Books like Faust
12 books with a reading profile close to Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Deep, inward-looking, contemplative, open-ended and thought-provoking; a demanding read.
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Demons
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, dense
In nineteenth-century Russia, a small provincial town becomes the staging ground for a revolutionary cell led by the manipulative Pyotr Verkhovensky.
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The Magic Mountain
by Thomas Mann
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, dense
Hans Castorp, a young engineer, visits his cousin at a tuberculosis sanatorium in the Swiss Alps, intending to stay for three weeks.
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Faust, First Part
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, dense
Heinrich Faust, a disenchanted scholar, abandons traditional medicine, theology, and philosophy after realizing that intellectual mastery has failed to reveal the secrets of the universe.
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Nausea
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, dense
Antoine Roquentin, a secluded historian living in the port town of Bouvile, becomes obsessed with a visceral physical sensation he calls the Nausea.
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The Castle
by Franz Kafka
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, dense
A land surveyor named K arrives in a frozen village, claiming he was summoned by the authorities of the nearby castle.
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WILHELM MEISTER'S APPRENTICESHIP AND TRAVELS
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, dense
Wilhelm Meister begins as a merchant’s son who abandons his family’s commercial expectations to join a troupe of traveling actors.
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The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, dense
This collection gathers the lyrical output of a recluse who examined the intersections of nature, mortality, and the inner self.
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King Lear
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, dense
In 1608, William Shakespeare’s tragedy follows an aging British monarch who abdicates his throne and divides his territory based on his daughters’ public professions of love.
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The Sea, the Sea
by Iris Murdoch
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, dense
Charles Arrowby, a vanity-driven theater director, retires to a secluded coastal house to write his memoirs and escape his past.
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Thus Spake Zarathustra
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, dense
Zarathustra, a prophet who has spent a decade in mountain solitude, descends to the valley to share his realizations with humanity.
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra
by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, dense
Zarathustra, a mountain-dwelling hermit, descends to civilization to announce the death of God and the emergence of the Ubermensch.
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The Idiot
by Frank J. Morlock, Fyodor Dostoevsky
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, dense
In this dramatic adaptation of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel, Frank J.
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