How the Classics Made Shakespeare (E. H. Gombrich Lecture Series)
By: Jonathan Bate
4.05
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From one of our most eminent and accessible literary critics, a groundbreaking account of how the G…
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1. The Voyage Out (The Virginia Woolf Library)
By: Virginia Woolf
3.75
Format: 375 pages, Paperback
Woolf’s first novel is a haunting book, full of light and shadow. It takes Mr. and Mrs. Ambrose and… read more
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"I want to write a novel about Silence," he said; “the things people don’t say."-Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out (The Virginia Woolf Library)
"J'ai un faible pour les gens qui ne se décident pas à commencer quelque chose."-Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out (The Virginia Woolf Library)
"I can’t imagine anything nicer than to sit out in the moonlight and listen to music—"-Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out (The Virginia Woolf Library)
"Ce qu'on attend de l'être avec qui l'on vit c'est qu'il vous maintienne au niveau le plus élevé de vous-même."-Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out (The Virginia Woolf Library)
2. How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
By: Sarah Bakewell
4.02
Format: 387 pages, Hardcover
How to get on well with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you love… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"It is epokhe all the way."-Sarah Bakewell, How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
"As history has repeatedly suggested, nothing is more effective for demolishing traditional legal protections than the combined claims that a crime is uniquely dangerous, and that those behind it have…"-Sarah Bakewell, How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
"Some might question whether there is still any need for an essayist such as Montaigne. Twenty-first century people, in the developed world, are already individualistic to excess, as well as entwined …"-Sarah Bakewell, How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
"The trick is to maintain a kind of naïve amazement at each instant of experience - but, as Montaigne learned, one of the best techniques for doing this is to write about everything. Simply describing…"-Sarah Bakewell, How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
3. The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)
By: Jasper Fforde
3.89
Format: 374 pages, Paperback
Great Britain circa 1985: time travel is routine, cloning is a reality (dodos are the resurrected p… read more
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- books about books
"Mücken haben die blaue Ziege gestochen."-Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)
"The name is Schitt," he replied. "Jack Schitt."-Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)
"Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books."-Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)
"Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse."-Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)
4. Lysistrata
By: Aristophanes , Sarah Ruden
3.87
Format: 132 pages, Paperback
Aristophanes' comic masterpiece of war and sex remains one of the greatest plays ever written. Led … read more
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- literature
- classics
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"Sənət çörək arxasınca qaçarsa, alçalar"-Aristophanes, Lysistrata
"Lysistrata: To seize the treasury; no more money, no more war."-Aristophanes, Lysistrata
"Queste donne micidiali, non si può vivere nè con loro nè senza di loro."-Aristophanes, Lysistrata
"Chorus of old men: How true the saying: 'Tis impossible to live with the baggages, impossible to live without 'em."-Aristophanes, Lysistrata
5. Père Goriot
By: Honoré de Balzac
3.85
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Père Goriot is the tragic story of a father whose obsessive love for his two daughters leads to his… read more
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"Good befalls us while we sleep, sometimes."-Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot
"آری ,در این دنیا هیچ چیزی کامل نیست, مگر بدبختی."-Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot
"Notre coeur est un trésor, videz-le d'un coup, vous êtes ruinés."-Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot
"If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible."-Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot
6. Crito
By: Plato , Chris Emlyn-Jones
5.00
Format: 160 pages, paper
Plato's Socrates, in prison and being urged to flee execution, raises in acute form, and for the fi… read more
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- classics
- history
7. Beowulf
By: Unknown , Seamus Heaney
3.49
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures… read more
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"Fate will unwind as it must!"-Unknown, Beowulf
"Fate goes ever as fate must."-Unknown, Beowulf
"Let whoever can win glory before death."-Unknown, Beowulf
"We all know a boy can't daddy until his daddy's dead."-Unknown, Beowulf
8. The Joy of Life (Les Rougon-Macquart, #12)
By: Émile Zola , Ernest Alfred Vizetelly
3.33
Format: 170 pages, Paperback
Pauline Quenu, the daughter of shopkeepers in the Parisian business district Les Halles (see The Fa… read more
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- literature
- classics
9. The Dream (Les Rougon-Macquart, #16)
By: Émile Zola
3.66
Format: None pages,
Emile Zola's novel Le Reve(1888) is a love idyll concerning a poor embroideress, Angelique, and the… read more
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- literature
- classics
10. La Conquête de Plassans
By: Émile Zola
3.62
Format: 120 pages, Mass Market Paperback
<> La conquete de Plassans qui donne son titre au quatrieme roman des Rougon-Macquart est l'ambitio… read more
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- literature
- classics
11. Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Major Works
By: Gerard Manley Hopkins , None
3.90
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
This authoritative edition brings together all of Hopkins's poetry and a generous selection of his … read more
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12. The Way We Live Now
By: Anthony Trollope
4.01
Format: 217 pages, Paperback
Trollope's 1875 tale of a great financier's fraudulent machinations in the railway business, and hi… read more
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13. A Pair of Blue Eyes
By: Thomas Hardy , Tim Dolin , Alan Manford
3.17
Format: 55 pages, Paperback
Elfride Swancourt is the daughter of the Rector of Endelstow, a remote sea-swept parish in Corwall … read more
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14. L'Argent
By: Émile Zola
4.11
Format: 70 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Dix-huitieme volume des Rougon-Macquart, L'Argentest le premier grand western financier des temps m… read more
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15. She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth
By: Helen Castor
3.80
Format: 275 pages, Hardcover
When Edward VI - Henry VIII's longed-for son - died in 1553, extraordinarily, there was no one left… read more
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16. Perceval, or, The Story of the Grail
By: Chrétien de Troyes , Ruth Harwood Cline
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this verse translation of Perceval; or, The Story of the Grail, Ruth Harwood Cline restores to l… read more
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17. Poems and Fragments
By: Sappho , Stanley Lombardo , Pamela Gordon
3.98
Format: None pages, Paperback
Little remains today of the writings of the archaic Greek poet Sappho (fl. late 7th and early 6th c… read more
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18. Twenty Years After (The D'Artagnan Romances, #2)
By: Alexandre Dumas , David Coward , Auguste Maquet
4.34
Format: 592 pages, Paperback
'At this game, whoever does not kill is killed.' Twenty Years After(1845), the sequel to The Three … read more
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19. Lancelot: The Knight of the Cart
By: Chrétien de Troyes , Burton Raffel , None
3.85
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
In this outstanding new translation of Lancelot, Burton Raffel brings to English language readers t… read more
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20. Balzac: le roman de sa vie
By: Stefan Zweig , Fernand Delmas
3.93
Format: None pages, Paperback
La vie de Balzac est un prodigieux roman. Accable de dettes, immerge dans un titanesque labeur d'ec… read more
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21. Apology
By: Plato , James J. Helm
4.20
Format: 127 pages, Paperback
The Apology of Socrates is Plato's version of the speech given by Socrates as he unsuccessfully def… read more
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"Kötülük ölümden daha hızlı koşar."-Plato, Apology
"Loin de parler quand on me paie, et de me taire quand on me donne rien."-Plato, Apology
"As long as I draw breath and am able, I won't give up practicing philosophy."-Plato, Apology
"Athenian men, I respect and love you, but I shall obey the god rather than you..."-Plato, Apology
22. The Iliad
By: Homer
3.91
Format: 848 pages, Hardcover
One of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer's Iliad tells the story of the darkes… read more
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- classics
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"I say no wealth is worth my life."-Homer, The Iliad
"These were the colloquies in heaven."-Homer, The Iliad
"The sort of words a man says is the sort he hears in return."-Homer, The Iliad
"Antilochus! You're the most appalling driver in the world! Go to hell!"-Homer, The Iliad
23. The Friend
By: Sigrid Nunez
3.77
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
A moving story of love, friendship, grief, healing, and the magical bond between a woman and her do… read more
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- literature
"I like that the Aborigines say dogs make people human"-Sigrid Nunez, The Friend
"I know this is all moronically anthropomorphic, but sometimes that is the form love takes."-Sigrid Nunez, The Friend
"Anthropomorphism, I've decided, is inescapable, and though I might try to hide it I no longer fight it."-Sigrid Nunez, The Friend
"There's a certain type of person who, having read this far, is anxiously wondering: Does something bad happen to the dog?"-Sigrid Nunez, The Friend
24. The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
By: Deborah Levy
4.18
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
A searching examination of all the dimensions of love, marriage, mourning, and kinship from two-tim… read more
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- nonfiction
"Sometimes we want to unbelong as much as we want to belong."-Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
"It was a big release from the terror of death to finally acknowledge that it is also always absurd."-Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
"I might one day risk falling in love again, but I was not going to lose my heart to the cardiologist."-Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
"To unfold any number of ideas through all the dimensions of time is the great adventure of the writing life."-Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
25. The Vulnerables
By: Sigrid Nunez
3.61
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times –bestselling, National Book Award–winning author of The Friend and What Are You … read more
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- literature
"Only when I was young did I believe that it was important to remember what happened in every novel I read. Now I know the truth: what matters is what you experience while reading, the states of feeli…"-Sigrid Nunez, The Vulnerables
26. Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths
By: Natalie Haynes
4.24
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The Greek myths are one of the most important cultural foundation-stones of the modern world. St… read more
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- nonfiction
- classics
- history
"For my mum, who has always thought that a woman with an axe was more interesting than a princess"-Natalie Haynes, Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths
"Medusa wasn't always a monster, Helen of Troy wasn't always an adulterer, Pandora wasn't ever a villain."-Natalie Haynes, Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths
"The greatest virtue, in other words, that an Athenian woman could aspire to was not to be registered, almost not to exist."-Natalie Haynes, Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths
"The guiding principle when searching for the cause of everything wrong in the world has been, all too often: _cherchez la femme_."-Natalie Haynes, Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths
27. Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
By: Mary Oliver
4.58
Format: 456 pages, Hardcover
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver presents a personal selection of her best work in this defi… read more
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- nonfiction
"All I know is that "thank you" should appear somewhere. So just in case I can't find the perfect place- "Thank you, thank you."-Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
"To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your nones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it …"-Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
"I know someone who kisses the way a flower opens, but more rapidly. Flowers are sweet. They have short, beatific lives. They offer much pleasure. There is nothing in this world that can be said again…"-Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
"A blue preacher flew toward the swamp, in slow motion. On the leafy banks, an old Chinese poet, hunched in the white gown of his wings, was waiting. The water was the kind of dark silk that has silve…"-Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
28. My Friends
By: Hisham Matar
4.34
Format: 399 pages, Hardcover
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Return , a luminous novel of friendship, family, and … read more
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- literature
"A vast distance exists between a protester and his slogan; the entire history of politics exists in that gap."-Hisham Matar, My Friends
"For a writer, exile is prison, a severing from the source, and so, courageous or not, he dies in front of our eyes."-Hisham Matar, My Friends
"She was older and all the more beautiful, had the weary tiredness of one who, in surrendering to her life, was ennobled by it."-Hisham Matar, My Friends
"I walked off feeling an emptiness well up inside me. It seemed, for all the emptiness that it was, a presence. It made me want to run away, dive deeper into myself, into that cold desolation, to the …"-Hisham Matar, My Friends
29. The Middle Kingdoms: A New History of Central Europe
By: Martyn Rady
4.13
Format: 640 pages, Hardcover
An essential new history of Central Europe, the contested lands so often at the heart of world hist… read more
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- history
30. Vienna 1900
By: Daniela Gregori
3.80
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
To Every Age Its Art When traditional craft met blossoming modernism Discover turn-of-the-century V… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
31. How the Classics Made Shakespeare (E. H. Gombrich Lecture Series)
By: Jonathan Bate
4.05
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From one of our most eminent and accessible literary critics, a groundbreaking account of how the G… read more
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