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Books like The Aran Islands
Loved The Aran Islands by J. M. Synge? 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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Adventures in Contentment
This, I am firmly convinced, is a strange world, as strange a one as I
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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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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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Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882) was a prominent English painter and poet who helped found the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, known for their non-arcade-mic approach to religious, moral, and medieval s
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Little rivers
Early printing. Includes tinted black and white frontispiece and 7 additional tinted illustrations after drawings by F. V. DuMond. Top edge gilt, deckle edges. A signed Margaret Armstrong Art Nouveau