Tales of the City
Series of nine novels written by American author Armistead Maupin from 1978 to 2014
masterpiece
On the Shoulders of Giants
Metaphor which means “Using the understanding gained by major thinkers who have gone before in order to make intellectual progress”.It is a metaphor of dwarfs standing on the shoulders of giants and expresses the meaning of “discovering truth by building on previous discoveries”. This concept has been dated to the 12th century, according to John of Salisbury is attributed to Bernard of Chartres
The Seven Storey Mountain
1948 autobiography of Thomas Merton, an American Trappist monk and priest who was a noted author in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. Merton finished the book in 1946 at the age of 31, five years after entering Gethsemani Abbey near Bardstown, Kentucky
Ongoingness
2015 book by Sarah Manguso
The Magic Mountain
Novel by Thomas Mann, first published in German in November 1924. It is widely considered to be one of the most influential works of twentieth-century German literature