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A Confession and Other Religious Writings

10 best books like A Confession and Other Religious Writings (Leo Tolstoy): The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris, Beyond Good and Evil, The House of the Dead, The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?, Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician, I and Thou, Pensées, The Basis of Morality, On the Genealogy of Morals, A Gentle Creature and Other Stories

The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris
AuthorDavid McCullough
ISBN1416571760
The Greater Journey is the enthralling, inspiring - and until now, untold - story of the adventurous American artists, writers, doctors, politicians, architects, and others of high aspiration who set off for Paris in the years between 1830 and 1900, ambitious to excel in their work.

After...
Beyond Good and Evil
AuthorFriedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil is translated from the German by R.J. Hollingdale with an introduction by Michael Tanner in Penguin Classics.

Beyond Good and Evil confirmed Nietzsche's position as the towering European philosopher of his age. The work dramatically rejects...
The House of the Dead
AuthorFyodor Dostoyevsky
ISBN0486434095
Accused of political subversion as a young man, Fyodor Dostoyevsky was sentenced to four years of hard labor at a Siberian prison camp — a horrifying experience from which he developed this astounding semi-autobiographical memoir of a man condemned to ten years of servitude for murdering his wife.
As...
The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
AuthorJared Diamond
ISBN0670024813
The bestselling author of Collapse and Guns, Germs and Steel surveys the history of human societies to answer the question: What can we learn from traditional societies that can make the world a better place for all of us? Most of us take for granted the features of our modern society, from air travel and...
Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician
AuthorAnthony Everitt
“All ages of the world have not produced a greater statesman and philosopher combined.”
—John Adams

He squared off against Caesar and was friends with young Brutus. He advised the legendary Pompey on his somewhat botched transition from military hero to politician. He lambasted...
I and Thou
AuthorMartin Buber
ISBN0684717255
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Martin Buber's I and Thou has long been acclaimed as a classic. Many prominent writers have acknowledged its influence on their work; students of intellectual history consider it a landmark; and the generation born after World War II considers...
Pensées
AuthorBlaise Pascal
ISBN0140446451
Blaise Pascal, the precociously brilliant contemporary of Descartes, was a gifted mathematician and physicist, but it is his unfinished apologia for the Christian religion upon which his reputation now rests. The Penseés is a collection of philosohical fragments, notes and essays in which Pascal...
The Basis of Morality
AuthorArthur Schopenhauer
ISBN0486446530
Persuasive and humane towards mankind, if neither towards womankind, this classic of philosophy represents one of the nineteenth century's most significant treatises on ethics. The Basis of Morality offers Schopenhauer's fullest examination of traditional ethical themes, and it articulates...
On the Genealogy of Morals
AuthorFriedrich Nietzsche
On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) is a book about the history of ethics and about interpretation. Nietzsche rewrites the former as a history of cruelty, exposing the central values of the Judaeo-Christian and liberal traditions - compassion, equality, justice - as the product of a brutal process of...
A Gentle Creature and Other Stories
AuthorFyodor Dostoyevsky
ISBN0192822802
In these stories, Dostoevsky explores both the figure of the dreamer divorced from reality, and also his own ambiguous attitude toward utopianism, themes central to his great novels. In White Nights, the apparent idyll of the dreamer's romantic fantasies disguises profound loneliness and estrangement...
The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals
AuthorDorothy Wordsworth
ISBN0192840622
Dorothy Wordsworth's journals are a unique record of her life with her brother William, at the time when he was at the height of his poetic powers. Invaluable for the insight they give into the daily life of the poet and his friendship with Coleridge, they are also remarkable for their spontaneity and...
On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts
AuthorThomas de Quincey
ISBN0141397888
'People begin to see that something more goes to the composition of a fine murder than two blockheads to kill and be killed - a knife - a purse - and a dark lane...'

In this provocative and blackly funny essay, Thomas de Quincey considers murder in a purely aesthetic light and explains how practically...
An Introduction to Metaphysics
AuthorHenri Bergson
An Introduction to Metaphysics (Introduction à la Métaphysique) is a 1903 essay by Henri Bergson (published in Revue de métaphysique et de morale) that explores the concept of reality. For Bergson, reality occurs not in a series of discrete states but as a process similar to that described by process...
Min kamp 6
AuthorKarl Ove Knausgård
I det anmelderroste selvbiografiske romanværk, Min kamp, udforsker Karl Ove Knausgård nådeløst og selvudleverende sit eget liv, sine ambitioner og svagheder, sin usikkerhed og tvivl, sine relationer til venner og kærester, kone og børn, mor og far.

Det er et værk, hvor livet beskrives...
Hidden Ground Of Love: The Letters Of Thomas Merton On Religious Experience And Social Concerns
AuthorThomas Merton
Thomas Merton was one of the most influential Catholic authors of the 20th century. A Trappist monk of the Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani, in the American state of Kentucky, Merton was an acclaimed Catholic spiritual writer, poet, author and social activist. Merton wrote over 60 books, scores of essays...
The Origins of the World's Mythologies
AuthorE.J. Michael Witzel
ISBN0199812853
This remarkable book is the most ambitious work on mythology since that of the renowned Mircea Eliade, who all but single-handedly invented the modern study of myth and religion. Focusing on the oldest available texts, buttressed by data from archeology, comparative linguistics and human population...
Markings
AuthorDag Hammarskjöld
ISBN0307277429
Universally known and admired as a peacemaker, Dag Hammarskjöld concealed a remarkable intense inner life which he recorded over several decades in this journal of poems and spiritual meditations, left to be published after his death. A dramatic account of spiritual struggle, Markings has inspired...
One Vast Winter Count: The Native American West before Lewis and Clark
AuthorColin G. Calloway
ISBN0803264658
This magnificent, sweeping work traces the histories of the Native peoples of the American West from their arrival thousands of years ago to the early years of the nineteenth century. Emphasizing conflict and change, One Vast Winter Count offers a new look at the early history of the region by blending...
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