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Philosophy
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
A novel-like blend of autobiography and philosophy, subtitled An Inquiry into Values. The narrator rides a motorcycle from Minnesota towards California with his young son Chris, joined for…
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The Brothers Karamazov
Dostoevsky's last novel, serialised in 1879–80, is a murder story that becomes an argument about God, freedom and responsibility. Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov, a greedy and dissolute landowner, has…
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The Tao of Pooh
A short, playful introduction to Daoism that uses A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh as its teacher. Hoff writes himself into the book in conversation with Pooh, and sets Milne's…
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The Stranger
A short novel published in 1942 in occupied France and known in Britain as The Outsider. It is narrated in flat, plain sentences by Meursault, a clerk in…
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The Path: What Chinese Philosophers Can Teach Us About the Good Life
A popular book that grew out of Michael Puett's undergraduate course on classical Chinese ethical and political theory at Harvard, written with the journalist Christine Gross-Loh. Its argument…
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The Plague
A novel set in the Algerian port of Oran in the 1940s, where rats begin dying in the streets and an epidemic of bubonic plague follows. The authorities…
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The Virtue of Selfishness
A collection of essays setting out the ethics of Objectivism, the philosophy Ayn Rand had dramatised in her novels, some by her then associate Nathaniel Branden. She uses…
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Nausea
Sartre's first novel, written as the diary of Antoine Roquentin, a solitary scholar living in the provincial seaport of Bouville, where he is writing a biography of an…
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In Praise of Idleness
A collection of fifteen essays on work, politics, education and ideas, published in 1935 in the shadow of the Depression and the rise of fascism. The title essay,…
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The Death of Ivan Ilyich
A novella published in 1886, after Tolstoy's religious crisis, about a man who discovers too late that he has not truly lived. It opens with Ivan Ilyich already…
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