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Books like Painting as a pastime
Loved Painting as a pastime by Winston S. Churchill? Here are 10 books with a similar appeal — drawn mostly from essays, ranked by how confidently we'd recommend them next.
10 books · ranked
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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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Edvard Munch
Während eines achtmonatigen Aufenthalts in dem Sanatorium von Dr. Daniel Jacobsen in Kopenhagen verwandelt Munch sein Krankenzimmer in ein Atelier und entwickelt einen neuen extrovertierteren und expr
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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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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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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.'"