The Bad Side of Books: Selected Essays of D.H. Lawrence (New York Review Books Classics)
By: D.H. Lawrence
3.78
Format: 492 pages, Paperback
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1. The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
By: Marcel Proust , None , Terence Kilmartin , D.J. Enright
4.39
Format: 957 pages, Paperback
The Modern Library’s fifth volume of In Search of Lost Time contains both The Captive (1923) and Th… read more
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"...every social class has its own pathology..."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
"Love is space and time made perceptible to the heart."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
"Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
"There are optical errors in time as there are in space."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
2. Sodom and Gomorrah
By: Marcel Proust , Christopher Prendergast , John Sturrock
4.33
Format: 557 pages, Paperback
Sodom and Gomorrah – now in a superb translation by John Sturrock – takes up the theme of homosexua… read more
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"He lives at Balbec?"-Marcel Proust, Sodom and Gomorrah
"کار ذهنن تا زمانی که مطیع واقعیت نیست آسان است"-Marcel Proust, Sodom and Gomorrah
"از شکل انداختن یک شاهکار خیلی از ساختناش مشکلتر است"-Marcel Proust, Sodom and Gomorrah
"هر خطای برطرف شده آدمی را از حس تازهای برخوردا میکند"-Marcel Proust, Sodom and Gomorrah
3. Voices in the Evening
By: Natalia Ginzburg
3.74
Format: 170 pages, Paperback
In a hushed Italian town after the Second World War, Elsa lives with her parents in the house where… read more
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4. Albertine disparue (À la recherche du temps perdu, #6)
By: Marcel Proust
3.40
Format: 300 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Albertine disparueest le dernier volume revu et remanie par Proust avant sa mort. Prevu d'abord sou… read more
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5. 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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6. Go Tell It on the Mountain
By: James Baldwin
4.35
Format: None pages, Paperback
Go Tell It On The Mountain, first published in 1953, is Baldwin's first major work, a semi-autobiog… read more
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8. Mao II
By: Don DeLillo
4.31
Format: 110 pages, Paperback
"One of the most intelligent, grimly funny voices to comment on life in present-day America" (The N… read more
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9. The Corrections
By: Jonathan Franzen
3.84
Format: 653 pages, Paperback
"The Corrections" is a grandly entertaining novel for the new century - a comic, tragic masterpiece… read more
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"To be so vigorous and healthy and yet so nothing. "-Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections
"Brooklyn was like Philadelphia made better by its proximity to Manhattan."-Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections
"His problem consisted of a burning wish not to have done the things he'd done."-Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections
"Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude."-Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections
10. The Unknown Masterpiece
By: Arthur C. Danto , Honoré de Balzac , Richard Howard
3.64
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
One of Honore de Balzac's most celebrated tales, "The Unknown Masterpiece" is the story of a painte… read more
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11. Ratner's Star
By: Don DeLillo
3.99
Format: None pages, Paperback
Billy Twillig has won the first Nobel Prize ever to be given in mathematics. Set in the near future… read more
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12. Time Regained (In Search of Lost Time, #7)
By: Marcel Proust , Terence Kilmartin , D.J. Enright , Andreas Mayor
3.70
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
The final volume of In Search of Lost Time chronicles the years of World War I, when, as M. de Char… read more
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13. Great Jones Street
By: Don DeLillo
3.87
Format: 291 pages, Paperback
A troubling satire of the romantic myth of stardom and the empty heart of rock and roll, more relev… read more
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15. In Our Time
By: Ernest Hemingway
3.74
Format: 156 pages, Paperback
First published in 1925, earning Hemingway praise as a promising American writer. Contains several … read more
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"Isn't love any fun? Marjorie said. "No," Nick said."-Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
"I'm going to stay with you. If you go to jail, we might as well both go."-Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
"All right, said Nick. Let's get drunk. All right, Bill said. Let's get really drunk."-Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
"In the early morning on the lake sitting in the stern of the boat with his father rowing, he felt quite sure that he would never die."-Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
16. Bluebeard
By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
4.06
Format: 318 pages, Paperback
Broad humor and bitter irony collide in this fictional autobiography of Rabo Karabekian, who, at ag… read more
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"It's the emptiest and yet the fullest of all human messages: 'Good-bye."-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Bluebeard
"Belief is nearly the whole of the universe whether based on truth or not."-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Bluebeard
"Why should a real man stay home when he could be raping a virgin continent?"-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Bluebeard
"We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive."-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Bluebeard
17. Mary
By: Vladimir Nabokov , Michael Glenny
3.71
Format: 114 pages, Paperback
Mary is a gripping tale of youth, first love, and nostalgia--Nabokov's first novel. In a Berlin ro… read more
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"La gente que se afeita se rejuvenece un día todas las mañanas."-Vladimir Nabokov, Mary
"Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring."-Vladimir Nabokov, Mary
"El delicioso hecho íntimo ocurrido anoche había sido la causa de que todo el caleidoscopio de su vida variara, y había evocado el pasado de un modo avasallador."-Vladimir Nabokov, Mary
"The day, like the previous days, dragged sluggishly by in a kind of insipid idleness, devoid even of that dreamy expectancy which can make idleness so enchanting."-Vladimir Nabokov, Mary
18. 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
19. The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
By: Amia Srinivasan
4.25
Format: 304 pages, ebook
Thrilling, sharp, and deeply humane, philosopher Amia Srinivasan's The Right to Sex: Feminism in th… read more
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"What does it mean to say that we want to transform the political world - but we ourselves will remain unchanged?"-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
"What does it mean to say that we want to transform the political world - but we ourselves will remain unchanched?"-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
"It is true that women have always lived in a world created by men and governed by men's rules. But it is also true that men have always lived alongside women who have contested these rules."-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
"Free speech', which poses as a merely formal principle of adjudication, is in fact, MacKinnon suggests, an ideological tool selectively deployed to protect the freedoms of the dominant class."-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
20. Rock, Paper, Scissors: And Other Stories (New York Review Books Classics)
By: Maxim Osipov
3.72
Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition
The first English-language collection of a contemporary Russian master of the short story.Maxim Osi… read more
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"The place could be anywhere with its own kind of appeal—particularly central Russia. You can fall for this place just as easily as a woman can fall for a loser."-Maxim Osipov, Rock, Paper, Scissors: And Other Stories (New York Review Books Classics)
"There's no easier pastime than bad-mouthing the church. Much like bad-mouthing Dostoyevsky: it's true, of course, all true, but it also misses the point. The church is a thing of wonder, Dostoyevsky …"-Maxim Osipov, Rock, Paper, Scissors: And Other Stories (New York Review Books Classics)
"The consultant starts explaining again. She isn't participating, isn't listening. Then suddenly she hears him say: "... if he has the operation he could live to a good age. We've persuaded him, almos…"-Maxim Osipov, Rock, Paper, Scissors: And Other Stories (New York Review Books Classics)
"Of course, certain external circumstances are impossible to predict. ... For instance: Will our country last? Its predecessor, with all its might, was more short-lived than your average violin, for w…"-Maxim Osipov, Rock, Paper, Scissors: And Other Stories (New York Review Books Classics)
21. The Bad Side of Books: Selected Essays of D.H. Lawrence (New York Review Books Classics)
By: D.H. Lawrence
3.78
Format: 492 pages, Paperback
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