The Nobel Lecture in Literature, 2003
By: J.M. Coetzee
3.95
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
A beautiful collector's edition of J. M. Coetzee's Nobel Prize lecture In his acceptance speech fo…
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1. Vele hemels boven de zevende
By: Griet Op de Beeck
4.04
Format: 271 pages, Paperback
Lou is 12, Eva 36, Elsie 42, Casper 46 en Jos 71. Vijf mensen, met elkaar verbonden, vertellen hun … read more
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"Beširdžių žmonių nėra - tai tik nelaimingi žmonės."-Griet Op de Beeck, Vele hemels boven de zevende
"Misschien, als het erop aankomt, kan niemand voor iemand iets doen."-Griet Op de Beeck, Vele hemels boven de zevende
"Sommige mensen blijven altijd mooi, ook als ze weglopen, hoe pijnlijk dat ook is"-Griet Op de Beeck, Vele hemels boven de zevende
"Norint turėti tave mylinčius vaikus reikia bent kiek dėl to šiame pasaulyje pasistengti."-Griet Op de Beeck, Vele hemels boven de zevende
2. Naked Lunch
By: William S. Burroughs , Barry Miles , James Grauerholz
3.46
Format: 289 pages, Paperback
The book is structured as a series of loosely connected vignettes. Burroughs stated that the chapte… read more
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"Exterminate all rational thought"-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch
"O death where is thy sting? The man is never on time..."-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch
"When he smiled the fear flew away in little pieces of light..."-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch
"And all that I was before is out there in the darkness looking for me."-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch
3. Ecce Homo
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , R.J. Hollingdale
3.00
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
In late 1888, only weeks before his final collapse into madness, Nietzsche (1844-1900) set out to c… read more
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- nonfiction
4. Men Without Women
By: Haruki Murakami , None
3.75
Format: 242 pages, Kindle Edition
A dazzling new collection of short stories—the first major new work of fiction from the beloved, in… read more
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"Tobacco’s a killer,"-Haruki Murakami, Men Without Women
"I need to learn not just to forget but to forgive."-Haruki Murakami, Men Without Women
"Crying for someone else is nothing to apologize about,"-Haruki Murakami, Men Without Women
"That's what we all do : endlessly take the long way around."-Haruki Murakami, Men Without Women
5. Benito Cereno
By: Herman Melville , Wyn Kelley
3.60
Format: 316 pages, Paperback
"What has cast such a shadow upon you?" "The Negro." With its intense mix of mystery, adventure, an… read more
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- short stories
6. Prometheus Unbound
By: Percy Bysshe Shelley
4.00
Format: None pages,
One of the most ambitious dramatic poems ever written, Percy Bysshe Shelley's Prometheus Unbound te… read more
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7. I Am Not Your Negro
By: James Baldwin , Raoul Peck
3.99
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
To compose his stunning documentary film I Am Not Your Negro, acclaimed filmmaker Raoul Peck mined … read more
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- nonfiction
8. Bartleby the Scrivener
By: Herman Melville
3.93
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Academics hail it as the beginning of modernism, but to readers around the world—even those daunted… read more
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"I would prefer not to."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
"To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
"Bartleby in a singularly mild, firm voice, replied, “I would prefer not to."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
"At present I would prefer not to be a little reasonable,' was his mildly cadaverous reply."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
9. Woodcutters
By: Thomas Bernhard , David McLintock
3.34
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
This controversial portrayal of Viennese artistic circles begins as the writer-narrator arrives at … read more
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10. Concrete
By: Thomas Bernhard , David McLintock
3.34
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Instead of the book he's meant to write, Rudolph, a Viennese musicologist, produces this tale of pr… read more
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11. Wittgenstein’s Nephew
By: Thomas Bernhard , David McLintock
4.03
Format: 101 pages, Paperback
It is 1967. In separate wings of a Viennese hospital, two men lie bedridden. The narrator, Thomas B… read more
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"Bu zaman zarfında Paul'un düşüncelerinden yoksun kalmıştım, başka başka yüzlerce, ortalaması son derece düşük çaplı kafa içinde boğulmama ramak kalmıştı, çünkü kendimizi aldatmayalım, çoğunlukla elim…"-Thomas Bernhard, Wittgenstein’s Nephew
"Benimle Nathal'de avlu duvarı dibinde oturmuş, batmakta olan güneşin altında, kaç kere Paris'e, kaç kere Londra'ya, kaç kere Roma'ya gittiğinin, kaç bin şişe şampanya ictiğinin ve acaba kaç kitap oku…"-Thomas Bernhard, Wittgenstein’s Nephew
"O sıralar herkes tarafından da terk edilmiştim, ben onların hepsini terk etmiştim çünkü, işin aslı bu, hiç kimseyi istemiyordum, tıpkı artık hiçbir şeyi istemeyişim ama her şeye de kendi elimle son v…"-Thomas Bernhard, Wittgenstein’s Nephew
"قلت لنفسى وأنا أجلس فوق دكة فى منتزه المدينة، إن هذه ربما تكون آخر مرة أرى فيها صديقى. لم أكن اعتقد أن جسدا بهذا الوهن، خبت فيه جذوة الحياة وانطفأت شعلة الإرادة، سيتحمل أكثر من بضعة أيام. زُلزل كيانى …"-Thomas Bernhard, Wittgenstein’s Nephew
12. War and Turpentine
By: Stefan Hertmans , None , David McKay
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
Shortly before his death in 1981, Stefan Hertmans' grandfather gave him a couple of filled exercise… read more
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13. I.M. Ischa Meijer - In Margine. In Memoriam
By: Hanni Ehlers , Connie Palmen
4.35
Format: None pages,
Im Februar 1991 lernen sie sich kennen: Ischa Meijer, in den Niederlanden als Talkmaster, Entertain… read more
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14. De zonde van de vrouw
By: Connie Palmen
4.23
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
De oudste val die we in onze christelijke cultuur via de literatuur kennen is de zondeval. Eva word… read more
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15. A Boy and His Dog
By: Harlan Ellison
3.14
Format: 208 pages, ebook
Winner of the Nebula Award: A boy and his telepathic dog fight to survive in a war-torn, postapocal… read more
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16. 2666
By: Roberto Bolaño
4.21
Format: 1128 pages, Paperback
A cuatro profesores de literatura, Pelletier, Morini, Espinoza y Norton, los une su fascinación por… read more
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"Nothing is ever behind us."-Roberto Bolaño, 2666
"Reading is never a waste of time."-Roberto Bolaño, 2666
"Every hundred feet the world changes"-Roberto Bolaño, 2666
"The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower."-Roberto Bolaño, 2666
17. Lanzarote
By: Michel Houellebecq , Frank Wynne
4.11
Format: 500 pages, Paperback
Realising that his New Year is probably going to be a disaster, as usual, our narrator, on impulse,… read more
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18. Dit zijn de namen
By: Tommy Wieringa
3.57
Format: 303 pages, Paperback
Een grensstad in de steppe. Uit de vlakte duikt een groep verwilderde vluchtelingen op. Ze veroorza… read more
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19. Train Dreams
By: Denis Johnson
3.67
Format: 272 pages,
Denis Johnson's Train Dreamsis an epic in miniature, one of his most evocative and poignant fiction… read more
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20. The London Scene: Six Essays on London Life
By: Virginia Woolf
4.27
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Virginia Woolf was already an accomplished novelist and critic when she was commissioned by the Bri… read more
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21. Soumission
By: Michel Houellebecq
3.65
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
Dans une France assez proche de la nôtre, un homme s’engage dans la carrière universitaire. Peu mot… read more
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"It’s submission,"-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission
"There is no Israel for me."-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission
"Intimacy isn’t something men talk about."-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission
"I was about as political as a bath towel."-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission
22. Figuranten
By: Arnon Grunberg
3.12
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
Economie laat zich in vier woorden samenvatten: geluk is te koop. En iets dat te koop is, daar ga j… read more
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23. The Spectre of Alexander Wolf
By: Gaito Gazdanov
4.28
Format: 315 pages, Paperback
"Among all my recollections, among all the numberless sensations of life, the memory of the one mur… read more
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24. Modern Man in Search of a Soul
By: C.G. Jung
4.20
Format: 244 pages, Paperback
A provocative and enlightening look at spiritual unease and its contribution to the void in modern … read more
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"Is that which science calls the “psyche"-C.G. Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul
"Art has a way of anticipating future changes in man’s fundamental outlook."-C.G. Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul
"We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate; it oppresses."-C.G. Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul
"The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases."-C.G. Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul
25. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
By: Salman Rushdie
4.10
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply pers… read more
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- nonfiction
"Waiting is thinking, and to think deeply is, very often, to change one’s mind."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"I don’t usually think of my books as prophecies. I’ve had some trouble with prophets in my life, and I’m not applying for the job."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"To have a room of one’s own, one must have money. (I don’t think Virginia Woolf ever went to India, but her dictum stands, even there, even for men.)"-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"An intimacy of strangers. That's a phrase I've sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
26. The Maniac
By: Benjamín Labatut
4.34
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From one of contemporary literature’s most exciting new voices, a haunting story centered on the Hu… read more
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"[...] si nuestra especie iba a sobrevivir el siglo XX, necesitábamos llenar el enorme vacío dejado por la huida de los dioses, y la única candidata viable para realizar esa extraña y esotérica transf…"-Benjamín Labatut, The Maniac
27. A Shining
By: Jon Fosse
3.49
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
A man starts driving without knowing where he is going. He alternates between turning right and lef… read more
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"but you can’t just touch a whiteness like that. because if you did you’d probably get it dirty. and imagine getting something so white dirty"-Jon Fosse, A Shining
"Es ist auch nicht zu begreifen, es ist etwas anderes, vielleicht etwas, das man nur erlebt und das nicht wirklich geschieht. Aber geht es an, dass man so etwas einfach erlebt. Alles, was man erlebt, …"-Jon Fosse, A Shining
28. Treacle Walker
By: Alan Garner
3.13
Format: 152 pages, Hardcover
Treacle Walker is a stunning fusion of myth and folklore and an exploration of the fluidity of time… read more
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29. Sapiens: A Graphic History, Volume 2 - The Pillars of Civilization
By: David Vandermeulen
4.25
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
This second volume of Sapiens: A Graphic History, the full-color graphic adaptation of Yuval Noah H… read more
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- nonfiction
30. No Judgment: Essays
By: Lauren Oyler
3.30
Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition
From the national bestselling novelist and essayist, a groundbreaking collection of brand-new piece… read more
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- nonfiction
"I’m told I should smoke more weed, which I don’t like, or else “do something nice for yourself,"-Lauren Oyler, No Judgment: Essays
31. The Nobel Lecture in Literature, 2003
By: J.M. Coetzee
3.95
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
A beautiful collector's edition of J. M. Coetzee's Nobel Prize lecture In his acceptance speech fo… read more
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