Tolstoy or Dostoevsky: An Essay in the Old Criticism
By: George Steiner
4.28
Format: 386 pages, Paperback
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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)
"Love is space and time made perceptible to the heart."-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)
"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. Everyman
By: Philip Roth
4.20
Format: None pages, Paperback
Philip Roth's new novel is a candidly intimate yet universal story of loss, regret, and stoicism. T… read more
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3. Oblomov
By: Ivan Goncharov , Stephen Pearl , Galya Diment
4.12
Format: 586 pages, Paperback
Even though Ivan Goncharov wrote several books that were widely read and discussed during his lifet… read more
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"Now or never. To be or not to be!"-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov
"Love was life's hardest school of all."-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov
"You have a lunatic before you who has been infected by passion."-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov
"The common herd of "burghers", those cattle, complete with horns, who turn millstones with their bare hands."-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov
4. Lectures on Don Quixote
By: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra , Vladimir Nabokov , Guy Davenport , Fredson Bowers , Samuel Putnam
3.78
Format: 479 pages, Paperback
A master teacher and critic as well as a novelist, Nabokov created a fastidiously shaped series of … read more
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5. Demons
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky
4.30
Format: 733 pages, Paperback
Alternate Cover Edition ISBN 0679734511. (ISBN13: 9780679734512) Inspired by the true story of a… read more
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"God is the pain of the fear of death"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons
"Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. It's only that."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons
"Marriage is the moral death of every proud soul, of all independence."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons
"...and in fact I've noticed that faith always seems to be less in the daytime"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons
6. Cuentos de Fiódor Dostoievski / Stories. Fiodor Dostoievski
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky
2.00
Format: 375 pages, Paperback
En los cuentos de Dostoievski aparecen algunos de los motivos recurrentes en toda su obra: estafado… read more
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7. Time Regained (In Search of Lost Time, #7)
By: Marcel Proust , Terence Kilmartin , D.J. Enright , Andreas Mayor
3.70
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
The final volume of In Search of Lost Time chronicles the years of World War I, when, as M. de Char… read more
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8. Fathers and Sons
By: Ivan Turgenev , None , None
3.99
Format: 244 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Bazarov—a gifted, impatient, and caustic young man—has journeyed from school to the home of his fri… read more
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"He has no faith in principles, only in frogs."-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons
"Death's an old story, but new for each person."-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons
"I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze."-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons
"However, I know myself as a very unhappy person."-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons
9. I racconti di Pietroburgo
By: Nikolai Gogol , Pietro Zveteremich
4.02
Format: 293 pages, Paperback
Nei racconti del ciclo pietroburghese la capitale (che all'ucraino Gogol appare come una citta non … read more
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10. 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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"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)
11. A Hero of Our Time
By: Mikhail Lermontov , Paul Foote
3.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
In its adventurous happenings, its abductions, duels, and sexual intrigues, A Hero of Our Timelooks… read more
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12. Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius
By: Ray Monk
3.93
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
"Great philosophical biographies can be counted on one hand. Monk's life of Wittgenstein is such a … read more
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13. The Red and the Black
By: Stendhal , None
3.86
Format: 577 pages, Paperback
Handsome, ambitious Julien Sorel is determined to rise above his humble provincial origins. Soon re… read more
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"A good book is an event in my life."-Stendhal, The Red and the Black
"Toute vraie passion ne songe qu'a elle."-Stendhal, The Red and the Black
"It seems that my destiny is to die dreaming."-Stendhal, The Red and the Black
"A novel is a mirror walking along a main road."-Stendhal, The Red and the Black
14. Eugene Onegin
By: Alexander Pushkin , James E. Falen
4.10
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Eugene Onegin is the master work of the poet whom Russians regard as the fountainhead of their lite… read more
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"He's happy now, he's almost sane."-Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin
"Habit is heaven's gift to us: a substitute for happiness."-Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin
"My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you..."-Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin
"I'm only writing this to show That I stopped sinning long ago."-Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin
15. La Dame aux Camélias
By: Alexandre Dumas fils , David Coward
4.04
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
One of the greatest love stories of all time, this novel has fascinated generations of readers. Dum… read more
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"Had she stabbed me with a knife, she could not have hurt me more."-Alexandre Dumas fils, La Dame aux Camélias
"Life is no more than the repeated fulfilling of a permanent desire."-Alexandre Dumas fils, La Dame aux Camélias
"We are not allowed to have hearts, under penalty of being hooted down."-Alexandre Dumas fils, La Dame aux Camélias
"La vida es maravillosa, querido. Depende del color del cristal con que se mira"-Alexandre Dumas fils, La Dame aux Camélias
16. Pnin
By: Vladimir Nabokov , David Lodge
4.00
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
One of the best-loved of Nabokov's novels, Pninfeatures his funniest and most heart-rending charact… read more
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17. L'arte della gioia
By: Goliarda Sapienza
4.34
Format: None pages, Hardcover
L'arte della gioiae un libro postumo: giaceva da vent'anni abbandonato in una cassapanca e, dopo es… read more
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18. Historia de la eternidad
By: Jorge Luis Borges
4.02
Format: 202 pages, Paperback
El trabajo que da título a Historia de la eternidad se ocupa del tiempo y de su negación, y examina… read more
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19. Reading Genesis
By: Marilynne Robinson
4.10
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
One of our greatest novelists and thinkers presents a radiant, thrilling interpretation of the book… read more
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20. Tolstoy or Dostoevsky: An Essay in the Old Criticism
By: George Steiner
4.28
Format: 386 pages, Paperback
George Steiner's Tolstoy or Dostoevsky has become a classic among scholars of Russian literature. A… read more
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