Other Worlds: Peasants, Pilgrims, Spirits, Saints (New York Review Books Classics)
By: Teffi
4.12
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Stories about the occult, folk religions, superstition, and spiritual customs in Russia by one of t…
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1. Mary Olivier, a Life
By: May Sinclair
4.48
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
Born in 1865, Mary Olivier is the youngest of four. Mamma, the archetype of all women who rule thro… read more
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- fiction
- classics
- 20th century
2. Love in a Fallen City
By: Eileen Chang , Karen S. Kingsbury
4.20
Format: 228 pages, Paperback
Eileen Chang is one of the great writers of twentieth-century China, where she enjoys a passionate … read more
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- literature
- fiction
- classics
- short stories
3. Memories of the Future
By: Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky , Joanne Turnbull
3.32
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Written in Soviet Moscow in the 1920s--but considered too subversive even to show to a publisher--t… read more
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- russia
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- short stories
- 20th century
- fiction
4. An American Tragedy
By: Richard R. Lingeman , Theodore Dreiser
3.92
Format: None pages, Paperback
On one level, An American Tragedyis the story of the corruption and destruction of one man, Clyde G… read more
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5. Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
By: Vladimir Nabokov
3.50
Format: 519 pages, Paperback
Published two weeks after his seventieth birthday, Ada, or Ardoris one of Nabokov's greatest master… read more
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6. Speedboat
By: Renata Adler
5.00
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Won the Ernest Hemingway Prize for Best First Novel in 1976 It has been over 35 years since Renata … read more
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7. Earthly Signs: Moscow Diaries, 1917–1922
By: Marina Tsvetaeva , Jamey Gambrell
0.00
Format: 24 pages, Hardcover
These autobiographical writings, rich sources of information on Tsvetaeva and her literary contempo… read more
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8. Thunderstruck & Other Stories
By: Elizabeth McCracken
4.29
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the beloved novel The Giant's House--finalist for the National Book Award--comes… read more
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9. The Extinction of Irena Rey
By: Jennifer Croft
3.26
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the International Booker Prize–winning translator and Women's Prize finalist, a propulsive, be… read more
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- fiction
"The sun was higher, a white light between the birches that arched and bared their lenticels, shimmering their leaves."-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey
"Glittering crystalline rainbows extended in every direction, while gentle gold beams swept between the softened trees that sparkled and beckoned and forbade."-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey
"It was a new moon, but the stars of the northern hemisphere transformed her slim sinuous home, converting the oak strips on the convex walls into quicksilver that momentarily held the frenzied shadow…"-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey
"It was barely spring in the southern hemisphere, and Buenos Aires was not yet soft, or sumptuous, or purple.* *I wasn't sure what this meant at first, but when I asked this author to explain it, she …"-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey
10. I Will Write to Avenge My People: The Nobel Lecture
By: Annie Ernaux
4.15
Format: 26 pages, Kindle Edition
Published for the first time in a beautiful collectible edition, the essential lecture delivered by… read more
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- literature
11. I Remain in Darkness
By: Annie Ernaux
3.99
Format: 94 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Written in journal form, Annie Ernaux's account of … read more
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- classics
"Where are the eyes of my childhood, those fearful eyes she had thirty years ago, the eyes that made me?"-Annie Ernaux, I Remain in Darkness
"As I bend forward to check the safety catch of my mother's wheelchair, she leans over and kisses my hair. How can I survive that kiss, such love, my mother, my mother."-Annie Ernaux, I Remain in Darkness
12. Whale
By: Cheon Myeong-Kwan
3.96
Format: 420 pages, Paperback
While "Whale" begins with Chunhee, a mysterious young brickmaker of imposing physicality who cannot… read more
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- fiction
13. You Dreamed of Empires
By: Álvaro Enrigue
3.85
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From a visionary Mexican author, a hallucinatory, revelatory, colonial revenge story that reimagine… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
14. Alphabetical Diaries
By: Sheila Heti
4.02
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling confessional from the award-winning, beloved author of Pure Colour. Sheila Heti kept a… read more
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15. Hex
By: Jenni Fagan
3.85
Format: 104 pages, Hardcover
IT'S THE 4TH OF DECEMBER 1591. On this, the last night of her life, in a prison cell several floor… read more
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- short stories
- fantasy
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"A witch-pricker's finger can be pointed at any one of us. It chose me."-Jenni Fagan, Hex
"I’ve got the voice of a siren – it’s not a voice to launch a thousand ships, it’s a voice to sink them."-Jenni Fagan, Hex
"- You know what really brings the storms, Geillis? - What? - A storm arrives at the exact second when a girl learns she'll never be free"-Jenni Fagan, Hex
"I have memories to give away before I meet God — so you can have them, Iris from the ether. Are you listening? Nobody else will write them down."-Jenni Fagan, Hex
16. Wrong Norma
By: Anne Carson
4.33
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
As with her most recent publications, Wrong Norma is a facsimile edition of the original hand-desig… read more
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"Last thing: one Sunday evening about a year before all this we were on the telephone, my mother and I; it was just after we sold the house and she’d moved to the facility, where she was allowed a sma…"-Anne Carson, Wrong Norma
17. After the Romanovs: Russian Exiles in Paris from the Belle Époque Through Revolution and War
By: Helen Rappaport
3.77
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From Helen Rappaport, the New York Times bestselling author of The Romanov Sisters comes After the … read more
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- russia
"His wife, "who only demanded of life that it should amuse her"."-Helen Rappaport, After the Romanovs: Russian Exiles in Paris from the Belle Époque Through Revolution and War
"(B)ut behind it all-- nothing: just vodka and the void. (Coco Chanel)"-Helen Rappaport, After the Romanovs: Russian Exiles in Paris from the Belle Époque Through Revolution and War
"We lived side by side with life but were afraid of meeting it. (Maria Pavlovna)"-Helen Rappaport, After the Romanovs: Russian Exiles in Paris from the Belle Époque Through Revolution and War
"(H)is action was merely "galvanizing the corpse" of an army that was already in retreat and heading for defeat."-Helen Rappaport, After the Romanovs: Russian Exiles in Paris from the Belle Époque Through Revolution and War
18. Käsebier Takes Berlin
By: Gabriele Tergit
3.59
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
In sechs rauschhaften Wochen schrieb Gabriele Tergit ihren ersten Roman, der sie 1931 mit einem Sch… read more
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19. Other Worlds: Peasants, Pilgrims, Spirits, Saints (New York Review Books Classics)
By: Teffi
4.12
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Stories about the occult, folk religions, superstition, and spiritual customs in Russia by one of t… read more
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- russia
- classics
- russian literature
- literature
- short stories
- folklore
- fiction
- 20th century
- horror
- fantasy
20. Nordic Visions: The Best of Nordic Speculative Fiction
By: Margrét Helgadóttir
3.65
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
The first true celebration of contemporary Nordic science fiction, fantasy and horror! A Unique … read more
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- short stories
- fantasy
- fiction
- horror
21. Elixir: In the Valley at the End of Time
By: Kapka Kassabova
4.15
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
A search for a cure to what ails us in the Anthropocene by the award-winning author of Border. I… read more
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"Everything happens twice. Once as life itself, and twice as memory – or forgetting."-Kapka Kassabova, Elixir: In the Valley at the End of Time
"This is the meaning of an ecosystem,’ said Elijah. ‘This is the meaning of nature. Pri-roda.’ Prioda is literally ‘with the clan.’ To begin nature is to return to your own kind."-Kapka Kassabova, Elixir: In the Valley at the End of Time
"This is the meaning of an ecosystem,’ said Elijah. ‘This is the meaning of nature. Pri-roda.’ Prioda is literally ‘with the clan.’ To be in nature is to return to your own kind."-Kapka Kassabova, Elixir: In the Valley at the End of Time
"We are not what we are. Our tragedy is that we don't even know it. The world is not what we think it is. It is fathomlessly alive. none of us is a single entity, we are many-formed, polytropos. Every…"-Kapka Kassabova, Elixir: In the Valley at the End of Time
