August
By: Christa Wolf
3.99
Format: 38 pages, Paperback
Mottenburg nennen die Patienten ihre Lungenheilstätte, in der alle an derselben Krankheit leiden, a…
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1. The Threepenny Opera
By: Bertolt Brecht , Kurt Weill , John Willett , Ralph Manheim
3.89
Format: 124 pages, Paperback
The Threepenny Opera was Brecht's first and greatest commercial success, and it remains one of his … read more
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- german literature
- classics
- germany
- fiction
"He thought in other heads, and in his own, others besides himself thought"-Bertolt Brecht, The Threepenny Opera
"Mankind lives by its head Its head won't see him through Inspect your own. What lives off that? At most a louse or two."-Bertolt Brecht, The Threepenny Opera
"You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy, but till you feed us right and wrong can wait. Or is it only those who have the money who can enter the land of milk and honey?"-Bertolt Brecht, The Threepenny Opera
"1.Tanrı: Ne biçim dünya bu? Her yanda sefalet, bayağılık, pislik! Doğayı da katletmişler.Güzelim ağaçları tellerle idam etmişler.Dağların ötesinde duman bulutlarından göz gözü görmüyor. Gök gürültüsü…"-Bertolt Brecht, The Threepenny Opera
2. The City of Dreaming Books (Zamonia, #4)
By: J. Maxwell Brownjohn , Walter Moers
4.39
Format: 461 pages, Paperback
The author of 13 1⁄2 Lives of Captain Bluebear transports us to a magical world. Optimus Yarnspinne… read more
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- german literature
- fiction
"Reading is an intelligent way of not having to think."-J. Maxwell Brownjohn, The City of Dreaming Books (Zamonia, #4)
"Со звезд мы пришли, на звезды вернемся. Жизнь - лишь путешествие в неведомое"."-J. Maxwell Brownjohn, The City of Dreaming Books (Zamonia, #4)
"Ist es nicht absurd, dass einem die Erinnerung an gute Zeiten viel eher die Tränen in die Augen treibt als die an schlechte?"-J. Maxwell Brownjohn, The City of Dreaming Books (Zamonia, #4)
"Es kommt nicht darauf an, wie eine Geschichte anfängt. Auch nicht darauf, wie sie aufhört. Sondern auf das, was dazwischen passiert."-J. Maxwell Brownjohn, The City of Dreaming Books (Zamonia, #4)
3. Dancing Girls and Other Stories
By: Margaret Atwood
3.60
Format: 243 pages, Paperback
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale This splendid volume of sho… read more
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- fiction
- classics
- short stories
"Everyone thinks writers must know more about the inside of the human head, but that's wrong. They know less, that's why they write. Trying to find out what everyone else takes for granted."-Margaret Atwood, Dancing Girls and Other Stories
"He would place his mouth, still full of sleep, on hers, and perhaps pull her back into the bedroom and down into the bed with him, into that liquid pool of flesh, his mouth sliding over her, furry pl…"-Margaret Atwood, Dancing Girls and Other Stories
4. Human Acts
By: Han Kang , Deborah Smith
4.37
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From the internationally bestselling author of The Vegetarian, a rare and astonishing (The Observer… read more
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- fiction
5. Der Sandmann
By: E.T.A. Hoffmann
4.10
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
Unter Hoffmanns Werken hat Der Sandmann das weitaus grosste Interesse gefunden. Sein Grundproblem i… read more
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- short stories
6. How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
By: Mohsin Hamid
4.54
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the internationally bestselling author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist, the boldly imagined ta… read more
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- fiction
7. The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
By: Rainer Maria Rilke , Mary Dows Herter Norton
3.98
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Briggeis Rilke's major prose work and was one of the earliest public… read more
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- german literature
- classics
- fiction
8. Der Besuch der alten Dame
By: Friedrich Dürrenmatt
3.75
Format: None pages, Paperback
>>Claire Zachanassian, eine amerikanische Multimillionarin, kehrt in ihr Heimatdorf Gullen zuruck, … read more
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- german literature
- classics
- fiction
9. Boy: Tales of Childhood
By: Roald Dahl , Quentin Blake
3.45
Format: 105 pages, Paperback
In Boy, Roald Dahl recounts his days as a child growing up in England. From his years as a prankste… read more
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10. A Child's Christmas in Wales
By: Trina Schart Hyman , Dylan Thomas
3.80
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
Originally emerging from a piece written for radio, the poem was recorded by Thomas in 1952. The st… read more
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11. A Cup of Rage
By: Raduan Nassar , Stefan Tobler
2.69
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
'Yes, bastard, you're the one I love' A pair of lovers - a young female journalist and an older man… read more
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12. The Thing Around Your Neck
By: None
3.85
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
Searing and profound, suffused with beauty, sorrow, and longing, the stories in The Thing Around Yo… read more
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13. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
By: Ludwig Wittgenstein
3.68
Format: None pages, Paperback
Perhaps the most important work of philosophy written in the twentieth century, Tractatus Logico-Ph… read more
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14. In the Penal Colony
By: Sadegh Hedayat , Franz Kafka , Hasan Ghaemian
3.92
Format: 381 pages, Paperback
"In the Penal Colony" is a short story by Franz Kafka written in German in October 1914, and first … read more
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15. Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
By: Roland Barthes , Richard Howard
4.07
Format: None pages, Paperback
A graceful, contemplative volume, Camera Lucidawas first published in 1979. Commenting on artists s… read more
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16. Iphigenie auf Tauris
By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
3.81
Format: None pages, Paperback
Da sie Diana ihr Leben verdankt, dient Iphigenie der Gottin auf der Insel Tauris als Priesterin, ob… read more
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17. The Lost Daughter
By: Elena Ferrante
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Elena Ferrante will blow you away."-Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones From the author of Th… read more
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18. The Assistant
By: Robert Walser , Susan Bernofsky , ناصر غیاثی
3.29
Format: 178 pages, Paperback
Robert Walser is an overwhelmingly original author with many ardent fans: J.M. Coetzee ("dazzling")… read more
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19. Flush
By: Virginia Woolf , None
4.10
Format: None pages, Paperback
This story of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's cocker spaniel, Flush, enchants right from the opening p… read more
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20. Triste tigre
By: Neige Sinno
4.23
Format: 283 pages, Paperback
J'ai voulu y croire, j'ai voulu rêver que le royaume de la littérature m'accueillerait comme n'impo… read more
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"C'est vrai qu'aucun [...] n'avait vu ce que nous pouvions voir nous, les enfants et ma mère, au sein du foyer, où il se comportait comme un tyran. Et c'est quand même ça qui ressort avant tout de cet…"-Neige Sinno, Triste tigre
21. Serotonin
By: Michel Houellebecq
3.58
Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition
»Es ist nicht die Zukunft, es ist die Gegenwart, die dich tötet, die wiederkommt, um an dir zu nage… read more
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- fiction
"[...] chiaramente sto semplificando ma se non si semplifica non si conclude niente."-Michel Houellebecq, Serotonin
"nic nas nie koi równie łatwo jak świadomość innych niż nasze dramatów, które nam zostały oszczędzone"-Michel Houellebecq, Serotonin
"An atmosphere of general catastrophe always alleviates individual catastrophe- that's probably why suicides are so rare in wartime"-Michel Houellebecq, Serotonin
"... it isn't the future but past that kills you, that comes back to torment and undermine you, and effectively ends up killing you."-Michel Houellebecq, Serotonin
22. L'età fragile
By: Donatella Di Pietrantonio
3.73
Format: 192 pages, ebook
Non esiste un'età senza paura. Siamo fragili sempre, da genitori e da figli, quando bisogna ricostr… read more
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- fiction
23. Dove non mi hai portata. Mia madre, un caso di cronaca
By: Maria Grazia Calandrone
3.91
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
1965. Un uomo e una donna, dopo aver abbandonato nel parco di Villa Borghese la figlia di otto mesi… read more
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24. A Woman's Story
By: Annie Ernaux
4.23
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
A Woman's Story is Annie Ernaux's "deeply affecting account of mothers and daughters, youth and age… read more
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"Until I was twenty, I thought I was responsible for her growing old."-Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story
"With so much misery around, fighting for social advancement had lost all meaning."-Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story
"I believe I am writing about my mother because it is my turn to bring her into the world."-Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story
"Het beeld van haar wordt langzaam weer dat wat ik mij voorstel te hebben gehad van haar in mijn babytijd, een grote, blanke schaduw boven mij."-Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story
25. A Shining
By: Jon Fosse
3.49
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
A man starts driving without knowing where he is going. He alternates between turning right and lef… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
"but you can’t just touch a whiteness like that. because if you did you’d probably get it dirty. and imagine getting something so white dirty"-Jon Fosse, A Shining
"Es ist auch nicht zu begreifen, es ist etwas anderes, vielleicht etwas, das man nur erlebt und das nicht wirklich geschieht. Aber geht es an, dass man so etwas einfach erlebt. Alles, was man erlebt, …"-Jon Fosse, A Shining
26. Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
By: Thomas Halliday
4.13
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
A stirring, eye-opening journey into deep time, from the Ice Age to the first appearance of microb… read more
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"In their own sweepstake fashion, hippopotamuses will reach Malta, Sicily and Crete over the water, and become dwarfed to tiny forms. In many islands, dwarf elephants will roam. With a single, large n…"-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
"To talk of the first humans is to hammer a signpost into an ancient river saying 'no humans beyond this point', no matter the ever flowing stream around it's base. There is nothing essential to human…"-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
27. The Lost Soul
By: Olga Tokarczuk
4.33
Format: 48 pages, Hardcover
The only book in English for readers of all ages by Nobel Prize-winning novelist Olga Tokarczuk is … read more
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- short stories
- fiction
28. A Mountain to the North, a Lake to the South, Paths to the West, a River to the East
By: László Krasznahorkai
3.89
Format: 130 pages, Paperback
The grandson of Prince Genji lives outside of space and time and wanders the grounds of an old mona… read more
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- fiction
"...végső soron az egyszerű bizalmat abban, hogy van hagyomány, hogy ez a hagyomány a megfigyelésre, az ismétlésre és a természet belső rendjének és a dolgok természetének a tiszteletére épül, s hogy …"-László Krasznahorkai, A Mountain to the North, a Lake to the South, Paths to the West, a River to the East
"...mert maguk voltak a létezés, miközben a létezésből mégis ki voltak zárva, vagyis oly közel estek a létezéshez, hogy azonossá váltak vele, és a létezés nem látszik soha, így hát ha itt voltak is, a…"-László Krasznahorkai, A Mountain to the North, a Lake to the South, Paths to the West, a River to the East
29. Unlearn Patriarchy
By: Lisa Jaspers
4.29
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Obwohl wir inzwischen im 21. Jahrhundert leben, herrscht noch immer das Patriarchat. Warum zur Höll… read more
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- german literature
30. August
By: Christa Wolf
3.99
Format: 38 pages, Paperback
Mottenburg nennen die Patienten ihre Lungenheilstätte, in der alle an derselben Krankheit leiden, a… read more
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- classics
- germany
- short stories
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31. The Third Gilmore Girl: A Memoir
By: Kelly Bishop
4.52
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
“Come for the Gilmore Girls anecdotes, stay for the revealing truths about what it takes to build a… read more
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