Idylle saphique
By: Liane de Pougy
3.83
Format: None pages, Paperback
This is the first English translation of Liane de Pougy’s 1901 novel A Woman’s Affair (Idylle Saphi…
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1. The Waves
By: Virginia Woolf
4.15
Format: 297 pages, Paperback
Set on the coast of England against the vivid background of the sea, The Waves introduces six chara… read more
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- poetry
- classics
- fiction
"Death is woven in with the violets,"-Virginia Woolf, The Waves
"Up here my eyes are green leaves, unseeing."-Virginia Woolf, The Waves
"I am not one and simple, but complex and many."-Virginia Woolf, The Waves
"But I pine in Solitude. Solitude is my undoing."-Virginia Woolf, The Waves
2. Orientalism
By: None , Edward W. Said
4.12
Format: 424 pages, Paperback
More than three decades after its first publication, Edward Said's groundbreaking critique of the W… read more
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- classics
"Toda época y toda sociedad recrea sus «otros»."-None, Orientalism
"الإستشرق في جوهره مذهب سياسي فُرِضَ فَرْضاً على الشرق لأن الشرق كان أضعف من الغرب، وإنه تجاهل اختلاف الشرق الراجع إلى ضعفه."-None, Orientalism
"It seems a common human failing to prefer the schematic authority of a text to the disorientations of direct encounters with the human."-None, Orientalism
"إن مناقشات الشرق كانت تتسم بالغياب الكامل للشرق، لكن المرء يحس بأن المستشرق ومايقوله حاضران، ومع ذلك فيجب ألا ننسى أن الذي يمكِّن المستشرق من الحضور هو الغياب الفعلي للشرق."-None, Orientalism
3. The Pure and the Impure
By: Colette Gauthier-Villars , Judith Thurman , Herma Briffault
3.63
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Colette herself considered The Pure and the Impure her best book, "the nearest I shall ever come to… read more
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- classics
- lgbt
- france
- fiction
- queer
"Lecz kobiecie z trudem przychodzi nie oddac sie mezczyznie"-Colette Gauthier-Villars, The Pure and the Impure
"Istnieje mniej sposobow uprawiania milosci, niz sie mowi, lecz duzo wiecej, niz sie mysli."-Colette Gauthier-Villars, The Pure and the Impure
"I did not look for her, because I was afraid of dispelling the mystery we attach to people whom we know only casually."-Colette Gauthier-Villars, The Pure and the Impure
"Niczego mi w zyciu nie braklo, ani urody, ani szczescia, ani nieszczescia; ani mezczyzn, ani kobiet...to dopiero mozna nazwac zyciem!"-Colette Gauthier-Villars, The Pure and the Impure
4. Orlando
By: Virginia Woolf , Sandra M Gilbert
3.87
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Virginia Woolf's Orlando 'The longest and most charming love letter in literature', playfully const… read more
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- classics
- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
"Life and a lover"-Virginia Woolf, Orlando
"Thoughts are divine."-Virginia Woolf, Orlando
"Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence."-Virginia Woolf, Orlando
"All extremes of feeling are allied with madness."-Virginia Woolf, Orlando
5. 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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- lesbian
- poetry
- classics
- lgbt
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- queer
6. Stone Butch Blues
By: Leslie Feinberg
4.43
Format: 230 pages, Hardcover
Woman or man? This internationally acclaimed novel looks at the world through the eyes of Jess Gold… read more
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- classics
- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
7. The Argonauts
By: Maggie Nelson
3.91
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family Ma… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
8. Moderato cantabile
By: Marguerite Duras
4.15
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
A distressed young man murders the woman he loves in a cafe, watched by a large crowd. Fascinated b… read more
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9. Woman of the Wolf and Other Stories
By: Renée Vivien , Karla Jay , None
4.17
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The Women of the Wolf, written in 1904, is probably Renee Vivien's finest achievement, the one work… read more
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10. Quand tu écouteras cette chanson
By: Lola Lafon
4.40
Format: 250 pages, Paperback
Le 18 août 2021, j'ai passé la nuit au Musée Anne Frank, dans l'Annexe. Anne Frank, que tout le mon… read more
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- france
11. The Silence of the Girls (Women of Troy, #1)
By: Pat Barker
3.90
Format: 325 pages, Hardcover
The ancient city of Troy has withstood a decade under siege of the powerful Greek army, which conti… read more
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- fiction
"Achilles shook him. "Just come back."-Pat Barker, The Silence of the Girls (Women of Troy, #1)
"Grief's only ever as deep as the love it's replaced."-Pat Barker, The Silence of the Girls (Women of Troy, #1)
"Sometimes at night I lie awake and quarrel with the voices in my head."-Pat Barker, The Silence of the Girls (Women of Troy, #1)
"Ik zal nooit vergeten dat zij voor me huilde toen ik dat zelf niet kon."-Pat Barker, The Silence of the Girls (Women of Troy, #1)
12. Les impatientes
By: Djaïli Amadou Amal
4.06
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Trois femmes, trois histoires, trois destins liés. Ce roman polyphonique retrace le destin de la j… read more
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- france
- fiction
13. Mon ami Pierrot
By: Jim Bishop
4.08
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
Jeune fille issue de la noblesse, Cléa est promise à un bel avenir aux côtés du fils du comte de l’… read more
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- france
"Lâcher prise, et avoir conscience qu’il n’y a aucune limite à notre façon de voir le monde et la vie, c’est la magie."-Jim Bishop, Mon ami Pierrot
14. A Woman Appeared to Me
By: Renée Vivien
4.21
Format: 116 pages, Paperback
"A WOMAN APPEARED TO ME is Renée Vivien's feverish, dream-like account of her tormented relationshi… read more
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- lesbian
- poetry
- classics
- lgbt
- france
- fiction
- queer
"You yourself are the bizarre flower of some unknown dream."-Renée Vivien, A Woman Appeared to Me
"I have loved to the limit of my strength. No one has a right to ask more of any human being."-Renée Vivien, A Woman Appeared to Me
"She embodies all the melancholy of autumn. She has learned to cherish with mournful tenderness a past she dares not remember."-Renée Vivien, A Woman Appeared to Me
"She smiled at me, and I felt a sudden burning tenderness for this creature so like fruit and roses. I desired her like blue water at dawn."-Renée Vivien, A Woman Appeared to Me
15. Love Letters: Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West
By: Virginia Woolf
4.46
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
'I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia. I composed a beautiful letter to you in the sleepless… read more
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- classics
- queer
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"I miss you even more than I could have believed ;and I was prepared to miss you a good deal"-Virginia Woolf, Love Letters: Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West
"Damn you, spoilt creature; I shan’t make you love me any the more by giving myself away like this."-Virginia Woolf, Love Letters: Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West
"I believe that the main thing in beginning a novel is to feel, not that you can write it, but that it exists on the far side of a gulf, which words can't cross; that its to be pulled through only in …"-Virginia Woolf, Love Letters: Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West
"And still the strange meaningless conversations continue, and I wonder more and more at the fabric which nets the world together, so that anything which I do finally incubate out of my system into wo…"-Virginia Woolf, Love Letters: Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West
16. La Petite Dernière
By: Fatima Daas
3.85
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
« Je m'appelle Fatima Daas. Je suis la mazoziya, la dernière. Celle à laquelle on ne s'est pas prép… read more
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"Il n'y a que sur les photos qu'on est heureux."-Fatima Daas, La Petite Dernière
"Islam meant believing in God, loving Him, fearing Him, obeying Him. I got the first stages right."-Fatima Daas, La Petite Dernière
17. Rebis
By: Irene Marchesini
4.22
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Martino è il più piccolo, e il meno amato, dei figli di una famiglia altrimenti serena. Essendo alb… read more
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18. Écrire à l'encre violette
By: Aurore Turbiau
4.32
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
Après des siècles d’un silence quasi-entier, plusieurs œuvres ouvertement lesbiennes sont publiées … read more
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- queer
19. Correspondance amoureuse
By: Natalie Clifford Barney
4.41
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
L'une était une riche héritière américaine, l'autre l'une des plus célèbres courtisanes de la Belle… read more
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20. Idylle saphique
By: Liane de Pougy
3.83
Format: None pages, Paperback
This is the first English translation of Liane de Pougy’s 1901 novel A Woman’s Affair (Idylle Saphi… read more
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- poetry
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- france
- fiction
- lesbian fiction
- queer
21. Oublier Camus
By: OLIVIER GLOAG
4.14
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Quoi de commun entre George Bush, un Afro-Américain condamné à mort en Indiana, l’extrême droite fr… read more
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