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Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsServing on a jury at the trial of a prostitute arrested for murder, Prince Nekhlyudov is horrified to discover that the accused is a woman he had once loved, seduced and then abandoned when she was a young servant girl. Racked with guilt at realizing he was the cause of her ruin, he determines to appeal for her release or give up his own way of life and follow her... -
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The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989 by Samuel Beckett
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsNobel prize winner Samuel Beckett is one of the most profoundly original writers of our century. He gives expression to the anguish and isolation of the individual consciousness with a purity and minimalism that have altered the shape of world literature...Categorized as:
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Notes from Underground & The Double by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA single, tormented, character dominates both of these short novels written at different stages of Dostoyevsky's career..Title: .Notes from Underground the Double..Author: .Dostoyevsky, Fyodor..Publisher: .Penguin Group USA..Publication Date: .1972/06/01..Number of Pages: .287..Binding Type: .PAPERBACK..Library of Congress:...Categorized as:
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![The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy, Hugh McLean]()
The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy, Hugh McLean
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsWith an Introduction and Notes by Dr T.C.B.Cook Count Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) is best known for War and Peace and Anna Karenina, commonly regarded as amongst the greatest novels ever written. He also, however, wrote many masterly short stories, and this volume contains four of the longest and best in distinguished translations that have stood the test of time...Categorized as:
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Acts of Faith by Philip Caputo
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsPhilip Caputo’s tragic and epically ambitious new novel is set in Sudan, where war is a permanent condition. Into this desolate theater come aid workers, missionaries, and mercenaries of conscience whose courage and idealism sometimes coexist with treacherous moral blindness... -
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Amongst Women by John McGahern
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsMoran is an old Republican whose life was forever transformed by his days of glory as a guerilla leader in the War of Independence. Now, in old age, living out in the country, Moran is still fighting - with his family, his friends, even himself - in a poignant struggle to come to terms with the past...Categorized as:
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The Atheist by Achdiat K. Mihardja
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAtheis (The Atheist), first published in 1949, portrays the spiritual and intellectual crisis of Hasan, a young Muslim who was raised to be devout but comes to doubt his faith after becoming involved with a group of modern young people. Upon publication, the novel was praised by literary figures and the general public... -
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Manuscript Found in Accra by Paulo Coelho
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsThe brilliant new novel from the #1 internationally best-selling author of The Alchemist. In Paulo Coelho's signature style, this short volume offers inspiration, solace, encouragement and wisdom that will enrich anyone's life. Deceptively simple yet incredibly powerful, this is the perfect gift for anyone who has ever asked 'why?'...Categorized as:
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Manuscript Found in Accra by Paulo Coelho
Rated: 3.77 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsThe latest novel from the #1 internationally best-selling author of The Alchemist.There is nothing wrong with anxiety.Although we cannot control God's time, it is part of the human condition to want to receive the thing we are waiting for as quickly as possible.Or to drive away whatever is causing our fear....Anxiety was born in the very same moment as mankind...Categorized as:
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Elective Affinities by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsElective Affinities was written when Goethe was sixty and long established as Germany's literary giant. This is a new edition of his penetrating study of marriage and passion, bringing together four people in an inexorable manner... -
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Tis Pity She's A Whore by John Ford
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThis scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages...Categorized as:
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Utopia by Thomas More, Paul Turner
Rated: 3.55 of 5 stars · 53 ratingsUtopia (Libellus vere aureus, nec minus salutaris quam festivus, de optimo rei publicae statu deque nova insula Utopia) is a satirical work of fiction and political philosophy by Thomas More (1478–1535) published in 1516 in Latin...Categorized as:
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Caliban and the Witch by Silvia Federici
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsCaliban and the Witch is a history of the body in the transition to capitalism. Moving from the peasant revolts of the late Middle Ages to the witch-hunts and the rise of mechanical philosophy, Federici investigates the capitalist rationalization of social reproduction...Categorized as:
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Strength to Love by Martin Luther King Jr.
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA collection of sermons by this martyred Black American leader which explains his convictions in terms of the conditions and problems of contemporary society... -
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The Essential Rumi by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsThis revised and expanded edition of The Essential Rumi includes a new introduction by Coleman Barks and more than 80 never-before-published poems.Through his lyrical translations, Coleman Barks has been instrumental in bringing this exquisite literature to a remarkably wide range of readers, making the ecstatic, spiritual poetry of thirteenth-century Sufi Mystic Rumi more popular than ever...Categorized as:
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Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis, Kathleen Norris
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 70 ratingsMere Christianity is C.S. Lewis's forceful and accessible doctrine of Christian belief. First heard as informal radio broadcasts and then published as three separate books - The Case for Christianity, Christian Behavior, and Beyond Personality - Mere Christianity brings together what Lewis saw as the fundamental truths of the religion... -
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Happiness Diary by Nicolae Steinhardt
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe Happiness DiaryThe first edition was confiscated by the Securitate in 1972, and restituted in 1975, after censorship intervention. Meanwhile, he had finished writing a second version of the book, which is in its turn confiscated in 1984... -
![... trotzdem Ja zum Leben sagen: Ein Psychologe erlebt das Konzentrationslager by Viktor E. Frankl]()
... trotzdem Ja zum Leben sagen: Ein Psychologe erlebt das Konzentrationslager by Viktor E. Frankl
Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars · 46 ratingsDer 1945 niedergelegte Bericht »Ein Psychologe erlebt das Konzentrationslager« und die 1946 geschriebene dramatische Skizze »Synchronisation in Birkenwald«, die in diesem Band zusammengefaßt sind, wollen nicht Mitleid erregen oder Anklage erheben. Noch weniger geht es um die Situation des Grauens...Categorized as:
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The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clason
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 41 ratingsBeloved by millions, this timeless classic holds the key to all you desire and everything you wish to accomplish. This is the book that reveals the secret to personal wealth. Countless readers have been helped by the famous "Babylonian parables," hailed as the greatest of all inspirational works on the subject of thrift, financial planning, and personal wealth...Categorized as:
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The Law by Frédéric Bastiat
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 24 ratings• This e-book publication is unique which includes detailed Biography, Footnotes and Index.. • A new table of contents has been included by a publisher. • This edition has been corrected for spelling and grammatical errors... -
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The Complete Works of Plato by Plato, Mohamed Elwany
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThis edition contains the complete works of Plato translated by Benjamin Jowett (1817-1893) of the University of Oxford. Also included are lengthy and insightful introductions by Jowett. The works presented here are generally agreed by most scholars to be attributed to Plato.This book has been meticulously converted to the Kindle format for great readability and easy navigation...Categorized as:
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![The Works of Epictetus, Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments by Epictetus]()
The Works of Epictetus, Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments by Epictetus
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible... -
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Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 43 ratingsWritten in Greek, without any intention of publication, by the only Roman emperor who was also a philosopher, the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) offer a remarkable series of challenging spiritual reflections and exercises developed as the emperor struggled to understand himself and make sense of the universe...Categorized as:
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Plato: Complete Works by Plato
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsOutstanding translations by leading contemporary scholars--many commissioned especially for this volume--are presented here in the first single edition to include the entire surviving corpus of works attributed to Plato in antiquity...Categorized as:
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How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius by Donald J. Robertson
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThe life-changing principles of Stoicism taught through the story of its most famous proponent.Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius was the final famous Stoic philosopher of the ancient world. The Meditations, his personal journal, survives to this day as one of the most loved self-help and spiritual classics of all time... -
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The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church by The Episcopal Church
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThis is the standard Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church together with The Psalter or Psalms of David according to use in the Episcopal Church in the United States as authorized in 1979...Categorized as:
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The Complete Works by Michel de Montaigne
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDescribing his collection of Essays as ‘a book consubstantial with its author’, Montaigne identified both the power and the charm of a work which introduces us to one of the most attractive figures in European literature. A humanist, a sceptic, an acute observer of himself and others, he reflects the great themes of existence through the prism of his own self-consciousness...Categorized as:
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Enchiridion by Epictetus
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsHandbook of Epictetus also known as Enchiridion written by legendary Greek Stoic philosopher Epictetus is a manual of Stoic ethical advice. Compiled by Arrian, who was a student of Epictetus, this great classic will surely attract a whole new generation of readers. For many, the Handbook of Epictetus is required reading for various courses and curriculums...Categorized as:
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Escape from Freedom by Erich Fromm
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIf humanity cannot live with the dangers and responsibilities inherent in freedom, it will probably turn to authoritarianism. This is the central idea of Escape from Freedom, a landmark work by one of the most distinguished thinkers of our time, and a book that is as timely now as when first published in 1941...Categorized as:
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