The Legend of the Sleepers (Penguin Modern)
By: Danilo Kiš
2.93
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
'For once there had been false idols and asses' heads drawn on the walls...' Sleepers awake in …
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1. Investigations of a Dog
By: Franz Kafka
4.62
Format: None pages,
"Investigations of a Dog" (German: "Forschungen eines Hundes") is a short story by Franz Kafka writ… read more
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2. Notes on Nationalism
By: George Orwell
4.01
Format: 52 pages, Paperback
In this essay, Orwell discusses the notion of nationalism, and argues that it causes people to disr… read more
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"Nationalism is not to be confused with patriotism."-George Orwell, Notes on Nationalism
"For those who feel deeply about contemporary politics, certain topics have become so infected by considerations of prestige that a genuinely rational approach to them is almost impossible."-George Orwell, Notes on Nationalism
"Political or military commentators, like astrologers, can survive almost any mistake, because their more devoted followers do not look to them for an appraisal of the facts but for the stimulation of…"-George Orwell, Notes on Nationalism
"By ‘nationalism’ I mean first of all the habit of assuming that human beings can be classified like insects and that whole blocks of millions or tens of millions of people can be confidently labelled…"-George Orwell, Notes on Nationalism
3. The Veiled Woman (PENGUIN MODERN)
By: Anaïs Nin
3.48
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
'What did she expect of him? What was her quest? Did she have an unfulfilled desire?' Transgress… read more
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"Sometimes she answered, 'My mouth wants you, I want to feel you in my mouth, way down in my mouth.' Other times she answered, 'I am moist between the legs."-Anaïs Nin, The Veiled Woman (PENGUIN MODERN)
4. Create Dangerously
By: Albert Camus
3.84
Format: 58 pages, Paperback
'To create today is to create dangerously' Camus argues passionately that the artist has a respo… read more
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"Artists, like everyone else, must take up their oars without dying, if possible."-Albert Camus, Create Dangerously
"To paint a still life, a painter and an apple must confront and adjust to each other."-Albert Camus, Create Dangerously
"Perhaps there is no peace for an artist other than the peace found in the heat of combat."-Albert Camus, Create Dangerously
"But now the artist is in the amphitheatre. Of necessity, his voice is not quite the same; it is not nearly so firm."-Albert Camus, Create Dangerously
5. The Three Electroknights
By: Stanisław Lem
3.33
Format: 54 pages, Paperback
'What use to a being that lives beneath a sun are jewels of gas and silver stars of ice?' From a… read more
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6. Three Japanese Short Stories
By: Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
3.28
Format: 50 pages, Paperback
'Oh the cruelty of time, that destroys all things!' Beguiling, strange and hair-raising tales fr… read more
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"Heroes have always been monsters who crushed sentimentalism underfoot."-Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Three Japanese Short Stories
"Oh, but once one has returned to the land of one's birth – there is no place more constricting – one's surroundings no longer permit such freedom, and one can no longer simply transcend the demands o…"-Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Three Japanese Short Stories
"For her I would gladly ferry across the Sumida on the coldest winter day to buy her those sakura-mochi sweets from old Edo that she loved so much. But medicine? That is another matter. Not even on th…"-Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Three Japanese Short Stories
"No, nothing in this world is as oppressive and debilitating as blood ties. Any other relationship – be it friend, lover, wife; be it obligatory or constraining or difficult – is something one has con…"-Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Three Japanese Short Stories
7. The Vigilante
By: John Steinbeck
3.50
Format: 55 pages, Paperback
'Everything was dead, everything unreal; the dark mob was made up of stiff lay-figures' One of A… read more
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8. The Breakthrough
By: Daphne du Maurier
3.59
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
Dispatch the maimed, the old, the weak, destroy the very world itself, for what is the point of lif… read more
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"These involve programming it with a series of questions. The answers are then fed back into the computer, and are themselves used to modify the questions that follow."-Daphne du Maurier, The Breakthrough
9. Daydream and Drunkenness of a Young Lady
By: Clarice Lispector
3.52
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
"The morning became a long, drawn-out afternoon that became depthless night dawning innocently thro… read more
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10. Letter from Birmingham Jail
By: Martin Luther King Jr.
4.54
Format: 54 pages, Paperback
There is an alternate edition published under ISBN13: 9780062509550. 'Injustice anywhere is a th… read more
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"It is wrong to use immoral means to attain moral ends."-Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail
"There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over..."-Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail
"Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself."-Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail
"Lamentably, it is an historical fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily."-Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail
11. The Black Ball
By: Ellison Ralph
3.79
Format: 53 pages, Paperback
'If he only knew what it was, he would fix it; he would kill this mean thing that made Mama feel so… read more
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12. 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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13. The Missing Girl
By: Shirley Jackson
3.55
Format: 55 pages, Paperback
' "Of course, no one would want to say anything about a girl like this that's missing..." ' Mali… read more
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14. 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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15. Television Was a Baby Crawling Toward That Death Chamber
By: Allen Ginsberg
2.84
Format: 55 pages, Paperback
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16. The Custard Heart
By: Dorothy Parker
3.68
Format: 50 pages, Paperback
'She felt a cozy solidarity with the big company of the voluntary dead.' Wise-cracking and heart… read more
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17. The Great Hunger (Penguin Modern)
By: Patrick Kavanagh
3.48
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
'I have lived in important places, times When great events were decided . . .' By turns comical… read more
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18. The Legend of the Sleepers (Penguin Modern)
By: Danilo Kiš
2.93
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
'For once there had been false idols and asses' heads drawn on the walls...' Sleepers awake in … read more
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19. An Advertisement for Toothpaste (Penguin Modern)
By: Ryszard Kapuściński
3.61
Format: 53 pages, Paperback
'Like rotting stakes in a forest clearing' The great journalist of conflict in the Third World … read more
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20. Till September Petronella
By: Jean Rhys
3.39
Format: 53 pages, Paperback
'I knew he was imagining a really lovely girl—all curves, curls, heart and hidden claws' In stor… read more
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"We sat under the mango tree and I was holding his hand when he began to cry. Drops fell on my hand like the water from the dripstone in the filter in our yard. Then I began to cry too and when I felt…"-Jean Rhys, Till September Petronella
21. Four Russian Short Stories
By: Gaito Gazdanov
3.35
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
In these stories, four writers—all exiles from revolutionary Russia—explore four deaths in a world … read more
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