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The Horse's Mouth
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The Horse's Mouth, famously filmed with Alec Guinness in the central role, is a searing portrait of the artistic temperament. Gulley Jimson is the charming, impoverished painter who cares little about the conventional values of his day. His unfailing belief that he must live and paint according to his intuition without regard for the cost to himsel...
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Dec 21, 2020The Master and Margarita
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A masterful translation of one of the great novels of the 20th centuryNothing in the whole of literature compares with The Master and Margarita. Full of pungency and wit, this luminous work is Bulgakov’s crowning achievement, skilfully blending magical and realistic elements, grotesque situations and major ethical concerns. Written during the darke...
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Dec 14, 2020In his final novel, which he considered his most important, Aldous Huxley transports us to the remote Pacific island of Pala, where an ideal society has flourished for 120 years.Inevitably, this island of bliss attracts the envy and enmity of the surrounding world. A conspiracy is underway to take over Pala, and events are set in motion when an age...
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Aubrey MarcusThe Old Man and the Sea
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The Old Man and the Sea, an apparently simple fable, represents the mature Hemingway at his best. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature soon after its publication, and half a century later it is still one of his most read books....
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Feb 15, 2019For Whom the Bell Tolls
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In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Spain to cover the civil war there for the North American Newspaper Alliance. Three years later he completed the greatest novel to emerge from "the good fight," For Whom the Bell Tolls.The story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades attached to an antifascist guerilla unit in the mount...
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Josh WaitzkinThe definitive edition of the classic novel of love during wartime, featuring all of the alternate endings: “Fascinating…serves as an artifact of a bygone craft, with handwritten notes and long passages crossed out, giving readers a sense of an author’s process” (The New York Times).Written when Ernest Hemingway was thirty years old and lauded as t...
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Feb 11, 2019"If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself."Translated by Constance Garnett with an Introduction by A.D.P. Briggs.In 1869 a young Russian was strangled, shot through the head and thrown into a pond. His crime? A wish to leave a small group of violent revolutionaries, from which he had become alienated. Dostoevsky takes this real-li...
Notes From Underground
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"I am a sick man . . . I am a spiteful man," the irascible voice of a nameless narrator cries out. And so, from underground, emerge the passionate confessions of a suffering man; the brutal self-examination of a tormented soul; the bristling scorn and iconoclasm of alienated individual who has become one of the greatest antiheroes in all literature...
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Pope FrancisThis new collection of essays bears the unmistakable stamp of Theodore Dalrymple's bracingly clearsighted view of the human condition. In these twenty-six pieces, Dr. Dalrymple ranges over literature and ideas, from Shakespeare to Marx, from the break-down of Islam to the legalization of drugs. The book includes "When Islam Breaks Down," named by D...
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Feb 01, 2019The Charterhouse of Parma
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Headstrong and naïve, the young Italian aristocrat Fabrizio del Dongo is determined to defy the wrath of his right-wing father and go to war to fight for Napoleon. He stumbles on the Battle of Waterloo, ill-prepared, yet filled with enthusiasm for war and glory. Finally heeding advice, Fabrizio sneaks back to Milan, only to become embroiled in a se...
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Jan 27, 2019The groundbreaking theory of how fire and food drove the evolution of modern humansEver since Darwin and The Descent of Man, the evolution and world-wide dispersal of humans has been attributed to our intelligence and adaptability. But in Catching Fire, renowned primatologist Richard Wrangham presents a startling alternative: our evolutionary succe...
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
1984 by George Orwell
How to Spend $75 Billion to Make the World a Better Place by Bjørn Lomborg
The Myth of Mental Illness by Thomas S. Szasz
The Origins and History of Consciousness by Erich Neumann
The Female Brain by Louann Brizendine
Explaining Postmodernism by Stephen R. C. Hicks
Unsafe Space by Tom Slater
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
Modern Man in Search of a Soul by C. G. Jung
Ordinary Men by Christopher R. Browning
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang
The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell
The Gulag Archipelago Abridged by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The Gulag Archipelago Volume 1 by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
Affective Neuroscience by Jaak Panksepp
Panzram A Journal of Murder by Thomas E. Gaddis
Maps of Meaning by Jordan B. Peterson
The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosinski
Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky
A History of Religious Ideas, Vol. 3 by Mircea Eliade
A History of Religious Ideas, Volume 1 by Mircea Eliade