Winter of Artifice
By: Anaïs Nin
3.80
Format: 130 pages, Paperback
Winter of Artifice is a collection of ‘Stella,’ ‘Winter of Artifice,’ and ‘The Voice.’
Want to Read $ 4.99"She wants to flow out, and here her love lies coiled inside and choking her, because her father is her double, her shadow, and she does not know which one is real. One of them must die so that the other may find the boundaries of himself."-Anaïs Nin, Winter of Artifice
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1. The Volcano Lover
By: Susan Sontag
3.64
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
Set in 18th century Naples, based on the lives of Sir William Hamilton, his celebrated wife Emma, a… read more
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"To travel is to shop."-Susan Sontag, The Volcano Lover
"Desire wills its perpetuation ad infinitum."-Susan Sontag, The Volcano Lover
"How much self-love comes in the guise of selfless devotion!"-Susan Sontag, The Volcano Lover
"With genius, as with beauty -- all, well almost all, is forgiven."-Susan Sontag, The Volcano Lover
2. The Diving Pool: Three Novellas
By: Yōko Ogawa , Stephen Snyder , Stephen Snyder
3.69
Format: 164 pages, Paperback
From Akutagawa Award-winning author Yoko Ogawa comes a haunting trio of novellas about love, fertil… read more
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- literary fiction
- short stories
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"I couldn't reach him from here even if I tried."-Yōko Ogawa, The Diving Pool: Three Novellas
"When we grow up, we find ways to hide our anxieties, our loneliness, our fear and sorrow. But children hide nothing, putting everything into their tears, which they spread liberally about for the who…"-Yōko Ogawa, The Diving Pool: Three Novellas
"Since that time, I've had many similar moments, and I can never hear the words "family" and "home" without feeling that they sound strange, never simply hear them and let them go. When I stop to exam…"-Yōko Ogawa, The Diving Pool: Three Novellas
"I wonder how she broke the news to her husband. I don't really know what they talk about when I'm not around. In fact, I don't really understand couples at all. They seem like some sort of inexplicab…"-Yōko Ogawa, The Diving Pool: Three Novellas
3. The Unknown Henry Miller: A Seeker in Big Sur
By: Arthur Hoyle
4.19
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Henry Miller was one of the most distinctive voices in twentieth-century literature. Better known i… read more
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4. The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly
By: Sun-mi Hwang , Chi-Young Kim , Nomoco
3.99
Format: 134 pages, Paperback
A Korean Charlotte's Web This is the story of a hen named Sprout. No longer content to lay eggs … read more
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"لا أدري لماذا حياتي صعبة هكذا. هل يحصل هذا معي لأن لدي حلمًا؟"-Sun-mi Hwang, The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly
"كانت حياتي قاسية, لكنني كنت سعيدة جدًا, وتمكنت من البقاء حية بسبب ذلك الحلم"-Sun-mi Hwang, The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly
"كان المكان هادئًا رغم انتهاء حياةٍ غاليةٍ على قلبها. كانت الأشجار والنجوم والقمر و العشب كلها هادئة, وكأنها تتظاهر بأنها لم تشاهد أي شيء."-Sun-mi Hwang, The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly
"Nur weil man zur selben Art gehört, heißt das nicht, dass man eine große glückliche Familie ist. Das Wichtigste ist, dass man sich versteht. Das ist Liebe!"-Sun-mi Hwang, The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly
5. Beware of Pity
By: Stefan Zweig , Phyllis Blewitt , Trevor Blewitt
4.67
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
The great Austrian writer Stefan Zweig was a master anatomist of the deceitful heart, and Beware of… read more
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6. Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis
By: Wendy Cope
3.82
Format: None pages, Paperback
Offers parodies of William Wordsworth, T.S. Eliot, and Emily Dickinson, and humorous sonnets, haiku… read more
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7. Bridge to the Soul: Journeys Into the Music and Silence of the Heart
By: Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi , Coleman Barks , A.J. Arberry , None
4.38
Format: 234 pages, Hardcover
2007 is the "Year of Rumi," and who better than Coleman Barks, Rumi's unlikely, supremely passionat… read more
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8. 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
9. When My Brother Was an Aztec
By: Natalie Díaz
3.66
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
"I write hungrysentences," Natalie Diaz once explained in an interview, "because they want more and… read more
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10. A Devil in Paradise
By: Henry Miller
4.14
Format: None pages, Paperback
The devil in Henry Miller's Big Sur paradise is Conrad Moricand: A friend of his Paris days, who, h… read more
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11. Nightwood
By: T.S. Eliot , Jeanette Winterson , Djuna Barnes
4.07
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Nightwood, Djuna Barnes' strange and sinuous tour de force, "belongs to that small class of books t… read more
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12. Pew
By: Catherine Lacey
3.70
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In a small unnamed town in the American South, a church congregation arrives to a service and finds… read more
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"The human mind is so easily bent, and so uneasily smoothed."-Catherine Lacey, Pew
"Why did living feel so invisibly brief and unbearably long at once?"-Catherine Lacey, Pew
"What a terror a body must live through. It’s a wonder there are people at all."-Catherine Lacey, Pew
"Did you have parents or just some people who thought they should own somebody?"-Catherine Lacey, Pew
13. Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
By: Eve Babitz
4.10
Format: 178 pages, Hardcover
Eve Babitz captured the voluptuous quality of L.A. in the1960s in a wildly original, totally unique… read more
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"The only time men fall in love with roses is on douche commercials."-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
"...chivalry was just another nefarious masculine scheme to keep women in their place."-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
"Well, who is he?' I asked, the first time I saw Mary with his glazed expression. 'Money,' Mary said."-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
"It's very easy to stand L.A., which is why it's almost inevitable that all sorts of ideas get entertained."-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
14. She and Her Cat: Stories
By: Makoto Shinkai
3.89
Format: 135 pages, Hardcover
For fans of Mieko Kawakami’s Breasts and Eggs and Murata Sayaka’s Earthlings, this Japanese bestsel… read more
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"I recalled that rainy day when I'd rescued Chobi-or so I'd arrogantly believed at the time. Actually, I was the one who'd been rescued."-Makoto Shinkai, She and Her Cat: Stories
15. Anyone's Ghost
By: August Thompson
4.11
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An extraordinary debut novel in which the transforming love and friendship between two young men du… read more
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16. Dead-End Memories: Stories
By: Banana Yoshimoto
3.90
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Japan's internationally celebrated master storyteller returns with five stories of women on their w… read more
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"There was a candor about him I noticed in people whose parents had given them something unconditional and absolute growing up."-Banana Yoshimoto, Dead-End Memories: Stories
"Time simply floated open and started to expand. Time held the two of us in light, inside a space so vast it might have reached the heavens, and turned eternal."-Banana Yoshimoto, Dead-End Memories: Stories
"Anyone seeing us would have thought we were newlyweds, or a nice cohabiting couple. But we were only two people, a little regretful, and soon to part. We were having so much fun. It made me sad."-Banana Yoshimoto, Dead-End Memories: Stories
"The words I read in books seemed to strike me more deeply, and with my senses sharpened by grief, I noticed the glittering transition of the seasons as clearly as if I held the grief in the palm of m…"-Banana Yoshimoto, Dead-End Memories: Stories
17. The Glutton
By: A.K. Blakemore
3.80
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A subversive historical novel set during the French Revolution, inspired by a young peasant boy tur… read more
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18. Catherine House
By: Elisabeth Thomas
3.12
Format: 311 pages, Hardcover
A story about a dangerously curious young undergraduate whose rebelliousness leads her to discover … read more
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"I couldn't be here anymore. I couldn't be in me. But I couldn't be anywhere else, either. I had nowhere else to go."-Elisabeth Thomas, Catherine House
"Tonight, we celebrate the precious quiet of wintertime,' she said. 'And how lovely is this time of silence and work and anticipation and decay?' She looked up. 'Here at Catherine, we know not to fear…"-Elisabeth Thomas, Catherine House
"You are in the house and the house in the woods. The woods are in the house. The stairs are in the house. Down the stairs is the hallway, and at the end of the hallway is the ballroom. You are in the…"-Elisabeth Thomas, Catherine House
19. Carnality
By: Lina Wolff
3.68
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
In this latest novel from the award-winning author of The Polyglot Lovers, a writer searching for i… read more
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"Ada rose even more in my estimation at that. I realized she had got completely lost in the male narrative and her mind, which had to be both sensitive and sharp, had been absorbing fragments of it he…"-Lina Wolff, Carnality
20. The Besieged City
By: Clarice Lispector
3.71
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Seven decades after its original publication, Clarice Lispector’s third novel―the story of a girl a… read more
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"But without anyone's having forced her to choose the sacrifice, was she losing right then her youth through the symbol of youth? and life through the shape of life, her single hand pointing."-Clarice Lispector, The Besieged City
"The girl and a horse represented the two races of builders that had initiated the tradition of the future metropolis, both could figure on its coat of arms. The measly function of the girl in her tim…"-Clarice Lispector, The Besieged City
"The struggle to reach reality—that’s the main objective of this creature who tries, in every way, to cling to whatever exists by means of a total vision of things. I meant to make clear too the way v…"-Clarice Lispector, The Besieged City
"Upon the rubble horses would reappear announcing the rebirth of the old reality, their backs without riders. Because thus it had always been. Until a few men would tie them to wagons, once again erec…"-Clarice Lispector, The Besieged City
21. Winter of Artifice
By: Anaïs Nin
3.80
Format: 130 pages, Paperback
Winter of Artifice is a collection of ‘Stella,’ ‘Winter of Artifice,’ and ‘The Voice.’ read more
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- classics
- american
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- erotica
- short stories
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- french literature
- fiction
- novels
"She wants to flow out, and here her love lies coiled inside and choking her, because her father is her double, her shadow, and she does not know which one is real. One of them must die so that the ot…"-Anaïs Nin, Winter of Artifice
