1846 · Skopia

Showing 10 works across all media from 1846

Nocturnes

1846

Chopin rarely played in public, preferring drawing rooms of a few dozen people. The left hand keeps steady time while the right pulls freely against it.

★ 8.3

Fiction · Realism

Cousin Bette

Honore de Balzac

1846 · 490 pages

Passed over by her rich relations, a poor spinster sets out to ruin them, helped by a wife who bankrupts men for a living. Balzac makes envy a protagonist and never looks away.

★ 7.1

Philosophical literature · Political literature

God is stupidity and cowardice; God is hypocrisy and falsehood. God is tyranny and poverty; God is evil. For as long as men bow before altars, mankind will remain damned, the slaves of kings and priests.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

The System of Economic Contradictions · 1846

★ 6.0

Philosophical literature

For without risk, no faith; the more risk, the more faith; the more objective dependability, the less inwardness (since inwardness is precisely subjectivity); the less objective dependability, the deeper the possible inwardness.

Soren Kierkegaard

1846

★ 3.7

When the inhabitants of some sequestered island first descry the "big canoe" of the European rolling through the blue waters towards their shores, they rush down to the beach in crowds, and with open arms stand ready to embrace the strangers. Fatal embrace! They fold to their bosoms the viper whose sting is destined to poison all their joys.