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Moby-Dick or, The Whale

Herman Melville · 420 pages

A classic of the sea, telling of the pursuit of Moby Dick, the white whale who defied capture.

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Paradise Lost

John Milton · 336 pages

John Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. It tells the story of the Fall of Man, a tale of immense drama and excitement, of rebellion and treachery, of innocence pitted against corruption, in which God and Satan fight a bitter battle for control of mankind's destiny. The struggle rages across three worlds - heaven, hell, and earth - as Satan and his ban

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The Brothers Karamazov

Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 809 pages

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Fear and Trembling

Soren Kierkegaard · 158 pages

"This newly translated Fear and Trembling, a founding document of modern philosophy and existentialism, could not be more apt for these perilous times. First published in 1843 under the pseudonym "Johannes de silentio" (John of Silence), Søren Kierkegaard's richly resonant Fear and Trembling has for generations stood as a pivotal text in the history of moral philosophy, inspiring such artistic and

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The I Ching or Book of Changes

Anonymous · 740 pages

A translation of the early document of Chinese philosophy with explanatory notes.

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Theological-Political Treatise

Baruch Spinoza · 267 pages

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The Elementary Forms of Religious Life

Emile Durkheim · 416 pages

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Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Friedrich Nietzsche · 327 pages

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The Varieties of Religious Experience

William James · 470 pages

This is one of the most remarkable books ever written about religious experience. James captures the reader’s attention with vivid instances of religious experience collected from diverse sources, including classical religious texts, newspaper articles, and clinical studies. In this collection of Gifford lectures given in Scotland in 1901, James analyzes religious experience, using wonderful examp

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Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion

David Hume · 129 pages

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The Kingdom of God Is Within You

Leo Tolstoy · 352 pages

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Bible

Bible · 1,462 pages

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The Inferno

Dante Alighieri · 288 pages

Dante, after becoming lost on the path of life, is led by Virgil into Hell to begin his journey back to the light of God.

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The Hero With a Thousand Faces

Joseph Campbell · 456 pages

A thoroughly intense and all-embracing read. In the 2-page preface written in 1948, he states such ground-shakingly obvious facts about the human psyche, that you'll wonder why these ideas had never dawned on you before. Then, into the main text of the book, and you're spirited away into an adventure that explores all forms of mythology and their importance in founding different cultures all aroun

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Miracles

C.S. Lewis · 192 pages

An impeccable inquiry into the proposition that supernatural events can happen in this world. C. S. Lewis uses his remarkable logic to build a solid argument for the existence of divine intervention. "This book is intended as a preliminary to historical inquiry. I am not a trained historian, and I shall not examine the historical evidence for the Christian miracles. My effort is to put my reade

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God Emperor of Dune

Frank Herbert · 432 pages

Fourth book in the Dune series. Takes place 3500 years after the events of the original trilogy. Tells the story of Leto, the son of Paul Atreides, who has traded his humanity to become an immortal sandworm of Dune.

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Meditations on First Philosophy

Rene Descartes · 95 pages

Meditations on First Philosophy (1641)—full titles Meditations on First Philosophy, in which the existence of God and the immortality of the soul are demonstrated—is a philosophical treatise by French philosopher and mathematician René Descartes. First published in Latin, the book is made up of six meditations written as if Descartes had meditated for six days; each meditation refers to the last o

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Nature

Ralph Waldo Emerson · 78 pages

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The Religious Affections

Jonathan Edwards · 384 pages

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Interior Castle

Teresa of Avila · 235 pages

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Philosophical Essays

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz · 366 pages

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The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion

Mircea Eliade · 256 pages

Famed historian of religion Mircea Eliade observes that even moderns who proclaim themselves residents of a completely profane world are still unconsciously nourished by the memory of the sacred. Eliade traces manifestations of the sacred from primitive to modern times in terms of space, time, nature, and the cosmos. In doing so he shows how the total human experience of the religious man compares

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