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The first real expression of Dostoevsky's genius, The Double is a surprisingly modern hallucinatory nightmare in which a minor official named Goliadkin becomes aware of a mysterious doppelgänger-a man who has his name and his face and who...
"The Double was referenced in Klein's Doppelganger and is worth the read. This study of personality degeneration was ahead of its time. The social structure and working conditions made me think of Das Schloss or Vor dem Gericht, but Kafka was born ..."
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"The author of the best-selling Your Inner Fish, now gives us a lively and accessible account of the great transformations in the history of life, that enable us to further understand whether our presence on this planet is an accident or...
"This book is built around Darwin’s answer to critics of his theory. One important criticism was that natural selection could not account for all the changes that were necessary to derive new species. That is, the numerous differences between repti..."
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