Close Reading: The Basics: The Basics
By: David Greenham
3.48
Format: 180 pages, Hardcover
Close reading is the most essential skill that literature students continue to develop across the f…
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1. Antichrista
By: Amélie Nothomb , Shaun Whiteside
3.41
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
When Blanche's mother, who finds her own daughter rather colourless, bookish and dull, is also dazz… read more
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"Cei care cred că a citi înseamnă o fugă de realitate se situează la polul opus adevărului: a citi înseamnă a te plasa în prezenţa realului în starea sa cea mai concentrată - ceea ce, în mod bizar, es…"-Amélie Nothomb, Antichrista
2. 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
3. Things I Don't Want to Know
By: Deborah Levy
4.09
Format: 109 pages, Hardcover
'Perhaps when Orwell described sheer egoism as a necessary quality for a writer, he was not thinkin… read more
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"Now that we were mothers we were all shadows of our former selves, chased by the women we used to be before we had children."-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know
"When happiness is happening it feels as if nothing else happened before it, it is a sensation that happens only in the present tense."-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know
"The fact that lipstick and mascara and eye shadow were called 'Make Up' thrilled me. Everywhere in the world there were made up people and most of them were women."-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know
"To become a WRITER I had to learn to INTERRUPT, to speak up, to speak a little louder, and then LOUDER, and then to just speak in my own voice which is NOT LOUD AT ALL."-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know
4. How Fiction Works
By: James Wood
4.16
Format: 84 pages, Paperback
What makes a story a story? What is style? What's the connection between realism and real life? The… read more
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5. The Beauty Myth
By: Naomi Wolf
3.91
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
The bestselling classic that redefined our view of the relationship between beauty and female ident… read more
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"Only God, my dear,"-Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth
"Women are mere “beauties"-Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth
"Health makes good propaganda."-Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth
"Sexuality follows fashion, which follows politics."-Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth
6. Nutcracker
By: E.T.A. Hoffmann , Ralph Manheim , Maurice Sendak
3.93
Format: 245 pages, Hardcover
The tale of Nutcracker, written by E.T.A. Hoffmann in 1816, has fascinated and inspired artists, co… read more
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7. Accabadora
By: Michela Murgia
4.07
Format: 166 pages, Hardcover
La Sardegna degli anni Cinquanta è un mondo antico sull’orlo del precipizio. Maria ha sei anni ed è… read more
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"Quan es té prou temps, fins i tot la ràbia s'organitza."-Michela Murgia, Accabadora
"En la hora de la debilidad algunos prefieren hacerse creyentes que fuertes"-Michela Murgia, Accabadora
"-¿Quieres juzgar el cómo sin entender el porqué? Siempre tienes prisa por dictar sentencias, Maria. (Bonaria Urria)"-Michela Murgia, Accabadora
"Come gli occhi della civetta, ci sono pensieri che non sopportano la luce piena. Non possono nascere che di notte, dove la loro funzione è la stessa della luna, necessaria a smuovere maree di senso i…"-Michela Murgia, Accabadora
8. Acide sulfurique
By: Amélie Nothomb
3.81
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
<> Concentration : la derniere-nee des emissions televisees. On enleve des gens, on recrute des kap… read more
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9. Fathers and Sons
By: Ivan Turgenev , None , None
3.99
Format: 244 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Bazarov—a gifted, impatient, and caustic young man—has journeyed from school to the home of his fri… read more
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"He has no faith in principles, only in frogs."-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons
"Death's an old story, but new for each person."-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons
"I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze."-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons
"However, I know myself as a very unhappy person."-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons
10. Elizabeth
By: None
4.36
Format: 303 pages,
From the flyleaf: Elizabeth thought that she was a young girl like any other girl - until the day t… read more
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11. La settimana bianca
By: Emmanuel Carrère , Maurizia Balmelli
3.90
Format: 15 pages, Paperback
<>ha raccontato una volta Emmanuel Carrere <>. All'inizio, infatti, il piccolo Nicolas ha tutta l'a… read more
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12. Come Dio comanda
By: Niccolò Ammaniti
4.46
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Rino e Cristiano Zena sono padre e figlio, e sono una famiglia, perche la madre se n'e andata e lor… read more
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13. Baumgartner
By: Paul Auster
3.78
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A taut yet expansive novel of love, memory, and grief from Paul Auster, best-selling, award-winning… read more
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"Vivir es sentir dolor, y vivir con miedo al dolor es negarse a vivir"-Paul Auster, Baumgartner
"To live is to feel pain, he told himself, and to live in fear of pain is to refuse to live."-Paul Auster, Baumgartner
"at some point in the coming years, the two books should be combined and reconfigured into a large, one-volume collected poems—a monument of singing pages that will overwhelm the silence of Anna’s gra…"-Paul Auster, Baumgartner
"the story turns out to be so astounding and so powerful that your jaw drops open and you feel that it has changed or enhanced or deepened your understanding of the world, does it matter if the story …"-Paul Auster, Baumgartner
14. L’ultima cosa bella sulla faccia della terra
By: Michael Bible
3.60
Format: 135 pages, ebook
Mentre tutti sono raccolti in preghiera, dall’ultima fila Iggy avanza verso il centro della chiesa.… read more
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"Quegli anni sono così malinconici e bizzarri. Per effetto del vento sembrava che le azalee levitassero a una spanna da terra. I cani dei vicini, Sale e Pepe, abbaiavano come due innamorati durante un…"-Michael Bible, L’ultima cosa bella sulla faccia della terra
15. Abel. Un western metafisico
By: Alessandro Baricco
3.47
Format: 160 pages, ebook
Dopo La sposa giovane, Alessandro Baricco torna al romanzo con una storia spirituale, sapienziale, … read more
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"Di tutta la vita che si è vissuta e si vivrà - a saper aspettare, e prima che tutto si dissolva - si incontra il racconto, in attimi speciali, sulla propria strada"-Alessandro Baricco, Abel. Un western metafisico
"Quella volta, Joshua mi rivelò un segreto che poi, come un seme, sarebbe germogliato in me, nel tempo di molti anni e molti dolorosi pensieri. Disse che dovevo stare molto attento perché sebbene la v…"-Alessandro Baricco, Abel. Un western metafisico
16. Il silenzio è cosa viva: L'arte della meditazione
By: Chandra Livia Candiani
4.22
Format: 103 pages, Kindle Edition
Nel mondo di Chandra, dove la parola è anche immagine e poesia, meditare è anzitutto stare fermi; s… read more
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17. Che significa diventare adulti?
By: Banana Yoshimoto
3.32
Format: 84 pages, Kindle Edition
Che significa diventare adulti? Si deve studiare per forza? Che cos’è la normalità? Che succede qua… read more
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18. La strega
By: Shirley Jackson
3.34
Format: 66 pages, Paperback
Tre dei racconti qui riuniti hanno come protagoniste quelle creaturine infide, pericolose, enigmati… read more
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19. Noi vogliamo tutto: Cronache da una società indifferente (Italian Edition)
By: Flavia Carlini
4.39
Format: 169 pages, Kindle Edition
Non c’è cambiamento senza verità e non c’è futuro senza memoria. Cosa significa abitare un Paese d… read more
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20. Mussolini ha fatto anche cose buone. Le idiozie che continuano a circolare sul fascismo
By: Francesco Filippi
4.06
Format: 160 pages, ebook
Dopo oltre settant’anni dalla caduta del fascismo, mai come ora l’idra risolleva la testa, soprattu… read more
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"Ripetete una bugia cento, mille, un milione di volte, e diventerà una verità», pare dicesse il ministro della propaganda Joseph Goebbels quando illustrava, come uno chef orgoglioso della propria rice…"-Francesco Filippi, Mussolini ha fatto anche cose buone. Le idiozie che continuano a circolare sul fascismo
"Se si guardano le informazioni sui reati, bisogna ammettere che durante il regime fascista, tra il 1924 e il 1943, le statistiche ufficiali riportano un crollo dei reati mafiosi in Sicilia, che addir…"-Francesco Filippi, Mussolini ha fatto anche cose buone. Le idiozie che continuano a circolare sul fascismo
21. Close Reading: The Basics: The Basics
By: David Greenham
3.48
Format: 180 pages, Hardcover
Close reading is the most essential skill that literature students continue to develop across the f… read more
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