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Books like A Far Country

Loved A Far Country by Winston Churchill? Here are 10 books with a similar appeal — drawn mostly from religion & spirituality, ranked by how confidently we'd recommend them next.

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    The Power of Now

    Eckhart Tolle · 1997 · Religion & Spirituality

    A guide to living in the present moment; the bestselling cornerstone of modern mindfulness.

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    Totem und Tabu

    Sigmund Freud · 1913 · Religion & Spirituality

    Freud investigates the function and structure of totemic systems among primitive peoples and presents a psychoanalytical study of modern taboos.

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    The New Revelation

    Arthur Conan Doyle · 1918 · Religion & Spirituality

    From the book:Many more philosophic minds than mine have thought over the religious side of this subject and many more scientific brains have turned their attention to its phenomenal aspect. So far as

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    The white goddess

    Robert Graves · 1920 · Religion & Spirituality

    The definitive edition of one of the more extraordinary and influential books of our time This labyrinthine and extraordinary book, first published more than sixty years ago, was the outcome of Robert

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    Ich und du

    Martin Buber · 1922 · Religion & Spirituality

    "Martin Buber, heavily influenced by the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche, unites the proto-Existentialist currents of modern German thought with the Judeo-Christian tradition, powerfully updating fait

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    Reincarnation and the Law of Karma

    William Walker Atkinson · 1908 · Religion & Spirituality

    There are many forms of belief - many degrees of doctrine - regarding Reincarnation, as we shall see as we proceed, but there is a fundamental and basic principle underlying all of the various shades

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    Phänomenologie des Geistes

    Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel · 1907 · Religion & Spirituality

    At head of title: Hegel.Translations by Josiah Royce, J.B. Baillie, W. Wallace and others. "Short bibliography": [1] p. following p. xliii.

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    Saint Joan

    George Bernard Shaw · 1924 · Religion & Spirituality

    This classic traces the life of Joan of Arc from the time she appears to her regional governor, her visit to the Dauphin (where she is undeceived by his disguise) to the siege of Orleans, coronation a

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    Religion and the Rise of Capitalism

    Richard H. Tawney · 1926 · Religion & Spirituality

    "In one of the classics of twentieth-century political economy, R.H. Tawney addresses the question of how religion has affected social and economic practices. He does this by a relentless tracking of

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    The Bridge of San Luis Rey

    Thornton Wilder · 1927 · Religion & Spirituality

    The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927) tells the story of several unrelated people who happen to be on a bridge in Peru when it collapses, killing them. Philosophically, the book explores the problem of ev

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