Hell Screen Cogwheels a Fools Life
By: Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
4.42
Format: 146 pages, Paperback
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1. Notes on Suicide
By: David Hume , Simon Critchley
3.74
Format: 92 pages, Paperback
Suicide is everywhere. It haunts history and current events. It haunts our own networks of friends … read more
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"El suicidio, bajo mi punto de vista, no constituye un crimen legal ni moral, y nadie debería considerarlo como tal."-David Hume, Notes on Suicide
"Este mundo puede quitarnos todo, puede prohibirnos todo, pero no está en el poder de nadie impedir nuestra autoabolición."-David Hume, Notes on Suicide
"Cioran escribe que «sólo se suicidan los optimistas, los optimistas que ya no logran serlo. Los demás, no teniendo ninguna razón para vivir, ¿por qué la tendrían para morir?»"-David Hume, Notes on Suicide
"Quien no haya concebido jamás su propia anulación, quien no haya presentido el recurso a la cuerda, a la bala, al veneno o al mar, es un recluso envilecido o un gusano reptante sobre la carroña cósmi…"-David Hume, Notes on Suicide
2. Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
By: Anne Fadiman
4.10
Format: 162 pages, Paperback
Anne Fadiman is (by her own admission) the sort of person who learned about sex from her father's c… read more
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"Pen-bereavement is a serious matter."-Anne Fadiman, Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
"I have never been able to resist a book about books."-Anne Fadiman, Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
"Reading aloud means no skipping, no skimming, no cutting to the chase."-Anne Fadiman, Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
"I'd rather have a book, but in a pinch I'll settle for a set of Water Pik instructions."-Anne Fadiman, Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
3. The Elephant Vanishes
By: Haruki Murakami , Jay Rubin , Alfred Birnbaum
3.83
Format: 327 pages, Paperback
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780679750536 With the same deadpan mania and genius for disloca… read more
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"Memory is like fiction: or else it' fiction that's like memory."-Haruki Murakami, The Elephant Vanishes
"Sometimes when I think about entities—like in “separate entities"-Haruki Murakami, The Elephant Vanishes
"Memory is like fiction: or else it's fiction that's like memory."-Haruki Murakami, The Elephant Vanishes
"The moment I see her, there’s a rumbling in my chest, and my mouth is as dry as a desert."-Haruki Murakami, The Elephant Vanishes
4. The Paper Door and Other Stories by Shiga Naoya
By: Donald Keene , Naoya Shiga , Lane Dunlop
3.77
Format: 173 pages, Paperback
No modern Japanese writer was more idolized than Shiga Naoya. "The Paper Door and Other Stories" sh… read more
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5. Ignorance
By: Milan Kundera , Linda Asher
3.00
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
A man and a woman meet by chance while returning to their homeland, which they had abandoned twenty… read more
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- literature
- classics
6. The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings
By: Edgar Allan Poe
3.40
Format: 300 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Edgar Allan Poe remains the unsurpassed master of works of mystery and madness in this outstanding … read more
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7. Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings
By: André Maurois , Jorge Luis Borges , James E. Irby , Donald A. Yates
3.63
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Although his work has been restricted to the short story, the essay, and poetry, Jorge Luis Borges … read more
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- short stories
8. Confessions of a Mask
By: Yukio Mishima
2.57
Format: 210 pages, Paperback
Confessions of a Maskis the story of an adolescent who must learn to live with the painful fact tha… read more
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9. Hear the Wind Sing (The Rat, #1)
By: Haruki Murakami , Alfred Birnbaum
4.43
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Hear the Wind Sing is the first novel by Haruki Murakami; it first appeared in the June 1979 issue … read more
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10. The Hellbound Heart
By: Clive Barker
4.07
Format: 164 pages, Paperback
In a quiet house on a quiet street Frank and Julia are having an affair. Not your ordinary affair. … read more
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"She wanted nothing that he could offer her, except perhaps his absence."-Clive Barker, The Hellbound Heart
"Allí el placer era dolor, y viceversa. Y él lo conocía tan bien que era como sentirse en casa."-Clive Barker, The Hellbound Heart
"Todas las cosas se cansan con el tiempo y comienzan a buscar algún oponente que las salve de sí mismas"-Clive Barker, The Hellbound Heart
"Todas las cosas se cansan con el tiempo y comienzan a buscar algún oponente que las salve de sí mismas."-Clive Barker, The Hellbound Heart
11. Professor Borges: A Course on English Literature
By: Jorge Luis Borges , Katherine Silver , None , Martin Hadis , Martín Arias
5.00
Format: 398 pages, Hardcover
In English at last, Borges's erudite and entertaining lectures on English literature from Beowulf t… read more
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12. The Peripheral
By: William Gibson
3.42
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
The New York Timesbestselling author of such "high-tech dystopian thriller[s]"* as Neuromancer and … read more
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13. Essays in Idleness - The Tsurezuregusa of Kenko
By: Donald Keene , Yoshida Kenkō , 兼好法師
3.86
Format: 416 pages,
Written sometime between 1330 and 1332, the Essays in Idleness,with their timeless relevance and ch… read more
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14. Thirst for Love
By: Yukio Mishima , Alfred H. Marks
4.57
Format: 270 pages, Paperback
In Thirst for Love, Japan's greatest modern writer created a portrait of sexual torment and corrosi… read more
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15. The Woman in the Dunes
By: Kōbō Abe , E. Dale Saunders
3.89
Format: 241 pages, Paperback
The Woman in the Dunes, by celebrated writer and thinker Kobo Abe, combines the essence of myth, su… read more
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- literature
- 20th century
- japanese literature
- japan
"Timpului nu-i dai pinteni ca unui cal."-Kōbō Abe, The Woman in the Dunes
"Defeat begins with the fear that one had lost."-Kōbō Abe, The Woman in the Dunes
"Do you shovel to survive, or survive to shovel?"-Kōbō Abe, The Woman in the Dunes
"Aşa se spune, înfrangerea începe cu teama de a fi înfrant."-Kōbō Abe, The Woman in the Dunes
16. House of the Sleeping Beauties and Other Stories
By: Yasunari Kawabata , Edward G. Seidensticker , Yukio Mishima
3.58
Format: 376 pages, Paperback
Nobel prize-winning author Yasunari Kawabata is noted for his combination of a traditional Japanese… read more
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17. The Silent Cry
By: Kenzaburō Ōe , John Bester
4.12
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Two brothers, Takashi and Mitsu, return from Tokyo to the village of their childhood. The selling o… read more
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18. Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
By: Haruki Murakami , Jay Rubin , Philip Gabriel
3.84
Format: 334 pages, Hardcover
Collection of twenty-four stories that generously expresses Murakami’s mastery of the form. From th… read more
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- literature
- short stories
- japanese literature
- japan
"People are weak when they are alone."-Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
"The music world is where child prodigies go to die."-Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
"I learned there were lots of realities in the world."-Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
"Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it."-Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
19. Gravity's Rainbow
By: Thomas Pynchon , Andrés Ibáñez , None
3.97
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, Gravity's Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustiv… read more
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20. Fires: Essays, Poems, Stories
By: Raymond Carver
3.74
Format: 70 pages, Paperback
More than sixty stories, poems, and essays are included in this wide-ranging collection by the extr… read more
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21. Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas
By: Machado de Assis
4.25
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
A publicação de 'Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas' não só inaugura o Realismo no Brasil, como inicia… read more
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"Quem escapa do perigo vive a vida com outra intensidade."-Machado de Assis, Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas
"Em verdade vos digo que toda a sabedoria humana não vale um par de botas curtas."-Machado de Assis, Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas
"Diz que o homem tem “uma grande vantagem sobre o resto do universo: sabe que morre, ao passo que o universo ignora-o absolutamente"-Machado de Assis, Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas
"هر دوره زندگی چاپ جدیدی است که چاپ قبلی را تصحیح میکند و خودش هم در چاپ بعدی تصحیح میشود، تا برسد به چاپ متن نهایی که ناشر به کرم ها تقدیم میکندش."-Machado de Assis, Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas
22. The Makioka Sisters
By: Edward G. Seidensticker , Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
4.04
Format: 538 pages, Paperback
In Osaka in the years immediately before World War II, four aristocratic women try to preserve a wa… read more
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23. The Island of Dr. Moreau
By: H.G. Wells
4.67
Format: 46 pages, Paperback
Ranked among the classic novels of the English language and the inspiration for several unforgettab… read more
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24. The Waste Land and Other Poems
By: T.S. Eliot
3.62
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Few readers need any introduction to the work of the most influential poet of the twentieth century… read more
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25. Devils in Daylight
By: Jun'ichirō Tanizaki , J. Keith Vincent
3.62
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
One morning, Takahashi, a writer who has just stayed up all night working, is interrupted by a phon… read more
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26. Look Back
By: Tatsuki Fujimoto
4.25
Format: 144 pages, Kindle Edition
The overly confident Fujino and the shut-in Kyomoto couldn’t be more different, but a love of drawi… read more
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27. Abbandonare un gatto
By: Haruki Murakami
3.57
Format: 76 pages, Hardcover
Nei suoi romanzi e racconti Murakami ha creato un’infinità di mondi, e ne ha svelato ogni segreto a… read more
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28. Star
By: Yukio Mishima
3.61
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
All eyes are upon Rikio. And he likes it, mostly. His fans cheer from a roped-off section, screamin… read more
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- 20th century
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"Just as evil never dies, neither does the sentimental."-Yukio Mishima, Star
"The very thing that makes a star spectacular is the same thing that strikes him from the world at large and makes him an outsider."-Yukio Mishima, Star
"A hidden poetry that will be lost if any mediocrity is shed. Genius is a casualty. The poetry must never be conspicuous — its scent is only detectable when subtle."-Yukio Mishima, Star
29. Amygdalatropolis
By: B.R. Yeager
3.69
Format: 154 pages, Paperback
Amygdalatropolis is a work of brilliant neurorealism in which the city is a Computer, a libidinal p… read more
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"/1404er/ was born from video. His way into the threads. His eyes translating light from a stream. Before his eyes translated light from a stream he was only a person. Before the stream was a stream, …"-B.R. Yeager, Amygdalatropolis
30. Japanese Ghost Stories
By: Lafcadio Hearn
3.70
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
In this collection of classic ghost stories from Japan, beautiful princesses turn out to be frogs, … read more
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- japan
"Whoever pretends not to believe in ghosts of any sort, lies to his own heart. Every man is haunted by ghosts... thought most of us (poets excepted) are unwilling to confess the acquaintance."-Lafcadio Hearn, Japanese Ghost Stories
31. Hell Screen Cogwheels a Fools Life
By: Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
4.42
Format: 146 pages, Paperback
Libro usado en buenas condiciones, por su antiguedad podria contener señales normales de uso read more
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