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…
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1. Create Dangerously
By: Albert Camus
3.84
Format: 58 pages, Paperback
'To create today is to create dangerously' Camus argues passionately that the artist has a respo… read more
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- classics
- modern classics
"Artists, like everyone else, must take up their oars without dying, if possible."-Albert Camus, Create Dangerously
"To paint a still life, a painter and an apple must confront and adjust to each other."-Albert Camus, Create Dangerously
"Perhaps there is no peace for an artist other than the peace found in the heat of combat."-Albert Camus, Create Dangerously
"But now the artist is in the amphitheatre. Of necessity, his voice is not quite the same; it is not nearly so firm."-Albert Camus, Create Dangerously
2. 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
- short stories
"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
3. The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House
By: Audre Lorde
4.55
Format: 51 pages, Paperback
From the self-described 'black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet', these soaring, urgent essays on th… read more
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- classics
"There are no new pains."-Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House
"We can train ourselves to respect our feelings and to transpose them into a language so they can be shared."-Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House
"For women, the need and desire to nurture each other is not pathological but redemptive, and it is within that knowledge that our real power I rediscovered"-Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House
"As women, we have been taught either to ignore our differences, or to view them as causes for separation and suspicion rather than as forces for change. Without community there is no liberation, only…"-Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House
4. 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
- literature
- short stories
- fiction
- 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
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
- literature
- short stories
- fiction
- 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
- 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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- classics
- modern classics
- short stories
"I really don't care that much about 'Beauties'. What I really like are Talkers."-Andy Warhol, Fame
8. 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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- literary fiction
- classics
- short stories
- fiction
- modern classics
9. 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
- the united states of america
- short stories
- fiction
- 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
10. The Black Ball
By: Ellison Ralph
3.79
Format: 53 pages, Paperback
'If he only knew what it was, he would fix it; he would kill this mean thing that made Mama feel so… read more
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- literary fiction
- classics
- short stories
- fiction
- modern classics
11. 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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- fiction
- 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)
12. 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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- literary fiction
- classics
- literature
- short stories
- fiction
- modern classics
13. The Skeleton’s Holiday
By: Leonora Carrington
3.66
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
'Ring for your maid, and when she comes in we'll pounce upon her and tear off her face. I'll wear h… read more
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- literary fiction
- classics
- literature
- short stories
- fiction
- modern classics
"The hyena found it difficult to walk in my high-heeled shoes."-Leonora Carrington, The Skeleton’s Holiday
"The skeleton was as happy as a madman whose straitjacket had been taken off."-Leonora Carrington, The Skeleton’s Holiday
"Ring for your maid, and when she comes in we'll pounce upon her and tear off her face. I'll wear her face tonight instead of mine."-Leonora Carrington, The Skeleton’s Holiday
"The skeleton's lodgings had an ancient head and modern feet. The ceiling was the sky, the floor the earth. It was painted white and decorated with snowballs in which a heart beat. He looked like a tr…"-Leonora Carrington, The Skeleton’s Holiday
14. 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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- classics
- modern classics
- short stories
15. 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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- literature
- classics
- modern classics
- short stories
16. 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
- literature
- short stories
- fiction
- modern classics
"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
17. 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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- classics
- short story collection
- literature
- the united states of america
- short stories
- fiction
- modern classics
- queer
18. 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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- the united states of america
- short stories
- fiction
- modern classics
19. 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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- classics
- literature
- short stories
- fiction
- modern classics
"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
20. I Have More Souls Than One
By: Fernando Pessoa
3.96
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
'But no, she's abstract, is a birdOf sound in the air of air soaring,And her soul sings unencumbere… read more
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- literature
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21. 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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- modern classics
22. 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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- literature
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- modern classics
23. 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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- modern classics
- short stories
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24. 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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- classics
- modern classics
- short stories
25. Why Do You Wear a Cheap Watch?
By: Hans Fallada
3.51
Format: 50 pages, Paperback
'It was what we call in the trade a potato...' Tales of low-lifes and grifters trying to make ends … read more
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- literature
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26. 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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- modern classics
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27. Till September Petronella
By: Jean Rhys
3.39
Format: 53 pages, Paperback
'I knew he was imagining a really lovely girl—all curves, curls, heart and hidden claws' In stor… read more
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- literary fiction
- classics
- short stories
- fiction
- modern classics
"We sat under the mango tree and I was holding his hand when he began to cry. Drops fell on my hand like the water from the dripstone in the filter in our yard. Then I began to cry too and when I felt…"-Jean Rhys, Till September Petronella
28. 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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- short story collection
- literature
- short stories
- fiction
- modern classics
29. 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
- short stories
30. 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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- fiction
- classics
- modern classics
- short stories
31. Glittering City
By: Cyprian Ekwensi
3.15
Format: 52 pages, Paperback
'"Forget all your fears now. Have a fling this night"' Untrustworthy, charming Fussy Joe spins s… read more
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- literature
- short stories
- fiction
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