Classical Literature (Pelican Books)
By: Richard Jenkyns
3.88
Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition
Any list of the six greatest European poets would include Virgil, Aeschylus and Homer. A recent his…
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1. The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
By: Marcel Proust , None , Terence Kilmartin , D.J. Enright
4.39
Format: 957 pages, Paperback
The Modern Library’s fifth volume of In Search of Lost Time contains both The Captive (1923) and Th… read more
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"...every social class has its own pathology..."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
"Love is space and time made perceptible to the heart."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
"Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
"There are optical errors in time as there are in space."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
2. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
By: Hannah Arendt
4.20
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
Originally appearing as a series of articles in The New Yorker, Hannah Arendt’s authoritative and s… read more
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- classics
- history
"Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it—the quality of temptation."-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
"During the war, the lie most effective with the whole of the German people was the slogan of “the battle of destiny for the German people"-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
"In the Third Reich evil lost its distinctive characteristic by which most people had until then recognized it. The Nazis redefined it as a civil norm."-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
"It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent."-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
3. Kallocain
By: Karin Boye , Gustaf Lannestock , Richard B. Vowles
3.72
Format: 193 pages, Paperback
This is a novel of the future, profoundly sinister in its vision of a drab terror. Ironic and detac… read more
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"Ur tankar och känslor föds ord och handlingar. Hur skulle tankar och känslor då kunna vara den enskildes ensak? (...) Hittills har det bara inte varit möjligt att kontrollera dem - men nu är alltså m…"-Karin Boye, Kallocain
"На стіні висіли чутливе «поліційне вухо» й «поліційне око», таке саме зірке в темряві, як і при світлі. Ніхто не заперечить того, що ці органи дуже потрібні. Якби не вони, скільки помешкань могло б с…"-Karin Boye, Kallocain
"Попри те, цього вечора не годилося поводитися понуро й сумувати. На урочистостях, присвячених примноженню добра й достатку Держави, має панувати піднесений настрій. Мабуть, моя доля пішла б іншим шля…"-Karin Boye, Kallocain
"Збуджена, приязно налаштована юрба озвалася на мої слова бурею оплесків і схвальних вигуків. Але я бачив, що не всі аплодували. Коли плеще в долоні тисяча, а двоє сидять склавши руки, то ці двоє пере…"-Karin Boye, Kallocain
4. History: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
By: John H. Arnold
3.78
Format: 137 pages, Paperback
There are many stories we can tell about the past, and we are not, perhaps, as free as we might ima… read more
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"History is above all else an argument."-John H. Arnold, History: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
"A historian is like a detective investigating a crime."-John H. Arnold, History: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
"history is to society what memory is to the individual."-John H. Arnold, History: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
" all history in some ways wishes to say something about its own present time."-John H. Arnold, History: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
5. The Divine Comedy
By: Dante Alighieri , Eugenio Montale , Allen Mandelbaum
4.29
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
The Divine Comedy, translated by Allen Mandelbaum, begins in a shadowed forest on Good Friday in th… read more
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- literature
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6. Min kamp 1 (Min kamp #1)
By: Karl Ove Knausgård
4.11
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Min kamp ar Karl Ove Knausgards maktiga sjalvbiografiska roman. Forsta delen inleds med en svepande… read more
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7. On Revolution
By: Hannah Arendt
3.96
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Tracing the gradual evolution of revolutions, Arendt predicts the changing relationship between war… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
8. The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words, 1000 BCE – 1492 CE
By: Simon Schama
4.31
Format: 1056 pages, Hardcover
From the invention of a single deity and the killing of his embodied Son through to the production … read more
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9. The Tartar Steppe
By: Dino Buzzati , Stuart Hood
3.80
Format: 25 pages,
Often likened to Kafka's The Castle, The Tartar Steppe is both a scathing critique of military life… read more
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10. World Order
By: Henry Kissinger
3.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Henry Kissinger offers in World Ordera deep meditation on the roots of international harmony and gl… read more
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11. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
By: Max Weber , Michael D. Coe , Talcott Parsons , None
3.99
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
The Protestant ethic -- a moral code stressing hard work, rigorous self-discipline, and the organiz… read more
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12. The Two Princesses of Bamarre
By: Gail Carson Levine
4.25
Format: None pages, Paperback
Twelve-year-old Addie admires her older sister Meryl, who aspires to rid the kingdom of Bamarre of … read more
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13. Heart of Europe: A History of the Holy Roman Empire
By: Peter H. Wilson
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The Holy Roman Empire lasted a thousand years, far longer than ancient Rome. Yet this formidable do… read more
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14. American Colonies: The Settling of North America
By: Alan Taylor
4.14
Format: 438 pages, Paperback
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15. The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
By: Stephen Greenblatt
4.34
Format: 132 pages, Paperback
One of the world's most celebrated scholars, Stephen Greenblatt has crafted both an innovative work… read more
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16. Poems and Fragments
By: Sappho , Stanley Lombardo , Pamela Gordon
3.98
Format: None pages, Paperback
Little remains today of the writings of the archaic Greek poet Sappho (fl. late 7th and early 6th c… read more
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17. Termush
By: Sven Holm
3.31
Format: 119 pages, Paperback
Introduced by Jeff VanderMeer, welcome to a luxury hotel at the end of the world in this post-apoca… read more
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"An inspired lie could be preferred to a malignant truth."-Sven Holm, Termush
"I must ask myself whether I am not colouring what I see with my own views."-Sven Holm, Termush
"- I do have some faith in democracy, but I don't think that this vote can be regarded as a matter of course as democratic. The voters knew too little about the alternatives. - They are always Ill-inf…"-Sven Holm, Termush
18. The Visionaries: Arendt, Beauvoir, Rand, Weil, and the Power of Philosophy in Dark Times
By: Wolfram Eilenberger
3.92
Format: 399 pages, Paperback
A soaring intellectual narrative starring the radical, brilliant, and provocative philosophers Simo… read more
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- history
19. The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era
By: Gary Gerstle
4.19
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The most sweeping account of how neoliberalism came to dominate American politics for nearly a half… read more
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20. The Last Song of Penelope (The Songs of Penelope, #3)
By: Claire North
4.38
Format: 464 pages, Kindle Edition
Following the critically acclaimed Ithaca and House of Odysseus comes the final novel in Claire Nor… read more
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21. Classical Literature (Pelican Books)
By: Richard Jenkyns
3.88
Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition
Any list of the six greatest European poets would include Virgil, Aeschylus and Homer. A recent his… read more
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- essays
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