James Joyce: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
By: Colin MacCabe
3.98
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
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1. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
By: Edward Albee
4.06
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
"Twelve times a week," answered Uta Hagen when asked how often she'd like to play Martha in Who's A… read more
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"Honey: I know these people ..."-Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
"You want to dance with me, angel tits?"-Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
"Musical beds is the faculty sport around here."-Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
"George: Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? Martha: I am, George. I am."-Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
2. Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West
By: Tom Holland
4.16
Format: 418 pages, Hardcover
In the fifth century BC, a global superpower was determined to bring truth and order to what it reg… read more
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3. Suttree
By: Cormac McCarthy
4.20
Format: 471 pages, Paperback
This compelling novel has as its protagonist Cornelius Suttree, living alone and in exile in a disi… read more
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"Somebody has been fuckin my watermelons."-Cormac McCarthy, Suttree
"But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse"-Cormac McCarthy, Suttree
"What could a child know of the darkness of God's plan? Or how flesh is so frail it is hardly more than a dream"-Cormac McCarthy, Suttree
"You have no right to represent people this way, he said. A man is all men. You have no right to your wretchednes."-Cormac McCarthy, Suttree
4. The Comedy of Errors
By: William Shakespeare
3.72
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Excerpt from Die Kom�die der Irrungen Geste Grayorum or the History of the High and mighty Princ… read more
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"Why should their liberty than ours be more?"-William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors
"El tiempo es insolvente y debe más de lo que tiene."-William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors
"Mi corazón ora por él, aunque mi lengua lo maldiga."-William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors
"¡A cuántos tontos enamorados esclaviza la locura de los celos!"-William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors
5. Four Quartets
By: T.S. Eliot
3.67
Format: 230 pages, Paperback
The Four Quartets is a series of four poems by T.S. Eliot, published individually from 1936 to 1942… read more
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6. The Imitation of Christ
By: Thomas à Kempis , William Benham , Richard Challoner, D.D.
4.32
Format: 632 pages, Paperback
Only the Bible has been more influential as a source of Christian devotional reading than The Imita… read more
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7. Child of God
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.84
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
In this taut, chilling novel, Lester Ballard--a violent, dispossessed man falsely accused of rape--… read more
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8. A Moveable Feast
By: Ernest Hemingway
5.00
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
Begun in the autumn of 1957 and published posthumously in 1964, Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast… read more
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9. 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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10. Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson
By: Camille Paglia
4.00
Format: 222 pages, Paperback
From ancient Egypt through the nineteenth century, Sexual Personae explores the provocative connect… read more
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11. The Rainbow
By: D.H. Lawrence , Daphne Merkin
4.42
Format: None pages, Paperback
A controversial classic from D.H. Lawrence, the author of Lady Chatterley's Lover. Lush with religi… read more
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12. The Epic of Gilgamesh
By: Anonymous , N.K. Sandars
3.74
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
Miraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as much as four thousand years, the poem of Gilg… read more
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"As for man, his days are numbered, whatever he might do, it is but wind."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"Now let the gate of sorrow be closed behind me, and let it be sealed with tar and pitch."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"When all the illusions of personal immortality are stripped away, there is only the act to maintain the freedom to act."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"Gilgamesh was called a god and a man; Enkidu was an animal and a man. It is the story of their becoming human together."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
13. China in Ten Words
By: Yu Hua , Allan H. Barr
3.93
Format: 40 pages, Hardcover
From one of China's most acclaimed writers, his first work of nonfiction to appear in English: a un… read more
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14. 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
15. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
By: James Joyce , Seamus Deane
3.64
Format: 329 pages, Paperback
The portrayal of Stephen Dedalus's Dublin childhood and youth, his quest for identity through art a… read more
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"My heart is quite calm now. I will go back."-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
"God spoke to you by so many voices but you would not hear."-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
"Are you not weary of ardent ways? Tell no more of enchanted days."-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
"He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place."-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
16. 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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17. History of the Peloponnesian War
By: Thucydides , Moses I. Finley , Rex Warner
3.94
Format: 648 pages, Paperback
Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the lo… read more
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"Friendship or enmity is everywhere an affair of time and circumstance"-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
"Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and self-respect is the chief element in courage."-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
"Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear."-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
"Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must."-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
18. All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1)
By: Cormac McCarthy
4.00
Format: 592 pages,
All the Pretty Horsestells of young John Grady Cole, the last of a long line of Texas ranchers. Acr… read more
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19. 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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20. Moby-Dick or, The Whale
By: Herman Melville , Tom Quirk , Andrew Delbanco
3.55
Format: 720 pages, Paperback
"It is the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships' cables and hawsers. A Polar … read more
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"Call me Ishmael."-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
"Ignorance is the parent of fear"-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
"Ignorance is the parent of fear."-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
"Speak, thou vast and venerable head,"-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
21. Titus Andronicus
By: William Shakespeare
3.68
Format: 268 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Titus Andronicus is one of Shakespeare's earliest and bloodiest tragedies and was hugely successful… read more
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"Hark, villains! I will grind your bones to dust. (Act V, Scene 2, 2503)"-William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus
"Sorrow concealèd, like an oven stopped, Doth burn the heart to cinders where it is."-William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus
"Villain, what hast thou done? Aaron: That which thou canst not undo. Chiron: Thou hast undone our mother. Aaron: Villain, I have done thy mother."-William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus
"Now is a time to storm; why art thou still? TITUS ANDRONICUS: Ha, ha, ha! MARCUS ANDRONICUS: Why dost thou laugh? it fits not with this hour. TITUS ANDRONICUS: Why, I have not another tear to shed:"-William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus
22. The Necklace
By: Guy de Maupassant , Gary Kelley
3.35
Format: None pages, Hardcover
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23. Vile Bodies
By: Evelyn Waugh
4.65
Format: None pages, Paperback
Evelyn Waugh's second novel, "Vile Bodies" is his tribute to London's smart set. It introduces us t… read more
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24. Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.87
Format: 190 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER. The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road returns with the second v… read more
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"I would like to belong but I dont."-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
"Love is quite possibly a mental disorder itself."-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
"The notion of nothing is an inconceivable notion"-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
"Rage is only for what you believe can be fixed. All the rest is grief."-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
25. 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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"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
26. The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations
By: Daniel Yergin
4.20
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
A Wall Street Journal besteller and a USA Today Best Book of 2020 Named Energy Writer of the Yea… read more
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"У 1976 в газеті "Вечірній Ленінград" з'явилася стаття про досі невідомого дзюдоїста, що переміг у змаганнях і здобув звання чемпіона. "Люди ще почують про нього в майбутньому", передбачало видання. Т…"-Daniel Yergin, The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations
27. A Children's Bible
By: Lydia Millet
3.72
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
A Children’s Bible follows a group of twelve eerily mature children on a forced vacation with their… read more
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"The nuclear threat. So quaint."-Lydia Millet, A Children's Bible
"Once we lived in a summer country."-Lydia Millet, A Children's Bible
"I felt an itch and thought, Is there a tick crawling on me? Right this minute? Burrowing into my skin? And then I thought, Wait. Forget the tick. Why are we always complaining? We get to be alive."-Lydia Millet, A Children's Bible
"If you could be nothing, you could also be everything. Once my molecules had dispersed, I would be here forever. Free. Part of the timeless. The sky and the ocean would also be me. Molecules never di…"-Lydia Millet, A Children's Bible
28. The Florentines: From Dante to Galileo: The Transformation of Western Civilization
By: Paul Strathern
4.23
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping and magisterial four-hundred-year history of both the city and the people who gave birth… read more
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29. Our Polyvagal World: How Safety and Trauma Change Us
By: Stephen W. Porges
4.37
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
The creator of the Polyvagal Theory explains the principles in simple terms that are accessible to … read more
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30. Four Dubliners: Wilde, Yeats, Joyce and Beckett
By: Richard Ellman
3.77
Format: 106 pages, Hardcover
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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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