Books like Essays

Essays by Francis Bacon reads as didactic, formal. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

The essays of Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon · 1900

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86% genome match

The rambler

Samuel Johnson · 1750

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74% genome match

Walden

Henry David Thoreau · 1854

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69% genome match

The anatomy of melancholy

Robert Burton · 1624

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69% genome match

Tristes Tropiques

Claude Lévi-Strauss · 1955

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69% genome match

The Laws of Human Nature

Robert Greene · 2018

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69% genome match

Les confessions

Jean-Jacques Rousseau · 1782

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69% genome match

Representative men

Ralph Waldo Emerson · 1800

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69% genome match

Essais

Montaigne, Michel de · 1600

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73% genome match

Jahre der Entscheidung

Oswald Spengler · 1933

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69% genome match

Über die Einsamkeit

Johann Georg Zimmermann · 1791

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69% genome match

Aus meinem Leben

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1800

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69% genome match