On Art and Life | Penguin Great Ideas

On Art and Life | 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. John Ruskin's insights

and delve into the peculiar relationship between gambling and fortune-telling

Khan provides a fresh perspective on the women who ruled in succession in Aceh for half the seventeenth century

But crises can also bring renewal

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Eliot is regarded as the most important poet–critic of modern times

The Ramayana and the Malay Shadow-Play

and the fear of emptiness that drives it

and judgement from all sides

political and liberating way

Daniel Foliard tells the story of how the land was brought into being