The Tragic Menagerie (European Classics)
By: Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal
3.74
Format: 185 pages, Paperback
Though published a decade before the Bolshevik Revolution, The Tragic Menagerie possesses a sensibi…
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1. The Looking-Glass Sisters
By: Gøhril Gabrielsen , John Irons
3.51
Format: 174 pages, Paperback
Far out on the plains of northern Norway stands a house. It belongs to two middle-aged sisters. The… read more
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2. The Ice Palace
By: Tarjei Vesaas , Elizabeth Rokkan
3.86
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Commonly seen as the legendary Norwegian writer's masterpiece, this story tells the tale of Siss an… read more
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"The promise was a strong tie, hard, but I knew where I stood. If it's gone, I don't know where I am. When there's a strong scent in the spring twilight, I know least of all."-Tarjei Vesaas, The Ice Palace
"The darkness at the sides of the road. It possesses neither form nor name, but whoever passes here knows when it comes out and follows after and sends shudders like rippling streams down his back."-Tarjei Vesaas, The Ice Palace
"Lovnad i djupaste snøen frå Siss til Unn: Det lovar eg deg at eg ikkje vil tenke på noko anna enn deg. Tenke på alt eg veit om deg. Tenke på deg heime og på skolen, og på skolevegen. Tenke på deg hei…"-Tarjei Vesaas, The Ice Palace
"Four eyes full of gleams and radiance beneath their lashes, filling the looking-glass. Questions shooting out and then hiding again. I don't know: Gleams and radiance, gleaming from you to me, from m…"-Tarjei Vesaas, The Ice Palace
3. The Kreutzer Sonata
By: Doris Lessing , Leo Tolstoy , Isai Kamen
3.87
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
When Marshal of the Nobility Pozdnyshev suspects his wife of having an affair with her music partne… read more
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"In a large city the unhappy feel their sadness less acutely."-Doris Lessing, The Kreutzer Sonata
"It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness."-Doris Lessing, The Kreutzer Sonata
"Yes, man is much worse than the animal when he does not live like a man."-Doris Lessing, The Kreutzer Sonata
"Удивительное дело, какая полная бывает иллюзия того, что красота есть добро."-Doris Lessing, The Kreutzer Sonata
4. The Foundation Pit
By: Mirra Ginsburg , Andrei Platonov , Andrey Platonov
4.12
Format: 323 pages, Paperback
The Foundation Pitportrays a group of workmen and local bureaucrats engaged in digging the foundati… read more
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5. Burial Rites
By: Hannah Kent
2.62
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant literary debut, inspired by a true story: the final days of a young woman accused of mu… read more
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6. The Pit and the Pendulum
By: Edgar Allan Poe
4.15
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
Get set for true terror in one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous short stories. We enter the mind… read more
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"How at least shall we distinguish its shadows from those of the tomb?"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum
"In the deepest slumber-no! In delirium-no! In a swoon-no! In death-no! even in the grave all is not lost."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum
"In death - no! even in the grave all is not lost. Else there is no immortality for man. Arousing from the most profound slumbers, we break the gossamer web of some dream. Yet in a second afterward, (…"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum
"He who has never swooned, is not he who finds strange palaces and wildly familiar faces in coals that glow; is not he who beholds floating in mid-air the sad visions that the many may not view; is no…"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum
7. You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine
By: Alexandra Kleeman
4.75
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
A woman known only as A lives in an unnamed American city with her roommate, B, and boyfriend, C, w… read more
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8. A Kestrel for a Knave
By: Barry Hines
3.60
Format: 253 pages,
With prose that is every bit as raw, intense and bitingly honest as the world it depicts, Barry Hin… read more
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9. Solenoid
By: Mircea Cărtărescu
3.59
Format: 83 pages, Paperback
,,Vreau sa scriu o dare de seama despre anomaliile mele. In viata mea obscura, in afara oricarei is… read more
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10. Revenge
By: Yōko Ogawa , Stephen Snyder
4.26
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
Sinister forces draw together a cast of desperate characters in this eerie and absorbing novel from… read more
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11. The Cavalry Maiden: Journals of a Russian Officer in the Napoleonic Wars
By: Nadezhda Durova , Mary Fleming Zirin
4.23
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
..". sparkles with wit, intelligence and bold characterization." --Women's Review of Books ..". a r… read more
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12. Sweet Days of Discipline
By: Tim Parks , Fleur Jaeggy
4.50
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Set in postwar Switzerland, Fleur Jaeggy's eerily beautiful novel begins simply and innocently enou… read more
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13. The Queen of Spades
By: Alexander Pushkin , None
2.18
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
The Queen of Spades(Russian: Pikovaya dama) is an acclaimed short story by Alexander Pushkin about … read more
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14. Ghost Wall
By: Sarah Moss
3.73
Format: 152 pages, Hardcover
In the north of England, far from the intrusions of cities but not far from civilization, Silvie an… read more
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"It was bright again, as if England had forgotten how to rain"-Sarah Moss, Ghost Wall
"Lights blind you; there's a lot you miss by gathering at the fireside."-Sarah Moss, Ghost Wall
"Haven't you been listening, people don't bother to hurt what they don't love. To sacrifice it."-Sarah Moss, Ghost Wall
"I knew better than to challenge him; even the word 'Negro' was already some concession to my ideas because he preferred to use a more offensive term and wait, chin raised, for a reaction."-Sarah Moss, Ghost Wall
15. Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
By: Olga Tokarczuk
3.95
Format: 12 pages, Audible Audio
In a remote Polish village, Janina devotes the dark winter days to studying astrology, translating … read more
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"To wielka tajemnica, że każde wyzwanie uruchamia w nas prawdziwie żywotne siły"-Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
"A man's free to do what he wants with his life, until he falls foul of the banks."-Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
"There are some things we may not understand, but we can sense them perfectly well."-Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
"The best conversations are with yourself. At least there's no risk of a misunderstanding."-Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
16. Carcoma
By: Layla Martínez
4.17
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Todas las casas guardan la historia de quienes las han habitado. Las paredes de esta casa perdida e… read more
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"Solo había tenido un hombre, pero ya había sido suficiente. Cuando una está sola y es pobre no puede permitirse aprender la misma lección dos veces, esto también lo sabemos bien en esta casa."-Layla Martínez, Carcoma
17. In the Eye of the Wild
By: Nastassja Martin
3.96
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
In the Eye of the Wild begins with a terrifying account of the anthropologist Nastassja Martin’s ne… read more
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"Da anni scrivo di confini, del margine, della liminarità, della zona di frontiera, del tra-due-mondi; a proposito di questo luogo molto speciale dove è possibile incontrare una potenza “altra"-Nastassja Martin, In the Eye of the Wild
"İnsanların, kayalara yapışan istiridyeler gibi, başkalarının acılarına yapışmak gibi tuhaf bir saplantıları var. Başıma gelen şey onları kendileriyle yüzleştiriyor sanki. Bu trajedi organlarının, der…"-Nastassja Martin, In the Eye of the Wild
"Cette nuit-là, j'écris qu'il faut croire aux fauves, à leurs silences, à leur retenue ; croire au qui-vive, aux murs blancs et nus, aux draps jaunes de cette chambre d'hôpital ; croire au retrait qui…"-Nastassja Martin, In the Eye of the Wild
18. A Double Life
By: Karolina Pavlova
3.72
Format: 133 pages, Paperback
An unsung classic of nineteenth-century Russian literature, Karolina Pavlova’s A Double Life altern… read more
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"To you the offering of this thought, The greeting of my poetry, To you this work of solitude, O slaves of din and vanity. In silence did my sad sigh name You Cecily's unmet by me, All of you Psyches …"-Karolina Pavlova, A Double Life
19. A Darker Shade of Noir: New Stories of Body Horror by Women Writers (Akashic Noir)
By: Joyce Carol Oates
3.76
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Joyce Carol Oates assembles an outstanding cast of authors—including Margaret Atwood, Tananarive Du… read more
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20. The Tragic Menagerie (European Classics)
By: Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal
3.74
Format: 185 pages, Paperback
Though published a decade before the Bolshevik Revolution, The Tragic Menagerie possesses a sensibi… read more
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