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Unpacking My Library

de Walter Benjamin

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 One of the great cultural critics of the twentieth century offers a strikingly personal meditation on his career as a book collector and on the strange relations that spring up between objects and their owners.
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The Country Of The Blind

de H. G. Wells

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 In this short story H.G. Wells conducts a disconcerting thought experiment. What would become of a community if its members were somehow deprived of sight?
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Contempt Is A Dangerous Way To Lead A Country

de Mariann Edgar Budde

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 Bishop Buddeâ€™s address stands as a calm but resonant call for compassion in an increasingly vicious and punitive political culture.
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The Theme Of The Three Caskets

de Sigmund Freud

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 Freud demonstrates through literary, mythical, and folktale examples the extraordinary way that wishes manifest themselves in peopleâ€™s dreams.
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Frederic And Elfrida

de Jane Austen

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 Written when Austen was still an adolescent, Frederic and Elfrida is a witty and inventive parody that brilliantly sends up the conventions of romantic fiction.
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The Spirit Of Monarchy

de William Hazlitt

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 William Hazlitt's essay on the ludicrousness of monarchy shows him at his best.
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On Talkativeness

de Plutarch

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 Plutarchâ€™s essay takes on an unusual philosophical problem: people who talk too much.
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Tradition And The Individual Talent

de T. S. Eliot

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 T. S. Eliotâ€™s advocacy of â€œimpersonalityâ€ as a literary ideal in Tradition and the Individual Talent had an immeasurable impact on Modernist literature and continues to resonate today.
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Helen'S Exile

de Albert Camus

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 Written in the aftermath of the Second World War, Albert Camusâ€™s essay is a searching inquiry into the origins of the hubris and fanaticism that laid waste to twentieth-century Europe.
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The Right To Be Lazy

de Paul Lafargue

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 Paul Lafargue spells out with unrivaled clarity the damage inflicted by the myth that endless work is morally virtuous.
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The Case Against Travel

de Agnes Callard

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 A vigorous assault on the idea that there is something transformative or ennobling about recreational travel.
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On Being Ill

de Virginia Woolf

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 Virginia Woolf's reflections on sickness, fiction, and the chilling indifference of the natural world.
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The Fly

de Katherine Mansfield

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 An outstanding literary portrayal of the shadow cast by the First World War.
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1854 Oration

de Chief Seattle

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 "It matters little where we pass the remnant of our days. They will not be many".A powerful lament for an imperilled way of life, the 1854 speech traditionally attributed to Chief Seattle of the Duwamish Tribe is a vital document in the history of the Indigenous peoples of North America. Chief Seattle''s oration was delivered in the face of the impending loss of his people''s land to the State of Washington, and it remains a profound meditation on the nature of time, colonialism, and religion.
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Justice In Palestine

de Mahatma Gandhi

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 Justice in Palestine is an essential work by one of the twentieth centuryâ€™s most powerful and authoritative voices.
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The American Dream Is At The Expense Of The American Negro

de James Baldwin

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 A devastating, but also strikingly empathetic, account of the role played by racism in American society.
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Apocolocyntosis

de Séneca

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 One of classical literatureâ€™s greatest satires.
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The 1854 Oration

de Chief Seattle

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 A vital document in the history of the Indigenous peoples of North America
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A Modest Proposal

de Jonathan Swift

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 Jonathan Swiftâ€™s 1729 pamphlet is at once a denunciation of the mistreatment of Irelandâ€™s poor and a daringly inventive comic rhapsody.
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The Invisible Collection

de Stefan Zweig

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 Stefan Zweig's short story is a powerful evocation of the condition of Germany between the wars and a moving reminder of the power of art.
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Story Of My Death

de Lauro De Bosis

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 In 1931 the Italian poet Lauro de Bosis flew over Rome in a small plane in order to scatter anti-Fascist pamphlets from the sky. He did not survive the journey, but in Story of My Death he left behind a remarkable testament.
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The World Of Bond And Maigret

de Georges Simenon e Ian Fleming

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 In this illuminating dialogue, the authors who gave us James Bond and Jules Maigret discuss (among other things) their approaches to the craft of writing, the origins of their charactersâ€™ names, and the critical reception of their novels
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The Glory Of The Rails

de Tony Judt

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 In this brilliant essay the historian Tony Judt describes the singular contribution made by railways to the establishment of our shared way of life. From the transformation of urban spaces to the reorganisation of our sense of time, it is impossible to imagine the world we live in without the social and economic changes wrought by rail travel.
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Essay On The Art Of Crawling

de Baron D'Holbach

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 Baron d'Holbach's 1776 Essay on the Art of Crawling is a delicious satire on the sycophancy and self-abasement rife in the courts of Europe.
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