Books like Lilith
12 books with a reading profile close to Lilith by George MacDonald. Deep, inward-looking, contemplative, open-ended and thought-provoking; a moderate 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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Heart of Darkness
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, dense
Charles Marlow, a seasoned sailor, narrates his passage aboard a steamship into the Congo Free State to retrieve Mr.
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Immortality
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, dense
A woman in her sixties waves goodbye to a lifeguard at a pool, and the gesture is enough to give Kundera's narrator the idea for Agnès, a character he follows through the whole book.
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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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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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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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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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The Buried Giant
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, literary
In post-Arthurian Britain, an elderly couple named Axl and Beatrice depart their village to search for a son they barely remember.
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Água Viva
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, dense
Água Viva functions as a sustained internal monologue delivered by an anonymous female painter who abandons representational art to pursue the instantaneous "now." The text rejects traditional narrative progression, ins…
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The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, dense
Milan Kundera's novel is composed of seven parts which are linked by themes of memory, forgetting and the exercise of power.
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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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