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Index
Cover
Title Page
Dedication
Epigraph
Introduction: “Books Are Weapons in the War of Ideas”
Dated Before the Common Era (BCE)
1. The Epic of Gilgamesh
2. The Book of Genesis
3. Tao Te Ching (The Book of the Way)
4. Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments
5. The Art of War
6. The Symposium
7. The Poetics (How to Tell a Story)
8. The Bhagavad Gita
Dated in the Common Era (CE)
9. The Gospel According to Luke
10. Meditations
11. The Qur’an: “The Cow”
12. Vita Nuova
13. Utopia
14. The Prince
15. The Sovereignty and Goodness of God
16. Treatise on Toleration
17. The Age of Reason: Being An Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology
18. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
19. The Communist Manifesto
20. Civil Disobedience
21. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself
22. On Lynchings
23. The Souls of Black Folk
24. The World I Live In
25. A Room of One’s Own
26. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
27. Homage to Catalonia
28. A Chill in the Air: An Italian War Diary, 1939–1940
29. Under the Sea-Wind
30. The Myth of Sisyphus
31. Hiroshima
32. Man’s Search for Meaning
33. Night
34. The Fire Next Time
35. A Very Easy Death
36. A Moveable Feast
37. The Courage to Create
38. On Photography
39. The Gnostic Gospels
40. Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
41. The Writing Life
42. The Journalist and the Murderer
43. All About Love: New Visions
44. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
45. Letters to a Young Contrarian
46. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
47. The Year of Magical Thinking
48. Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual
49. We Should All Be Feminists
50. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
51. The Origin of Others
52. Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
Afterword: What Is Not Here and What I Learned
Appendix I: My Ten Favorite Great Short Nonfiction Books
Appendix II: 52 More of the Great Short Books That Make Us Think
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Notes
Copyright
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