

7.000+ đánh giá

🌀 Postmodern Fiction 🧩 Fragmented Narrative 🏙️ Urban Dislocation 📰 Journalist Narrator 😐 Deadpan Narrator

Covert Regime Change

của Lindsey A. O'Rourke • 2018

64 covert regime changes, a 39% success rate, and blowback that erased the gains.

4.14

🥶 Cold War History 🇺🇸 American Foreign Policy 🕵️ Covert Operations 💣 Regime Change 💥 Blowback

Covert Regime Change

64 covert regime changes, a 39% success rate, and blowback that erased the gains.

của Lindsey A. O'Rourke 2018 330 trang

4.14

85 đánh giá

🥶 Cold War History 🇺🇸 American Foreign Policy 🕵️ Covert Operations 💣 Regime Change 💥 Blowback

What Is the What

của Dave Eggers • 2006

Robbed in Atlanta, a Sudanese refugee escapes into the war-torn villages and camps of his past.

4.15

87.000+

🎤 Fictionalized Memoir 🏃 Refugee Survival Story 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family 🧳 Cultural Displacement 📖 Storytelling As Survival

What Is the What

Robbed in Atlanta, a Sudanese refugee escapes into the war-torn villages and camps of his past.

của Dave Eggers 2006 475 trang

4.15

87.000+ đánh giá

🎤 Fictionalized Memoir 🏃 Refugee Survival Story 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family 🧳 Cultural Displacement 📖 Storytelling As Survival

Operation Mincemeat

của Ben Macintyre • 2010

How a dead homeless man became a Royal Marines officer and deceived the entire Nazi war machine.

4.03

23.000+

🕵️ World War Ii Espionage 🪖 Military Deception 🎩 Eccentric Spies 🧠 Strategic Deception 🎲 Chance In Warfare

Operation Mincemeat

How a dead homeless man became a Royal Marines officer and deceived the entire Nazi war machine.

của Ben Macintyre 2010 416 trang

4.03

23.000+ đánh giá

🕵️ World War Ii Espionage 🪖 Military Deception 🎩 Eccentric Spies 🧠 Strategic Deception 🎲 Chance In Warfare

Comfort Women

của Yoshimi Yoshiaki • 1995

Japan built the comfort stations itself, then spent decades claiming it did not.

3.96

152

🚨 Wartime Sexual Violence 🇯🇵 Imperial Japan ⚖️ State Accountability 📚 Feminist Historiography 🕊️ Transitional Justice

Comfort Women

Japan built the comfort stations itself, then spent decades claiming it did not.

của Yoshimi Yoshiaki 1995 262 trang

3.96

152 đánh giá

🚨 Wartime Sexual Violence 🇯🇵 Imperial Japan ⚖️ State Accountability 📚 Feminist Historiography 🕊️ Transitional Justice

The Forgotten Man

của Amity Shlaes • 2007

The 1929 crash didn't cause a decade of misery. Government experiments did, and the taxpayer paid.

3.91

6.000+

🏚️ Great Depression 🇺🇸 Us Economic History 📜 New Deal Criticism 📈 Free Market Economics 🗳️ Public Choice Theory

The Forgotten Man

The 1929 crash didn't cause a decade of misery. Government experiments did, and the taxpayer paid.

của Amity Shlaes 2007 390 trang

3.91

6.000+ đánh giá

🏚️ Great Depression 🇺🇸 Us Economic History 📜 New Deal Criticism 📈 Free Market Economics 🗳️ Public Choice Theory

Tune In

của Mark Lewisohn • 2013

Before Beatlemania, there was a songwriting rivalry, a visionary manager, and six-hour Hamburg sets.

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4.000+

🇬🇧 British Invasion ⚓️ Merseybeat 🎤 Music Industry 💡 Creative Partnership 🤝 Artist Management

Tune In

Before Beatlemania, there was a songwriting rivalry, a visionary manager, and six-hour Hamburg sets.

của Mark Lewisohn 2013 944 trang

4.72

4.000+ đánh giá

🇬🇧 British Invasion ⚓️ Merseybeat 🎤 Music Industry 💡 Creative Partnership 🤝 Artist Management

Fate Is the Hunter

của Ernest K. Gann • 1961

Fifty feet kept a crowded airliner alive. That margin, in early aviation, never widened.

4.56

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✈️ Early Aviation 🛫 Commercial Aviation 🎲 Fate And Chance 👨‍✈️ Pilot Memoirs 💀 Risk And Mortality

Fate Is the Hunter

Fifty feet kept a crowded airliner alive. That margin, in early aviation, never widened.

của Ernest K. Gann 1961 416 trang

4.56

3.000+ đánh giá

✈️ Early Aviation 🛫 Commercial Aviation 🎲 Fate And Chance 👨‍✈️ Pilot Memoirs 💀 Risk And Mortality

Cat’s Eye

của Margaret Atwood • 1988

A painter's Toronto return forces a reckoning with the girlhood friend who nearly destroyed her.

3.95

73.000+

🎨 Artist Protagonist 👧 Girlhood Cruelty 🖼️ Art As Survival 🕰️ Memory And Trauma 🤔 Psychological Realism

Cat’s Eye

A painter's Toronto return forces a reckoning with the girlhood friend who nearly destroyed her.

của Margaret Atwood 1988 462 trang

3.95

73.000+ đánh giá

🎨 Artist Protagonist 👧 Girlhood Cruelty 🖼️ Art As Survival 🕰️ Memory And Trauma 🤔 Psychological Realism

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

của Milan Kundera • 1979

A dissident burns his letters, a widow chases hers, and a photograph holds a ghost.

3.94

54.000+

🧠 Philosophical Fiction 🔗 Interlinked Stories 🗑️ Memory Erasure 📜 Political Erasure 🖤 Widowhood

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

A dissident burns his letters, a widow chases hers, and a photograph holds a ghost.

của Milan Kundera 1979 313 trang

3.94

54.000+ đánh giá

🧠 Philosophical Fiction 🔗 Interlinked Stories 🗑️ Memory Erasure 📜 Political Erasure 🖤 Widowhood

Strong Inside

của Andrew Maraniss • 2014

The SEC's first black basketball player broke through in 1967. His own campus was the hardest arena.

4.21

317

🏀 College Basketball ✊ Civil Rights Movement 🤝 Sports Integration 🏆 Black Athletes 🏛️ Southern History

Strong Inside

The SEC's first black basketball player broke through in 1967. His own campus was the hardest arena.

của Andrew Maraniss 2014 480 trang

4.21

317 đánh giá

🏀 College Basketball ✊ Civil Rights Movement 🤝 Sports Integration 🏆 Black Athletes 🏛️ Southern History

Devil's Game

của Robert Dreyfuss • 2005

The United States armed Islamism for sixty years. Al Qaeda was the bill that came due.

3.99

272

🌐 Cold War Geopolitics 🕌 Middle Eastern History 🕵️ Covert Foreign Policy ☪️ Islamism And The West 💥 Imperial Blowback

Devil's Game

The United States armed Islamism for sixty years. Al Qaeda was the bill that came due.

của Robert Dreyfuss 2005 400 trang

3.99

272 đánh giá

🌐 Cold War Geopolitics 🕌 Middle Eastern History 🕵️ Covert Foreign Policy ☪️ Islamism And The West 💥 Imperial Blowback

El coronel no tiene quien le escriba

của Gabriel García Márquez • 1961

A veteran waits fifteen years for a pension. His wife starves. Only a rooster remains.

3.80

68.000+

🕰️ Endless Waiting 🏚️ Postwar Hardship 😔 Quiet Desperation 💔 Marital Strain 🔇 Political Repression

El coronel no tiene quien le escriba

A veteran waits fifteen years for a pension. His wife starves. Only a rooster remains.

của Gabriel García Márquez 1961 104 trang

3.80

68.000+ đánh giá

🕰️ Endless Waiting 🏚️ Postwar Hardship 😔 Quiet Desperation 💔 Marital Strain 🔇 Political Repression

Scandals of Classic Hollywood

của Anne Helen Petersen • 2014

Hollywood scandals were never just gossip. They were the culture's ugliest arguments, in public.

3.48

2.000+

🎬 Hollywood History 🎞️ Classic Cinema ⭐ Star System 💥 Celebrity Scandal 🚫 Film Censorship

Scandals of Classic Hollywood

Hollywood scandals were never just gossip. They were the culture's ugliest arguments, in public.

của Anne Helen Petersen 2014 289 trang

3.48

2.000+ đánh giá

🎬 Hollywood History 🎞️ Classic Cinema ⭐ Star System 💥 Celebrity Scandal 🚫 Film Censorship

Quý ông ở Moskva

của Amor Towles • 2016

A count confined to a Moscow hotel for life builds a world within its halls.

4.32

600.000+

🏨 Grand Hotel Drama 🇷🇺 Soviet Russia 🎩 Aristocratic Gentleman 👨‍👩‍👧 Found Family 👔 Unlikely Fatherhood

Quý ông ở Moskva

A count confined to a Moscow hotel for life builds a world within its halls.

của Amor Towles 2016 495 trang

4.32

600.000+ đánh giá

🏨 Grand Hotel Drama 🇷🇺 Soviet Russia 🎩 Aristocratic Gentleman 👨‍👩‍👧 Found Family 👔 Unlikely Fatherhood

The Lonely Londoners

của Sam Selvon • 1956

Moses Aloetta guides West Indian newcomers through a London of fog, poverty, and quiet exclusion.

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14.000+

🛳️ Windrush Generation 🧳 Immigrant Experience 🏙️ Postwar London 🫂 Found Family 🌫️ Quiet Melancholy

The Lonely Londoners

Moses Aloetta guides West Indian newcomers through a London of fog, poverty, and quiet exclusion.

của Sam Selvon 1956 142 trang

3.70

14.000+ đánh giá

🛳️ Windrush Generation 🧳 Immigrant Experience 🏙️ Postwar London 🫂 Found Family 🌫️ Quiet Melancholy

Made in the USA

của Vaclav Smil • 2013

How the country that made a third of the planet's goods stopped making almost everything.

3.76

500+

🏛️ Economic History 🏭 American Industry ⚡ Energy Economics 📉 Deindustrialization 🔗 Supply Chains

Made in the USA

How the country that made a third of the planet's goods stopped making almost everything.

của Vaclav Smil 2013 263 trang

3.76

500+ đánh giá

🏛️ Economic History 🏭 American Industry ⚡ Energy Economics 📉 Deindustrialization 🔗 Supply Chains

The Last Greatest Magician in the World

của Jim Steinmeyer • 2011

Howard Thurston built the modern magic show. Houdini just got remembered for it.

3.84

477

🎭 Stage Magic 🎪 Vaudeville Era ✨ Illusion Design 🪄 Golden Age Of Magic 👻 Spiritualism And Magic

The Last Greatest Magician in the World

Howard Thurston built the modern magic show. Houdini just got remembered for it.

của Jim Steinmeyer 2011 386 trang

3.84

477 đánh giá

🎭 Stage Magic 🎪 Vaudeville Era ✨ Illusion Design 🪄 Golden Age Of Magic 👻 Spiritualism And Magic

The Land of Green Plums

của Herta Müller • 1994

In Ceaușescu's Romania, a student's suicide pulls four friends into a secret pact to remember her.

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6.000+

👁️ Life Under Dictatorship 🇷🇴 Communist Romania 🪢 Chain Of Suicides 🗡️ Betrayal By Friends 🖤 Bleak And Lyrical

The Land of Green Plums

In Ceaușescu's Romania, a student's suicide pulls four friends into a secret pact to remember her.

của Herta Müller 1994 256 trang

3.67

6.000+ đánh giá

👁️ Life Under Dictatorship 🇷🇴 Communist Romania 🪢 Chain Of Suicides 🗡️ Betrayal By Friends 🖤 Bleak And Lyrical

Why Fish Don’t Exist

của Lulu Miller • 2020

The taxonomist who ranked fish also ranked humans. Neither hierarchy was real.

4.13

58.000+

🏷️ Taxonomy 🔴 Eugenics History 🍃 Natural History 🌀 Chaos And Order 🎭 Self-Deception

Why Fish Don’t Exist

The taxonomist who ranked fish also ranked humans. Neither hierarchy was real.

của Lulu Miller 2020 225 trang

4.13

58.000+ đánh giá

🏷️ Taxonomy 🔴 Eugenics History 🍃 Natural History 🌀 Chaos And Order 🎭 Self-Deception

India's Wars

của Arjun Subramaniam • 2016

Four wars forged modern India. The military history its own universities still don't teach.

4.19

500+

🇮🇳 Modern Indian History 🕌 South Asian History ⚔️ Military Statecraft 🌍 Postcolonial Conflicts 🗺️ Border Wars

India's Wars

Four wars forged modern India. The military history its own universities still don't teach.

của Arjun Subramaniam 2016 576 trang

4.19

500+ đánh giá

🇮🇳 Modern Indian History 🕌 South Asian History ⚔️ Military Statecraft 🌍 Postcolonial Conflicts 🗺️ Border Wars

Les Soleils des indépendances

của Ahmadou Kourouma • 1968

A Malinké prince begs at funerals, ruined by the independence that promised to restore his world.

3.58

500+

🏛️ Postcolonial Fiction ✨ Magical Realism 😤 Political Satire 🌑 End Of Lineage ⚖️ Cultural Upheaval

Les Soleils des indépendances

A Malinké prince begs at funerals, ruined by the independence that promised to restore his world.

của Ahmadou Kourouma 1968 196 trang

3.58

500+ đánh giá

🏛️ Postcolonial Fiction ✨ Magical Realism 😤 Political Satire 🌑 End Of Lineage ⚖️ Cultural Upheaval

Black Like Me

của John Howard Griffin • 2003

A white journalist crossed the color line in 1959. The South stripped him of innocence.

4.11

70.000+

🎭 Racial Passing 🏚️ Jim Crow South 📝 Participatory Journalism 👤 White Privilege ✊ Civil Rights Era

Black Like Me

A white journalist crossed the color line in 1959. The South stripped him of innocence.

của John Howard Griffin 2003 208 trang

4.11

70.000+ đánh giá

🎭 Racial Passing 🏚️ Jim Crow South 📝 Participatory Journalism 👤 White Privilege ✊ Civil Rights Era

History of Modern Art

của H. Harvard Arnason • 1968

How a century of painters dismantled perspective, freed color, and rebuilt art from scratch.

4.01

8.000+

🎨 Modern Art 🏛️ Western Art 🖼️ Art Movements 🔍 Formal Analysis 📚 Art Historiography

History of Modern Art

How a century of painters dismantled perspective, freed color, and rebuilt art from scratch.

của H. Harvard Arnason 1968 848 trang

4.01

8.000+ đánh giá

🎨 Modern Art 🏛️ Western Art 🖼️ Art Movements 🔍 Formal Analysis 📚 Art Historiography

This Side of Paradise

của F. Scott Fitzgerald • 1920

Amory falls in love, climbs Princeton's ladder, and learns every rung gives way beneath him.

3.63

80.000+

🎷 Jazz Age Fiction 🥀 Lost Generation 🏛️ Campus Novel 🪖 Post World War I 💔 Romantic Disillusionment

This Side of Paradise

Amory falls in love, climbs Princeton's ladder, and learns every rung gives way beneath him.

của F. Scott Fitzgerald 1920 268 trang

3.63

80.000+ đánh giá

🎷 Jazz Age Fiction 🥀 Lost Generation 🏛️ Campus Novel 🪖 Post World War I 💔 Romantic Disillusionment

UFOs and the National Security State

của Richard M. Dolan • 2009

The Pentagon denied UFOs existed while spending secret billions to reverse-engineer the wreckage.

4.39

288

🛸 Ufo History 🏛️ National Security State 🙈 Ufo Cover-Up 🧬 Crash Retrievals 👽 Alien Abduction

UFOs and the National Security State

The Pentagon denied UFOs existed while spending secret billions to reverse-engineer the wreckage.

của Richard M. Dolan 2009 656 trang

4.39

288 đánh giá

🛸 Ufo History 🏛️ National Security State 🙈 Ufo Cover-Up 🧬 Crash Retrievals 👽 Alien Abduction

The Woman All Spies Fear

của Amy Butler Greenfield • 2021

She cracked Nazi spy rings and sank Prohibition crime empires. The government erased her name.

4.19

1.000+

🧩 Codebreaking History 🕵️ Women In Intelligence 🔐 Cryptanalysis 📡 Wartime Espionage 🥃 Prohibition Era

The Woman All Spies Fear

She cracked Nazi spy rings and sank Prohibition crime empires. The government erased her name.

của Amy Butler Greenfield 2021 328 trang

4.19

1.000+ đánh giá

🧩 Codebreaking History 🕵️ Women In Intelligence 🔐 Cryptanalysis 📡 Wartime Espionage 🥃 Prohibition Era

Savarkar

của Vikram Sampath • 2021

A court cleared Savarkar of Gandhi's murder. History never did.

4.70

472

🚩 Hindu Nationalism 📖 Political Biography 🗺️ Partition Of India 🇮🇳 Anti-Colonial India ✊ Social Reform Movements

Savarkar

A court cleared Savarkar of Gandhi's murder. History never did.

của Vikram Sampath 2021 600 trang

4.70

472 đánh giá

🚩 Hindu Nationalism 📖 Political Biography 🗺️ Partition Of India 🇮🇳 Anti-Colonial India ✊ Social Reform Movements

Six Characters in Search of an Author

của Luigi Pirandello • 1921

Six characters abandoned by their creator storm a rehearsal and demand their tragic story be staged

3.83

22.000+

🎭 Metatheatrical Play 🖤 Dark Family Drama 🤔 Philosophical Theater 🎪 Modernist Drama 🧩 Fragmented Storytelling

Six Characters in Search of an Author

Six characters abandoned by their creator storm a rehearsal and demand their tragic story be staged

của Luigi Pirandello 1921 86 trang

3.83

22.000+ đánh giá

🎭 Metatheatrical Play 🖤 Dark Family Drama 🤔 Philosophical Theater 🎪 Modernist Drama 🧩 Fragmented Storytelling

Churchill

của Winston S. Churchill • 2012

His speeches held Britain together when the bombs fell, then drew the Cold War's battle lines.

4.28

500+

🎤 Political Oratory 🌍 World War Ii 🫡 Wartime Leadership 📢 Crisis Communication 🇬🇧 British History

Churchill

His speeches held Britain together when the bombs fell, then drew the Cold War's battle lines.

của Winston S. Churchill 2012 688 trang

4.28

500+ đánh giá

🎤 Political Oratory 🌍 World War Ii 🫡 Wartime Leadership 📢 Crisis Communication 🇬🇧 British History

The Stonewall Riots

của Gayle E. Pitman • 2019

A 1969 police raid ignited a rebellion that launched the modern fight for LGBT equality.

4.04

1.000+

🏳️‍🌈 Lgbtq History ✊ Civil Rights History 🌃 Underground Subcultures 👮 Police Brutality 📢 Community Activism

The Stonewall Riots

A 1969 police raid ignited a rebellion that launched the modern fight for LGBT equality.

của Gayle E. Pitman 2019 224 trang

4.04

1.000+ đánh giá

🏳️‍🌈 Lgbtq History ✊ Civil Rights History 🌃 Underground Subcultures 👮 Police Brutality 📢 Community Activism

Den of Spies

của Craig Unger • 2024

The Reagan campaign's secret pact with Iran: keep the hostages captive and win the White House.

3.84

264

🇺🇸 American Political History 🇮🇷 Iran-Us Relations 🗳️ Election Manipulation 🕵️ Covert Operations 🔍 Investigative Journalism

Den of Spies

The Reagan campaign's secret pact with Iran: keep the hostages captive and win the White House.

của Craig Unger 2024 368 trang

3.84

264 đánh giá

🇺🇸 American Political History 🇮🇷 Iran-Us Relations 🗳️ Election Manipulation 🕵️ Covert Operations 🔍 Investigative Journalism

The Son

của Philipp Meyer • 2013

A Comanche captive builds a Texas empire, and every generation after him pays the debt.

4.03

38.000+

🐂 Texas Family Saga 🏛️ Generational Saga 🪶 Frontier Captivity ⚔️ Inherited Violence 💔 Love Across Borders

The Son

A Comanche captive builds a Texas empire, and every generation after him pays the debt.

của Philipp Meyer 2013 561 trang

4.03

38.000+ đánh giá

🐂 Texas Family Saga 🏛️ Generational Saga 🪶 Frontier Captivity ⚔️ Inherited Violence 💔 Love Across Borders

The Lieutenants

của W.E.B. Griffin • 1986

From North Africa to Cold War Berlin, officers navigate war, captivity, and the shadow war.

4.34

8.000+

🔗 Pow Escape 🕵️ Cold War Espionage 🏜️ North African Campaign 🏚️ Post-War Germany 🤝 Officer Camaraderie

The Lieutenants

From North Africa to Cold War Berlin, officers navigate war, captivity, and the shadow war.

của W.E.B. Griffin 1986 416 trang

4.34

8.000+ đánh giá

🔗 Pow Escape 🕵️ Cold War Espionage 🏜️ North African Campaign 🏚️ Post-War Germany 🤝 Officer Camaraderie

Science Fiction

của David Seed • 2011

How space voyages, aliens, and time travel turned science fiction into the literature of ideas.

3.31

500+

📖 Literary Criticism 📜 Science Fiction History 👽 Alien Encounters ⏳ Time Travel 🚀 Space Exploration

Science Fiction

How space voyages, aliens, and time travel turned science fiction into the literature of ideas.

của David Seed 2011 147 trang

3.31

500+ đánh giá

📖 Literary Criticism 📜 Science Fiction History 👽 Alien Encounters ⏳ Time Travel 🚀 Space Exploration

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