Cause, Principle and Unity: And Essays on Magic
By: Giordano Bruno
4.10
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Giordano Bruno's notorious public death in 1600, at the hands of the Inquisition in Rome, marked th…
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1. Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy
By: René Descartes , Donald A. Cress
3.76
Format: 103 pages, Paperback
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2. Beyond Good and Evil
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , R.J. Hollingdale
4.02
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
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"The noble soul reveres itself"-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
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3. 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
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"The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare."-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
4. Demian
By: Hermann Hesse
4.14
Format: 193 pages, Paperback
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"Fate and character are different names for the same idea."-Hermann Hesse, Demian
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5. Ethics
By: Baruch Spinoza , Edwin M. Curley , Stuart Hampshire , None
4.10
Format: 186 pages, Paperback
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"Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself."-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
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6. Tao Te Ching
By: Lao Tzu , Gia-Fu Feng , Jane English , Jacob Needleman , Toinette Lippe
4.30
Format: 107 pages, Paperback
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7. Being and Nothingness
By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Hazel E. Barnes , Mary Warnock , Richard Eyre
3.99
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"I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating."-Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness
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8. Demons
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky
4.30
Format: 733 pages, Paperback
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"God is the pain of the fear of death"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons
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"...and in fact I've noticed that faith always seems to be less in the daytime"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons
9. Hamlet's Mill: An Essay Investigating the Origins of Human Knowledge & Its Transmission Through Myth
By: Giorgio de Santillana , None , Hertha von Dechen
4.16
Format: None pages,
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10. The Insulted and Humiliated
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky
3.09
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By: Gershom Scholem , Moses de León
3.98
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12. The Upanishads: Translations from the Sanskrit
By: Anonymous , Juan Mascaró
4.00
Format: 199 pages, Paperback
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13. The Prose Edda
By: Snorri Sturluson , Jesse L. Byock
3.56
Format: None pages, Paperback
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14. Meditations on First Philosophy
By: René Descartes , Donald A. Cress
3.75
Format: 148 pages, Paperback
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15. The Idiot
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Constance Garnett , Joseph Frank , Alan Myers , Anna Brailovsky
4.21
Format: 667 pages, Paperback
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16. The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences
By: Michel Foucault
3.70
Format: None pages, Paperback
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By: C.S. Lewis , Athanasius of Alexandria , None
3.29
Format: None pages, Paperback
A universally acknowledged masterpiece of fourth-century patristic theology. As C. S. Lewis observe… read more
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18. Steppenwolf
By: Hermann Hesse , Basil Creighton , کیکاووس جهانداری
4.75
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Steppenwolfis a poetical self-portrait of a man who felt himself to be half-human and half-wolf. Th… read more
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19. The Epic of Gilgamesh
By: Anonymous , N.K. Sandars
3.74
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
Miraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as much as four thousand years, the poem of Gilg… read more
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"As for man, his days are numbered, whatever he might do, it is but wind."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
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"When all the illusions of personal immortality are stripped away, there is only the act to maintain the freedom to act."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"Gilgamesh was called a god and a man; Enkidu was an animal and a man. It is the story of their becoming human together."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
20. Ulysses
By: James Joyce
3.75
Format: 925 pages, Paperback
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"Shite and onions!"-James Joyce, Ulysses
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"no more pain. wake no more. nobody owns"-James Joyce, Ulysses
21. Critique of Pure Reason
By: Immanuel Kant , Allen W. Wood , Paul Guyer
3.96
Format: 785 pages, Paperback
'The purpose of this critique of pure speculative reason consists in the attempt to change the old … read more
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"The great mass of people are worthy of our respect."-Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
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22. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
By: David Hume
4.14
Format: None pages, Paperback
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23. The World as Will and Representation, Volume I
By: Arthur Schopenhauer , None
4.21
Format: 534 pages, Paperback
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"Scoundrels are always sociable."-Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Volume I
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"Everything is beautiful only so long as it does not concern us."-Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Volume I
"That which knows all things and is known by none is the subject."-Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Volume I
24. The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
By: Michel Foucault , Robert Hurley
4.00
Format: 201 pages,
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25. Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
By: Vladimir Lenin
4.23
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
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"Crises of every kind — economic crises more frequently, but not only these — in their turn increase very considerably the tendency towards concentration and monopoly."-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
"At the basis of these swindles and manipulations lies socialised production; but the immense progress of humanity, which achieved this socialisation, goes to benefit the speculators."-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
"But suppose, for the sake of argument, free competition, without any sort of monopoly, would develop capitalism trade more rapidly. Is it not a fact that the more rapidly trade and capitalism develop…"-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
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26. Critique of Judgment
By: Immanuel Kant , Werner S. Pluhar
4.79
Format: None pages, Paperback
In THE CRITIQUE OF JUDGMENT (1790), Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) seeks to establish the a priori princ… read more
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27. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
By: William Blake
3.72
Format: 294 pages, Paperback
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28. Paradise Lost
By: John Milton , John Leonard
3.84
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
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"What hath night to do with sleep?"-John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Solitude sometimes is best society."-John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n."-John Milton, Paradise Lost
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29. The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt
By: Albert Camus
4.01
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
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30. Cause, Principle and Unity: And Essays on Magic
By: Giordano Bruno
4.10
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Giordano Bruno's notorious public death in 1600, at the hands of the Inquisition in Rome, marked th… read more
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