Film as Art
By: Rudolf Arnheim
3.87
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
In the fall of 1957 the University of California Press expanded Arnheim’s 1933 book Film by four es…
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1. The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs
By: Jon Scieszka , Lane Smith
4.32
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
You thought you knew the story of the “The Three Little Pigs”… You thought wrong. In this hysterica… read more
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2. From Russia with Love (James Bond, #5)
By: Ian Fleming
3.91
Format: 259 pages, Paperback
Ian Fleming’s fifth James Bond novel. James Bond is marked for death by the Soviet counterintell… read more
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"Hope makes a good breakfast. Eat plenty of it."-Ian Fleming, From Russia with Love (James Bond, #5)
"Danger, like a third man, was standing in the room."-Ian Fleming, From Russia with Love (James Bond, #5)
"The naked man who lay splayed out on his face beside the swimming pool might have been dead."-Ian Fleming, From Russia with Love (James Bond, #5)
"Follow your fate, and be satisfied with it, and be glad not to be a second-hand motor salesman, or a yellow-press journalist, pickled in gin and nicotine, or a cripple - or dead."-Ian Fleming, From Russia with Love (James Bond, #5)
3. The Masque of the Red Death
By: Edgar Allan Poe
4.06
Format: 9 pages, Paperback
The story follows Prince Prospero's attempts to avoid a dangerous plague known as the Red Death by … read more
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"Existem cordas, nos corações dos mais indiferentes, que não podem ser tocadas sem emoção."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death
"Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death
"There was much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death
"And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death
4. Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War: Civil War Poems
By: Herman Melville , Helen Vendler , James M. McPherson
3.50
Format: 250 pages, Paperback
This reprint of an 1866 volume of poems by the author of Moby Dick and Billy Budd includes four ess… read more
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5. Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family
By: Thomas Mann , John E. Woods , T.J. Reed
3.69
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Buddenbrooks, first published in Germany in 1901, when Mann was only twenty-six, has become a class… read more
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- german literature
6. The Rover
By: Aphra Behn , Simon Trussler
3.18
Format: 183 pages, Paperback
Aphra Behn was the first female professional writer in England and the most prolific playwright of … read more
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7. Erotism: Death and Sensuality
By: Georges Bataille , Mary Dalwood
4.16
Format: 84 pages, Paperback
Taboo and sacrifice, transgression and language, death and sensuality--Georges Bataille pursues the… read more
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- theory
- nonfiction
- essays
8. Notes on the Cinematographer
By: J.M.G. Le Clézio , Robert Bresson , Jonathan Griffin
3.00
Format: 54 pages, Paperback
Robert Bresson makes some quite radical distinctions between what he terms "cinematography" and som… read more
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- art
- nonfiction
- film
- essays
9. Story of the Eye
By: Georges Bataille , Joachim Neugroschel , Dovid Bergelson
3.66
Format: 103 pages, Paperback
Only Georges Bataille could write, of an eyeball removed from a corpse, that "the caress of the eye… read more
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- 20th century
"We pedaled rapidly, without laughing or speaking, peculiarly satisfied with our mutual presence, akin to one another in the common isolation of lewdness, weariness, and absurdity."-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye
"Simone was tall and lovely. She was usually very natural; there was nothing heartbreaking in her eyes or her voice. But on a sensual level, she so bluntly craved any upheaval that the faintest call f…"-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye
"I remember that one day, when we were in a car tooling along at top speed,we crashed into a cyclist, an apparently very young and very pretty girl. Her head was almost totally ripped off by the wheel…"-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye
"As for the fact that Simone dared to piss on the corpse, whether in boredom or, at worst, in irritation: it mainly goes to prove how impossible it was for us to understand what was happening, and of …"-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye
10. What is Cinema?: Volume I
By: Jean Renoir , André Bazin , Hugh Gray
4.01
Format: 511 pages, Paperback
The philosophy and unique insights of the late French film critic are revealed in these essays. read more
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- art
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- essays
11. On Chesil Beach
By: Ian McEwan
3.21
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A novel of remarkable depth and poignancy from one of the most acclaimed writers of our time. It is… read more
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12. 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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13. The Turn of the Screw
By: Henry James
3.39
Format: 121 pages, Paperback
The Turn of the Screw is an 1898 horror novella by Henry James that first appeared in serial format… read more
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"When I'm bad I am bad !"-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
"He fairly glittered in the gloom."-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
"I was ready to know the very worst that was to be known."-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
"There was something between them." "There was everything."-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
14. 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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15. On Photography
By: Susan Sontag
3.89
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
First published in 1973, this is a study of the force of photographic images which are continually … read more
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- art
- art history
- theory
- nonfiction
- criticism
- essays
"The painter constructs, the photographer discloses."-Susan Sontag, On Photography
"Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel."-Susan Sontag, On Photography
"Cameras miniaturize experience, transform history into spectacle."-Susan Sontag, On Photography
"Una fotografía es a la vez una pseudopresencia y un signo de ausencia."-Susan Sontag, On Photography
16. Regarding the Pain of Others
By: Susan Sontag
3.28
Format: 5 pages, Paperback
Twenty-five years after her classic On Photography, Susan Sontag returns to the subject of visual r… read more
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17. Mythologies
By: Roland Barthes , Annette Lavers
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
"No denunciation without its proper instrument of close analysis," Roland Barthes wrote in his pref… read more
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18. Beyond the Pleasure Principle
By: Sigmund Freud , James Strachey
2.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
In reasoned progression he outlined core psychoanalytic concepts, such as repression, free associat… read more
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19. Battle Cry of Freedom
By: James M. McPherson
3.91
Format: None pages, Paperback
Filled with fresh interpretations and information, puncturing old myths and challenging new ones, B… read more
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20. The Confidence-Man
By: Herman Melville , Tony Tanner , John Dugdale
4.31
Format: 66 pages, Paperback
Male, female, deft, fraudulent, constantly shifting: which of the masquerade of passengers on the M… read more
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21. The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell
By: Aldous Huxley
2.83
Format: None pages, Paperback
As only he can, Aldous Huxley explores the mind's remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human … read more
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22. Goldfinger (James Bond, #7)
By: Ian Fleming
3.85
Format: None pages, Paperback
Auric Goldfinger, the most phenomenal criminal Bond has ever faced, is an evil genius who likes his… read more
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23. Moonraker (James Bond, #3)
By: Ian Fleming
3.80
Format: 247 pages, Paperback
‘For several minutes he stood speechless, his eyes dazzled by the terrible beauty of the greatest w… read more
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"Champagne and Benzedrine! Never again."-Ian Fleming, Moonraker (James Bond, #3)
"In angry protest the red telephone splintered the silence."-Ian Fleming, Moonraker (James Bond, #3)
"They want us dead,' said Bond calmly. 'So we have to stay alive."-Ian Fleming, Moonraker (James Bond, #3)
"And people with obsessions, reflected Bond, were blind to danger."-Ian Fleming, Moonraker (James Bond, #3)
24. The Winter's Tale
By: William Shakespeare
4.75
Format: 14 pages, Paperback
The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emph… read more
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25. Metamorphoses
By: Ovid , David Raeburn , Denis Feeney
3.99
Format: 240 pages,
Metamorphoses (from Greek meta meta and morphe morphe, meaning "changes of shape"), is a Latin narr… read more
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26. Black Skin, White Masks
By: Frantz Fanon , None
2.56
Format: 201 pages, Paperback
A major influence on international civil rights, anticolonial, and black consciousness movement, Bl… read more
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27. The Murders in the Rue Morgue (C. Auguste Dupin, #1)
By: Edgar Allan Poe
3.82
Format: 38 pages, Paperback
".. Rue Morgue" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe first published in "Graham's Magazine" in 1841.… read more
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"The mental features discoursed of as the analytical, are, in themselves, but little susceptible of analysis."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue (C. Auguste Dupin, #1)
"I was deeply interested in the little family history which he detailed to me with all that candor which a Frenchman indulges whenever mere self is the theme."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue (C. Auguste Dupin, #1)
"There are very few persons who have not, at some period of their lives, amused themselves in retracing the steps by which particular conclusions of their own minds have been attained."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue (C. Auguste Dupin, #1)
"You will say, no doubt, using the language of the law, that 'to make out my case,' I should rather undervalue, than insist upon a full estimation of the activity required in this matter. This may be …"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue (C. Auguste Dupin, #1)
28. Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting
By: Robert McKee
4.29
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Robert McKee's screenwriting workshops have earned him an international reputation for inspiring no… read more
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29. The Duchess of Malfi
By: John Webster
3.00
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
More widely studied and more frequently performed than ever before, John Webster's The Duchess of M… read more
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30. Erewhon (Erewhon , #1)
By: Samuel Butler
4.34
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
In this novel, Butler satirically describes a utopian society, using the civilization of 'Erewhon' … read more
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31. Film as Art
By: Rudolf Arnheim
3.87
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
In the fall of 1957 the University of California Press expanded Arnheim’s 1933 book Film by four es… read more
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- german literature
- art
- art history
- film
- theory
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- nonfiction
- criticism
- 20th century
- essays
