Dialogue Between Fashion and Death

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Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have... Tovább

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PENGUIN BOOKS GREAT IDEAS
8l Chuang Tzu The Tao of Nature
82 Epictetus Of Human Freedom
83 Niccolô Machiavelli On Conspiracies
84 René Descartes Meditations
85 Giacomo Leopardi Dialogue Between Fashion and Death
86 John Stuart Mill On Liberty
87 Charles Darwin Hosts of Living Forms
88 Charles Dickens Night Walks
89 Charles Mackay Some Extraordinary Popular Delusions
90 Jacob Burckhardt The State as a Work of Art
91 George Eliot Silly Novels by Lady Novelists
92 Charles Baudelaire The Painter of Modern Life
93 Sigmund Freud The 'Wolfman'
94 Theodor Herzl The Jewish State
95 Rabindranath Tagore Nationalism
96 Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Imperialism: The Highest Stage
of Capitalism
97 Winston Churchill We Will All Go Down Fighting to the End
98 Jorge Luis Borges The Perpetual Race of Achilles and
the Tortoise
99 George Orwell Some Thoughts on the Common Toad
100 Chinua Achebe An Image of Africa
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Leopardi, poet and philosopher, explores in humorous but savage dialogue the power of fashion and its strange irrationality. He also imagines conversations between Hercules and Atlas, Nature and an Icelander, and the Earth and the Moon, as well as producing a simple essay praising the humble bird. Vissza