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The theme of the three caskets
Freud demonstrates through literary, mythical, and folktale examples the extraordinary way that wishes manifest themselves in people’s dreams.
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On talkativeness
Plutarch’s essay takes on an unusual philosophical problem: people who talk too much.
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Do not resuscitate
Maurice Saatchi writes an unsparing depiction of a celestial trial in which his application to pass through the Gates of Heaven is heard before a jury featuring luminaries like Marilyn Monroe, Pablo Picasso, Chairman Mao, and Margaret Thatcher.
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Marginalia on casanova
Miklós Szentkuthy uses Casanova’s memoirs as a springboard for something far stranger: a swirling meditation on eros, memory, disguise, vanity, and the metaphysics of seduction.
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Tyranny of style
A defence of the composer’s duty to the text: not to entertain, not to soothe, but to translate meaning with precision and depth.
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The discourse of voluntary servitude
La Boétie maps how power metastasizes through favors, flattery, and fear.
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Unpacking my library
Benjamin offers a personal meditation on his career as a book collector and on the strange relations that spring up between objects and their owners.
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The 1854 oration
The 1854 speech traditionally attributed to Chief Seattle of the Duwamish Tribe is a vital document in the history of the Indigenous peoples of North America.
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North and south
First published in 1854, North and South is Elizabeth Gaskell’s boldest and most ambitious novel: a work of fierce social commentary and subtle emotional power.
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The invisible collection
When Zweig’s anonymous narrator sets off to the provinces in search of a lucrative bargain, he finds himself caught up in the slow unfolding of a family tragedy.
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Secrets of beauty
As well as throwing new light on the author’s own creative achievement, Secrets of Beauty is a vital contribution to aesthetic theory.
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Rameau's nephew
A fictional conversation written by Denis Diderot, one of the key figures of the French Enlightenment.
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The naturing cosmos
The Naturing Cosmos inaugurates a major new dialogue between philosophy, design theory, and ecology.
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Whose body?
Judith Jarvis Thomson’s “A Defense of Abortion” is a cornerstone of modern moral philosophy, widely taught, fiercely debated, and endlessly cited.
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Death of a prince
In this dreamlike final reckoning, Don Fabrizio dies as he lived: proud, weary, and beyond the world of ordinary men.
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River of becoming
A lavishly illustrated volume is the authoritative biography of a consummate self-portraitist and a riveting depiction of a paradoxical personality.
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Book of water
Book of Water is a collection of short stories about desire, fear, life, care, and ecological anxiety, all narrated through the physical and metaphysical presence of water.
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In praise of cosmetics
This wicked, brilliant fragment defends makeup not as deception but as devotion: a ritual rebellion against decay, chance, and animal life.
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Story of my death
In 1931 Lauro de Bosis flew over Rome in a small plane in order to scatter anti-Fascist pamphlets from the sky. He did not survive the journey, but he left behind a remarkable testament.
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Apocolocyntosis
Apocolocyntosis depicts a posthumous trial in which the recently deceased Emperor Claudius makes the case for his elevation to the company of the gods.
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Soundings
Dora Malech’s latest anthology of poems written in the last decade and appearing for the first time in a single volume.
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The lottery in babylon
Jorge Luis Borges’s short story is a characteristically brilliant achievement – a haunting mediation on the nature of chance, paranoia and divinity.
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Resistance to christianity
Resistance to Christianity is a revisionary account of the forms of thought and belief that have been rejected by orthodox Christianity over the course of the centuries.
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Tradition and the individual talent
T. S. Eliot’s advocacy of “impersonality” as a literary ideal in Tradition and the Individual Talent had an immeasurable impact on Modernist literature and continues to resonate today.
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Ng6461
NG6461 is an unforgettable account of what has gone wrong in the art world, and of what can be done to change it.
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Desire and fate
Brilliant and unsparing essays on the blind spots and maladies of contemporary culture.
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Love and other stories
These beautifully translated works demonstrate why Chekhov’s short fiction has achieved universal acclaim.
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Jacob's room
Virginia Woolf’s third novel is an unconventional literary portrait of its title character—an awkward but strangely fascinating young man coming of age in the years leading up to the First World War.
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Victoria
Victoria is an incisive study of the coercive power of economic and social forces that is also renowned for its innovative and psychologically probing narrative techniques.
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Justice in palestine
Justice in Palestine is an essential work by one of the twentieth century’s most powerful and authoritative voices.
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Bullshit jobs: a work rant
Bullshit Jobs is part polemic, part social theory, and part cathartic scream—a razor-sharp diagnosis of a system that rewards appearance over substance, and a call to imagine something radically better.
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Luminous lives
Thomas Schlesser’s biography, which draws upon the considerable body of written material that Anna-Eva Bergman left behind, at long last enables us to understand this extraordinary artist in all the complexity of her character and the dramatic circumstances of her life.
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