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Philosophical Novels

    Best Philosophical Novels, recommended by Rebecca Goldstein

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    1

    Middlemarch
    by George Eliot

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    2

    Moby-Dick
    by Herman Melville

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    3

    Death in Venice
    by Thomas Mann

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    4

    The Black Prince
    by Iris Murdoch

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    5

    Infinite Jest
    by David Foster Wallace

Best Philosophical Novels, recommended by Rebecca Goldstein

The skills of a philosopher and those of a novelist are often in tension, but they have much to learn from each other, says novelist and philosopher, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein. She chooses her favourite philosophical novels.

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