Fame
By: Andy Warhol
3.55
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
'Good b.o means good "box office." You can smell it from a mile away' The legendary sixties New …
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1. The Garden of Forking Paths
By: George Guidall , Jorge Luis Borges
3.31
Format: None pages, Audiobook
"The Garden of Forking Paths" (original Spanish title: "El jardin de senderos que se bifurcan") is … read more
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- classics
- short stories
2. Notes on ‘Camp’
By: Susan Sontag
3.97
Format: 57 pages, Paperback
'The ultimate Camp statement: it's good because it's awful.' These two classic essays were the f… read more
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- art
- classics
- american
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- essays
"Camp which knows itself to be Camp ('camping') is usually less satisfying."-Susan Sontag, Notes on ‘Camp’
"Camp sees everything in quotation marks. It's not a lamp, but a 'lamp'; not a woman, but a 'woman'."-Susan Sontag, Notes on ‘Camp’
"To name a sensibility, to draw its contours and to recount its history, requires a deep sympathy modified by revulsion."-Susan Sontag, Notes on ‘Camp’
"What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine…"-Susan Sontag, Notes on ‘Camp’
3. The Veiled Woman (PENGUIN MODERN)
By: Anaïs Nin
3.48
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
'What did she expect of him? What was her quest? Did she have an unfulfilled desire?' Transgress… read more
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- classics
- lgbt
- short stories
- 20th century
- modern classics
"Sometimes she answered, 'My mouth wants you, I want to feel you in my mouth, way down in my mouth.' Other times she answered, 'I am moist between the legs."-Anaïs Nin, The Veiled Woman (PENGUIN MODERN)
4. Africa's Tarnished Name
By: Chinua Achebe
4.40
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
He needed to hear Africa speak for itself after a lifetime of hearing Africa spoken about by others… read more
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- classics
- nonfiction
- short stories
- essays
"Our humanity is contingent on the humanity of our fellows. No person or group can be human alone. We rise above the animal together, or not at all. If we learned that lesson even this late in the day…"-Chinua Achebe, Africa's Tarnished Name
"People are wrong when they tell you that Conrad was on the side of Africans because his story showed great compassion towards them. Africans are not really served by his compassion, whatever it means…"-Chinua Achebe, Africa's Tarnished Name
"The poor of the world may be guilty of this and that particular fault or foolishness, but if we are fair we will admit that nothing they have done or left undone quite explains all the odds we see st…"-Chinua Achebe, Africa's Tarnished Name
5. Lance
By: Vladimir Nabokov
3.37
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
'The illegible signature of teetering disaster' Three great stories—"The Aurelian", "Signs and … read more
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- classics
- american
- short stories
- 20th century
- modern classics
"So it went on, that obsession and that despair and that nightmarish impossibility to swindle destiny, until a certain first of April, of all dates."-Vladimir Nabokov, Lance
"What I am thinking of is the man of imagination and science, whose courage is infinite because his curiosity surpasses his courage. Nothing will keep him back."-Vladimir Nabokov, Lance
"I not only debar too definite a planet from any role in my story – from the role every dot and full stop should play in my story (which I see as a kind of celestial chart)."-Vladimir Nabokov, Lance
"The clichés are, of course, disguised; essentially, they are the same throughout all cheap reading matter, whether it spans the universe or the living room. They are like those 'assorted' cookies tha…"-Vladimir Nabokov, Lance
6. Dark Days
By: James Baldwin
4.40
Format: 50 pages, Paperback
'So the club rose, the blood came down, and his bitterness and his anguish and his guilt were compo… read more
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- classics
- american
- short stories
- nonfiction
- essays
- 20th century
"A mob is not autonomous: it executes the real will of the people who rule the State."-James Baldwin, Dark Days
"No curtain under heaven is heavier than that curtain of guilt and lies behind which white Americans hide."-James Baldwin, Dark Days
"The question of color was but another detail, somewhere between being six feet tall and being six feet under."-James Baldwin, Dark Days
"But the Irish became white when they got here and began rising in the world, whereas I became black and began sinking."-James Baldwin, Dark Days
7. Three Japanese Short Stories
By: Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
3.28
Format: 50 pages, Paperback
'Oh the cruelty of time, that destroys all things!' Beguiling, strange and hair-raising tales fr… read more
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- modern classics
- 20th century
- short stories
"Heroes have always been monsters who crushed sentimentalism underfoot."-Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Three Japanese Short Stories
"Oh, but once one has returned to the land of one's birth – there is no place more constricting – one's surroundings no longer permit such freedom, and one can no longer simply transcend the demands o…"-Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Three Japanese Short Stories
"For her I would gladly ferry across the Sumida on the coldest winter day to buy her those sakura-mochi sweets from old Edo that she loved so much. But medicine? That is another matter. Not even on th…"-Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Three Japanese Short Stories
"No, nothing in this world is as oppressive and debilitating as blood ties. Any other relationship – be it friend, lover, wife; be it obligatory or constraining or difficult – is something one has con…"-Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Three Japanese Short Stories
8. Fame
By: Andy Warhol
3.55
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
'Good b.o means good "box office." You can smell it from a mile away' The legendary sixties New … read more
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- classics
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- short stories
- nonfiction
- essays
- 20th century
- modern classics
"I really don't care that much about 'Beauties'. What I really like are Talkers."-Andy Warhol, Fame
9. Of Dogs and Walls
By: Yūko Tsushima
3.68
Format: 53 pages, Paperback
Two luminous, tender stories from one of Japan's greatest twentieth-century writers, showing how ch… read more
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- classics
- short stories
"Living right in the heart of Tokyo itself is quite like living in the mountains – in the midst of so many people, one hardly sees anyone."-Yūko Tsushima, Of Dogs and Walls
10. The Haunted Boy
By: Carson McCullers
3.92
Format: 60 pages, Mass Market Paperback
His hand sought the adjacent flesh and sorrow paralleled desire in the immense complexity of love. … read more
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- classics
- american
- short stories
- 20th century
- modern classics
11. Piers of the Homeless Night
By: Jack Kerouac
3.18
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
'See my hand up-tipped, learn the secret of my human heart...'Soaring, freewheeling snapshots of li… read more
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- classics
- american
- short stories
- essays
- modern classics
"The hobo has two watches you can't buy at Tiffany's, on one wrist the sun, on the other wrist the moon, both bands are made of sky."-Jack Kerouac, Piers of the Homeless Night
12. Letter from Birmingham Jail
By: Martin Luther King Jr.
4.54
Format: 54 pages, Paperback
There is an alternate edition published under ISBN13: 9780062509550. 'Injustice anywhere is a th… read more
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- nonfiction
- modern classics
- essays
"It is wrong to use immoral means to attain moral ends."-Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail
"There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over..."-Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail
"Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself."-Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail
"Lamentably, it is an historical fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily."-Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail
13. The Dialogue of Two Snails (Penguin Modern)
By: Federico García Lorca
3.33
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
My heartbrims with billowsand minnowsof shadows and silver Beautiful, brutal, strange and lovely… read more
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- modern classics
- short stories
"The evening, lacking intelligent relations, crumbles down into the haze of the horizon.)"-Federico García Lorca, The Dialogue of Two Snails (Penguin Modern)
14. The Gigolo
By: Françoise Sagan
3.61
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
'The sap had dried up; the sap, the incentive, the fever, the desire to do, to act, to act the fool… read more
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- classics
- modern classics
- short stories
15. The Red Tenda of Bologna (PENGUIN MODERN)
By: John Berger
4.05
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
'It's an improbable city, Bologna - like one you might walk through after you have died.' A drea… read more
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- art
- classics
- memoir
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- nonfiction
- essays
- modern classics
16. Food
By: Gertrude Stein
1.96
Format: 55 pages, Paperback
Sadder than salad. From apples to artichokes, these glittering, fragmented, painterly portraits … read more
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- american
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- nonfiction
- essays
- 20th century
- modern classics
17. New York City in 1979
By: Kathy Acker
3.11
Format: 47 pages, Paperback
"It is necessary to go to as many extremes as possible." A tale of art, sex, blood, junkies and … read more
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- classics
- essays
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"Intense sexual desire is the best thing in the world."-Kathy Acker, New York City in 1979
"The two main girlfriends he has had wanted him to support them in the manner to which they certainly weren't accustomed even though he couldn't put his flabby hands on a penny."-Kathy Acker, New York City in 1979
"old people have to go to children's or most often to rest homes where they are shunted into wheelchairs and made as fast as possible into zombies cause it's easier to handle a zombie, if you have to …"-Kathy Acker, New York City in 1979
18. The Cracked Looking-Glass
By: Katherine Anne Porter
3.04
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
'She only wished to prove to herself she was once more on a train going somewhere' A passionate,… read more
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- short stories
19. The Finger
By: William S. Burroughs
3.31
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
'He felt a sudden deep pity for the finger joint that lay there on the dresser, a few drops of bloo… read more
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- modern classics
- short stories
20. The Distance of the Moon
By: Italo Calvino
3.86
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
'Time is a catastrophe, perpetual and irreversible.' Science and fiction interweave delightfully… read more
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- modern classics
- short stories
"To explode or to implode – said Qfwfq – that is the question: whether 'tis nobler in the mind to expand one's energies in space without restraint, or to crush them into a dense inner concentration."-Italo Calvino, The Distance of the Moon
"My return was sweet, my home refound, but my thoughts were filled only with grief at having lost her, and my eyes gazed at the Moon, for ever beyond my reach, as I sought her. And I saw her. She was …"-Italo Calvino, The Distance of the Moon
21. Madame du Deffand and the Idiots
By: Javier Marías
3.72
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
'She was bored and fought against her boredom, which only bored her still more.' Five sparkling,… read more
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- nonfiction
- 20th century
- essays
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22. Television Was a Baby Crawling Toward That Death Chamber
By: Allen Ginsberg
2.84
Format: 55 pages, Paperback
BRAND NEW, Exactly same ISBN as listed, Please double check ISBN carefully before ordering. read more
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23. The End
By: Samuel Beckett
3.19
Format: 55 pages, Paperback
'They didn't seem to take much interest in my private parts which to tell the truth were nothing to… read more
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24. The Duke in His Domain
By: Truman Capote
3.80
Format: 50 pages, Paperback
Now Brando looked at people with assurance, and with what can only be called a pitying expression, … read more
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- lgbt
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- nonfiction
- essays
- modern classics
25. Death the Barber
By: William Carlos Williams
3.39
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
'The alphabet ofthe treesis fading in thesong of the leaves' Filled with bright, unforgettable i… read more
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- american
26. The Survivor
By: Primo Levi
3.74
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
'Back, away from here, drowned people, go. I haven't stolen anyone's place' A selection of poet… read more
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- 20th century
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"What is the number of your days? I've counted them: Few and brief, and each one heavy with cares; With anguish about the inevitable night, When nothing saves you from yourself; With fear of the dawn …"-Primo Levi, The Survivor
27. An Advertisement for Toothpaste (Penguin Modern)
By: Ryszard Kapuściński
3.61
Format: 53 pages, Paperback
'Like rotting stakes in a forest clearing' The great journalist of conflict in the Third World … read more
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- 20th century
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28. Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer
By: Wendell Berry
3.68
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
'Do I wish to keep up with the times? No. My wish simply is to live my life as fully as I can' T… read more
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- american
- memoir
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- nonfiction
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"I am not an optimist; I am afraid that I won't live long enough to escape my bondage to the machines."-Wendell Berry, Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer
"How, I am asking, can women improve themselves by submitting to the same specialization, degradation, trivialization, and tyrannization of work that men have submitted to? And that question is made l…"-Wendell Berry, Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer
"And yet language is the most intimately physical of all the artistic means. We have it palpably in our mouths; it is our langue, our tongue. Writing it, we shape it with our hands. Reading aloud what…"-Wendell Berry, Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer
"If you are already solving your problem with the equipment you have - a pencil, say- why solve it with something more expensive and more damaging? If you don't have a problem, why pay for a solution?…"-Wendell Berry, Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer
29. The Problem That Has No Name
By: Betty Friedan
4.20
Format: 55 pages, Paperback
'What if she isn't happy - does she think men are happy in this world? Doesn't she know how lucky s… read more
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- american
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30. Four Russian Short Stories
By: Gaito Gazdanov
3.35
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
In these stories, four writers—all exiles from revolutionary Russia—explore four deaths in a world … read more
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31. Letter to My Mother
By: Georges Simenon
3.74
Format: 58 pages, Paperback
'As you are well aware, we never loved each other in your lifetime. Both of us pretended.' Sime… read more
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- memoir
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