Book Events for philrafferty
Events within the books in philrafferty's library
13th century
14th century
16th century
1940s
1950s
1980s
1984
19th century
- The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs by Friedrich Nietzsche
- Moby-Dick (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) by Herman Melville
- The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life (Penguin Classics) by Charles Darwin
- The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War (Modern Library) by Stephen Crane
4th century BCE
- Aristotle's Poetics (Dramabook,) by Aristotle
- The Republic: A New Translation by Plato
- The Symposium (Penguin Great Ideas) by Plato
American Civil War
- The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War (Modern Library) by Stephen Crane (1861-1865)
American Revolution
Anglo-Irish Treaty
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
- Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman (1865-04-14)
Augustine's conversion
- The Confessions of St. Augustine: Modern English Version (Paraclete Living Library) by Saint Augustine, Bishop of Hippo
baseball
Battle of Caporetto
Battle of the Somme
- A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway (1916)
Beat Generation
Beheading game
Bloomsday
British Association for the Advancement of Science - founding and early years
- The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science (Hardcover) by Richard Holmes (Author)
Christmas
- Appointment in Samarra: A Novel by John O'Hara
- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia) by C. S. Lewis
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Penguin Classics) by Anonymous
- Lolita (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) by Vladimir Nabokov (1952)
Classical Antiquity
COINTELPRO
Cold War
Crimean War
Cuban Missile Crisis
- Underworld by Don DeLillo (1962)
Death and Resurrection of Aslan
Death of the White Witch
Discovery of Uranus
- The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science (Hardcover) by Richard Holmes (Author) (1781)
Easter Rising
Elizabethan Era
End of the World
English Renaissance
Evacuation of British Children in WW2
Fin de siècle
First Hot Air Balloon Flights
- The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science (Hardcover) by Richard Holmes (Author)
Frankenstein - writing of
- The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science (Hardcover) by Richard Holmes (Author)
Genesis creation narrative
Great Depression
Holocaust
Home Rule Bill
Hurricane Katrina
- Zeitoun by Dave Eggers (2005)
Influenza pandemic
- Homer & Langley: A Novel by E.L. Doctorow (1918)
Interwar Period
Invention of Miner's Safety Lamp
- The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science (Hardcover) by Richard Holmes (Author) (1816)
Islamic Golden Age
Jacobean Era
Japanese invasion of Manchuria, 1931
Japanese Occupation
Japanese-American Internment
- Homer & Langley: A Novel by E.L. Doctorow (1945)
Jazz Age
Korean War
masturbation
Middle Ages
- Beowulf: A New Translation by Seamus Heaney
- Essential Rumi by Jalal al-Din Rumi
- The Inferno (Signet Classics) by Dante Alighieri
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Penguin Classics) by Anonymous
New Year
Newark riots
- American Pastoral by Philip Roth (1967)
The Noble Experiment
Petit's walk on a wire strung between the World Trade Center Towers, Aug 7, 1974.
Prohibition in the United States
Renaissance
Return of Father Christmas
San Fermin & Running of the Bulls
September 11 Attacks
- Netherland: A Novel by Joseph O'Neill (2001-09-11)
Seymour Glass's wedding
Spanish Civil War
- For Whom the Bell Tolls (Scribner Library) by Hemingway
- World Within World: The Autobiography of Stephen Spender (Modern Library) by Stephen Spender
Spanish Golden Age
Spanish Renaissance
Student Protests
- Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami (1968)
Theory of Evolution
- The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life (Penguin Classics) by Charles Darwin
Transcendentalism
Trojan War
- The Aeneid by Virgil
- The Iliad (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Homer
- The Odyssey (Wordsworth Classics) by Homer
Trujillo dictatorship
United States presidential election
- Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime by John Heilemann (2008)
US Civil War
Victorian Era
- The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life (Penguin Classics) by Charles Darwin
- Picture of Dorian Gray by Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Vietnam War
Voyage of the HMS Endeavor
- The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science (Hardcover) by Richard Holmes (Author)
Winter
World Series
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: (Great Books edition) (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) by Ken Kesey
World War I
- The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
- Zeno's Conscience: A Novel by Italo Svevo
- A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway (1918)
- Homer & Langley: A Novel by E.L. Doctorow (1918)
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1914 ∙ 1918)
World War II
- Austerlitz (Modern Library Paperbacks) by Winfried Georg Sebald
- Lolita (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) by Vladimir Nabokov
- 1984 ( 1945)
- 2666 - 3-Volume Boxed Set: A Novel by Roberto Bolano (1945)
- Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (1945)
- Homer & Langley: A Novel by E.L. Doctorow (1945)
- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia) by C. S. Lewis (1945)
World War II, British Home Front
World War II, Pacific Theater
- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel by Haruki Murakami
- Homer & Langley: A Novel by E.L. Doctorow (1945-09-02)