Sartoris
By: William Faulkner
4.39
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
Portrays the decay of the Mississippi aristocracy following the social upheaval of the American Civ…
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1. Wait Until Spring, Bandini (The Saga of Arturo Bandini, #1)
By: John Fante
4.10
Format: 266 pages, Paperback
"Mean, moody, disturbing and intensely atmospheric.” —The Times John Fante's first published nov… read more
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"A fellow can't be so bad if he loves a girl as good as you."-John Fante, Wait Until Spring, Bandini (The Saga of Arturo Bandini, #1)
"Speak to me, Rosa. Look this way just once, over here Rosa, where I am watching."-John Fante, Wait Until Spring, Bandini (The Saga of Arturo Bandini, #1)
"Arturo Bandini was pretty sure that he wouldn't go to hell when he died. The way to hell was the committing of mortal sin. He had committed many, he believed, but the confessional had saved him. He a…"-John Fante, Wait Until Spring, Bandini (The Saga of Arturo Bandini, #1)
" Breakfast was ready. He could hear his father asking for coffee. Why did his father have to yell all the time? Couldn't he talk in a low voice? Everybody in the neighborhood knew everything that …"-John Fante, Wait Until Spring, Bandini (The Saga of Arturo Bandini, #1)
2. The Mansion
By: Henry Van Dyke , Elizabeth Shippen Green
4.16
Format: 61 pages, Paperback
There was an air of calm and reserved opulence about the Weightman mansion that spoke not of money … read more
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"… curiosity is another of the mistresses whose slaves decline no sacrifice."-Henry Van Dyke, The Mansion
"Like any good optimist, I don’t expect the worst to happen. Only, like any optimist worth his salt, I like to go and look as soon as possible afterward jest in case it did."-Henry Van Dyke, The Mansion
"Man must have light. He must live in the fierce full constant glare of light, where all shadow will be defined and sharp and unique and personal: the shadow of his own singular rectitude or baseness.…"-Henry Van Dyke, The Mansion
"… they are beating their brains out against one of the foundation rocks of our national character itself. Which is the premise that politics and political office are not and never have been the metho…"-Henry Van Dyke, The Mansion
3. Across the River and into the Trees
By: Ernest Hemingway
3.31
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Soon to be a major motion picture starring Liev Schreiber! A poignant tale of a revitalizing love … read more
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"Ma che cosa posso raccontare a questa ragazza, ora, in questa fredda mattina ventosa al Gritti Palace Hotel? “Che cosa vorresti sapere, Figlia?"-Ernest Hemingway, Across the River and into the Trees
"In America, they make such things of wire and of sponge-rubber, such as you use in the sets of tanks. You never know there, whether there is any truth in the matter, unless you are a bad boy as I am."-Ernest Hemingway, Across the River and into the Trees
"I don't know. I guess the cards we draw are those we get. You wouldn't like to re-deal would you, dealer? No. They only deal to you once and then you pick them up and play them. I can play them, if I…"-Ernest Hemingway, Across the River and into the Trees
4. Hopscotch
By: Julio Cortázar , Gregory Rabassa
4.20
Format: 564 pages, Paperback
Horacio Oliveira is an Argentinian writer who lives in Paris with his mistress, La Maga, surrounded… read more
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"Pero el amor, esa palabra..."-Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch
"Explanation is a well-dressed error."-Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch
"Pobre amor el que de pensamiento se alimenta."-Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch
"Hay ausencias que representan un verdadero triunfo"-Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch
5. The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick
By: Peter Handke , None
3.18
Format: 133 pages, Paperback
The first of Peter Handke's novels to be published in English, The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty … read more
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6. How I Became a Nun
By: César Aira , Chris Andrews
3.69
Format: 117 pages, Paperback
A sinisterly funny modern-day Through the Looking Glass that begins with cyanide poisoning and ends… read more
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"I was sole keeper and mistress of the impossible. I possessed the keys to pain."-César Aira, How I Became a Nun
"Each of us is the ultimate expert on the gentleness and understanding we deserve."-César Aira, How I Became a Nun
"Why is it that drama always starts late? Whereas comedy always seems to have started already."-César Aira, How I Became a Nun
"I had a real life completely separate from beliefs, from the common reality made up of shared beliefs..."-César Aira, How I Became a Nun
7. An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter
By: César Aira , Roberto Bolaño , Chris Andrews
3.88
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter is the story of a moment in the life of the German ar… read more
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"Were the “pampas,"-César Aira, An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter
"...the transformation would be accomplished not in the dimension of time but in that of meaning."-César Aira, An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter
"A drove of mules the size of ants appeared in silhouette on a ridgetop path, moving at a star's pace. The mules were driven by human intelligence and commercial interests, expertise in breeding and b…"-César Aira, An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter
"It was hard to believe that this was a route used virtually throughout the year by travelers, mule drivers and merchants. Anyone in their right mind would have regarded it as a means of suicide. Near…"-César Aira, An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter
8. The Assistant
By: Bernard Malamud , Jonathan Rosen
4.00
Format: 32 pages,
Bernard Malamud's second novel, originally published in 1957, is the story of Morris Bober, a groce… read more
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9. Point Omega
By: Don DeLillo
3.43
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
Don DeLillo looks into the mind and heart of a "defense intellectual," one of the men involved in t… read more
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10. 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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11. Sartoris
By: William Faulkner
4.39
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
Portrays the decay of the Mississippi aristocracy following the social upheaval of the American Civ… read more
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12. Dear Life: Stories
By: Alice Munro
2.50
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
Suffused with Munro's clarity of vision and her unparalleled gift for storytelling, these tales abo… read more
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- literature
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13. The Good Soldier Švejk
By: Jaroslav Hašek , Josef Lada , Cecil Parrott
4.20
Format: 228 pages, Paperback
In The Good Soldier Svejk, celebrated Czech writer and anarchist Jaroslav Hasek combined dazzling w… read more
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14. In the Café of Lost Youth
By: Patrick Modiano , Euan Cameron
3.53
Format: 153 pages, Hardcover
The elegant, haunting story of the forgotten people and places of Paris from the reigning Nobel Lau… read more
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"Quand on aime vraiment quelqu'un, il faut accepter sa part de mystère... et c'est pour ça qu'on l'aime..."-Patrick Modiano, In the Café of Lost Youth
"Il existait à Paris des zones intermédiaires, des no man's land où l'on était à la lisière de tout, en transit, ou même en suspens."-Patrick Modiano, In the Café of Lost Youth
"Người ta không già đi. Với những năm tháng trôi qua, nhiều người và nhiều thứ rốt cuộc trở nên hài hước và nực cười đến mức bạn ném vào họ và vào chúng một cái nhìn trẻ con."-Patrick Modiano, In the Café of Lost Youth
15. The Yellow Dog (Maigret #6)
By: Georges Simenon , Linda Asher
3.57
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
The fifth book in the new Penguin Maigret series: Georges Simenon's gripping tale of small town sus… read more
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16. Against the Day
By: Thomas Pynchon
3.87
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
Spanning the period between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I, … read more
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17. By Night in Chile
By: Roberto Bolaño , Chris Andrews
3.89
Format: 118 pages, Paperback
During the course of a single night, Father Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix, a Chilean priest, who is a m… read more
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"…and for goodness’ sake read widely and deeply…"-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile
"I am dying now, but I still have many things to say."-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile
"His falcon, called Othello, had struck terror into the heart of every pigeon in Turin..."-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile
"As time goes by, as time goes by, the whip-crack of the years, the precipice of illusions, the ravine that swallows up all human endeavour except the struggle to survive."-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile
18. Moon Palace
By: Paul Auster
3.90
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Marco Stanley Fogg is an orphan, a child of the sixties, a quester tirelessly seeking the key to hi… read more
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19. Indian Nocturne
By: Tim Parks , Antonio Tabucchi
3.19
Format: 292 pages, Paperback
Translated from the Italian, this winner of the Prix Medicis Etranger for 1987 is an enigmatic nove… read more
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20. The Autumn of the Patriarch
By: Gabriel García Márquez , Gregory Rabassa
3.87
Format: 255 pages, Paperback
One of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's most intricate and ambitious works, The Autumn of the Patriarch is … read more
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"honeyed by the breezes of love"-Gabriel García Márquez, The Autumn of the Patriarch
"fear of death is the amber of happiness"-Gabriel García Márquez, The Autumn of the Patriarch
"...el miedo a la muerte es el rescoldo de la felicidad..."-Gabriel García Márquez, The Autumn of the Patriarch
"Sabía que estaba condenado sin remedio a no morir de amor."-Gabriel García Márquez, The Autumn of the Patriarch
21. The Place of Dead Roads
By: William S. Burroughs
3.77
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A good old-fashioned shoot-out in the American West of the frontier days serves as the springboard … read more
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22. Invitation to a Beheading
By: Vladimir Nabokov
4.89
Format: 78 pages, Paperback
An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found Like Kafka's The Castle, Invitation to a … read more
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23. Carpenter's Gothic
By: William Gaddis
3.50
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
This story of raging comedy and despair centers on the tempestuous marriage of an heiress and a Vie… read more
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24. Ficciones
By: Jorge Luis Borges , Anthony Bonner , Anthony Kerrigan
3.53
Format: 320 pages,
The seventeen pieces in Ficcionesdemonstrate the whirlwind of Borges's genius and mirror the precis… read more
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25. The Road to Los Angeles (The Saga of Arthur Bandini, #2)
By: John Fante
3.93
Format: None pages, Paperback
I had a lot of jobs in Los Angeles Harbor because our family was poor and my father was dead. My fi… read more
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26. Dreams from Bunker Hill (The Saga of Arthur Bandini, #4)
By: John Fante
3.93
Format: None pages, Paperback
My first collision with fame was hardly memorable. I was a busboy at Marx's Deli. The year was 1934… read more
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27. Golden Calf
By: Ilya Ilf , Yevgeny Petrov
2.80
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Roman zamechatel'nykh sovetskikh satirikov I.Il'fa i E.Petrova "Zolotoi telenok" prodolzhaet temu o… read more
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28. The Buenos Aires Affair
By: Manuel Puig
1.75
Format: 134 pages,
Tercera novela del argentino Manuel Puig (1932-1990) y primera ambientada en la ciudad, particularm… read more
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29. The Big Money (U.S.A., #3)
By: E.L. Doctorow , John Dos Passos
2.60
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
THE BIG MONEY completes John Dos Passos's three-volume "fable of America's materialistic success an… read more
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30. Sobre héroes y tumbas
By: None
4.79
Format: None pages,
Esta es la segunda novela de Ernesto Sabato, que profundiza la senda iniciada por El tunel. Una obr… read more
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31. Conversation in the Cathedral
By: Gregory Rabassa , Mario Vargas Llosa
4.00
Format: 204 pages, Paperback
A Haunting tale of power, corruption, and the complex search for identity, Conversation in The Cath… read more
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