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Beyond Good and Evil
Friedrich Nietzsche
27 days •
ⓘ 1886 • Nietzsche here challenges notions of Western thought and accepted religious ideas, accusing Christianity of "slave morality" and instead looking for individuals to impose their own will on the world.
Critique of Pure Reason
Immanuel Kant
63 days •
ⓘ 1781 • A landmark philosophical work in which Kant examines metaphysics, building on earlier works by Locke, Hume, Leibniz, and Wolff.
Faust
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
46 days •
ⓘ 1808 • Both parts of Goethe's famous tragic play, in which a disillusioned scholar makes a deal with a devil.
A Hunger Artist
Franz Kafka
2 days •
ⓘ 1922 • A hunger artist - who fasts for the entertainment of others - finds the popularity of his performances is waning. Soon spectators prefer seeing animals in a circus, and his near-death condition goes unnoticed.
In the Penal Colony
Franz Kafka
5 days •
ⓘ 1919 • A diabolical execution machine is about to be used for the last time in an unnamed penal colony.
Rock Crystal
Adalbert Stifter
6 days •
ⓘ 1845 • A suspenseful and beautiful parable about two children missing on Christmas Eve.
The Sandman
E.T.A. Hoffmann
7 days •
ⓘ 1816 • Nathanael is haunted through his life by Coppelius, his mad alchemical experiments, and the grim specter of the Sandman. Pretty eyes, pretty eyes!
Siddhartha
Herman Hesse
16 days •
ⓘ 1922 • In the time of the Gautama Buddha, a young man named Siddhartha abandons his home and possessions to begin a journey of self-discovery.
The Sorrows of Young Werther
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
19 days •
ⓘ 1774 • The semi-autobiographical collection of letters of Werther, a sensitive artist who falls in love with Charlotte only to find she is already engaged.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche
29 days •
ⓘ 1883 • A philosophical novel in which the ancient prophet Zarathustra reveals God is dead, to be succeeded by a human embodiment of divinity: the Superman.
The Trial
Franz Kafka
36 days •
ⓘ 1925 • Thirty-year-old bank officer Josef K. is suddenly and inexplicably arrested, then forced to stand trial without knowing his crime in his disturbing tale.
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