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The Genealogy of Morals
2003 || Paperback || Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche || Dover Publications Inc.
Written in response to a book on the origins of morality by his erstwhile friend Paul Rée, the three essays comprising The Genealogy of Morals--all advancing the critique of Christian morality set forth in Beyond Good and Evil--are among Nietzsche's most sustained and cohesive work.
In the first essay, Nietzsche sets up a contrast between what he calls "master" morality and "slave" morality and shows how strength and action have often been replaced by passivity and nihilism. The next essay, l...
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The Ministry of Truth
A Biography of George Orwell's 1984
2024 || Paperback || Dorian Lynskey || Pan Macmillan
In The Ministry of Truth, Dorian Lynskey charts the life of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four: one of the most influential books of the 20th Century, a perennial bestseller, and a work that remains more relevant than ever in today's tumultuous world.
The Penguin Freud Reader
2024 || Paperback || Sigmund Freud || Penguin Books Ltd
Here are the essential ideas of psychoanalytic theory, including Freud's explanations of such concepts as the Id, Ego and Super-Ego, the Death Instinct and Pleasure Principle, along with classic case studies like that of the Wolf Man. Adam Phillips's marvellous selection provides an ideal overview of Freud's thought in all its extraordinary ambition and variety. Psychoanalysis may be known as the 'talking cure', yet it is also and profoundly, a way of reading.
Here we can see Freud's writings...
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Feel Free
Essays
2024 || Paperback || Zadie Smith || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
A collection of insightful and funny essays from the bestselling and award-winning author. Includes essays on a range of subjects including literature, film, music icons, Brexit, the presidency of Donald Trump and climate change. For fans of David Foster Wallace's "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again".
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Figures in a Landscape
People and Places
2024 || Paperback || Paul Theroux || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
The author of "Deep South" and "The Great Railway Bazaar"'s body of work is mined for its best bits, brought together here, with profiles of famous people such as Oliver Sacks and Robin Williams, reflections from Theroux's own reading, and extracts from the iconic travel writing.
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The Diary of a Young Girl
The Definitive Edition of the World’s Most Famous Diary
2024 || Paperback || Anne Frank || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
Aged thirteen when Anne Frank went into the secret annexe, Anne kept a diary in which she confided her innermost thoughts and feelings, movingly revealing how the eight people living under these extraordinary conditions coped with the daily threat of discovery and death, petty misunderstandings and the unbearable strain of living like prisoners.
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Style and Substance
Why What We Wear Matters
2024 || Paperback || Bay Garnett || John Murray Press
The ultimate celebration of the joy and power of clothes, featuring pieces from Charlotte Tilbury, Stanley Tucci, Zadie Smith, Bella Freud, Chloë Sevigny, Rachel Weisz and Eunice Olumide, curated by legendary stylist, Bay Garnett.
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Simple Passion – WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
2024 || Paperback || Annie Ernaux || Fitzcarraldo Editions
In her spare, stark style, Annie Ernaux's Simple Passion documents the desires and indignities of a human heart ensnared in an all-consuming passion.
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Seduction and Betrayal
2024 || Paperback || Elizabeth Hardwick || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
ONE OF THE WHITE REVIEW'S BEST BOOKS OF 2019Elizabeth Hardwick's iconic essay collection Seduction and Betrayal is a radical portrait of women and literature, reissued with a new introduction by Deborah Levy. 'Hardwick's sentences are burned in my brain.' - Susan SontagSidelined.
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The Living Mountain
A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland
2024 || Paperback || Nan Shepherd || Canongate Books
A masterpiece of Scottish nature writing by Nan Shepherd, now introduced by Robert Macfarlane and with an afterword by Jeanette Winterson