Goethe and His Age: A Major Critical Revaluation of Germany's Great Poet
By: György Lukács
3.83
Format: 253 pages, Hardcover
Lukács provides the first and arguably most influential Marxist reading of Faust I and II. His five…
Want to Read"Eine lebendige Beziehung zur Vergangenheit kann nur der haben, dessen Zukunftsperspektive nicht verstellt ist. Der Faschismus ersetzt beides mit Lügen."-György Lukács, Goethe and His Age: A Major Critical Revaluation of Germany's Great Poet
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1. Mother
By: Maxim Gorky
3.97
Format: 285 pages, Paperback
1907. Maxim Gorky, pseudonym of Alexei Maksimovich Peshkov, Soviet novelist, playwright and essayis… read more
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"in music one can hear everything."-Maxim Gorky, Mother
"Başımıza ne geliyorsa, korktuğumuz için geliyor,"-Maxim Gorky, Mother
"ى يصبح لدينا أمهات يرسلن أبناءهن إلى الموت وهن يبتسمن؟"-Maxim Gorky, Mother
"قد خلق الإنسان على صورة الله و مثاله و إليكم ما يفعلون به"-Maxim Gorky, Mother
2. Педагогическая Поэма
By: Anton Makarenko , None , Антон Макаренко
4.33
Format: 604 pages, Hardcover
Makarenko invirtio diez anos (1925-1935) en escribir el Poema Pedagogico. Es mi obra mas querida, d… read more
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3. Dialectical and Historical Materialism
By: Joseph Stalin
3.91
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
A succinct presentation of the philosophical foundations of Marxism. read more
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"If there are no isolated phenomena in the world, if all phenomena are interconnected and interdependent, then it is clear that every social system and every social movement in history must be evaluat…"-Joseph Stalin, Dialectical and Historical Materialism
"But having developed productive forces to a tremendous extent, capitalism has become enmeshed in contradictions which it is unable to solve. By producing larger and larger quantities of commodities, …"-Joseph Stalin, Dialectical and Historical Materialism
4. The Sorrows of Young Werther
By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Burton Pike
3.73
Format: None pages, Paperback
Visiting an idyllic German village, Werther, a sensitive and romantic young man, meets and falls in… read more
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5. Left-Wing Communism, an Infantile Disorder: A Popular Essay in Marxian Strategy and Tactics
By: Vladimir Lenin
3.26
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
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6. Selections from the Prison Notebooks
By: Antonio Gramsci , None , Quintin Hoare , Geoffrey Nowell Smith
3.34
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
An extensive anthology, including his most important writings while in prison on philosophy, histor… read more
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7. The Sound and the Fury
By: William Faulkner
3.86
Format: 366 pages, Paperback
The tragedy of the Compson family features some of the most memorable characters in literature: bea… read more
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"I say money has no value; it's just the way you spend it."-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
"with that sort of gigantic delicacy of an elephant picking up a peanut."-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
"Caddy put her arms around me, and her shining veil, and I couldn't smell trees anymore and I began to cry."-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
"A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune"-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
8. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
By: Mark Fisher
4.00
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
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9. 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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10. The Gambler
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Constance Garnett , Gary Saul Morson
3.91
Format: 188 pages, Paperback
In this dark and compelling short novel, Dostoevsky tells the story of Alexey Ivanovitch, a young t… read more
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"Quien teme al lobo no se mete en el bosque."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler
"يجب ان يظل المال دون الأستقراطي، حتى لكأن الأستقراطي لا يكاد يحفل به أو يقلق له"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler
"En toda situación es posible comportarse con dignidad. Si hay lucha, que sea noble y no humillante."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler
"People really do like seeing their best friends humiliated; a large part of the friendship is based on humiliation; and that is an old truth,well known to all intelligent people."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler
11. 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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"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
12. Economic & Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844/The Communist Manifesto
By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , None
3.71
Format: 76 pages, Paperback
(Great Books in Philosophy) Communism as a political movement attained global importance after the … read more
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13. Lost Illusions
By: Honoré de Balzac , Ellen Marriage , George Saintsbury
4.16
Format: 656 pages, Paperback
Handsome would-be poet Lucien Chardon is poor and naive, but highly ambitious. Failing to make his … read more
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"For avarice begins where poverty ends."-Honoré de Balzac, Lost Illusions
"ci sono uomini-quercia, io sono forse solo un arbusto elegante, e ho la pretesa di essere un cedro."-Honoré de Balzac, Lost Illusions
"Conscience, my dear, is a kind of stick that everyone picks up to thrash his neighbor with, but one he never uses against himself."-Honoré de Balzac, Lost Illusions
"căci excesele de orice soi împing trupul pe calea spre care e predispus din naştere: ca şi învăţătura multă, beţia îl îngraşă pe cel gras şi îl slăbeşte pe cel slab."-Honoré de Balzac, Lost Illusions
14. The Magic Mountain
By: Thomas Mann , John E. Woods
4.13
Format: 706 pages, Paperback
In this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Mann uses a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps, a community devot… read more
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"Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul."-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
"A harmful truth is better than a useful lie."-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
"Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil."-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
"It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death."-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
15. On Practice
By: Mao Zedong
4.42
Format: 18 pages, Hardcover
Mao's classic 1937 essay on philosophy. read more
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16. In the Tracks of Historical Materialism
By: Perry Anderson
3.78
Format: 116 pages, Paperback
How Marxist thought evolved in the seventies and early eighties. What have been the major change… read more
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17. The Antinomies of Antonio Gramsci
By: Perry Anderson
4.00
Format: 70 pages, None
A major essay on the thought of the great Italian Marxist An explosive analysis of the central stra… read more
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"For the peculiarity of historical consent won from the masses within modern capitalist social formations is by no means to be found in its mere secular reference or technical awe. The novelty of this…"-Perry Anderson, The Antinomies of Antonio Gramsci
18. Goethe and His Age: A Major Critical Revaluation of Germany's Great Poet
By: György Lukács
3.83
Format: 253 pages, Hardcover
Lukács provides the first and arguably most influential Marxist reading of Faust I and II. His five… read more
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- literary criticism
"Eine lebendige Beziehung zur Vergangenheit kann nur der haben, dessen Zukunftsperspektive nicht verstellt ist. Der Faschismus ersetzt beides mit Lügen."-György Lukács, Goethe and His Age: A Major Critical Revaluation of Germany's Great Poet
