Days of Reading | Penguin Great Ideas

Days of Reading | Penguin Great IdeasThroughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are. In these inspiring essays

'A'ishah al-Ba'uniyyah remains largely unknown

Airlifted to Seoul for an operation following a wood-chopping accident

Forty miles north of Rome

nothing – just the light and the yellow and the scent of dry leaves in the sun

It brings together ethnomusicological and cultural studies perspectives

especially those who wish to recite the Qur’an while pondering its meanings’

his thoughts on May 13

it also resulted in a large following of Tolstoyan Christians springing up throughout Russia and Europe

More than twenty-five years after its original publication

It is his love for Annelies that enables him to find the strength to embrace his world

My Kind of Girl is a moving and imaginative look at love from one of India’s most celebrated writers

I assumed she’d gone to make coffee