Abel and Cain
By: Gregor von Rezzori
4.02
Format: 880 pages, Paperback
In 1985, Gregor von Rezzori published an English translation of a novel entitled The Death of My Br…
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1. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
By: None , H.T. Willetts , Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
3.98
Format: 182 pages, Paperback
The only English translation authorized by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn First published in the Soviet… read more
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- classics
- literature
- 20th century
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"A couple of ounces ruled your life."-None, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
"It's all so arty there's no art left in it."-None, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
"Two roubles. Worn notes that didn't rustle."-None, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
"Гении не подгоняют трактовку под вкус тиранов!"-None, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
2. Kolyma Tales
By: Varlam Shalamov , John Glad , Варлам Шаламов
4.36
Format: 508 pages, Paperback
It is estimated that some three million people died in the Soviet forced-labour camps of Kolyma, in… read more
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- literature
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"I'm dressed appropriate for the season mama, I'm dressed appropriately for the season."-Varlam Shalamov, Kolyma Tales
"Only one group of people kept their humanity in the camps, the believers, whether Orthodox or sectarians."-Varlam Shalamov, Kolyma Tales
"Помню, как в предзимнюю пору холодом, льдом уже схватывало грязь на тропе, и грязь будто засахаривалась, как варенье."-Varlam Shalamov, Kolyma Tales
"If bones could freeze, then the brain could also be dulled and the soul could freeze over. And the soul shuddered and froze- perhaps to remain frozen forever."-Varlam Shalamov, Kolyma Tales
3. The Recognitions
By: William H. Gass , William Gaddis
4.20
Format: 976 pages, Paperback
The book Jonathan Franzen dubbed the "ur-text of postwar fiction" and the "first great cultural cri… read more
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- classics
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- 20th century
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- novels
"Women get desperate, but they don't understand despair."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
"That fever had passed; but for the rest of his life it never left his eyes."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
"Reading Proust isn't just reading a book, it's an experience and you can't reject an experience."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
"Most people are clever because they don't know how to be honest." William Gaddis, The Recognitions."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
4. Fear and Trembling
By: Søren Kierkegaard , Alastair Hannay
4.75
Format: 335 pages, Paperback
Soren Kierkegaard was a Danish philosopher, theologian and religious author interested in human psy… read more
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- classics
5. Jesus' Son
By: Denis Johnson
4.26
Format: 999 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Jesus' Son, the first collection of stories by Denis Johnson, presents a unique, hallucinatory visi… read more
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- literature
- classics
- fiction
6. Under Western Eyes
By: Joseph Conrad
3.06
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
Acclaimed as one of Conrad's finest literary achievements, this gripping novel deftly depicts the p… read more
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- 20th century
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7. Herself Surprised
By: Joyce Cary , Brad Leithauser
4.10
Format: None pages, Paperback
Beginning her prison sentence, Sara Monday looks back on the foolish mistakes and changing fortunes… read more
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- classics
- fiction
8. The Go-Between
By: Colm Tóibín , L.P. Hartley
3.99
Format: 326 pages, Paperback
L.P. Hartley's moving exploration of a young boy's loss of innocence The Go-Between is edited with … read more
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"You flew too near the sun and you were scorched."-Colm Tóibín, The Go-Between
"To see things as they really were--what an empoverishment!"-Colm Tóibín, The Go-Between
"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."-Colm Tóibín, The Go-Between
"With the opening of the door, and the installation of electric light in the cupboard, the skeletons had crumbled into dust."-Colm Tóibín, The Go-Between
9. Solenoid
By: Mircea Cărtărescu
3.59
Format: 83 pages, Paperback
,,Vreau sa scriu o dare de seama despre anomaliile mele. In viata mea obscura, in afara oricarei is… read more
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10. Sexus (The Rosy Crucifixion, #1)
By: Henry Miller
4.00
Format: 16 pages, Paperback
Praise for Henry Miller: 'American literature begins and ends with the meaning of what Miller has d… read more
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11. 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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- literature
"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)
12. Burmese Days
By: George Orwell
3.97
Format: 68 pages, Hardcover
Set in the days of the Empire, with the British ruling in Burma, this book describes corruption and… read more
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13. Queer
By: William S. Burroughs
3.84
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
Originally written in 1952 but not published till 1985, "Queer" is an enigma - both an unflinching … read more
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14. The Door
By: Magda Szabó , Len Rix
4.00
Format: 98 pages, Hardcover
A busy young writer struggling to cope with domestic chores, hires a housekeeper recommended by a f… read more
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15. Sons and Lovers
By: D.H. Lawrence , Geoff Dyer
3.86
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
"She was a brazen hussy." "She wasn't. And she was pretty, wasn't she?" "I didn't look ... And tell… read more
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16. The Road to Wigan Pier
By: George Orwell , Richard Hoggart
3.92
Format: 215 pages, Paperback
In the 1930s, commissioned by a left-wing book club, Orwell went to the industrial areas of norther… read more
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- literature
- classics
"I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
"...there is always a temptation to think that industrialism is harmless so long as it is clean and orderly."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
"According to Chesterton, tea-drinking’ is ‘pagan’, while beer-drinking is ‘Christian’, and coffee is ‘the puritan’s opium’."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
"It is only when you meet someone of a different culture from yourself that you begin to realise what your own beliefs really are."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
17. Ducks, Newburyport
By: Lucy Ellmann
3.97
Format: 1022 pages, Paperback
LATTICING one cherry pie after another, an Ohio housewife tries to bridge the gaps between reality … read more
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"Italians answer the phone, “Pronto,"-Lucy Ellmann, Ducks, Newburyport
"I think that Inuit duck is at the Peabody, Bringing Up Baby, “Ducky! Ducky!"-Lucy Ellmann, Ducks, Newburyport
"...the fact that there’s a lot you have to blank out if you want to get through life..."-Lucy Ellmann, Ducks, Newburyport
"the fact that you’ll never know what sort of person you might have been if you’d read different stuff"-Lucy Ellmann, Ducks, Newburyport
18. Intermezzo
By: Sally Rooney
4.34
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.… read more
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19. Muhammad
By: Maxime Rodinson
3.95
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
A definitive and fascinating introduction to the life, ideas, and impact of the founder of Islam. M… read more
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- 20th century
20. The Kremlin Ball
By: Curzio Malaparte
3.59
Format: 223 pages, Paperback
Perhaps only the impeccably perverse imagination of Curzio Malaparte could have conceived of The Kr… read more
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21. Abel and Cain
By: Gregor von Rezzori
4.02
Format: 880 pages, Paperback
In 1985, Gregor von Rezzori published an English translation of a novel entitled The Death of My Br… read more
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