Genre

Essay

6 works in this collection, sorted chronologically.

Works and Days

Michel de Montaigne · 1580 AD

Nature/ Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson · 1836 AD

The Revolt of the Masses

José Ortega y Gasset · 1930 AD

The Second Sex

Simone de Beauvoir · 1949 AD

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