Happiness
By: Alain Badiou
3.69
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
The concept of happiness is a rather tainted and off-putting one for philosophers. It has, in conte…
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1. Of Love and Other Demons
By: Gabriel García Márquez
3.96
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
On her twelfth birthday, Sierva Maria, the only child of a decaying noble family in an eighteenth-c… read more
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"<>, dijo."-Gabriel García Márquez, Of Love and Other Demons
"Do not allow me to forget you"-Gabriel García Márquez, Of Love and Other Demons
"Vivo espantado de estar vivo."-Gabriel García Márquez, Of Love and Other Demons
"Ideas do not belong to anyone,"-Gabriel García Márquez, Of Love and Other Demons
2. yakın
By: Oruç Aruoba
4.31
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
Oruç Aruoba 1990-92 yılları arasında Yürüme Üçlüsü dizisi içinde yer alan yürüme - de ki işte - tüm… read more
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- philosophy
"Kut, bulamadığındır ama aramaktan gelmesini beklemekten, vazgeçemediğin... Bulamayacağından kesinlikle emin olduktan sonra da, gelmeyeceğinden kesinlikle emin olduktan sonra da, beklediğin. Kut, arad…"-Oruç Aruoba, yakın
3. uzak
By: Oruç Aruoba
4.27
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
Oruç Aruoba 1990-92 yılları arasında Yürüme Üçlüsü dizisi içinde yer alan yürüme - de ki işte - tüm… read more
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- philosophy
"Özlem, "Yeniden gelecek misin bana hep?" sorusuna artık yanıt bulamama konumudur. "Ne zaman hiç gitmeyeceksin?" sorusunun ise daha hiç sorulamadığı konum..."-Oruç Aruoba, uzak
"Özlem, geleceğin geçmiş gibi olması isteğidir - ama, şimdi açısından, gelecekten önce, şu ânın, önceki -anımsanan- anlar gibi olması isteği; ve -olamadıkları için-, olmamaları -olamamaları-ndan dolay…"-Oruç Aruoba, uzak
"Özlemin tek bir düşmanı vardır: zaman... Zaman, özlemin hem çekemediği - yoketmek istediği; en azından yoksaydığı-, hem de, kendisini yokeden; giderek, güçsüz kılan, tüketendir. ÖZlemi, zaman üretir;…"-Oruç Aruoba, uzak
4. The State and Revolution
By: Vladimir Lenin
4.24
Format: 116 pages, Paperback
1917-ci ilin avqust-sentyabr aylarında yazılan yaradıcı marksizmin bu görkəmli əsəri – “Dövlət və i… read more
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"The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament!"-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution
"To decide once every few years which member of the ruling class is to repress and crush the people through parliament - such is the real essence of bourgeois parliamentarianism, not only in parliamen…"-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution
"We must also note that Engels is most definite in calling universal suffrage an instrument of bourgeois rule. Universal suffrage, he says, obviously summing up the long experience of German Social-De…"-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution
"Take any parliamentary country, from America to Switzerland, from France to England, Norway and so forth - in these countries the real business of the 'state' is preformed behind the scenes and is ca…"-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution
5. Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
By: Pablo Neruda , W.S. Merwin , Cristina García
4.21
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
When it appeared in 1924, this work launched into the international spotlight a young and unknown p… read more
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"Tonight I Can Write"-Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
"I remembered you with my soul clenched"-Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
"I want to fill my mouth with your name."-Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
"Every day you play with the light of the universe."-Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
6. A Midsummer Night’s Dream
By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine , Catherine Belsey
3.95
Format: 298 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Shakespeare's intertwined love polygons begin to get complicated from the start--Demetrius and Lysa… read more
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"My soul is in the sky."-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
"Farewell, sweet playfellow."-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
"Lord, what fools these mortals be!"-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
"Methought I was enamour'd of an ass."-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
7. This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
By: David Foster Wallace
4.06
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Only once did David Foster Wallace give a public talk on his views on life, during a commencement a… read more
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- nonfiction
8. Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings
By: André Maurois , Jorge Luis Borges , James E. Irby , Donald A. Yates
3.63
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Although his work has been restricted to the short story, the essay, and poetry, Jorge Luis Borges … read more
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- philosophy
9. The Foundation Pit
By: Mirra Ginsburg , Andrei Platonov , Andrey Platonov
4.12
Format: 323 pages, Paperback
The Foundation Pitportrays a group of workmen and local bureaucrats engaged in digging the foundati… read more
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10. Bartleby the Scrivener
By: Herman Melville
3.93
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Academics hail it as the beginning of modernism, but to readers around the world—even those daunted… read more
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"I would prefer not to."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
"To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
"Bartleby in a singularly mild, firm voice, replied, “I would prefer not to."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
"At present I would prefer not to be a little reasonable,' was his mildly cadaverous reply."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
11. Ten Days that Shook the World
By: John Reed
4.20
Format: 406 pages, Paperback
This first-person chronicle by John Reed, a legendary journalist who was present at the flash point… read more
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- nonfiction
12. Letter to D: A Love Story
By: Julie Rose , André Gorz
3.67
Format: 44 pages, Hardcover
'You're 82 years old. You've shrunk six centimetres, you only weigh 45 kilos yet you're still beaut… read more
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- philosophy
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13. The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and Effectiveness
By: Epictetus , Sharon Lebell
3.37
Format: None pages,
Epictetus was born into slavery about 55 C.E. in the eastern outreaches of the Roman Empire. Sold a… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
14. The Bear
By: Anton Chekhov
4.30
Format: None pages,
Although The Bear is one of Anton Chekhov's lesser-known plays, this "Farce in One-Act," as it is s… read more
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15. 2666
By: Roberto Bolaño
4.21
Format: 1128 pages, Paperback
A cuatro profesores de literatura, Pelletier, Morini, Espinoza y Norton, los une su fascinación por… read more
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"Nothing is ever behind us."-Roberto Bolaño, 2666
"Reading is never a waste of time."-Roberto Bolaño, 2666
"Every hundred feet the world changes"-Roberto Bolaño, 2666
"The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower."-Roberto Bolaño, 2666
16. Soul
By: John Berger , Andrei Platonov , Robert Chandler , None
3.60
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
A New York Review Books Original The Soviet writer Andrey Platonov saw much of his work suppressed … read more
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17. Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
By: Marcel Proust , Simon Vance , Lydia Davis
4.15
Format: 710 pages, Mass Market Paperback
«Et tout d'un coup le souvenir m'est apparu. Ce goût, c'était celui du petit morceau de madeleine q… read more
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"Longtemps, je me suis couché de bonne heure."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"the comfort of reclusion, the poetry of hibernation"-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"Now are the woods all black, But still the sky is blue."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"Fall in love with a dog's bum, And thou'll think it pretty as a plum."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
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19. The Burnout Society
By: Byung-Chul Han
5.00
Format: 172 pages,
Our competitive, service-oriented societies are taking a toll on the late-modern individual. Rather… read more
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20. The Passion According to G.H.
By: Clarice Lispector , None
4.13
Format: 173 pages, Paperback
G.H., a well-to-do Rio sculptress, enters the room of her maid, which is as clear and white 'as in … read more
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- philosophy
"I don't want beauty, I want identity."-Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.
"I' is merely one of the world's instantaneous spasms."-Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.
"The world's continual breathing is what we hear and call silence."-Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.
"In the world there exists no aesthetic plane, not even the aesthetic plane of goodness."-Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.
21. The World as Will and Representation, Volume I
By: Arthur Schopenhauer , None
4.21
Format: 534 pages, Paperback
Arthur Schopenhauer's Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung is one of the most important philosophical… read more
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- metaphysics
"Scoundrels are always sociable."-Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Volume I
"To have lost what cannot be missed is clearly no evil."-Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Volume I
"Everything is beautiful only so long as it does not concern us."-Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Volume I
"That which knows all things and is known by none is the subject."-Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Volume I
22. Beyond the Pleasure Principle
By: Sigmund Freud , James Strachey
2.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
In reasoned progression he outlined core psychoanalytic concepts, such as repression, free associat… read more
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23. L'analphabète: récit autobiographique
By: Ágota Kristóf
4.11
Format: 57 pages, Paperback
Onze chapitres pour onze moments de sa vie, de la petite enfance en Hongrie à l'apprentissage du fr… read more
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"You become a writer by writing with patience and obstinacy, without ever losing faith in what you write."-Ágota Kristóf, L'analphabète: récit autobiographique
"في الغالب أكتفي بالكتابة في ذهني . ذلك اسهل . داخل الراس تجري الامور كلها بيسر . لكن ما ان نشرع في الكتابة حتى تتغير الأفكار .تتشوه.تصير خاطئة"-Ágota Kristóf, L'analphabète: récit autobiographique
24. The Rings of Saturn
By: Michael Hulse , W.G. Sebald
3.94
Format: 128 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The Rings of Saturn- with its curious archive of photographs - records a walking tour of the east c… read more
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25. Hell
By: Henri Barbusse , Robert Baldick
4.28
Format: None pages, Paperback
A young man staying in a Paris boarding house finds a hole in the wall above his bed. Alternately v… read more
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26. Moby-Dick or, The Whale
By: Herman Melville , Tom Quirk , Andrew Delbanco
3.55
Format: 720 pages, Paperback
"It is the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships' cables and hawsers. A Polar … read more
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"Call me Ishmael."-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
"Ignorance is the parent of fear"-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
"Ignorance is the parent of fear."-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
"Speak, thou vast and venerable head,"-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
27. Second Place
By: Rachel Cusk
3.68
Format: 186 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the Outline trilogy, a fable of human destiny and decline, enacted in a closed s… read more
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"Some people write simply because they don’t know how to live in the moment and have to reconstruct it and live in it afterwards."-Rachel Cusk, Second Place
"Muutoksen ja toiston kaava on niin tiukasti yhteydessä tietynlaiseen harmoniaan elämässä, ja vapauden harjoittaminen on alisteista sille aivan kuin opinkappaleelle. Muutoksia täytyy annostella kohtuu…"-Rachel Cusk, Second Place
"Joskus minun vain täytyy saada puhua jotta tuntisin itseni todelliseksi, ja toivoisin että sinäkin puhuisit minulle." Hän makasi vaiti pimeässä ja tuijotti kattoon. Sitten hän sanoi: "Minusta tuntuu …"-Rachel Cusk, Second Place
"It struck me how the human capacity for receptivity is a kind of birthright, an asset given to us in the moment of our creation by which we are intended to regulate the currency of our souls. Unless …"-Rachel Cusk, Second Place
28. La società senza dolore: Perché abbiamo bandito la sofferenza dalle nostre vite
By: Byung-Chul Han
3.90
Format: 96 pages, ebook
Il mondo contemporaneo è terrorizzato dalla sofferenza. La paura del dolore è così pervasiva e diff… read more
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- nonfiction
29. Nohut Oda
By: Melisa Kesmez
4.28
Format: 125 pages, Paperback
Mekânın hunharca talan edildiği, bir yere ait olmanın zorlaştığı, hususi ya da kolektif belleğimizi… read more
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"Pencerenin çerçevelediği balkonun sarı ışığında oturmuş, eşyanın tabiatı marifetiyle aynı fotoğraf karesine girmekle yükümlü ama gerçekte birbirlerinden kilometrelerce uzak annemle babama baktım. Ben…"-Melisa Kesmez, Nohut Oda
30. Dokunmanın Gücü Üzerine
By: Wilhelm Schmid
3.70
Format: 57 pages, Paperback
Dokunmanın insan ilişkilerinde, özellikle de yakınlık ve güven bağı kurmada, eşsiz bir önemi vardır… read more
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31. Happiness
By: Alain Badiou
3.69
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
The concept of happiness is a rather tainted and off-putting one for philosophers. It has, in conte… read more
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