A Bad Business
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky
3.91
Format: 284 pages, Paperback
A stunning new edition featuring fresh translations of six of this classic Russian writer’s most th…
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1. Doctor Zhivago
By: Boris Pasternak , John Bayley , Manya Harari , Max Hayward
4.01
Format: 592 pages, Paperback
This epic tale about the effects of the Russian Revolution and its aftermath on a bourgeois family … read more
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"Only the superfluous is sordid"-Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
"The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable."-Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
"Only the familiar transformed by genius is truly great."-Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
"And the strong are dominated by the weak and the ignoble."-Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
2. Actual Air
By: David Berman
4.38
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
David Berman reinvents the overlooked and seemingly ordinary details of everyday life--from the sui… read more
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"He stood and watched the night push itself into the bar and the light push it back out."-David Berman, Actual Air
"As a way of getting in touch with my origins every night I set the alarm clock for the time I was born so that waking up becomes a historical reenactment..."-David Berman, Actual Air
3. Being and Nothingness
By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Hazel E. Barnes , Mary Warnock , Richard Eyre
3.99
Format: 688 pages, Paperback
Being & Nothingness is without doubt one of the most significant philosophical books of the 20th ce… read more
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"I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating."-Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness
"Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being - like a worm."-Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness
"It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish."-Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness
"Thus it amounts to the same thing whether one gets drunk alone or is a leader of nations."-Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness
4. Kristin Lavransdatter (Kristin Lavransdatter, #1-3)
By: Tiina Nunnally , Brad Leithauser , Sigrid Undset
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
In her great historical epic Kristin Lavransdatter, set in fourteenth-century Norway, Nobel laureat… read more
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- classics
- fiction
5. The Moonstone
By: Wilkie Collins , Carolyn G. Heilbrun
3.38
Format: None pages, Paperback
"The Moonstone is a page-turner," writes Carolyn Heilbrun. "It catches one up and unfolds its amazi… read more
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- 19th century
- classics
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6. The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol
By: Nikolai Gogol , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky
3.41
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
When Pushkin first read some of the stories in this collection, he declared himself "amazed." "Here… read more
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7. Marcovaldo
By: Italo Calvino , William Weaver
2.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
Marcovaldo is an unskilled worker in a drab industrial city in northern Italy. He is an irrepressib… read more
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8. The Death of Ivan Ilych
By: Leo Tolstoy , Aylmer Maude
4.13
Format: 86 pages, Paperback
Hailed as one of the world's supreme masterpieces on the subject of death and dying, The Death of I… read more
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"If you look for the working classes in fiction, and especially English fiction, all you find is a hole."-Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych
"And the further he departed from childhood and the nearer he came to the present the more worthless and doubtful were the joys."-Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych
"In the depths of his heart he knew that he was dying but, so far from growing used to the idea, he simply did not and could not grasp it."-Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych
"It can't be that life is so senseless and horrible. But if it really has been so horrible and senseless, why must I die and die in agony? There is something wrong!"-Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych
9. A Perfect Day for Bananafish
By: J.D. Salinger
4.70
Format: 84 pages,
"A Perfect Day for Bananafish" is a short story by J. D. Salinger, originally published in the Janu… read more
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10. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
By: Italo Calvino , William Weaver
3.90
Format: 216 pages,
If on a Winter's Night a Traveleris a marvel of ingenuity, an experimental text that looks longingl… read more
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11. The Subterraneans
By: Jack Kerouac
3.89
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
Jack Kerouac, one of the great voices of the Beat generation and author of the classic On the Road,… read more
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12. The Captain's Daughter
By: Alexander Pushkin , Robert Chandler
4.44
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Pushkin's version of the historical novel in the style of Walter Scott, this final prose work also … read more
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13. The Necklace and Other Stories: Maupassant for Modern Times
By: Guy de Maupassant , Sandra Smith
3.95
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
A Parisian civil servant turned protégé of Flaubert, Guy de Maupassant is considered not only one o… read more
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"How strange life is, how fickle! How little is needed for one to be ruined or saved!"-Guy de Maupassant, The Necklace and Other Stories: Maupassant for Modern Times
"I had kissed her at odd times, in out of the way corners, in the manner of a mountain guide, nothing more."-Guy de Maupassant, The Necklace and Other Stories: Maupassant for Modern Times
"She stayed there, in her ball dress, without strength to go to bed, overwhelmed, on a chair, without a fire, without a thought."-Guy de Maupassant, The Necklace and Other Stories: Maupassant for Modern Times
"What do you want?" he then asked her. And with clenched teeth, and trembling with anger, she replied: "I want--I want you to marry me, as you promised." But he only laughed and replied: "Oh! if a man…"-Guy de Maupassant, The Necklace and Other Stories: Maupassant for Modern Times
14. Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
By: David Foster Wallace
4.31
Format: 66 pages, Paperback
In his startling and singular new short story collection, David Foster Wallace nudges at the bounda… read more
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15. The Prank: The Best of Young Chekhov
By: Anton Chekhov , None
4.15
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
An NYRB Classics Original The Prankis Chekhov's own selection of the best of his early work, the fi… read more
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16. Boredom
By: Alberto Moravia , William Weaver , Angus Davidson
4.90
Format: None pages, Paperback
The novels that the great Italian writer Alberto Moravia wrote in the years following the World War… read more
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17. Twelve Angry Men
By: David Mamet , Reginald Rose
4.79
Format: None pages, Paperback
A landmark American drama that inspired a classic film and a Broadway revival--featuring an introdu… read more
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18. Old Babes in the Wood: Stories
By: Margaret Atwood
3.71
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling collection of short stories from the internationally acclaimed, award-winning author of … read more
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"Many things get broken in a war."-Margaret Atwood, Old Babes in the Wood: Stories
"Holiness is a form of monstrosity"-Margaret Atwood, Old Babes in the Wood: Stories
"Many obscure women have been done to death merely for existing."-Margaret Atwood, Old Babes in the Wood: Stories
"They're dead now. A thing that happens increasingly: people die."-Margaret Atwood, Old Babes in the Wood: Stories
19. Kafka: A Graphic Novel Adaptation
By: Nishioka Kyoudai
3.81
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Two cult-favorite Japanese writers present eerie graphic adaptations of 9 classic Kafka short stori… read more
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20. The Complete Tales of Nikolai Gogol (Volume 1)
By: Nikolai Gogol
4.30
Format: 302 pages, Paperback
Nikolai Gogol was an artist who, like Rabelais, Cervantes, Swift, and Sterne, "knew how to walk ups… read more
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21. A Bad Business
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky
3.91
Format: 284 pages, Paperback
A stunning new edition featuring fresh translations of six of this classic Russian writer’s most th… read more
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