A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
By: Adam Phillips , Edmund Burke
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
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1. The Castle of Otranto
By: Horace Walpole
3.18
Format: 125 pages, Paperback
First published pseudonymously in 1764, The Castle of Otranto purported to be a translation of an I… read more
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"My soul abhors a falsehood"-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
"This life is but a pilgrimage."-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
"Heaven mocks the short-sighted views of man."-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
"I fear no bad angel, and have offended no good one."-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
2. The Way Things Are
By: Rolfe Humphries , Lucretius
3.97
Format: 265 pages, Paperback
..". [captures] the relentless urgency of Lucretius' didacticism, his passionate conviction and pro… read more
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"There can be no centre in infinity."-Rolfe Humphries, The Way Things Are
"Nothing exists but amalgams of matter and space."-Rolfe Humphries, The Way Things Are
"Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated."-Rolfe Humphries, The Way Things Are
"For whatever changes and leaves its natural bounds is instant death of that which was before."-Rolfe Humphries, The Way Things Are
3. The New Atlantis
By: Francis Bacon
3.09
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
In New Atlantis, Bacon portrayed a vision of the future of human discovery and knowledge, expressin… read more
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"We gave ourselves for lost men, and prepared for death. Yet we did lift up our hearts and voices to God above, who "showeth His wonders in the deep"; beseeching Him of His mercy, that as in the begin…"-Francis Bacon, The New Atlantis
4. A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
By: Adam Phillips , Edmund Burke
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
An eloquent and sometimes even erotic book, the Philosophical Enquiry was long dismissed as a piece… read more
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- nonfiction
- 18th century
- essays
5. 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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6. On Great Writing
By: G.M.A. Grube , None , Longinus
3.38
Format: None pages, Paperback
Celebrated for its own clarity and sublime style, this classic work of literary theory draws on the… read more
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7. Revelations of Divine Love
By: Julian of Norwich , A.C. Spearing , Elizabeth Spearing
4.20
Format: 228 pages, Paperback
One of the first woman authors, Julian of Norwich produced in Revelations of Divine Lovea remarkabl… read more
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8. The Italian: Or the Confessional of the Black Penitents
By: Ann Radcliffe , Robert Miles
4.18
Format: 213 pages,
From the first moment Vincentio di Vivaldi, a young nobleman, sets eyes on the veiled figure of Ell… read more
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- classics
- 18th century
9. Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
By: Immanuel Kant , James W. Ellington , Paul Carus
4.12
Format: 29 pages, Paperback
This edition of Prolegomenaincludes Kant's letter of February, 1772 to Marcus Herz, a momentous doc… read more
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10. Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
By: Michel Foucault , Richard Howard , José Teixeira Coelho Netto
3.99
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . Michel Foucault examines the ar… read more
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11. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
By: Mary Wollstonecraft , Miriam Brody , Bebi Fernández
3.50
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Writing in an age when the call for the rights of man had brought revolution to America and France,… read more
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12. Reveries of the Solitary Walker
By: Jean-Jacques Rousseau , Peter France
4.06
Format: None pages, Paperback
The struggle between Rousseau's yearning for solitude and his need for society is the central theme… read more
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13. Memory Theatre
By: Simon Critchley , None
3.59
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
A French philosopher dies during a savage summer heat wave. Boxes carrying his unpublished miscella… read more
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14. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: Written by Himself
By: Olaudah Equiano , Robert J. Allison
3.75
Format: None pages, Paperback
Widely admired for its vivid accounts of the slave trade, Olaudah Equiano's autobiography -- the fi… read more
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15. One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society
By: Herbert Marcuse
4.70
Format: 84 pages, Paperback
Originally published in 1964, One-Dimensional Man quickly became one of the most important texts in… read more
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16. Lyrical Ballads
By: William Wordsworth , Samuel Taylor Coleridge , None
4.08
Format: None pages, Paperback
The majority of the following poems are to be considered as experiments. They were written chiefly … read more
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17. The Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening
By: Søren Kierkegaard , Edna Hatlestad Hong , Howard Vincent Hong
4.06
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
A companion piece to The Concept of Anxiety, this work continues Soren Kierkegaard's radical and co… read more
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18. Songs of Innocence and of Experience
By: William Blake
4.09
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
Songs of Innocence and of Experience is an collection of poems by William Blake. Note: For a com… read more
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"Cruelty has a human heart, And Jealousy a human face;"-William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience
"Then cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door."-William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience
"And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires."-William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience
"Can I see anothers woe, And not be in sorrow too. Can I see anothers grief, And not seek for kind relief. - On Anothers Sorrow "-William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience
19. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
By: David Hume
4.14
Format: None pages, Paperback
Philosopher David Hume was considered to one of the most important figures in the age of Scottish e… read more
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20. The Blazing World and Other Writings
By: Margaret Cavendish , None
3.89
Format: None pages, Paperback
Flamboyant, theatrical and ambitious, Margaret Cavendish was one of the seventeenth century's most … read more
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21. Gorgias
By: Plato , Walter Hamilton , Chris Emlyn-Jones
4.23
Format: None pages, Paperback
Taking the form of a dialogue between Socrates, Gorgias, Polus and Callicles, GORGIAS debates peren… read more
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22. The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception
By: Michel Foucault , None
3.25
Format: 198 pages, Paperback
Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . In the eighteenth century, medi… read more
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23. The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
By: Michel Foucault , Robert Hurley
4.00
Format: 201 pages,
Michel Foucault offers an iconoclastic exploration of why we feel compelled to continually analyze … read more
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24. Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
By: Immanuel Kant , Christine M. Korsgaard , Mary J. Gregor
4.27
Format: 197 pages, paper
Immanuel Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals ranks alongside Plato's Republic and Aristo… read more
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25. Pensées
By: Blaise Pascal , A.J. Krailsheimer
3.95
Format: 334 pages, Paperback
Blaise Pascal, the precociously brilliant contemporary of Descartes, was a gifted mathematician and… read more
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"Lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity."-Blaise Pascal, Pensées
"Le cœur a ses raisons que la raison ne connaît point."-Blaise Pascal, Pensées
"Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical."-Blaise Pascal, Pensées
"Le coeur a ses raisons que le raison ne connaît point."-Blaise Pascal, Pensées
26. Goblin Market and Other Poems
By: Christina Rossetti , Candace Ward
4.19
Format: 45 pages, Paperback
An important and often-quoted literary figure, the English poet Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) wrot… read more
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27. The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears
By: Dinaw Mengestu
4.10
Format: 338 pages, Hardcover
A haunting and powerful first novel that views the streets of Washington, D.C. and Addis Ababa thro… read more
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28. Richard II
By: William Shakespeare , Roma Gill , None
3.91
Format: 385 pages, Paperback
Richard II is one of Shakespeare's finest works: lucid, eloquent, and boldly structured. It can be … read more
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29. Twilight of the Idols/The Anti-Christ
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner
3.33
Format: 75 pages, Paperback
In 1888, the last sane year of his life Nietsche produced these two brief but devastating books. Tw… read more
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30. 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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"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
31. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
By: Lord Byron
3.96
Format: 332 pages, Paperback
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage is a long poem about a traveling young man who journeys across the world… read more
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