Palimpsests: Literature in the Second Degree (Stages)
By: Gérard Genette
4.12
Format: 508 pages, Paperback
By definition, a palimpsest is “a written document, usually on vellum or parchment, that has been w…
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1. The Dying Animal
By: Philip Roth
3.62
Format: 156 pages,
'No matter how much you know, no matter how much you think, no matter how much you plot and you con… read more
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"Maybe it's still a bit of an affront to people, to fail to abide by the old clock of life."-Philip Roth, The Dying Animal
"When you're beguiled it helps not to think too much and just to let yourself enjoy the beguilement."-Philip Roth, The Dying Animal
"You tasted it. Isn't that enough? Of what do you ever get more than a taste? That's all we're given in life, that's all we're given of life. A taste. There is no more."-Philip Roth, The Dying Animal
"The only obsession everyone wants: 'love.' People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you're whole before you begin. And …"-Philip Roth, The Dying Animal
2. A Passage to India
By: E.M. Forster , Pankaj Mishra , Oliver Stallybrass
3.68
Format: 376 pages, Paperback
When Adela Quested and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandrapore, th… read more
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"Adventures do occur, but not punctually."-E.M. Forster, A Passage to India
"There are different ways of evil and I prefer mine to yours."-E.M. Forster, A Passage to India
"A friendliness, as of dwarfs shaking hands, was in the air..."-E.M. Forster, A Passage to India
"I think everyone fails, but there are so many kinds of failure."-E.M. Forster, A Passage to India
3. Dimentica il mio nome
By: Zerocalcare
4.39
Format: 236 pages, Hardcover
Quando l'ultimo pezzo della sua infanzia se ne va, Zerocalcare scopre cose sulla propria famiglia c… read more
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"Forse crescere significa anche questo. Accettare che quel monte che protegge la vallata ha anche un altro versante, nascosto. Che il terreno non è tutto uguale, ci sono zone più fertili, altre più ar…"-Zerocalcare, Dimentica il mio nome
4. Madame Bovary
By: Gustave Flaubert , Margaret Mauldon , Malcolm Bowie , Mark Overstall
3.70
Format: 329 pages, Paperback
Madame Bovary is the debut novel of French writer Gustave Flaubert, published in 1856. The characte… read more
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"Every notary carries about inside him the debris of a poet."-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
"Speech is a rolling-mill that always thins out the sentiment."-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
"How oft the warmth of the sun above Makes a pretty young girl dream of love."-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
"For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat."-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
5. The Kreutzer Sonata
By: Doris Lessing , Leo Tolstoy , Isai Kamen
3.87
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
When Marshal of the Nobility Pozdnyshev suspects his wife of having an affair with her music partne… read more
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"In a large city the unhappy feel their sadness less acutely."-Doris Lessing, The Kreutzer Sonata
"It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness."-Doris Lessing, The Kreutzer Sonata
"Yes, man is much worse than the animal when he does not live like a man."-Doris Lessing, The Kreutzer Sonata
"Удивительное дело, какая полная бывает иллюзия того, что красота есть добро."-Doris Lessing, The Kreutzer Sonata
6. The Poetic Edda
By: Anonymous , Lee M. Hollander
4.26
Format: 331 pages, Paperback
The Poetic Eddacomprises a treasure trove of mythic and spiritual verse holding an important place … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
7. Sostiene Pereira
By: Antonio Tabucchi
4.35
Format: None pages, Paperback
Lisboa, 1938. En una Europa recorrida por el fantasma de los totalitarismos, Pereira, un periodista… read more
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8. A Dying Colonialism
By: Frantz Fanon , Haakon Chevalier
4.02
Format: None pages, Paperback
An incisive and illuminating account of how, during the Algerian Revolution, the people of Algeria … read more
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- philosophy
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- history
9. Never Let Me Go
By: Kazuo Ishiguro
3.84
Format: 135 pages, Paperback
A tale of deceptive simplicity that slowly reveals an extraordinary emotional depth and resonance -… read more
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10. The Last Day of a Condemned Man
By: Victor Hugo , Libby Purves , Geoff Woollen
3.98
Format: 109 pages, Paperback
Deeply shocking in its time, The Last Day of a Condemned Man is a profound and moving tale and a vi… read more
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"إن الموت يجعلني إنساناً شريراً !!"-Victor Hugo, The Last Day of a Condemned Man
"كنت قادراً على التفكير في كل ما يسرني ، لأني كنتُ حراً"-Victor Hugo, The Last Day of a Condemned Man
"¡Cuantós han muerto habiendo hecho planes para una larga vida!"-Victor Hugo, The Last Day of a Condemned Man
"ماذا عراني فصرت بهذه الدرجة من التخاذل والإنهيار؟ إن باب القبر لا يُفتح من الداخل!!"-Victor Hugo, The Last Day of a Condemned Man
11. The Flight of Icarus
By: Barbara Wright , Raymond Queneau
3.64
Format: None pages, Paperback
Le Vol d'Icare est le dernier roman de Raymond Queneau, paru en 1968. Huber, un auteur a partir de … read more
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12. Memoirs of Hadrian
By: Marguerite Yourcenar , Grace Frick
4.23
Format: 347 pages, Paperback
Both an exploration of character and a reflection on the meaning of history, Memoirs of Hadrian has… read more
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"And it was at about this time that I began to feel myself divine."-Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian
"I was willing to yield to nostalgia, that melancholy residue of desire."-Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian
"La morale è una convenzione privata; il decoro è una faccenda pubblica."-Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian
"Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul..."-Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian
13. Rain (Blackwater, #6)
By: Michael McDowell
4.16
Format: 190 pages, Paperback
The mysterious saga of the Caskey family concludes in Blackwater VI: Rain. Time heals old wound… read more
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14. The Betrothed
By: Alessandro Manzoni , Bruce Penman
3.85
Format: 720 pages, Paperback
Gyldendal-klassiker. Med utgivelsen av Alessandro Manzonis Dei trulovade i Gyldendals nye klassiker… read more
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"Costui, [...] un giorno osò rivolgerle il discorso. La sventurata rispose."-Alessandro Manzoni, The Betrothed
"One the advantages about this life is that you can hate someone without knowing him"-Alessandro Manzoni, The Betrothed
"He who utters falsehoods to the [lawyer] is a fool who will tell the truth to the judge."-Alessandro Manzoni, The Betrothed
"Non si può spiegare quanto sia grande l'autorità d'un dotto di professione, allorché vuol dimostrare agli altri le cose di cui sono già persuasi."-Alessandro Manzoni, The Betrothed
15. Grave of the Fireflies
By: Akiyuki Nosaka , James R. Abrams
4.00
Format: None pages, Library Binding
Japan Quarterly Oct-Dec, Vol.XXV No.4, 1978 "Grave of the Fireflies (Huo Chui runoMu Hotaru no Haka… read more
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16. As You Like It
By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine
3.59
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
As You Like Itis a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1599 or … read more
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17. Interpretation and Overinterpretation
By: Umberto Eco , Christine Brooke-Rose , Jonathan D. Culler , Stefan Collini , Richard Rorty
3.73
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
Umberto Eco, international best-selling novelist and leading literary theorist, here brings togethe… read more
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18. The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre
By: Richard Howard , Tzvetan Todorov , Robert Scholes
3.61
Format: 8 pages, Paperback
In The Fantastic, Tzvetan Todorov seeks to examine both generic theory and a particular genre, movi… read more
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19. The Turn of the Screw
By: Henry James
3.39
Format: 121 pages, Paperback
The Turn of the Screw is an 1898 horror novella by Henry James that first appeared in serial format… read more
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"When I'm bad I am bad !"-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
"He fairly glittered in the gloom."-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
"I was ready to know the very worst that was to be known."-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
"There was something between them." "There was everything."-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
20. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
By: Unknown , None , Burton Raffel
4.50
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
Written by an anonymous 14th-century poet, this epic poem is recognized as an equal of Chaucer's ma… read more
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21. Elements of the Philosophy of Right
By: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel , Allen W. Wood , Raymond Geuss
4.19
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
This book is a translation of a classic work of modern social and political thought, Elements of th… read more
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22. Shakespeare's Sonnets
By: William Shakespeare , Katherine Duncan-Jones
4.45
Format: 122 pages, Paperback
T.S. Eliot once wrote that, "Shakespeare gives the greatest width of human passion," and it is this… read more
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23. Theory Of The Modern Drama: A Critical Edition
By: None
2.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
`Theory of the Modern Drama' is a brilliant analysis of the emergence and development of modern dra… read more
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24. I miei stupidi intenti
By: Bernardo Zannoni
3.78
Format: 252 pages, Paperback
Questa è la lunga vita di una faina, raccontata di suo pugno. Fra gli alberi dei boschi, le colline… read more
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25. Niente di vero
By: Veronica Raimo
3.59
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Prendete lo spirito dissacrante che trasforma nevrosi, sesso e disastri famigliari in commedia, da … read more
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"Quando finalmente arrivò la scoperta dei libri, non fu una forma di evasione, piuttosto una rasserenante coalescenza di noia. Riuscivo quasi a visualizzarla, bianca e melmosa: leggere era come sprofo…"-Veronica Raimo, Niente di vero
26. Trilogía
By: Jon Fosse
3.90
Format: 162 pages, Paperback
Trilogía es un libro diferente. Es hipnótico. Para Jon Fosse escribir es como rezar y, para el lect… read more
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27. Okay Days
By: Jenny Mustard
3.76
Format: 340 pages, Hardcover
‘A perfect Millennial love story ... with its acidic dialogue and languid sex scenes. A charming an… read more
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"She'd learned by that point that she couldn't fix people. all she needed to know, really, in any human transaction, was wether it was right for her; wether it fit. That was why she'd dumped Luke when…"-Jenny Mustard, Okay Days
28. A babbo morto. Una storia di Natale
By: Zerocalcare
3.66
Format: 64 pages, Hardcover
Natale… i regali, il cenone, i parenti… ma ci avete mai pensato alle condizioni di lavoro dei folle… read more
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29. Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS
By: Myeongseok Kang
4.64
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
THE FIRST EVER OFFICIAL BOOK— Published in celebration of BTS’s 10th Anniversary, stories that g… read more
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- history
"Adjusting' seems to be the right word. Because once I entered the dorm, I realized, 'Ah, I guess this is how I should live from now."-Myeongseok Kang, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS
"However, some people—like B-Free—act as if they are judges at an audition, publicly passing judgment on idol groups' musical identities in spite of not having that authority."-Myeongseok Kang, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS
"Jin also injected the team with a sense of calm. There's steps to everything. Sometimes you have to climb slowly. And we knew that all the other people who succeeded climbed up slowly, little by litt…"-Myeongseok Kang, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS
"I still have no idea why, but we seriously only ever stuck with one another. And I think it must have been hard for other people to approach us, too. We were all clearly on edge because we were deter…"-Myeongseok Kang, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS
30. Palimpsests: Literature in the Second Degree (Stages)
By: Gérard Genette
4.12
Format: 508 pages, Paperback
By definition, a palimpsest is “a written document, usually on vellum or parchment, that has been w… read more
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- france
- essays
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- books about books
- literary criticism
31. La fortuna (Blackwater, #5)
By: Michael McDowell
4.04
Format: 186 pages, Kindle Edition
1946. Come un organismo vivente, la famiglia Caskey si sviluppa e si trasforma. Alcuni affrontano l… read more
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