Brief Lives of Idiots
By: Ermanno Cavazzoni
3.30
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
A parody of the Lives of the Saints from the Middle Ages, Ermanno Cavazzoni’s Brief Lives of Idiots…
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1. A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
By: David Foster Wallace
4.15
Format: 353 pages, Paperback
In this exuberantly praised book — a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television… read more
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"What I know about auto racing could be inscribed with a dry Magic Marker on the lip of a Coke bottle."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
"If Realism called it like it saw it, Metafiction simply called it as it saw itself seeing itself see it."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
"Quentin Tarantino is interested in watching somebody's ear getting cut off; David Lynch is interested in the ear."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
"American human beings are a slippery and protean bunch in real life, hard as hell to get any kind of universal handle on."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
2. The Cathedral of Mist
By: Edward Gauvin , Paul Willems , Bette Burgoyne
4.12
Format: 99 pages, Paperback
First published in French in 1983, The Cathedral of Mist is a collection of stories from the last o… read more
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"Miracles belong only to the moment, and live on only in memory."-Edward Gauvin, The Cathedral of Mist
"For the palace was but emptiness, a hole in a labyrinth of lines, a skyward precipice."-Edward Gauvin, The Cathedral of Mist
3. The Dreaming Jewels
By: Theodore Sturgeon , Теодор Стърджън , Иван Терзиев
3.64
Format: None pages, Paperback
Eight-year-old Horty Bluett is mocked by his classmates & abused by his adoptive parents until the … read more
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4. The Second Sex
By: Simone de Beauvoir , Deirdre Bair , H.M. Parshley
3.60
Format: 253 pages, Paperback
Newly translated and unabridged in English for the first time, Simone de Beauvoir's masterwork is a… read more
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5. Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno
By: Italo Calvino
3.71
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Pubblicato nel 1947, Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno e il romanzo d'esordio di Italo Calvino. Protago… read more
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6. Odd Jobs
By: Tony Duvert , S.C. Delaney , Agnes Potier
4.16
Format: None pages, Paperback
This series of twenty-three satirically scabrous short texts introduces the reader to an imaginary … read more
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7. The Conductor and Other Tales
By: Jean Ferry , Edward Gauvin , Claude Ballaré
4.30
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
First published in French in 1950 in a limited edition of 100 copies, then republished in 1953 (and… read more
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8. Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
By: Aeschylus , Patricia E. Easterling , John Harrison , Judith Affleck , None
3.83
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Treating ancient plays as living drama. Classical Greek drama is brought vividly to life in this se… read more
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"Every medicine is vain."-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
"A curse burns bright on crime."-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
"There is no avoidance in delay."-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
"In war, the first casualty is truth."-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
9. Days Without End
By: Sebastian Barry
2.75
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the two-time Man Booker Prize finalist Sebastian Barry, "a master storyteller" (Wall Street Jo… read more
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10. A Night of Serious Drinking
By: René Daumal
2.76
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A Night of Serious Drinking is among Rene Daumal's most important literary works. Like Daumal's Mou… read more
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11. The Unruly Bridal Bed and Other Grotesques
By: Salomo Friedlaender , Mynona , None
4.04
Format: 226 pages, Paperback
Originally published in 1921, The Unruly Bridal Bedbrings together ten indefinable tales that inclu… read more
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12. One, None, and One Hundred Thousand
By: Luigi Pirandello , William Weaver
3.29
Format: None pages, Paperback
The novel had a rather long and difficult period of gestation. Pirandello began writing it in 1909.… read more
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13. Lo stadio di Wimbledon
By: Daniele Del Giudice
3.59
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
Il protagonista e un giovane che si mette sulle tracce di un personaggio singolare, amico di Saba e… read more
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14. The Street of Crocodiles
By: Jonathan Safran Foer , Bruno Schulz , Jerzy Ficowski , Celina Wieniewska
4.02
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
The Street of Crocodiles in the Polish city of Drogobych is a street of memories and dreams where r… read more
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"Reality is as thin as paper, and betrays with all its cracks its imitative character."-Jonathan Safran Foer, The Street of Crocodiles
"Can there be anything sadder than a human being changed into the rubber tube of an enema?"-Jonathan Safran Foer, The Street of Crocodiles
"They were villages forgotten in the depth of time, peopled by creatures chained forever to their tiny destinies."-Jonathan Safran Foer, The Street of Crocodiles
"The days hardened with cold and boredom like last year's loaves of bread. One began to cut them with blunt knives without appetite, with a lazy indifference."-Jonathan Safran Foer, The Street of Crocodiles
15. I miei stupidi intenti
By: Bernardo Zannoni
3.78
Format: 252 pages, Paperback
Questa è la lunga vita di una faina, raccontata di suo pugno. Fra gli alberi dei boschi, le colline… read more
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16. What Happens at Night
By: Peter Cameron
3.47
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An unnamed American couple travels to a strange, snowy European city to adopt a baby. It’s a diffic… read more
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17. Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain
By: Sathnam Sanghera
4.10
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
In his brilliantly illuminating new book Sathnam Sanghera demonstrates how so much of what we consi… read more
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"It is puerile to reduce imperial history to a matter of 'good' and 'bad'; trying to weigh up the positive and negative in this way is like defending the morality of kicking a random old man in the sh…"-Sathnam Sanghera, Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain
"After the First World War, the man in charge of recruitment at the Colonial Office was Major Ralph Dolignon Furse, a decorated war hero, a keen rugby and cricket player and, crucially, holder of a po…"-Sathnam Sanghera, Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain
18. La scuola di pizze in faccia del professor Calcare
By: Zerocalcare
4.07
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
"La scuola di pizze in faccia del professor Calcare" si articola in tre sezioni: una di storie pop … read more
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"Tu fatti solo una domanda: si può risolvere con due o più bomboni?"-Zerocalcare, La scuola di pizze in faccia del professor Calcare
19. An Evocation of Matthias Stimmberg
By: Alain-Paul Mallard
3.78
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
A miniature Borgesian portrait in misanthropy In a sequence of anecdotes imbued with haughty mel… read more
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20. Porte aperte
By: Leonardo Sciascia
3.71
Format: 109 pages, Paperback
A Palermo, verso la fine degli Anni Trenta, «un crimine atroce e folle, di cui è protagonista un pe… read more
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21. Brief Lives of Idiots
By: Ermanno Cavazzoni
3.30
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
A parody of the Lives of the Saints from the Middle Ages, Ermanno Cavazzoni’s Brief Lives of Idiots… read more
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