think while traveling: big ideas in small books
Discover big ideas in small books with our curated reading list. Explore essential works by Dostoevsky, Baldwin, and Borges—perfect for thinking while traveling.
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The Communist Manifesto
by Karl Marx
The text provides a translation of the "The Communist Manifesto", which was drafted on the eve of the 1848 revolutions, and is a political text of literary interest and historical insight.
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Notes from Underground
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky give us a brilliantly faithful rendition of this classic novel, in all its tragedy and tormented comedy. In this second edition, they have updated their translation in honor of the 200th anniversary of Dostoevsky’s birth. One of the most remarkable characters in literature, the unnamed narrator of Dostoevsky's most revolutionary novel is a former official who has defiantly withdrawn into an underground existence. In full retreat from society, he scrawls a passionate, obsessive, self-contradictory narrative that serves as a devastating attack on social utopianism and an assertion of man’s essentially irrational nature.
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Ficciones. C Edited and with an Introduction by Anthony Kerrigan
by Jorge Luis Borges
Seventeen short stories.
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Invisible Cities
by Italo Calvino
In Kublai Khan's garden, at sunset, the young Marco Polo diverts the aged emperor from his obsession with the impending end of his empire with tales of countless cities past, present, and future.
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Watermark
by Joseph Brodsky
Originally published in hardcover: New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1992.
