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Meditaciones del Quijote José Ortega y Gasset · 1914 · ★ 2.0 · 194p · ≈ 6h · Challenging 247 pages ; 18 cm Shares: Aesthetics, Literary Criticism

Rou pu tuan Li, Yu · 1644 · ★ 5.0 · 354p · ≈ 11h · Demanding In the three hundred years since its initial publication, Li Yu's The Carnal Prayer Mat has been widely read in China, where it is recognized as a benchmark of erotic literature and currently enjoys the distinction of being a banned-in-Beijing classic. The story centers on Scholar Vesperus, a handsome orphan and student of Zen. Before taking his monastic vows, Vesperus embarks on a career of… Shares: Asian, Literary Criticism

吾輩は猫である 夏目漱石 · 1905 · ★ 3.7 · 475p · ≈ 15h · Challenging Written over the course of 1904 through 1906, Soseki's comic masterpiece, I Am a Cat, satirizes the follies of upper-middle-class Japanese society during the Meiji era. With acerbic wit and sardonic perspective, it follows the whimsical adventures of a world-weary stray kitten who comments on the follies and foibles of the people around him. The New Yorker called it "a nonchalant string of… Shares: Japanese, Literary Criticism

Intellectuals Paul Bede Johnson · 1988 · ★ 3.9 · 385p · ≈ 12h · Moderate A fascinating portrait of the minds that have shaped the modern world. In an intriguing series of case studies, Rousseau, Shelley, Marx, Ibsen, Tolstoy, Hemingway, Bertrand Russell, Brecht, Sartre, Edmund Wilson, Victor Gollancz, Lillian Hellman, Cyril Connolly, Norman Mailer, James Baldwin, Kenneth Tynan, and Noam Chomsky, among others, are revealed as intellectuals both brilliant and… Shares: Civilization, Literary Criticism

Podróże z Herodotem Ryszard Kapuściński · 2004 · ★ 4.0 · 279p · ≈ 9h · Moderate From the renowned journalist comes this intimate account of his years in the field, traveling for the first time beyond the Iron Curtain to India, China, Ethiopia, and other exotic locales.In the 1950s, Ryszard Kapuscinski finished university in Poland and became a foreign correspondent, hoping to go abroad -- perhaps to Czechoslovakia. Instead, he was sent to India -- the first stop on a… Shares: Civilization, Literary Criticism

Homer and His Age Andrew Lang · 1906 · 234p · ≈ 7h · Challenging A fantastic look at the life and times of the ancient Greek epic poet Homer by famed anthropologist Andrew Lang. Shares: Civilization, Literary Criticism

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