My Past and Thoughts: The Memoirs of Alexander Herzen

Author	Edgar Allan Poe
ISBN	0385074077

I’ve been reading this book for almost three years and it feels so good to finally have finished it!

I was surprised by what I found in here. Poe was slightly different to what I thought. He is very much shrouded in shadow and the macabre, at least, his more successful stories and poems were. But...

Author	Edward Snowden
ISBN	1250237238

Edward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government’s system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first time the story of his life, including how he helped to build that system and what motivated him to try to bring it down.

In 2013, twenty-nine-year-old Edward Snowden...

Author	Ivan Goncharov
ISBN	1933480092

The novel evolved and expanded from an 1849 short story or sketch entitled "Oblomov's Dream". The novel focuses on the midlife crisis of the main character, Ilya Ilyich Oblomov, an upper middle class son of a member of Russia's nineteenth century landed gentry. Oblomov's distinguishing characteristic...

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Dmitry Merezhkovsky

This book is incomparable in the magic power of evoking startlingly vivid pictures of the Middle Ages. It is a gorgeous pageant, full of pomp and magnificence. Here and there the reader is given a glimpse into the mortal and humble frailties and exigencies behind the grandeur. This work is a fabulous...

Author	Byung-Chul Han
ISBN	3100022033

Nach seinem Bestseller "Müdigkeitsgesellschaft" führt der Berliner Philosoph Byung-Chul Han seine Kritik am Neoliberalismus leidenschaftlich fort. Pointiert legt er die Herrschafts- und Machttechnik des neoliberalen Regimes dar, die im Gegensatz zu Foucaults Biopolitik die Psyche als...