5 must-read 19th century books like The Gambler and Other Stories by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Cover of The Gambler and Other Stories by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Gambler and Other Stories

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky

4.15

Format: 386 pages, Paperback

The Gambler and Other Stories is Fyodor Dostoyevsky's collection of one novella and six short stori…

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1. The Yellow Wall-Paper

By: Charlotte Perkins Gilman

4.07

Format: 54 pages, Paperback

'The color is hideous enough, and unreliable enough, and infuriating enough, but the pattern is tor… read more

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  • 19th century
  • fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
"I am a doctor, dear, and I know. You are gaining flesh and color, your appetite is better. I feel really much easier about you." "I don't weigh a bit more," said I, "nor as much; and my appetite may …"

-Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper

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2. The Wretched of the Earth

By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Richard Philcox , Frantz Fanon , Homi K. Bhabha

4.32

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Fr… read more

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  • classics
"إن لجوءك إلى لُغة تكنيكيَّة معناه أنّك قرَّرتَ أن تَعُدَّ الجماهير جاهلة"

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

"Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

"The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much greater business of plunder."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

"إن المناضل ليدرك في كثير من الأحيان أن عمله لا أن يقاتل القوى العدوة فحسب، بل كذلك حبات اليأس المتبلورة في جسم المستعمَر."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

Cover of Berserk, Vol. 7 (Berserk, #7) by Kentaro Miura, Duane Johnson

3. Berserk, Vol. 7 (Berserk, #7)

By: Kentaro Miura , Duane Johnson

4.62

Format: 231 pages, Paperback

Two feudal kingdoms, Midland and Chuder, battle for supremacy in what will become the final clash i… read more

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  • fiction
"Dreams. Win or lose... I'm sure you could spend your whole life chasing one."

-Kentaro Miura, Berserk, Vol. 7 (Berserk, #7)

"Even these thoughts will slip my mind in time. And then..... ...only... ...the beat of my heart still remains."

-Kentaro Miura, Berserk, Vol. 7 (Berserk, #7)

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4. Storm of Steel

By: Michael Hofmann , Ernst Jünger

3.50

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

A memoir of astonishing power, savagery, and ashen lyricism, 'Storm of Steel' illuminates not only … read more

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  • classics
Cover of Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice by Shunryu Suzuki, Huston Smith, Trudy Dixon, Richard Baker

5. Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

By: Shunryu Suzuki , Huston Smith , Trudy Dixon , Richard Baker

4.21

Format: 138 pages, Paperback

“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.” So begins… read more

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"Waves are the practice of the water."

-Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

"You do not say, “This is enlightenment,"

-Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

"Sincerity itself is the railroad track."

-Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

"Zen practice is to open up our small mind."

-Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

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6. Go Tell It on the Mountain

By: James Baldwin

4.35

Format: None pages, Paperback

Go Tell It On The Mountain, first published in 1953, is Baldwin's first major work, a semi-autobiog… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
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7. The Death of Ivan Ilych And Other Stories

By: Leo Tolstoy , Hugh McLean

3.91

Format: None pages, Paperback

Leo Tolstoy combined detailed physical description with perceptive psychological insight to sweep a… read more

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  • russia
  • classics
  • russian literature
  • 19th century
  • literature
  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of Berserk, Vol. 24 by Kentaro Miura, Duane Johnson

8. Berserk, Vol. 24

By: Kentaro Miura , Duane Johnson

4.48

Format: 356 pages, Paperback

Desperate to find a sanctuary where his lover, Casca, will be safe from the demons drawn to her Bra… read more

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  • fiction
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9. The Temple of the Golden Pavilion

By: Yukio Mishima , Ivan Morris

4.48

Format: 252 pages, Hardcover

In The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, celebrated Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima creates a haunting… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
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10. Berserk, Vol. 23

By: Kentaro Miura , Duane Johnson

3.43

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Desperate as Guts, the Black Swordsman, has been to reunite with his former captain and lover, the … read more

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  • fiction

11. Phaedrus

By: Plato , Paul Woodruff , Alexander Nehamas , Albert A. Anderson

3.50

Format: 270 pages, Paperback

Trajectory presents classics of world literature with 21st century features! Our original-text edit… read more

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  • classics
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12. Written on the Body

By: Jeanette Winterson

3.94

Format: 456 pages, Paperback

The most beguilingly seductive novel to date from the author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry. … read more

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  • literature
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
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13. The Go-Between

By: Colm Tóibín , L.P. Hartley

3.99

Format: 326 pages, Paperback

L.P. Hartley's moving exploration of a young boy's loss of innocence The Go-Between is edited with … read more

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  • literature
  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • fiction
"You flew too near the sun and you were scorched."

-Colm Tóibín, The Go-Between

"To see things as they really were--what an empoverishment!"

-Colm Tóibín, The Go-Between

"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."

-Colm Tóibín, The Go-Between

"With the opening of the door, and the installation of electric light in the cupboard, the skeletons had crumbled into dust."

-Colm Tóibín, The Go-Between

14. La bella estate

By: Cesare Pavese

4.06

Format: 205 pages, Paperback

"A quei tempi era sempre festa. Bastava uscire di casa e attraversare la strada, per diventare come… read more

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15. Thirst for Love

By: Yukio Mishima , Alfred H. Marks

4.57

Format: 270 pages, Paperback

In Thirst for Love, Japan's greatest modern writer created a portrait of sexual torment and corrosi… read more

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16. 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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  • literary fiction
  • russia
  • classics
  • russian literature
  • literature
  • 19th century
  • fiction
"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

17. Kasyan from the Beautiful Lands

By: Ivan Turgenev

3.85

Format: 370 pages, Paperback

"No, no, I've got your word for it, I've got to die ... you promised me ... you told me ..." Turgen… read more

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18. The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer

By: None

2.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

Laura Palmer was introduced to television audiences in the opening scenes of "Twin Peaks"--as a bea… read more

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19. 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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  • literature
  • literary fiction
"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)

20. Exile and the Kingdom

By: Albert Camus , Justin O'Brien

3.46

Format: 32 pages,

These six stories, written at the height of Camus' artistic powers, all depict people at decisive, … read more

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21. The Nicomachean Ethics

By: Aristotle , Jonathan Barnes , None , Hugh Tredennick

3.99

Format: 329 pages, Paperback

‘One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly neither can one day, or a brie… read more

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  • classics
"Philosophy can make people sick."

-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

"A man without regrets cannot be cured."

-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

"Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules."

-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

"The beginning seems to be more than half of the whole."

-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

22. A Hero of Our Time

By: Mikhail Lermontov , Paul Foote

3.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

In its adventurous happenings, its abductions, duels, and sexual intrigues, A Hero of Our Timelooks… read more

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23. Berserk, Vol. 25

By: Kentaro Miura , Duane Johnson

3.00

Format: 81 pages, Paperback

Guts the Black Swordsman just can't seem to find a little peace. On his way to the idyllic tranquil… read more

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24. Berserk, Vol. 27

By: Kentaro Miura , Duane Johnson

4.00

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Now equipped with the mystical Berserker Armor, Guts fights on against the dragon-form of Grunbeld … read more

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25. The Worldly Philosophers

By: Robert L. Heilbroner

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Worldly Philosophersnot only enables us to see more deeply into our history but helps us better… read more

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26. Laurus

By: None , Lisa Hayden

4.17

Format: 510 pages, Hardcover

It is the late fifteenth century and a village healer in Russia is powerless to help his beloved as… read more

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27. Berserk, Vol. 26

By: Kentaro Miura , Duane Johnson

3.26

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Guts, the Black Swordsman, goes from the frying pan to the fire as he must enter the mating chamber… read more

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28. The Red and the Black

By: Stendhal , None

3.86

Format: 577 pages, Paperback

Handsome, ambitious Julien Sorel is determined to rise above his humble provincial origins. Soon re… read more

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  • classics
  • literature
  • classic literature
  • 19th century
  • fiction
"A good book is an event in my life."

-Stendhal, The Red and the Black

"Toute vraie passion ne songe qu'a elle."

-Stendhal, The Red and the Black

"It seems that my destiny is to die dreaming."

-Stendhal, The Red and the Black

"A novel is a mirror walking along a main road."

-Stendhal, The Red and the Black

29. The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex/Oedipus at Colonus/Antigone (The Theban Plays, #1–3)

By: Sophocles , Robert Fitzgerald , Dudley Fitts , None

5.00

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

(1939 translation) read more

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30. The Moon Over the Mountain: Maiden's Bookshelf

By: Atsushi Nakajima

4.27

Format: 56 pages, Hardcover

At what cost art? In the course of a routine journey, government inspector Yuan Can encounters h… read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
Cover of The Gambler and Other Stories by Fyodor Dostoevsky

31. The Gambler and Other Stories

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky

4.15

Format: 386 pages, Paperback

The Gambler and Other Stories is Fyodor Dostoyevsky's collection of one novella and six short stori… read more

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  • russia
  • classics
  • russian literature
  • literature
  • 19th century
  • classic literature
  • short stories
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Transform Your Habits

The Yellow Wall-Paper

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

4.07

Transform Your Habits

Berserk, Vol. 7 (Berserk, #7)

Kentaro Miura , Duane Johnson

4.62

Transform Your Habits

Go Tell It on the Mountain

James Baldwin

4.35

Transform Your Habits

The Death of Ivan Ilych And Other Stories

Leo Tolstoy , Hugh McLean

3.91

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Vagabond, Tomo 5

Takehiko Inoue

4.58

Transform Your Habits

Vagabond, tomo 16

Takehiko Inoue

4.58

Transform Your Habits

Vagabond, volumen 12 (Vagabond, #12)

Takehiko Inoue

4.59

Transform Your Habits

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Takehiko Inoue , E.P. Armanda

4.63

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