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1. The Secret Agent
By: Joseph Conrad
3.59
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Mr Verloc, the secret agent, keeps a shop in London's Soho where he lives with his wife Winnie, her… read more
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"Bad world for poor people."-Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent
"To the destruction of what is."-Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent
"As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement."-Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent
"A certain simplicity of thought is common to serene souls at both ends of the social scale."-Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent
2. 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
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. The Man in the High Castle
By: Philip K. Dick
3.60
Format: 259 pages, Paperback
It's America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. The few Jews who still survive hide under assume… read more
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"Don’t you feel it?"-Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle
"Truth, she thought. As terrible as death. But harder to find."-Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle
"Dreadful low-class jingoistic racist invectives, unworthy of me."-Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle
"We are all insects. Groping towards something terrible or divine."-Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle
5. Against Nature
By: Joris-Karl Huysmans , Patrick McGuinness , Robert Baldick , Patrick McGuiness
3.87
Format: 54 pages, Paperback
With a title translated either as Against Natureor as Against The Grain, this wildly original fin-d… read more
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6. Nevsky Prospect
By: Nikolai Gogol , D.M. Pursglove
4.39
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
The theatrical genius of Nikolay Gogol has gone largely unappreciated by English-speaking audiences… read more
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7. Survival in Auschwitz
By: Primo Levi , Philip Roth , Stuart J. Woolf
4.33
Format: 187 pages, Paperback
The true and harrowing account of Primo Levi’s experience at the German concentration camp of Ausch… read more
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"... infin che un giorno senso non avrà più dire : domani" (...jusqu'à ce qu'un jour dire "demain" n'ait plus de sens)"-Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz
"…in this place everything is forbidden, not for hidden reasons, but because the camp has been created for that purpose."-Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz
"...for a country is considered the more civilized the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak or a powerful one too powerful."-Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz
"Qualcuno, molto tempo fa, ha scritto che anche i libri, come gli esseri umani, hanno un loro destino, imprevedibile, diverso da quello che per loro si desiderava e si attendeva."-Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz
8. Mephisto
By: Klaus Mann , Robin Smyth
4.82
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Klaus Mann - Thomas Mann's son - wrote MEPHISTO while living in exile from the Germany of World War… read more
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9. Zeno's Conscience
By: Italo Svevo , William Weaver
4.25
Format: None pages, Paperback
Long hailed as a seminal work of modernism in the tradition of Joyce and Kafka, and now available i… read more
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10. Galileo
By: Bertolt Brecht , Eric Bentley , Charles Laughton
4.43
Format: None pages, Paperback
Considered by many to be one of Brecht's masterpieces, Galileoexplores the question of a scientist'… read more
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11. Bartleby the Scrivener
By: Herman Melville
3.93
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Academics hail it as the beginning of modernism, but to readers around the world—even those daunted… read more
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"I would prefer not to."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
"To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
"Bartleby in a singularly mild, firm voice, replied, “I would prefer not to."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
"At present I would prefer not to be a little reasonable,' was his mildly cadaverous reply."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
12. Memoirs of Hadrian
By: Marguerite Yourcenar , Grace Frick
4.23
Format: 347 pages, Paperback
Both an exploration of character and a reflection on the meaning of history, Memoirs of Hadrian has… read more
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"And it was at about this time that I began to feel myself divine."-Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian
"La morale è una convenzione privata; il decoro è una faccenda pubblica."-Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian
"I was willing to yield to nostalgia, that melancholy residue of desire."-Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian
"Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul..."-Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian
13. La speculazione edilizia
By: Italo Calvino
4.12
Format: 29 pages,
Un intellettuale disgustato dalla societa e scontento del suo destino cerca di'fare i soldi' dandos… read more
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- fiction
- italian literature
14. Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno
By: Italo Calvino
3.71
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Pubblicato nel 1947, Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno e il romanzo d'esordio di Italo Calvino. Protago… read more
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- italian literature
15. La luna e i falò
By: Cesare Pavese , Gian Luigi Beccaria
4.06
Format: 205 pages, Paperback
Pubblicato nell'aprile del 1950 e considerato dalla critica il libro piu bello di Pavese, "La luna … read more
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16. Utz
By: Bruce Chatwin
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
Utz collects Meissen porcelain with a passion. His collection, which he has protected and enlarged … read more
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17. The Periodic Table
By: Primo Levi , Raymond Rosenthal
4.18
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
The Periodic Table is largely a memoir of the years before and after Primo Levi's transportation fr… read more
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18. 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)
19. Camere separate
By: Pier Vittorio Tondelli
3.22
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
"'Camere separate' e uno straordinario e felice romanzo d'amore e di morte, di nostalgia e maturita… read more
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21. Il sergente nella neve
By: Mario Rigoni Stern , Eraldo Affinati
3.64
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
I ricordi della ritirata di Russia scritti in un lager tedesco dall'alpino Rigoni Stern nell'invern… read more
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22. Less Than Zero
By: Bret Easton Ellis
3.27
Format: None pages, Paperback
Set in Los Angeles in the early 1980's, this coolly mesmerizing novel is a raw, powerful portrait o… read more
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23. Il maestro di Vigevano
By: Lucio Mastronardi
3.29
Format: None pages, Paperback
L'ambiente che il romanzo ritrae e quello dei maestri elementari, categoria che il mondo economico … read more
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24. Gli indifferenti
By: Alberto Moravia , Eileen Romano , Edoardo Sanguineti , Tonino Tornitore
3.88
Format: 373 pages,
Gli indifferentie il primo romanzo scritto da Moravia appena diciottenne e pubblicato nel 1929. Tem… read more
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25. La vita agra
By: Luciano Bianciardi , Geno Pampaloni
4.57
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
Questo romanzo, in larga parte autobiografico, si sarebbe potuto anche intitolare Missione impossib… read more
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26. Tokyo Express
By: Seichō Matsumoto
3.68
Format: 175 pages, Paperback
In una cala rocciosa della baia di Hakata, i corpi di un uomo e di una donna vengono rinvenuti all’… read more
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27. Happiness, as Such
By: Natalia Ginzburg
3.98
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
At the heart of Happiness, as Such is an absence—an abyss that pulls everyone to its brink—created … read more
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"This life now has nothing to equal to the places and moments we passed through to get here"-Natalia Ginzburg, Happiness, as Such
"Ma è vero che a un certo punto della nostra vita i rimorsi li inzuppiamo nel caffè la mattina come biscotti."-Natalia Ginzburg, Happiness, as Such
"Ma non si amano soltanto le memorie felici. A un certo punto della vita, ci si accorge che si amano le memorie."-Natalia Ginzburg, Happiness, as Such
"So I wasn’t there when he died, which I regret. But after a certain point in life a person has to dunk her regrets in the morning coffee, just like biscuits."-Natalia Ginzburg, Happiness, as Such
28. The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity
By: Carlo M. Cipolla
3.86
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
"A masterly book" --Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of The Black Swan"A classic" --Simon Kuper, Finan… read more
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"A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person."-Carlo M. Cipolla, The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity
"احتمالية أن يكون شخص ما غبيا، مستقلة عن أي سمة أخرى يتصف بها هذا الشخص"-Carlo M. Cipolla, The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity
"The Second law of human stupidity: The probability that a certain person be stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person"-Carlo M. Cipolla, The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity
"If you lose we will be equals and stay friends forever, and if you win you'll take my precious blue flower as a prize and we stay friends forever. How lucky you are!"-Carlo M. Cipolla, The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity
29. Cenere
By: Grazia Deledda
4.05
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
Cenere appartiene al periodo più felice dell'arte di Grazia Deledda, quando la sua ispirazione più … read more
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30. Una notte del '43
By: Giorgio Bassani
3.62
Format: 84 pages, Paperback
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