Walden and Civil Disobedience

Henry David Thoreau

Title: Walden; or Life in the Woods.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print Editions. The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers...

The Bastard of Istanbul

Elif Shafak

From the backlist of Elif Shafak, author of The Architect's Apprentice, The Bastard of Istanbul is a tale of an extraordinary family curse and was longlisted for the 2008 Orange Fiction Prize.One rainy afternoon in Istanbul, a woman walks into a doctor's surgery. 'I need to have an abortion', she announ...