Charles Bovary, Country Doctor: A Portrait of a Simple Man
By: Jean Améry
3.44
Format: 184 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. Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
By: Anne Fadiman
4.10
Format: 162 pages, Paperback
Anne Fadiman is (by her own admission) the sort of person who learned about sex from her father's c… read more
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"Pen-bereavement is a serious matter."-Anne Fadiman, Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
"I have never been able to resist a book about books."-Anne Fadiman, Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
"Reading aloud means no skipping, no skimming, no cutting to the chase."-Anne Fadiman, Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
"I'd rather have a book, but in a pinch I'll settle for a set of Water Pik instructions."-Anne Fadiman, Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
3. Flaubert and Madame Bovary
By: Francis Steegmuller , Victor Brombert
4.00
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Francis Steegmuller's beautifully executed double portrait of Madame Bovary and her maker is a rema… read more
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"The lives of thousands of young Frenchmen were ready for this literary bath of blood and sentiment in the 1830's. Their fathers and grandfathers had had their romanticism in the raw: the drama of the…"-Francis Steegmuller, Flaubert and Madame Bovary
4. 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
5. Austerlitz
By: Anthea Bell , W.G. Sebald
4.67
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with f… read more
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6. The Major Refutation
By: Jacob Siefring , Pierre Senges
3.73
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Few or none of them heard of a book entitled Refutatio major, falsely attributed to Don Antonio de… read more
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7. Woodcutters
By: Thomas Bernhard , David McLintock
3.34
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
This controversial portrayal of Viennese artistic circles begins as the writer-narrator arrives at … read more
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8. Malone Dies
By: Samuel Beckett
4.37
Format: None pages, Paperback
Written and published in French in 1951, and in Samuel Beckett's English translation in 1956, Malon… read more
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9. War & War
By: George Szirtes , László Krasznahorkai
5.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
War & War, Laszlo Krasznahorkai's second novel in English from New Directions, begins at a point of… read more
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10. Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable (The Trilogy, #1-3)
By: Samuel Beckett
4.17
Format: 510 pages, Hardcover
The first novel of Samuel Beckett's mordant and exhilirating midcentury trilogy intoduces us to Mol… read more
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11. Three Trapped Tigers
By: Guillermo Cabrera Infante , Suzanne Jill Levine , Donald Gardner
3.83
Format: 35 pages, Paperback
Cabrera Infante's masterpiece, Three Trapped Tigers is one of the most playful books to reach the U… read more
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12. Disgrace
By: J.M. Coetzee
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
Set in post-apartheid South Africa, J. M. Coetzee's searing novel tells the story of David Lurie, a… read more
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13. Great Expectations
By: Kathy Acker
3.59
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Using postmodern form, Kathy Acker's Great Expectations moves her narrator through time, gender, an… read more
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14. La vida del Lazarillo de Tormes
By: Anonymous
4.00
Format: 300 pages,
Lazaro es un muchacho desarrapado a quien la miseria obliga a emplearse como sirviente. Las inocent… read more
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15. The Perpetual Orgy: Flaubert and Madame Bovary
By: Mario Vargas Llosa , None
4.00
Format: 204 pages, Paperback
The book's first section is a tete-a-tete with Emma Bovary; the second traces the gestation and bir… read more
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16. Standing in the Shadows (Inspector Banks, #28)
By: Peter Robinson
4.09
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The 28th twisting installment in the DCI Alan Banks mystery series that Stephen King calls "the bes… read more
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17. The Order of Time
By: Carlo Rovelli
4.12
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Time is a mystery that does not cease to puzzle us. Philosophers, artists and poets have long explo… read more
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"Our fear of death seems to me to be an error of evolution."-Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time
"We understand the world in its becoming, not in its being."-Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time
"Children grow up and discover that the world is not as it seemed from within the four walls of their homes. Humankind as a whole does the same."-Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time
"Before Newton, time for humanity was the way of counting how things changed. Before him, no one had thought it possible that a time independent of things could exist. Don't take your intuitions and i…"-Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time
18. Cuentos de navidad
By: Charles Dickens
3.80
Format: 214 pages, Paperback
Junto a la célebre Canción de Navidad, este volumen reúne otros tres cuentos de Charles Dickens (18… read more
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"Best and happiest of all, the Time before him was his own, to make amends in!"-Charles Dickens, Cuentos de navidad
"A la hermosa vida de un plácido crepúsculo otoñal, a la vida tranquila una habitación silenciosa, con un enorme ventanal abierto; más allá, una terraza donde se movían las hojas y las flores perfumab…"-Charles Dickens, Cuentos de navidad
"She was very pretty: exceedingly pretty. With a dimpled, surprised-looking, capital face; a ripe little mouth, that seemed made to be kissed — as no doubt it was; all kinds of good little dots about …"-Charles Dickens, Cuentos de navidad
"The Grocers'! oh the Grocers'! nearly closed, with perhaps two shutters down, or one; but through those gaps such glimpses! It was not alone that the scales descending on the counter made a merry sou…"-Charles Dickens, Cuentos de navidad
19. An Inventory of Losses
By: Judith Schalansky
3.36
Format: 253 pages, Hardcover
Each disparate object described in this book—a Caspar David Friedrich painting, a species of tiger,… read more
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20. My Life as a Villainess
By: Laura Lippman
3.69
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
A Paperback Original—Also Available as a Hardcover Library Edition New York Times bestselling au… read more
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21. Charles Bovary, Country Doctor: A Portrait of a Simple Man
By: Jean Améry
3.44
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
Charles Bovary, Country Doctor is one of the most unusual projects in twentieth-century literature:… read more
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