Cormac McCarthy Returns to the Kekulé Problem
By: Cormac McCarthy
4.19
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1. Wise Blood
By: Flannery O'Connor
3.83
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
(This is an alternate-cover edition for ISBN 9780374530631) The American short story master Flan… read more
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"Jesus died to redeem you,"-Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood
"It's easier to bleed than sweat, Mr. Motes."-Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood
"In yourself right now is all the place you've got."-Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood
"If you want to get anywhere in religion, you got to keep it sweet."-Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood
2. On the Marble Cliffs
By: Stuart Hood , George Steiner , Ernst Jünger
3.80
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
The peaceful and traditional people, located on the shores of a large bay, are surrounded by the ro… read more
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- philosophy
"The downfall of order brings good to none."-Stuart Hood, On the Marble Cliffs
"Such are the cellars over which the proud castles of tyranny rise and above which the aromas of their feast swirl: putrid caves of a gruesome kind in which the depraved rabble regales itself with the…"-Stuart Hood, On the Marble Cliffs
"We cannot count on seeing our work completed here below, and happy is the man whose will is not too painfully invested in his efforts. No house is built, no plan created, in which ruin is not the cor…"-Stuart Hood, On the Marble Cliffs
"I had often doubted; now I was convinced: there were still noble beings among us in whose hearts knowledge of the higher order was preserved and perpetuated. A lofty example enjoins us to follow, and…"-Stuart Hood, On the Marble Cliffs
3. A Rose for Emily
By: William Faulkner
3.83
Format: 36 pages, Paperback
Emily is a member of a family in the antebellum Southern aristocracy; after the Civil War, the fami… read more
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"So the next day we all said, “She will kill herself"-William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily
"She died in one of the downstairs rooms, in a heavy walnut bed with a curtain, her gray head propped on a pillow yellow and moldy with age and lack of sunlight."-William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily
"When the Negro opened the blinds of one window, they could see that the leather was cracked; and when they sat down, a faint dust rose sluggishly about their thighs, spinning with slow motes in the s…"-William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily
"We did not say she was crazy then. We believed she had to do that. We remembered all the young men her father had driven away, and we knew that with nothing left, she would have to cling to that whic…"-William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily
4. Jude the Obscure
By: Thomas Hardy
3.83
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
Jude Fawley's hopes of a university education are lost when he is trapped into marrying the earthy … read more
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"Always wanting another man than your own."-Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
"But no one came. Because no one ever does."-Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
"Love has its own dark morality when rivalry enters in."-Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
"We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more."-Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
5. This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
By: David Foster Wallace
4.06
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Only once did David Foster Wallace give a public talk on his views on life, during a commencement a… read more
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6. The Possibility of an Island
By: Michel Houellebecq
3.80
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A worldwide phenomenon and the most important French novelist since Albert Camus, Michel Houellebec… read more
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"La solitude à deux est l'enfer consenti."-Michel Houellebecq, The Possibility of an Island
"Si la sincérité, en elle-même, n'est rien, elle est la condition de tout."-Michel Houellebecq, The Possibility of an Island
"Et l'amour, où tout est facile, Où tout est donné dans l'instant; Il existe au milieu du temps La possibilité d'une île."-Michel Houellebecq, The Possibility of an Island
"The dream of all men is to meet little sluts who are innocent but ready for all forms of depravity—which is what, more or less, all teenage girls are."-Michel Houellebecq, The Possibility of an Island
7. Pale Fire
By: Vladimir Nabokov
3.98
Format: 574 pages,
The urbane authority that Vladimir Nabokov brought to every word he ever wrote, and the ironic amus… read more
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8. The Luzhin Defense
By: Vladimir Nabokov , Michael Scammell
3.95
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A chilling story of obsession and madness. Luzhin, a distracted, withdrawn boy, takes up chess as a… read more
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"And perhaps it was precisely because she knew nothing at all about chess that chess for her was not simply a parlor game or a pleasant pastime, but a mysterious art equal to all the recognized arts. …"-Vladimir Nabokov, The Luzhin Defense
9. The Circular Ruins
By: George Guidall , Jorge Luis Borges , Andrew Hurley
3.77
Format: 134 pages, Audiobook
"The Circular Ruins"/"Las ruinas circulares") first published in the literary journal Sur in Decemb… read more
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- philosophy
10. Provinces of Night
By: William Gay
3.64
Format: 221 pages, Paperback
The year is 1952, and E.F. Bloodworth has returned to his home - a forgotten corner of Tennessee - … read more
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11. 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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- philosophy
"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
12. A Universal History of Iniquity
By: Jorge Luis Borges , Andrew Hurley
3.59
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
In his writing, Borges always combined high seriousness with a wicked sense of fun. Here he reveals… read more
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13. Absalom, Absalom!
By: William Faulkner
3.51
Format: None pages, Paperback
Published in 1936, Absalom, Absalom! is considered by many to be William Faulkner's masterpiece. Al… read more
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14. Barabbas
By: Pär Lagerkvist , Alan Blair
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Barabbas is the acquitted; the man whose life was exchanged for that of Jesus of Nazareth, crucifie… read more
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15. The Sound and the Fury
By: William Faulkner
3.86
Format: 366 pages, Paperback
The tragedy of the Compson family features some of the most memorable characters in literature: bea… read more
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"I say money has no value; it's just the way you spend it."-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
"with that sort of gigantic delicacy of an elephant picking up a peanut."-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
"Caddy put her arms around me, and her shining veil, and I couldn't smell trees anymore and I began to cry."-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
"A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune"-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
16. Augustus
By: John Williams
3.11
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
A brilliant and beautifully written novel in the tradition of Robert Graves' I, Claudius, Augustusi… read more
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17. 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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18. Philosophical Investigations
By: Ludwig Wittgenstein , G.E.M. Anscombe
3.68
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Philosophische Untersuchungen is, with the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, one of two major works b… read more
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19. Barn Burning
By: William Faulkner
4.25
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
"Barn Burning" is a short story by the American author William Faulkner which first appeared in Har… read more
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20. Against Interpretation and Other Essays
By: Susan Sontag
3.28
Format: 5 pages, Paperback
First published in 1966, this celebrated book--Sontag's first collection of essays--quickly became … read more
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21. Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
By: Carl Sagan
4.19
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Dr Carl Sagan takes us on a great reading adventure, offering his vivid and startling insights into… read more
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22. Ghosts
By: Henrik Ibsen
3.88
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
"Ghosts" is the story of Helen Alving, a widow who is haunted by the many mistresses of her decease… read more
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23. The Denial of Death
By: Daniel Goleman , Ernest Becker , Sam Keen
4.32
Format: 80 pages,
Winner of the Pulitzer prize in 1974 and the culmination of a life's work, "The Denial of Death" is… read more
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24. The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
By: Thomas Ligotti , Ray Brassier
3.68
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
"The Conspiracy against the Human Race sets out what is perhaps the most sustained challenge yet to… read more
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25. The Library of Babel
By: Jorge Luis Borges , Andrew Hurley , Erik Desmazieres
4.35
Format: 36 pages, Hardcover
Jorge Luis Borges's famous 1941 meditation on language, alphabets, and the library that contains al… read more
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"O Time thy pyramids."-Jorge Luis Borges, The Library of Babel
"The Library is a sphere whose exact centre is any one of its hexagons and whose circumference is inaccessible."-Jorge Luis Borges, The Library of Babel
"If honor and wisdom and happiness are not for me, let them be for others. Let heaven exist, though my place be in hell."-Jorge Luis Borges, The Library of Babel
"The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite, perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries."-Jorge Luis Borges, The Library of Babel
26. Speak, Memory
By: Vladimir Nabokov
4.00
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
'Speak, memory' said Vladimir Nabokov. And immediately there came flooding back to him a host of en… read more
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27. Pnin
By: Vladimir Nabokov , David Lodge
4.00
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
One of the best-loved of Nabokov's novels, Pninfeatures his funniest and most heart-rending charact… read more
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28. Elective Affinities
By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , David Constantine , None
4.65
Format: None pages, Paperback
Elective Affinitieswas written when Goethe was sixty and long established as Germany's literary gia… read more
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29. Telephone
By: Percival Everett
3.98
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Zach Wells is a perpetually dissatisfied geologist-slash-paleobiologist. Expert in a very narrow ar… read more
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30. The Last Messiah
By: Peter Wessel Zapffe
4.32
Format: 20 pages, Kindle Edition
The supreme text of Antinatalist despair! Norwegian philosopher Peter Zapffe re-imagines the human … read more
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"Man beholds the earth, and it is breathing like a great lung; whenever it exhales, delightful life swarms from all its pores and reaches out toward the sun, but when it inhales, a moan of rupture pas…"-Peter Wessel Zapffe, The Last Messiah
"A man will come forth, who before all other men has dared to strip his soul naked and give himself wholly over to our most profound questioning, even to the idea of annihilation. A man who has graspe…"-Peter Wessel Zapffe, The Last Messiah
31. Cormac McCarthy Returns to the Kekulé Problem
By: Cormac McCarthy
4.19
Format: None pages, None
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