고전

시대를 초월한 지혜와 삶을 변화시키는 이야기가 세대를 거쳐 인류의 사상과 문화를 형성해 온 이 불멸의 작품들 속에 담겨 있습니다. 이 심오한 책들은 잊을 수 없는 인물들, 철학적 통찰, 그리고 오늘날의 독자들에게도 여전히 울림을 주는 보편적 진리를 통해 삶의 가장 깊은 질문들을 탐구합니다.

고전 도서 요약

The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

저자: Sylvia Plath • 2000

Her uncensored journals: the ambition, the marriage, the breakdown, and the art she fought to make.

4.28

26,000+

🎭 Confessional Poetry 📓 Writer's Journals 🤯 Women And Madness 🏆 Literary Ambition 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Conflict

The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Her uncensored journals: the ambition, the marriage, the breakdown, and the art she fought to make.

저자: Sylvia Plath 2000 732 페이지

4.28

26,000+ 개의 평점

🎭 Confessional Poetry 📓 Writer's Journals 🤯 Women And Madness 🏆 Literary Ambition 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Conflict

Civil Disobedience and Other Essays

저자: Henry David Thoreau • 1866

Conscience, not law, is the highest authority. The original case for nonviolent resistance.

4.06

17,000+

✊ Civil Disobedience 🌿 American Transcendentalism 🧍 Individualism 🛖 Simple Living ⚡ Anti-Authoritarianism

Civil Disobedience and Other Essays

Conscience, not law, is the highest authority. The original case for nonviolent resistance.

저자: Henry David Thoreau 1866 188 페이지

4.06

17,000+ 개의 평점

✊ Civil Disobedience 🌿 American Transcendentalism 🧍 Individualism 🛖 Simple Living ⚡ Anti-Authoritarianism

Bleak House

저자: Charles Dickens • 1853

A lawsuit devours fortunes for generations as an orphaned girl uncovers the secret of her birth.

4.02

100,000+

🏛️ Legal Satire 🔍 Secret Parentage 🗣️ Dual Narration 💼 Doomed Inheritance 🥀 Fallen Woman

Bleak House

A lawsuit devours fortunes for generations as an orphaned girl uncovers the secret of her birth.

저자: Charles Dickens 1853 1017 페이지

4.02

100,000+ 개의 평점

🏛️ Legal Satire 🔍 Secret Parentage 🗣️ Dual Narration 💼 Doomed Inheritance 🥀 Fallen Woman

El amor, las mujeres y la vida

저자: Mario Benedetti • 1995

Love as daily resistance to death: a poet's half-century of intimacy, absence, and stubborn hope.

4.21

6,000+

🗺️ Latin American Poetry 💝 Love Poetry 🏠 Everyday Intimacy ⏳ Mortality And Love 🌌 Solitude And Connection

El amor, las mujeres y la vida

Love as daily resistance to death: a poet's half-century of intimacy, absence, and stubborn hope.

저자: Mario Benedetti 1995 176 페이지

4.21

6,000+ 개의 평점

🗺️ Latin American Poetry 💝 Love Poetry 🏠 Everyday Intimacy ⏳ Mortality And Love 🌌 Solitude And Connection

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories

저자: Robert Louis Stevenson • 1886

A lawyer probes the bond between a revered doctor and the brute who trampled a child.

4.00

36,000+

🏚️ Gothic Horror 🎩 Victorian London 👤 Dark Alter Ego ⚗️ Scientific Hubris 🌫️ Atmospheric Dread

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories

A lawyer probes the bond between a revered doctor and the brute who trampled a child.

저자: Robert Louis Stevenson 1886 254 페이지

4.00

36,000+ 개의 평점

🏚️ Gothic Horror 🎩 Victorian London 👤 Dark Alter Ego ⚗️ Scientific Hubris 🌫️ Atmospheric Dread

The Religious Affections

저자: Jonathan Edwards • 1746

Religious feelings can burn bright and still be counterfeit. A Puritan's test for genuine faith.

4.24

6,000+

📜 Puritan Theology 🔍 Religious Discernment 🌄 Spiritual Experience ❤️ Religious Emotions 🎭 Counterfeit Faith

The Religious Affections

Religious feelings can burn bright and still be counterfeit. A Puritan's test for genuine faith.

저자: Jonathan Edwards 1746 382 페이지

4.24

6,000+ 개의 평점

📜 Puritan Theology 🔍 Religious Discernment 🌄 Spiritual Experience ❤️ Religious Emotions 🎭 Counterfeit Faith

The Beautiful and Damned

저자: F. Scott Fitzgerald • 1922

Parties, gin, and the long wait for an inheritance hollow out a golden Jazz Age couple.

3.73

65,000+

🗽 Jazz Age Novel 💔 Doomed Love 💰 Idle Rich 🥀 Fading Beauty ⚖️ Inheritance Plot

The Beautiful and Damned

Parties, gin, and the long wait for an inheritance hollow out a golden Jazz Age couple.

저자: F. Scott Fitzgerald 1922 422 페이지

3.73

65,000+ 개의 평점

🗽 Jazz Age Novel 💔 Doomed Love 💰 Idle Rich 🥀 Fading Beauty ⚖️ Inheritance Plot

갈까마귀

저자: 에드거 앨런 포 • 1845

In a shadowy chamber, a scholar's grief summons a raven whose sole reply damns him to despair.

4.29

100,000+

🖤 Gothic Poetry 👻 Haunted By Grief 🌀 Descent Into Madness 🐦‍⬛ Ominous Bird 🥀 Unreliable Narrator

갈까마귀

In a shadowy chamber, a scholar's grief summons a raven whose sole reply damns him to despair.

저자: 에드거 앨런 포 1845 64 페이지

4.29

100,000+ 개의 평점

🖤 Gothic Poetry 👻 Haunted By Grief 🌀 Descent Into Madness 🐦‍⬛ Ominous Bird 🥀 Unreliable Narrator

Sleeping Beauty

저자: Charles Perrault • 2014

Cursed at birth, a princess sleeps a hundred years inside a castle swallowed by thorns.

3.69

203

🐸 French Folklore 👑 Cursed Princess 💤 Enchanted Sleep 🔮 Fate And Prophecy 💖 Breaking The Spell

Sleeping Beauty

Cursed at birth, a princess sleeps a hundred years inside a castle swallowed by thorns.

저자: Charles Perrault 2014 46 페이지

3.69

203 개의 평점

🐸 French Folklore 👑 Cursed Princess 💤 Enchanted Sleep 🔮 Fate And Prophecy 💖 Breaking The Spell

The Bhagavad Gita

저자: Jack Hawley

A warrior's battlefield crisis becomes a teaching on the deathless self and acting without grasping.

4.35

1,000+

🕉️ Eastern Philosophy 🧘 Yoga Philosophy 📜 Hindu Scripture 🤲 Selfless Action 💗 Devotional Spirituality

The Bhagavad Gita

A warrior's battlefield crisis becomes a teaching on the deathless self and acting without grasping.

저자: Jack Hawley 224 페이지

4.35

1,000+ 개의 평점

🕉️ Eastern Philosophy 🧘 Yoga Philosophy 📜 Hindu Scripture 🤲 Selfless Action 💗 Devotional Spirituality

The Metamorphosis

저자: Peter Kuper • 2004

A man wakes as an enormous bug. His family's rejection proves more monstrous than his body.

3.80

5,000+

📚 Literary Adaptations 🪳 Kafkaesque 😱 Existential Horror 🦗 Body Transformation 🏠 Family Alienation

The Metamorphosis

A man wakes as an enormous bug. His family's rejection proves more monstrous than his body.

저자: Peter Kuper 2004 80 페이지

3.80

5,000+ 개의 평점

📚 Literary Adaptations 🪳 Kafkaesque 😱 Existential Horror 🦗 Body Transformation 🏠 Family Alienation

Hume

저자: Alfred Jules Ayer • 1980

Hume's demolition: what we can know without a self, a cause, or a moral law.

3.14

375

🔍 Empiricism 🧐 Skepticism 🔗 Causation 🪪 Personal Identity ❤️ Moral Sentimentalism

Hume

Hume's demolition: what we can know without a self, a cause, or a moral law.

저자: Alfred Jules Ayer 1980 125 페이지

3.14

375 개의 평점

🔍 Empiricism 🧐 Skepticism 🔗 Causation 🪪 Personal Identity ❤️ Moral Sentimentalism

Meetings With Remarkable Men

저자: G.I. Gurdjieff • 1960

A young seeker crosses Central Asia, finding teachers who upend everything he thought he knew.

4.10

2,000+

📜 Spiritual Memoir 🔮 Esoteric Traditions 🕉️ Wisdom Traditions 🧘 Inner Search 🛤️ Fourth Way

Meetings With Remarkable Men

A young seeker crosses Central Asia, finding teachers who upend everything he thought he knew.

저자: G.I. Gurdjieff 1960 303 페이지

4.10

2,000+ 개의 평점

📜 Spiritual Memoir 🔮 Esoteric Traditions 🕉️ Wisdom Traditions 🧘 Inner Search 🛤️ Fourth Way

The Book of Mirdad

저자: Mikhail Naimy • 1948

When the Ark's silent servant speaks, his words promise to flood the world, or save it.

4.30

2,000+

📖 Spiritual Allegory 🕊️ Parable Collection ⛰️ Mountain Monastery 🧘 Transcending Ego ✝️ Biblical Retelling

The Book of Mirdad

When the Ark's silent servant speaks, his words promise to flood the world, or save it.

저자: Mikhail Naimy 1948 192 페이지

4.30

2,000+ 개의 평점

📖 Spiritual Allegory 🕊️ Parable Collection ⛰️ Mountain Monastery 🧘 Transcending Ego ✝️ Biblical Retelling

Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student

저자: Edward P.J. Corbett • 1965

Five steps, three appeals, one ancient toolkit that still wins arguments and moves audiences.

4.18

430

📜 Classical Rhetoric ✍️ Persuasive Writing 🗣️ Argumentation 🎤 Public Speaking 📖 Rhetorical Theory

Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student

Five steps, three appeals, one ancient toolkit that still wins arguments and moves audiences.

저자: Edward P.J. Corbett 1965 562 페이지

4.18

430 개의 평점

📜 Classical Rhetoric ✍️ Persuasive Writing 🗣️ Argumentation 🎤 Public Speaking 📖 Rhetorical Theory

The Hour of the Star

저자: Clarice Lispector • 1977

An invisible Rio typist wants to be noticed; a fortune-teller promises she will be.

4.11

58,000+

📚 Existential Fiction 🖋️ Narrator Intrusion 🌾 Overlooked Lives 🏙️ Urban Poverty ⏳ Fatalistic Fiction

The Hour of the Star

An invisible Rio typist wants to be noticed; a fortune-teller promises she will be.

저자: Clarice Lispector 1977 96 페이지

4.11

58,000+ 개의 평점

📚 Existential Fiction 🖋️ Narrator Intrusion 🌾 Overlooked Lives 🏙️ Urban Poverty ⏳ Fatalistic Fiction

블랙버드 연못의 마녀

저자: 엘리자베스 조지 스피어 • 1958

An orphan from Barbados lands in Puritan Connecticut, where independence is mistaken for witchcraft.

4.03

100,000+

🔥 Puritan Witch Trial 🌾 Colonial New England 🐠 Fish Out Of Water 🏠 Found Family 👀 Small Town Fear

블랙버드 연못의 마녀

An orphan from Barbados lands in Puritan Connecticut, where independence is mistaken for witchcraft.

저자: 엘리자베스 조지 스피어 1958 256 페이지

4.03

100,000+ 개의 평점

🔥 Puritan Witch Trial 🌾 Colonial New England 🐠 Fish Out Of Water 🏠 Found Family 👀 Small Town Fear

Masters of Command

저자: Barry S. Strauss • 2012

Three ancient generals, ten common instincts, and the single rhythm of war that still defines power.

4.02

500+

⚔️ Ancient Warfare 🫡 Military Leadership 🔍 Comparative History ♟️ Strategic Thinking 🏛️ Political Ambition

Masters of Command

Three ancient generals, ten common instincts, and the single rhythm of war that still defines power.

저자: Barry S. Strauss 2012 320 페이지

4.02

500+ 개의 평점

⚔️ Ancient Warfare 🫡 Military Leadership 🔍 Comparative History ♟️ Strategic Thinking 🏛️ Political Ambition

The Good Book

저자: A.C. Grayling • 2011

King Croesus asked a philosopher who was the happiest man alive. The answer destroyed him.

3.71

500+

📜 Ancient History 🦁 Persian Empire ⚔️ Greek-Persian Wars 📖 Herodotean Histories 🌍 Imperial Expansion

The Good Book

King Croesus asked a philosopher who was the happiest man alive. The answer destroyed him.

저자: A.C. Grayling 2011 597 페이지

3.71

500+ 개의 평점

📜 Ancient History 🦁 Persian Empire ⚔️ Greek-Persian Wars 📖 Herodotean Histories 🌍 Imperial Expansion

거울 나라의 앨리스

저자: 루이스 캐럴 • 1871

A girl steps through the parlor mirror to find she is a pawn inside a chessboard.

4.01

100,000+

📚 Literary Nonsense 🪞 Portal Fantasy 💭 Dreamlike Logic 🐰 Talking Animals 📝 Wordplay And Puns

거울 나라의 앨리스

A girl steps through the parlor mirror to find she is a pawn inside a chessboard.

저자: 루이스 캐럴 1871 92 페이지

4.01

100,000+ 개의 평점

📚 Literary Nonsense 🪞 Portal Fantasy 💭 Dreamlike Logic 🐰 Talking Animals 📝 Wordplay And Puns

The Fall of the House of Usher

저자: Edgar Allan Poe • 1839

Summoned to a decaying mansion, a visitor finds friend and house bound together in shared madness.

3.84

90,000+

🧠 Psychological Horror 🏚️ Decaying Mansion 🏰 Isolated Setting 💀 Ancestral Curse 🏠 Sentient House

The Fall of the House of Usher

Summoned to a decaying mansion, a visitor finds friend and house bound together in shared madness.

저자: Edgar Allan Poe 1839 36 페이지

3.84

90,000+ 개의 평점

🧠 Psychological Horror 🏚️ Decaying Mansion 🏰 Isolated Setting 💀 Ancestral Curse 🏠 Sentient House

Autobiography

저자: John Stuart Mill • 1873

Greek at three, a breakdown at twenty, and the poet who taught him to feel.

3.77

1,000+

📖 Intellectual Autobiography ⚖️ Utilitarianism 🗽 Classical Liberalism 🇬🇧 Victorian Britain 🧒 Child Prodigies

Autobiography

Greek at three, a breakdown at twenty, and the poet who taught him to feel.

저자: John Stuart Mill 1873 263 페이지

3.77

1,000+ 개의 평점

📖 Intellectual Autobiography ⚖️ Utilitarianism 🗽 Classical Liberalism 🇬🇧 Victorian Britain 🧒 Child Prodigies

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

저자: C.S. Lewis • 1952

A painting pulls three children into Narnia, onto a ship sailing east toward the world's end.

4.09

500,000+

🚪 Portal Fantasy ⛵ Nautical Fantasy 🔥 Redemption Arc 🤝 Found Family 💫 Unlikely Friends

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

A painting pulls three children into Narnia, onto a ship sailing east toward the world's end.

저자: C.S. Lewis 1952 248 페이지

4.09

500,000+ 개의 평점

🚪 Portal Fantasy ⛵ Nautical Fantasy 🔥 Redemption Arc 🤝 Found Family 💫 Unlikely Friends

From the Earth to the Moon

저자: Jules Verne • 2006

A restless artillery club fires a shell at the moon; a French daredevil climbs inside.

3.75

40,000+

🧪 Scientific Adventure 🚀 Early Science Fiction ⚔️ Scientific Rivalry 🧭 Eccentric Explorer 😏 Satirical Sci-Fi

From the Earth to the Moon

A restless artillery club fires a shell at the moon; a French daredevil climbs inside.

저자: Jules Verne 2006 136 페이지

3.75

40,000+ 개의 평점

🧪 Scientific Adventure 🚀 Early Science Fiction ⚔️ Scientific Rivalry 🧭 Eccentric Explorer 😏 Satirical Sci-Fi

Prokleta avlija

저자: Ivo Andrić • 1954

In an Ottoman prison, a monk encounters a young man convinced he is a dead sultan.

4.24

11,000+

🪆 Nested Stories 🔗 Prison Narrative 📜 Historical Obsession ✝️ Monk Narrator 🔒 Prison Warden

Prokleta avlija

In an Ottoman prison, a monk encounters a young man convinced he is a dead sultan.

저자: Ivo Andrić 1954 120 페이지

4.24

11,000+ 개의 평점

🪆 Nested Stories 🔗 Prison Narrative 📜 Historical Obsession ✝️ Monk Narrator 🔒 Prison Warden

Prometheus Bound

저자: Aeschylus • 1990

Chained for giving fire to mortals, a Titan holds the secret that could overthrow Zeus.

3.94

22,000+

🏛️ Greek Tragedy 🏺 Ancient Greece ⚡ Defying The Gods 🔮 Secret Prophecy ✊ Righteous Defiance

Prometheus Bound

Chained for giving fire to mortals, a Titan holds the secret that could overthrow Zeus.

저자: Aeschylus 1990 144 페이지

3.94

22,000+ 개의 평점

🏛️ Greek Tragedy 🏺 Ancient Greece ⚡ Defying The Gods 🔮 Secret Prophecy ✊ Righteous Defiance

Shakespeare's Freedom

저자: Stephen Greenblatt • 2010

Shakespeare dreamed of absolute freedom; his entire career became a record of its limits.

3.83

175

🎭 Shakespearean Criticism 📜 Renaissance Studies 🏛️ New Historicism 🔗 Freedom And Constraint 🎨 Aesthetic Theory

Shakespeare's Freedom

Shakespeare dreamed of absolute freedom; his entire career became a record of its limits.

저자: Stephen Greenblatt 2010 168 페이지

3.83

175 개의 평점

🎭 Shakespearean Criticism 📜 Renaissance Studies 🏛️ New Historicism 🔗 Freedom And Constraint 🎨 Aesthetic Theory

50 Spiritual Classics

저자: Tom Butler-Bowdon • 2005

The core wisdom of 50 spiritual classics, distilled into ten timeless practices you can use.

3.98

441

🕊️ Spiritual Classics 📜 Perennial Philosophy ☯️ Interfaith Wisdom 🧘 Mindfulness 🌌 Ego Transcendence

50 Spiritual Classics

The core wisdom of 50 spiritual classics, distilled into ten timeless practices you can use.

저자: Tom Butler-Bowdon 2005 328 페이지

3.98

441 개의 평점

🕊️ Spiritual Classics 📜 Perennial Philosophy ☯️ Interfaith Wisdom 🧘 Mindfulness 🌌 Ego Transcendence

Science and Sanity

저자: Alfred Korzybski • 1933

How to train your nervous system to stop mistaking words for the things they name.

4.40

386

🤔 Epistemology 🗺️ General Semantics 💬 Linguistic Relativity 🧠 Metacognition 👁️ Cognitive Psychology

Science and Sanity

How to train your nervous system to stop mistaking words for the things they name.

저자: Alfred Korzybski 1933 927 페이지

4.40

386 개의 평점

🤔 Epistemology 🗺️ General Semantics 💬 Linguistic Relativity 🧠 Metacognition 👁️ Cognitive Psychology

To Build a Fire

저자: Jack London • 2003

Crossing the frozen Yukon, a man trusts his own judgment while his dog knows better.

3.99

27,000+

🏔️ Naturalist Fiction 🏕️ Wilderness Survival 🌊 Man Vs Nature ⚡ Tragic Hubris 🐺 Instinct Vs Reason

To Build a Fire

Crossing the frozen Yukon, a man trusts his own judgment while his dog knows better.

저자: Jack London 2003 32 페이지

3.99

27,000+ 개의 평점

🏔️ Naturalist Fiction 🏕️ Wilderness Survival 🌊 Man Vs Nature ⚡ Tragic Hubris 🐺 Instinct Vs Reason

The Everlasting Man

저자: G.K. Chesterton • 1925

Prehistory, paganism, philosophy: all dead ends. The force that broke through began in a cave.

4.16

10,000+

🛡️ Christian Apologetics 🌍 Comparative Religion 🧠 Faith And Reason ⛪ Catholic Thought 📜 Historical Theology

The Everlasting Man

Prehistory, paganism, philosophy: all dead ends. The force that broke through began in a cave.

저자: G.K. Chesterton 1925 260 페이지

4.16

10,000+ 개의 평점

🛡️ Christian Apologetics 🌍 Comparative Religion 🧠 Faith And Reason ⛪ Catholic Thought 📜 Historical Theology

Westworld

저자: Michael Crichton • 1974

A Wild West theme park's robot gunslinger breaks its programming and starts killing the guests.

3.73

2,000+

💻 Techno-Thriller 🎢 Theme Park Gone Wrong 🤠 Futuristic Western 🎯 Unstoppable Hunter ⚙️ Man Vs Machine

Westworld

A Wild West theme park's robot gunslinger breaks its programming and starts killing the guests.

저자: Michael Crichton 1974 107 페이지

3.73

2,000+ 개의 평점

💻 Techno-Thriller 🎢 Theme Park Gone Wrong 🤠 Futuristic Western 🎯 Unstoppable Hunter ⚙️ Man Vs Machine

The Psychology of Intelligence

저자: Jean Piaget • 2001

Thinking is biology's most flexible adaptation, built from actions that become reversible.

4.09

3,000+

🧒 Developmental Psychology 🏗️ Constructivism 📈 Stage Theory 🧠 Cognitive Development 🏛️ Epistemology

The Psychology of Intelligence

Thinking is biology's most flexible adaptation, built from actions that become reversible.

저자: Jean Piaget 2001 202 페이지

4.09

3,000+ 개의 평점

🧒 Developmental Psychology 🏗️ Constructivism 📈 Stage Theory 🧠 Cognitive Development 🏛️ Epistemology

A Writer's Diary

저자: Virginia Woolf • 1953

Virginia Woolf's diary: 23 years of teaching herself to write the novels that changed fiction.

4.17

6,000+

📝 Writers On Writing 🎨 Creative Practice 📚 Modernist Literature 📓 Writer's Journals ✍️ Fiction Craft

A Writer's Diary

Virginia Woolf's diary: 23 years of teaching herself to write the novels that changed fiction.

저자: Virginia Woolf 1953 355 페이지

4.17

6,000+ 개의 평점

📝 Writers On Writing 🎨 Creative Practice 📚 Modernist Literature 📓 Writer's Journals ✍️ Fiction Craft

Holy Bible

저자: Anonymous • 2001

At the foot of a holy mountain, a nation learned what it means to belong to a holy God.

4.60

52,000+

🙏 Sacred Scripture 📜 Hebrew Bible ⚖️ Biblical Law 🏺 Covenant Theology ☁️ Divine Guidance

Holy Bible

At the foot of a holy mountain, a nation learned what it means to belong to a holy God.

저자: Anonymous 2001 1243 페이지

4.60

52,000+ 개의 평점

🙏 Sacred Scripture 📜 Hebrew Bible ⚖️ Biblical Law 🏺 Covenant Theology ☁️ Divine Guidance

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket

저자: Edgar Allan Poe • 1999

A boy stows away, survives mutiny and cannibalism, then sails into a white Antarctic void.

3.5

15,000+

🪐 Cosmic Horror 🚢 Gothic Seafaring ⚓ Mutiny At Sea 🍖 Survival Cannibalism 🎭 Unreliable Narrator

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket

A boy stows away, survives mutiny and cannibalism, then sails into a white Antarctic void.

저자: Edgar Allan Poe 1999 288 페이지

3.5

15,000+ 개의 평점

🪐 Cosmic Horror 🚢 Gothic Seafaring ⚓ Mutiny At Sea 🍖 Survival Cannibalism 🎭 Unreliable Narrator

The Quest for Character

저자: Massimo Pigliucci • 2022

Socrates couldn't make Alcibiades virtuous. Their failure explains why good leaders are so rare.

3.97

242

🎯 Virtue Ethics ⚡ Modern Stoicism 📜 Political Philosophy 🫡 Ethical Leadership 🌱 Character Development

The Quest for Character

Socrates couldn't make Alcibiades virtuous. Their failure explains why good leaders are so rare.

저자: Massimo Pigliucci 2022 247 페이지

3.97

242 개의 평점

🎯 Virtue Ethics ⚡ Modern Stoicism 📜 Political Philosophy 🫡 Ethical Leadership 🌱 Character Development

A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge

저자: George Berkeley • 1710

Things exist only while perceived. So what keeps the universe intact when no one is watching?

3.71

3,000+

🔮 Idealism 🇬🇧 British Empiricism 🌌 Metaphysics 🧠 Philosophy Of Mind 👁️ Perception And Reality

A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge

Things exist only while perceived. So what keeps the universe intact when no one is watching?

저자: George Berkeley 1710 80 페이지

3.71

3,000+ 개의 평점

🔮 Idealism 🇬🇧 British Empiricism 🌌 Metaphysics 🧠 Philosophy Of Mind 👁️ Perception And Reality

How to Be Free

저자: Epictetus • 2018

Freedom is a mental skill, not a legal status. A former slave teaches the rules.

4.08

2,000+

🏛️ Stoic Philosophy 📜 Ancient Wisdom 🕊️ Inner Freedom 🧠 Cognitive Reframing 🛡️ Emotional Resilience

How to Be Free

Freedom is a mental skill, not a legal status. A former slave teaches the rules.

저자: Epictetus 2018 173 페이지

4.08

2,000+ 개의 평점

🏛️ Stoic Philosophy 📜 Ancient Wisdom 🕊️ Inner Freedom 🧠 Cognitive Reframing 🛡️ Emotional Resilience

The Diary Of A Superfluous Man

저자: Ivan Turgenev • 1850

A dying nobleman chronicles a life of watching, never daring, forever unnecessary.

3.84

4,000+

📜 Russian Classic 📔 Confessional Diary 💔 Unrequited Love 👁️ Alienated Observer 😔 Melancholy

The Diary Of A Superfluous Man

A dying nobleman chronicles a life of watching, never daring, forever unnecessary.

저자: Ivan Turgenev 1850 332 페이지

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📜 Russian Classic 📔 Confessional Diary 💔 Unrequited Love 👁️ Alienated Observer 😔 Melancholy

The Adolescent

저자: Fyodor Dostoevsky • 1875

Illegitimate son pursues independence through obsessive savings, but father's scandals entangle him.

3.93

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🌱 Bildungsroman 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family Saga 👨‍👦 Father Son Conflict 🎯 Obsession 💔 Love Triangle

The Adolescent

Illegitimate son pursues independence through obsessive savings, but father's scandals entangle him.

저자: Fyodor Dostoevsky 1875 580 페이지

3.93

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🌱 Bildungsroman 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family Saga 👨‍👦 Father Son Conflict 🎯 Obsession 💔 Love Triangle

How Do You Live?

저자: Genzaburo Yoshino • 2021

A Tokyo boy's uncle fills a notebook with life lessons; cowardice puts them to the test.

3.98

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🧠 Philosophical Fiction 🌱 Moral Growth 👦 Boyhood Friendship 💔 Schoolyard Bullying 🏚️ Class And Poverty

How Do You Live?

A Tokyo boy's uncle fills a notebook with life lessons; cowardice puts them to the test.

저자: Genzaburo Yoshino 2021 288 페이지

3.98

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🧠 Philosophical Fiction 🌱 Moral Growth 👦 Boyhood Friendship 💔 Schoolyard Bullying 🏚️ Class And Poverty

The Well-Educated Mind

저자: Susan Wise Bauer • 2003

A classical education for play readers: what the best seats in the house still hide.

4.00

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🏛️ Classical Education 🔍 Close Reading 📚 Reading Guides 📖 Great Books 🧭 Self-Directed Learning

The Well-Educated Mind

A classical education for play readers: what the best seats in the house still hide.

저자: Susan Wise Bauer 2003 432 페이지

4.00

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🏛️ Classical Education 🔍 Close Reading 📚 Reading Guides 📖 Great Books 🧭 Self-Directed Learning

Give War and Peace a Chance

저자: Andrew D. Kaufman • 2014

What a 19th-century Russian novel knows about chaos, loss, and meaning in your life.

3.89

364

🪆 Russian Literature 📚 Books As Life Guides 🌊 Embracing Uncertainty 💀 Mortality And Meaning 🕊️ Inner Freedom

Give War and Peace a Chance

What a 19th-century Russian novel knows about chaos, loss, and meaning in your life.

저자: Andrew D. Kaufman 2014 288 페이지

3.89

364 개의 평점

🪆 Russian Literature 📚 Books As Life Guides 🌊 Embracing Uncertainty 💀 Mortality And Meaning 🕊️ Inner Freedom

Thoughts for Young Men

저자: J.C. Ryle • 1886

Few young men follow God. The devil bets your habits will harden before you reverse.

4.59

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🕊️ Christian Discipleship 🌱 Spiritual Formation 🛡️ Spiritual Warfare 💔 Sin And Repentance 🌅 Eternal Perspective

Thoughts for Young Men

Few young men follow God. The devil bets your habits will harden before you reverse.

저자: J.C. Ryle 1886 68 페이지

4.59

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🕊️ Christian Discipleship 🌱 Spiritual Formation 🛡️ Spiritual Warfare 💔 Sin And Repentance 🌅 Eternal Perspective

Forrest Gump

저자: Winston Groom • 1986

An Alabama innocent with a low IQ runs from bullies into football, war, and an unrequited love.

4.00

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🎭 Picaresque Satire 👶 Innocent Protagonist 💔 Unrequited Love 🪖 Vietnam War Fiction 🫂 War Buddy Friendship

Forrest Gump

An Alabama innocent with a low IQ runs from bullies into football, war, and an unrequited love.

저자: Winston Groom 1986 248 페이지

4.00

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🎭 Picaresque Satire 👶 Innocent Protagonist 💔 Unrequited Love 🪖 Vietnam War Fiction 🫂 War Buddy Friendship

The Complete Memoirs

저자: Pablo Neruda • 1974

The Nobel poet who turned exile, love, and the Chilean forest into one continuous poem.

4.16

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🖋️ Literary Memoir 🌎 Latin American Literature 🎨 Art And Politics 🏃 Exile And Return ✈️ Travel And Identity

The Complete Memoirs

The Nobel poet who turned exile, love, and the Chilean forest into one continuous poem.

저자: Pablo Neruda 1974 498 페이지

4.16

4,000+ 개의 평점

🖋️ Literary Memoir 🌎 Latin American Literature 🎨 Art And Politics 🏃 Exile And Return ✈️ Travel And Identity

The Old Capital

저자: Yasunari Kawabata • 2006

A Kyoto adopted daughter meets her mountain-dwelling twin, and their reunion redefines belonging.

3.72

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🏯 Postwar Japan 👯 Separated Twins 🍂 Elegiac Tone ⛩️ Old Kyoto 📖 Quiet Novel

The Old Capital

A Kyoto adopted daughter meets her mountain-dwelling twin, and their reunion redefines belonging.

저자: Yasunari Kawabata 2006 160 페이지

3.72

8,000+ 개의 평점

🏯 Postwar Japan 👯 Separated Twins 🍂 Elegiac Tone ⛩️ Old Kyoto 📖 Quiet Novel

The Ascent of Man

저자: Jacob Bronowski • 1973

Art and science are twin expressions of a single gift: the mind's ability to remake itself.

4.21

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🔬 History Of Science 🧬 Cultural Evolution 🦍 Human Origins 💭 Philosophy Of Science 🎨 Science And Art

The Ascent of Man

Art and science are twin expressions of a single gift: the mind's ability to remake itself.

저자: Jacob Bronowski 1973 352 페이지

4.21

6,000+ 개의 평점

🔬 History Of Science 🧬 Cultural Evolution 🦍 Human Origins 💭 Philosophy Of Science 🎨 Science And Art

The Country Girls

저자: Edna O'Brien • 1960

A dreamy Irish farm girl moves to Dublin after loss, chasing freedom with her reckless friend.

3.70

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🌱 Female Coming Of Age 🇮🇪 Mid Century Ireland 👯 Friendship And Rivalry 💋 Sexual Awakening 💔 Older Married Lover

The Country Girls

A dreamy Irish farm girl moves to Dublin after loss, chasing freedom with her reckless friend.

저자: Edna O'Brien 1960 175 페이지

3.70

9,000+ 개의 평점

🌱 Female Coming Of Age 🇮🇪 Mid Century Ireland 👯 Friendship And Rivalry 💋 Sexual Awakening 💔 Older Married Lover

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