Language and Woman's Place: Text and Commentaries (Studies in Language and Gender)
By: Robin Tolmach Lakoff
3.79
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
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1. The White Album
By: Joan Didion
4.05
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
First published in 1979, Joan Didion's The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and aftermat… read more
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- nonfiction
"Somewhere between the Yolo Causeway and Vallejo it occurred to me that during the course of any given week I met too many people who spoke favorably about bombing power stations."-Joan Didion, The White Album
"I have trouble maintaining the basic notion that keeping promises matters in a world where everything I was taught seems beside the point. The point itself is increasingly obscure."-Joan Didion, The White Album
"A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his image..."-Joan Didion, The White Album
"Making judgments on films is in many ways so peculiarly vaporous an occupation that the only question is why, beyond the obvious opportunities for a few lectures fees and a little careerism at a disp…"-Joan Didion, The White Album
2. The People in the Trees
By: Hanya Yanagihara
3.73
Format: 369 pages, Hardcover
In 1950, a young doctor called Norton Perina signs on with the anthropologist Paul Tallent for an e… read more
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"For what more could we presume to ask from death — but kindness?"-Hanya Yanagihara, The People in the Trees
"to fear death, you must first have something to tether you to life."-Hanya Yanagihara, The People in the Trees
"No existe forma satisfactoria o novedosa de describir la belleza y, por lo demás, me avergüenza hacerlo."-Hanya Yanagihara, The People in the Trees
"Desaprender cosas es mucho más complicado que aprenderlas, y hasta los más audaces de espíritu se ven tentados a recular hacia lo conocido a la primera oportunidad."-Hanya Yanagihara, The People in the Trees
3. The Castle of Otranto
By: Horace Walpole
3.18
Format: 125 pages, Paperback
First published pseudonymously in 1764, The Castle of Otranto purported to be a translation of an I… read more
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"My soul abhors a falsehood"-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
"This life is but a pilgrimage."-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
"Heaven mocks the short-sighted views of man."-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
"I fear no bad angel, and have offended no good one."-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
4. Song of Solomon
By: Toni Morrison
4.14
Format: 338 pages, Paperback
Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain… read more
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- school
"Her passions were narrow but deep."-Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
"He can't value you more than you value yourself."-Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
"If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it."-Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
"You got a life? Live it! Live the motherfuckin' life!"-Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
5. On the Marble Cliffs
By: Stuart Hood , George Steiner , Ernst Jünger
3.80
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
The peaceful and traditional people, located on the shores of a large bay, are surrounded by the ro… read more
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"The downfall of order brings good to none."-Stuart Hood, On the Marble Cliffs
"Such are the cellars over which the proud castles of tyranny rise and above which the aromas of their feast swirl: putrid caves of a gruesome kind in which the depraved rabble regales itself with the…"-Stuart Hood, On the Marble Cliffs
"We cannot count on seeing our work completed here below, and happy is the man whose will is not too painfully invested in his efforts. No house is built, no plan created, in which ruin is not the cor…"-Stuart Hood, On the Marble Cliffs
"I had often doubted; now I was convinced: there were still noble beings among us in whose hearts knowledge of the higher order was preserved and perpetuated. A lofty example enjoins us to follow, and…"-Stuart Hood, On the Marble Cliffs
6. A Room of One’s Own
By: Virginia Woolf
4.21
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
A Room of One's Own is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf. First published on the 24th of October,… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
"Truth had run through my fingers. Every drop had escaped."-Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
"Freedom and fullness of expression are of the essence of the art."-Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
"Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."-Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
"Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems."-Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
7. A Streetcar Named Desire
By: Tennessee Williams
3.98
Format: 107 pages, Paperback
The Pulitzer Prize and Drama Critics Circle Award winning play—reissued with an introduction by Art… read more
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- school
"Never inside, I didn't lie in my heart..."-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
"And funerals are pretty compared to deaths."-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
"I think you have a great capacity for devotion,"-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
"I want to rest. I want to breathe quietly again."-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
8. The Raven
By: Edgar Allan Poe , Gustave Doré
4.29
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
In Gustave Doré, one of the most prolific and successful book illustrators of the late 19h century,… read more
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- school
"Quoth the raven nevermore."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven
"Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven
"La ciencia no nos a enseñado aun si la locura es o no lo mas sublime de la inteligencia"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven
"And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor Shall be lifted Nevermore"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven
9. The Masque of the Red Death
By: Edgar Allan Poe
4.06
Format: 9 pages, Paperback
The story follows Prince Prospero's attempts to avoid a dangerous plague known as the Red Death by … read more
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- school
"Existem cordas, nos corações dos mais indiferentes, que não podem ser tocadas sem emoção."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death
"Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death
"There was much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death
"And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death
10. The Overcoat
By: Nikolai Gogol
4.15
Format: 57 pages, Paperback
The Overcoat which is generally acknowledged as the finest of Gogol's memorable Saint Petersburg st… read more
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- school
"In the department of...but it would be better not to say in which department."-Nikolai Gogol, The Overcoat
"وخلت بطرسبرغ من أكاكيڤيتش وكأنما لم يكن موجودًا فيها أبدًا، اختفى وغاب ذلك المخلوق الذي لم يكن له من يحميه، والذي لم يكن عزيزًا على أحد ولا شيقًا بالنسبة لأحد."-Nikolai Gogol, The Overcoat
"Así desapareció un ser humano a quien nadie defendió, a quien nadie había querido, por quien nadie se interesó… Fue un ser que soportó humildemente las burlas de sus colegas y que bajó a la tumba sin…"-Nikolai Gogol, The Overcoat
"Moreover, he had a peculiar knack, as he walked along the street, of arriving beneath a window just as all sorts of rubbish were being flung out of it: hence he always bore about on his hat scraps of…"-Nikolai Gogol, The Overcoat
11. چشمهایش
By: None
3.79
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
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12. The Subjection of Women
By: John Stuart Mill
4.08
Format: 31 pages, Paperback
..".John Mill disagrees with the argument that women are naturally less good at some things than me… read more
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- feminism
- politics
- nonfiction
13. The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
By: Heinrich Böll , Leila Vennewitz
3.88
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
In an era in which journalists will stop at nothing to break a story, Henrich Boll's The Lost Honor… read more
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14. Jacques the Fatalist
By: Denis Diderot
4.22
Format: None pages, Paperback
Jacques the Fatalist is a provocative exploration of the problems of human existence, destiny, and … read more
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15. 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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- school
"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
16. If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
By: Sappho , Anne Carson
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
From poet and classicist Anne Carson comes this translation of the work of Sappho, together with th… read more
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17. Hop Frog
By: Edgar Allan Poe , Don Kisner , None
3.66
Format: 259 pages, Paperback
Hop-Frog and his friend Trippetta have been captured by one of the king's generals and brought back… read more
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- school
18. The Woman Destroyed
By: Simone de Beauvoir , Patrick O'Brian
3.75
Format: None pages,
Una crisi coniugale o familiare costringe tre donne a mettere in discussione la propria vita e il p… read more
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- feminism
19. Bluets
By: Maggie Nelson
4.22
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color... A lyrical, philosophica… read more
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- nonfiction
20. The Six Swans
By: Anthea Bell , Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm , Dorothée Duntze
3.67
Format: 117 pages, Hardcover
Six unfortunate young men were turned into swans by their stepmother. Their heart-broken sister vow… read more
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21. SCUM Manifesto
By: Valerie Solanas , Avital Ronell
2.00
Format: 161 pages, Hardcover
SCUM Manifestowas considered one of the most outrageous, violent and certifiably crazy tracts when … read more
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22. The God of Small Things
By: Arundhati Roy
3.96
Format: 321 pages, Paperback
The year is 1969. In the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India, a skyblue Plymouth with… read more
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"If you're happy in a dream, does that count?"-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
"His gratitude widened his smile and bent his back."-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
"Thirty-one. Not old. Not young. But a viable die-able age."-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
"That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less."-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
23. Ordeal by Innocence
By: Agatha Christie
4.25
Format: None pages, Paperback
Recovering from amnesia, Dr. Arthur Calgary discovers that he alone could have provided an alibi in… read more
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24. Black No More
By: George S. Schuyler
3.64
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Modern Library Harlem Renaissance What would happen to the race problem in America if black people … read more
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25. Devotion
By: Patti Smith
3.97
Format: 649 pages, Hardcover
From the renowned artist and author Patti Smith, an inspired exploration of the nature of creative … read more
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26. Senselessness
By: Katherine Silver , Horacio Castellanos Moya
4.00
Format: 274 pages, Paperback
A boozing, sex-obsessed writer finds himself employed by the Catholic Church (an institution he loa… read more
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27. The Waste Land and Other Poems
By: T.S. Eliot
3.62
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Few readers need any introduction to the work of the most influential poet of the twentieth century… read more
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28. Qui a tué mon père
By: Édouard Louis
4.16
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
« Est-ce qu’il est normal d’avoir honte d’aimer ? » Édouard Louis a publié deux livres, En finir… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
"September 2017 Emmanuel Macron condemns the “laziness"-Édouard Louis, Qui a tué mon père
"You were as much a victim of the violence you inflicted as of the violence you endured."-Édouard Louis, Qui a tué mon père
"What we call history is nothing but the story of the same emotions, the same joys, reproduced across bodies and time"-Édouard Louis, Qui a tué mon père
"Where is history? The history they taught at school was not your own. We were learning world history, and you were left out."-Édouard Louis, Qui a tué mon père
29. On Women
By: Susan Sontag
3.61
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
A pithy and brilliant introduction to Susan Sontag’s writing on women, gathering early essays on ag… read more
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- feminism
- politics
- nonfiction
- gender
"Dividing time into Past, Present, and Future suggests that reality is distributed equally among three parts, but in fact the past is the most real of all. The future is, inevitably, an accumulation o…"-Susan Sontag, On Women
30. Language and Woman's Place: Text and Commentaries (Studies in Language and Gender)
By: Robin Tolmach Lakoff
3.79
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
The 1975 publication of Robin Tolmach Lakoff's Language and Woman's Place , is widely recognized as… read more
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- feminism
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- nonfiction
- reference
- sociology
- anthropology
