Five Women (Verba Mundi)
By: Robert Musil
3.84
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
A combination of two of Musil's books: Drei Frauen (1924) (Three Women – a collection of three sho…
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1. After Midnight (Neversink)
By: Irmgard Keun , Anthea Bell , Geoff Wilkes
3.91
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
Sanna and her ravishing friend Gerti would rather speak of love than politics, but in 1930s Frankfu… read more
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- german literature
- classics
- literature
- germany
- fiction
- 20th century
"A writer in the act of writing must fear neither his own words nor anything else in the world. A writer who is afraid is no true writer."-Irmgard Keun, After Midnight (Neversink)
2. Magellan
By: Stefan Zweig
4.41
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
C'est sur un paquebot trop confortable, en route pour l'Amérique du Sud, que Stefan Zweig eut l'idé… read more
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- german literature
- classics
"Au commencement étaient les épices"-Stefan Zweig, Magellan
"Au commencement étaient les épices."-Stefan Zweig, Magellan
"Mutluyken adil davranmak, mutsuzken adil davranmaktan daima daha kolaydır. syf- 160"-Stefan Zweig, Magellan
"Jusqu'au dernier moment l'homme qui, doué d'une volonté prométhéenne, veut arracher à la terre son secret sentira la griffe du doute lui déchirer le cœur."-Stefan Zweig, Magellan
3. Intimacy
By: Hanif Kureishi
3.51
Format: 252 pages, Pocket Book
Hanif Kureishi's fourth novel made many reviewers uneasy on its first appearance in the U.K., becau… read more
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- literary fiction
- literature
- short stories
- 20th century
- fiction
"Dear God, teach me to be careless."-Hanif Kureishi, Intimacy
"You don't stop loving someone just because you hate them."-Hanif Kureishi, Intimacy
"My son, there may be a time when I explain these things to you, because there may be a time when I understand them."-Hanif Kureishi, Intimacy
"I can only think how good life on earth can be, at times. What grief two people can give to one another! And what pleasure!"-Hanif Kureishi, Intimacy
4. The Wretched of the Earth
By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Richard Philcox , Frantz Fanon , Homi K. Bhabha
4.32
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Fr… read more
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- classics
"إن لجوءك إلى لُغة تكنيكيَّة معناه أنّك قرَّرتَ أن تَعُدَّ الجماهير جاهلة"-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much greater business of plunder."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"إن المناضل ليدرك في كثير من الأحيان أن عمله لا أن يقاتل القوى العدوة فحسب، بل كذلك حبات اليأس المتبلورة في جسم المستعمَر."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
5. Storm of Steel
By: Michael Hofmann , Ernst Jünger
3.50
Format: 250 pages, Paperback
A memoir of astonishing power, savagery, and ashen lyricism, 'Storm of Steel' illuminates not only … read more
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- classics
6. The Art of the Novel
By: Milan Kundera , Linda Asher
3.60
Format: 246 pages, Paperback
Kundera brilliantly examines the work of such important and diverse figures as Rabelais, Cervantes,… read more
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- literature
7. A Haunted House and Other Short Stories
By: Virginia Woolf , Leonard Woolf
3.64
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
The stories found in A Haunted Housereflect Virginia Woolf's experimental writing style and act as … read more
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- classics
- literature
- short stories
- fiction
- 20th century
8. Fear and Misery of the Third Reich
By: Bertolt Brecht , John Willett , Tom Kuhn
3.50
Format: 560 pages, Paperback
Also known as The Private Life of the Master Race, this is a sequence of twenty-four realistic sket… read more
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- german literature
- classics
- germany
- fiction
9. The Piano Teacher
By: Joachim Neugroschel , Elfriede Jelinek
2.00
Format: 238 pages, Hardcover
The Piano Teacher,the most famous novel of Elfriede Jelinek, who was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize i… read more
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- german literature
- fiction
- classics
- literature
10. Death in Venice
By: Thomas Mann , Michael Cunningham , Michael Henry Heim
3.74
Format: 142 pages, Paperback
The world-famous masterpiece by Nobel laureate Thomas Mann -- here in a new translation by Michael … read more
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- german literature
- classics
- literature
- germany
- fiction
"Nothing gladdens a writer more than a thought that can become pure feeling and a feeling that can become pure thought."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
"Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
"Denn der Mensch liebt und ehrt den Menschen , solange er ihn nicht zu beurteilen vermag, und die Sehnsucht ist ein Erzeunis mangelhafter Erkenntnis."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
"Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
11. The Age of Innocence
By: Edith Wharton , Maureen Howard
2.64
Format: 110 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, The Age of Innocenceis Edith Wharton's masterful portrait of des… read more
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- literature
- classics
- fiction
12. Mother Courage and Her Children
By: David Hare , Bertolt Brecht
3.78
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Widely considered one of the great dramatic creations of the modern stage, "Mother Courage and Her … read more
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- german literature
- classics
- fiction
13. 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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14. 2666
By: Roberto Bolaño
4.21
Format: 1128 pages, Paperback
A cuatro profesores de literatura, Pelletier, Morini, Espinoza y Norton, los une su fascinación por… read more
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- literature
- literary fiction
- classics
- fiction
"Nothing is ever behind us."-Roberto Bolaño, 2666
"Reading is never a waste of time."-Roberto Bolaño, 2666
"Every hundred feet the world changes"-Roberto Bolaño, 2666
"The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower."-Roberto Bolaño, 2666
15. The Tartar Steppe
By: Dino Buzzati , Stuart Hood
3.80
Format: 25 pages,
Often likened to Kafka's The Castle, The Tartar Steppe is both a scathing critique of military life… read more
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16. Collected Poems and Other Verse
By: Stéphane Mallarmé , A.M. Blackmore , E.H. Blackmore
3.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
Stephane Mallarme was the most radically innovative of nineteenth-century poets, and a key figure i… read more
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17. The Artificial Silk Girl
By: Irmgard Keun , None , None
3.82
Format: 4 pages,
In 1931, a young woman writer living in Germany was inspired by Anita Loos's Gentlemen Prefer Blond… read more
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18. 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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19. Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
By: Edwin A. Abbott , Banesh Hoffmann
3.89
Format: None pages, Paperback
This masterpiece of science (and mathematical) fiction is a delightfully unique and highly entertai… read more
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20. Kudos
By: Rachel Cusk
3.89
Format: 236 pages, ebook
En un avión, una mujer escucha a su vecino de vuelo contarle la historia de su vida: su trabajo, su… read more
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- literature
- literary fiction
- fiction
"Perhaps it follows, he said, that people who live in the sun don't take responsibility for their own happiness."-Rachel Cusk, Kudos
"We invent these systems with the aim of ensuring fairness, she said, and yet the human situation is so complex that it always evades our attempts to encompass it."-Rachel Cusk, Kudos
"You asked me earlier,' she said to me, 'whether I believed that justice was merely a personal illusion. I don't have the answer to that,' she said, 'but I know that it is to be feared, feared in ever…"-Rachel Cusk, Kudos
"We live with an almost superstitious belief in our own differences, she said, and Luis has shown that those differences are not the result of some divine mystery but are merely the consequence of our…"-Rachel Cusk, Kudos
21. Five Women (Verba Mundi)
By: Robert Musil
3.84
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
A combination of two of Musil's books: Drei Frauen (1924) (Three Women – a collection of three sho… read more
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- german literature
- literary fiction
- classics
- literature
- germany
- short stories
- fiction
- 20th century
