Books like Four Quartets
12 books with a reading profile close to Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot. Deep, inward-looking, contemplative and open-ended; a demanding read.
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Selected Poems
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, dense
Centering on the posthumous 1890 collection edited by Mabel Loomis Todd and Thomas Wentworth Higginson, this volume organizes Dickinson’s verse into four thematic categories: Life, Love, Nature, and Time and Eternity.
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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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Duineser Elegien
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, dense
The ten elegies bridge the divide between flawed human mortality and the terrifying perfection of the Angel.
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The Glass Bead Game
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, dense
Set in the future province of Castalia, the narrative follows Joseph Knecht as he rises to the rank of Magister Ludi within an elitist intellectual order.
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Austerlitz
by W.G. Sebald
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, dense
The narrator meets Jacques Austerlitz in the waiting room of the Antwerp railway station in the 1960s, and the two begin to talk about architecture.
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The Complete Stories
by Franz Kafka
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, dense
This volume gathers the short stories Franz Kafka wrote and published during his lifetime, plus other pieces released after his death.
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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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Collected Fictions
Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, dense
This volume brings together Borges's short fiction in English, including A Universal History of Infamy, Ficciones, The Aleph, Doctor Brodie's Report and The Book of Sand.
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The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, dense
Dante Alighieri narrates his own passage through the three realms of the afterlife, beginning in a dark forest where the Roman poet Virgil meets him.
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The Book of Disquiet
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, dense
Published long after the author’s death, this fragmented prose collection serves as the autobiography of Bernardo Soares, one of Fernando Pessoa’s many heteronyms.
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Faust
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, dense
Heinrich Faust is a scholar who has mastered philosophy, law, medicine, and theology, yet remains dissatisfied with the limits of human knowledge.
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