Kirk's recommendations

Here's a list of authors and books recommended by Russell Kirk in his The Politics of Prudence (to be expanded as I read more):

• Edmund Burke
• Sir Henry Maine
• John Randolph of Roanoke
• Orestes Brownson
  • The American Republic
• Benjamin Disraeli
• Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
• John Paul II
• Ronald Reagan
• Sir Walter Scott
  • Waverley novels
• Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Blithedale Romance
  • Earth's Holocaust
• Robert Louis Stevenson
• Rudyard Kipling
• Joseph Conrad
  • Under Western Eyes
  • The Secret Agent
  • Nostromo
  • The Informer
• Bolingbroke
• Samuel Coleridge
• Robert A. Nisbet
• Francis Graham Wilson
• Quintin Hogg
• John Adams
• Alexis de Tocqueville
  • Democracy in America
• James Fenimore Cooper
  • The American Democrat
• John C. Calhoun
  • Disquisition on Government
  • Discourse on the Constitution
• James Fitzjames Stephen
  • Liberty, Equality, Fraternity
• W. E. H. Leckey
• W. H. Mallock
• Paul Elmer More
• Irving Babbitt
  • Democracy and Leadership
  • Literature and the American College
• Donald Davidson
  • The Attack on Leviathan
• Wilhelm Roepke
  • The Social Crisis of our Time
• T. S. Eliot
  • To Criticize the Critic
  • Notes towards the Definition of Culture
  • The Idea of a Christian Society
  • "The Criterion" magazine
• Marcus Tullius Cicero
• Phyllis Bentley
  • Freedom, Farewell
• Plutarch
• Marcus Aurelius Antonius
• Albert Jay Nock
  • The Value of Useless Knowledge
  • some unnamed essays on conservatism
• Samuel Johnson
  • Rasselas
• Russell Kirk
  • The Portable Conservative Reader
  • Randolph of Roanoke - A Study in Conservative Thought
• Theodore Roosevelt
  • Hero Tales from American History
• Richard Weaver
  • Ideas have Consequences
  • The Ethics of Rhetoric
• Freya Stark
  • Perseus in the Wind
  • Rome on the Euphrates

Merry Christmas to emacs users

Or, how I spent my Christmas vacation.

Here are texinfo and info versions of Project Gutenberg's Complete Works of Shakespeare, suitable for use in emacs or with the texinfo program (though I haven't actually tested it with texinfo).

It's a gzipped tar archive. Extracting it will give you a directory named "shakespeare" containing shakespeare.texi (the source file) and a set of info files generated from it via Makeinfo. Find out where info files live on your system, then put these info files in that directory and add the following to the 'dir' file in the directory:

* Shakespeare: (shakespeare).           The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Shakespeare.

The .texi file is included in case you want to make changes and recompile the info files.

You may also be interested in my info/texinfo editions of the Summa theologiae of St Thomas Aquinas and the Catechism of the Catholic Church. C-u 999 M-x gloria-in-excelsis-deo.

The complete works of John Adams

The complete works of Thomas Jefferson