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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorSelf-Reliance and Other Essays
Ralph Waldo Emerson · 108 pages
Civil Disobedience and Other Essays
Henry David Thoreau · 188 pages
The Myth of Sisyphus
Albert Camus · 169 pages
One of the most influential works of this century, The Myth of Sisyphus--featured here in a stand-alone edition--is a crucial exposition of existentialist thought. Influenced by works such as Don Juan and the novels of Kafka, these essays begin with a meditation on suicide--the question of living or not living in a universe devoid of order or meaning. With lyric eloquence, Albert Camus brilliantly
The Essays
Francis Bacon · 250 pages
Discusses truth, death, revenge, adversity, envy, marriage, love, goodness, superstition, friendship, ambition, aging, beauty, gardens, and honor.
Heretics
G.K. Chesterton · 160 pages
Gilbert Keith Chesterton was born in London, England on the 29th of May, 1874. Though he considered himself a mere rollicking journalist, he was actually a prolific and gifted writer in virtually every area of literature. A man of strong opinions and enormously talented at defending them, his exuberant personality nevertheless allowed him to maintain warm friendships with people - such as George B
Anarchism and Other Essays
Emma Goldman · 201 pages
"Anarchism asserts the possibility of an organization without discipline, fear, or punishment, and without the pressure of poverty: a new social organism which will make an end to the terrible struggle for the means of existence,--the savage struggle which undermines the finest qualities in man, and ever widens the social abyss. In short, Anarchism strives towards a social organization which will
The Will to Believe, Human Immortality and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy
William James · 402 pages
On Liberty and Other Essays
John Stuart Mill · 592 pages
The Soul of Man under Socialism
Oscar Wilde · 65 pages
Basic Writings: Ten Key Essays, plus the Introduction to Being and Time
Martin Heidegger · 464 pages
Between Past and Future
Hannah Arendt · 298 pages
Essays examining the effect on political and social thought of the western world's break with the Graeco-Roman tradition.
Essays and Aphorisms
Arthur Schopenhauer · 237 pages
One of the greatest philosophers of the nineteenth century, Schopenhauer (1788-1860) believed that human action is determined not by reason but by 'will' - the blind and irrational desire for physical existence. This selection of his writings on religion, ethics, politics, women, suicide, books and many other themes is taken from Schopenhauer's last work, Parerga and Paralipomena, which he publish
The Book of Tea
Kakuzo Okakura · 54 pages
Tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage. In China, in the eighth century, it entered the realm of poetry as one of the polite amusements. The fifteenth century saw Japan ennoble it into a religion of aestheticism - Teaism. Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence. It inculcates purity and harmony, the mystery of mutual charity
Reveries of the Solitary Walker
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The World's Last Night: And Other Essays
C.S. Lewis · 113 pages
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke · 552 pages
Collected Writings: Common Sense/The Crisis/Rights of Man/The Age of Reason/Pamphlets/Articles & Letters
Thomas Paine · 906 pages
"I know not whether any man in the world," wrote John Adams in 1805, "has had more influence on its inhabitants or affairs for the last thirty years than Tom Paine." The impassioned democratic voice of the Age of Revolution, Paine wrote for his mass audience with vigor, clarity, and "common sense." This is the first major new edition of his work in 50 years, and the most comprehensive single-volum
Walden, Civil Disobedience, and Other Writings
Henry David Thoreau, William Rossi · 672 pages
In addition to the texts of 'Walden' and 'Civil Disobedience', this revised and expanded 'Norton Critical Edition' reprints the increasingly important works 'Slavery in Massachusetts', 'Walking' and 'Wild Apples'. All texts are accompanied by annotations.
Fear and Trembling/Repetition
Soren Kierkegaard · 464 pages
The two books comprised in this volume are in greater demand than any other works of Kierkegaard. This preference is a credit to the public taste, for Kierkegaard himself called them "the most perfect books I have written," though in this commendation he included The Concept of Dread, and later stretched it to include Training in Christianity.
An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment?
Immanuel Kant · 144 pages
The Importance of Living
Lin Yutang · 459 pages
The Importance of Living is a wry, witty antidote to the dizzying pace of the modern world. Lin Yutang's prescription is the classic Chinese philosophy of life: Revere inaction as much as action, invoke humor to maintain a healthy attitude, and never forget that there will always be plenty of fools around who are willing-indeed, eager-to be busy, to make themselves useful, and to exercise power wh