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Books like A Woman of No Importance

Loved A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde? 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

    James Baldwin · 1963 · Essays

    Two searing essays on race, faith and America; as urgent now as when they were written.

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    Slouching Towards Bethlehem

    Joan Didion · 1968 · Essays

    Sharp, cool essays on 1960s America; the book that set the standard for the personal essay.

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    Dante Gabriel Rossetti

    Dante Gabriel Rossetti · 1895 · Essays

    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

    Henry van Dyke · 1895 · Essays

    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

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    The Open Air

    Richard Jefferies · 1885 · Essays

    Papers originally contributed to various English periodicals. Saint Guido.--Golden-brown.--Wild flowers.--Sunny Brighton.--The pine wood.--Nature on the roof.--One of the new voters.--The modern Thame

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    Unpopular Essays

    Bertrand Russell · 1901 · 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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    The Life of the Fields

    Richard Jefferies · 1884 · Essays

    This book is a reprint of the following stories printed in the following publications: Time, Longman's Magazine, The Graphic, The Standard, The Magazine of Art, The Gentleman's Magazine, The St. James

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    The writings of Henry David Thoreau

    Henry David Thoreau · 1884 · Essays

    Naturalist, philosopher, champion of self-reliance and moral independence, Henry David Thoreau remains not only one of our most influential writers but also one of our most contemporary. The Writings

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    Collected papers

    Sigmund Freud · 1906 · Essays

    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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    Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

    Jerome Klapka Jérôme · 1880 · Essays

    Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow is a collection of humorous essays by Jerome K. Jerome. The essays cover a range of topics from "On Being in Love" to "On Furnished Apartments" to "On Getting on in the

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