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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Essays
Francis Bacon · 250 pages
Discusses truth, death, revenge, adversity, envy, marriage, love, goodness, superstition, friendship, ambition, aging, beauty, gardens, and honor.
Self-Reliance and Other Essays
Ralph Waldo Emerson · 108 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
On Liberty and Other Essays
John Stuart Mill · 592 pages
A Room of One's Own
Virginia Woolf · 129 pages
A Room of One's Own is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf. First published on 24 October 1929, the essay was based on a series of lectures she delivered at Newnham College and Girton College, two women's colleges at Cambridge University in October 1928. While this extended essay in fact employs a fictional narrator and narrative to explore women both as writers of and characters in fiction, the m
Modern Man in Search of a Soul
C.G. Jung · 244 pages
Basic Writings: Ten Key Essays, plus the Introduction to Being and Time
Martin Heidegger · 464 pages
The Abolition of Man
C.S. Lewis · 116 pages
C. S. Lewis sets out to persuade his audience of the importance and relevance of universal values such as courage and honor in contemporary society.
Poetics
Aristotle · 144 pages
One of the first books written on what is now called aesthetics. Although parts are lost (e.g., comedy), it has been very influential in western thought, such as the part on tragedy.
Existentialism and Human Emotions
Jean-Paul Sartre · 96 pages
Écrits
Jacques Lacan · 878 pages
Presents an English translation of Jacques Lacan's most famous work, with translations of all the papers featured in the original French edition.
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.
The Anatomy of Melancholy, what it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostickes, & Several Cures of It. In Three Partitions, Philosophically, Medicinally, Historically, Opened and Cut Up
Robert Burton · 1,064 pages
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
John Locke · 475 pages
Locke's Essay ... (1690) withstood an onslaught by traditional theologians, for rejecting orthodox theology and the concept of innate ideas: as he suggested that God could make matter think. The Essay quickly became one of the most influential books of the eighteenth century, and its contributions to the philosophy of space and time, matter and power were quickly hailed as formative contributions
The Mind’s I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul
Douglas R. Hofstadter, Daniel C. Dennett · 431 pages
The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought
Marilynne Robinson · 254 pages
In the tradition of nineteenth-century novelists who turned to the essay, Marilynne Robinson offers an authoritative approach to refining the ideas our culture has handed down to us. Whether considering how the McGuffey readers were inspired by midwestern abolitionists; how creationism, "long owned by the Religious Right," has spurred on contemporary Darwinism; or how John Calvin, who was a French
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
Walter Benjamin · 280 pages
Orthodoxy
G.K. Chesterton · 156 pages
Orthodoxy is G. K. Chesterton’s response to his critics’ assertion that his earlier collection of essays, Heretics, had “merely criticised current philosophies without offering any alternative philosophy.” In his intellectual journey from pagan to agnostic to positivist philosopher, he had attempted to build a philosophy “some ten minutes in advance of the truth.” But when he compared his modern p
Ideas and Opinions
Albert Einstein · 377 pages
Here is a new edition of the most definitive collection of Albert Einstein's popular writings, gathered under the supervision of Einstein himself. The selections range from his earliest days as a theoretical physicist to his death in 1955; from such subjects as relativity, nuclear war or peace, and religion and science, to human rights, economics, and government.