Drawn and Quartered
10 best books like Drawn and Quartered (Emil M. Cioran): Behold the Man, Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence, A Cosmology of Monsters, Critique of Pure Reason, Maxims, The Gnostic Gospels, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, Ride the Pink Horse, Fort comme la mort, The Great Starvation Experiment: The Heroic Men Who Starved so That Millions Could Live
| Author | Michael Moorcock |
| ISBN | 1585677647 |
Karl Glogauer is a disaffected modern professional casting about for meaning in a series of half-hearted relationships, a dead-end job, and a personal struggle. His questions of faith surrounding his father's run-of-the-mill Christianity and his mother's suppressed Judaism lead him to a bizarre...
Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence
| Author | David Benatar |
| ISBN | 0199296421 |
Better Never to Have Been argues for a number of related, highly provocative, views: (1) Coming into existence is always a serious harm. (2) It is always wrong to have children. (3) It is wrong not to abort fetuses at the earlier stages of gestation. (4) It would be better if, as a result of there being no...
A tender and terrifying literary horror novel - the author's debut - that tells the story of a family (creators of a haunted house attraction called the Wandering Dark) and the hereditary monsters - both metaphorical and all-too-real - that haunt them.
Monsters both figurative and very literal...
| Author | Immanuel Kant |
| ISBN | 0521657296 |
Kritik der reinen Vernunft (Riga: J. F. Hartknoch, 1781), 856 pp. 2nd (B) ed: 1787. [A-edition (Ak. 4:5-252); B-edition (Ak. 3:2-552)]. “Critique of Pure Reason.” Translated by Norman Kemp Smith (Macmillan 1929). Translated by Werner Pluhar (Indianapolis: Hackett 1996). Translated by Paul...
| Author | François de La Rochefoucauld |
‘Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily,’ declares La Rochefoucauld.
The editors assure us:
the same may be said of his Maxims. Few books as widely read have provoked as much resistance. Most of us can no more look at it without wavering than we could the sun. We cannot...
| Author | Elaine Pagels |
| ISBN | 0679724532 |
The Gnostic Gospels is a landmark study of the long-buried roots of Christianity, a work of luminous scholarship and wide popular appeal. First published in 1979 to critical acclaim, winning the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, The Gnostic Gospels has continued to grow...
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
| Author | Ludwig Wittgenstein |
| ISBN | 0415254086 |
Perhaps the most important work of philosophy written in the twentieth century, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus was the only philosophical work that Ludwig Wittgenstein published during his life. Written in short, carefully numbered paragraphs of extreme brilliance, it captured the imagination...
Sailor, a hood from Chicago, steps off a bus in a small, desert town. He is looking for someone, his boss, 'Sen' - a crooked, 'weasel-faced' Senator, who has set up the murder of his wealthy wife and made it look like a bungled robbery. Sailor is the only person who can finger Sen for the crime, and he intends...
| Author | Guy de Maupassant |
| ISBN | 2266091670 |
Olivier Bertin is at the height of his career as a painter. After making his name with his Cleopatra, he went on to establish himself as “the chosen painter of the Parisiennes, the most adroit and ingenious artist to reveal their grace, their figures, and their souls.” And though his hair may be white,...
| Author | Todd Tucker |
| ISBN | 0743270304 |
What does it feel like to starve? To feel your body cry out for nourishment, to think only of food? How many fitful, hungry nights must pass before dreams of home-cooked meals metastasize into nightmares of cannibalism? Why would anyone volunteer to find out?
In The Great Starvation Experiment,...
