Essays
A Room of One's Own
Woolf's elegant argument that a woman needs money and a room of her own to write fiction, and why history made that so hard.
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Meditations
Meditations
The private notebooks of a Roman emperor, a practical guide to composure, duty and meeting life as it comes.
- Genres
- PhilosophyClassics
- Themes
- ResiliencePowerCuriosity
- Length
- Under 300 pages
- Featured in
- Short & PerfectMinds Expanded
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