18 books like La philosophie dans le boudoir, ou, Les instituteurs libertins

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Agostino Alberto Moravia · 1944 · ★ 3.5 · 128p · ≈ 4h · Moderate Thirteen-year-old Agostino is spending the summer at a Tuscan seaside resort with his beautiful widowed mother. When she takes up with a cocksure new companion, Agostino, feeling ignored and unloved, begins hanging around with a group of local young toughs. Though repelled by their squalor and brutality, and repeatedly humiliated for his weakness and ignorance when it comes to women and sex, the… Shares Sex, Manners and customs, Social life and customs

White Nights

White Nights Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 1961 · ★ 4.1 · 239p · ≈ 7h · Moderate White Nights by Fyodor Dostoyevsky is a poignant short story about love, loneliness, and fleeting human connections. Set in St. Petersburg during the ethereal "white nights" of summer, it follows a dreamy, solitary narrator who meets a young woman named Nastenka. Over four nights, he shares his fantasies and feelings, while she confides her longing for a lost lover. As the narrator falls in love… Shares Continental european fiction, Manners and customs, Social life and customs

Směšné lásky Milan Kundera · 1965 · ★ 3.8 · 257p · ≈ 8h · Moderate "In one of these stories a young man and his girlfriend pretend that she is a stranger he picked up on the road - only to become strangers to each other in reality as their game proceeds. In another a teacher fakes piety in order to seduce a devout girl, then jilts her and yearns for God. In yet another girls wait in bars, on beaches, and on station platforms for the same lover, a middle-aged Don… Shares Continental european fiction, Manners and customs, Social life and customs

The complete works of O. Henry [pseud.] O. Henry · 1899 · ★ 3.5 · 1396p · ≈ 46h · Demanding Shares Manners and customs, Social life and customs with this book.

The troll garden Willa Cather · 1905 · 156p · ≈ 5h · Moderate "This collection of Willa Cather stories - her first book of fiction and the capstone of her early career - is as relevant today as at the time of its initial publication. As different and individually distinguished as the seven stories may be, they share as their subject the role and status of the artist in American society. The passions, ambitions, and pretensions, the cant and the pathos of… Shares Manners and customs, Social life and customs

Illustrations of universal progress Herbert Spencer · 1864 · 451p · ≈ 15h · Challenging Shares Political science, Philosophy with this book.

Казаки (Kazaki) Лев Толстой · 1887 · ★ 4.0 **The Cossacks** (Russian: *Казаки [Kazaki]*) is a short novel by Leo Tolstoy, published in 1863 in the popular literary magazine *The Russian Messenger*. It was originally called **Young Manhood**. Both Ivan Turgenev and the Nobel prize-winning Russian writer Ivan Bunin gave the work great praise, with Turgenev calling it his favourite work by Tolstoy. Tolstoy began work on the story in August… Shares Continental european fiction, Manners and customs, Social life and customs

Philosophy and living Olaf Stapledon · 1935 · ★ 3.4 Shares Philosophy with this book.

Immortality

Immortality Milan Kundera · 1992 Shares Continental european fiction with this book.

Sexuality (Key Ideas) Jeffrey Weeks · 1986 · 128p · ≈ 4h · Moderate Shares Sex, Social sciences, Philosophy with this book.

Cours de philosophie positive Auguste Comte · 1800 · ★ 3.2 · 260p · ≈ 8h · Challenging Shares Social sciences, Philosophy with this book.

The Memoirs of Cleopatra

The Memoirs of Cleopatra Margaret George · 1997 · ★ 4.2 · 976p · ≈ 32h · Challenging The mesmerizing story of Queen Cleopatra in her own words - by bestselling novelist Margaret George, author of *The Autobiography of Henry VIII* and *Mary Queen of Scotland and the Isles*. Told in the first person - from the young queen's earliest memories of her father's tenuous rule to her own reign over one of the most glittering kingdoms in the world - this is an enthralling saga of ambition… Shares Manners and customs, Social life and customs

Openings in the Old Trail Bret Harte · 1902 · 164p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Shares Manners and customs, Social life and customs with this book.

La fête du mais Thomas Tryon · 1969 · ★ 3.5 · 415p · ≈ 13h · Moderate It was almost as if time had not touched the village of Cornwall Coombe. The quiet, peaceful place was straight out of a bygone era, with well-cared-for Colonial houses, a white-steepled church fronting a broad Common. Ned and Beth Constantine chanced upon the hamlet and immediately fell in love with it. This was exactly the haven they dream of. Or so they thought. For Ned and his family,… Shares Manners and customs, Social life and customs

Principles of Economics Steven A. Greenlaw · 1605 · 960p · ≈ 32h · Demanding Principles of Economics covers scope and sequence requirements for a two-semester introductory economics course. The authors take a balanced approach to micro- and macroeconomics, to both Keynesian and classical views, and to the theory and application of economics concepts. The text also includes many current examples, which are handled in a politically equitable way. Principles of Economics … Shares Social sciences

The peppered moth Margaret Drabble · 2000 · ★ 3.3 · 384p · ≈ 12h · Moderate "It is 1912 and Bessie Bawtry is a small child living in Breaseborough, a South Yorkshire mining town. Unusually gifted, she sits quietly and studies hard, waiting for the day when she can sit the Cambridge entrance exam and escape the kind of life her ancestors have never even thought to question. Her parents are in awe of her - who is this swan-child, is she a freak? (Where did she get her… Shares Manners and customs, Social life and customs

Reason, social myths and democracy Sidney Hook · 1940 · 302p · ≈ 10h · Moderate http://uf.catalog.fcla.edu/uf.jsp?st=UF001517100&ix=pm&I=0&V=D&pm=1 Shares Social sciences, Political science, Philosophy

Bitter lemons Lawrence Durrell · 1957 · 271p · ≈ 9h · Moderate With the publication of Justine Lawrence Durrell became, almost overnight, one of the most talked about, widely acclaimed novelists of the decade. Now, in Bitter Lemons, his focus has shifted from the world of his imagination to life itself. Writing in the exquisite poetic prose that critics have hailed as unequalled in contemporary literature, he tells the perceptive, often humorous story of his… Shares Manners and customs, Social life and customs

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