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Blink
1,800 LThe Power of Thinking Without Thinking is Malcolm Gladwell’s second book. It presents in popular science format research from psychology and behavioral economics on the adaptive unconscious: mental processes that work rapidly and automatically from relatively little information.
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Very Hungry Caterpillar
1,450 LThis is the classic edition of the bestselling story written for the very young. A newly hatched caterpillar eats his way through all kinds of food.
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The Republic
1,800 LPlato’s The Republic is widely acknowledged as the cornerstone of Western philosophy.
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Candide or Optimism
1,000 LCandide, Voltaire’s best-known work, is an adventure story, a picaresque novel and a satire – all rolled into one.
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Old Man Goriot
1,300 LThis pessimistic case study of bourgeois society’s ills after the French Revolution tells the intertwined stories of Eugène de Rastignac, an ambitious but penniless young man, and old Goriot, a father who sacrifices everything for his children.
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Selected Poems
1,600 LThe essential poems of the inspirational thirteenth-century Persian philosopher, scholar and mystic.
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Brothers Karamazov
1,650 LThe Brothers Karamazov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving the “wicked and sentimental” Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov and his three sons―the impulsive and sensual Dmitri; the coldly rational Ivan; and the healthy, red-cheeked young …
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The Divine Comedy
1,350 LThe plot of The Divine Comedy is simple: a man, generally assumed to be Dante himself, is miraculously enabled to undertake an ultramundane journey, which leads him to visit the souls in Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise.
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The Politics
1,600 LThe aim of the Politics, Aristotle says, is to investigate, on the basis of the constitutions collected, what makes for good government and what makes for bad government and to identify the factors favourable or unfavourable to the preservation of a constitution.
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Bel-Ami
1,650 LThe story chronicles journalist Georges Duroy’s corrupt rise to power from a poor former cavalry NCO in France’s African colonies, to one of the most successful men in Paris, most of which he achieves by manipulating a series of powerful, intelligent, and wealthy women.
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Selected Political Speeches
1,800 LCicero was thought to be the greatest orator in the Roman world during his life. Cicero wrote a variety of philosophical, rhetorical (on the study and practice of rhetoric), political and legal works. However, this compilation does not include any of those works. Instead, it is composed entirely of his speeches. There are nine, and they are ordered chronologically through his life.
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Letters from a Stoic
1,500 LLetters From A Stoic is a collection of moral epistles famous Roman Stoic and philosopher Seneca sent to his friend Lucilius, in order to help him become less emotional, more disciplined, and find the good life.
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra
1,600 LThus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None , also translated as Thus Spake Zarathustra, is a work of philosophical fiction written by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. The protagonist is nominally the historical Zoroaster.
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Puffin Book of Stories for Seven-year-olds
1,400 LThe Puffin Book of Stories for Seven-year-olds edited by Wendy Cooling is a perfect selection of loved stories for all 7 year olds! Full of exciting stories from some of our best-loved authors, including.
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The Secret History
1,650 LUnder the influence of a charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at a New England college discover a way of thought and life a world away from their banal contemporaries. But their search for the transcendent leads them down a dangerous path, beyond human constructs of morality.
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Letters to Sartre
2,100 LRecently published for the first time in France, letters written by Simone de Beauvoir to one of the world’s most acclaimed philosophers shed light on their relationship and her obsessive need to communicate with him.
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