Raphael
By: Christof Thoenes
4.12
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Influenced by his contemporaries Michelangelo and Leonardo, Raphael Santi (1483-1520) became, in hi…
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1. Hiroshige: 1797 - 1858
By: Hiroshige Utagawa , Adele Schlombs
4.16
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Master of Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock prints Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) was one of the last gr… read more
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- biography
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- nonfiction
"The woodblock art of pre-modern Japan -- above all Hiroshige's landscape prints -- revolutionized European painting and made a major contribution in the last two decades of the 19th century to the de…"-Hiroshige Utagawa, Hiroshige: 1797 - 1858
2. Chronicle of a Death Foretold
By: Gabriel García Márquez , Gregory Rabassa
3.97
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
A man returns to the town where a baffling murder took place twenty-seven years earlier, determined… read more
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"الشرف هو الحب" , هكذا كنت أسمع أمي تقول"-Gabriel García Márquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold
"Ningún lugar de la vida es más triste que una cama vacía"-Gabriel García Márquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold
"...ningún lugar de la vida es más triste que una cama vacía."-Gabriel García Márquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold
"He always considered death an unavoidable professional hazard."-Gabriel García Márquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold
3. Antony and Cleopatra
By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine , Cynthia Marshall
3.71
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
A romantic tragedy about the relationship between Mark Antony and the Queen of Egypt, including not… read more
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"Melt Egypt into Nile!"-William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra
"Make death proud to take us."-William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra
"...make death proud to take us."-William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra
"Thou are the armourer of my heart—"-William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra
4. Rembrandt 1606-1669: The Mystery of the Revealed Form
By: Michael Bockemühl , Michael Claridge
4.01
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
The mystery of the revealed A mirror of the artistic and intellectual developments of the 17th cen… read more
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- art
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- biography
- history
- nonfiction
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5. The Castle of Otranto
By: Horace Walpole
3.18
Format: 125 pages, Paperback
First published pseudonymously in 1764, The Castle of Otranto purported to be a translation of an I… read more
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"My soul abhors a falsehood"-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
"This life is but a pilgrimage."-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
"Heaven mocks the short-sighted views of man."-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
"I fear no bad angel, and have offended no good one."-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
6. Birthday Letters
By: Ted Hughes
3.90
Format: 198 pages, Paperback
Formerly Poet Laureate to Queen Elizabeth II, the late Ted Hughes (1930-98) is recognized as one of… read more
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- biography
"What happened casually remains -"-Ted Hughes, Birthday Letters
"What happens in the heart simply happens."-Ted Hughes, Birthday Letters
"How could Fate stage a scenario so symbolic without having secreted the tragedy ending and the ironic death?"-Ted Hughes, Birthday Letters
"Like a newer or much older religion In me alone, to be carried Everywhere with me -- deeper catacombs, And with a stronger God."-Ted Hughes, Birthday Letters
7. Les Fleurs du Mal
By: Charles Baudelaire , Richard Howard
4.20
Format: 365 pages, Paperback
Charles Baudelaire's 1857 masterwork was scandalous in its day for its portrayals of sex, same-sex … read more
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"L'orage rajeunit les fleurs"-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
"I am the vampire at my own veins."-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
"Beauty, you walk on corpses, mocking them;"-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
"My heart is lost; the beasts have eaten it."-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
8. Michelangelo
By: Gilles Néret
3.93
Format: 233 pages, Paperback
During the Renaissance, the great artists, from Leonardo da Vinci and Botticelli to Michelangelo an… read more
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- art history
- biography
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- reference
9. The Belly of Paris (Les Rougon-Macquart, #3)
By: Émile Zola , Ernest Alfred Vizetelly
3.33
Format: 170 pages, Paperback
Part of Emile Zola's multigenerational Rougon-Macquart saga, The Belly of Parisis the story of Flor… read more
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10. The Hero With a Thousand Faces
By: Joseph Campbell
3.79
Format: 32 pages,
The first popular work to combine the spiritual and psychological insights of modern psychoanalysis… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
11. Richard III
By: William Shakespeare , John Jowett
3.37
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Richard III is one of Shakespeare's most popular plays on the stage and has been adapted successful… read more
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12. J.M.W. Turner, 1775-1851: The World of Light and Colour
By: Michael Bockemühl
4.42
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
As a blind person would see the world if the gift of sight suddenly returned - so might one describ… read more
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- biography
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13. Pompeii
By: Robert Harris
3.56
Format: None pages, Paperback
With his trademark elegance and intelligence Robert Harris recreates a world on the brink of disast… read more
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14. Vincent Van Gogh, 1853-1890: Vision and Reality
By: Ingo F. Walther
4.26
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
Van Gogh, who took up a variety of professions before becoming an artist, was a solitary, despairin… read more
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15. 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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- nonfiction
- history
16. The Canterbury Tales
By: Geoffrey Chaucer , Nevill Coghill
3.72
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
The procession that crosses Chaucer's pages is as full of life and as richly textured as a medieval… read more
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17. The General in His Labyrinth
By: Gabriel García Márquez , Edith Grossman
3.99
Format: None pages, Hardcover
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Gabriel Garcia Marquez s most political novel is the tragic story of… read more
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18. Hunger
By: Knut Hamsun , George Egerton
4.05
Format: 134 pages, Paperback
One of the most important and controversial writers of the 20th century, Knut Hamsun made literary … read more
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"Yoksul aydın, zengin aydından çok daha kuvvetli görür.(s.128)"-Knut Hamsun, Hunger
"It was not my intention to collapse; no, I would die standing."-Knut Hamsun, Hunger
"God be praised, I had raised myself in my own estimation again!"-Knut Hamsun, Hunger
"Truth is neither ojectivity nor the balanced view; truth is a selfless subjectivity."-Knut Hamsun, Hunger
19. Leonardo Da Vinci, 1452-1519
By: Frank Zöllner
4.06
Format: 244 pages, Paperback
The quintessential "Renaissance man," Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) is still recognized today for h… read more
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20. The Apple in the Dark
By: Clarice Lispector
4.23
Format: 187 pages, Paperback
Martin is convinced that he has murdered his wife. In a delirium of guilt and grief, he wanders thr… read more
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21. King Henry IV, Part 1 (Wars of the Roses, #2)
By: William Shakespeare , David Scott Kastan
3.87
Format: None pages, Paperback
David Scott Kastan lucidly explores the remarkable richness and the ambitious design of King Henry … read more
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22. The Glass Menagerie
By: Tennessee Williams
4.90
Format: None pages, Paperback
The story of a mother, her son and daughter, and her daughter's suitor that brings to life human be… read more
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24. Titus Andronicus
By: William Shakespeare
3.68
Format: 268 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Titus Andronicus is one of Shakespeare's earliest and bloodiest tragedies and was hugely successful… read more
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"Hark, villains! I will grind your bones to dust. (Act V, Scene 2, 2503)"-William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus
"Sorrow concealèd, like an oven stopped, Doth burn the heart to cinders where it is."-William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus
"Villain, what hast thou done? Aaron: That which thou canst not undo. Chiron: Thou hast undone our mother. Aaron: Villain, I have done thy mother."-William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus
"Now is a time to storm; why art thou still? TITUS ANDRONICUS: Ha, ha, ha! MARCUS ANDRONICUS: Why dost thou laugh? it fits not with this hour. TITUS ANDRONICUS: Why, I have not another tear to shed:"-William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus
25. The LGBTQ + History Book
By: D.K. Publishing
4.49
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Discover the rich and complex history of LGBTQ+ people around the world - their struggles, triumphs… read more
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26. The Buddha of Suburbia
By: Hanif Kureishi
3.74
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Karim Amir lives with his English mother and Indian father in the routine comfort of suburban Londo… read more
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"Die Belohnung für Langeweile sind Sicherheit und Geborgenheit."-Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia
"Someone to whom jokes are never told soon contracts enthusiasm deficiency."-Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia
"Selbst die Verwandten der Berühmten [sind] berühmt, denn Ruhm [ist] erblich."-Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia
"Yes, Eleanor loathed herself and yet required praise, which she then never believed."-Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia
27. Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves
By: Frans de Waal
4.20
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Mama’s Last Hug is a fascinating exploration of the rich emotional lives of animals, beginning with… read more
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"I seriously doubt that the smile is our species’s “happy"-Frans de Waal, Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves
"Estar resentido por el éxito de otro puede parecer mezquino, pero a la larga evita que abusen de uno."-Frans de Waal, Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves
"Nuestros sentimientos de felicidad dependen de la comparación entre los ingresos propios y los ajenos."-Frans de Waal, Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves
"Al ser parte del tejido de la naturaleza, constantemente sopesamos nuestros intereses con los de otros organismos, casi siempre a favor de los nuestros."-Frans de Waal, Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves
28. Goya (Taschen Basic Art)
By: Rose-Marie Hagen
4.01
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
An informative introduction to one of Spain's most renowned artists. Goya (1746-1828) was the most … read more
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- art history
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29. Raphael
By: Christof Thoenes
4.12
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Influenced by his contemporaries Michelangelo and Leonardo, Raphael Santi (1483-1520) became, in hi… read more
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30. Titian: Circa 1490 - 1576
By: Ian G. Kennedy
4.06
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
The Venetian virtuoso A leading artist in the High Renaissance, Titian (Tiziano Vecelli, 1… read more
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31. Ancient Rome: The Definitive Visual History (DK Definitive Visual Histories)
By: D.K. Publishing
4.51
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Immerse yourself in the history of ancient Rome – from its origins as a small settlement on the Pal… read more
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- history
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