Popular European Essay Books
Find essay books written by authors from Europe for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge. (50)
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O cameră doar a ei by Virginia Woolf RO
Country: Europe / 
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
Eseul „O cameră doar a ei” reprezintă una dintre cele mai valoroase contribuții la literatura feministă din secoluln XX. A fost publicat inițial în 1929 și constituie o argumentare spumoasă, urbană și convingătoare împotriva subminării intelectuale a femeii, cu precădere a scriitoarelor.
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On the Geneology of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche EN
GermanyDescription:
In 'On the Genealogy of Morals', Nietzsche exposes the central values of the Judaeo-Christian and liberal traditions - compassion, equality, justice - as the product of a brutal process of conditioning designed to domesticate the animal vitality of earlier cultures.
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Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus EN
Country: Europe / 
Netherlands
Netherlands
Description:
A satire on the pretensions of Erasmus's contemporaries in the Church and philosophy
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Reden An Den Kleinen Mann by Wilhelm Reich DE
UkraineDescription:
Listen, Little Man! (Reden An Den Kleinen Mann) is a great physician's quiet talk to each one of us, the average human being, the Little Man. Written in 1946 in answer to the gossip and defamation that plagued his remarkable career, it tells how Reich watched, at first naively, then with amazement, and finally with horror, at what the Little Man does to himself; how he suffers and rebels; how he esteems his enemies and murders his friends; how, wherever he gains power as a "representative of the people," he misuses this power and makes it crueler than the power it has supplanted... continue
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Ronduit : overpeinzingen van een possibilist by Caroline Pauwels NL
BelgiumDescription:
Als kind was ik bedreven in het laten opspringen van keien op het water. Dan verschenen er op het wateroppervlak uitdijende kringen. Dat fascineerde me mateloos.Õ Als een beweging van kringen ziet Caroline Pauwels het leven. Van de kleine intieme cirkels van de persoonlijke levenssfeer tot de almaar grotere cirkels van de universiteit, de samenleving en de wereld. Cirkels hebben geen begin en geen einde. Hun ronde vorm is een remedie tegen hokjesdenken. Dat is ook hoe Caroline Pauwels zichzelf ronduit. Cirkels hebben een eigen dynamiek, ze zitten vol mogelijkheden. Als possibilist geloo... continue
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Ser mujer negra en España by Desirée Bela-Lobedde ES
SpainDescription:
Ser mujer negra en España es un libro necesario para entender el racismo y, sobre todo, para que nunca más se produzca. ¿Cuánto tiempo llevas aquí? ¿Por qué hablas tan bien español? ¿Ya has ido a tu país? ¿Me enseñas tus papeles? ¿De dónde es una belleza tan exótica como tú? ¿Es verdad eso de que las mujeres negras sois unas fieras en la cama? Como una suerte de memorias, que van desde la infancia hasta la adultez, Desirée Bela-Lobedde, activista afroespañola, nos cuenta cómo es vivir siendo mujer y negra en España, cómo es sentirse siempre diferente y cómo es ser testigo del racismo que todav... continue
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Taste : The Story of Britain Through Its Cooking by Kate Colquhoun EN
IrelandDescription:
Chronicles the social history of Britain through the evolution of its food, tracing the development of aristocratic tastes and street food across the country from pre-Roman times to the present day.
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Tell Me Why You Fled: True Stories of Seeking Refuge by Karen O’Reilly EN
Country: Europe / 
Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland
Description:
A candid and irreverent memoir about helping people find refuge - from war, and torture and genocide - as a young woman seeking refuge from herself.
Croatia40.
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels EN
Description:
A rousing call to arms whose influence is still felt today Originally published on the eve of the 1848 European revolutions, The Communist Manifesto is a condensed and incisive account of the worldview Marx and Engels developed during their hectic intellectual and political collaboration. Formulating the principles of dialectical materialism, they believed that labor creates wealth, hence capitalism is exploitive and antithetical to freedom. This new edition includes an extensive introduction by Gareth Stedman Jones, Britain's leading expert on Marx and Marxism, providing a complete course for... continue