The Reasons of Love
10 best books like The Reasons of Love (Harry G. Frankfurt): The Immoralist, The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen, The Nicomachean Ethics, Falling Man, The Lake, Humans of New York, Reasons and Persons, Meditations on First Philosophy, Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work, The Philosophical Writings of Descartes, Volume I
The Immoralist
| Author | André Gide |
| ISBN | 0142180025 |
| Author | Wilfred Owen |
| ISBN | 0811201325 |
I have been circling around World War I for a while now, reading novels that were published around 1915, such as The Voyage Out or Of Human Bondage, and poetry that referred back to that breaking point in history,...
The Nicomachean Ethics
| Author | Aristotle |
| ISBN | 0140449493 |
In the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle sets out to examine the nature of happiness. He argues that happiness consists in ‘activity of the soul...
Falling Man
| Author | Don DeLillo |
| ISBN | 1416546022 |
Falling Man is a magnificent, essential novel about the event that defines turn-of-the-century America. It begins in the smoke and ash of the burning towers and tracks the aftermath of this global tremor in the intimate...
The Lake
| Author | Yasunari Kawabata |
| ISBN | 4770030010 |
The Lake is the history of an obsession. It traces a man's sad pursuit of an unattainable perfection, a beauty out of reach, admired from a distance, unconsummated. Homeless, a fugitive from an ambiguous...
Humans of New York
| Author | Brandon Stanton |
| ISBN | 1250038820 |
In the summer of 2010, photographer Brandon Stanton set out on an ambitious project: to single-handedly create a photographic census of New York City. Armed with his camera, he began...
Reasons and Persons
| Author | Derek Parfit |
Meditations on First Philosophy
| Author | René Descartes |
| ISBN | 0872201929 |
Meditations on First Philosophy is a philosophical treatise written by René Descartes first published in Latin in 1641. The book is made up of six meditations, in which Descartes first discards all belief...
Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work
| Author | Matthew B. Crawford |
| ISBN | 1594202230 |
Called "the sleeper hit of the publishing season" (The Boston Globe), Shop Class as Soulcraft became an instant bestseller, attracting readers with its radical (and timely)...
The Philosophical Writings of Descartes, Volume I
| Author | René Descartes |
雪国 [Snow Country]
| Author | 川端康成 |
At...
眠空
| Author | 安妮宝贝 (Annie Baobei) |
| ISBN | 7530212737 |
滚滚红尘
| Author | 三毛 |
1964年，陈平进入文化大学学习。获张其昀特许，进入院哲学系当选读生，成绩优异。1967年赴西班牙留学，后去德国、美国等。1973年定居西属撒哈拉沙漠和荷西结婚，并以当地的生活为背景，写出一连串脍炙人口的作品。1981年回台后，曾在文化大学任教，1984年辞去教职，而以写作、演讲为重心。1991年1月4日在医院去世，年仅四十八岁。
她极其单纯，在单纯中却有一种惊人的深刻。无论是做人还是写作，笔调自然轻快，不经意间说着最在意的人和事。
她的足迹遍及世界各地，她的作品也在全球的华人社会广为流传，在大陆也有广大的读者，生平著作和译作...
Application for Release from the Dream: Poems
| Author | Tony Hoagland |
| ISBN | 1555977189 |
The parade for the slain police officer
goes past the bakery
and the smell of fresh bread
makes the mourners salivate against their will.
—from "Note...
Peaches Goes It Alone: Poems
| Author | Frederick Seidel |
| ISBN | 0374230536 |
This is the End of Days.
This is what we've been waiting for always.
I walked over to the Hudson River, heading for Mars.
Each poem of mine is a suicide belt.
I say that to my girlfriend...
The Life and Work of Mark Twain
| Author | Stephen Railton |
| ISBN | 1565855124 |
This course explores Twain's dual identities as one of our classic authors and as an almost...
Bookshelf
| Author | Lydia Pyne |
| ISBN | 1501307320 |
Every shelf is different and every bookshelf tells a different story. One bookshelf can creak with character in a bohemian coffee shop and another can groan with gravitas in the Library...
The Bitter Withy
| Author | Donald Revell |
| ISBN | 1882295765 |