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. …
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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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- fiction
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2. 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
- fiction
- 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
3. 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
- 20th century
- short stories
- american
"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
4. 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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- literary fiction
- classics
- short stories
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- 20th century
- modern classics
"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
5. The Vigilante
By: John Steinbeck
3.50
Format: 55 pages, Paperback
'Everything was dead, everything unreal; the dark mob was made up of stiff lay-figures' One of A… read more
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- classics
- american
- short stories
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- 20th century
- modern classics
6. Daydream and Drunkenness of a Young Lady
By: Clarice Lispector
3.52
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
"The morning became a long, drawn-out afternoon that became depthless night dawning innocently thro… read more
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- literary fiction
- classics
- short stories
- fiction
- 20th century
- modern classics
7. 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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- american
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"I really don't care that much about 'Beauties'. What I really like are Talkers."-Andy Warhol, Fame
8. 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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- fiction
- literary fiction
- 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
9. 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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- gothic
- literary fiction
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- american
- southern
- short stories
- 20th century
- fiction
- southern gothic
- modern classics
10. 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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- classics
- 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)
11. 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
- short stories
- fiction
- modern classics
12. 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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- fiction
- classics
- modern classics
- short stories
"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
13. 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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- literary fiction
- classics
- short stories
- fiction
- modern classics
14. The Missing Girl
By: Shirley Jackson
3.55
Format: 55 pages, Paperback
' "Of course, no one would want to say anything about a girl like this that's missing..." ' Mali… read more
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- classics
- american
- short stories
- fiction
- 20th century
- modern classics
15. 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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- classics
- modern classics
- 20th century
- short stories
16. 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
- short stories
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- modern classics
17. 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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- short stories
- fiction
- 20th century
- modern classics
"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
18. 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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- modern classics
- short stories
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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
19. 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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20. 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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- modern classics
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21. Leaving the Yellow House
By: Saul Bellow
3.25
Format: 57 pages, Paperback
She had lived by delays; she had meant to stop drinking; she had put off the time, and now she had … read more
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