If you liked
Books like Adventures in Contentment
Loved Adventures in Contentment by David Grayson? Here are 10 books with a similar appeal — drawn mostly from essays, ranked by how confidently we'd recommend them next.
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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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Collected papers
Presents a selection of the important writings of the nineteenth-century psychiatrist, including "Psychopathology of Everyday Life," "The Interpretation of Dreams," and "Totem and Taboo."
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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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The Aran Islands
"In the late 1890s, John M. Synge, in his middle twenties and unsure of his vocations made his way to Paris intending to study French literature and become a literary critic. There he met William Butl
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Unpopular Essays
A classic collection of Bertrand Russell's more controversial works, reaffirming his staunch liberal values, Unpopular Essays is one of Russell's most characteristic and self-revealing books. Written
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Philosophical essays
"This collection was first published in 1917 in Great Britain."
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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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Roads to Freedom
THE attempt to conceive imaginatively a better ordering of human society than the destructive and cruel chaos in which mankind has hitherto existed is by no means modern: it is at least as old as Plat