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Klasika knygų santraukos

Lord Foul's Bane

parašė Stephen R. Donaldson • 1977

A leper awakens in paradise, hailed as its messiah, and he calls it all a dream.

3.71

50 000+

🚪 Portal Fantasy 🤷 Reluctant Chosen One 🖤 Flawed Antihero 🌫️ Dream Or Reality ⚖️ Moral Ambiguity

Lord Foul's Bane

A leper awakens in paradise, hailed as its messiah, and he calls it all a dream.

parašė Stephen R. Donaldson 1977 480 puslapiai

3.71

50 000+ įvertinimai

🚪 Portal Fantasy 🤷 Reluctant Chosen One 🖤 Flawed Antihero 🌫️ Dream Or Reality ⚖️ Moral Ambiguity

Kaip svarbu būti rimtam

parašė Oscar Wilde • 1895

Two Victorian gentlemen share a fake identity, until both their sweethearts demand to marry Ernest.

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400 000+

🎭 Comedy Of Manners 🤹 Mistaken Identity 🤫 Double Lives 🇬🇧 Victorian England 💬 Witty Dialogue

Kaip svarbu būti rimtam

Two Victorian gentlemen share a fake identity, until both their sweethearts demand to marry Ernest.

parašė Oscar Wilde 1895 89 puslapiai

4.17

400 000+ įvertinimai

🎭 Comedy Of Manners 🤹 Mistaken Identity 🤫 Double Lives 🇬🇧 Victorian England 💬 Witty Dialogue

The Voyage of the Beagle

parašė Charles Darwin • 1839

The five-year voyage that found patterns in nature no theory of the time could explain.

4.02

8 000+

🍃 Natural History 🔬 Scientific Expeditions 👁️ Field Observation 🏝️ Island Biogeography 🎩 Victorian Naturalism

The Voyage of the Beagle

The five-year voyage that found patterns in nature no theory of the time could explain.

parašė Charles Darwin 1839 480 puslapiai

4.02

8 000+ įvertinimai

🍃 Natural History 🔬 Scientific Expeditions 👁️ Field Observation 🏝️ Island Biogeography 🎩 Victorian Naturalism

Tales of Edgar Allan Poe

parašė Edgar Allan Poe • 1849

Gothic tales where guilt betrays the killer, cats witness murder, and no fortress keeps out death.

4.19

9 000+

🧠 Psychological Horror 🗣️ Unreliable Narrator 🫀 Guilty Conscience 🌀 Descent Into Madness 🏚️ Decaying Mansion

Tales of Edgar Allan Poe

Gothic tales where guilt betrays the killer, cats witness murder, and no fortress keeps out death.

parašė Edgar Allan Poe 1849 304 puslapiai

4.19

9 000+ įvertinimai

🧠 Psychological Horror 🗣️ Unreliable Narrator 🫀 Guilty Conscience 🌀 Descent Into Madness 🏚️ Decaying Mansion

Six Characters in Search of an Author

parašė Luigi Pirandello • 1921

Six characters abandoned by their creator storm a rehearsal and demand their tragic story be staged

3.83

22 000+

🎭 Metatheatrical Play 🖤 Dark Family Drama 🤔 Philosophical Theater 🎪 Modernist Drama 🧩 Fragmented Storytelling

Six Characters in Search of an Author

Six characters abandoned by their creator storm a rehearsal and demand their tragic story be staged

parašė Luigi Pirandello 1921 86 puslapiai

3.83

22 000+ įvertinimai

🎭 Metatheatrical Play 🖤 Dark Family Drama 🤔 Philosophical Theater 🎪 Modernist Drama 🧩 Fragmented Storytelling

The Claw of the Conciliator

parašė Gene Wolfe • 1981

A torturer with perfect memory crosses a dying world, a dead woman's voice inside his skull.

4.01

18 000+

🏚️ Dying Earth 🗣️ Unreliable Narrator ⚖️ Guilt And Atonement 🌀 Labyrinthine Narrative 🌙 Dreamlike Melancholy

The Claw of the Conciliator

A torturer with perfect memory crosses a dying world, a dead woman's voice inside his skull.

parašė Gene Wolfe 1981 303 puslapiai

4.01

18 000+ įvertinimai

🏚️ Dying Earth 🗣️ Unreliable Narrator ⚖️ Guilt And Atonement 🌀 Labyrinthine Narrative 🌙 Dreamlike Melancholy

The Weird of the White Wolf

parašė Michael Moorcock • 1977

To reclaim his throne, he wields a demon blade. It feeds on those he loves.

3.93

11 000+

🗡️ Sword And Sorcery ⚔️ Cursed Blade 😔 Tragic Antihero 🌌 Cosmic Fatalism 🏛️ Decadent Empire

The Weird of the White Wolf

To reclaim his throne, he wields a demon blade. It feeds on those he loves.

parašė Michael Moorcock 1977 159 puslapiai

3.93

11 000+ įvertinimai

🗡️ Sword And Sorcery ⚔️ Cursed Blade 😔 Tragic Antihero 🌌 Cosmic Fatalism 🏛️ Decadent Empire

El coronel no tiene quien le escriba

parašė Gabriel García Márquez • 1961

A veteran waits fifteen years for a pension. His wife starves. Only a rooster remains.

3.80

68 000+

🕰️ Endless Waiting 🏚️ Postwar Hardship 😔 Quiet Desperation 💔 Marital Strain 🔇 Political Repression

El coronel no tiene quien le escriba

A veteran waits fifteen years for a pension. His wife starves. Only a rooster remains.

parašė Gabriel García Márquez 1961 104 puslapiai

3.80

68 000+ įvertinimai

🕰️ Endless Waiting 🏚️ Postwar Hardship 😔 Quiet Desperation 💔 Marital Strain 🔇 Political Repression

Black Like Me

parašė John Howard Griffin • 2003

A white journalist crossed the color line in 1959. The South stripped him of innocence.

4.11

70 000+

🎭 Racial Passing 🏚️ Jim Crow South 📝 Participatory Journalism 👤 White Privilege ✊ Civil Rights Era

Black Like Me

A white journalist crossed the color line in 1959. The South stripped him of innocence.

parašė John Howard Griffin 2003 208 puslapiai

4.11

70 000+ įvertinimai

🎭 Racial Passing 🏚️ Jim Crow South 📝 Participatory Journalism 👤 White Privilege ✊ Civil Rights Era

Les Soleils des indépendances

parašė Ahmadou Kourouma • 1968

A Malinké prince begs at funerals, ruined by the independence that promised to restore his world.

3.58

500+

🏛️ Postcolonial Fiction ✨ Magical Realism 😤 Political Satire 🌑 End Of Lineage ⚖️ Cultural Upheaval

Les Soleils des indépendances

A Malinké prince begs at funerals, ruined by the independence that promised to restore his world.

parašė Ahmadou Kourouma 1968 196 puslapiai

3.58

500+ įvertinimai

🏛️ Postcolonial Fiction ✨ Magical Realism 😤 Political Satire 🌑 End Of Lineage ⚖️ Cultural Upheaval

Pebble in the Sky

parašė Isaac Asimov • 1950

A 1949 tailor hurled into the far future gains telepathy and must stop a galactic genocide.

3.90

27 000+

🚀 Golden Age Sci-Fi 🌌 Galactic Empire 🧠 Reluctant Telepath ⏳ Man Out Of Time 💫 Interstellar Romance

Pebble in the Sky

A 1949 tailor hurled into the far future gains telepathy and must stop a galactic genocide.

parašė Isaac Asimov 1950 308 puslapiai

3.90

27 000+ įvertinimai

🚀 Golden Age Sci-Fi 🌌 Galactic Empire 🧠 Reluctant Telepath ⏳ Man Out Of Time 💫 Interstellar Romance

Slouching Towards Bethlehem

parašė Joan Didion • 1968

At the continent's edge, the American dream frays into murder, lost children, self-deception.

4.18

84 000+

✍️ New Journalism 🔍 Cultural Criticism 🌸 California Counterculture 🏚️ American Dream Critique 🎬 Hollywood Critique

Slouching Towards Bethlehem

At the continent's edge, the American dream frays into murder, lost children, self-deception.

parašė Joan Didion 1968 238 puslapiai

4.18

84 000+ įvertinimai

✍️ New Journalism 🔍 Cultural Criticism 🌸 California Counterculture 🏚️ American Dream Critique 🎬 Hollywood Critique

How to Read and Why

parašė Harold Bloom • 2000

Read selfishly, chase pleasure, and recover the irony that academic jargon banished.

3.61

3 000+

📚 Western Canon 🔍 Close Reading 🧘 Solitary Reading 🎨 Aesthetic Pleasure 📖 Lifelong Reading

How to Read and Why

Read selfishly, chase pleasure, and recover the irony that academic jargon banished.

parašė Harold Bloom 2000 288 puslapiai

3.61

3 000+ įvertinimai

📚 Western Canon 🔍 Close Reading 🧘 Solitary Reading 🎨 Aesthetic Pleasure 📖 Lifelong Reading

A Study of History, Abridgement of Vols 1-6

parašė Arnold Joseph Toynbee • 1987

History's pattern: empires die, and their true heirs are the churches they tried to crush.

4.11

500+

🏛️ Philosophy Of History 🌐 Comparative History 🔄 Cyclical History 🤝 Cultural Encounters 🏰 Imperial Legacies

A Study of History, Abridgement of Vols 1-6

History's pattern: empires die, and their true heirs are the churches they tried to crush.

parašė Arnold Joseph Toynbee 1987 640 puslapiai

4.11

500+ įvertinimai

🏛️ Philosophy Of History 🌐 Comparative History 🔄 Cyclical History 🤝 Cultural Encounters 🏰 Imperial Legacies

Letters by a Modern Mystic

parašė Frank C. Laubach • 1937

One man's experiment in asking God's will every waking minute, and the heaven it unlocked.

4.40

500+

🕊️ Practicing The Presence ✝️ Christian Mysticism 🙏 Contemplative Prayer 📝 Spiritual Memoir 👁️ Constant Awareness

Letters by a Modern Mystic

One man's experiment in asking God's will every waking minute, and the heaven it unlocked.

parašė Frank C. Laubach 1937 136 puslapiai

4.40

500+ įvertinimai

🕊️ Practicing The Presence ✝️ Christian Mysticism 🙏 Contemplative Prayer 📝 Spiritual Memoir 👁️ Constant Awareness

This Side of Paradise

parašė F. Scott Fitzgerald • 1920

Amory falls in love, climbs Princeton's ladder, and learns every rung gives way beneath him.

3.63

80 000+

🎷 Jazz Age Fiction 🥀 Lost Generation 🏛️ Campus Novel 🪖 Post World War I 💔 Romantic Disillusionment

This Side of Paradise

Amory falls in love, climbs Princeton's ladder, and learns every rung gives way beneath him.

parašė F. Scott Fitzgerald 1920 268 puslapiai

3.63

80 000+ įvertinimai

🎷 Jazz Age Fiction 🥀 Lost Generation 🏛️ Campus Novel 🪖 Post World War I 💔 Romantic Disillusionment

The Communist Manifesto and Other Writings

parašė Karl Marx • 2005

History is class struggle, and the bourgeoisie forged the weapons now aimed at its own throat.

3.63

1 000+

🚩 Marxism 🏛️ Political Philosophy 📜 Historical Materialism ⚒️ Class Struggle 🏢 State Theory

The Communist Manifesto and Other Writings

History is class struggle, and the bourgeoisie forged the weapons now aimed at its own throat.

parašė Karl Marx 2005 224 puslapiai

3.63

1 000+ įvertinimai

🚩 Marxism 🏛️ Political Philosophy 📜 Historical Materialism ⚒️ Class Struggle 🏢 State Theory

Daisy Miller

parašė Henry James • 1879

In Europe, an American girl flouts convention, and one man can't decide: innocent or reckless flirt?

3.37

38 000+

🗽 American Abroad 🥀 Tragic Heroine 👥 Social Ostracism ❓ Ambiguous Innocence 👁️ Unreliable Observer

Daisy Miller

In Europe, an American girl flouts convention, and one man can't decide: innocent or reckless flirt?

parašė Henry James 1879 164 puslapiai

3.37

38 000+ įvertinimai

🗽 American Abroad 🥀 Tragic Heroine 👥 Social Ostracism ❓ Ambiguous Innocence 👁️ Unreliable Observer

The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick 4

parašė Philip K. Dick • 1987

The founder of a system jailing people for future crimes is predicted to murder a stranger.

4.11

14 000+

🔮 Predictive Policing 🧠 Philosophical Sci-Fi 🏃 Framed Protagonist 🕵️ Paranoid Conspiracy 🎵 Reality-Altering Art

The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick 4

The founder of a system jailing people for future crimes is predicted to murder a stranger.

parašė Philip K. Dick 1987 396 puslapiai

4.11

14 000+ įvertinimai

🔮 Predictive Policing 🧠 Philosophical Sci-Fi 🏃 Framed Protagonist 🕵️ Paranoid Conspiracy 🎵 Reality-Altering Art

The Lottery and Other Stories

parašė Shirley Jackson • 1949

An annual lottery where winning means death opens a collection where menace wears an ordinary face.

4.02

82 000+

🏠 Domestic Horror 🏘️ Small-Town Secrets 👥 Mob Mentality 🪞 Uncanny 🔇 Quiet Dread

The Lottery and Other Stories

An annual lottery where winning means death opens a collection where menace wears an ordinary face.

parašė Shirley Jackson 1949 302 puslapiai

4.02

82 000+ įvertinimai

🏠 Domestic Horror 🏘️ Small-Town Secrets 👥 Mob Mentality 🪞 Uncanny 🔇 Quiet Dread

Highcastle

parašė Stanisław Lem • 1966

Before the science fiction, Stanisław Lem ran an imaginary bureaucracy that authorized regicide.

3.65

500+

🧒 Childhood Memoir ✍️ Literary Memoir 🎭 Imagination And Play 🔗 Creativity And Constraint 🧠 Memory And Identity

Highcastle

Before the science fiction, Stanisław Lem ran an imaginary bureaucracy that authorized regicide.

parašė Stanisław Lem 1966 152 puslapiai

3.65

500+ įvertinimai

🧒 Childhood Memoir ✍️ Literary Memoir 🎭 Imagination And Play 🔗 Creativity And Constraint 🧠 Memory And Identity

The School For Wives

parašė Molière • 1662

A middle-aged bachelor raises a naive ward for marriage, never suspecting his rival confides in him.

3.62

10 000+

🎭 Farcical Comedy 🎩 Comedy Of Manners 🎪 Dramatic Irony 🕊️ Sheltered Innocence 🔒 Controlling Guardian

The School For Wives

A middle-aged bachelor raises a naive ward for marriage, never suspecting his rival confides in him.

parašė Molière 1662 60 puslapiai

3.62

10 000+ įvertinimai

🎭 Farcical Comedy 🎩 Comedy Of Manners 🎪 Dramatic Irony 🕊️ Sheltered Innocence 🔒 Controlling Guardian

The First Circle

parašė Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn • 1968

Inside Stalin's secret research prison, scientists trade their souls for a chance at freedom.

4.26

10 000+

🐻 Stalinist Russia ⛓️ Political Prisoners 🤫 Quiet Defiance ⚖️ Moral Philosophy 👁️ Surveillance State

The First Circle

Inside Stalin's secret research prison, scientists trade their souls for a chance at freedom.

parašė Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1968 580 puslapiai

4.26

10 000+ įvertinimai

🐻 Stalinist Russia ⛓️ Political Prisoners 🤫 Quiet Defiance ⚖️ Moral Philosophy 👁️ Surveillance State

Run With the Hunted

parašė Charles Bukowski • 1994

Childhood beatings, dead-end jobs, cheap wine: an outsider's life in his own poems and stories.

4.26

4 000+

🚬 Dirty Realism ✍️ Autobiographical Fiction 🍺 Hard Drinking Writer 🎨 Survival Through Art 💸 Down And Out Life

Run With the Hunted

Childhood beatings, dead-end jobs, cheap wine: an outsider's life in his own poems and stories.

parašė Charles Bukowski 1994 497 puslapiai

4.26

4 000+ įvertinimai

🚬 Dirty Realism ✍️ Autobiographical Fiction 🍺 Hard Drinking Writer 🎨 Survival Through Art 💸 Down And Out Life

سینوهه

parašė Mika Waltari • 2002

A Finnish exile enslaved by pirates navigates the Ottoman court's deadliest conspiracies.

4.22

28 000+

🕌 Ottoman Empire 🗡️ Palace Intrigue 🔮 Prophetic Visions ⛓️‍💥 Rise From Slavery 🕯️ Spiritual Redemption

سینوهه

A Finnish exile enslaved by pirates navigates the Ottoman court's deadliest conspiracies.

parašė Mika Waltari 2002 904 puslapiai

4.22

28 000+ įvertinimai

🕌 Ottoman Empire 🗡️ Palace Intrigue 🔮 Prophetic Visions ⛓️‍💥 Rise From Slavery 🕯️ Spiritual Redemption

Dragons of Autumn Twilight

parašė Margaret Weis • 1984

Old friends reunite to a dragon-ruled world; a healer's staff carries hope of lost gods.

4.01

100 000+

🎲 D&D Inspired Fantasy ⚔️ Party Of Adventurers 🫂 Found Family 😟 Reluctant Leader ✨ Divine Artifact

Dragons of Autumn Twilight

Old friends reunite to a dragon-ruled world; a healer's staff carries hope of lost gods.

parašė Margaret Weis 1984 444 puslapiai

4.01

100 000+ įvertinimai

🎲 D&D Inspired Fantasy ⚔️ Party Of Adventurers 🫂 Found Family 😟 Reluctant Leader ✨ Divine Artifact

A View from the Bridge

parašė Arthur Miller • 1977

A longshoreman's grip on his niece turns desperate when her suitor arrives from Italy.

3.71

18 000+

🎭 Modern Greek Tragedy 🧳 Immigrant Narrative 💚 Obsessive Jealousy 🤫 Code Of Silence ⚔️ Honor And Shame

A View from the Bridge

A longshoreman's grip on his niece turns desperate when her suitor arrives from Italy.

parašė Arthur Miller 1977 96 puslapiai

3.71

18 000+ įvertinimai

🎭 Modern Greek Tragedy 🧳 Immigrant Narrative 💚 Obsessive Jealousy 🤫 Code Of Silence ⚔️ Honor And Shame

The Kybalion

parašė Three Initiates • 2021

The universe is mind-made. Seven ancient laws show how, and you can prove each one yourself.

4.16

135

🏛️ Hermetic Philosophy 📜 Western Esotericism 🧠 New Thought 🏺 Ancient Wisdom ⚖️ Universal Laws

The Kybalion

The universe is mind-made. Seven ancient laws show how, and you can prove each one yourself.

parašė Three Initiates 2021 162 puslapiai

4.16

135 įvertinimai

🏛️ Hermetic Philosophy 📜 Western Esotericism 🧠 New Thought 🏺 Ancient Wisdom ⚖️ Universal Laws

1001 Winning Chess Sacrifices and Combinations

parašė Fred Reinfeld • 1955

1001 sacrifices and combinations that train you to see the hidden knockout in any position.

4.25

316

🧩 Chess Tactics 🔪 Chess Sacrifices 🔎 Pattern Recognition ⚔️ Attacking Chess 📚 Classic Chess Books

1001 Winning Chess Sacrifices and Combinations

1001 sacrifices and combinations that train you to see the hidden knockout in any position.

parašė Fred Reinfeld 1955

4.25

316 įvertinimai

🧩 Chess Tactics 🔪 Chess Sacrifices 🔎 Pattern Recognition ⚔️ Attacking Chess 📚 Classic Chess Books

Moby Dick

parašė Christophe Chabouté • 2014

A young sailor boards the Pequod under a captain obsessed with destroying the legendary white whale.

4.08

1 000+

📚 Graphic Novel Classic ⚓ Doomed Sea Voyage ⚔️ Obsession And Revenge 🐋 19th Century Whaling 🌊 Survival At Sea

Moby Dick

A young sailor boards the Pequod under a captain obsessed with destroying the legendary white whale.

parašė Christophe Chabouté 2014 256 puslapiai

4.08

1 000+ įvertinimai

📚 Graphic Novel Classic ⚓ Doomed Sea Voyage ⚔️ Obsession And Revenge 🐋 19th Century Whaling 🌊 Survival At Sea

Tao Te Ching

parašė Stefan Stenudd • 2011

Wu-wei gets more done than striving. The Tao Te Ching's quiet wisdom for modern lives.

4.30

178

☯️ Taoist Philosophy 🌊 Effortless Action 🧘 Mindfulness 🤲 Servant Leadership 🍂 Non-Attachment

Tao Te Ching

Wu-wei gets more done than striving. The Tao Te Ching's quiet wisdom for modern lives.

parašė Stefan Stenudd 2011 320 puslapiai

4.30

178 įvertinimai

☯️ Taoist Philosophy 🌊 Effortless Action 🧘 Mindfulness 🤲 Servant Leadership 🍂 Non-Attachment

Daktaro Moro sala

parašė H.G. Wells • 1896

A castaway lands on an island of beasts carved into men by a surgeon playing god.

3.73

100 000+

🧪 Mad Scientist 🩸 Body Horror ⚡ Man Playing God 🐺 The Beast Within 🌀 Unreliable Narrator

Daktaro Moro sala

A castaway lands on an island of beasts carved into men by a surgeon playing god.

parašė H.G. Wells 1896 143 puslapiai

3.73

100 000+ įvertinimai

🧪 Mad Scientist 🩸 Body Horror ⚡ Man Playing God 🐺 The Beast Within 🌀 Unreliable Narrator

The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born

parašė Ayi Kwei Armah • 1968

A railway clerk in Ghana rejects every bribe, and his wife cannot stop counting the cost.

3.87

3 000+

🏛️ Postcolonial Literature ⚖️ Moral Integrity 🕴️ Disillusioned Everyman 😔 Quiet Desperation 🌱 Fragile Hope

The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born

A railway clerk in Ghana rejects every bribe, and his wife cannot stop counting the cost.

parašė Ayi Kwei Armah 1968 183 puslapiai

3.87

3 000+ įvertinimai

🏛️ Postcolonial Literature ⚖️ Moral Integrity 🕴️ Disillusioned Everyman 😔 Quiet Desperation 🌱 Fragile Hope

Summer of My German Soldier

parašė Bette Greene • 1973

In WWII Arkansas, a Jewish girl shelters an escaped German POW who showed her she mattered.

3.70

17 000+

🏠 Wwii Home Front 🏘️ Small Town Prejudice 🤫 Secret Friendship 👥 Found Family ✡️ Jewish Protagonist

Summer of My German Soldier

In WWII Arkansas, a Jewish girl shelters an escaped German POW who showed her she mattered.

parašė Bette Greene 1973 203 puslapiai

3.70

17 000+ įvertinimai

🏠 Wwii Home Front 🏘️ Small Town Prejudice 🤫 Secret Friendship 👥 Found Family ✡️ Jewish Protagonist

How to Say No

parašė Diogenes of Sinope • 2022

Freedom's secret from the man who lived in a jar: say no to everything society worships.

3.40

273

🏛️ Ancient Philosophy 🐕 Classical Cynicism 🪴 Minimalist Living 🚫 Social Nonconformity 🧱 Self-Sufficiency

How to Say No

Freedom's secret from the man who lived in a jar: say no to everything society worships.

parašė Diogenes of Sinope 2022 248 puslapiai

3.40

273 įvertinimai

🏛️ Ancient Philosophy 🐕 Classical Cynicism 🪴 Minimalist Living 🚫 Social Nonconformity 🧱 Self-Sufficiency

Narcissus and Goldmund

parašė Hermann Hesse • 1930

An ascetic monk awakens his friend's sensuality, exiling him into art, desire, and the Black Death.

4.22

73 000+

🏰 Medieval Germany ⛪ Cloister Life ☠️ Black Death 🎨 Artist's Journey 🧠 Reason And Passion

Narcissus and Goldmund

An ascetic monk awakens his friend's sensuality, exiling him into art, desire, and the Black Death.

parašė Hermann Hesse 1930 315 puslapiai

4.22

73 000+ įvertinimai

🏰 Medieval Germany ⛪ Cloister Life ☠️ Black Death 🎨 Artist's Journey 🧠 Reason And Passion

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

parašė David Hume • 1748

If a book contains neither math nor experiment, it is worthless. A philosopher explains why.

3.94

22 000+

🔬 Empiricism 📚 Epistemology 🤔 Skepticism ⛓️ Causation 🕊️ Free Will

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

If a book contains neither math nor experiment, it is worthless. A philosopher explains why.

parašė David Hume 1748 91 puslapiai

3.94

22 000+ įvertinimai

🔬 Empiricism 📚 Epistemology 🤔 Skepticism ⛓️ Causation 🕊️ Free Will

Sentimental Education

parašė Gustave Flaubert • 1869

Paris, the 1840s. A young dreamer falls for a married woman and never quite recovers.

3.81

25 000+

😔 Novel Of Disillusionment 🇫🇷 French Realism 💔 Unattainable Love 😶 Passive Protagonist 🏛️ Bourgeois Society

Sentimental Education

Paris, the 1840s. A young dreamer falls for a married woman and never quite recovers.

parašė Gustave Flaubert 1869 460 puslapiai

3.81

25 000+ įvertinimai

😔 Novel Of Disillusionment 🇫🇷 French Realism 💔 Unattainable Love 😶 Passive Protagonist 🏛️ Bourgeois Society

The Philosophy of the Enlightenment

parašė Ernst Cassirer • 1932

The Enlightenment remade reason: not a storehouse of truths, but a way of discovering them.

4.11

258

💡 Intellectual History 🌅 Enlightenment Studies 🏛️ Western Philosophy 🔬 Scientific Revolution ⚖️ Natural Law Theory

The Philosophy of the Enlightenment

The Enlightenment remade reason: not a storehouse of truths, but a way of discovering them.

parašė Ernst Cassirer 1932 384 puslapiai

4.11

258 įvertinimai

💡 Intellectual History 🌅 Enlightenment Studies 🏛️ Western Philosophy 🔬 Scientific Revolution ⚖️ Natural Law Theory

Heidegger

parašė Michael Watts • 2014

Heidegger demystified: the freedom found in facing death, and the worldview technology imposes.

4.40

143

🏛️ Continental Philosophy 🔍 Phenomenology 📖 Introductory Philosophy 💀 Death And Mortality ⚙️ Technology Critique

Heidegger

Heidegger demystified: the freedom found in facing death, and the worldview technology imposes.

parašė Michael Watts 2014 121 puslapiai

4.40

143 įvertinimai

🏛️ Continental Philosophy 🔍 Phenomenology 📖 Introductory Philosophy 💀 Death And Mortality ⚙️ Technology Critique

The Flowers of Evil

parašė Charles Baudelaire • 1857

Poems that find ecstasy in the gutter, hold you responsible, and turned despair into an art form.

4.19

82 000+

🥀 French Poetry 🖤 Symbolist Poetry 🥱 Existential Ennui 🌸 Beauty And Decay 🏙️ Urban Alienation

The Flowers of Evil

Poems that find ecstasy in the gutter, hold you responsible, and turned despair into an art form.

parašė Charles Baudelaire 1857 464 puslapiai

4.19

82 000+ įvertinimai

🥀 French Poetry 🖤 Symbolist Poetry 🥱 Existential Ennui 🌸 Beauty And Decay 🏙️ Urban Alienation

For the New Intellectual

parašė Ayn Rand • 1961

Intellectuals sabotaged the mind for a morality of sacrifice. This is the manifesto to reclaim it.

3.70

3 000+

🧠 Objectivism ⚖️ Moral Philosophy 🏛️ Political Philosophy 💰 Capitalist Ethics 🤝 Ethical Egoism

For the New Intellectual

Intellectuals sabotaged the mind for a morality of sacrifice. This is the manifesto to reclaim it.

parašė Ayn Rand 1961 224 puslapiai

3.70

3 000+ įvertinimai

🧠 Objectivism ⚖️ Moral Philosophy 🏛️ Political Philosophy 💰 Capitalist Ethics 🤝 Ethical Egoism

The Man Who Was Thursday

parašė G.K. Chesterton • 1908

A poet-spy joins an anarchist council where the president has been expecting him.

3.82

46 000+

🔍 Metaphysical Thriller ✝️ Christian Allegory 🎭 Everyone Is Undercover 🃏 Secret Council 🌑 Surreal Nightmare

The Man Who Was Thursday

A poet-spy joins an anarchist council where the president has been expecting him.

parašė G.K. Chesterton 1908 182 puslapiai

3.82

46 000+ įvertinimai

🔍 Metaphysical Thriller ✝️ Christian Allegory 🎭 Everyone Is Undercover 🃏 Secret Council 🌑 Surreal Nightmare

The Ancient Celts

parašė Barry Cunliffe • 2018

Two millennia of reinvention: the Celts as barbarians, noble savages, and nationalist ancestors.

3.92

1 000+

🏛️ Iron Age Europe ⛏️ Celtic Archaeology 🏗️ Identity Construction 🗣️ Linguistic Archaeology 🌍 Indoeuropean Origins

The Ancient Celts

Two millennia of reinvention: the Celts as barbarians, noble savages, and nationalist ancestors.

parašė Barry Cunliffe 2018 360 puslapiai

3.92

1 000+ įvertinimai

🏛️ Iron Age Europe ⛏️ Celtic Archaeology 🏗️ Identity Construction 🗣️ Linguistic Archaeology 🌍 Indoeuropean Origins

Tales from the Perilous Realm

parašė J.R.R. Tolkien • 1997

Enchanted dogs, cunning dragons, unfinished paintings: tales where our world meets the fairy realm.

4.07

12 000+

🎪 Whimsical Fantasy 🏰 Medieval England 🤷 Reluctant Hero 🧚 Fairy Realm 😄 Comic Fantasy

Tales from the Perilous Realm

Enchanted dogs, cunning dragons, unfinished paintings: tales where our world meets the fairy realm.

parašė J.R.R. Tolkien 1997 178 puslapiai

4.07

12 000+ įvertinimai

🎪 Whimsical Fantasy 🏰 Medieval England 🤷 Reluctant Hero 🧚 Fairy Realm 😄 Comic Fantasy

Venice

parašė Jan Morris • 1960

Once its fortress, the lagoon now threatens Venice: the life of history's most improbable city.

4.03

1 000+

📖 Travel Literature 🇮🇹 Venetian History 🏛️ Urban Portraiture 🌊 Water And Civilization 🏝️ Island Cultures

Venice

Once its fortress, the lagoon now threatens Venice: the life of history's most improbable city.

parašė Jan Morris 1960 336 puslapiai

4.03

1 000+ įvertinimai

📖 Travel Literature 🇮🇹 Venetian History 🏛️ Urban Portraiture 🌊 Water And Civilization 🏝️ Island Cultures

Sutramdytoji piktžodė

parašė William Shakespeare • 1593

A fortune-hunter marries a fiery heiress, then wages a battle of wits to reshape her.

3.73

100 000+

🎭 Shakespearean Comedy 👤 Mistaken Identity ⚔️ Battle Of Wits 👩 Headstrong Heroine 👯 Sister Dynamics

Sutramdytoji piktžodė

A fortune-hunter marries a fiery heiress, then wages a battle of wits to reshape her.

parašė William Shakespeare 1593 105 puslapiai

3.73

100 000+ įvertinimai

🎭 Shakespearean Comedy 👤 Mistaken Identity ⚔️ Battle Of Wits 👩 Headstrong Heroine 👯 Sister Dynamics

Economic Policy

parašė Ludwig von Mises • 1979

Why price controls always cause queues, and why printing money is a policy, not an accident.

4.34

2 000+

🏫 Austrian Economics 🗽 Classical Liberalism 📈 Free Market Economics 💰 Monetary Policy 💸 Inflation

Economic Policy

Why price controls always cause queues, and why printing money is a policy, not an accident.

parašė Ludwig von Mises 1979 106 puslapiai

4.34

2 000+ įvertinimai

🏫 Austrian Economics 🗽 Classical Liberalism 📈 Free Market Economics 💰 Monetary Policy 💸 Inflation

Knowing Woman

parašė Irene Claremont de Castillejo • 1973

A woman's harshest inner critic can become her sharpest ally. The bridge is sincere dialogue.

4.16

140

🧠 Jungian Psychology 🏺 Feminine Archetypes 🌑 Shadow Work ⚡ Animus And Anima 🌙 Feminine Spirituality

Knowing Woman

A woman's harshest inner critic can become her sharpest ally. The bridge is sincere dialogue.

parašė Irene Claremont de Castillejo 1973 192 puslapiai

4.16

140 įvertinimai

🧠 Jungian Psychology 🏺 Feminine Archetypes 🌑 Shadow Work ⚡ Animus And Anima 🌙 Feminine Spirituality

The Anatomy of Influence

parašė Harold Bloom • 2011

Literary influence is love with its guard up, and Shakespeare is still winning.

3.93

477

📝 Literary Criticism 📜 Poetry Studies 🏛️ The Western Canon 🧬 Literary Influence 🌹 Romantic Criticism

The Anatomy of Influence

Literary influence is love with its guard up, and Shakespeare is still winning.

parašė Harold Bloom 2011 368 puslapiai

3.93

477 įvertinimai

📝 Literary Criticism 📜 Poetry Studies 🏛️ The Western Canon 🧬 Literary Influence 🌹 Romantic Criticism

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