Four Dubliners: Wilde, Yeats, Joyce and Beckett
By: Richard Ellman
3.77
Format: 106 pages, Hardcover
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1. Vita Nova
By: Louise Glück
3.95
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature In Vita Nova , Pulitzer-Prize winning poet Louise Glück man… read more
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- nonfiction
"be a brave dog - this is all material"-Louise Glück, Vita Nova
"His gaze touched me before his hands touched me."-Louise Glück, Vita Nova
"It was never focus that was missing, it was meaning."-Louise Glück, Vita Nova
"I had two desires: desire to be safe and desire to feel."-Louise Glück, Vita Nova
2. The Collected Poems
By: Wallace Stevens
4.27
Format: 560 pages, Paperback
This definitive poetry collection, originally published in 1954 to honor Stevens on his 75th birthd… read more
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- literature
- 20th century
"Consider the odd morphology of regret."-Wallace Stevens, The Collected Poems
"The death of one god is the death of all."-Wallace Stevens, The Collected Poems
"The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream."-Wallace Stevens, The Collected Poems
"Spring is umbilical or else it is not spring."-Wallace Stevens, The Collected Poems
3. The Summer Book
By: Tove Jansson , Esther Freud , Thomas Teal , Sophia Jansson
2.50
Format: 62 pages, Paperback
An elderly artist and her six-year-old granddaughter while away a summer together on a tiny island … read more
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4. 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
5. Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast
By: Oscar Wilde
4.30
Format: None pages,
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- literature
- nonfiction
6. Faust: First Part
By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Peter Salm
4.21
Format: None pages, Paperback
Goethe's masterpiece and perhaps the greatest work in German literature, Faust has made the legenda… read more
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- literature
7. Salammbô
By: Gustave Flaubert , A.J. Krailsheimer
3.71
Format: 412 pages, Paperback
An epic story of lust, cruelty, and sensuality, this historical novel is set in Carthage in the day… read more
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8. Robespierre: A Revolutionary Life
By: Peter McPhee
4.11
Format: 188 pages, Hardcover
For some historians and biographers, Maximilien Robespierre (1758-94) was a great revolutionary mar… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
9. H.P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life
By: Stephen King , Michel Houellebecq , None
4.11
Format: 500 pages, Paperback
In this prescient work, Michel Houellebecq focuses his considerable analytical skills on H. P. Love… read more
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10. 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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- literature
- irish literature
- 20th century
"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
11. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
By: Carson McCullers
4.14
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
With the publication of her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers, all of twe… read more
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12. Bouvard and Pecuchet
By: Gustave Flaubert , Raymond Queneau , Αχιλλέας Κυριακίδης , None
4.09
Format: None pages, Paperback
In his own words, the novel is "a kind of encyclopedia made into farce ... A book in which I shall … read more
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13. Down and Out in Paris and London
By: George Orwell
4.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
This unusual fictional account - in good part autobiographical - narrates without self-pity and oft… read more
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14. Nikolai Gogol
By: Vladimir Nabokov , Nikolai Gogol
4.20
Format: 172 pages, Paperback
The work of " or a forerunner of our own literary champions of the oppressed. In this brilliantly … read more
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15. Winter Journal
By: Paul Auster
3.82
Format: 287 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling novelist and author of The Invention of Solitude, a moving and highly personal… read more
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17. The Elegance of the Hedgehog
By: Muriel Barbery , Alison Anderson
2.80
Format: None pages, Paperback
A moving, funny, triumphant novel that exalts the quiet victories of the inconspicuous among us. We… read more
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18. Letter to His Father
By: Franz Kafka , Max Brod , Eithne Wilkins , Ernst Kaiser , Willem van Toorn , Gerda Meijerink
3.53
Format: 349 pages,
This is the bilingual edition with German verso, English recto. read more
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20. Dubliners
By: James Joyce , Jeri Johnson
3.44
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
This work of art reflects life in Ireland at the turn of the last century, and by rejecting euphemi… read more
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21. Canto yo y la montaña baila
By: Irene Solà
4.24
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Primero llegan la tormenta y el rayo y la muerte de Domènec, el campesino poeta. Luego, Dolceta, qu… read more
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"La eternidad, cosa ligera. Cosa diaria, cosa pequeña."-Irene Solà, Canto yo y la montaña baila
"Em diu coses boniques que no entenc però sí que entenc"-Irene Solà, Canto yo y la montaña baila
"Quan arribés a casa s'hauria de fer escalfar aigua per rentar-se el fred i la plutja"-Irene Solà, Canto yo y la montaña baila
"S'hi està bé aquí sota. S'hi està bé, en aquest bosc. En aquest tros de terra. En aquest tros de món."-Irene Solà, Canto yo y la montaña baila
22. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
By: Salman Rushdie
4.10
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply pers… read more
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- biography
"Waiting is thinking, and to think deeply is, very often, to change one’s mind."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"I don’t usually think of my books as prophecies. I’ve had some trouble with prophets in my life, and I’m not applying for the job."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"To have a room of one’s own, one must have money. (I don’t think Virginia Woolf ever went to India, but her dictum stands, even there, even for men.)"-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"An intimacy of strangers. That's a phrase I've sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
23. La plus secrète mémoire des hommes
By: Mohamed Mbougar Sarr
4.18
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
Un magistral roman d'apprentissage, une saisissante enquête sur les traces d'un mystérieux auteur m… read more
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- literature
"Nunca intentes decir de qué habla un gran libro. O si lo haces, la única respuesta posible es: de nada."-Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, La plus secrète mémoire des hommes
"He alcanzado el estado terminal de la inmigración: simplemente ya no creo en la posibilidad del regreso."-Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, La plus secrète mémoire des hommes
"Estuvo tanto tiempo en el exilio - medio siglo! - que nos decíamos que debía de haberse dejado una parte de sí mismo por el camino"-Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, La plus secrète mémoire des hommes
"Nos apetece hablar de todo, menos del exilio. De todas formas, no hay nada que decir sobre el exilio. No conozco un tema más molesto en este mundo."-Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, La plus secrète mémoire des hommes
24. El infinito en un junco: La invención de los libros en el mundo antiguo
By: Irene Vallejo
4.26
Format: 452 pages, Paperback
Este es un libro sobre la historia de los libros. Un recorrido por la vida de ese fascinante artefa… read more
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- literature
- nonfiction
- history
"Los libros nos convierten en herederos de todos los relatos: los mejores, los peores, los ambiguos, los problemáticos, los de doble filo. Disponer de todos ellos es bueno para pensar, y permite elegi…"-Irene Vallejo, El infinito en un junco: La invención de los libros en el mundo antiguo
"Ler é um ritual que implica gestos, posições, objetos, espaços, materiais, movimentos, modulações de luz. Para imaginarmos como liam os nossos antepassados, precisamos de conhecer, em cada época, ess…"-Irene Vallejo, El infinito en un junco: La invención de los libros en el mundo antiguo
"desde os primeiros séculos da escrita até à idade Média, a norma era ler em voz alta, para si próprio ou para os outros, e os escritores pronunciavam as frases à medida que as escreviam ouvindo assim…"-Irene Vallejo, El infinito en un junco: La invención de los libros en el mundo antiguo
25. So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men
By: Claire Keegan
3.99
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
Librarian's Note: This is the entry for the short story collection. Please don't combine it with th… read more
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- irish literature
"You know what is at the heart of misogyny? When it comes down to it?’ ‘So I’m a misogynist now?’ ‘It’s simply about not giving,’ she said."-Claire Keegan, So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men
26. The Heart in Winter
By: Kevin Barry
4.02
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning writer Kevin Barry’s first novel set in America, a savagely funny and achingly romant… read more
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"... the morning was starkly lit under a migraine - white and vast opening sky."-Kevin Barry, The Heart in Winter
27. Intermezzo
By: Sally Rooney
4.34
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.… read more
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28. Nora: A Love Story of Nora and James Joyce
By: Nuala O'Connor
4.05
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
Acclaimed Irish novelist Nuala O’Connor’s bold reimagining of the life of James Joyce’s wife, muse,… read more
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29. The Letters, 1830-1880
By: Anita Brookner
4.47
Format: 720 pages, Hardcover
Any reader should find here something of interest in Gustave Flaubert's letters, whether it be the … read more
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"اگر آدم فقط پنج شش کتاب را به خوبی می شناخت، چه محقق برجسته ای می شد"-Anita Brookner, The Letters, 1830-1880
"Just when the gods had ceased to be, and the Christ had not yet come, there was a unique moment in history, between Cicero and Marcus Aurelius, when man stood alone."-Anita Brookner, The Letters, 1830-1880
"I laugh at everything, even at that which I love the most. There is no fact, thing, feeling or person over which I have not blithely run my clownishness, like an iron roller imparting sheen to cloth."-Anita Brookner, The Letters, 1830-1880
30. Four Dubliners: Wilde, Yeats, Joyce and Beckett
By: Richard Ellman
3.77
Format: 106 pages, Hardcover
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- 20th century
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31. James Joyce: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
By: Colin MacCabe
3.98
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
James Joyce is one of the greatest writers in English. His first book, A Portrait of the Artist as … read more
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