5 Top biography books like Caravaggio: The Complete Works by Sebastian Schütze

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Caravaggio: The Complete Works

By: Sebastian Schütze

4.61

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

Sublime blasphemy? The complete œuvre of the dark genius who revolutionized European painting …

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1. A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings

By: Charles Dickens , Michael Slater

4.14

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

An alternate cover for this isbn can be found here. 'Merry Christmas!...every idiot who goes abo… read more

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"It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas when the Great Creator was a child himself."

-Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings

"Reflect upon your present blessings -- of which every man has many -- not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some."

-Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings

"... Any Christian spirit working kindly in its little sphere, whatever it may be, will find its mortal life too short for its vast means of usefulness!"

-Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings

"The air was filled with phantoms... and... the misery with them all was, clearly, that they sought to interfere, for good, in human matters, and had lost the power forever."

-Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings

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2. Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane

By: Andrew Graham-Dixon

4.14

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (29 September 1571–18 July 1610) lived probably the darkest and m… read more

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  • art
  • art history
  • biography
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Caravaggio’s art is made from darkness and light. His pictures present spotlit moments of extreme and often agonized human experience. A man is decapitated in his bedchamber, blood spurting from a de…"

-Andrew Graham-Dixon, Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane

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3. Biblioteca Personal

By: Jorge Luis Borges

4.19

Format: None pages,

En el momento de su fallecimiento, Borges había completado los prólogos a los primeros sesenta y cu… read more

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  • nonfiction
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4. Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

By: Pablo Neruda , W.S. Merwin , Cristina García

4.21

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

When it appeared in 1924, this work launched into the international spotlight a young and unknown p… read more

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"Tonight I Can Write"

-Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

"I remembered you with my soul clenched"

-Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

"I want to fill my mouth with your name."

-Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

"Every day you play with the light of the universe."

-Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

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5. Collected Poems

By: Philip Larkin , Anthony Thwaite

4.21

Format: 218 pages, Paperback

One of the best-known and best-loved poets of the English-speaking world, Philip Larkin had only a … read more

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"Life is slow dying."

-Philip Larkin, Collected Poems

"Time is the echo of an axe Within a wood."

-Philip Larkin, Collected Poems

"I take off my cycle-clips in awkward reverence."

-Philip Larkin, Collected Poems

"Death is no different whined at than withstood."

-Philip Larkin, Collected Poems

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6. Fear and Trembling

By: Søren Kierkegaard , Alastair Hannay

4.75

Format: 335 pages, Paperback

Soren Kierkegaard was a Danish philosopher, theologian and religious author interested in human psy… read more

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  • nonfiction
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7. The New York Trilogy

By: Paul Auster , Art Spiegelman

4.36

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

Paul Auster's signature work, The New York Trilogy, consists of three interlocking novels: City of … read more

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8. Gustav Klimt: The Complete Paintings - XXL

By: Gustav Klimt , None

4.10

Format: 668 pages, Over-Sized 12"W x 16"H Hardcover

During his lifetime, Gustav Klimtwas a controversial star whose works made passions run high. He st… read more

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  • art
  • art history
  • biography
  • history
  • art design
  • nonfiction
  • reference
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9. 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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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • italian literature
"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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10. Cigars of the Pharaoh (Tintin #4)

By: Hergé

3.91

Format: 192 pages, ebook

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11. Moominpappa's Memoirs (The Moomins, #4)

By: Tove Jansson , Thomas Warburton

3.83

Format: None pages, Paperback

Before he had a family, before he met Moominmamma, Moominpappa led a life of adventure and intrigue… read more

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12. A History of Pictures: From the Cave to the Computer Screen

By: Martin Gayford , David Hockney

4.16

Format: 422 pages, Hardcover

A picture, says David Hockney, is the only way that we can communicate what we see. Here, in a coll… read more

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  • art
  • art history
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • reference
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13. The Broken Ear (Tintin, #6)

By: Hergé , Leslie Lonsdale-Cooper , Michael Turner

5.00

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

The classic graphic novel. A sacred tribal statue has been stolen from the museum! Tintin and Snowy… read more

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14. Collected Poems, 1909-1962

By: T.S. Eliot

4.12

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

There is no more authoritative collection of the poetry that Eliot himself wished to preserve than … read more

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15. Vincent Van Gogh: The Complete Paintings

By: Ingo F. Walther , Rainer Metzger

3.71

Format: 412 pages, Paperback

Van Gogh, who took up a variety of professions before becoming an artist, was a solitary, despairin… read more

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  • art
  • art history
  • biography
  • history
  • art design
  • nonfiction
  • reference
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16. The Lady With the Little Dog and Other Stories, 1896-1904

By: Anton Chekhov , Ronald Wilks , None

3.91

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

This collection contains the following thirteen stories: The House with the Mezzanine Peasants Man … read more

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17. Marcovaldo

By: Italo Calvino , William Weaver

2.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

Marcovaldo is an unskilled worker in a drab industrial city in northern Italy. He is an irrepressib… read more

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  • italian literature
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18. Bestiario

By: Julio Cortázar

3.70

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

In these eight masterpieces there is no room for the smallest sign of stumbling or youthful underto… read more

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19. The Lives of the Artists

By: Peter Bondanella , Giorgio Vasari , None

3.67

Format: 117 pages, Paperback

Packed with facts, attributions, and entertaining anecdotes about his contemporaries, Vasari's coll… read more

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20. La hojarasca

By: Gabriel García Márquez

3.65

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

El primer libro de Gabriel García Márquez —de 1955— contiene el germen estilístico y de las ideas q… read more

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"As I hear him, I understand that he's not more moronic because of the brandy than he is because of his cowardice."

-Gabriel García Márquez, La hojarasca

"When something moves you can tell that time has passed. Not till then. Until something moves time is eternal ... That's why time doesn't pass for the hanged man: because even if the child's hand move…"

-Gabriel García Márquez, La hojarasca

"Mientras se abanica con el sombrero el rostro trastornado por la sofocación y el aguardiente, mirando hacia la soga, calculando su fuerza, él dice: `Es imposible que una soga tan delgada haya sosteni…"

-Gabriel García Márquez, La hojarasca

"Hay un minuto en que se agota la siesta. Hasta la secreta, recóndita, minúscula actividad de los insectos cesa en ese instante preciso; el curso de la naturaleza se detiene; la creación tambalea al b…"

-Gabriel García Márquez, La hojarasca

21. The Complete Paintings and Drawings

By: Leonardo da Vinci , Frank Zöllner , None

3.20

Format: None pages, Hardcover

TASCHEN's 25th anniversary - Special edition! Special bestseller price Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519… read more

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22. The Black Island (Tintin, #7)

By: Hergé

4.08

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Investigating a mysterious plane crash, Tintin discovers he's onto something big! The case leads Ti… read more

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23. Strait is the Gate

By: André Gide

3.44

Format: None pages, Paperback

A delicate boy growing up in Paris, Jerome Palissier spends many summers at his uncle's house in th… read more

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24. Belgravia

By: Julian Fellowes

3.77

Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition

FROM THE CREATOR OF DOWNTON ABBEY The New York Times bestselling novel about scandalous secrets and… read more

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"I would fight dragons, I would walk over flaming coals, I would enter the Valley of the Dead, if I thought I might have a chance of your heart."

-Julian Fellowes, Belgravia

"Oliver did not seem to understand that the only real fulfilment on this earth was to be gained through hard work. Life as a series of momentary pleasures satisfied no one. He needed to make an invest…"

-Julian Fellowes, Belgravia

"She was at that period of her life that almost everyone must pass through, when childhood is done with and a faux maturity, untrammeled by experience, gives one a sense that anything is possible unti…"

-Julian Fellowes, Belgravia

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25. The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)

By: Guy de Maupassant

3.89

Format: 159 pages, Paperback

Before succumbing to the insanity that ravaged his later life, Guy de Maupassant established a repu… read more

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"A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption."

-Guy de Maupassant, The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)

"Es evidente que la soledad resulta peligrosa para las mentes que piensan demasiado."

-Guy de Maupassant, The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)

"I said, 'If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn't we meet them a long time ago?"

-Guy de Maupassant, The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)

"Whence come those mysterious influences which change our happiness into discouragement, and our self-confidence into diffidence?"

-Guy de Maupassant, The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)

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26. Astrology

By: Andrea Richards

4.45

Format: 520 pages, Hardcover

From the beginning of human history, individuals across cultures and belief systems have looked to … read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • reference
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27. Tarot

By: Jessica Hundley

4.50

Format: 519 pages, Hardcover

To explore the Tarot is to explore ourselves, to be reminded of the universality of our longing for… read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • reference
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28. Bloodborne Official Artworks

By: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

4.60

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

In the terrifying video game Bloodborne, deranged mobs and nightmarish creatures lurk around every … read more

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  • art
  • art design
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29. Hr Giger By Taschen Portfolio

By: Taschen

4.42

Format: 28 pages, Paperback

Portfolio with 14 framable prints; cover art is No. 251, "Li II." read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • reference
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30. Caravaggio: The Complete Works

By: Sebastian Schütze

4.61

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

Sublime blasphemy? The complete œuvre of the dark genius who revolutionized European painting … read more

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  • art
  • art history
  • biography
  • history
  • art design
  • nonfiction
  • italian literature
  • visual art
  • reference
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31. Japanese Woodblock Prints 1680-1938

By: Andreas Marks

4.44

Format: 621 pages, Hardcover

The Japanese woodblock print is a phenomenon with no Western equivalent, one where breathtaking lan… read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
  • history

9 Best history books like Caravaggio: The Complete Works by Sebastian Schütze

Transform Your Habits

Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane

Andrew Graham-Dixon

4.14

Transform Your Habits

Gustav Klimt: The Complete Paintings - XXL

Gustav Klimt , None

4.10

Transform Your Habits

The Prince

Niccolò Machiavelli , Adolph Caso , Rufus Goodwin , Benjamin Martinez

3.84

Transform Your Habits

A History of Pictures: From the Cave to the Computer Screen

Martin Gayford , David Hockney

4.16

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Transform Your Habits

Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate

Anna Bogutskaya

3.72

Transform Your Habits

Astrology

Andrea Richards

4.45

Transform Your Habits

Tarot

Jessica Hundley

4.50

Transform Your Habits

A History of Magic, Witchcraft, and the Occult (DK A History of)

D.K. Publishing

4.03

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