The Story of my Escape: The story of my escape from the prisons of the Republic of Venice otherwise known as the Leads
By: Giacomo Casanova
3.99
Format: 299 pages, Paperback
Europe's greatest adventurer. Thrown into an escape-proof prison for a crime he probably committed.…
Want to Read $ 3.99"What has infused my very blood with an unconquerable hatred of the whole tribe of fools from the day of my birth is that I become a fool myself whenever I am in their company."-Giacomo Casanova, The Story of my Escape: The story of my escape from the prisons of the Republic of Venice otherwise known as the Leads
"What has infused my very blood with an unconquerable hatred of the whole tribe of fools from the day of my birth is that I become a fool myself whenever I am in their company."-Giacomo Casanova, The Story of my Escape: The story of my escape from the prisons of the Republic of Venice otherwise known as the Leads
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1. The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)
By: Raymond Chandler
4.19
Format: 379 pages, Paperback
Down-and-out drunk Terry Lennox has a problem: his millionaire wife is dead and he needs to get out… read more
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- classics
"To say goodbye is to die a little."-Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)
"I'm killing time and it's dying hard."-Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)
"I'm a native son, born in Santa Rosa."-Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)
"I was as hollow and empty as the spaces between stars."-Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)
2. Taras Bulba
By: Nikolai Gogol , David George Hogarth
3.72
Format: 228 pages, Paperback
Nicolas Gogol (1809-1852) "« Voyons, tourne-toi. Dieu, que tu es drôle ! Qu’est-ce que cette r… read more
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- historical
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"I brought you into this world. It is on me to take it away."-Nikolai Gogol, Taras Bulba
"Our country is the one our soul longs for, the one which is dearest of all to us. My country is—you! That is my native land, and I bear that country in my heart."-Nikolai Gogol, Taras Bulba
"It does not need much wisdom to utter words of reproof; but much wisdom is needed to find such words as do not embitter a man's misfortune, but encourage him, restore to him his spirit, put spurs to …"-Nikolai Gogol, Taras Bulba
"Ukrayna'nın benim yurdum olduğunu kim söylüyor? Kim, ne adına orayı bana yurt olarak vermiş? Ruhumu okşayan, beni sevgiyle kucaklayan her yer ya da her şey benim yurdumdur. Benim yurdum, varlığım her…"-Nikolai Gogol, Taras Bulba
3. Mother
By: Maxim Gorky
3.97
Format: 285 pages, Paperback
1907. Maxim Gorky, pseudonym of Alexei Maksimovich Peshkov, Soviet novelist, playwright and essayis… read more
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- classics
"in music one can hear everything."-Maxim Gorky, Mother
"Başımıza ne geliyorsa, korktuğumuz için geliyor,"-Maxim Gorky, Mother
"ى يصبح لدينا أمهات يرسلن أبناءهن إلى الموت وهن يبتسمن؟"-Maxim Gorky, Mother
"قد خلق الإنسان على صورة الله و مثاله و إليكم ما يفعلون به"-Maxim Gorky, Mother
4. Die heilige Johanna der Schlachthöfe
By: Bertolt Brecht
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
Brecht zeigt in der Heiligen Johanna der Schlachthofe eine grosse Borsenspekulation in Fleisch und … read more
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- classics
5. Mephisto
By: Klaus Mann , Robin Smyth
4.82
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Klaus Mann - Thomas Mann's son - wrote MEPHISTO while living in exile from the Germany of World War… read more
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- classics
6. La familia de Pascual Duarte
By: Camilo José Cela , Alan Hoyle
4.20
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Family of Pascual Duarte is the story of Pascual Duarte--a Spanish peasant born into a brutal w… read more
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7. Galileo
By: Bertolt Brecht , Eric Bentley , Charles Laughton
4.43
Format: None pages, Paperback
Considered by many to be one of Brecht's masterpieces, Galileoexplores the question of a scientist'… read more
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- classics
8. The Name of the Rose
By: Umberto Eco , Seán Barrett , William Weaver
4.14
Format: 552 pages, Paperback
The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother Willi… read more
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- italy
- historical
- classics
- italian literature
"الكتب ليست مجعولة كي نؤمن بما تقوله ولكن لكي نتحرّى فيها."-Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
"Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear."-Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
"The people of God cannot be changed until the outcasts are restored to its body."-Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
"How peaceful life would be without Love, Adso. How Safe. How Tranquil. And how Dull."-Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
9. The Gardener
By: David Small , Sarah Stewart
4.24
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
By the author-and-illustrator team of the bestselling The Library Lydia Grace Finch brings a suitca… read more
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10. Death in Venice
By: Thomas Mann , Michael Cunningham , Michael Henry Heim
3.74
Format: 142 pages, Paperback
The world-famous masterpiece by Nobel laureate Thomas Mann -- here in a new translation by Michael … read more
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- historical
- classics
"Nothing gladdens a writer more than a thought that can become pure feeling and a feeling that can become pure thought."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
"Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
"Denn der Mensch liebt und ehrt den Menschen , solange er ihn nicht zu beurteilen vermag, und die Sehnsucht ist ein Erzeunis mangelhafter Erkenntnis."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
"Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
11. El guerrero a la sombra del cerezo
By: David B. Gil
4.61
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Japon, finales del siglo XVI. El pais deja atras la Era de los Estados en Guerra y se adentra en un… read more
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- historical
12. This Is How You Lose Her
By: Junot Díaz
5.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
On a beach in the Dominican Republic, a doomed relationship flounders. In the heat of a hospital la… read more
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13. Tales of Edgar Allan Poe
By: Edgar Allan Poe , Harry Clarke
3.78
Format: None pages, Leather Bound
King pest -- MS. found in a bottle -- Silence-a fable -- Berenice -- William Wilson -- Ligeia -- Th… read more
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- classics
14. The Unknown Masterpiece
By: Arthur C. Danto , Honoré de Balzac , Richard Howard
3.64
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
One of Honore de Balzac's most celebrated tales, "The Unknown Masterpiece" is the story of a painte… read more
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- classics
15. Le verrou et autres contes grivois
By: Guy de Maupassant
3.37
Format: None pages, Paperback
Quand les femmes sont coquettes et legeres, quand les hommes sont attirants et volages, Maupassant … read more
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16. The Tin Drum
By: Günter Grass
3.75
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
On his third birthday Oskar decides to stop growing. Haunted by the deaths of his parents and wield… read more
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17. The Aspern Papers
By: Henry James
4.22
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this classic 1888 novella, an anonymous narrator relates his obsessive quest to acquire some let… read more
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18. Gomorrah
By: Roberto Saviano
4.03
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking major bestseller in Italy, Gomorrah is Roberto Saviano's gripping nonfiction accou… read more
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19. Kiss of the Spider Woman
By: Manuel Puig
4.01
Format: 281 pages, Paperback
Sometimes they talk all night long. In the still darkness of their cell, Molina re-weaves the glitt… read more
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- classics
"¿Qué pasa que a veces alguien dice algo y conquista para siempre a otra persona?"-Manuel Puig, Kiss of the Spider Woman
"--And the good thing about feeling happy, you know, Valentin? ...It's that you think it's forever, that one's never ever going to feel unhappy again."-Manuel Puig, Kiss of the Spider Woman
"– Io non ci credo alla faccenda del godi e non pensare al domani, Molina. Nessuno gode senza pensare al domani. Va bene solo per il paradiso terrestre."-Manuel Puig, Kiss of the Spider Woman
"—And what's so bad about being soft like a woman? Why is it men or whoever, some poor bastard, some queen, can't be sensitive, too, if he's got a mind to? —I don't know, but sometimes that kind of be…"-Manuel Puig, Kiss of the Spider Woman
20. Das Muschelessen
By: Birgit Vanderbeke
3.64
Format: 127 pages, Paperback
Angespannt wartet die Familie am gedeckten Tisch auf den Vater. Mutter, Tochter und Sohn sitzen vor… read more
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- classics
21. Bodas de sangre
By: Federico García Lorca , Juan Caballero , Allen Josephs
3.95
Format: None pages, Paperback
El tema de esta obra surgio a raiz de una noticia aparecida en prensa: dos amantes se fugan en la v… read more
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22. Keep the Aspidistra Flying
By: George Orwell
4.00
Format: 592 pages, Paperback
London, 1936. Gordon Comstock has declared war on the money god; and Gordon is losing the war. Near… read more
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23. 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
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24. Un animal salvaje
By: Joël Dicker
4.05
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
El 2 de julio de 2022, dos delincuentes se disponen a robar en una importante joyería de Ginebra. U… read more
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25. Commandant (Dutch Edition)
By: Sandro Veronesi
4.05
Format: 150 pages, Kindle Edition
Er doen allerlei verhalen de ronde over onderzeebootcommandant Salvatore Todaro. Hij is een magiër,… read more
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26. The Full Moon Coffee Shop (The Full Moon Coffee Shop, #1)
By: Mai Mochizuki
3.67
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Translated from the Japanese bestseller, this charming and magical novel, inspired by the myth of c… read more
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27. Cuentos de Chejóv (Spanish Edition)
By: Anton Chekhov
4.14
Format: 372 pages, Kindle Edition
Este ebook presenta "Cuentos de Chéjov" con un sumario dinámico y detallado.Este libro es una selec… read more
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- classics
"When dawn comes I'm sitting in bed with my arms around my knees and, since I have nothing to do, am trying to know myself. "Know yourself"--what splendid and useful advice; too bad the ancients never…"-Anton Chekhov, Cuentos de Chejóv (Spanish Edition)
"April was just beginning, and after the warm spring day it turned cooler, slightly frosty, and a breath of spring could be felt in the soft, cold air. The road from the convent to town was sandy, the…"-Anton Chekhov, Cuentos de Chejóv (Spanish Edition)
28. Medea
By: Rosie Hewlett
4.22
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Medea longs for a different life. Since childhood, she has been separated from her sister, shunned … read more
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- historical
"I hate him for infecting me with this love I have carried for so long – I wish I could remove it, sever it from me like an infected limb."-Rosie Hewlett, Medea
29. The Story of my Escape: The story of my escape from the prisons of the Republic of Venice otherwise known as the Leads
By: Giacomo Casanova
3.99
Format: 299 pages, Paperback
Europe's greatest adventurer. Thrown into an escape-proof prison for a crime he probably committed.… read more
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- italy
- classics
- history
- memoir
- historical
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- italian literature
"What has infused my very blood with an unconquerable hatred of the whole tribe of fools from the day of my birth is that I become a fool myself whenever I am in their company."-Giacomo Casanova, The Story of my Escape: The story of my escape from the prisons of the Republic of Venice otherwise known as the Leads
30. En agosto nos vemos
By: Gabriel García Márquez
3.63
Format: 142 pages, Hardcover
Un maravilloso regalo inesperado para los innumerables lectores de García Márquez Cada mes de a… read more
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"Do you know how old I am?"-Gabriel García Márquez, En agosto nos vemos
"The sea was an oasis of gold under the afternoon sun."-Gabriel García Márquez, En agosto nos vemos
"It was always a joyful love where even madness was admissible."-Gabriel García Márquez, En agosto nos vemos
"They both lay listening intently to the sounds of their souls."-Gabriel García Márquez, En agosto nos vemos
