 | Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Modern Library) by Friedrich Nietzsche
Buy used from: £2.78 I read it for the 1st time at 16 in German. GENIAL work of a GENIUS. (Just don't MISinterprete it !!!)
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 | The Prince (Penguin Classics) by Niccolo Machiavelli
Buy new: £3.47 / Used from: £1.39 A copy is always lying UNDER MY PILLOW. Book to READ EVERY DAY. Never equalled.
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 | The Divine Comedy (Oxford World's Classics) by Dante Alighieri
Buy used from: £1.63 MONUMENT of classic poetry and of metaphysics. THE UNTHINKABLE ON PAPER...
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 | Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius
Buy used from: £2.25 Masterpiece about PERSONAL FREEDOM of the individual. A COPY UNDER MY PILLOW TOO, just a matter of balance...
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 | Diogenes Laertius: Vitarum CB (Diogenes Laertius: Vitarum Philosophorum Libri) by GARTNER
Buy new: £57.00 / Used from: £29.94 COMPILATION AND REFERENCE without any concurrence. Reads very fast.
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 | Summa Theologica by Saint Thomas Aquinas
Buy new: £117.95 / Used from: £166.87 Another MONUMENT about the antique wisdom and Christian belief. Written by a man with an INCREDIBLE INTELLIGENCE, for example by proving in 5 steps that God exists. Very difficult !!!
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 | Faust - A Tragedy In Two Parts & The Urfaust (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature): A Tradegy in Two Parts and the Urfaust by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Buy new: £3.77 / Used from: £0.99 THE LEGEND OF THE GERMAN GENIOUS.: the SPLENDID history of an obsessed who wants to know/do EVERYTHING and SELLS HIS SOUL TO THE DEVIL. Strongly recommended TO ALL OF YOU !!
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 | Nausea (Penguin Modern Classics) by Jean-Paul Sartre
Buy new: £5.74 / Used from: £2.32 NOT AT ALL EASY, whatever one may say. Autobiographic novel of SARTRE in which he succeeds perfectly to explain HIS PHILOSOPHY !! Recommended to all readers.
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 | Ulysses (Oxford World's Classics) by James Joyce
Buy used from: £2.62 Lots of people consider this works as the NUMERO UNO : the last word in realism. COMPULSION, COMPULSION, ... GENIAL !!!
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 | Metamorphoses (Oxford World's Classics) by Ovid
Buy used from: £1.51 For those who WANT TO KNOW LOVE ITSELF. If you can, read it together with his "Amores" and "Ars Amatoria". THE MASTER OF LOVE ...
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 | The Complete Novels: The Trial; America; The Castle by Franz Kafka
Buy used from: £3.95 Written by THE GENIUS OF PRAGUE. Everyone can recognize her-/himself in his works, of which a good part is still "dark" for us. I had opted for his COMPLETE WORKS AND RECOMMEND THEM TO ALL !!
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 | The Collected Dialogues of Plato (Bollingen Series (General)) by Plato
Buy new: £24.84 / Used from: £14.52 VERY IMPORTANT because IN the scenes and discussions SOCRATES is always the central person. RECOMMENDED FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART. ENORMOUS VALUE.
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 | War and Peace (Wordsworth Classics) by L.N. Tolstoy
Buy new: £1.99 / Used from: £0.01 LEGENDARY. I read this book with an AMAZING speed. DON'T BE AFRAID of the number of pages. IMMORTAL: A JEWEL.
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 | The Iliad and the Odyssey (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature) by Homer
Buy new: £3.96 / Used from: £1.49 MODERN and ... AS IF NOTHING NEW would have been written. Dates from 750 before J.C. !!! A MUST FOR ALL, WITHOUT ANY EXCUSES !!!
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 | Don Quixote (Wordsworth Classics) by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
Buy new: £1.99 / Used from: £0.01 An ex fellow journalist reproached me some years ago being a Don Quixote: I hope part of the DON will stay with me for the rest of my life. GENIAL WORK !!
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 | Physics (World's Classics) by Aristotle
Buy used from: £5.00 This book WILL GO ON INFLUENCING our ways of THINKING, not only concerning nature but also philosophy. SPLENDOUR !!!
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 | Praise of Folly by ERASMUS & LEVI
Buy new: £5.46 / Used from: £2.86 ALWAYS APPLICABLE AT ANY MOMENT OF LIFE. It reminds of THE NON-SENSE PRODUCED BY THE SENSE !! Meet this "forgotten" universal humanist, very good friend of Thomas More. A WEAPON FOR ALL OF YOU !
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| The World As Will and Representation by Arthur Schopenhauer
Buy used from: £69.64 FAR MORE IMPORTANT than Kant (sic!) ! Intuitive vision that one accepts or not. Is in good company of EPICURUS and NIETZSCHE. NOT EASY, BUT WORTH TRYING.
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 | The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
Buy used from: £11.42 MONUMENT and LEGENDARY as Stephen Jay GOULD used to say now and then. The battle for existence, SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST. "UNTOUCHABLE" (sic!).
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 | The Aeneid (Oxford World's Classics) by Virgil
Buy used from: £0.33 LEGENDARY MARVEL: the most beautiful Latin poem (even about the foundation of Rome). RECOMMENDED TO ALL FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY LITERARY HEART !!
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 | The Complete Pelican Shakespeare (Penguin Classics) by William Shakespeare
Buy new: £20.48 / Used from: £16.00 To be read piece by piece... What a diversity of themes, what a pen ! Alas (or is it luck?) he stole too much, most part from Antiquity. HOWEVER, STRONGLY RECOMMENDED TO EVERYBODY !!!
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 | The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and Weir of Hermiston (Oxford World's Classics) by Robert Louis Stevenson
Buy used from: £0.01 SCOTTISH GENIOUS of the 19th century. WRITTEN IN 3 DAYS ! Before FREUD, he explained the splitting of the personality. Psychoanalysis, psychism. TO READ AND RE-READ !!
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 | The Collected Tales And Poems Of Edgar Allan Poe : by Edgar Allan Poe
Buy new: £11.74 / Used from: £3.13 THE MASTER OF HORROR, readable for all, thanks to his MARVELLOUS way to tell. The never beaten man of the FANTASTIC LITERATURE. SPLENDOUR !! RECOMMENDED TO ALL.
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 | Critique of Cynical Reason (Theory & History of Literature) by Peter Sloterdijk
Buy new: £18.20 / Used from: £21.09 1st 'TOTAL PHILOSOPHY' since Plato. Goes back to Diogenes of Sinope, returns through history thus making his own philosophy. STILL ALIVE. Very difficult; but HIGHLY RECOMMENDED FOR WHO IS INTERESTED !
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| Crime and Punishment With Reader's Guide by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Buy used from: £13.95 PERHAPS N° 1 ? About the human downfall; BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL. In good company of NIETZSCHE. To me THÉ RUSSIAN MASTER (with PUSHKIN). UNDERESTIMATED ! TO BE READ BY EVERYBODY AND TO NEVER FORGET IT...
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