With summer arriving late this month - June 20 - the IdleGuy.com Librarian didn't want to overload its readers with voluminous tomes from classic authors, though one - Plato - was thrown into the mix. This month's books are lighter, though no less entertaining and relevant.
The heavy lift will commence next month with the idleguy.com Summer Reading List.
For now, enjoy these three selections, each available in PDF form for free downloading:
Paris in the twenties: Pernod, parties and expatriate Americans, loose-living on money from home. Jake is wildly in love with Brett Ashley, aristocratic and irresistibly beautiful, but with an abandoned, sensuous nature that she cannot change. When the couple drifts to Spain to the dazzle of the fiesta and the heady atmosphere of the bullfight, their affair is strained by new passions, new jealousies, and Jake must finally learn that he will never possess the woman he loves.
The quintessential novel of the Lost Generation, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta) is one of Ernest Hemingway's masterpieces and a classic example of his spare but powerful writing style. A poignant look at the disillusionment and angst of the post-World War I generation, the novel introduces two of Hemingway's most unforgettable characters: Jake Barnes and Lady Brett Ashley. The story follows the flamboyant Brett and the hapless Jake as they journey from the wild nightlife of 1920s Paris to the brutal bullfighting rings of Spain with a motley group of expatriates. It is an age of moral bankruptcy, spiritual dissolution, unrealized love, and vanishing illusions. First published in 1926, The Sun Also Rises helped to establish Hemingway as one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century.
Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, this classic text is an enquiry into the notion of a perfect community and the ideal individual within it. During the conversation, other questions are raised: what is goodness?; what is reality?; and what is knowledge? The Republic also addresses the purpose of education and the role of both women and men as guardians of the people. With remarkable lucidity and deft use of allegory, Plato arrives at a depiction of a state bound by harmony and ruled by philosopher kings.
Twice-elected President and former host of The Apprentice, Donald J. Trump reveals the business secrets that have made him America's foremost deal maker."I like thinking big. I always have. To me it's very simple: If you're going to be thinking anyway, you might as well think big." - Donald J. Trump Here is Trump in action - how he ran his business and how he ran his life - as he meets the people he needs to meet, chats with family and friends, clashes with enemies, and changed the face of the New York City skyline. But even a maverick plays by rules, and Trump formulated eleven guidelines for success. He isolates the common elements in his greatest deals; he shatters myths; he names names, spells out the zeros, and fully reveals the deal-maker's art. And throughout, Trump connects with the reader about how he did it. Trump: The Art of the Deal is an unguarded look at the mind of a brilliant entrepreneur and an unprecedented education in the practice of deal-making. It's the most streetwise business book there is - and the ultimate read for anyone interested in achieving money and success, and knowing the man who stands in the spotlight.
Praise for Trump: The Art of the Deal "Trump makes one believe for a moment in the American dream again." - The New York Times; "Donald Trump is a deal maker. He is a deal maker the way lions are carnivores and water is wet." - Chicago Tribune "Fascinating ...wholly absorbing ...conveys Trump's larger-than-life demeanor so vibrantly that the reader's attention is instantly and fully claimed." - Boston Herald "A chatty, generous, chutzpa-filled autobiography." - New York Post, from the Hardcover edition.
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (1926)
The Republic by Plato (380 B.C.)
The Art of the Deal by Donald J. Trump (1987)
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