If you liked
Books like Roads to Freedom
Loved Roads to Freedom by Bertrand Russell? Here are 10 books with a similar appeal — drawn mostly from essays, ranked by how confidently we'd recommend them next.
10 books · ranked
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The Fire Next Time
Two searing essays on race, faith and America; as urgent now as when they were written.
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Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Sharp, cool essays on 1960s America; the book that set the standard for the personal essay.
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3
Makura no sōshi
A fascinating, detailed account of Japanese court life in the eleventh century. Written by a lady of the court at the height of Heian culture, this book enthralls with its lively gossip, witty observa
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Prejudices
Mencken, with his acerbic wit and tongue planted permanently near if not in cheek, laments a world where some feel that all original criticism has been done. New ideas are old ideas with new vocabular
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Painting as a pastime
"'Happy are the painters, for they shall not be lonely' The perfect antidote to the depression that blighted his working life, Sir Winston Churchill took to painting with gusto following his ejection
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Geschichte und Klassenbewusstsein
History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics (German: Geschichte und Klassenbewußtsein – Studien über marxistische Dialektik) is a 1923 book by the Hungarian philosopher György Lukác
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Edvard Munch
Während eines achtmonatigen Aufenthalts in dem Sanatorium von Dr. Daniel Jacobsen in Kopenhagen verwandelt Munch sein Krankenzimmer in ein Atelier und entwickelt einen neuen extrovertierteren und expr
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Pluralistic Universe
Lectures on the advantages of using radical empiricism (pluralism) when trying to relate entities in the absolute to the absolute.
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SPIRITS REBELLIOUS
"'Illustrations reproduced from original drawings by the author.'"
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Adventures in Contentment
This, I am firmly convinced, is a strange world, as strange a one as I