La main coupée
By: Blaise Cendrars
4.20
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
"- Comment, vous ne savez pas ? Asseyez-vous... Ce n'était pas encore l'heure du thé. Nous étions…
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1. Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall (War Memoirs, #1)
By: Spike Milligan
4.03
Format: 142 pages, Paperback
Adolf Hitler: My Part on His Downfall is volume One of Spike Milligan's outrageous, hilarious, lege… read more
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"They're all the rage, Cab Calloway wears one."-Spike Milligan, Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall (War Memoirs, #1)
"After Puckoon I swore I'd never write another book. This is it"-Spike Milligan, Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall (War Memoirs, #1)
"Some people live a nothing life: the most important thing they ever do is die. Thank God for eccentrics! Take Gunner Octavian Neat. He would suddenly appear naked in a barrack room and say, “Does any…"-Spike Milligan, Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall (War Memoirs, #1)
"...Roberts had joined the Royal Artillery in 1914 and since then had steadily risen to the rank of Gunner. Now the crunch: someone with a perverted sense of humour made him a Lance Bombardier. Robert…"-Spike Milligan, Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall (War Memoirs, #1)
2. Every Man Dies Alone
By: Hans Fallada , Michael Hofmann , Geoff Wilkes
4.26
Format: 543 pages, Hardcover
Inspired by a true story, Hans Fallada's Alone in Berlin is the gripping tale of an ordinary man's … read more
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"Because it is written that you reap what you sow, and the boy had sown good corn."-Hans Fallada, Every Man Dies Alone
"Everyone facing death, especially premature death, like us, will be kicking themselves about each wasted hour."-Hans Fallada, Every Man Dies Alone
"Qu'un seul être souffre injustement, et que, pouvant y changer quelque chose, je ne le fasse pas, parce que je suis lâche et que j'aime trop ma tranquillité..."-Hans Fallada, Every Man Dies Alone
"Not that she's a political animal, she's just an ordinary woman, but as a woman she's of the view that you don't bring children into the world to have them shot."-Hans Fallada, Every Man Dies Alone
3. Madame Bovary
By: Gustave Flaubert , Margaret Mauldon , Malcolm Bowie , Mark Overstall
3.70
Format: 329 pages, Paperback
Madame Bovary is the debut novel of French writer Gustave Flaubert, published in 1856. The characte… read more
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"Every notary carries about inside him the debris of a poet."-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
"Speech is a rolling-mill that always thins out the sentiment."-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
"How oft the warmth of the sun above Makes a pretty young girl dream of love."-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
"For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat."-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
4. Spring Snow (The Sea of Fertility, #1)
By: Yukio Mishima , Michael Gallagher , Michael Gallagher
4.16
Format: 389 pages, Paperback
Tokyo, 1912. The closed world of the ancient aristocracy is being breached for the first time by ou… read more
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"إن جوهر أي إرادة هو الرغبة في التأثير في التاريخ"-Yukio Mishima, Spring Snow (The Sea of Fertility, #1)
"My happiness lies in your hands. Be careful with it, won’t you?"-Yukio Mishima, Spring Snow (The Sea of Fertility, #1)
"الرجال لا يفكرون إلا في المال و النساء،لقد نسوا كل ما يليق بالرجل"-Yukio Mishima, Spring Snow (The Sea of Fertility, #1)
"Just now I had a dream. I'll see you again. I know it. Beneath the falls."-Yukio Mishima, Spring Snow (The Sea of Fertility, #1)
5. Le Maître de thé
By: Yasushi Inoue , Tadahiro Oku , Anna Guerineau
4.33
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
Nous sommes en 1591, en pleine revolution feodale, les Taiko, conseillers de l'empereur, travaillen… read more
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6. A Glastonbury Romance
By: John Cowper Powys
3.66
Format: 341 pages, Paperback
First published in 1932, here is John Cowper Powys's masterwork, an epic novel of terrific cumulati… read more
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7. Le Blé en herbe
By: Colette Gauthier-Villars , None
3.44
Format: 128 pages, Mass Market Paperback
"Son ami plongea brusquement, saisit un pied de Vinca et la tira sous la vague. Ils burent ensemble… read more
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"Philippe did not know how to express such a thought as: 'All too few are the occasions in life when, with mind content, eyes surfeited with beauty, heart light, retentive, and almost empty, there com…"-Colette Gauthier-Villars, Le Blé en herbe
"Those late August mornings smelt of autumn from day-break till the hour when the sun-baked earth allowed the cool sea breezes to drive back the then less heavy aroma of threshed wheat, open furrows, …"-Colette Gauthier-Villars, Le Blé en herbe
8. 'Rommel?' 'Gunner Who?': A Confrontation in the Desert
By: Spike Milligan
4.62
Format: None pages,
This is the second volume of Mr Milligan's reminiscences of World War II. read more
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- war
9. Matterhorn
By: Karl Marlantes
3.30
Format: 107 pages,
A big, powerful saga of men in combat, written over the course of thirty-five years by a highly dec… read more
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- war
10. Heartsnatcher
By: Raymond Queneau , Boris Vian , John Sturrock , Stanley Chapman
3.64
Format: None pages, Paperback
Set in a bizarre and slightly sinister town where the elderly are auctioned off at an Old Folks Fai… read more
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11. Libera nos a malo
By: Luigi Meneghello
0.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Liber nos a maloe la presentazione della vita e della cultura di Malo, un paese della provincia vic… read more
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12. Le Grand Meaulnes
By: Alain-Fournier , None
4.00
Format: 199 pages, Paperback
In a small village in the Sologne, Fifteen-year-old Francois Seurel narrates the story of his relat… read more
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14. The Man Who Planted Trees
By: Jean Giono
3.85
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
Simply written, but powerful and unforgettable, The Man Who Planted Trees is a parable for modern t… read more
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15. Burmese Days
By: George Orwell
3.97
Format: 68 pages, Hardcover
Set in the days of the Empire, with the British ruling in Burma, this book describes corruption and… read more
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16. Berezina
By: Sylvain Tesson
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
En octobre 1812, piege dans Moscou en flammes, Napoleon replie la Grande Armee vers la France. Comm… read more
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17. Journey to the End of the Night
By: Louis-Ferdinand Céline , Ralph Manheim , William T. Vollmann
4.19
Format: 453 pages, Paperback
Louis-Ferdinand Celine's revulsion and anger at what he considered the idiocy and hypocrisy of soci… read more
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- 20th century
"If you aren't rich you should always look useful."-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night
"When you write, you should put your skin on the table."-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night
"Sonuçta savaş dediğiniz şey, anlamadığınız ne varsa odur"-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night
"Nearly all a poor bastard's desires are punishable by jail."-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night
18. Ventajas de viajar en tren
By: Antonio Orejudo
4.41
Format: None pages, Paperback
Despues de dejar a su marido ingresado en un hospital psiquiatrico en el norte, una mujer regresa e… read more
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19. The Story of Mr Sommer
By: Jean-Jacques Sempé , Patrick Süskind
3.67
Format: 363 pages, Unknown Binding
From the internationally acclaimed author of Perfume comes a very adult story about growing up. read more
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20. Monty: His Part In My Victory (War Memoirs, #3)
By: Spike Milligan
3.91
Format: None pages, Paperback
'It's all over, Von Arnheim has surrendered and he's very angry. This could mean war...' The third … read more
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21. Setting Free the Bears
By: John Irving
3.85
Format: None pages, Paperback
It is 1967 and two Viennese university students want to liberate the Vienna Zoo, as was done after … read more
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22. Out of Africa
By: Isak Dinesen , Karen Blixen
3.65
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Out of Africais Isak Dinesen's memoir of her years in Africa, from 1914 to 1931, on a four-thousand… read more
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23. 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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24. Homage to Catalonia
By: George Orwell , Lionel Trilling
4.00
Format: 592 pages, Paperback
In 1936 Orwell went to Spain to report on the Civil War and instead joined the fight against the Fa… read more
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25. Goodbye to All That
By: Robert Graves
3.73
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
An autobiographical work that describes firsthand the great tectonic shifts in English society foll… read more
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26. The Nix
By: Nathan Hill
3.72
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
A hilarious and deeply touching debut novel about a son, the mother who left him as a child, and ho… read more
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27. A Girl's Story
By: Annie Ernaux
3.89
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Another masterpiece of remembering from Annie Ernau… read more
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- roman
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"Un été immense comme ils le sont tous jusqu'à vingt-cinq ans"-Annie Ernaux, A Girl's Story
"Everywhere on earth, with every day that dawns, a woman stands surrounded by men ready to throw stones at her."-Annie Ernaux, A Girl's Story
"At this very moment, out in the streets, the open spaces, on the metro, in lecture halls, and inside millions of heads, millions of novels are being written chapter by chapter, erased and revised, an…"-Annie Ernaux, A Girl's Story
"Aucun autre projet d’écriture ne me paraît, non pas lumineux, ni nouveau, encore moins heureux, mais vital, capable de me faire vivre au-dessus du temps. Juste « profiter de la vie » est une perspect…"-Annie Ernaux, A Girl's Story
28. Inseparable
By: Simone de Beauvoir
4.10
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A never-before-published novel by the iconic Simone de Beauvoir of an intense and vivid girlhood fr… read more
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"How old do you have to be to think: this is forever?"-Simone de Beauvoir, Inseparable
"She was often late, not because she didn't care, but because she had too many contradictory cares."-Simone de Beauvoir, Inseparable
"I didn't understand: you don't believe what you believe on purpose. Could you be punished because certain ideas come into your mind?"-Simone de Beauvoir, Inseparable
"to fight against time, against forgetting, against death, to do justice to this absolute presence of the instant, to this eternity of the instant, which will have been forever"-Simone de Beauvoir, Inseparable
29. S'adapter
By: Clara Dupont-Monod
4.09
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
C’est l’histoire d’un enfant aux yeux noirs qui flottent, et s’échappent dans le vague, un enfant t… read more
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30. The Twilight World
By: Werner Herzog
3.87
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
The great filmmaker Werner Herzog, in his first novel, tells the incredible story of Hiroo Onoda, a… read more
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31. La main coupée
By: Blaise Cendrars
4.20
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
"- Comment, vous ne savez pas ? Asseyez-vous... Ce n'était pas encore l'heure du thé. Nous étions… read more
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