Aristotele e i misteri di Eleusi
By: Margaret Doody , Rosalia Coci , Beppe Benvenuto
3.58
Format: 659 pages, Paperback
"I misteri di Eleusi" è il quinto romanzo di Aristotele nei panni di uno Sherlock Holmes del IV sec…
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1. A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
By: David Foster Wallace
4.15
Format: 353 pages, Paperback
In this exuberantly praised book — a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television… read more
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"What I know about auto racing could be inscribed with a dry Magic Marker on the lip of a Coke bottle."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
"If Realism called it like it saw it, Metafiction simply called it as it saw itself seeing itself see it."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
"Quentin Tarantino is interested in watching somebody's ear getting cut off; David Lynch is interested in the ear."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
"American human beings are a slippery and protean bunch in real life, hard as hell to get any kind of universal handle on."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
2. Helen
By: Euripides , Colin Leach
3.80
Format: 126 pages, Paperback
Among the legends of ancient Greece, there is perhaps no story more compelling than that of Helen. … read more
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"It is right for women to stand by a woman's cause."-Euripides, Helen
"What mortal claims, by searching to the utmost limit, to have found out the nature of God, or of his opposite, or of that which comes between, seeing as he doth this world of man tossed to and fro by…"-Euripides, Helen
3. Walk Through Walls: A Memoir
By: Marina Abramović
4.56
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
“I had experienced absolute freedom—I had felt that my body was without boundaries, limitless; that… read more
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"Kelionėse išlieki jaunas, nes neturi kada senti."-Marina Abramović, Walk Through Walls: A Memoir
"Pour atteindre un objectif, il faut tout donner jusqu'à ce qu'il ne vous reste rien. Alors, votre objectif se réalisera tout seul."-Marina Abramović, Walk Through Walls: A Memoir
"Il arrive que ce que les morts laissent en partant nous apprenne sur eux des choses qu'ils ne nous auraient jamais dites de leur vivant."-Marina Abramović, Walk Through Walls: A Memoir
"Il arrive qu'on fasse des pieds et des mains pour atteindre un objectif, mais il vous échappe parce que les lois cosmiques suivent une autre voie."-Marina Abramović, Walk Through Walls: A Memoir
4. L'Avversario
By: Emmanuel Carrère , Eliana Vicari Fabris
3.99
Format: 169 pages, Paperback
«Il 9 gennaio 1993 Jean-Claude Romand ha ucciso la moglie, i figli e i genitori, poi ha tentato di … read more
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"Il est notoire que les hommes les plus remarquables sont aussi les plus modestes, les moins soucieux de l'opinion qu'on a d'eux."-Emmanuel Carrère, L'Avversario
"Je n'ai jamais été aussi libre, jamais la vie n'a été aussi belle. Je suis un assassin, j'ai l'image la plus basse qui puisse exister dans la société, mais c'est plus facile à supporter que les vingt…"-Emmanuel Carrère, L'Avversario
5. Endless Love
By: Scott Spencer
3.55
Format: 436 pages, Hardcover
One of the most celebrated novels of its time, Endless Love remains perhaps the most powerful novel… read more
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- fiction
"No pain could match the emptiness of separation, no agony rivaled the unreality of not being with her."-Scott Spencer, Endless Love
"All I wanted was what I'd already had. That exultation, that love. It was my one real home; I was a visitor everywhere else."-Scott Spencer, Endless Love
"I knew from the start that I loved her and knew, as well, that I would never fall back from that love, never try, never want to."-Scott Spencer, Endless Love
"I wanted to tell you that the man who is your father, the man who gave you life, has found a woman who is in heaven when she's in his arms."-Scott Spencer, Endless Love
6. Mysteries Of Eleusis
By: Margaret Doody
3.58
Format: 494 pages, Paperback
In the winter of 330-329 BC Athens itself suffers a series of alarming thefts and home robberies. I… read more
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- mystery
- historical mystery
- fiction
- historical fiction
7. The Bacchae
By: Euripides , Kenneth McLeish , None
3.92
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Euripides' classic drama about the often mortifying consequences of the unbridled--and frequently h… read more
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"Cleverness is not wisdom."-Euripides, The Bacchae
"He who believes needs no explanation."-Euripides, The Bacchae
"Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish."-Euripides, The Bacchae
"Prepare yourselves for the roaring voice of the God of Joy!"-Euripides, The Bacchae
8. Ajax (Translations from Greek Drama)
By: Sophocles , John Harrison , Shomit Dutta
3.92
Format: 122 pages, Paperback
Written in the fifth century B.C., Sophocles' tragedy concerns the shame and death of Ajax, a Greek… read more
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"If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate."-Sophocles, Ajax (Translations from Greek Drama)
"To look on self-wrought woes, when no other has had a hand in them- this lays sharp pangs to the soul."-Sophocles, Ajax (Translations from Greek Drama)
"Which would you choose if you could: pleasure for yourself despite your friends or a share in their grief?"-Sophocles, Ajax (Translations from Greek Drama)
"AGAMEMNÔN. Il n’est pas facile à un roi d’être pieux. ODYSSEUS. Mais les rois peuvent obéir aux amis qui les conseillent bien."-Sophocles, Ajax (Translations from Greek Drama)
9. The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
By: Robert Fagles , Aeschylus , William Bedell Stanford
4.01
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Alternate covers of this ISBN here, here, here, here. Most recent cover is here. In the Oresteia… read more
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"I cannot not grieve."-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
"Learning comes through pain."-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
"Do I not live? Badly, I know, but I live."-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
"Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know Except pain"-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
10. Baudolino
By: Umberto Eco , William Weaver , R.C.S. Libri
3.79
Format: 527 pages, Paperback
It is April 1204, and Constantinople, the splendid capital of the Byzantine Empire, is being sacked… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
"Tüm aşıklar gibi Baudlino da kibirli olmuştu."-Umberto Eco, Baudolino
"Yes, I know, it's not the truth, but in a great history little truths can be altered so that the greater truth emerges."-Umberto Eco, Baudolino
"And so it was that the Poet, through an excess of theological refinement, was unable to satisfy his coarse carnal passion."-Umberto Eco, Baudolino
"There, Master Niketas,’ Baudolino said, ‘when I was not prey to the temptations of this world, I devoted my nights to imagining other worlds. A bit with the help of wine, and a bit with that of the g…"-Umberto Eco, Baudolino
11. La vera storia del pirata Long John Silver
By: Björn Larsson , Roberto Mussapi , Katia De Marco
4.10
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
Ci sono libri che danno pura gioia, facendo vibrare dentro di noi tutte le corde del nostro amore p… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
"Ho visto il sole tramontare in un mare di fuoco liquido e sorgere come una sfera di rame incandescente. Ho visto la luna far risplendere i veli del cielo notturno come fuochi fatui e rispecchiarsi ne…"-Björn Larsson, La vera storia del pirata Long John Silver
"Per uno come me, che viene chiamato nemico dell'umanità dal re e dal parlamento, o terrorista dai papisti, non è possibile invertire la rotta. Ci sono solo due vie, per chi vuole vivere da essere uma…"-Björn Larsson, La vera storia del pirata Long John Silver
"Eppure ho avuto le mie pietre preziose e tutte quelle ore che ho passato appoggiato alla murata a non far altro che guardare il mare. Ho visto il sole tramontare in un mare di fuoco liquido e sorgere…"-Björn Larsson, La vera storia del pirata Long John Silver
12. Death in Brittany (Commissaire Dupin #1)
By: Jean-Luc Bannalec
3.65
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
At the Central Hotel in Pont-Aven, Brittany, ninety-one-year-old manager Pierre-Louis Pennec is fou… read more
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13. The Suppliants
By: Aeschylus
3.41
Format: 52 pages, Paperback
A shrine is stronger than a tower to save, A shield that none may cleave. Step swift thereto, And i… read more
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14. Follia
By: Patrick McGrath , Matteo Codignola
3.96
Format: 294 pages, Paperback
«Le storie d’amore contraddistinte da ossessione sessuale sono un mio interesse professionale ormai… read more
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- mystery
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Gli uomini gelosi sono intrinsecamente deboli. Hanno il terrore di essere abbandonati."-Patrick McGrath, Follia
"these are precisely the conditions that killed love, after first blighting its growth: squalor, fear, uncertainty, overfamiliarity."-Patrick McGrath, Follia
"Stella mi disse di aver capito in quel momento che in ciascuno di noi c'è come l'anelito a gridare al mondo la verità, a qualsiasi costo. O a distruggersi."-Patrick McGrath, Follia
"For despite his confidence, and his apparent maturity, I suspected that there was in him a deep and childish need to elevate, and idealize, the love object. This is not uncommon in artists. The very …"-Patrick McGrath, Follia
15. The Baron in the Trees
By: Italo Calvino , Archibald Colquhoun , Ana Goldstein
4.02
Format: 217 pages, Paperback
A landmark new translation of a Calvino classic, a whimsical, spirited novel that imagines a life l… read more
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- historical fiction
"Why d’you make me suffer?" “Because I love you."-Italo Calvino, The Baron in the Trees
"Mais je fais une chose tout à fait bonne: je vis dans les arbres"-Italo Calvino, The Baron in the Trees
"No puede haber amor si no se es uno mismo con todas sus fuerzas."-Italo Calvino, The Baron in the Trees
"Chi vuole guardare bene la terra deve tenersi alla distanza necessaria."-Italo Calvino, The Baron in the Trees
16. The Monkey's Wrench
By: Primo Levi , William Weaver , Ruth Tenzer Feldman , Ruth Feldman
3.86
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Tino Faussone, torinese, fa di mestiere il montatore: «È sui trentacinque anni, alto, secco, quasi … read more
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"Se si escludono istanti prodigiosi e singoli che il destino ci può donare, l’amare il proprio lavoro (che purtroppo è privilegio di pochi) costituisce la miglior approssimazione concreta alla felicit…"-Primo Levi, The Monkey's Wrench
17. A Doll's House
By: Henrik Ibsen , Michael Meyer
3.76
Format: 122 pages, Paperback
A Doll's House (1879), is a masterpiece of theatrical craft which, for the first time portrayed the… read more
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"Laughter's all the damned thing's fit for."-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House
"I must make up my mind which is right – society or I."-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House
"لن تفقدوني طويلاً، فالراحلون سرعان ما ينطوون في زوايا النسيان."-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House
"أنا ارى الناس صنفين .. صنف تعشقه المرأة، وصنف تحب أن تتجاذب معه أطراف الحديث."-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House
18. La boutique del mistero
By: Dino Buzzati
4.15
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
La boutique del mistero è una raccolta di trentuno racconti pubblicati in diversi volumi e ordinati… read more
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"Grandi sono le soddisfazioni di una vita laboriosa, agiata e tranquilla, ma ancora più grande è l'attrazione dell'abisso."-Dino Buzzati, La boutique del mistero
"In questo caso il ricordo di lui mi ritornava, allora mi fermavo e nel silenzio della notte a voce alta chiedevo: Dormi? Ma lui non rispondeva. Effettivamente dormiva, però lontano, sotto le crode, i…"-Dino Buzzati, La boutique del mistero
"Vorrei pure - lasciami dire - vorrei con te sottobraccio attraversare le grandi vie della città in un tramonto di novembre, quando il cielo è di puro cristallo. Quando i fantasmi della vita corrono s…"-Dino Buzzati, La boutique del mistero
19. Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Thief (Arsène Lupin, #1)
By: Maurice Leblanc , Michael Sims , Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
3.81
Format: 279 pages, Paperback
Librarian note: This is an alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780143104865. The suave adventures o… read more
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- mystery
- fiction
"A woman was looking at me, Ganimard, and I loved her. Do you fully understand what that means: to be under the eyes of a woman that one loves? I cared for nothing in the world but that."-Maurice Leblanc, Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Thief (Arsène Lupin, #1)
"So much the better if no one can ever say with absolute certainty: There is Arsene Lupin! The essential point is that the public may be able to refer to my work and say, without fear of mistake: Arse…"-Maurice Leblanc, Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Thief (Arsène Lupin, #1)
"Arsène Lupin, the eccentric gentleman who operates only in the chateaux and salons, and who, one night, entered the residence of Baron Schormann, but emerged empty-handed, leaving, however, his card …"-Maurice Leblanc, Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Thief (Arsène Lupin, #1)
20. The Uncommon Reader
By: Alan Bennett
3.74
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
Led by her yapping corgis to the Westminster traveling library outside Buckingham Palace, the Queen… read more
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- fiction
"Книгите подпалват въображението."-Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader
"At eighty, things do not occur; they recur."-Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader
"Archbishop. Why do I never read the lesson?"-Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader
"A book is a device to ignite the imagination."-Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader
21. The Turnglass
By: Gareth Rubin
3.50
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
1880s England On the bleak island of Ray, off the Essex coast, an idealistic young doctor, Simeon … read more
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- mystery
- historical mystery
- fiction
- historical fiction
"These tales are intertwined and parasitic. Beguiling and, I think, a little strange too."-Gareth Rubin, The Turnglass
"It was the wrong house for the Tooke family. It was see-through, allowing everyone to look in, while the people who lived there did their best to hide their lives away."-Gareth Rubin, The Turnglass
22. To Paradise
By: Hanya Yanagihara
3.75
Format: 720 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the classic A Little Life, a bold, brilliant novel spanning three centuries and … read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
"Does this look like a dystopia to you?"-Hanya Yanagihara, To Paradise
"It was very cold that afternoon, whipping wind, and the city seemed to mirror my mood, which was gray and bleak."-Hanya Yanagihara, To Paradise
"Only people who have a plausible hope of being immortalized in history are so about how they might get immortalized," she said. "The rest of us are too busy trying to get through the day."-Hanya Yanagihara, To Paradise
"Only people who have a plausible hope of being immortalized in history are so obsessed about how they might get immortalized," she said. "The rest of us are too busy trying to get through the day."-Hanya Yanagihara, To Paradise
23. Baumgartner
By: Paul Auster
3.78
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A taut yet expansive novel of love, memory, and grief from Paul Auster, best-selling, award-winning… read more
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"Vivir es sentir dolor, y vivir con miedo al dolor es negarse a vivir"-Paul Auster, Baumgartner
"To live is to feel pain, he told himself, and to live in fear of pain is to refuse to live."-Paul Auster, Baumgartner
"at some point in the coming years, the two books should be combined and reconfigured into a large, one-volume collected poems—a monument of singing pages that will overwhelm the silence of Anna’s gra…"-Paul Auster, Baumgartner
"the story turns out to be so astounding and so powerful that your jaw drops open and you feel that it has changed or enhanced or deepened your understanding of the world, does it matter if the story …"-Paul Auster, Baumgartner
24. Crossings
By: Alex Landragin
3.85
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Crossings is an unforgettable and explosive genre-bending debut--a novel in three parts, designed t… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
"As long as I have a glimpse of sky, I can tolerate almost any hardship."-Alex Landragin, Crossings
"Here was a man who seemed to take amusement in the messiness of life--as close to a definition of happiness as I know."-Alex Landragin, Crossings
25. La Sinagoga degli zingari (Martin Bora, #9)
By: Ben Pastor
3.92
Format: 663 pages, Paperback
Agosto 1942-marzo 1943. Martin von Bora, uomo tormentato e diviso, ufficiale tedesco dominato da un… read more
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26. ELP
By: Antonio Manzini
4.12
Format: 441 pages, Kindle Edition
Non si fa che parlare dell'ELP, l'Esercito di Liberazione del Pianeta. Il vicequestore Rocco Schiav… read more
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27. The Night of Shooting Stars (Martin Bora, #7)
By: Ben Pastor
4.27
Format: 371 pages, Kindle Edition
Bora is ordered to investigate the murder of Walter Niemeyer, a dazzling clairvoyant, a star since … read more
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- historical fiction
28. Acts of Desperation
By: Megan Nolan
3.74
Format: 288 pages, None
In the first scene of this provocative gut-punch of a novel, our unnamed narrator meets a magnetic … read more
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"You always think your pain is the most painful. You always think it's uniquely awful."-Megan Nolan, Acts of Desperation
"I didn't want her near me, because she was the only one able to see me for what I was, but I couldn't lose her for the very same reason."-Megan Nolan, Acts of Desperation
"You can't complain about feeling bad, about being depressed, if you aren't trying to sleep, trying to eat, trying to care about yourself."-Megan Nolan, Acts of Desperation
"I made mistakes like this all the time, seeking affirmation from the very worst people, so that what I must have been after deep down was confirmation of the fears instead of their dismissals"-Megan Nolan, Acts of Desperation
29. Tokyo Express
By: Seichō Matsumoto
3.68
Format: 175 pages, Paperback
In una cala rocciosa della baia di Hakata, i corpi di un uomo e di una donna vengono rinvenuti all’… read more
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- fiction
30. Guerre
By: Louis-Ferdinand Céline
3.79
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Parmi les manuscrits de Louis-Ferdinand Céline récemment retrouvés figurait une liasse de deux cent… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
"A tant d’années passées le souvenir des choses, bien précisément, c’est un effort. Ce que les gens ont dit c’est presque tourné des mensonges. Faut se méfier. C’est putain le passé, ça fond dans la r…"-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Guerre
"J’ai bien dû rester là encore une partie de la nuit suivante. Toute l’oreille à gauche était collée par terre avec du sang, la bouche aussi. Entre les deux y avait un bruit immense. J’ai dormi dans c…"-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Guerre
