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Books like Edvard Munch
Loved Edvard Munch by Edvard Munch? 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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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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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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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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Selected literary criticism
Contains the best of D.H. Lawrence's literary criticism.
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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
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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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Philosophical essays
"This collection was first published in 1917 in Great Britain."
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The Road to Serfdom
A classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics, The Road to Serfdom has inspired and infuriated politicians, scholars, and general readers for half a century.