The Inner Life
10 best books like The Inner Life (Thomas à Kempis): Confessions, Jude the Obscure, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, On the Shortness of Life, Loving, 77 Dream Songs, Tales of Love, Gigi, Julie de Carneilhan, and Chance Acquaintances: Three Short Novels, The Dream, The Birth of Tragedy/The Genealogy of Morals
| Author | Augustine of Hippo |
| ISBN | 0192833723 |
Augustine's Confessions is one of the most influential and most innovative works of Latin literature. Written in the author's early forties in the last years of the fourth century A.D. and during his first years as a bishop, they reflect on his life and on the activity of remembering and interpreting...
| Author | Thomas Hardy |
| ISBN | 0486452433 |
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An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
| Author | David Hume |
| ISBN | 1420926993 |
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...
| Author | Seneca |
| ISBN | 0143036327 |
The Stoic writings of the philosopher Seneca offer powerful insights into the art of living, the importance of reason and morality, and continue to provide profound guidance to many through their eloquence, lucidity and timeless wisdom.
Throughout history, some books have changed the...
| Author | Henry Green |
| ISBN | 0099285096 |
One of his most admired works, Loving describes life above and below stairs in an Irish country house during the Second World War. In the absence of their employers the Tennants, the servants enact their own battles and conflict amid rumours about the war in Europe, invading one another's provinces...
| Author | John Berryman |
| ISBN | 0571207693 |
Faber are pleased to announce the relaunch of the poetry list - starting in Spring 2001 and continuing, with publication dates each month, for the rest of the year. This will involve a new jacket design recalling the typographic virtues of the classic Faber poetry covers, connecting the backlist and...
| Author | Julia Kristeva |
| ISBN | 0231060254 |
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...
| Author | Colette |
| ISBN | 0374527857 |
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...
| Author | Émile Zola |
| ISBN | 1414275897 |
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,...
| Author | Friedrich Nietzsche |
| ISBN | 0385092105 |
Skillful, sophisticated translations of two of Nietzsche's essential works about the conflict between the moral and aesthetic approaches to life, the impact of Christianity on human values, the meaning of science, the contrast between the Apollonian and Dionysian spirits, and other themes central...
| Author | Julia Kristeva |
| ISBN | 0231048076 |
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."...
| Author | Ludwig Wittgenstein |
| ISBN | 0226904350 |
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
"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...
| Author | Ludwig Wittgenstein |
| ISBN | 0631116419 |
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
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
| Author | David Hume |
| ISBN | 0023278005 |
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...
| Author | Willa Cather |
| ISBN | 0679728880 |
"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...
Sleep it Off Lady: Stories by Jean Rhys
| Author | Jean Rhys |
| ISBN | 0140183450 |
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...
