Essays, First Series
By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
4.16
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
THERE is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the…
Want to Read $ 4.74"The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject, if he has no hand to paint them to the senses."-Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays, First Series
"The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject, if he has no hand to paint them to the senses."-Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays, First Series
"When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know."-Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays, First Series
"When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know."-Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays, First Series
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1. Daisy Miller
By: Henry James
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Format: 164 pages, Paperback
It was in Rome during the autumn of 1877; a friend then living there but settled now in a South les… read more
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"I have never allowed a gentleman to dictate to me, or to interfere with anything I do."-Henry James, Daisy Miller
"In such hours as this what have we to do with pain? That is not the deepest thing; there is something deeper."-Henry James, Daisy Miller
"The news that Daisy Miller was surrounded by half a dozen wonderful mustaches checked Winterbourne's impulse to go straightway to see her."-Henry James, Daisy Miller
"The historic atmosphere was there, certainly; but the historic atmosphere, scientifically considered, was no better than a villainous miasma"-Henry James, Daisy Miller
2. Jacob's Room
By: Virginia Woolf
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Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Virginia Woolf's first original and distinguished work, Jacob's Room is the story of a sensitive yo… read more
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"One must love everything."-Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room
"Marvelous are the innocent. "-Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room
"But language is wine upon his lips"-Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room
"It is no use trying to sum people up."-Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room
3. The New Atlantis
By: Francis Bacon
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In New Atlantis, Bacon portrayed a vision of the future of human discovery and knowledge, expressin… read more
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"We gave ourselves for lost men, and prepared for death. Yet we did lift up our hearts and voices to God above, who "showeth His wonders in the deep"; beseeching Him of His mercy, that as in the begin…"-Francis Bacon, The New Atlantis
4. The Imitation of Christ
By: Thomas à Kempis , William Benham , Richard Challoner, D.D.
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Format: 632 pages, Paperback
Only the Bible has been more influential as a source of Christian devotional reading than The Imita… read more
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5. Walden
By: Henry David Thoreau
2.57
Format: 210 pages, Paperback
Walden, or, Life in the Woods, is an American book written by noted transcendentalist Henry David T… read more
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6. The French Revolution: A History
By: Thomas Carlyle , John D. Rosenberg
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The book that established Thomas Carlyle's reputation when first published in 1837, this spectacula… read more
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7. Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
By: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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If humans are benevolent by nature, how do societies become corrupt? And how do governments founded… read more
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8. Faust: First Part
By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Peter Salm
4.21
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Goethe's masterpiece and perhaps the greatest work in German literature, Faust has made the legenda… read more
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9. The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race
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National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward takes James Baldwin's 1963 examination of race in America, T… read more
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10. The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve
By: G. Edward Griffin
3.67
Format: 348 pages, Paperback
Zhong Yang Yin Xing shisutemugababuru, Bu Kuang , inhurewoYin kiQi koshi, Zhan Zheng woHeng Chang H… read more
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11. The Aeneid
By: Virgil , Robert Fitzgerald
4.50
Format: 228 pages, Paperback
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12. Burmese Days
By: George Orwell
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Format: 68 pages, Hardcover
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13. Phenomenology of Spirit
By: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel , A.V. Miller , John Niemeyer Findlay
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Format: 640 pages, Paperback
Perhaps one of the most revolutionary works of philosophy ever presented, The Phenomenology of Spir… read more
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"The vanity of the contents"-Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit
"The outcome is the same as the beginning only because the beginning is an end."-Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit
"Everything turns on grasping and expressing the True, not only as Substance, but equally as Subject."-Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit
"por lo poco que el espíritu necesita para contentarse, puede medirse la extensión de lo que ha perdido."-Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit
14. The Nicomachean Ethics
By: Aristotle , Jonathan Barnes , None , Hugh Tredennick
3.99
Format: 329 pages, Paperback
‘One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly neither can one day, or a brie… read more
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"Philosophy can make people sick."-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
"A man without regrets cannot be cured."-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
"Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules."-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
"The beginning seems to be more than half of the whole."-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
15. Letters from a Stoic
By: Seneca , Robin Campbell
4.75
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The power and wealth which Seneca the Younger (c.4 B.C. - A.D. 65) acquired as Nero's minister were… read more
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16. Silent Spring
By: Edward O. Wilson , Rachel Carson , Linda Lear
4.14
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17. The Essays
By: Francis Bacon , None
3.44
Format: 406 pages, Paperback
One of the major political figures of his time, Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626) served in the court o… read more
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18. Battle Cry of Freedom
By: James M. McPherson
3.91
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Filled with fresh interpretations and information, puncturing old myths and challenging new ones, B… read more
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19. Politics
By: Aristotle
3.67
Format: 542 pages, Paperback
What is the relationship of the individual to the state? What is the ideal state, and how can it br… read more
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20. Essays, First Series
By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
4.16
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
THERE is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the… read more
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"The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject, if he has no hand to paint them to the senses."-Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays, First Series
"When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know."-Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays, First Series
"Why all this deference to Alfred, and Scanderbeg, and Gustavus? Suppose they were virtuous; did they wear out virtue?"-Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays, First Series
"Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side."-Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays, First Series
