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1843

Showing 33 works across all media from 1843

A Christmas Carol

1843 · 116 pages

Scrooge hates Christmas until his dead business partner turns up wrapped in chains and three spirits walk him through his own life. The modern Christmas takes its shape from this book.

★ 7.1

Fear and Trembling

1843 · 158 pages

Abraham climbs the mountain to sacrifice Isaac, and Kierkegaard asks how obedience to God can require a murder. Faith suspends ethics altogether, and the believer cannot explain himself to anyone.

★ 7.1

Lost Illusions

1843 · 721 pages

Lucien leaves Angouleme certain his poems will make him famous in Paris, and finds literature there is a trade in favors and paid reviews. Balzac invented the modern story of selling out.

★ 7.0

Either/Or

1843 · 640 pages

Two ways of living stand side by side, unreconciled: the aesthete who lives for the interesting moment and whose papers include a seducer's diary, and the judge who defends marriage and duty.

★ 7.0