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The Birth of Tragedy/The Genealogy of Morals

10 best books like The Birth of Tragedy/The Genealogy of Morals (Friedrich Nietzsche): Orlando, Jude the Obscure, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, The Unknown Masterpiece, Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror, Geography III, The Mooring of Starting Out, Love in Excess, Julie, or the New Heloise, Tales of Love

Orlando
AuthorVirginia Woolf
ISBN0141184272
Virginia Woolf's Orlando 'The longest and most charming love letter in literature', playfully constructs the figure of Orlando as the fictional embodiment of Woolf's close friend and lover, Vita Sackville-West. Spanning three centuries, the novel opens as Orlando, a young nobleman in Elizabeth's...
Jude the Obscure
AuthorThomas Hardy
ISBN0486452433


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An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
AuthorDavid Hume
ISBN1420926993
I had seen so many references to Hume's Enquiry that I almost thought I had read it; but, when I actually got around to opening the book, I found as usual that things were not quite as I had imagined. I was not surprised by his relentless scepticism, or by his insistence on basing all reasoning on empirical...
The Unknown Masterpiece
AuthorHonoré de Balzac
ISBN0940322749
One of Honore de Balzac's most celebrated tales, "The Unknown Masterpiece" is the story of a painter who, depending on one's perspective, is either an abject failure or a transcendental genius--or both. The story, which has served as an inspiration to artists as various as Cezanne, Henry James, Picasso,...
Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
AuthorJohn Ashbery
ISBN0140586687
Well, I mean, GOD. You know? So beautiful. But also Ashbery sizing up the same kind of moral question over and over a dozen times in the space of a poem, and with dozens of poems (including the formidable and exhausting kind of index of ideas in the title poem) it just wrung me utterly dry.

I could...
Geography III
AuthorElizabeth Bishop
ISBN0374514402
Second read. I haven’t the faintest recollection of writing the below review in 2014. .
The Mooring of Starting Out
AuthorJohn Ashbery
ISBN0880015470
Most critics would agree that John Ashbery is one of 20th-century American poetry's finest voices. Perhaps his most admired book is Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror, a culmination of themes, styles, and forms with which the poet experimented over the course of two decades. Now, the poet's devoted...
Love in Excess
AuthorEliza Fowler Haywood
ISBN1551113678
Panting and misspelled, Love in Excess is easy to roll your eyes at. But I think it deserves more. It was a blockbuster smash when it was published in 1720, as popular as Robinson Crusoe. It influenced Samuel Richardson and it's much more fun than his work. It was written by a woman and shows women who have...
Julie, or the New Heloise
AuthorJean-Jacques Rousseau
ISBN0874518253
An elegant translation of one of the most popular novels of its time. Rousseau's great epistolary novel, Julie, or the New Heloise, has been virtually unavailable in English since 1810. In it, Rousseau reconceptualized the relationship of the individual to the collective and articulated a new moral...
Tales of Love
AuthorJulia Kristeva
ISBN0231060254
Julia Kristeva, most often in America thought off as a feminist or gender theorist akin to Cixous or Butler, is foremost a linguist concerned with literature and also a practicing psychoanalyst. It is from these approaches that she comes to us in this superb book. "Tales of Love" is concerned with all...
The Simple Truth
AuthorPhilip Levine
ISBN0679765840
Brilliant, engaging, human and personal. Levine is one of the greats.

Ask for Nothing

Instead walk alone in the evening
heading out of town toward the fields
asleep under a darkening sky;
the dust risen from your steps transforms
itself into a golden rain fallen
earthward...
Gigi, Julie de Carneilhan, and Chance Acquaintances: Three Short Novels
AuthorColette
ISBN0374527857
Two volumes of Colette's most beloved works, with a new Introduction by Judith Thurman.

Perhaps Colette's best-known work, Gigi is the story of a young girl being raised in a household more concerned with success and money than with the desires of the heart. But Gigi is uninterested in the dishonest...
The Dream
AuthorÉmile Zola
ISBN1414275897
Emile Zola's novel Le Rêve (1888) is a love idyll concerning a poor embroideress, Angelique, and the son of a wealthy aristocratic family, set against the backdrop of a sleepy cathedral town in northern France.

A far cry from the seething, teeming world evoked in Zola's best-known novels,...
Brief Lives
AuthorJohn Aubrey
ISBN0140435891
Compiled as material for Anthony Wood's histories of Oxford University, this text contributes to the oral history of Elizabethan and Stuart England. It parades statesmen, poets, philosopers and scientists, Raleigh and Bacon, Shakespeare and Milton, and Boyle and Halley. They, together with less...
The Carrier of Ladders
AuthorW.S. Merwin
ISBN0689103433
Reading Merwin is like reading a puzzle and it´s usually worth the mental effort to get to the heart of his logic. It reminds me of reading the Edda kennings from the old Icelanders, who wrote of objects in a roundabout, playful manner (frozen wave = mountain, etc...). But here, Merwin applies something...
The Inner Life
AuthorThomas à Kempis
ISBN0143036262
'We are all frail; consider none more frail than yourself.'
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted....
Discourse on Metaphysics and Other Essays
AuthorGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
ISBN0872201325
Discourse on Metaphysics and Other Essays contains complete translations of the two essays that constitute the best introduction to Leibniz's complete thought: 'Discourse on Metaphysics', a short course in his metaphysics, written in 1686 at the time his mature thought was just crystalising and...
Desire in Language: A Semiotic Approach to Literature and Art
AuthorJulia Kristeva
ISBN0231048076
Desire in Language traces the path of an investigation, extending over a period of ten years, into the semiotics of literature and the arts. But the essays of Julia Kristeva in this volume, though they often deal with literature and art, do not amount to either "literary criticism" or "art criticism."...
Culture and Value
AuthorLudwig Wittgenstein
ISBN0226904350
Peter Winch's translation of Wittgenstein's remarks on culture & value presents all entries chronologically, with the German text alongside the English & a subject index for reference.
"It was Wittgenstein's habit to record his thoughts in sequences of more or less closely related...
For Esmé—with Love and Squalor
AuthorJ.D. Salinger
"For Esmé — with Love and Squalor" is a short story by J. D. Salinger. Originally published in The New Yorker on April 8, 1950, it was anthologized in Salinger's Nine Stories two years later (while the story collection's American title is Nine Stories, it is titled as For Esmé — with Love & Squalor...
Remarks on Colour
AuthorLudwig Wittgenstein
ISBN0631116419
This book comprises material on colour which was written by Wittgenstein in the last eighteen months of his life. It is one of the few documents which shows him concentratedly at work on a single philosophical issue. The principal theme is the features of different colours, of different kinds of colour...
The Art of the Obvious: Developing Insight for Psychotherapy and Everyday Life
AuthorBruno Bettelheim
Este libro se iba a llamar En los zapatos del otro, y finalmente se llama El arte de lo obvio ,a que se refiere?
En este texto se trabaja la importancia del primer encuentro, son una serie de supervisiones en las que Bettelheim y Rosenfeld opinan sobre el trabajo clínico que presentan los asistentes...
Of the Standard of Taste and Other Essays
AuthorDavid Hume
ISBN0023278005
Introduction
Selected Bibliography
Note on the Text
Of the standard of taste
Of the delicacy of taste & passion
Of tragedy
Of essay writing
Of simplicity & refinement in writing
Of refinement in the arts
Of eloquence
Of the rise & progress...
Lucy Gayheart
AuthorWilla Cather
ISBN0679728880
"Some people's lives are affected by what happens to their person or their property, but for others fate is what happens to their feelings and their thoughts—that and nothing more." In this haunting 1935 novel, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of My Ántonia and Death Comes for the Archbishop...
Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places
AuthorUrsula K. Le Guin
ISBN0802135293
“I have decided that the trouble with print is, it never changes its mind,” writes Ursula Le Guin in her introduction to Dancing at the Edge of the World. But she has, and here is the record of that change in the decade since the publication of her last nonfiction collection, The Language of the Night....
Sleep it Off Lady: Stories by Jean Rhys
AuthorJean Rhys
ISBN0140183450
The late Jean Rhys remains my favourite writer ever and this selection of her work shines as only her words can. There was no one like her before, nor has there been anyone since. Her wry, brutally honest, self-deprecating voice is so beautifully tormented she's irresistible whatever your gender. She...
Intimacy
AuthorJean-Paul Sartre
ISBN0586010874
This is Sartre's masterly portrait of life seen from new and revealing angles, in which the human soul is stripped of all its civilized veneer, and layers of experience are peeled back with ferocious skill - to reveal the depths of the private oppressions, sensualities and neuroses of our time, and the...
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