The Gardener's Son: a screenplay
By: Cormac McCarthy
2.43
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In the Spring of 1975 the film director Richard Pearce approached Cormac McCarthy with the idea of …
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1. Wise Blood
By: Flannery O'Connor
3.83
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
(This is an alternate-cover edition for ISBN 9780374530631) The American short story master Flan… read more
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"Jesus died to redeem you,"-Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood
"It's easier to bleed than sweat, Mr. Motes."-Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood
"In yourself right now is all the place you've got."-Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood
"If you want to get anywhere in religion, you got to keep it sweet."-Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood
2. On the Marble Cliffs
By: Stuart Hood , George Steiner , Ernst Jünger
3.80
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
The peaceful and traditional people, located on the shores of a large bay, are surrounded by the ro… read more
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"The downfall of order brings good to none."-Stuart Hood, On the Marble Cliffs
"Such are the cellars over which the proud castles of tyranny rise and above which the aromas of their feast swirl: putrid caves of a gruesome kind in which the depraved rabble regales itself with the…"-Stuart Hood, On the Marble Cliffs
"We cannot count on seeing our work completed here below, and happy is the man whose will is not too painfully invested in his efforts. No house is built, no plan created, in which ruin is not the cor…"-Stuart Hood, On the Marble Cliffs
"I had often doubted; now I was convinced: there were still noble beings among us in whose hearts knowledge of the higher order was preserved and perpetuated. A lofty example enjoins us to follow, and…"-Stuart Hood, On the Marble Cliffs
3. Fidelity: Five Stories
By: Wendell Berry
4.40
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
"Berry richly evokes Port William's farmlands and hamlets, and his characters are fiercely individu… read more
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"This is the man who will be my grandfather—the man who will be the man who was my grandfather. The tenses slur and slide under the pressure of collapsed time."-Wendell Berry, Fidelity: Five Stories
"For what seemed a long time Mat knelt there with his father's dead wrist in his hand, while his mind arrived and arrived and yet arrived at that place and time and that body lying still on the soiled…"-Wendell Berry, Fidelity: Five Stories
"The two families, sundered in the ruin of a friendship, were united again first in new friendship and then in mariage. My grandfather made a peace here that has joined many who would otherwise have b…"-Wendell Berry, Fidelity: Five Stories
4. The Gardener's Son: a screenplay
By: Cormac McCarthy
2.43
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In the Spring of 1975 the film director Richard Pearce approached Cormac McCarthy with the idea of … read more
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- plays
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5. The Headmaster: Frank L. Boyden of Deerfield
By: John McPhee
4.16
Format: 331 pages, Paperback
Starting in 1902 at a country school that had an enrollment of fourteen, Frank Boyden built an acad… read more
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6. A Bend in the River
By: V.S. Naipaul
4.06
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
When Salim, a young Indian man, is offered a small business in Central Africa, he accepts. As he st… read more
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7. The Unnamable
By: Samuel Beckett
4.19
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
The Unnamable consists entirely of a disjointed monologue from the perspective of an unnamed (presu… read more
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8. Swamp Thing, Vol. 2: Love and Death
By: Alan Moore , John Totleben , Stephen R. Bissette , Shawn McManus
3.54
Format: None pages, Paperback
What Alan Moore, Stephen Bissette, and John Totleben accomplished during their time on the comic bo… read more
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9. Answer to Job
By: C.G. Jung , R.F.C. Hull
4.17
Format: 121 pages, Paperback
Jung has never pursued the "psychology of religion" apart from general psychology. The unique impor… read more
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"«Es necesario acostumbrarse a la idea de que 'tiempo' es un concepto relativo, y que propiamente tiene que ser completado por el concepto de una pleromática existencia 'simultánea' o 'bárdica' de tod…"-C.G. Jung, Answer to Job
"«El que algo sea una realidad 'física' no es el único criterio de verdad. También existen verdades 'anímicas', las cuales no pueden ni probarse ni explicarse, pero tampoco negarse físicamente. [...] …"-C.G. Jung, Answer to Job
"I would even go so far as to say that the mythical character of a life is just what expresses its universal human validity. It is perfectly possible, psychologically, for the unconscious or an archet…"-C.G. Jung, Answer to Job
"The difference between the "natural" individuation process, which runs its course unconsciously, and the one which is consciously realized, is tremendous. In the first case consciousness nowhere inte…"-C.G. Jung, Answer to Job
10. The Stars at Noon
By: Denis Johnson
4.35
Format: None pages, Paperback
Set in Nicaragua in 1984, The Stars at Noonis a story of passion, fear, and betrayal told in the vo… read more
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11. As I Lay Dying
By: William Faulkner
3.72
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
As I Lay Dying is Faulkner’s harrowing account of the Bundren family’s odyssey across the Mississip… read more
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"vomiting the crying"-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
"But peace is my heart: I know it is."-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
"it's better to build a tight chicken coop than a shoddy courthouse."-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
"sometimes i lose faith in human nature for a time; i am assailed by doubt."-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
12. The Pearl
By: John Steinbeck
3.54
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Like his father and grandfather before him, Kino is a poor diver, gathering pearls from the gulf be… read more
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"What have I to fear but starvation?" Kino asked."-John Steinbeck, The Pearl
"In the surface of the great pearl he could see dream forms."-John Steinbeck, The Pearl
"It was a morning like other mornings and yet perfect among mornings."-John Steinbeck, The Pearl
"We do know that we are cheated from birth to the overcharge on our coffins."-John Steinbeck, The Pearl
13. Bend Sinister
By: Vladimir Nabokov
4.30
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
The state has been recently taken over and is being run by the tyrannical and philistine 'Average M… read more
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14. The Colonel and Little Missie: Buffalo Bill, Annie Oakley, and the Beginnings of Superstardom in America
By: Larry McMurtry
2.83
Format: None pages, Paperback
From the early 1800s to the end of his life in 1917, Buffalo Bill Cody was as famous as anyone coul… read more
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15. The Gospel Singer
By: Harry Crews
3.57
Format: 307 pages,
To the dirt poor town of Enigma, Georgia, a local farm boy returns as a prosperous faith healer. Th… read more
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16. The Violent Bear It Away
By: Flannery O'Connor
4.90
Format: None pages, Paperback
First published in 1960, The Violent Bear It Awayis now a landmark in American literature. It is a … read more
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17. Mr Palomar
By: Italo Calvino
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
<<Rileggendo il tutto, m'accorgo che la storia di Palomarsi puo riassumere in due frasi: "Un uomo s… read more
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18. Vineland
By: Thomas Pynchon
2.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
A group of Americans in Northern California in 1984 are struggling with the consequences of their l… read more
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19. The Twilight World
By: Werner Herzog
3.87
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
The great filmmaker Werner Herzog, in his first novel, tells the incredible story of Hiroo Onoda, a… read more
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20. The Other Name: Septology I-II
By: Jon Fosse
4.06
Format: 351 pages, Paperback
The Other Name follows the lives of two men living close to each other on the west coast of Norway.… read more
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"...there inside the person is what will pass away and become one with what is invisible in everything..."-Jon Fosse, The Other Name: Septology I-II
"...what's beautiful in life turns out bad in a painting because it's like there's too much beauty, a good picture needs something bad in it in order to shine the way it should, it needs darkness in i…"-Jon Fosse, The Other Name: Septology I-II
21. That Old Country Music
By: Kevin Barry
3.90
Format: 191 pages, Hardcover
A collection of short stories of rural Ireland in the classic Irish mode: full of love (and sex), m… read more
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