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The Canterbury Tales (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.53 — 240,086 ratings — published 1400
Leviathan (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.70 — 54,091 ratings — published 1651
Walden or, Life in the Woods (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.77 — 206,595 ratings — published 1854
Critique of Pure Reason (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 43,356 ratings — published 1781
Orientalism (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 30,627 ratings — published 1978
The Second Sex (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 48,439 ratings — published 1949
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 1,488,938 ratings — published 1915
The Prince (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.84 — 390,915 ratings — published 1532
The Republic (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 229,779 ratings — published -400
Politics (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.98 — 43,488 ratings — published -350
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 270,386 ratings — published 1980
The Souls of Black Folk (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.31 — 45,577 ratings — published 1903
The Interpretation of Dreams (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.84 — 82,438 ratings — published 1899
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.57 — 626,026 ratings — published 1851
Metamorphoses (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 79,634 ratings — published 8
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Volume 2: The Romantic Period through the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 3,583 ratings — published 1962
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 176,217 ratings — published 1320
The Odyssey (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.84 — 1,222,504 ratings — published -700
Don Quixote (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 310,740 ratings — published 1605
Tao Te Ching (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 185,686 ratings — published -350
Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 39,819 ratings — published 1485
Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 1,892 ratings — published 1993
Beowulf (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.50 — 351,947 ratings — published 1000
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 245,184 ratings — published 1852
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.88 — 146,168 ratings — published -19
Utopia (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.55 — 84,702 ratings — published 1516
Absalom, Absalom! (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 48,727 ratings — published 1936
City of God (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.95 — 13,968 ratings — published 426
Lost in the Funhouse (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.67 — 6,823 ratings — published 1968
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.34 — 27,404 ratings — published 1997
Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.27 — 7,413 ratings — published 2007
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
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avg rating 4.30 — 590,797 ratings — published 1969
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.24 — 37,748 ratings — published 1975
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 15,434 ratings — published 1904
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.28 — 26,949 ratings — published 2000
The Straight Mind: And Other Essays (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 2,756 ratings — published 1980
The Red Record (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.46 — 571 ratings — published 1895
The Social Contract (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.78 — 59,137 ratings — published 1762
Evelina (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.71 — 19,073 ratings — published 1778
On the Genealogy of Morals (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 36,952 ratings — published 1887
Nuestra América (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 541 ratings — published 1895
Facundo: or Civilization and Barbarism (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.51 — 3,201 ratings — published 1845
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 271,415 ratings — published 1929
Critique of Judgment (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 9,848 ratings — published 1790
The Philosophy of History (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.82 — 3,810 ratings — published 1831
Simulacra and Simulation (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 17,125 ratings — published 1981
The Way Things Are (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 14,774 ratings — published -55
Paris Spleen (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 15,742 ratings — published 1857
Dubliners (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 181,446 ratings — published 1914
Meditations (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.28 — 366,473 ratings — published 180
“I was angry at myself for my inclination to vice. I longed for the day when a state of frenzy would lead my mind to sober pasture, just as it had for Saint Augustine. I longed for the day when the love of one woman would be sacred enough to forget all the rest.”
― The Wanderess
― The Wanderess
“If to a person religion means reading books and obeying every single word from it without the slightest bit of reasoning, then such perception would only bring destruction upon the person and the world. Also there are people who use the words from those books to justify their own filthy actions. Let’s take a conservative Muslim, for example. Say, the conservative Muslim male Homo sapiens (I won’t call such creature a human, regardless of the religion, since his action here shows no sign of humanity) is found to be beating his wife. Now, if someone says to him “this is wrong”, he would naturally reply, “this is a divine thing to do, my book says so”. Now, if a Christian says “my book is older, so you should stop obeying your book and start obeying mine”, there will come the Buddhist, and say, “my book is much older still, obey mine”. Then will come the Jew, and say, “my book is even older, so just follow mine”. And in the end will come the Hindu and say “my books are the oldest of all, obey them”. Therefore referring to books will only make a mess of the human race and tear the species into pieces.”
― In Search of Divinity: Journey to The Kingdom of Conscience
― In Search of Divinity: Journey to The Kingdom of Conscience
