Ninety-Three by Victor Hugo
Ninety-Three (Quatrevingt-treize) is Hugo’s last novel and one of his best. It is an excellent introduction to his works: it presents—in story, style and spirit—the condensed essence of that which is uniquely “Hugo-esque.” |
I like Dostoevsky, for his superb mastery of plot structure and for his merciless dissection of the psychology of evil, even though his philosophy and his sense of life are almost diametrically opposed to mine |
I love the work of Victor Hugo, in a deeper sense than admiration for his superlative literary genius, and I find many similarities between his sense of life and mine, although I disagree with virtually all of his explicit philosophy. |
The (implicit) standards of Romanticism are so demanding that in spite of the abundance of Romantic writers at the time of its dominance, this school has produced very few pure, consistent Romanticists of the top rank. Among novelists, the greatest are Victor Hugo and Dostoevsky, and, as single novels (whose authors were not always consistent in the rest of their works), I would name Henryk Sienkiewicz’s Quo Vadis and Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter. Among playwrights, the greatest are Friedrich Schiller and Edmond Rostand. |
|
An Introduction to Philosophical Analysis by John Hospers
|
|
Letters of Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand's Marginalia
Envy: A Theory of Social Behavior by Helmut Schoeck
|
A History of Philosophy by Wilhelm Windelband
|
The Unity of Philosophical Experience by Etienne Gilson
|
Human Action by Ludwig von Mises
|
Bureaucracy by Ludwig von Mises
|
The Road to Serfdom by F. a. Hayek
|
The Art of Fiction
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
|
King Lear by William Shakespeare
|
Othello by William Shakespeare
|
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
|
Nineteen Eighty-four by George Orwell
|
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
|
|
|
The Romantic Manifesto
A Kiss Before Dying by Ira Levin (page 121)
|
Philosophy: Who Needs |
The Passion of Ayn Rand
|
Journals of Ayn Rand
Review, The Objectivist Newsletter
The Ayn Rand Column
|
Ayn Rand Answers
Philosophy: Who Needs It The Miracle Worker by William Gibson |
People also search for
ABOUT
Ayn Rand was a Russian-American writer and philosopher. She is known for her two best-selling novels, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, and for developing a philosophical system she named Objectivism. Educated in Russia, she moved to the United States in 1926. She had a play produced on Broadway in 1935 and 1936. Wikipedia |