Despair
The collapse of hope; futurelessness as a felt fact, not a thought.
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Read the guideBooks that illuminate despair
1984
George Orwell · 1949
A Bend in the River
V. S. Naipaul · 1979
A Grief Observed
C. S. Lewis · 1961
An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
Kay Redfield Jamison · 1995
Animal Farm
George Orwell · 1945
Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy · 1877
Barabbas
Pär Lagerkvist · 1950
Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology
Jean-Paul Sartre · 1956
Bigorexia
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Books That Have Made History: Books That Can Change Your Life
J. Rufus Fears · 2005
Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family
Thomas Mann · 1901