10 must-read nonfiction books like Maquiavel, ou a confusão demoníaca by Olavo de Carvalho

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Maquiavel, ou a confusão demoníaca

By: Olavo de Carvalho

4.24

Format: 93 pages, Paperback

Dos pensadores modernos mais célebres, Nicolau Maquiavel é talvez o primeiro a entregar ao público …

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1. The Merry Wives of Windsor

By: William Shakespeare

3.55

Format: 156 pages, Paperback

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteer… read more

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"Better three hours too soon than a minute too late."

-William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor

"Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness."

-William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor

"I assure thee: setting the attractions of my good parts aside I have no other charms."

-William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor

"I think the devil will not have me damned, lest the oil that's in me should set hell on fire."

-William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor

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2. The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods

By: Antonin Sertillanges

4.41

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

"Fr. Sertillanges's teachings are as timeless as any truths which describe the genuine nature of th… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"Genius simplifies things"

-Antonin Sertillanges, The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods

"Truth serves only its slaves."

-Antonin Sertillanges, The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods

"Reason ambitions only a world; faith gives it infinity."

-Antonin Sertillanges, The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods

"The good is the brother of the true; it will help its brother."

-Antonin Sertillanges, The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods

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3. White Nights

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky

4.06

Format: 82 pages, Paperback

White Nights is a short story by Fyodor Dostoevsky that was published in 1848. Set in St. Petersbur… read more

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  • philosophy
"E ti chiedi: “Dove sono i tuoi sogni?"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

"Oh, how unbearable is a happy person sometimes!"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

"Kalbim içimde konuşurken ben susmayı beceremem."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

"But how could you live and have no story to tell?"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

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4. Lysistrata

By: Aristophanes , Sarah Ruden

3.87

Format: 132 pages, Paperback

Aristophanes' comic masterpiece of war and sex remains one of the greatest plays ever written. Led … read more

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"Sənət çörək arxasınca qaçarsa, alçalar"

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

"Lysistrata: To seize the treasury; no more money, no more war."

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

"Queste donne micidiali, non si può vivere nè con loro nè senza di loro."

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

"Chorus of old men: How true the saying: 'Tis impossible to live with the baggages, impossible to live without 'em."

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

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5. Electra

By: Euripides , Janet Lempke

2.86

Format: 358 pages, Paperback

Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly recreate the… read more

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6. The Imitation of Christ

By: Thomas à Kempis , William Benham , Richard Challoner, D.D.

4.32

Format: 632 pages, Paperback

Only the Bible has been more influential as a source of Christian devotional reading than The Imita… read more

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  • nonfiction
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7. The Last Day of a Condemned Man

By: Victor Hugo , Libby Purves , Geoff Woollen

3.98

Format: 109 pages, Paperback

Deeply shocking in its time, The Last Day of a Condemned Man is a profound and moving tale and a vi… read more

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"إن الموت يجعلني إنساناً شريراً !!"

-Victor Hugo, The Last Day of a Condemned Man

"كنت قادراً على التفكير في كل ما يسرني ، لأني كنتُ حراً"

-Victor Hugo, The Last Day of a Condemned Man

"¡Cuantós han muerto habiendo hecho planes para una larga vida!"

-Victor Hugo, The Last Day of a Condemned Man

"ماذا عراني فصرت بهذه الدرجة من التخاذل والإنهيار؟ إن باب القبر لا يُفتح من الداخل!!"

-Victor Hugo, The Last Day of a Condemned Man

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8. King Lear

By: William Shakespeare , William James Rolfe

3.91

Format: 338 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Shakespeare’s King Lear challenges us with the magnitude, intensity, and sheer duration of the pain… read more

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"Fortune love you."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

"She is herself a dowry."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

"All dark and comfortless."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

"Nothing can come of nothing."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

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9. Recordações do Escrivão Isaías Caminha

By: Lima Barreto

4.20

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

Filho de uma escrava liberta e um tipografo, Lima Barreto nunca teve em vida o reconhecimento que a… read more

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10. The Way

By: Josemaría Escrivá

4.53

Format: 122 pages,

The strength, the attraction of The Way is largely due to the fact that it is based on real, living… read more

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  • nonfiction
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11. Confessions

By: Augustine of Hippo , Henry Chadwick , Albert Cook Outler

3.41

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Augustine's Confessions is one of the most influential and most innovative works of Latin literatur… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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12. Economic Policy

By: Ludwig von Mises

3.98

Format: None pages,

Economic Policycontains six lectures Ludwig von Mises delivered in 1959 for the Centro de Estudios … read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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13. Orthodoxy

By: G.K. Chesterton

4.11

Format: 528 pages, Paperback

Chesterton (The Man Who Knew Too Much) capped his brilliant literary career with this exploration o… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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14. A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy

By: Miyamoto Musashi , Victor Harris , Lew Hartman

4.15

Format: 32 pages,

Miyamoto Musashi fue el mas celebre de los guerreros (samurais) japoneses. En este texto presenta s… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction

15. Phaedrus

By: Plato , Paul Woodruff , Alexander Nehamas , Albert A. Anderson

3.50

Format: 270 pages, Paperback

Trajectory presents classics of world literature with 21st century features! Our original-text edit… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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16. The Death of Ivan Ilych

By: Leo Tolstoy , Aylmer Maude

4.13

Format: 86 pages, Paperback

Hailed as one of the world's supreme masterpieces on the subject of death and dying, The Death of I… read more

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  • philosophy
"If you look for the working classes in fiction, and especially English fiction, all you find is a hole."

-Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych

"And the further he departed from childhood and the nearer he came to the present the more worthless and doubtful were the joys."

-Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych

"In the depths of his heart he knew that he was dying but, so far from growing used to the idea, he simply did not and could not grasp it."

-Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych

"It can't be that life is so senseless and horrible. But if it really has been so horrible and senseless, why must I die and die in agony? There is something wrong!"

-Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych

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17. Prometheus Bound

By: Aeschylus , None , James Scully , C. John Herington

3.13

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Featuring an insightful introduction, comprehensive commentary on plot, characters, structure, and … read more

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18. Clouds

By: Aristophanes , None

3.37

Format: 245 pages, Paperback

This new paperback edition of Aristophanes' popular play includes the complete Greek text and exten… read more

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19. Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3)

By: Sophocles , J.E. Thomas

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

The curse placed on Oedipus lingers and haunts a younger generation in this new and brilliant trans… read more

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20. Auto da Barca do Inferno

By: Gil Vicente

3.69

Format: 72 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Trata-se de uma alegoria dramática: duas são as barcas em que os personagens podem subir - a do Inf… read more

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21. The Privilege of Being a Woman

By: Alice von Hildebrand

3.87

Format: 252 pages, Paperback

Women historically have been denigrated as lower than men or viewed as privileged. Dr. Alice von Hi… read more

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22. The Merchant of Venice

By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine , None

3.78

Format: 247 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In this lively comedy of love and money in sixteenth-century Venice, Bassanio wants to impress the … read more

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"He will fence with his own shadow."

-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

"You speak an infinite deal of nothing."

-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

"The fiend gives the more friendly counsel."

-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

"i buy a thousand pound a year! i buy a rope!"

-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

23. Dom Casmurro

By: Machado de Assis

4.58

Format: None pages, Paperback

A classic story of love and jealousy, Dom Casmurro is the story of Bento and his childhood love, Ca… read more

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24. The Burnout Society

By: Byung-Chul Han

5.00

Format: 172 pages,

Our competitive, service-oriented societies are taking a toll on the late-modern individual. Rather… read more

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25. Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas

By: Machado de Assis

4.25

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

A publicação de 'Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas' não só inaugura o Realismo no Brasil, como inicia… read more

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"Quem escapa do perigo vive a vida com outra intensidade."

-Machado de Assis, Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas

"Em verdade vos digo que toda a sabedoria humana não vale um par de botas curtas."

-Machado de Assis, Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas

"Diz que o homem tem “uma grande vantagem sobre o resto do universo: sabe que morre, ao passo que o universo ignora-o absolutamente"

-Machado de Assis, Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas

"هر دوره زندگی چاپ جدیدی است که چاپ قبلی را تصحیح می‌کند و خودش هم در چاپ بعدی تصحیح می‌شود، تا برسد به چاپ متن نهایی که ناشر به کرم ها تقدیم میکندش."

-Machado de Assis, Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas

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26. O Alienista

By: Machado de Assis

4.10

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

Clássico da literatura brasileira, este texto de Machado de Assis continua sendo, cento e trinta an… read more

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"Portando que se devia admitir como normal e exemplar o desequilíbrio das faculdades."

-Machado de Assis, O Alienista

"Bacamarte evidenced neither vanity nor modesty; he listened in silence, as impassive as a stone god."

-Machado de Assis, O Alienista

"Los locos de amor eran tres o cuatro, pero sólo les resultaban asombrosos por la curiosa índole de su delirio."

-Machado de Assis, O Alienista

"Till now, madness has been thought a small island in an ocean of sanity. I am beginning to suspect that it is not an island at all but a continent."

-Machado de Assis, O Alienista

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27. 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
"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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28. Moby-Dick or, The Whale

By: Herman Melville , Tom Quirk , Andrew Delbanco

3.55

Format: 720 pages, Paperback

"It is the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships' cables and hawsers. A Polar … read more

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"Call me Ishmael."

-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

"Ignorance is the parent of fear"

-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

"Ignorance is the parent of fear."

-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

"Speak, thou vast and venerable head,"

-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

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29. Titus Andronicus

By: William Shakespeare

3.68

Format: 268 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Titus Andronicus is one of Shakespeare's earliest and bloodiest tragedies and was hugely successful… read more

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"Hark, villains! I will grind your bones to dust. (Act V, Scene 2, 2503)"

-William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus

"Sorrow concealèd, like an oven stopped, Doth burn the heart to cinders where it is."

-William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus

"Villain, what hast thou done? Aaron: That which thou canst not undo. Chiron: Thou hast undone our mother. Aaron: Villain, I have done thy mother."

-William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus

"Now is a time to storm; why art thou still? TITUS ANDRONICUS: Ha, ha, ha! MARCUS ANDRONICUS: Why dost thou laugh? it fits not with this hour. TITUS ANDRONICUS: Why, I have not another tear to shed:"

-William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus

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30. 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

By: Jordan B. Peterson

3.92

Format: 409 pages, Hardcover

What does everyone in the modern world need to know? Renowned psychologist Jordan B. Peterson's ans… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"Treat yourself like you would someone you're responsible for helping."

-Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

"Beauty shames the ugly. Strength shames the weak. Death shames the living - and the Ideal shames us all."

-Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

"So, listen, to yourself and to those with whom you are speaking. Your wisdom then consists not of the knowledge you already have, but the continual search for knowledge, which is the highest form of …"

-Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

"Sometimes, when people have a low opinion of their own worth—or, perhaps, when they refuse responsibility for their lives—they choose a new acquaintance, of precisely the type who proved troublesome …"

-Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

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31. Maquiavel, ou a confusão demoníaca

By: Olavo de Carvalho

4.24

Format: 93 pages, Paperback

Dos pensadores modernos mais célebres, Nicolau Maquiavel é talvez o primeiro a entregar ao público … read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction

11 must-read philosophy books like Maquiavel, ou a confusão demoníaca by Olavo de Carvalho

Transform Your Habits

The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods

Antonin Sertillanges

4.41

Transform Your Habits

White Nights

Fyodor Dostoevsky

4.06

Transform Your Habits

Confessions

Augustine of Hippo , Henry Chadwick , Albert Cook Outler

3.41

Transform Your Habits

Economic Policy

Ludwig von Mises

3.98

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Transform Your Habits

The Art of War

Sun Tzu , Thomas Cleary

3.95

Transform Your Habits

Mastery

Robert Greene

4.26

Transform Your Habits

The 33 Strategies of War

Robert Greene , Joost Elffers

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Tao Te Ching

Lao Tzu , Gia-Fu Feng , Jane English , Jacob Needleman , Toinette Lippe

4.30

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