The Lights on my way

Discover 'The Lights on My Way'—a curated list of illuminating books that inspire and guide. Find your next read to light up your path and expand your horizons.

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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

by Robert M. Pirsig

The modern epic that transformed a generation and continues to inspire millions -- a penetrating examination of how we live and how to live better. A narration of a summer motorcycle trip undertaken by a father and his son, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance becomes a personal and philosophical odyssey into fundamental questions of how to live. The narrator's relationship with his son leads to a powerful self-reckoning, the craft of motorcycle maintenance leads to an austerely beautiful process for reconciling science, religion, and humanism. Resonant with the confusions of existence, this classic is a touching and transcendent book of life. This new edition is updated with important typographical changes, a penetrating new introduction, and a Reader's Guide that includes an interview with Pirsig and letters and documents detailing how this extraordinary book came to be.
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I, Claudius

 

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Nineteen Eighty-four

by George Orwell

Portrays life in a future time when a totalitarian government watches over all citizens and directs all activities
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Animal Farm and 1984

by George Orwell

George Orwell's classic satire on totalitarianism in which farm animals overthrow their human owner and set up their own government is accompanied by "1984," his portrayal of life in a future time when a totalitarian government watches over all citizens a
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Founding brothers

 

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Lincoln

by Gore Vidal

Gore Vidal's Narratives of Empire series spans the history of the United States from the Revolution to the post-World War II years. With their broad canvas and large cast of fictional and historical characters, the novels in this series present a panorama of the American political and imperial experience as interpreted by one of its most worldly, knowing, and ironic observers. To most Americans, Abraham Lincoln is a monolithic figure, the Great Emancipator and Savior of the Union, beloved by all. In Gore Vidal's Lincoln we meet Lincoln the man and Lincoln the political animal, the president who entered a besieged capital where most of the population supported the South and where even those favoring the Union had serious doubts that the man from Illinois could save it. Far from steadfast in his abhorrence of slavery, Lincoln agonizes over the best course of action and comes to his great decision only when all else seems to fail. As the Civil War ravages his nation, Lincoln must face deep personal turmoil, the loss of his dearest son, and the harangues of a wife seen as a traitor for her Southern connections. Brilliantly conceived, masterfully executed, Gore Vidal's Lincoln allows the man to breathe again.
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Freedom at Midnight

by Larry Collins

A reconstruction of events at the time of the eclipse of the fabled British Raj. The authors also examine the roles enacted by Gandhi, Lord Mountbatten, Nehru and Jinnah, among others in the violent transformation into the new India and Pakistan.