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…
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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
- classics
- short stories
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
- 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
- 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. 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
- 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
5. 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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- classics
- american
- short stories
- fiction
- modern classics
6. 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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- poetry
- classics
- american
- 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
7. 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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- poetry
- classics
- short stories
- fiction
- modern classics
"The evening, lacking intelligent relations, crumbles down into the haze of the horizon.)"-Federico García Lorca, The Dialogue of Two Snails (Penguin Modern)
8. 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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- classics
- modern classics
- short stories
"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
9. 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
10. 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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- poetry
- classics
- american
- short stories
- modern classics
11. 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
- 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
12. 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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- fiction
- classics
- modern classics
- short stories
13. 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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- poetry
- classics
- short stories
- fiction
- modern classics
14. 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
- short stories
15. 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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- poetry
- classics
- american
- short stories
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16. 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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- fiction
- classics
- modern classics
- short stories
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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- poetry
- classics
- short stories
- fiction
- 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
- american
"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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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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