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  • Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow

    Translated by Irina Reyfman, Andrew Kahn ...
    Series series
    Alexander Radishchev’s Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow is among the most important pieces of writing to come out of Russia in the age of Catherine the Great. An account of a fictional journey along a postal route, it blends literature, philosophy, and political economy to expose social and economic injustices and their causes at all levels of Russian society. Not long after the book’s ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

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    Bertrand Russell, one of the most influential philosophers of the 20th century, was a tireless advocate of reason, skepticism, and intellectual freedom. Essays in Skepticism is a thought-provoking collection that showcases Russell’s sharp analytical mind and unwavering commitment to truth in an era often clouded by dogma, superstition, and ideological rigidity. Through these essays, he challenges ... Read more

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  • Fallen Leaves

    Last Words on Life, Love, War, and God

    by Will Durant ...
    Praised as a “revelatory” book by The Wall Street Journal, this is the last and most personal work of Pulitzer Prize–winning author and historian Will Durant, discovered thirty-two years after his death.The culmination of Will Durant’s sixty-plus years spent researching the philosophies, religions, arts, sciences, and civilizations from across the world, Fallen Leaves is the distilled wisdom of ... Read more

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  • The Anti-Christ

    Translated by H. L. Mencken ...
    Tangle with one of the most astoundingly vexing minds that the Western philosophical canon has ever produced. In The Anti-Christ, Nietzsche first defined his concept of the will to power, the animating force that he sees as the motivation behind most human behavior. Whether you are a non-believer or a committed Christian, Nietzsche's detailed critique of the Christian ethos is a masterwork of ... Read more

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  • A Confession and Other Religious Writings

    by Leo Tolstoy ...
    Translated by Jane Kentish ...
    Describing Tolstoy's crisis of depression and estrangement from the world, A Confession (1879) is an autobiographical work of exceptional emotional honesty. By the time he was fifty, Tolstoy had already written the novels that would assure him of literary immortality; he had a wife, a large estate and numerous children; he was 'a happy man' and in good health - yet life had lost its meaning. In ... Read more

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  • History and Utopia

    by E. M. Cioran ...
    Translated by Richard Howard ...
    “Only a monster can allow himself the luxury of seeing things as they are,” writes E. M. Cioran, the Romanian-born philosopher who has rightly been compared to Samuel Beckett.In History and Utopia, Cioran the monster writes of politics in its broadest sense, of history, and of the utopian dream. His views are, to say the least, provocative. In one essay he casts a scathing look at democracy, that ... Read more

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  • Last Steps: The Late Writings of Leo Tolstoy

    Translated by Jay Parini ...
    by Leo Tolstoy ...
    Anna Karenina and War and Peace have made Leo Tolstoy the world's most famous author. But fame comes at a price.In the tumultuous final year of his life, Tolstoy is desperate to find respite, so leaves his large family and the hounding press behind and heads into the wilderness. Too ill to venture beyond the tiny station of Astapovo, he believes his last days will pass in isolation. But as we ... Read more

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  • A Pocket Mirror for Heroes

    Translated by Christopher Maurer ...
    A Pocket Mirror for Heroes is a mirror because it reflects "the person you are or the one you ought to be." It is a pocket mirror because its author took the time to be brief. And it is a mirror for heroes because it provides a vivid image of ethical and moral perfection to which all can aspire. The Art of Worldly Wisdom by Baltasar Gracian was all but forgotten for three hundred years, until its ... Read more

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  • Leo Tolstoy: A Letter to a Hindu

    Enriched edition. Including Correspondences with Gandhi & Letter to Ernest Howard Crosby

    'Leo Tolstoy: A Letter to a Hindu' curates a poignant collection that illuminates the profound dialogues between Leo Tolstoy and M. K. Gandhi, centered around themes of non-violence, civil disobedience, and the pursuit of ethical and spiritual renewal. These letters not only showcase a meeting of minds but also a merging of diverse literary styles—from the epistolary finesse of Tolstoy to the ... Read more

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  • Lady Windermere's Fan

    by Oscar Wilde ...
    Classic play. According to Wikipedia: "Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854 - 1900) was an Irish playwright, novelist, poet, and author of short stories. Known for his barbed wit, he was one of the most successful playwrights of late Victorian London, and one of the greatest celebrities of his day. As the result of a famous trial, he suffered a dramatic downfall and was imprisoned for two ... Read more

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  • The Kingdom of God is within you

    Translated by Constance Garnett ...
    by Leo Tolstoy ...
    Published in France in 1893, The Kingdom of God is within You is the most important of Leo Tolstoy's philosophical-religious works. It is a text that exerted a decisive influence on Gandhi and still holds great interest today, not only because it constitutes a fundamental building block for understanding the thought of one of the greatest writers of all time, but also because of its close analysis ... Read more

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  • Antichrist. War, Progress, and the End of History (explanatory Notes, complete Navigation)

    Series series The World Thinkers
    The Three Dialogues and the Story of the Antichrist, finished on Easter Sunday 1900, is the final work of Solovyov. He clearly foresaw that the 20th century would be "the epoch of great wars, civil strife and revolutions." All this, he said, would prepare the way for the disappearance of "the old structure of separate nations" and "almost everywhere the remains of the ancient monarchical ... Read more

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