Journals 1889-1949
By: André Gide
4.21
Format: 797 pages, Paperback
Jurnalul lui Andre Gide, este prima traducere românească integrală, a fost efectuată după ediţia în…
Want to Read $ 8.99"il nous change, il modifie la marche de notre vie." / "it changes us, it alters the course of our lives."-André Gide, Journals 1889-1949
"il nous change, il modifie la marche de notre vie." / "it changes us, it alters the course of our lives."-André Gide, Journals 1889-1949
"The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say — because they were too obvious."-André Gide, Journals 1889-1949
"The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say — because they were too obvious."-André Gide, Journals 1889-1949
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1. The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
By: Marcel Proust , None , Terence Kilmartin , D.J. Enright
4.39
Format: 957 pages, Paperback
The Modern Library’s fifth volume of In Search of Lost Time contains both The Captive (1923) and Th… read more
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"...every social class has its own pathology..."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
"Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
"Love is space and time made perceptible to the heart."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
"There are optical errors in time as there are in space."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
2. Hopscotch
By: Julio Cortázar , Gregory Rabassa
4.20
Format: 564 pages, Paperback
Horacio Oliveira is an Argentinian writer who lives in Paris with his mistress, La Maga, surrounded… read more
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"Pero el amor, esa palabra..."-Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch
"Explanation is a well-dressed error."-Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch
"Pobre amor el que de pensamiento se alimenta."-Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch
"Hay ausencias que representan un verdadero triunfo"-Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch
3. El coronel no tiene quien le escriba
By: Gabriel García Márquez
3.79
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
El coronel no tiene quien le escriba fue escrita por Gabriel García Márquez durante su estancia en … read more
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"Umut karın doyurmaz, dedi kadın. Karın doyurmaz ama insanı ayakta tutar, diye yanıtladı albay."-Gabriel García Márquez, El coronel no tiene quien le escriba
"You can't eat hope,' the woman said. You can't eat it, but it sustains you,' the colonel replied."-Gabriel García Márquez, El coronel no tiene quien le escriba
"-Y mientras tanto, ¿qué comemos? -No sé, pero si nos fueramos a morir de hambre ya nos hubiéramos muerto"-Gabriel García Márquez, El coronel no tiene quien le escriba
"«A Wilson le falta pasar algún tiempo en la escuela de las dificultades, y aun de la adversidad y la miseria.»"-Gabriel García Márquez, El coronel no tiene quien le escriba
4. Rue des boutiques obscures
By: Patrick Modiano
3.63
Format: 250 pages, Paperback
Que reste-t-il de la vie d'un homme ? Une photo, au fond d'une boîte ou d'un tiroir, des papiers ad… read more
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"One has to retire eventually, Guy."-Patrick Modiano, Rue des boutiques obscures
"The letters dance before my eyes. Who am I?"-Patrick Modiano, Rue des boutiques obscures
"Did you see her again in France?" I asked him."-Patrick Modiano, Rue des boutiques obscures
"Nice is a city of ghosts and specters, but I hope not to become one of them right away."-Patrick Modiano, Rue des boutiques obscures
5. The Lover
By: Marguerite Duras , Barbara Bray , Maxine Hong Kingston
3.72
Format: 117 pages, Paperback
Set against the backdrop of French colonial Vietnam, The Lover reveals the intimacies and intricaci… read more
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"He says he’s lonely, horribly lonely because of this love he feels for her. She says she’s lonely too. She doesn’t say why."-Marguerite Duras, The Lover
"The air was blue, you could hold it in your hand. Blue. The sky was the continual throbbing of the brilliance of the light."-Marguerite Duras, The Lover
"When it's in a book I don't think it'll hurt any more ...exist any more. One of the things writing does is wipe things out. Replace them."-Marguerite Duras, The Lover
"You didn't have to attract desire. Either it was in the woman who aroused it or it didn't exist. Either it was there at first glance or else it had never been."-Marguerite Duras, The Lover
6. 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
7. Death with Interruptions
By: Margaret Jull Costa , José Saramago
4.00
Format: 238 pages, Hardcover
Nobel Prize-winner Jose Saramago's brilliant new novel poses the question what happens when the gri… read more
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"Al día siguiente no murió nadie."-Margaret Jull Costa, Death with Interruptions
"Eu sunt moartea,restul nu e nimic."-Margaret Jull Costa, Death with Interruptions
"La muerte está enfadada. Es el momento de sacarle la lengua."-Margaret Jull Costa, Death with Interruptions
"Sin muerte no hay resurrección, y sin resurrección no hay iglesia"-Margaret Jull Costa, Death with Interruptions
8. Diary of a Madman and Other Stories
By: Nikolai Gogol
4.35
Format: 26 pages, Paperback
Hailed by Nabokov as "the greatest artist that Russia has yet produced," Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852) … read more
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9. De Profundis and Other Writings
By: Oscar Wilde , Hesketh Pearson
4.37
Format: None pages,
This collection contains, too, many examples of that humorous and epigrammatic genius which capture… read more
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10. De Profundis
By: Oscar Wilde , Richard Ellmann
4.03
Format: 246 pages,
De Profundis (Latin: "from the depths") is a 50,000 word letter written by Oscar Wilde during his i… read more
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11. 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
"I was willing to yield to nostalgia, that melancholy residue of desire."-Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian
"La morale è una convenzione privata; il decoro è una faccenda pubblica."-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
12. El Llano en llamas
By: Juan Rulfo
4.47
Format: None pages,
'The Burning Plain and Other Stories consists of fifteen pieces ranging from brief anecdotes, casua… read more
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13. Salammbô
By: Gustave Flaubert , A.J. Krailsheimer
3.71
Format: 412 pages, Paperback
An epic story of lust, cruelty, and sensuality, this historical novel is set in Carthage in the day… read more
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14. Tous les matins du monde
By: Pascal Quignard
3.45
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
"Il poussa la porte qui donnait sur la balustrade et le jardin de derriere et il vit soudain l'ombr… read more
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15. Narcissus and Goldmund
By: Hermann Hesse , Ursule Molinaro
4.05
Format: 336 pages,
Narcissus and Goldmundtells the story of two medieval men whose characters are diametrically opposi… read more
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16. The Queen of Spades
By: Alexander Pushkin , None
2.18
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
The Queen of Spades(Russian: Pikovaya dama) is an acclaimed short story by Alexander Pushkin about … read more
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17. 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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18. Pensées
By: Blaise Pascal , A.J. Krailsheimer
3.95
Format: 334 pages, Paperback
Blaise Pascal, the precociously brilliant contemporary of Descartes, was a gifted mathematician and… read more
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"Lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity."-Blaise Pascal, Pensées
"Le cœur a ses raisons que la raison ne connaît point."-Blaise Pascal, Pensées
"Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical."-Blaise Pascal, Pensées
"Le coeur a ses raisons que le raison ne connaît point."-Blaise Pascal, Pensées
19. The Rings of Saturn
By: Michael Hulse , W.G. Sebald
3.94
Format: 128 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The Rings of Saturn- with its curious archive of photographs - records a walking tour of the east c… read more
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20. Soumission
By: Michel Houellebecq
3.65
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
Dans une France assez proche de la nôtre, un homme s’engage dans la carrière universitaire. Peu mot… read more
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"It’s submission,"-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission
"There is no Israel for me."-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission
"Intimacy isn’t something men talk about."-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission
"I was about as political as a bath towel."-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission
21. The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto
By: Mario Vargas Llosa
4.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
Don Rigoberto - by day a grey insurance executive, by night a pornographer and sexual enthusiast - … read more
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22. Novecento. Un monologo
By: Alessandro Baricco
3.37
Format: 204 pages, Paperback
Il Virginianera un piroscafo. Negli anni tra le due guerre faceva la spola tra Europa e America, co… read more
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23. A Man's Place
By: Annie Ernaux
3.88
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE A New York Times Notable Book Annie Ernaux's fat… read more
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"J'écris peut-être parce qu'on n'avait plus rien à se dire."-Annie Ernaux, A Man's Place
"Sous le bonheur, la crispation de l'aisance gagnée à l'arraché."-Annie Ernaux, A Man's Place
"Có lẽ niềm tự hào lớn nhất đối với ông, hay thậm chí là lời biện minh cho cuộc đời ông: là tôi đang thuộc về thế giới từng khinh miệt ông."-Annie Ernaux, A Man's Place
"It was in other people that I searched for the figure of my father, in the way they would call their children, sit down and looked bored in waiting rooms and wave goodbye on station platforms."-Annie Ernaux, A Man's Place
24. Flights
By: Olga Tokarczuk
3.76
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From the incomparably original Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk, Flights interweaves reflections on tra… read more
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"The truth is terrible: describing is destroying."-Olga Tokarczuk, Flights
"the truest argument was an old one—the earth is round, let us not be too attached, then, to directions."-Olga Tokarczuk, Flights
"Drawing is never reproducing - in order to see, you have to know how to look, and you have to know what you’re looking at."-Olga Tokarczuk, Flights
"I believe, unswervingly, agonizingly, that it is in freaks that Being breaks through to the surface and reveals its true nature."-Olga Tokarczuk, Flights
25. Blindness
By: José Saramago
4.17
Format: 349 pages, Kindle Edition
From Nobel Prize–winning author José Saramago, a magnificent, mesmerizing parable of loss A city… read more
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"الناس يتعودون إي شيء ."-José Saramago, Blindness
"هناك أوقات لايفيد معها الكلام ."-José Saramago, Blindness
"* البطون الفارغة تستيقظ باكراً ."-José Saramago, Blindness
"* الأحقاد القديمة لاتزول بسهولة ."-José Saramago, Blindness
26. The Years
By: Annie Ernaux
4.17
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirist’s defining work and a breakout bestseller when… read more
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- france
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"Sauver quelque chose du temps où l'on ne sera plus jamais."-Annie Ernaux, The Years
"La profusion des choses cachait la rareté des idées et l'usure des croyances."-Annie Ernaux, The Years
"The profusion of things concealed the scarcity of ideas and the erosion of beliefs."-Annie Ernaux, The Years
"Je ne suis nulle part dans le temps. Il est l'ange qui fait revivre le passé, rend éternel."-Annie Ernaux, The Years
27. I Remain in Darkness
By: Annie Ernaux
3.99
Format: 94 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Written in journal form, Annie Ernaux's account of … read more
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"Where are the eyes of my childhood, those fearful eyes she had thirty years ago, the eyes that made me?"-Annie Ernaux, I Remain in Darkness
"As I bend forward to check the safety catch of my mother's wheelchair, she leans over and kisses my hair. How can I survive that kiss, such love, my mother, my mother."-Annie Ernaux, I Remain in Darkness
28. Inapoi la argument. Patru dialoguri (Romanian Edition)
By: Horia-Roman Patapievici Gabriel Liiceanu
4.19
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Imi fac iluzia ca cititorii acestui volum vor afla, asa cum am aflat si noi doi stand de vorba, luc… read more
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29. Journals 1889-1949
By: André Gide
4.21
Format: 797 pages, Paperback
Jurnalul lui Andre Gide, este prima traducere românească integrală, a fost efectuată după ediţia în… read more
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"il nous change, il modifie la marche de notre vie." / "it changes us, it alters the course of our lives."-André Gide, Journals 1889-1949
"The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say — because they were too obvious."-André Gide, Journals 1889-1949
"The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it."-André Gide, Journals 1889-1949
30. The Soldier (A Roald Dahl Short Story)
By: Roald Dahl
2.91
Format: 17 pages, Kindle Edition
The Soldier is a short, sharp, frightening story from Roald Dahl, the master of the shocking tale.I… read more
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