Sealed Off
By: Eileen Chang
4.08
Format: 13 pages, None
A short story from Love in a Fallen City. The story takes place in Shanghai during the Japanese o…
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1. The Dancing Girl of Izu
By: Yasunari Kawabata
3.64
Format: 38 pages, Kindle Edition
A 1926 short story by the Japanese writer and Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata. read more
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- fiction
- classics
- short stories
2. Pygmalion
By: George Bernard Shaw
3.89
Format: 82 pages, Paperback
One of George Bernard Shaw's best-known plays, Pygmalion was a rousing success on the London and Ne… read more
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- classics
- fiction
"What you are to do without me I cannot imagine."-George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion
"Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby"-George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion
"La vida no consiste en buscarse a sí mismo, sino en crearse a sí mismo"-George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion
"I'm willing to tell you. I'm wanting to tell you. I'm waiting to tell you."-George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion
3. A Passage to India
By: E.M. Forster , Pankaj Mishra , Oliver Stallybrass
3.68
Format: 376 pages, Paperback
When Adela Quested and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandrapore, th… read more
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- classics
- fiction
"Adventures do occur, but not punctually."-E.M. Forster, A Passage to India
"There are different ways of evil and I prefer mine to yours."-E.M. Forster, A Passage to India
"A friendliness, as of dwarfs shaking hands, was in the air..."-E.M. Forster, A Passage to India
"I think everyone fails, but there are so many kinds of failure."-E.M. Forster, A Passage to India
4. In Praise of Shadows
By: Edward G. Seidensticker , Jun'ichirō Tanizaki , Thomas J. Harper , Charles Moore , None
4.75
Format: 335 pages, Paperback
An essay on aesthetics by the Japanese novelist, this book explores architecture, jade, food, and e… read more
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5. The Myth of Sisyphus
By: Albert Camus , Justin O'Brien , James Wood , Justin Obrien
4.18
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselv… read more
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- classics
"A fate is not a punishment."-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
"there are truths but no truth"-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
"To will is to stir up paradoxes"-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
"Le suicide est une solution à l'absurde."-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
6. Pale Fire
By: Vladimir Nabokov
3.98
Format: 574 pages,
The urbane authority that Vladimir Nabokov brought to every word he ever wrote, and the ironic amus… read more
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- classics
- fiction
7. The Sorrows of Young Werther
By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Burton Pike
3.73
Format: None pages, Paperback
Visiting an idyllic German village, Werther, a sensitive and romantic young man, meets and falls in… read more
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- classics
- fiction
8. The Story of an Hour
By: Kate Chopin
4.07
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
In these four stories, Kate Chopin subtly captures the intricate interior lives of a generation of … read more
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- fiction
- classics
- short stories
"Spring days, and summer days, and all sorts of days that would be her own. She breathed a quick prayer that life might be long. It was only yesterday she had thought with a shudder that life might be…"-Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour
"there would be no powerful will binding hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow creature…And yet she had loved him- so…"-Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour
9. Beware of Pity
By: Stefan Zweig , Phyllis Blewitt , Trevor Blewitt
4.67
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
The great Austrian writer Stefan Zweig was a master anatomist of the deceitful heart, and Beware of… read more
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- fiction
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- classics
- chinese literature
- short stories
- fiction
- china
11. Kew Gardens
By: Virginia Woolf
3.51
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In 1927, at The Hogarth Press, Virginia Woolf produced and published a limited edition of what was … read more
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- fiction
- classics
- short stories
12. To Live
By: Michael Berry , Yu Hua
4.34
Format: 250 pages, Paperback
From the author of Brothers and China in Ten Words this celebrated contemporary classic of Chinese … read more
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- china
- classics
- fiction
- chinese literature
"It’s better to live an ordinary life. If you go on striving for this and that, you’ll end up paying with your life."-Michael Berry, To Live
13. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
By: Mary Wollstonecraft , Miriam Brody , Bebi Fernández
3.50
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Writing in an age when the call for the rights of man had brought revolution to America and France,… read more
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- classics
14. How to Train Your Dragon (How to Train Your Dragon, #1)
By: Cressida Cowell
3.52
Format: 257 pages, Hardcover
Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III is a truly extraordinary Viking hero known throughout Vikingdom as "t… read more
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15. The Canterbury Tales
By: Geoffrey Chaucer , Nevill Coghill
3.72
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
The procession that crosses Chaucer's pages is as full of life and as richly textured as a medieval… read more
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16. Death and the King's Horseman: A Play
By: Wole Soyinka
3.14
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Based on events that took place in Oyo, an ancient Yoruba city of Nigeria, in 1946, Wole Soyinka's … read more
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17. The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
By: Mark Twain
4.75
Format: 140 pages, Hardcover
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" is a wild yarn involving a case of mistaken identi… read more
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18. Diary of a Madman and Other Stories
By: Lu Xun , 魯迅 , William A. Lyell
3.27
Format: None pages, Paperback
This collection of short stories by Lu Xun, commonly considered one of the greatest writers in 20th… read more
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19. Ficciones
By: Jorge Luis Borges , Anthony Bonner , Anthony Kerrigan
3.53
Format: 320 pages,
The seventeen pieces in Ficcionesdemonstrate the whirlwind of Borges's genius and mirror the precis… read more
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20. Under the Feet of Jesus
By: Helena María Viramontes
3.93
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
With the same audacity with which John Steinbeck wrote about migrant worker conditions in The Grape… read more
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21. Please Look After Mom
By: Shin Kyung-Sook , Chi-Young Kim , None
4.62
Format: 290 pages, Hardcover
An international sensation and a bestseller that has sold over 1.5 million copies in the author's n… read more
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22. The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)
By: Ernest Hemingway
3.79
Format: 189 pages, Paperback
The quintessential novel of the Lost Generation, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta) is one of Ernest Hemin… read more
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- fiction
"Never be daunted"-Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)
"I am always in love."-Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)
"You'll lose it, if you talk about it"-Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)
"Oh, darling, I've been so miserable."-Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)
23. The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
By: Ken Liu
4.33
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A publishing event: Bestselling author Ken Liu selects his award-winning science fiction and fantas… read more
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24. The Necklace
By: Guy de Maupassant , Gary Kelley
3.35
Format: None pages, Hardcover
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25. Minor Detail
By: Adania Shibli
4.20
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn a… read more
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- fiction
"Man, not the tank, shall prevail."-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Não há como descartar a probabilidade de uma conexão entre os dois fatos, ou alguma ligação oculta entre eles, por analogia às relações que os seres humanos encontram entre as plantas, por exemplo, q…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Desde que tive ciência da minha incapacidade consumada de me mover de acordo com os limites, resolvi, finalmente, permanecer dentro dos limites da minha casa, tanto quanto possível. Agora, uma vez qu…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Toch zijn er mensen die in die logica − dus dat je je concentreert op de meest futiele details zoals stof op een bureau of vliegenpoepjes op een schilderij − de enige manier zien om de waarheid te do…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
26. Alice in Borderland Vol. 01
By: Haro Aso
4.09
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Muak dengan kesehariannya yang membosankan, seorang siswa SMA, Ryohei Arisu, berkeliaran di kota ma… read more
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- fiction
27. Zaabalawi
By: Naguib Mahfouz
3.70
Format: None pages, None
يجلس الجبلاوي في بيته الكبير المحاط بالحدائق واﻷسوار العالية ومن حوله أحفاده الذين يتنازعون للحصول … read more
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28. Sealed Off
By: Eileen Chang
4.08
Format: 13 pages, None
A short story from Love in a Fallen City. The story takes place in Shanghai during the Japanese o… read more
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- china
29. Where Reasons End
By: Yiyun Li
3.76
Format: 170 pages, Hardcover
A fearless writer confronts grief and transforms it into art, in a book of surprising beauty and lo… read more
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- china
- fiction
"If we don’t have to earn our time, how easily we squander it."-Yiyun Li, Where Reasons End
"Sadness is a helpless garrison against the blindness of tragedy."-Yiyun Li, Where Reasons End
"Not knowing is okay, he had once said, but pretending to know is not."-Yiyun Li, Where Reasons End
30. The Women's Swimming Pool
By: Hanan Al-Shaykh
3.46
Format: None pages, None
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