11 Top philosophy books like Writings on Art and Literature by Sigmund Freud

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Writings on Art and Literature

By: Sigmund Freud

3.95

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Despite Freud's enormous influence on twentieth-century interpretations of the humanities, there ha…

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1. The Solitude of Prime Numbers

By: Paolo Giordano , Shaun Whiteside

3.64

Format: 271 pages, Hardcover

A bestselling international literary sensation about whether a "prime number" can ever truly connec… read more

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"She was tired, with that tiredness that only emptiness brings."

-Paolo Giordano, The Solitude of Prime Numbers

"No tenían nada en común, salvo el no querer estar allí ese día."

-Paolo Giordano, The Solitude of Prime Numbers

"إن شعور المرء بكونه مميزا هو أسوأ أنواع الأقفاص التى يمكن للمرء أن يبنيه."

-Paolo Giordano, The Solitude of Prime Numbers

"Denis's love for Mattia had burned itself out, like a forgotten candle in an empty room, leaving behind a ravenous discontent."

-Paolo Giordano, The Solitude of Prime Numbers

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2. Dead Souls

By: Nikolai Gogol , Robert A. Maguire

3.98

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in a provincial town and visits a succession of landowner… read more

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"Keep not money, but keep good people's company."

-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls

"Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young."

-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls

"A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe."

-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls

"A Russian peasant scratching the back of his head means many different things."

-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls

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3. The Sorrows of Young Werther

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Burton Pike

3.73

Format: None pages, Paperback

Visiting an idyllic German village, Werther, a sensitive and romantic young man, meets and falls in… read more

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4. Demons

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky

4.30

Format: 733 pages, Paperback

Alternate Cover Edition ISBN 0679734511. (ISBN13: 9780679734512) Inspired by the true story of a… read more

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"God is the pain of the fear of death"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons

"Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. It's only that."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons

"Marriage is the moral death of every proud soul, of all independence."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons

"...and in fact I've noticed that faith always seems to be less in the daytime"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons

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5. Père Goriot

By: Honoré de Balzac

3.85

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Père Goriot is the tragic story of a father whose obsessive love for his two daughters leads to his… read more

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"Good befalls us while we sleep, sometimes."

-Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot

"آری ,در این دنیا هیچ چیزی کامل نیست, مگر بدبختی."

-Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot

"Notre coeur est un trésor, videz-le d'un coup, vous êtes ruinés."

-Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot

"If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible."

-Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot

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6. Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)

By: Hilary Mantel

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the countr… read more

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7. The Prince

By: Niccolò Machiavelli , Adolph Caso , Rufus Goodwin , Benjamin Martinez

3.84

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Machiavelli needs to be looked at as he really was. Hence: Can Machiavelli, who makes the following… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"Is it better to be loved or feared?"

-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

"He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command"

-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

"Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception."

-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

"It is a common fault of men not to reckon on storms in fair weather."

-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

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8. Amok Koşucusu

By: Stefan Zweig , Nafer Ermiş

3.99

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Amok Koşucusu doktor olarak yardıma ihtiyaç duyan bir insana el uzatmanın vicdani yükümlülüğüyle ke… read more

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9. Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Enlightenment

By: Robert Wright

3.64

Format: None pages, Audiobook

From one of America's greatest minds, a journey through psychology, philosophy, and lots of meditat… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • psychology

10. The Hero With a Thousand Faces

By: Joseph Campbell

3.79

Format: 32 pages,

The first popular work to combine the spiritual and psychological insights of modern psychoanalysis… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • psychology

11. Between the Acts

By: Virginia Woolf

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

In Woolf's last novel, the action takes place on one summer's day at a country house in the heart o… read more

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12. Poor Folk

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky

3.78

Format: 167 pages, Paperback

Poor Folk (Russian: Бедные люди, Bednye lyudi), sometimes translated as Poor People,[note] is the f… read more

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"ويقال إنّ الفتى بوكروفسكي يشبه أمه كما تشبه قطرة من الماء قطرة من الماء."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Poor Folk

"أضرع إليك مرة أخرى: لا تنفق في سبيلي كل هذا الذي تنفقه. أنا أعرف أنك تحبني كثيرًا، ولكنك لست غنيًا."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Poor Folk

"أوهام إنه ليتفق للمرء أن يخطئ تقدير ما يشعر به هو نفسه، وأن يسترسل في ترهات سخيفة. والذنب في ذلك كله انما هو ذنب هذا الطيش في قلبنا المندفع"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Poor Folk

"لماذا تعيش النفوس الطيبة النبيلة في الشقاء والهجران، بينما لا يحتاج غيرها حتى إلى البحث عن السعادة لأن السعادة هي التي تلقي بنفسها بين ذراعيه؟"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Poor Folk

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13. What Is Art?

By: Leo Tolstoy , Aylmer Maude

3.73

Format: 252 pages, Hardcover

During the decades of his world fame as sage & preacher as well as author of War & Peace & Anna Kar… read more

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  • art
  • literature
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
"Without knowing what I am and why I am here, it is impossible for me to live. And I cannot know that, and consequently it is impossible for me to live,"

-Leo Tolstoy, What Is Art?

"The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible."

-Leo Tolstoy, What Is Art?

"A true work of art is the revelation of a new conception of life arising in the artist's soul, which, when expressed, lights up the path along with humanity progresses"

-Leo Tolstoy, What Is Art?

"To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds, or forms expressed in words, so to transmit that feeling th…"

-Leo Tolstoy, What Is Art?

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14. Netochka Nezvanova

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Jane Kentish

3.91

Format: 163 pages, Paperback

Netochka Nezvanova - a 'Nameless Nobody' - tells the story of a childhood dominated by her stepfath… read more

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15. And Quiet Flows the Don

By: Mikhail Sholokhov

2.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

And Quiet Flows the Don or Quietly Flows the Don (Tikhii Don, lit. "The Quiet Don") is 4-volume epi… read more

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16. The Gambler

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Constance Garnett , Gary Saul Morson

3.91

Format: 188 pages, Paperback

In this dark and compelling short novel, Dostoevsky tells the story of Alexey Ivanovitch, a young t… read more

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"Quien teme al lobo no se mete en el bosque."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler

"يجب ان يظل المال دون الأستقراطي، حتى لكأن الأستقراطي لا يكاد يحفل به أو يقلق له"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler

"En toda situación es posible comportarse con dignidad. Si hay lucha, que sea noble y no humillante."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler

"People really do like seeing their best friends humiliated; a large part of the friendship is based on humiliation; and that is an old truth,well known to all intelligent people."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler

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17. The Sheltering Sky

By: Paul Bowles

3.89

Format: 342 pages, Paperback

In this classic work of psychological terror, Paul Bowles examines the ways in which Americans appr… read more

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"When I was young"

-Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky

"The soul is the weariest part of the body."

-Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky

"She was saved from prettiness by the intensity of her gaze."

-Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky

"La humanidad es todos salvo uno mismo. Entonces, ¿Qué interés puede tener para nadie?"

-Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky

18. The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years

By: Chingiz Aitmatov

4.57

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

..". a rewarding book." --Times Literary Supplement Set in the vast windswept Central Asian steppes… read more

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19. Inferno (The Divine Comedy #1)

By: Dante Alighieri , Anthony Esolen

3.93

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

Guided by the poet Virgil, Dante plunges to the very depths of Hell and embarks on his arduous jour… read more

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20. The Captain's Daughter

By: Alexander Pushkin , Robert Chandler

4.44

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Pushkin's version of the historical novel in the style of Walter Scott, this final prose work also … read more

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21. Il fu Mattia Pascal

By: Luigi Pirandello

4.01

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Pubblicato nel 1904, Il fu Mattia Pascal, il più famoso dei romanzi di Pirandello, riveste un'impor… read more

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"Ma i libri [...] pesano tanto: eppure, chi se ne ciba e se li mette in corpo, vive tra le nuvole."

-Luigi Pirandello, Il fu Mattia Pascal

"Si reconocemos que equivocarse es propio del hombre, ¿no es una crueldad sobrehumana la justicia?"

-Luigi Pirandello, Il fu Mattia Pascal

"come se parimenti dalle proprie sofferenze vi fosse abilitato. E se gli altri non gli fanno il bene quasi per dovere, egli li accusa, e di tutto il male ch’egli fa quasi per diritto, facilmente si sc…"

-Luigi Pirandello, Il fu Mattia Pascal

"¿Me ha parecido una suerte que me tuvieran por muerto? Pues bien: estoy muerto de verdad. ¿Muerto? Peor que muerto me lo ha recordado don Anselmo: los muertos ya no tienen que morirse, y yo sí, yo es…"

-Luigi Pirandello, Il fu Mattia Pascal

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22. Bel-Ami

By: Guy de Maupassant , Douglas Parmée

3.85

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Guy de Maupassant's scandalous tale of an opportunistic young man corrupted by the allure of power,… read more

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"In fact living is dying."

-Guy de Maupassant, Bel-Ami

"Vivre enfin, c'est mourir!"

-Guy de Maupassant, Bel-Ami

"The only certainty is death."

-Guy de Maupassant, Bel-Ami

"In the kingdom of the blind the one-eyed man is king."

-Guy de Maupassant, Bel-Ami

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23. The Blind Owl

By: Sadegh Hedayat , D.P. Costello

3.97

Format: 148 pages, Paperback

Considered the most important work of modern Iranian literature, The Blind Owl is a haunting tale o… read more

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  • philosophy
"افكار پوچ! از هر حقيقتی بيشتر مرا شكنجه ميكند"

-Sadegh Hedayat, The Blind Owl

"در زندگی زخمهایی است که روح را آهسته در انزوا می خورد ومیتراشد"

-Sadegh Hedayat, The Blind Owl

"در زندگی زخمهايی هست که مثل خوره روح را آهسته در انزوا می خورد و می تراشد"

-Sadegh Hedayat, The Blind Owl

"از دور ریختن عقایدی که به من تلقین شده بود، آرامش مخصوصی در خودم حس می‌کردم."

-Sadegh Hedayat, The Blind Owl

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24. Tender Is the Night

By: F. Scott Fitzgerald

3.78

Format: 430 pages, Paperback

Set on the French Riviera in the late 1920s, Tender Is the Night is the tragic romance of the young… read more

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"My God,' he gasped, 'you're fun to kiss."

-F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

"The price for his intactness was incompleteness."

-F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

"But I suppose you must touch life in order to spring from it."

-F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

"New friends can often have a better time together than old friends."

-F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

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25. Notes from Underground

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Norman Dietz , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky , Boris de Schlœzer , Emanuela Guercetti , None , Donald Fanger , None , None , None

4.17

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

Dostoevsky’s most revolutionary novel, Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between ninet… read more

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  • philosophy
  • psychology
"l'homme de la nature et de la verite"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

"I'll go this minute!' Of course, I remained."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

"إذ ما العذاب والألم ... سوى المحرك الوحيد للوعي."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

"To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

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26. The Magic Mountain

By: Thomas Mann , John E. Woods

4.13

Format: 706 pages, Paperback

In this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Mann uses a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps, a community devot… read more

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  • literature
  • philosophy
"Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul."

-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

"A harmful truth is better than a useful lie."

-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

"Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil."

-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

"It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death."

-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

27. Discourse on Method

By: René Descartes , Donald A. Cress

3.85

Format: None pages, Paperback

By far the most widely used translation in North American college classrooms, Donald A. Cress's tra… read more

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28. The Invention of Solitude

By: Paul Auster

2.57

Format: None pages, Paperback

In this debut work by New York Times-bestselling author Paul Auster (The New York Trilogy), The Inv… read more

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29. Kürk Mantolu Madonna

By: Sabahattin Ali

5.00

Format: 298 pages, Paperback

"Her gun, daima ogleden sonra oraya gidiyor, koridorlardaki resimlere bakiyormus gibi agir agir, fa… read more

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30. Chi dice e chi tace

By: Chiara Valerio

3.77

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

Scauri, affacciato sul Tirreno, è l’ultimo paese del Lazio, un posto né bello né brutto, con una su… read more

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31. Writings on Art and Literature

By: Sigmund Freud

3.95

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Despite Freud's enormous influence on twentieth-century interpretations of the humanities, there ha… read more

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  • art
  • psychoanalysis
  • literature
  • theory
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • criticism
  • essays
  • literary criticism

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