Committed Writings
By: Albert Camus
4.13
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
The Nobel Prize winner's most influential and enduring political writings, newly curated and introd…
Want to Read $ 4.99"When praying, a wise man from the East always implored his deity to spare him from living in interesting times. Since we are not wise men, our deity has not spared us, for we do live in interesting times."-Albert Camus, Committed Writings
"When praying, a wise man from the East always implored his deity to spare him from living in interesting times. Since we are not wise men, our deity has not spared us, for we do live in interesting times."-Albert Camus, Committed Writings
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1. Nausea
By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Lloyd Alexander , Hayden Carruth
3.94
Format: 178 pages, Hardcover
Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In… read more
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"It was true, I had always realized it—I hadn’t any “right"-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
"Then time started flowing again and the emptiness grew larger."-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
"I see the insipid flesh blossoming and palpitating with abandon."-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
"My existence began to worry me seriously. Was I not a simple spectre?"-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
2. Tao Te Ching
By: Lao Tzu , Gia-Fu Feng , Jane English , Jacob Needleman , Toinette Lippe
4.30
Format: 107 pages, Paperback
A lucid translation of the well-known Taoist classic by a leading scholar-now in a Shambhala Pocket… read more
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"The heart that gives, gathers."-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
"Love is a decision - not an emotion!"-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
"When nothing is done, nothing is left undone."-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
"To understand the limitation of things, desire them."-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
3. 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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- philosophy
- classics
- nonfiction
4. The Twelve Caesars
By: Robert Graves , Michael Grant , Suetonius
4.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
As private secretary to the Emperor Hadrian, Suetonius gained access to the imperial archives and u… read more
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- nonfiction
- classics
- history
5. Discourses and Selected Writings
By: Epictetus , Robert F. Dobbin , Robert Dobbin
3.84
Format: 135 pages, Paperback
A new translation of the influential teachings of the great Stoic philosopher DESPITE BEING BORN in… read more
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- philosophy
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6. Upstream: Selected Essays
By: Mary Oliver
2.43
Format: None pages,
Comprising a selection of essays, Upstreamfinds beloved poet Mary Oliver reflecting on her astonish… read more
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7. The Trouble with Being Born
By: Richard Howard , Emil M. Cioran
4.53
Format: 194 pages, Paperback
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- classics
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8. Tristessa
By: Aram Saroyan , Jack Kerouac
4.33
Format: 308 pages,
Tristessa is the name with which Kerouac baptized Esperanza Villanueva, a Catholic Mexican young wo… read more
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- literature
- classics
9. VALIS (VALIS Trilogy, #1)
By: Philip K. Dick
3.44
Format: 220 pages,
VALISis the first book in Philip K. Dick's incomparable final trio of novels (the others being The … read more
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- philosophy
10. The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor
By: Gabriel García Márquez , Randolph Hogan
3.63
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
This is Marquez's account of a real-life event. In 1955, eight crew members of the destroyer Caldas… read more
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- literature
11. A Very Easy Death
By: Simone de Beauvoir , Patrick O'Brian
4.04
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
A Very Easy Death has long been considered one of Simone de Beauvoir’s masterpieces. The profoundly… read more
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"«A ella le gustaba la vida mundana y lo seguía alegremente»."-Simone de Beauvoir, A Very Easy Death
"«No se muere de haber nacido, ni de haber vivido, ni de vejez. Se muere de "algo"»."-Simone de Beauvoir, A Very Easy Death
"When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets."-Simone de Beauvoir, A Very Easy Death
"Sorumlusu olmadığım halde, benim olan, hiçbir zaman da bağışlatamayacağım bir günahın, umutsuzluk içinde, cezasını çekiyordum."-Simone de Beauvoir, A Very Easy Death
12. Innocent Erendira and Other Stories
By: Gabriel García Márquez , Gregory Rabassa
4.26
Format: None pages, Paperback
"The stories are rich and startling in their matter and confident in their manner....They are--the … read more
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13. CivilWarLand in Bad Decline
By: George Saunders
3.87
Format: 291 pages, Paperback
Six short stories and a novella. Set in a dystopian near-future in which America has become little … read more
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14. Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction
By: J.D. Salinger
4.10
Format: 9 pages, Paperback
The author writes: The two long pieces in this book originally came out in The New Yorker ? RAISE H… read more
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15. Sun and Steel
By: Yukio Mishima , John Bester
4.57
Format: 270 pages, Paperback, Paper Dust Jacket
In this fascinating document, one of Japan's best known-and controversial-writers created what migh… read more
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16. Complete Works
By: Arthur Rimbaud , Paul Schmidt
3.49
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Arthur Rimbaud is remembered as much for his volatile personality and tumultuous life as he is for … read more
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17. The Communist Manifesto
By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Gareth Stedman Jones
3.66
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A rousing call to arms whose influence is still felt today Originally published on the eve of th… read more
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- history
- politics
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- nonfiction
"The bourgeois sees in his wife a mere instrument of production."-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
"Study of the past often turns into love of the past and a desire to keep it."-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
"Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps"-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
"The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all."-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
18. Hunger
By: Knut Hamsun , George Egerton
4.05
Format: 134 pages, Paperback
One of the most important and controversial writers of the 20th century, Knut Hamsun made literary … read more
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- philosophy
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"Yoksul aydın, zengin aydından çok daha kuvvetli görür.(s.128)"-Knut Hamsun, Hunger
"It was not my intention to collapse; no, I would die standing."-Knut Hamsun, Hunger
"God be praised, I had raised myself in my own estimation again!"-Knut Hamsun, Hunger
"Truth is neither ojectivity nor the balanced view; truth is a selfless subjectivity."-Knut Hamsun, Hunger
19. Devotion
By: Patti Smith
3.97
Format: 649 pages, Hardcover
From the renowned artist and author Patti Smith, an inspired exploration of the nature of creative … read more
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20. The Passion According to G.H.
By: Clarice Lispector , None
4.13
Format: 173 pages, Paperback
G.H., a well-to-do Rio sculptress, enters the room of her maid, which is as clear and white 'as in … read more
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"I don't want beauty, I want identity."-Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.
"I' is merely one of the world's instantaneous spasms."-Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.
"The world's continual breathing is what we hear and call silence."-Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.
"In the world there exists no aesthetic plane, not even the aesthetic plane of goodness."-Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.
21. The Sense of an Ending
By: Julian Barnes
4.05
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single sitting, with stunning psychological and … read more
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22. The Drowned World
By: Martin Amis , J.G. Ballard
4.50
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
First published in 1962, J.G. Ballard's mesmerizing and ferociously prescient novel imagines a terr… read more
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23. Delta of Venus
By: Anaïs Nin
4.14
Format: None pages,
In Delta of VenusAnais Nin penned a lush, magical world where the characters of her imagination pos… read more
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24. The Noise of Time
By: Julian Barnes
2.60
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A compact masterpiece dedicated to the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich: Julian Barnes's first … read more
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25. Civilization and Its Discontents
By: Sigmund Freud , James Strachey , Peter Gay
4.02
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
It stands as a brilliant summary of the views on culture from a psychoanalytic perspective that he … read more
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26. The Birth of Tragedy
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , Shaun Whiteside
3.99
Format: 121 pages, Paperback
A compelling argument for the necessity for art in life, Nietzsche's first book is fuelled by his e… read more
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- nonfiction
- classics
- history
"Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art."-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy
"Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion."-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy
"Look at this! Look carefully! It is your life! It is the hour-hand of your clock of existence!"-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy
"Večita je to pojava: požudna volja uvek nalazi sredstva da iluzijom prostrtom preko stvari zadrži svoje stvorove u životu i da ih prisili da i dalje žive."-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy
27. Golden Age
By: Wang Xiaobo
4.02
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Like Gary Shteyngart or Michel Houellebecq, Wang Xiaobo is a Chinese literary icon whose satire for… read more
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- literature
"Death was always at your back, an infinite darkness coming to swallow you. I felt miniscule. No matter what I did, I would still be just as miniscule. But so long as I could walk, I could outrun deat…"-Wang Xiaobo, Golden Age
28. Flights of Fancy: Defying Gravity by Design and Evolution
By: Richard Dawkins
4.13
Format: 282 pages, Kindle Edition
Richard Dawkins on how nature and humans have learned to overcome the pull of gravity and take to t… read more
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- history
- audiobook
29. Enemies and Neighbors: Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017
By: Ian Black
4.20
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
In Enemies and Neighbors, Ian Black, who has spent over three decades covering events in the Middle… read more
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- audiobook
30. Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams
By: Philip K. Dick
4.11
Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition
The Inspiration for the Upcoming TV Show Though perhaps most famous as a novelist, over the cours… read more
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31. Committed Writings
By: Albert Camus
4.13
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
The Nobel Prize winner's most influential and enduring political writings, newly curated and introd… read more
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"When praying, a wise man from the East always implored his deity to spare him from living in interesting times. Since we are not wise men, our deity has not spared us, for we do live in interesting t…"-Albert Camus, Committed Writings
