Collected Novellas (Collected Early Fiction 1949-1964, Volume 1)
By: Arno Schmidt
4.40
Format: 446 pages, Hardcover
The novella was Schmidt's preferred form at the beginning of his writing career, and this volume co…
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1. The Recognitions
By: William H. Gass , William Gaddis
4.20
Format: 976 pages, Paperback
The book Jonathan Franzen dubbed the "ur-text of postwar fiction" and the "first great cultural cri… read more
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"Women get desperate, but they don't understand despair."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
"That fever had passed; but for the rest of his life it never left his eyes."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
"Reading Proust isn't just reading a book, it's an experience and you can't reject an experience."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
"Most people are clever because they don't know how to be honest." William Gaddis, The Recognitions."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
2. 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
3. Poetics
By: Aristotle , Malcolm Heath
3.59
Format: None pages, Paperback
'The plot is the source and the soul of tragedy' In his near-contemporary account of Greek tragedy,… read more
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4. In the Heart of the Heart of the Country and Other Stories
By: William H. Gass
4.07
Format: 242 pages,
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5. The Anatomy of Melancholy
By: William H. Gass , Robert Burton
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
One of the major documents of modern European civilization, Robert Burton's astounding compendium, … read more
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6. The Consolation of Philosophy
By: Boethius , None
4.27
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
Boethius was an eminent public figure under the Gothic emperor Theodoric, and an exceptional Greek … read more
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7. The Selected Poems of T'ao Ch'ien
By: David Hinton , None , Tao Qian
3.69
Format: 88 pages,
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8. Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures
By: Mark Fisher
3.72
Format: None pages, Paperback
This collection of writings by Mark Fisher, author of the acclaimed Capitalist Realism, argues that… read more
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9. The Book of Images
By: Rainer Maria Rilke , Edward Snow
4.33
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
Now substantially revised by Edward Snow, whom Denise Levertov once called "far and away Rilke's be… read more
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10. The Death of Virgil
By: Hermann Broch , Jean Starr Untermeyer
3.65
Format: 36 pages, Paperback
It is the reign of the Emperor Augustus, and Publius Vergilius Maro, the poet of the Aeneid and Cae… read more
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11. JR
By: William Gaddis , Frederick R. Karl
3.61
Format: 8 pages, Paperback
J R is the long-awaited novel from William Gaddis, author of The Recognitions,that tremendous book … read more
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12. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
By: Italo Calvino , William Weaver
3.90
Format: 216 pages,
If on a Winter's Night a Traveleris a marvel of ingenuity, an experimental text that looks longingl… read more
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13. The Flanders Road
By: Claude Simon , Richard Howard , John Fletcher
4.06
Format: None pages, Paperback
During the German advance through Belgium into France in 1940, which led to the fall of France, Cap… read more
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14. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
By: Mark Fisher
4.00
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
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15. Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
By: Marcel Proust , Simon Vance , Lydia Davis
4.15
Format: 710 pages, Mass Market Paperback
«Et tout d'un coup le souvenir m'est apparu. Ce goût, c'était celui du petit morceau de madeleine q… read more
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"Longtemps, je me suis couché de bonne heure."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"the comfort of reclusion, the poetry of hibernation"-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"Now are the woods all black, But still the sky is blue."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"Fall in love with a dog's bum, And thou'll think it pretty as a plum."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
16. The Complete Stories
By: Franz Kafka , John Updike , Edwin Muir , Willa Muir , James Stern , Eithne Wilkins , Ernst Kaiser , Nahum N. Glatzer , None
4.05
Format: 371 pages, Paperback
The Complete Stories brings together all of Kafka's stories, from the classic tales such as "The Me… read more
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17. 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
18. The Absent City
By: Ricardo Piglia , Sergio Waisman
3.65
Format: None pages, Paperback
Widely acclaimed throughout Latin America after its 1992 release in Argentina, The Absent Citytakes… read more
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19. Leaves of Grass
By: Walt Whitman
3.50
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
A collection of quintessentially American poems, the seminal work of one of the most influential wr… read more
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20. Carpenter's Gothic
By: William Gaddis
3.50
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
This story of raging comedy and despair centers on the tempestuous marriage of an heiress and a Vie… read more
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21. 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
22. Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable (The Trilogy, #1-3)
By: Samuel Beckett
4.17
Format: 510 pages, Hardcover
The first novel of Samuel Beckett's mordant and exhilirating midcentury trilogy intoduces us to Mol… read more
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23. Lost in the Funhouse
By: John Barth
4.27
Format: 197 pages,
Barth's lively, highly original collection of short pieces is a major landmark of experimental fict… read more
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24. 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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25. 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
26. The Poetics of Space
By: Gaston Bachelard , Maria Jolas , Étienne Gilson , John R. Stilgoe
3.46
Format: None pages, Paperback
Since its first publication in English in 1964, French philosopher Gaston Bachelard's Poetics of Sp… read more
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27. Middle C
By: William H. Gass
3.88
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Gass's new novel moves from World War II Europe to a small town in postwar Ohio. In a series of var… read more
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28. The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.58
Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition
1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of… read more
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"All of history [is] a rehearsal for its own extinction."-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"...do you think if you died drunk you’d sober up before you met Jesus?"-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"The evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure"-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"She asked the girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said dead."-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
29. When We Cease to Understand the World
By: Benjamín Labatut
4.14
Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition
One of The New York Times Book Review ’s 10 Best Books of 2021 Shortlisted for the 2021 Internat… read more
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"Como la luna en el budismo, una partícula no existe; el acto de medición la vuelve un objeto real"-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Reality, they said to those present, does not exist as something separate from the act of observation."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Una de las cosas que siempre me han sorprendido de Chile es la aversión que sentimos por la cordillera. No habitamos las montañas."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Solo una visione di insieme, come quella di un santo, di un pazzo o di un mistico, ci permetterà di decifrare la forma in cui è organizzato l’universo."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
30. The Books of Jacob
By: Olga Tokarczuk
4.02
Format: 965 pages, Hardcover
The Nobel Prize-winner's richest, most sweeping and ambitious novel yet follows the comet-like rise… read more
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"A thing that is not talked about ceases to exist."-Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob
"Literatura to szczególny rodzaj wiedzy, to... (...) ... doskonałość form nieprecyzyjnych."-Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob
"Gdy przepisujemy i cytujemy, budujemy gmach wiedzy i rozmnażamy ją jak moje warzywa czy jabłonki. Przepisywanie jest jak szczepienie drzewa; cytowanie – jak wysiewanie nasion."-Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob
"If human beings had only known how to truly preserve their knowledge of the world, if they had just engraved it into rock, into crystals, into diamond and in so doing, passed it on to their descendan…"-Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob
31. Collected Novellas (Collected Early Fiction 1949-1964, Volume 1)
By: Arno Schmidt
4.40
Format: 446 pages, Hardcover
The novella was Schmidt's preferred form at the beginning of his writing career, and this volume co… read more
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