La novela de Genji I. Esplendor
By: Murasaki Shikibu
4.27
Format: 834 pages, Paperback
La novela de Genji es la gran obra maestra de la literatura japonesa de todos los tiempos y una de …
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1. Blue Bamboo: Japanese Tales of Fantasy
By: Osamu Dazai , Ralph F. McCarthy
3.74
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
Blue Bamboo is a collection of seven short stories by one of Japan's preeminent postwar writers and… read more
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"When you find yourself looking ridiculous, reasoning isn't worth a damn."-Osamu Dazai, Blue Bamboo: Japanese Tales of Fantasy
"Any connoisseur knows you've got to be drunk to really enjoy a good romance."-Osamu Dazai, Blue Bamboo: Japanese Tales of Fantasy
"It seems that when people are in a state of euphoria, they don’t always notice the suffering of others."-Osamu Dazai, Blue Bamboo: Japanese Tales of Fantasy
"It would seem that the more irresponsible and crafty one is, the more likely one is to have a talent for storytelling."-Osamu Dazai, Blue Bamboo: Japanese Tales of Fantasy
2. 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
3. El coronel no tiene quien le escriba
By: Gabriel García Márquez
3.79
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
El coronel no tiene quien le escriba fue escrita por Gabriel García Márquez durante su estancia en … read more
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"Umut karın doyurmaz, dedi kadın. Karın doyurmaz ama insanı ayakta tutar, diye yanıtladı albay."-Gabriel García Márquez, El coronel no tiene quien le escriba
"You can't eat hope,' the woman said. You can't eat it, but it sustains you,' the colonel replied."-Gabriel García Márquez, El coronel no tiene quien le escriba
"-Y mientras tanto, ¿qué comemos? -No sé, pero si nos fueramos a morir de hambre ya nos hubiéramos muerto"-Gabriel García Márquez, El coronel no tiene quien le escriba
"«A Wilson le falta pasar algún tiempo en la escuela de las dificultades, y aun de la adversidad y la miseria.»"-Gabriel García Márquez, El coronel no tiene quien le escriba
4. Niebla
By: Miguel de Unamuno
4.05
Format: 259 pages, Paperback
Esta obra de Miguel de Unamuno es uno de los ejemplos clásicos más eminentes de la novela moderna. … read more
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"Toda ley es una ley de ritmo, y el ritmo es el amor."-Miguel de Unamuno, Niebla
"El amor precede al conocimiento, y éste mata a aquél."-Miguel de Unamuno, Niebla
"Because Augustus was not a hiker, but a walker of life"-Miguel de Unamuno, Niebla
"Hasta que se llora de veras no se sabe si se tiene o no alma."-Miguel de Unamuno, Niebla
5. Lo raro es vivir
By: Carmen Martín Gaite
3.72
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
Después de una temporada bastante agitada pasada en el vórtice de la escena rockera, Águeda, a sus … read more
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"Si usted ha creído verlo es que ha pasado. No todos vemos las mismas cosas."-Carmen Martín Gaite, Lo raro es vivir
"La mentira y el deterioro se suelen colar a través de los adverbios del tiempo."-Carmen Martín Gaite, Lo raro es vivir
"Para visitar un recuerdo conviene -según creencia bastante extendida- haberlo cultivado antes."-Carmen Martín Gaite, Lo raro es vivir
"A veces pienso que se miente por la incapacidad de pedir a gritos que los demás te acepten como eres."-Carmen Martín Gaite, Lo raro es vivir
6. Inspector Imanishi Investigates
By: Seichō Matsumoto , Beth Cary
4.08
Format: 234 pages,
In a police procedural by Japan's foremost master of mystery, Inspector Imanishi Eitaro, a typicall… read more
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7. The Dream of the Red Chamber
By: Cao Xueqin , Mark van Doren , Chi-chen Wang
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
For more than a century and a half, Dream of the Red Chamber has been recognized in China as the gr… read more
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8. Bartleby the Scrivener
By: Herman Melville
3.93
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Academics hail it as the beginning of modernism, but to readers around the world—even those daunted… read more
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"I would prefer not to."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
"To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
"Bartleby in a singularly mild, firm voice, replied, “I would prefer not to."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
"At present I would prefer not to be a little reasonable,' was his mildly cadaverous reply."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
9. Eros the Bittersweet
By: Anne Carson
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
A book about love as seen by the ancients, Erosis Anne Carson's exploration of the concept of "eros… read more
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10. 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
"La morale è una convenzione privata; il decoro è una faccenda pubblica."-Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian
"I was willing to yield to nostalgia, that melancholy residue of desire."-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
11. Min kamp 1 (Min kamp #1)
By: Karl Ove Knausgård
4.11
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Min kamp ar Karl Ove Knausgards maktiga sjalvbiografiska roman. Forsta delen inleds med en svepande… read more
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12. The Pillow Book
By: Sei Shōnagon , Ivan Morris
3.91
Format: 163 pages, Paperback
"The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon" is a fascinating, detailed account of Japanese court life in the … read more
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13. The Brothers Karamazov
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky
4.37
Format: 796 pages, Paperback
The Brothers Karamazov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry… read more
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"How good life is when one does something good and just!"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
"Forgive me... for my love - for ruining you with my love."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
"Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
"What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
14. The Death of Ivan Ilych
By: Leo Tolstoy , Aylmer Maude
4.13
Format: 86 pages, Paperback
Hailed as one of the world's supreme masterpieces on the subject of death and dying, The Death of I… read more
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"If you look for the working classes in fiction, and especially English fiction, all you find is a hole."-Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych
"And the further he departed from childhood and the nearer he came to the present the more worthless and doubtful were the joys."-Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych
"In the depths of his heart he knew that he was dying but, so far from growing used to the idea, he simply did not and could not grasp it."-Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych
"It can't be that life is so senseless and horrible. But if it really has been so horrible and senseless, why must I die and die in agony? There is something wrong!"-Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych
15. La tía Tula
By: Miguel de Unamuno
4.11
Format: 15 pages, Hardcover
Esta novela narra la vida de Gertrudis, tambien llamada la Tia Tula, y los sacrificios que realiza … read more
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16. The Trial
By: Franz Kafka , Max Brod , Edwin Muir , Willa Muir
3.95
Format: 255 pages, Paperback
Written in 1914 but not published until 1925, a year after Kafka’s death, The Trial is the terrifyi… read more
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"But I’m not guilty,"-Franz Kafka, The Trial
"Asking questions were the most important thing."-Franz Kafka, The Trial
"It was very learned, but it didn't actually say anything."-Franz Kafka, The Trial
"The way she sits on my lap as if it were her proper place!"-Franz Kafka, The Trial
17. Solenoid
By: Mircea Cărtărescu
3.59
Format: 83 pages, Paperback
,,Vreau sa scriu o dare de seama despre anomaliile mele. In viata mea obscura, in afara oricarei is… read more
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18. 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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"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
19. Juan Belmonte, matador de toros: Su vida y sus hazañas
By: Manuel Chaves Nogales , Felipe Benítez Reyes
4.15
Format: None pages, Paperback
Juan Belmonte, matador de toros es una de las mejores biografias escritas en Espana durante el sigl… read more
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20. La casa de las bellas durmientes
By: Yasunari Kawabata , None
4.07
Format: 253 pages, Paperback
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21. Ulysses
By: James Joyce
3.75
Format: 925 pages, Paperback
Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It was first serialized in parts in the A… read more
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"Shite and onions!"-James Joyce, Ulysses
"Let my country die for me."-James Joyce, Ulysses
"Be just before you are generous."-James Joyce, Ulysses
"no more pain. wake no more. nobody owns"-James Joyce, Ulysses
22. Palm-of-the-Hand Stories
By: Yasunari Kawabata , Lane Dunlop , J. Martin Holman
3.58
Format: 376 pages, Paperback
Recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1968, the novelist Yasunari Kawabata felt the essence… read more
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23. The Road to Serfdom
By: Friedrich A. Hayek
3.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
A classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics, The Road … read more
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24. The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto
By: Mario Vargas Llosa
4.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
Don Rigoberto - by day a grey insurance executive, by night a pornographer and sexual enthusiast - … read more
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25. Los jefes y Los cachorros
By: Mario Vargas Llosa
4.24
Format: 185 pages, Paperback
Los Jefes y Los cachorros sirvieron como antecedente, para la construccion de las obras de Vargas L… read more
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26. The Kojiki: Records of Ancient Matters
By: Ō no Yasumaro , Basil Hall Chamberlain , None
3.45
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Written by imperial command in the eighth century, The Kojikiis the oldest surviving Japanese book.… read more
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27. La casa encendida
By: Luis Rosales
4.26
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
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28. La novela de Genji I. Esplendor
By: Murasaki Shikibu
4.27
Format: 834 pages, Paperback
La novela de Genji es la gran obra maestra de la literatura japonesa de todos los tiempos y una de … read more
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29. La herida en la lengua
By: Chantal Maillard
4.20
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
Prosiguiendo su extraordinaria trayectoria, en la que ha logrado una voz única y sin concesiones, r… read more
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30. La riada (Blackwater, #1)
By: Michael McDowell
3.74
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
Descubre el primer volumen de la saga Blackwater. Una saga matriarcal. Mujeres poderosas que luc… read more
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