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  • How Women Love (Soul Analysis)

    Exploring Women's Romantic Feelings Through Literary Analysis

    In "How Women Love (Soul Analysis)," Max Simon Nordau embarks on a fascinating exploration of female psychology through the lens of early 20th-century sociocultural dynamics. Employing a blend of psychoanalytic inquiry and empirical observation, Nordau's prose is both incisive and provocative, marked by a distinctively modernist style that challenges conventional notions of femininity. His ... Read more

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  • Soap Bubbles

    Sketches of European Illusions

    by Max Nordau ...
    Translated by Mary J. Safford ...
    Series series Chronicles & Essays
    Complete and unabridged, with 60 full-page plates by Johan Christian Dahl, Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Spitzweg. Short satirical pieces on the illusions people live by - fashion, reputation, patriotism, romance - by the physician and critic whose Degeneration had made him famous and disliked across Europe. This edition pairs the text with sixty plates of painting from 1750–1860, among them ... Read more

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  • How Women Love (Soul Analysis)

    by Max Nordau ...
    In "How Women Love," Nordau explores various aspects of romantic love from a psychological and sociological perspective, focusing particularly on women's experiences and expressions of love. The book delves into the complexities of human relationships, delving into themes such as passion, desire, attachment, and the dynamics between men and women.Nordau's work reflects the cultural and ... Read more

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  • Morals and the Evolution of Man

    by Max Nordau ...
    Morals and the Evolution of Man explores the development of human morality and its connection to the evolutionary process. The book delves into the relationship between moral development and the survival instincts of humans, emphasizing how social behaviors have evolved over time. The author discusses how changes in society, such as advancements in culture and technology, have influenced human ... Read more

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  • The Malady of the Century

    A Novel of the Eighteen-Eighties

    by Max Nordau ...
    Series series Literary Classics
    Complete and unabridged, with 58 full-page plates by Odilon Redon, Johan Christian Dahl and Francisco Goya. A young man of the 1880s, exhausted by his own century, drifts between Berlin, Paris and a woman who is worse for him than the age is. Nordau was a physician who co-founded the World Zionist Organization with Herzl — and who wrote Degeneration, the book that told Europe its artists were sick ... Read more

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  • Malady of the Century

    by Max Nordau ...
    Come, you fellows, that's enough joking. This defection of yours, melancholy Eynhardt, combines obstinacy with wisdom, like Balaam's ass! Well! may you rest in peace. And now let us be off. ... Read more

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  • Conventional Lies of our Civilization

    Enriched edition. A Polemical 19th-Century Critique of Society's Moral Hypocrisy, Norms, and False Truths

    In "Conventional Lies of our Civilization," Max Simon Nordau embarks on a critical examination of the social, moral, and philosophical conventions that underpin modern society. Employing a blend of incisive analysis and provocative rhetoric, Nordau dissects the hypocrisies ingrained in cultural norms, revealing how accepted truths often serve as façades for deeper moral failings. This work, ... Read more

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  • Zionism and Anti-Semitism

    Navigating Jewish Thought and National Identity in the Early 20th Century

    In the anthology "Zionism and Anti-Semitism," readers are invited to explore the dynamic and often contentious interplay between two significant ideologies through a compelling selection of essays. This collection deftly juxtaposes a range of literary styles, from impassioned polemics to carefully reasoned arguments, each piece shedding light on the complex motivations and implications of Zionism ... Read more

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  • Soap Bubbles

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    Soap Bubbles is a sparkling collection of satirical and sentimental tales in which Max Nordau skewers hypocrisy, national vanity, and the absurd rules people invent to govern one another. From a train-bound debate between Americans and a reserved Englishman to a shipwrecked businessman who refuses to abandon etiquette even on a deserted island, the stories turn social convention into comic theater ... Read more

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  • Conventional Lies of Our Civilization (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. A Societal Critique of 19th-Century Europe: Moral Decay, Intellectual Hypocrisy, and the Push for Reform

    Conventional Lies of Our Civilization (1883) anatomizes the polite falsehoods that stabilize modern Europe: ecclesiastical dogma, patriotic militarism, the sanctity of marriage and property, retributive justice, laissez‑faire economics, and the theatrics of diplomacy and the press. In a physician's idiom—diagnosis, prognosis, cure—Nordau fuses caustic polemic with empirical examples to show how ... Read more

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  • The Malady Of The Century

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    In the Black Forest in August 1869, a group of Heidelberg students, newly freed from examinations, split apart in holiday high spirits, and Wilhelm Eynhardt lingers behind. Handsome, sensitive, and quietly unlike his boisterous companions, he chooses solitude over the easy fellowship of the road, wandering from Hornberg to the Schloss hotel and into the romantic ruins above it. A misstep among the ... Read more

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  • The Dwarf's Spectacles

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    These fairy tales blend tenderness, humor, and moral imagination to turn small creatures and children into witnesses of love, loss, and justice. In "Why the Rose-bush has Thorns," a nightingale sings a rose-bush into bloom and nests there with her chicks, only for a wicked cat to kill them; grief gives the rose its thorns, explaining both the bird's mournful song and the plant's protective beauty. ... Read more

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