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The Idea Without the 400-Page Headache

The plot, the people, the point and the ending — then the Boovie film, where there is one.

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9,386 philosophy & ideas

Samuel Taylor Coleridge · ideas

Animaduersions uppon the annotacions and corrections of some imperfections of impressiones of Chaucer's workes

Francis Thynne · ideas

Animal Behaviour

C. Lloyd Morgan · science

Animal Ghosts; Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter

Elliott O'Donnell · myth

Animals' Rights Considered in Relation to Social Progress

Henry S. Salt · reference

E. M. Forster · ideas

John Galsworthy · ideas

Answer to Dr. Priestley's Letters to a Philosophical Unbeliever

William Hammon · ideas

Answers to Prayer, from George Müller's Narratives

George Müller · biography

Anthon L. Skanchy

Anthon L. Skanchy · biography

Anti-Achitophel (1682)

Harold Whitmore Jones · poetry

Anti-slavery catechism

Lydia Maria Child · ideas

Anti-Suffrage Essays

Ernest Bernbaum · ideas

Anticipations of the reaction of mechanical and scientific progress upon human life and thought

H. G. Wells · novel

Antimachus of Colophon and the Position of Women in Greek Poetry

E. F. M. Benecke · myth

Anton Tchekhov, and Other Essays

Lev Shestov · ideas

Aphorisms and Reflections from the works of T. H. Huxley

Thomas Henry Huxley · science

Aphrodisiacs and Anti-aphrodisiacs: Three Essays on the Powers of Reproduction

John Davenport · ideas

Apollonius of Tyana, the Philosopher-Reformer of the First Century A.D.

G. R. S. Mead · biography

Apologia Diffidentis

O. M. Dalton · ideas

The story in one page

Apologia pro vita sua

Accused of being a secret Roman agent, an Oxford scholar details the slow, documented collapse of his Anglican faith.

John Henry Newman · biography

The story in one page

A man is on trial for his life and decides the best defense is to tell the jury they are wrong.

Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates

Apparitions and thought-transference: an examination of the evidence for telepathy

Frank Podmore · ideas

Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, July 1899

William Jay Youmans · periodical

Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, May, 1900

James McKeen Cattell · periodical

Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, November 1899

William Jay Youmans · periodical

Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, October 1899

William Jay Youmans · periodical

Applied Eugenics

Paul Popenoe · science

Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens

G. K. Chesterton · ideas

Appreciations of Richard Harding Davis

Appreciations, with an Essay on Style

Walter Pater · ideas

Arabia: The Cradle of Islam

Samuel Marinus Zwemer · ideas

Arabian Wisdom: Selections and Translations from the Arabic

John Wortabet · myth

Arabic Thought and Its Place in History

De Lacy O'Leary · ideas

Aratra Pentelici, Seven Lectures on the Elements of Sculpture

John Ruskin · ideas

Archæological Essays, Vol. 1

James Young Simpson · science

Archæology and the Bible

George A. Barton · science

Archibald Marshall, a Realistic Novelist

William Lyon Phelps · novel

Archimedes; or, the future of physics

Lancelot Law Whyte · science

Architecture and Democracy

Claude Fayette Bragdon · ideas

Are the Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited?

W. P. Ball · science

Are these Things So? (1740) The Great Man's Answer to Are These things So: (1740)

James Miller · play

Are We of Israel?

George Reynolds · ideas

Are You a Bromide?

Gelett Burgess · ideas

Area Handbook for Albania

Eugene K. Keefe · reference

Area Handbook for Bulgaria

Eugene K. Keefe · ideas

The story in one page

A poet informs Parliament that pre-censoring books is a papal invention that makes truth lazy and gives bad ideas a promotion.

John Milton · ideas