Vienna 1900
By: Daniela Gregori
3.80
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
To Every Age Its Art When traditional craft met blossoming modernism Discover turn-of-the-century V…
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1. The Power of the Dog
By: Thomas Savage , Annie Proulx
4.18
Format: 293 pages, Paperback
First published in 1967, Thomas Savage's western novel about two brothers now includes an afterword… read more
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"Fate punishes the proud, and dashes hope"-Thomas Savage, The Power of the Dog
"He taught me that if you’ve got guts, you can do any damned thing, guts and patience. Impatience is a costly commodity, Pete."-Thomas Savage, The Power of the Dog
2. How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
By: Sarah Bakewell
4.02
Format: 387 pages, Hardcover
How to get on well with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you love… read more
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"It is epokhe all the way."-Sarah Bakewell, How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
"As history has repeatedly suggested, nothing is more effective for demolishing traditional legal protections than the combined claims that a crime is uniquely dangerous, and that those behind it have…"-Sarah Bakewell, How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
"Some might question whether there is still any need for an essayist such as Montaigne. Twenty-first century people, in the developed world, are already individualistic to excess, as well as entwined …"-Sarah Bakewell, How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
"The trick is to maintain a kind of naïve amazement at each instant of experience - but, as Montaigne learned, one of the best techniques for doing this is to write about everything. Simply describing…"-Sarah Bakewell, How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
3. A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
By: David Foster Wallace
4.15
Format: 353 pages, Paperback
In this exuberantly praised book — a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television… read more
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"What I know about auto racing could be inscribed with a dry Magic Marker on the lip of a Coke bottle."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
"If Realism called it like it saw it, Metafiction simply called it as it saw itself seeing itself see it."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
"Quentin Tarantino is interested in watching somebody's ear getting cut off; David Lynch is interested in the ear."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
"American human beings are a slippery and protean bunch in real life, hard as hell to get any kind of universal handle on."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
4. Gustav Klimt: 1862-1918
By: Gilles Néret
4.18
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Cult of pleasure: Feminine sensuality by the Vienna Secession's greatest proponentGustav Klimt's or… read more
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- art
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"Some elements appear in this picture which would be decisive in Klimt's subsequent work: for instance, the use of gold and the transformation of anatomy into ornamentation, of ornamentation into anat…"-Gilles Néret, Gustav Klimt: 1862-1918
"This intensely lyrical vision of the pregant woman in [i]Hope I[i] is set in an ambiguous context peopled with masks, death's heads and allegorical monsters such as Sin, Disease, Poverty and Death, a…"-Gilles Néret, Gustav Klimt: 1862-1918
"Eros and Thanatos were always the source of his inspiration, even though, from this time on, they usually appear in the guise of two simple and fundamental themes: flowers and women. These themes off…"-Gilles Néret, Gustav Klimt: 1862-1918
5. The Idiot
By: Elif Batuman
3.66
Format: 423 pages, Hardcover
A portrait of the artist as a young woman. A novel about not just discovering but inventing oneself… read more
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"For a while now, I have been conscious of a tension in my relationship with you,"-Elif Batuman, The Idiot
"Lighting a match felt exciting and a little bit dangerous, and when the flame came into contact with the paper, it made a sound like the needle coming down on a record player—like the music was about…"-Elif Batuman, The Idiot
"For the first time in my life, I couldn't think of anything I particularly wanted to study or to do. I still had the old idea of being a writer, but that was being, not doing. It didn't say what you …"-Elif Batuman, The Idiot
"Suddenly it occurred to me that maybe the point of writing wasn't just to record something past but also to prolong the present, like in One Thousand and One Nights, to stretch out the time until the…"-Elif Batuman, The Idiot
6. When the Sleeper Wakes
By: H.G. Wells , Orson Scott Card
3.36
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Graham, an 1890s radical pamphleteer who is eagerly awaiting the twentieth century and all the adva… read more
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"There is no liberty save wisdom and self-control."-H.G. Wells, When the Sleeper Wakes
"As if there wasn't a thousand things that were never heard."-H.G. Wells, When the Sleeper Wakes
"So long as there are sheep Nature will insist on beasts of prey."-H.G. Wells, When the Sleeper Wakes
"There is no liberty, save wisdom and self-control. Liberty is within--not without. It is each man's own affair."-H.G. Wells, When the Sleeper Wakes
7. Madame Bovary
By: Gustave Flaubert , Margaret Mauldon , Malcolm Bowie , Mark Overstall
3.70
Format: 329 pages, Paperback
Madame Bovary is the debut novel of French writer Gustave Flaubert, published in 1856. The characte… read more
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"Every notary carries about inside him the debris of a poet."-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
"Speech is a rolling-mill that always thins out the sentiment."-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
"How oft the warmth of the sun above Makes a pretty young girl dream of love."-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
"For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat."-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
8. The Solitude of Prime Numbers
By: Paolo Giordano , Shaun Whiteside
3.64
Format: 271 pages, Hardcover
A bestselling international literary sensation about whether a "prime number" can ever truly connec… read more
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"She was tired, with that tiredness that only emptiness brings."-Paolo Giordano, The Solitude of Prime Numbers
"No tenían nada en común, salvo el no querer estar allí ese día."-Paolo Giordano, The Solitude of Prime Numbers
"إن شعور المرء بكونه مميزا هو أسوأ أنواع الأقفاص التى يمكن للمرء أن يبنيه."-Paolo Giordano, The Solitude of Prime Numbers
"Denis's love for Mattia had burned itself out, like a forgotten candle in an empty room, leaving behind a ravenous discontent."-Paolo Giordano, The Solitude of Prime Numbers
9. J.M.W. Turner, 1775-1851: The World of Light and Colour
By: Michael Bockemühl
4.42
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
As a blind person would see the world if the gift of sight suddenly returned - so might one describ… read more
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- art
- history
- nonfiction
10. The Double
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky
3.68
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
While his literary reputation rests mainly on such celebrated novels as Crime and Punishment, The B… read more
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"Tulburarea sa echivala cu agonia."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Double
"La inocencia es la fuerza de la inocencia"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Double
"Totul, până și destinul, se înarma împotriva sa."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Double
"Așa e firea mea. Vreau întotdeauna să merg mai iute decât evenimentele."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Double
11. Train Dreams
By: Denis Johnson
3.67
Format: 272 pages,
Denis Johnson's Train Dreamsis an epic in miniature, one of his most evocative and poignant fiction… read more
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12. The World of Yesterday
By: Stefan Zweig , Harry Zohn
3.72
Format: 640 pages, Paperback
Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) was a poet, novelist, and dramatist, but it was his biographies that expre… read more
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13. Renaissance Art: A Very Short Introduction
By: Geraldine A. Johnson
3.50
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
Artists like Botticelli, Holbein, Leonardo, Durer, and Michelangelo and works such as the Last Supp… read more
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14. 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
15. Tales from the Perilous Realm
By: J.R.R. Tolkien
4.03
Format: 178 pages, Paperback
'Four classic tales from the author of The Hobbit The fat and unheroic Farmer Giles of Ham is calle… read more
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"God is the Lord, of angels, and of men... and of elves. Legend and History have met and fused"-J.R.R. Tolkien, Tales from the Perilous Realm
"Bet visą tą laiką Makaliukas Klajūnas laukė pasirodant paštininkės Klyksnės su naujienomis iš žemės (net maži šuniukai žino, kad tai dažniausiai žmogžudystės ir futbolo rungtynių rezultatai, bet kart…"-J.R.R. Tolkien, Tales from the Perilous Realm
"He was kindhearted, in a way. You know the sort of kind heart: it made him uncomfortable more often than it made him do anything; and even when he did anything, it did not prevent him from grumbling,…"-J.R.R. Tolkien, Tales from the Perilous Realm
"Fantasy is a natural human activity. It certainly does not destroy or even insult Reason; and it does not either blunt the appetite for, nor obscure the perception of, scientific veracity. On the con…"-J.R.R. Tolkien, Tales from the Perilous Realm
16. Jules et Jim
By: Henri-Pierre Roché
2.00
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
Jules arrives from Austria in belle epoqueParis, where he is befriended by Jim. Together they embar… read more
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17. Bonjour tristesse
By: Françoise Sagan
3.72
Format: 154 pages, Mass Market Paperback
(English follows French) La villa est magnifique, l'été brûlant, la Méditerranée toute proche. C… read more
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"Je serais intelligente, cultivée, un peu détachée, comme Anne."-Françoise Sagan, Bonjour tristesse
"Il est très vaniteux ou très peu sûr de lui, comme vous voulez."-Françoise Sagan, Bonjour tristesse
"Bet juk taip malonu paklusti savo impulsams, o paskui gailėtis..."-Françoise Sagan, Bonjour tristesse
"Et de plus, Cyril m'aimait ... cette pensée suffisait à mon euphorie."-Françoise Sagan, Bonjour tristesse
18. Hieronymus Bosch
By: Walter S. Gibson
4.20
Format: 141 pages, Paperback
No one can look at the paintings of Hieronymus Bosch without amazement and bewilderment. Professor … read more
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19. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens
By: J.M. Barrie , Arthur Rackham
4.25
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
Before he flew away to Neverland, the little boy who wouldn't grow up dwelt in the heart of London,… read more
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20. Twenty Years After (The D'Artagnan Romances, #2)
By: Alexandre Dumas , David Coward , Auguste Maquet
4.34
Format: 592 pages, Paperback
'At this game, whoever does not kill is killed.' Twenty Years After(1845), the sequel to The Three … read more
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21. Mothering Sunday
By: Graham Swift
4.25
Format: 179 pages, Hardcover
A luminous, intensely moving tale that begins with a secret lovers' assignation in the spring of 19… read more
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22. The Bird's Nest
By: Shirley Jackson
4.40
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Elizabeth is a demure twenty-three-year-old wiling her life away at a dull museum job, living with … read more
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23. Balzac: le roman de sa vie
By: Stefan Zweig , Fernand Delmas
3.93
Format: None pages, Paperback
La vie de Balzac est un prodigieux roman. Accable de dettes, immerge dans un titanesque labeur d'ec… read more
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24. Baumgartner
By: Paul Auster
3.78
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A taut yet expansive novel of love, memory, and grief from Paul Auster, best-selling, award-winning… read more
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"Vivir es sentir dolor, y vivir con miedo al dolor es negarse a vivir"-Paul Auster, Baumgartner
"To live is to feel pain, he told himself, and to live in fear of pain is to refuse to live."-Paul Auster, Baumgartner
"at some point in the coming years, the two books should be combined and reconfigured into a large, one-volume collected poems—a monument of singing pages that will overwhelm the silence of Anna’s gra…"-Paul Auster, Baumgartner
"the story turns out to be so astounding and so powerful that your jaw drops open and you feel that it has changed or enhanced or deepened your understanding of the world, does it matter if the story …"-Paul Auster, Baumgartner
25. Yoga
By: Emmanuel Carrère
3.87
Format: 380 pages, Paperback
C'est l'histoire d'un livre sur le yoga et la dépression. La méditation et le terrorisme. L'aspirat… read more
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- nonfiction
26. The Maniac
By: Benjamín Labatut
4.34
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From one of contemporary literature’s most exciting new voices, a haunting story centered on the Hu… read more
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"[...] si nuestra especie iba a sobrevivir el siglo XX, necesitábamos llenar el enorme vacío dejado por la huida de los dioses, y la única candidata viable para realizar esa extraña y esotérica transf…"-Benjamín Labatut, The Maniac
27. In the Country of Others
By: Leïla Slimani
3.76
Format: 305 pages, Hardcover
The award-winning, #1 internationally bestselling new novel by the author of The Perfect Nanny--a p… read more
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"À présent qu'aucun retour en arrière n'était possible, elle se sentait forte. Forte de ne pas être libre."-Leïla Slimani, In the Country of Others
"J'admire ceux qui avec un cœur sincère acceptent le martyr des leurs. Mais je comprends encore mieux ceux qui veulent les sauver à tout prix."-Leïla Slimani, In the Country of Others
28. Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope
By: Sarah Bakewell
4.03
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The bestselling author of How to Live and At the Existentialist Café explores seven hundred years o… read more
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- nonfiction
29. All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud, and Fine Art
By: Orlando Whitfield
3.84
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
DECEPTION IS A FINE ART. When Orlando Whitfield first meets Inigo Philbrick, they are students d… read more
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- nonfiction
30. Vienna 1900
By: Daniela Gregori
3.80
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
To Every Age Its Art When traditional craft met blossoming modernism Discover turn-of-the-century V… read more
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31. How the Classics Made Shakespeare (E. H. Gombrich Lecture Series)
By: Jonathan Bate
4.05
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From one of our most eminent and accessible literary critics, a groundbreaking account of how the G… read more
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- nonfiction
