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
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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
History of the Conquest of Mexico
1843 · 1005 pages
Cortés lands with six hundred men and topples an empire of millions. Prescott, half-blind and never in Mexico or Spain, told it so vividly historians still pry the conquest from his version.
★ 5.8
The Seducer's Diary
1843 · 214 pages
Johannes engineers every meeting and letter to make Cordelia love him, and wants nothing once she does. Kierkegaard hands you the notebook of a man who turned another person into an experiment.
★ 5.7