Unclay
By: T.F. Powys
3.95
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In UNCLAY, the author's final masterpiece, John Death arrives in the obscure Dorset village of Lit…
Want to Read $ 9.99"A bed has a friendly and benign look: it wishes to be kind."-T.F. Powys, Unclay
"A bed has a friendly and benign look: it wishes to be kind."-T.F. Powys, Unclay
"Love is heavy to carry. Though at first it settles upon its victim like a butterfly, it quickly changes to lead."-T.F. Powys, Unclay
"Love is heavy to carry. Though at first it settles upon its victim like a butterfly, it quickly changes to lead."-T.F. Powys, Unclay
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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. A Kiss Before Dying
By: Ira Levin , Otto Penzler
3.99
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Dorothy meets a handsome young man with an eye for her inheritance while she is in her first year o… read more
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- classics
- fiction
3. Satantango
By: George Szirtes , László Krasznahorkai
4.14
Format: 274 pages, Hardcover
Already famous as the inspiration for the filmmaker Béla Tarr’s six-hour masterpiece, Satantango is… read more
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"They’re waiting patiently, like the long-suffering lot they are, in the firm conviction that someone has conned them. They are waiting, belly to the ground, like cats at pig-killing time, hoping for …"-George Szirtes, Satantango
"Irimiás: God is not made manifest in language, you dope. He's not manifest in anything. He doesn't exist... God was a mistake. I've long understood there is zero difference between me and a bug, or a…"-George Szirtes, Satantango
4. A Sport and a Pastime
By: James Salter , Reynolds Price
3.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
"As nearly perfect as any American fiction I know," is how Reynolds Price (The New York Times) desc… read more
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5. The Loved One
By: Evelyn Waugh
3.76
Format: 127 pages, Paperback
Following the death of a friend, British poet and pets' mortician Dennis Barlow finds himself enter… read more
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"Who asked you to the funeral anyway? Were you acquainted with the late parrot?"-Evelyn Waugh, The Loved One
"Her heart was broken perhaps, but it was a small inexpensive organ of local manufacture. In a wider and grander way she felt things had been simplified."-Evelyn Waugh, The Loved One
"Dennis hesitated with his fingers on the handle and was aware of communication with another hand beyond the panels. Thus in a hundred novels had loves stood."-Evelyn Waugh, The Loved One
"What is a "canty day", Dennis?' 'I've never troubled to ask. Something like hogmanay, I expect.' 'What is that?' 'People being sick on the pavement in Glasgow.' 'Oh."-Evelyn Waugh, The Loved One
6. Lolly Willowes
By: Sylvia Townsend Warner , Alison Lurie
3.50
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
In Lolly Willowes, an ageing spinster rebels against her role as the universal aunt, at everybody's… read more
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7. Speedboat
By: Renata Adler
5.00
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Won the Ernest Hemingway Prize for Best First Novel in 1976 It has been over 35 years since Renata … read more
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8. The Other
By: Thomas Tryon
4.09
Format: 315 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Holland and Niles Perry are identical thirteen-year-old twins. Holland is bold and mischievous, a b… read more
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9. The Hot Rock (Dortmunder, #1)
By: Donald E. Westlake
3.69
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
John Archibald Dortmunder is the thief whose capers never quite come off. Here, the released convic… read more
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10. The Bride Wore Black
By: Cornell Woolrich , William Irish
3.71
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
AMERICA'S MASTER OF SUSPENSE...FIRST IN THE DEFINITIVE SERIES OF THIS AMERICAN GENIUS No one knew w… read more
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11. The Train
By: Georges Simenon , Robert Baldick
4.34
Format: 132 pages, Paperback
Against all expectations Marcel Feron has made a "normal" life in a bucolic French suburb in the Ar… read more
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12. I Am the Brother of XX
By: Fleur Jaeggy , Gini Alhadeff
4.25
Format: 512 pages, ebook
Fleur Jaeggy is often noted for her terse and telegraphic style, which somehow brews up a profound … read more
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13. No Room at the Morgue
By: Jean-Patrick Manchette
3.76
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Inspired by the works of Dashiell Hammett, No Room at the Morgue is Jean-Patrick Manchette's unpara… read more
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14. Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir
By: Werner Herzog
4.25
Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition
Legendary filmmaker and celebrated author Werner Herzog tells in his inimitable voice the story of … read more
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15. A Mountain to the North, a Lake to the South, Paths to the West, a River to the East
By: László Krasznahorkai
3.89
Format: 130 pages, Paperback
The grandson of Prince Genji lives outside of space and time and wanders the grounds of an old mona… read more
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"...végső soron az egyszerű bizalmat abban, hogy van hagyomány, hogy ez a hagyomány a megfigyelésre, az ismétlésre és a természet belső rendjének és a dolgok természetének a tiszteletére épül, s hogy …"-László Krasznahorkai, A Mountain to the North, a Lake to the South, Paths to the West, a River to the East
"...mert maguk voltak a létezés, miközben a létezésből mégis ki voltak zárva, vagyis oly közel estek a létezéshez, hogy azonossá váltak vele, és a létezés nem látszik soha, így hát ha itt voltak is, a…"-László Krasznahorkai, A Mountain to the North, a Lake to the South, Paths to the West, a River to the East
16. The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By
By: Georges Simenon
3.81
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
Kees Popinga is an average man, a solid citizen who might enjoy a game of chess in the evening. But… read more
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17. Birds of Maine
By: Michael DeForge
4.25
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Take flight to this post-apocalyptic utopia filled with birds. Birds roam freely around the Moon c… read more
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18. Dr. No
By: Percival Everett
3.71
Format: 262 pages, Paperback
A sly, madcap novel about supervillains and nothing, really, from an American novelist whose star k… read more
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"You sound like a physicist," she said. "There's no need to be insulting."-Percival Everett, Dr. No
"When you step on the gas, do it gently, softly, slowly. Okay? All right, let's try it again. Gently. Treat it like you would a woman." "I would never step on a woman."-Percival Everett, Dr. No
"And like my BIPDIP husband, it's never been out of the state, not even to Boston." "BIPDIP?" "Born in Providence, died in Providence. We actually honeymooned in Newport. I hate him so much."-Percival Everett, Dr. No
"Now here he was, tailored iron-gray suit, thin maroon tie, a maroon handkerchief peeking out from his breast pocket. His oxblood wing tips gleamed. He looked like a supervillain or, worse, an upper-c…"-Percival Everett, Dr. No
19. The Cellars of the Majestic (Maigret, #20)
By: Georges Simenon
3.75
Format: 170 pages, Paperback
'Try to imagine a guest, a wealthy woman, staying at the Majestic with her husband, her son, a nurs… read more
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20. Unclay
By: T.F. Powys
3.95
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In UNCLAY, the author's final masterpiece, John Death arrives in the obscure Dorset village of Lit… read more
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- british literature
- literature
- fiction
- novels
- fantasy
"A bed has a friendly and benign look: it wishes to be kind."-T.F. Powys, Unclay
"Love is heavy to carry. Though at first it settles upon its victim like a butterfly, it quickly changes to lead."-T.F. Powys, Unclay
"Her laughter was everywhere, and at night her eyes shone in the sky. The air he breathed was Susie; whatever he touched was her too."-T.F. Powys, Unclay
21. Alice Knott
By: Blake Butler
3.52
Format: 314 pages, Kindle Edition
From the ingenious mind of a language a wildly inventive novel about art, surveillance, our age of… read more
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