5 must-read history books like España Inteligible: Razón histórica de las Españas by Julián Marías

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España Inteligible: Razón histórica de las Españas

By: Julián Marías

4.40

Format: 421 pages, Paperback

La idea de España que se ha establecido es la de un país anormal y conflictivo, ininteligible en su…

"Un mundo es un repertorio de vigencias sociales comunes; de creencias, usos, estimaciones, proyectos. Esto es, precisamente, lo que realmente constituye a los muy diversos países que formaron la monarquía Hispánica. Si algo merece llamarse «mundo», es el Mundo Hispánico."

-Julián Marías, España Inteligible: Razón histórica de las Españas

If you liked the history plot in España Inteligible: Razón histórica de las Españas by Julián Marías , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. Luces de bohemia: Esperpento

By: None , Alonso Zamora Vicente , Ramón María del Valle-Inclán

3.71

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Valle-Inclán escribió, en 1920, esta obra, con la que quedó inaugurada una nueva manera de ver la r… read more

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"España, en su concepción religiosa, es una tribu del Centro de África."

-None, Luces de bohemia: Esperpento

"En España podrá faltar el pan, pero el ingenio y el buen humor no se acaban"

-None, Luces de bohemia: Esperpento

"Mi nombre es Máximo Estrella. Mi seudónimo, Mala Estrella. Tengo el honor de no ser Académico."

-None, Luces de bohemia: Esperpento

"El periodismo es travesura, lo mismo que la política. Son el mismo círculo en diferentes espacios."

-None, Luces de bohemia: Esperpento

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2. Niebla

By: Miguel de Unamuno

4.05

Format: 259 pages, Paperback

Esta obra de Miguel de Unamuno es uno de los ejemplos clásicos más eminentes de la novela moderna. … read more

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"Toda ley es una ley de ritmo, y el ritmo es el amor."

-Miguel de Unamuno, Niebla

"El amor precede al conocimiento, y éste mata a aquél."

-Miguel de Unamuno, Niebla

"Because Augustus was not a hiker, but a walker of life"

-Miguel de Unamuno, Niebla

"Hasta que se llora de veras no se sabe si se tiene o no alma."

-Miguel de Unamuno, Niebla

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3. Ethics

By: Baruch Spinoza , Edwin M. Curley , Stuart Hampshire , None

4.10

Format: 186 pages, Paperback

Published shortly after his death, the Ethics is undoubtedly Spinoza's greatest work—an elegant, fu… read more

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"Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself."

-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

"The object of the idea constituting the human mind is the body"

-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

"Benevolentia nihil aliud est, quam cupiditas ex commiseratione orta."

-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

"Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility."

-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

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4. Madame Bovary

By: Gustave Flaubert , Margaret Mauldon , Malcolm Bowie , Mark Overstall

3.70

Format: 329 pages, Paperback

Madame Bovary is the debut novel of French writer Gustave Flaubert, published in 1856. The characte… read more

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"Every notary carries about inside him the debris of a poet."

-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

"Speech is a rolling-mill that always thins out the sentiment."

-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

"How oft the warmth of the sun above Makes a pretty young girl dream of love."

-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

"For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat."

-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

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5. Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family

By: Thomas Mann , John E. Woods , T.J. Reed

3.69

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Buddenbrooks, first published in Germany in 1901, when Mann was only twenty-six, has become a class… read more

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6. Don Quixote

By: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra , Roberto González Echevarría , John Rutherford

3.66

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading chivalric romances, that he determines to become a k… read more

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7. Imperiofobia y leyenda negra

By: María Elvira Roca Barea

3.75

Format: 132 pages,

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  • history
  • essays
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8. Historia de la vida del Buscón

By: Francisco de Quevedo

3.00

Format: 76 pages,

Historia de la vida del Buscon -- read more

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9. David Copperfield

By: Charles Dickens , Jeremy Tambling

4.03

Format: 882 pages, Paperback

David Copperfield is the story of a young man's adventures on his journey from an unhappy and impov… read more

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"Trifles make the sum of life. "

-Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

"the sight of me is good for sore eyes"

-Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

"Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him."

-Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

"My advice is, never do to-morrow what you can do to-day"

-Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

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10. 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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  • history
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11. La tía Tula

By: Miguel de Unamuno

4.11

Format: 15 pages, Hardcover

Esta novela narra la vida de Gertrudis, tambien llamada la Tia Tula, y los sacrificios que realiza … read more

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12. Waiting for God

By: Simone Weil

3.93

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

"My dear father, I have made up my mind to write to you....I have been wondering lately about the w… read more

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13. Perpetual Peace

By: Immanuel Kant

4.11

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

Vers la paix perpetuelle parut en 1795. L'ouvrage, qui eut un grand succes, venait clore un mouveme… read more

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14. Doña Perfecta

By: Benito Pérez Galdós

4.09

Format: 315 pages, Paperback

Todo empieza en que Dona Perfecta y su hermano deciden que sus hijos se casen. Pepe va a visitar a … read more

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15. The Red and the Black

By: Stendhal , None

3.86

Format: 577 pages, Paperback

Handsome, ambitious Julien Sorel is determined to rise above his humble provincial origins. Soon re… read more

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"A good book is an event in my life."

-Stendhal, The Red and the Black

"Toute vraie passion ne songe qu'a elle."

-Stendhal, The Red and the Black

"It seems that my destiny is to die dreaming."

-Stendhal, The Red and the Black

"A novel is a mirror walking along a main road."

-Stendhal, The Red and the Black

16. Sanatın İnsansızlaştırılması ve Roman Üstüne Düşünceler

By: José Ortega y Gasset , Neyyire Gül Işık

3.59

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Jose Ortega y Gasset, Camus'ye gore, "Nietzsche'den sonra belki de en buyuk Avrupa'li yazardir". 19… read more

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17. Simple Passion

By: Annie Ernaux

3.93

Format: 67 pages, Paperback

In her spare, stark style, Annie Ernaux documents the desires and indignities of a human heart ensn… read more

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"I experienced pleasure like a future pain."

-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

"I do not wish to explain my passion—that would imply that it was a mistake or some disorder I need to justify—I just want to describe it."

-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

"A partir du mois de septembre l'année dernière, je n'ai plus rien fait d'autre qu'attendre un homme : qu'il me téléphone et qu'il vienne chez moi."

-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

"Yet it is that surreal, almost non-existent last visit that gives my passion its true meaning, which is precisely to be meaningless, and to have been for two years the most violent and unaccountable …"

-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

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18. Nada por lo que pedir perdón. La importancia del legado español frente a las atrocidades cometidas por los enemigos de España

By: Marcelo Gullo

4.43

Format: 1025 pages, Kindle Edition

En este excepcional libro, Marcelo Gullo Omodeo demuestra que, en el «Tribunal de la Historia», Esp… read more

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  • history
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19. España Inteligible: Razón histórica de las Españas

By: Julián Marías

4.40

Format: 421 pages, Paperback

La idea de España que se ha establecido es la de un país anormal y conflictivo, ininteligible en su… read more

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  • history
  • essays
"Un mundo es un repertorio de vigencias sociales comunes; de creencias, usos, estimaciones, proyectos. Esto es, precisamente, lo que realmente constituye a los muy diversos países que formaron la mona…"

-Julián Marías, España Inteligible: Razón histórica de las Españas

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20. A German Officer in Occupied Paris: The War Journals, 1941-1945

By: Ernst Jünger

4.20

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

Ernst Jünger was one of twentieth-century Germany’s most important—and most controversial—writers. … read more

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  • history
"Authentic writing cannot be coerced."

-Ernst Jünger, A German Officer in Occupied Paris: The War Journals, 1941-1945

"Life is opinion," says Marcus Aurelius."

-Ernst Jünger, A German Officer in Occupied Paris: The War Journals, 1941-1945

"Obitus vitae otium est (Death is life's rest)."

-Ernst Jünger, A German Officer in Occupied Paris: The War Journals, 1941-1945

"What is the meaning of the immense silence that surrounds the dead?"

-Ernst Jünger, A German Officer in Occupied Paris: The War Journals, 1941-1945

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