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The Right to Be Lazy
Häftad, 2025
108 kr
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“In capitalist society work is the cause of all intellectual degeneracy, of all organic deformity.”Paul Lafargue’s The Right to Be Lazy spells out with unrivalled clarity the damage inflicted by the myth that endless work is morally virtuous. Presenting an inspiring vision of social equality and of …
Helen's Exile
Av Albert Camus
Häftad, 2024
75 kr
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“The Greeks never said that the limit could not he overstepped. They said it existed and that whoever dared to exceed it was mercilessly struck down. Nothing in present history can contradict them.”Written in the aftermath of the Second World War, Albert Camus’s essay is a searching inquiry into …
The Case Against Travel
Häftad, 2024
86 kr
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“Although people like to talk about their travels, few of us like to listen to them. Such talk resembles academic writing and reports of dreams: forms of communication driven more by the needs of the producer than the consumer.”In The Case Against Travel the philosopher Agnes Callard launches a …
Tradition and the Individual Talent
Av T. S. Eliot
Häftad, 2025
86 kr
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“Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.”T. S. Eliot’s advocacy of …
On Being Ill
Häftad, 2024
86 kr
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“Always to have sympathy, always to be accompanied, always to be understood would be intolerable.”Virginia Woolf’s essay begins by lamenting the surprise neglect of ill-health as a potential literary subject. What then unfolds is a dazzlingly written series of reflections on sickness, fiction, and …
Load of Shit
Av John Berger
Häftad, 2023
86 kr
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“What makes shit such a universal joke is that it’s an unmistakable reminder of our duality, of our soiled nature and of our will to glory. It is the ultimate lèse-majesté”.John Berger’s essay begins by describing the experience of burying a year’s worth of his household’s excrement. What follows …
Lottery in Babylon
Av Jorge Luis Borges, Norman Thomas Di Giovanni
Häftad, 2023
86 kr
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“The drunkard who comes out with an absurd order, the dreamer who suddenly wakes and with his bare hands strangles the woman sleeping beside him – are they perhaps not carrying out one of the Company’s secret decisions? These silent workings, so like those of God, give rise to all manner of …
Justice in Palestine
Häftad, 2024
77 kr
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“A religious act cannot be performed with the aid of the bayonet or the bomb.”In 1938 Mahatma Gandhi wrote a bracing and, at times, discomfiting essay on the claims of justice and nationhood in Palestine. Profoundly informed by its author’s sympathy for the plights of Jews and Arabs alike, this …
American Dream Is at the Expense of the American Negro
Häftad, 2023
77 kr
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“It comes as a great shock to discover that the country which is your birthplace and to which you owe your life and your identity, has not, in its whole system of reality, evolved any place for you”.James Baldwin was one of America’s most powerful analysts of the psychology of white supremacy. In …
Modest Proposal
Häftad, 2023
108 kr
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“A young healthy child well nursed, is, at a year old, a most delicious nourishing and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricasee, or a ragoust.”Jonathan Swift’s 1729 pamphlet is at once a denunciation of the mistreatment …
Vice of Reading
2022
86 kr
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“No vices are so hard to eradicate as those which are popularly regarded as virtues. Among these the vice of reading is foremost.”A great American novelist offers a scathing attack on the worst kinds of reading. Edith Wharton argues that the growing cultural influence of “mechanical” readers is …
1854 Oration
Häftad, 2023
77 kr
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“It matters little where we pass the remnant of our days. They will not be many”.A powerful lament for an imperilled way of life, the 1854 speech traditionally attributed to Chief Seattle of the Duwamish Tribe is a vital document in the history of the Indigenous peoples of North America. Chief …
Country of the Blind
Av H.G. Wells
2022
86 kr
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"Over the mountains I come," said Nunez, "out of the country beyond there-where men can see. From near Bogota, where there are a hundred thousands of people, and where the city passes out of sight." One of the acknowledged masters of speculative fiction, H.G. Wells conducts in this short story a …
Story of My Death
2022
75 kr
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"We are going to Rome to scatter these words of liberty far and wide, words which for seven years have been forbidden like a crime. And with reason, for if they had been allowed, they would have shaken the Fascist tyranny to its foundations within a few hours." In 1931 the Italian poet Lauro de …
The Fly
Häftad, 2024
86 kr
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“Now one could imagine that the little front legs rubbed against each other lightly, joyfully. The horrible danger was over; it had escaped; it was ready for life again.”Deft, subtle, and bitingly ironic, Katherine Mansfield’s short story is a highly concentrated depiction of grief and cruelty. …
Contempt is a Dangerous Way to Lead a Country
Häftad, 2025
75 kr
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“As you told the nation yesterday, you have felt the providential hand of a loving God. In the name of our God, I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now.”At an ominous moment in American history, Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde’s sermon at the National Cathedral in …
Unpacking My Library
2022
86 kr
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"I fully realize that my discussion of the mental climate of collecting will confirm many of you in your conviction that this passion is behind the times, in your distrust of the collector type. Nothing is further from my mind than to shake either your conviction or your distrust." Walter Benjamin …
Invisible Collection
Av Stefan Zweig
2023
86 kr
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“I found it terrible, yet at the same time touching, for in all the years of the war I had not seen so perfect and pure an expression of bliss on any German face.”An ostensibly whimsical story about the adventures of a Berlin art dealer, Stefan Zweig’s The Invisible Collection is a powerful …
