En Route (European Classics)
By: Joris-Karl Huysmans
3.98
Format: 322 pages, Paperback
En Route continues the story of Durtal, a modern anti-hero; solitary, agonised and alienated. Robbe…
Want to Read $ 0.99"But that which remains for ever incomprehensible is the initial horror, the horror imposed on each of us, of having to live, and that is a mystery no philosophy can explain."-Joris-Karl Huysmans, En Route (European Classics)
"But that which remains for ever incomprehensible is the initial horror, the horror imposed on each of us, of having to live, and that is a mystery no philosophy can explain."-Joris-Karl Huysmans, En Route (European Classics)
"Every one has a sum of physical and moral suffering to pay, and whoever does not settle it here below, defrays it after death; happiness is only lent, and must be repaid; its very phantoms are like duties paid in advance on a future succession of sorrows."-Joris-Karl Huysmans, En Route (European Classics)
"Every one has a sum of physical and moral suffering to pay, and whoever does not settle it here below, defrays it after death; happiness is only lent, and must be repaid; its very phantoms are like duties paid in advance on a future succession of sorrows."-Joris-Karl Huysmans, En Route (European Classics)
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1. Balthazar (The Alexandria Quartet, #2)
By: Lawrence Durrell
4.13
Format: 280 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Balthazar, is the second volume of Durrell's The Alexandria Quartet, set in Alexandria, Egypt, duri… read more
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"Each of our five senses contains an art."-Lawrence Durrell, Balthazar (The Alexandria Quartet, #2)
"I love the French edition with its uncut pages. I would not want a reader too lazy to use a knife on me."-Lawrence Durrell, Balthazar (The Alexandria Quartet, #2)
"A diary is the last place to go if you wish to seek the truth about a person. Nobody dares to make the final confession to themselves on paper: or at least, not about love."-Lawrence Durrell, Balthazar (The Alexandria Quartet, #2)
"The steward, according to custom, had stopped all the clocks. This, in the language of Narouz, said, "Your stay with us is so brief, let us not be reminded of the flight of the hours. God made eterni…"-Lawrence Durrell, Balthazar (The Alexandria Quartet, #2)
2. Justine (The Alexandria Quartet, #1)
By: Lawrence Durrell
3.85
Format: 253 pages, Paperback
The time is the eve of the World War II. The place is Alexandria, an Egyptian city that once housed… read more
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"Poverty is a great cutter-off and riches a great shutter-off."-Lawrence Durrell, Justine (The Alexandria Quartet, #1)
"One always falls in love with the love-choice of the person one loves."-Lawrence Durrell, Justine (The Alexandria Quartet, #1)
"Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?"-Lawrence Durrell, Justine (The Alexandria Quartet, #1)
"Who invented the human heart, I wonder? Tell me, and then show me the place where he was hanged."-Lawrence Durrell, Justine (The Alexandria Quartet, #1)
3. Justine, Philosophy in the Bedroom, and Other Writings
By: Marquis de Sade
3.70
Format: 753 pages, Paperback
No other writer has so scandalized proper society as the Marquis de Sade, but despite the deliberat… read more
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- france
- french literature
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"The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool."-Marquis de Sade, Justine, Philosophy in the Bedroom, and Other Writings
"Not my manner of thinking but the manner of thinking of others has been the source of my unhappiness."-Marquis de Sade, Justine, Philosophy in the Bedroom, and Other Writings
"Whether or not it is dangerous to read Sade is a question that easily becomes lost in a multitude of others and has never been settled except by those whose arguments are rooted in the conviction tha…"-Marquis de Sade, Justine, Philosophy in the Bedroom, and Other Writings
"There is not a living man who does not wish to play the despot when he is stiff: it seems to him his joy is less when others appear to have as much fun as he; by an impulse of pride, very natural at …"-Marquis de Sade, Justine, Philosophy in the Bedroom, and Other Writings
4. Les Fleurs du Mal
By: Charles Baudelaire , Richard Howard
4.20
Format: 365 pages, Paperback
Charles Baudelaire's 1857 masterwork was scandalous in its day for its portrayals of sex, same-sex … read more
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- literature
- 19th century
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- french literature
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"L'orage rajeunit les fleurs"-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
"I am the vampire at my own veins."-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
"Beauty, you walk on corpses, mocking them;"-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
"My heart is lost; the beasts have eaten it."-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
5. Fear and Trembling
By: Søren Kierkegaard , Alastair Hannay
4.75
Format: 335 pages, Paperback
Soren Kierkegaard was a Danish philosopher, theologian and religious author interested in human psy… read more
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- christianity
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6. Pale Fire
By: Vladimir Nabokov
3.98
Format: 574 pages,
The urbane authority that Vladimir Nabokov brought to every word he ever wrote, and the ironic amus… read more
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7. The Temptation of St. Antony
By: Gustave Flaubert , Lafcadio Hearn , Kitty Mrosovsky
3.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
A book that deeply influenced the young Freud & was the inspiration for many artists, The Temptatio… read more
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- literature
- 19th century
- france
- french literature
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8. Austerlitz
By: Anthea Bell , W.G. Sebald
4.67
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with f… read more
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9. The Penguin Book of Witches
By: Katherine Howe
4.20
Format: 228 pages, Paperback
Chilling real-life accounts of witches, from medieval Europe through colonial America From a manual… read more
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- classics
10. Confessions
By: Augustine of Hippo , Henry Chadwick , Albert Cook Outler
3.41
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Augustine's Confessions is one of the most influential and most innovative works of Latin literatur… read more
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- classics
11. The Loser
By: Thomas Bernhard , Jack Dawson
3.34
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Thomas Bernhard was one of the most original writers of the twentieth century. His formal innovatio… read more
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12. The Dhammapada
By: Anonymous , Thich Nhat Hanh , None , None
3.43
Format: 42 pages, Paperback
The Dhammapada (Pali; Prakrit: dhmmpd Dhammapada; Sanskrit: dhrmpd Dharmapada) is a collection of s… read more
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13. Mademoiselle de Maupin
By: Patricia Duncker , Helen Constantine , Théophile Gautier
3.92
Format: None pages, Paperback
A woman uses her incredible beauty to captivate both d'Albert, a young poet, and disguised as a man… read more
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14. The Tanners
By: Robert Walser , W.G. Sebald , Susan Bernofsky , Jo Catling
4.20
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Tanners, Robert Walser's amazing 1907 novel of twenty chapters, is now presented in English for… read more
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15. Confessions of a Young Man
By: George Moore
4.07
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
George Augustus Moore (1852-1933) was an Irish novelist, short story writer, poet, art critic, memo… read more
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16. On the Abolition of All Political Parties
By: Czesław Miłosz , Simone Weil , Simon Leys
4.05
Format: 73 pages, Paperback
A brilliant woman who was a study in fiercely maintained contradictions, a star student who went to… read more
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- france
"When water is set in motion by a violent, impetuous current, it ceases to reflect images. Its surface is no longer level; it can no more measure densities. Whether it is moved by a single current or …"-Czesław Miłosz, On the Abolition of All Political Parties
17. Augustus
By: John Williams
3.11
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
A brilliant and beautifully written novel in the tradition of Robert Graves' I, Claudius, Augustusi… read more
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18. Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
By: Marcel Proust , Simon Vance , Lydia Davis
4.15
Format: 710 pages, Mass Market Paperback
«Et tout d'un coup le souvenir m'est apparu. Ce goût, c'était celui du petit morceau de madeleine q… read more
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- french literature
"Longtemps, je me suis couché de bonne heure."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"the comfort of reclusion, the poetry of hibernation"-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"Now are the woods all black, But still the sky is blue."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"Fall in love with a dog's bum, And thou'll think it pretty as a plum."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
19. The Aeneid
By: Virgil , Robert Fitzgerald
4.50
Format: 228 pages, Paperback
The Aeneid (play /@'ni:Id/; Latin: Aeneis [aj'ne:is]--the title is Greek in form: genitive case Aen… read more
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20. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
By: James Joyce , Seamus Deane
3.64
Format: 329 pages, Paperback
The portrayal of Stephen Dedalus's Dublin childhood and youth, his quest for identity through art a… read more
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"My heart is quite calm now. I will go back."-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
"God spoke to you by so many voices but you would not hear."-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
"Are you not weary of ardent ways? Tell no more of enchanted days."-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
"He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place."-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
21. Mysteries
By: Knut Hamsun
5.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
In a Norwegian coastal town, society's carefully woven threads begin to unravel when an unsettling … read more
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22. Heretics
By: G.K. Chesterton
4.20
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
G. K. Chesterton, the "Prince of Paradox," is at his witty best in this collection of twenty essays… read more
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23. The Misanthrope
By: Molière
3.89
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Misanthropeor Le Misanthrope ou l'Atrabilaire amoureuxis a comedy of manners in five acts and i… read more
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24. What Maisie Knew
By: Henry James , Paul Theroux , Patricia Crick
4.07
Format: 248 pages,
After her parents' bitter divorce, young Maisie Farange finds herself turned into a 'little feather… read more
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25. Titus Groan (Gormenghast, #1)
By: Mervyn Peake
4.27
Format: 197 pages, Paperback
Starts with the birth and ends with the first birthday celebrations of the heir to the grand, tradi… read more
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26. Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)
By: C.S. Lewis
4.00
Format: 314 pages, Paperback
The second book in C. S. Lewis's acclaimed Space Trilogy, which also includes Out of the Silent Pla… read more
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"Say a child’s prayer if you can’t say a man’s."-C.S. Lewis, Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)
"It is not for nothing that you are named Ransom,"-C.S. Lewis, Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)
"The joy came from finding at last what hatred was made for."-C.S. Lewis, Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)
"About this time tomorrow, you will have done the impossible."-C.S. Lewis, Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)
27. The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)
By: Guy de Maupassant
3.89
Format: 159 pages, Paperback
Before succumbing to the insanity that ravaged his later life, Guy de Maupassant established a repu… read more
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- classics
- 19th century
- france
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"A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption."-Guy de Maupassant, The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)
"Es evidente que la soledad resulta peligrosa para las mentes que piensan demasiado."-Guy de Maupassant, The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)
"I said, 'If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn't we meet them a long time ago?"-Guy de Maupassant, The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)
"Whence come those mysterious influences which change our happiness into discouragement, and our self-confidence into diffidence?"-Guy de Maupassant, The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)
28. Stream System: The Collected Short Fiction of Gerald Murnane
By: Gerald Murnane
4.01
Format: 560 pages, Paperback
Stories from a mind-bending Australian master, "a genius on the level of Beckett" (Teju Cole) Ne… read more
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29. Le Tournoi des preux (Le Chevalier aux épines #1)
By: Jean-Philippe Jaworski
4.24
Format: 521 pages, Paperback
Soupçonnée d'adultère, la duchesse Audéarde de Bromael a été jugée, répudiée et emprisonnée. Le cha… read more
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- france
30. Le Conte de l'assassin (Le Chevalier aux épines #2)
By: Jean-Philippe Jaworski
4.56
Format: 560 pages, Paperback
Le grand retour du tueur à gages Don Benvenuto. Au cours du tournoi de Lyndinas, l'épreuve de forc… read more
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"Vous savez la picorée militaire c'est comme une infestation de poux : ça vous tombe dessus en bande, ça suce le sang, c'est pénible, ça vous laisse minable, mais ça tue rarement son glaiseux tant qu'…"-Jean-Philippe Jaworski, Le Conte de l'assassin (Le Chevalier aux épines #2)
31. En Route (European Classics)
By: Joris-Karl Huysmans
3.98
Format: 322 pages, Paperback
En Route continues the story of Durtal, a modern anti-hero; solitary, agonised and alienated. Robbe… read more
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- 19th century
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- european literature
- france
- french literature
- fiction
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"But that which remains for ever incomprehensible is the initial horror, the horror imposed on each of us, of having to live, and that is a mystery no philosophy can explain."-Joris-Karl Huysmans, En Route (European Classics)
"Every one has a sum of physical and moral suffering to pay, and whoever does not settle it here below, defrays it after death; happiness is only lent, and must be repaid; its very phantoms are like d…"-Joris-Karl Huysmans, En Route (European Classics)
"All have suffered shipwreck. The Church, unbending in this matter, has remained upright and entire. She orders the body to be silent, and the soul to suffer, and contrary to all probability, humanity…"-Joris-Karl Huysmans, En Route (European Classics)
