Death of the Soul
By: William Barrett
3.85
Format: 173 pages, Paperback
Traces the development of philosophical thought from the seventeenth century to today, and explores…
Want to Read"We have to be who we are, however we may seek eventually to transform ourselves."-William Barrett, Death of the Soul
"We have to be who we are, however we may seek eventually to transform ourselves."-William Barrett, Death of the Soul
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1. To the Lighthouse
By: Virginia Woolf
3.80
Format: 209 pages, Paperback
The serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children and assor… read more
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"I have had my vision."-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
"[...] there was only the sound of the sea."-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
"Well, we must wait for the future to show."-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
"The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare."-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
2. The Waves
By: Virginia Woolf
4.15
Format: 297 pages, Paperback
Set on the coast of England against the vivid background of the sea, The Waves introduces six chara… read more
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"Death is woven in with the violets,"-Virginia Woolf, The Waves
"Up here my eyes are green leaves, unseeing."-Virginia Woolf, The Waves
"I am not one and simple, but complex and many."-Virginia Woolf, The Waves
"But I pine in Solitude. Solitude is my undoing."-Virginia Woolf, The Waves
3. Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking
By: William James
3.58
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
A profoundly influential figure in American psychology, William James (1842-1910) was also a philos… read more
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4. The Sympathizer
By: Viet Thanh Nguyen
3.83
Format: 28 pages, Hardcover
The winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, as well as five other awards, The Sympathizeris … read more
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5. The Revolt of the Masses
By: José Ortega y Gasset
4.00
Format: 199 pages, Paperback
Social upheaval in early 20th-century Europe is the historical setting for this seminal study by th… read more
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- philosophy
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6. The Brothers Karamazov
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky
4.37
Format: 796 pages, Paperback
The Brothers Karamazov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry… read more
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- philosophy
"How good life is when one does something good and just!"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
"Forgive me... for my love - for ruining you with my love."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
"Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
"What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
7. Grendel
By: John Gardner
4.03
Format: 606 pages,
The first and most terrifying monster in English literature, from the great early epic Beowulf, tel… read more
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8. A Farewell to Arms
By: Ernest Hemingway , نجف دریابندری
4.12
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war, to the war to end all wars. He volunteered for ambulance serv… read more
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9. Independent People
By: Halldór Laxness , James Anderson Thompson
3.75
Format: 289 pages, Paperback
This magnificent novel--which secured for its author the 1955 Nobel Prize in Literature--is at last… read more
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10. The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell
By: Aldous Huxley
2.83
Format: None pages, Paperback
As only he can, Aldous Huxley explores the mind's remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human … read more
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11. Mary
By: Vladimir Nabokov , Michael Glenny
3.71
Format: 114 pages, Paperback
Mary is a gripping tale of youth, first love, and nostalgia--Nabokov's first novel. In a Berlin ro… read more
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"La gente que se afeita se rejuvenece un día todas las mañanas."-Vladimir Nabokov, Mary
"Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring."-Vladimir Nabokov, Mary
"El delicioso hecho íntimo ocurrido anoche había sido la causa de que todo el caleidoscopio de su vida variara, y había evocado el pasado de un modo avasallador."-Vladimir Nabokov, Mary
"The day, like the previous days, dragged sluggishly by in a kind of insipid idleness, devoid even of that dreamy expectancy which can make idleness so enchanting."-Vladimir Nabokov, Mary
12. Elizabeth Costello
By: J.M. Coetzee
4.15
Format: None pages, Paperback
Since 1982, J. M. Coetzee has been dazzling the literary world. After eight novels that have won, a… read more
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13. Goodbye to All That
By: Robert Graves
3.73
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
An autobiographical work that describes firsthand the great tectonic shifts in English society foll… read more
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14. When We Cease to Understand the World
By: Benjamín Labatut
4.14
Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition
One of The New York Times Book Review ’s 10 Best Books of 2021 Shortlisted for the 2021 Internat… read more
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"Como la luna en el budismo, una partícula no existe; el acto de medición la vuelve un objeto real"-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Reality, they said to those present, does not exist as something separate from the act of observation."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Una de las cosas que siempre me han sorprendido de Chile es la aversión que sentimos por la cordillera. No habitamos las montañas."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Solo una visione di insieme, come quella di un santo, di un pazzo o di un mistico, ci permetterà di decifrare la forma in cui è organizzato l’universo."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
15. Death of the Soul
By: William Barrett
3.85
Format: 173 pages, Paperback
Traces the development of philosophical thought from the seventeenth century to today, and explores… read more
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"We have to be who we are, however we may seek eventually to transform ourselves."-William Barrett, Death of the Soul
