Dialogus de oratoribus (Greek & Latin Classics)
By: Tacitus
3.43
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
This is an edition of Tacitus' work on oratory, with a substantial introduction and commentary. It …
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1. Tristan
By: Thomas Mann , Hermann Kurzke
3.61
Format: 63 pages, Paperback
Tristan ist eine Novelle Thomas Manns, angelegt als „Burleske“, die den Zusammenstoß von „skurrilem… read more
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"Miss von Osterloh had looked through it once during an idle fifteen minutes and pronunce it "quite sophisticated," which veredict was her euphemism for "inhumanly boring."-Thomas Mann, Tristan
"But the boredom of Frau Spatz had by now reached that pitch where it distorts the countenance of man, makes the eyes protrude from the head, and lends the features a corpselike and terrifying aspect.…"-Thomas Mann, Tristan
"Kindly permit me to tell you, sir, that I hate you. I hate you and your child, as I hate the life of which you are the representative: cheap, ridiculous, but yet triumphant life, the everlasting anti…"-Thomas Mann, Tristan
2. Les Fleurs du Mal
By: Charles Baudelaire , Richard Howard
4.20
Format: 365 pages, Paperback
Charles Baudelaire's 1857 masterwork was scandalous in its day for its portrayals of sex, same-sex … read more
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"L'orage rajeunit les fleurs"-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
"I am the vampire at my own veins."-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
"Beauty, you walk on corpses, mocking them;"-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
"My heart is lost; the beasts have eaten it."-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
3. Four Quartets
By: T.S. Eliot
3.67
Format: 230 pages, Paperback
The Four Quartets is a series of four poems by T.S. Eliot, published individually from 1936 to 1942… read more
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- philosophy
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4. The Idea of Europe: An Essay
By: George Steiner , Rob Riemen
4.50
Format: 532 pages, Hardcover
In this remarkable short book, the foremost intellectual of our age brings a lifetime of erudition … read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- history
5. The Twelve Caesars
By: Robert Graves , Michael Grant , Suetonius
4.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
As private secretary to the Emperor Hadrian, Suetonius gained access to the imperial archives and u… read more
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- ancient
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6. Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
By: Sophocles , J.E. Thomas , Elizabeth Osborne
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
"...what man wins more happiness than just its shape and the ruin when that shape collapses?" Sopho… read more
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7. Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family
By: Thomas Mann , John E. Woods , T.J. Reed
3.69
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Buddenbrooks, first published in Germany in 1901, when Mann was only twenty-six, has become a class… read more
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8. Phaedra
By: Seneca
4.31
Format: 110 pages, Paperback
Ahl's translations of three Senecan tragedies will gratify and challenge readers and performers. Wi… read more
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9. The Eclogues
By: Virgil , Guy Lee
3.79
Format: None pages, Paperback
Haunting and enigmatic, Virgil's Eclogues combined a Greek literary form with scenes from contempor… read more
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- philosophy
- ancient
- classics
10. The Didascalicon of Hugh of Saint Victor: A Medieval Guide to the Arts
By: Hugh of Saint-Victor , Jerome Taylor
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
This is the first complete translation into English of Hugh of St. Victor's Didascalicon, composed … read more
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11. Existentialism Is a Humanism
By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Arlette Elkaïm-Sartre , Annie Cohen-Solal , None
4.25
Format: 159 pages, Paperback
It was to correct common misconceptions about his thought that Sartre accepted an invitation to spe… read more
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- classics
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12. The Last Day of a Condemned Man
By: Victor Hugo , Libby Purves , Geoff Woollen
3.98
Format: 109 pages, Paperback
Deeply shocking in its time, The Last Day of a Condemned Man is a profound and moving tale and a vi… read more
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"إن الموت يجعلني إنساناً شريراً !!"-Victor Hugo, The Last Day of a Condemned Man
"كنت قادراً على التفكير في كل ما يسرني ، لأني كنتُ حراً"-Victor Hugo, The Last Day of a Condemned Man
"¡Cuantós han muerto habiendo hecho planes para una larga vida!"-Victor Hugo, The Last Day of a Condemned Man
"ماذا عراني فصرت بهذه الدرجة من التخاذل والإنهيار؟ إن باب القبر لا يُفتح من الداخل!!"-Victor Hugo, The Last Day of a Condemned Man
13. Una questione privata
By: Beppe Fenoglio
3.79
Format: 129 pages, Paperback
Nelle Langhe, durante la guerra partigiana, Milton (quasi una controfigura di Fenoglio stesso), è u… read more
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"Non poteva più vivere senza sapere e, soprattutto, non poteva morire senza sapere, in un'epoca in cui i ragazzi come lui erano chiamati più a morire che a vivere. Avrebbe rinunciato a tutto per quell…"-Beppe Fenoglio, Una questione privata
"Scattò tutta la testa verso di lui e disse: «Come comincerai la tua prossima lettera? Fulvia dannazione?» Lui aveva scosso la testa, frusciando i capelli contro la corteccia del ciliegio. Fulvia si a…"-Beppe Fenoglio, Una questione privata
"Era successo proprio all’altezza dell’ultimo ciliegio. Lei aveva attraversato il vialetto ed era entrata nel prato oltre i ciliegi. Si era sdraiata, sebbene vestisse di bianco e l’erba non fosse più …"-Beppe Fenoglio, Una questione privata
14. Accabadora
By: Michela Murgia
4.07
Format: 166 pages, Hardcover
La Sardegna degli anni Cinquanta è un mondo antico sull’orlo del precipizio. Maria ha sei anni ed è… read more
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"Quan es té prou temps, fins i tot la ràbia s'organitza."-Michela Murgia, Accabadora
"En la hora de la debilidad algunos prefieren hacerse creyentes que fuertes"-Michela Murgia, Accabadora
"-¿Quieres juzgar el cómo sin entender el porqué? Siempre tienes prisa por dictar sentencias, Maria. (Bonaria Urria)"-Michela Murgia, Accabadora
"Come gli occhi della civetta, ci sono pensieri che non sopportano la luce piena. Non possono nascere che di notte, dove la loro funzione è la stessa della luna, necessaria a smuovere maree di senso i…"-Michela Murgia, Accabadora
15. Daphnis and Chloe
By: Paul Turner , Longus
3.68
Format: 593 pages, Paperback
A tender novel describing eager and inept young love, Daphnis and Chloe tells the story of a baby b… read more
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16. Un giorno questo dolore ti sarà utile
By: Peter Cameron , Giuseppina Oneto
4.00
Format: 126 pages, Paperback
James ha 18 anni e vive a New York. Finita la scuola, lavoricchia nella galleria d'arte della madre… read more
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17. On the Shortness of Life
By: Seneca , Charles Desmond Nuttall Costa
0.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Stoic writings of the philosopher Seneca offer powerful insights into the art of living, the im… read more
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18. Tell Me the Truth about Love
By: None
4.31
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Had he been writing now, Auden might well have penned a poem entitled "Tell me the Truth About Publ… read more
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19. The Decameron
By: Giovanni Boccaccio , G.H. McWilliam
4.35
Format: 255 pages, Paperback
The Decameron (c.1351) is an entertaining series of one hundred stories written in the wake of the … read more
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20. Exile and the Kingdom
By: Albert Camus , Justin O'Brien
3.46
Format: 32 pages,
These six stories, written at the height of Camus' artistic powers, all depict people at decisive, … read more
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21. The Art of Rhetoric
By: Aristotle , Hugh Lawson-Tancred
3.66
Format: 325 pages, Paperback
Few, if any, writers in history have made major contributions to as many fields of knowledge as Ari… read more
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22. Ghosts
By: Henrik Ibsen
3.88
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
"Ghosts" is the story of Helen Alving, a widow who is haunted by the many mistresses of her decease… read more
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23. The Story of My Misfortunes
By: Pierre Abélard , Ralph Adams Cram , Henry Adams Bellows
3.59
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
In this classic of medieval literature, a brilliant and daring thinker relates the spellbinding sto… read more
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24. The Murders in the Rue Morgue (C. Auguste Dupin, #1)
By: Edgar Allan Poe
3.82
Format: 38 pages, Paperback
".. Rue Morgue" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe first published in "Graham's Magazine" in 1841.… read more
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"The mental features discoursed of as the analytical, are, in themselves, but little susceptible of analysis."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue (C. Auguste Dupin, #1)
"I was deeply interested in the little family history which he detailed to me with all that candor which a Frenchman indulges whenever mere self is the theme."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue (C. Auguste Dupin, #1)
"There are very few persons who have not, at some period of their lives, amused themselves in retracing the steps by which particular conclusions of their own minds have been attained."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue (C. Auguste Dupin, #1)
"You will say, no doubt, using the language of the law, that 'to make out my case,' I should rather undervalue, than insist upon a full estimation of the activity required in this matter. This may be …"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue (C. Auguste Dupin, #1)
25. Le Malade imaginaire
By: Molière
3.63
Format: 255 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Le Malade imaginaire est la dernière comédie et en même temps la dernière pièce écrite par Molière.… read more
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"La musique est accoutumée à ne point faire ce qu'on veut."-Molière, Le Malade imaginaire
"Presque tous les hommes meurent de leurs remèdes, et non pas de leurs maladies."-Molière, Le Malade imaginaire
26. The Georgics
By: Virgil , Betty Radice , None
3.67
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
A eulogy to Italy as the temperate land of perpetual spring, and a celebration of the values of rus… read more
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27. The Art of Love
By: David Malouf , Ovid , James Michie
4.33
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
De los clasicos de la literatura, Ovidio nos deleita con una lirica que habla del mas puro de los s… read more
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28. The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt
By: Albert Camus
4.01
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
By one of the most profoundly influential thinkers of our century, The Rebel is a classic essay on … read more
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29. Dos Delitos e das Penas
By: Cesare Beccaria
3.91
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Beccaria foi a primeira voz a levantar-se, em nome da humanidade e da razão, contra a tradição jurí… read more
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"happy is the nation without a history"-Cesare Beccaria, Dos Delitos e das Penas
"The murder that is depicted as a horrible crime is repeated in cold blood, remorselessly."-Cesare Beccaria, Dos Delitos e das Penas
"Parmi un assurdo che le leggi, che sono l'espressione della pubblica volontà, che detestano e puniscono l'omicidio, ne commettono uno esse medesime, e, per allontanare i cittadini dall'assassinio, or…"-Cesare Beccaria, Dos Delitos e das Penas
"Perché ogni pena non sia una violenza di uno o di molti contro un privato cittadino, dev'essere essenzialmente pubblica, pronta, necessaria, la minima delle possibili nelle date circostanze, proporzi…"-Cesare Beccaria, Dos Delitos e das Penas
30. Alcyone
By: Gabriele d'Annunzio
3.99
Format: 768 pages, Paperback
Al centro della stagione creativa di D'Annunzio si colloca la poesia delle Laudi: i cinque libri de… read more
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31. Dialogus de oratoribus (Greek & Latin Classics)
By: Tacitus
3.43
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
This is an edition of Tacitus' work on oratory, with a substantial introduction and commentary. It … read more
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