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1. First Love
By: Constance Garnett , Ivan Turgenev
3.77
Format: 124 pages, Paperback
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"Jealous Othello, ready for murder, was suddenly transformed into a schoolboy."-Constance Garnett, First Love
"I did not want to know whether I was loved, and I did not want to acknowledge to myself that I was not loved;"-Constance Garnett, First Love
"I should not wish ever to have it repeated; but I should consider myself unhappy if I had never experienced it."-Constance Garnett, First Love
"Aprovéchate todo lo que puedas, pero no te entregues tú mismo: el sentido de la vida es no pertenecer a nadie más que a si mismo."-Constance Garnett, First Love
2. The Ego and the Id
By: Sigmund Freud
3.82
Format: 87 pages, Paperback
The Ego and the Id ranks high among the works of Freud's later years. The heart of his concern is t… read more
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- 20th century
"Ben her şeyden önce bedenseldir, sadece yüzeyden oluşan bir varlık değil aynı zamanda bir yüzeyin yansımasıdır."-Sigmund Freud, The Ego and the Id
"The ego is first and foremost a bodily ego; it is not merely a surface entity, but is itself the projection of a surface."-Sigmund Freud, The Ego and the Id
"Ben ile O arasındaki ayrım da çok katı olarak ele alınmamalı; unutmayalım ki Ben, O’nun özel bir biçimde ayrımlaşmış bir kısmıdır."-Sigmund Freud, The Ego and the Id
"Das Ich sei zuallererst ein körperliches und werde durchzogen von Triebkräften, die entlang von körperlichen Vorgängen ihre Organisation erfahren."-Sigmund Freud, The Ego and the Id
3. Diamonds Are Forever (James Bond, #4)
By: Ian Fleming
3.64
Format: 230 pages, Paperback
"Listen, Bond," said Tiffany Case. "It’d take more than Crabmeat Ravigotte to get me into bed with … read more
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"Ir ļoti skumji mazgāt veļu, ja tajā nav neviena vīrieša krekla."-Ian Fleming, Diamonds Are Forever (James Bond, #4)
"Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other."-Ian Fleming, Diamonds Are Forever (James Bond, #4)
"Outside the bus the smell of sulphur hit Bond with sickening force. It was a horrible smell, from somewhere down in the stomach of the world."-Ian Fleming, Diamonds Are Forever (James Bond, #4)
"Bond sat for a moment frozen to his chair. Suddenly, there flashed unwanted into his mind that most sinister line in poetry: 'They reckon ill who leave me out. When me they fly, I am the wings."-Ian Fleming, Diamonds Are Forever (James Bond, #4)
4. The Masque of the Red Death
By: Edgar Allan Poe
4.06
Format: 9 pages, Paperback
The story follows Prince Prospero's attempts to avoid a dangerous plague known as the Red Death by … read more
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"Existem cordas, nos corações dos mais indiferentes, que não podem ser tocadas sem emoção."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death
"Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death
"There was much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death
"And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death
5. My Mother's Secret
By: J.L. Witterick
3.79
Format: 298 pages, Hardcover
A novel based on a true story, a mother and daughter risk their lives to provide shelter to two fam… read more
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- fiction
6. Rip Van Winkle
By: Washington Irving
3.81
Format: 343 pages, Paperback
What would you do if you met the Strange Men in the mountains? Would you dare to pass the haunted t… read more
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7. The Three Sisters
By: Anton Chekhov
3.06
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
First performed at the Moscow Art Theatre in 1901, The Three Sistersprobes the lives and dreams of … read more
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8. Bartleby the Scrivener
By: Herman Melville
3.93
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Academics hail it as the beginning of modernism, but to readers around the world—even those daunted… read more
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"I would prefer not to."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
"To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
"Bartleby in a singularly mild, firm voice, replied, “I would prefer not to."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
"At present I would prefer not to be a little reasonable,' was his mildly cadaverous reply."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
9. The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
By: Heinrich Böll , Leila Vennewitz
3.88
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
In an era in which journalists will stop at nothing to break a story, Henrich Boll's The Lost Honor… read more
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- fiction
10. The Pit and the Pendulum
By: Edgar Allan Poe
4.15
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
Get set for true terror in one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous short stories. We enter the mind… read more
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- classics
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"How at least shall we distinguish its shadows from those of the tomb?"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum
"In the deepest slumber-no! In delirium-no! In a swoon-no! In death-no! even in the grave all is not lost."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum
"In death - no! even in the grave all is not lost. Else there is no immortality for man. Arousing from the most profound slumbers, we break the gossamer web of some dream. Yet in a second afterward, (…"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum
"He who has never swooned, is not he who finds strange palaces and wildly familiar faces in coals that glow; is not he who beholds floating in mid-air the sad visions that the many may not view; is no…"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum
11. About Barbers
By: Mark Twain
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 - April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Tw… read more
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13. Pulp
By: Charles Bukowski
4.25
Format: 151 pages, Paperback
Opening with the exotic Lady Death entering the gumshoe-writer's seedy office in pursuit of a write… read more
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14. Uncle Vanya
By: Anton Chekhov
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
Famous play by the Russian short story writer and playwright. His major plays are frequently revive… read more
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15. The Night of the Iguana
By: Tennessee Williams
3.55
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
At a shabby hotel in Mexico, c 1940, various American tourists, including a defrocked minister and … read more
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16. Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains
By: Jon Krakauer
4.38
Format: 234 pages,
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17. The Periodic Table
By: Primo Levi , Raymond Rosenthal
4.18
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
The Periodic Table is largely a memoir of the years before and after Primo Levi's transportation fr… read more
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18. Suddenly Last Summer
By: Tennessee Williams
4.08
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Kerr, in the NY Herald-Tribune, describes: "This, says Mr. Williams through the most sympathetic vo… read more
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19. Lady Susan
By: Jane Austen , Robert William Chapman
3.65
Format: 180 pages, Paperback
Beautiful, flirtatious, and recently widowed, Lady Susan Vernon seeks an advantageous second marria… read more
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- fiction
"I have not yet tranquillised myself enough to see Frederica."-Jane Austen, Lady Susan
"I shall ever despise the man who can be gratified by the passion which he never wished to inspire, nor solicited the avowal of."-Jane Austen, Lady Susan
"How little the general report of any one ought to be credited, since no character, however upright, can escape the malevolence of slander."-Jane Austen, Lady Susan
"...though I always imagined from her increasing friendship for us since her husband's death that we should, at some future period, be obliged to receive her."-Jane Austen, Lady Susan
20. The Seagull
By: Anton Chekhov , Michael Frayn
4.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
A Methuen Student Edition of Chekhov's classic play in Michael Frayn's acclaimed translation. When … read more
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21. The Cask of Amontillado
By: Edgar Allan Poe
4.08
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
"The Cask of Amontillado" (sometimes spelled "The Casque ..") is a short story written by Edgar All… read more
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"For the love of God, Montresor!"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado
"He did not perceive that my smile now was at the thought of his immolation."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado
"The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado
"The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could; but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado
22. Bir Kadının Yaşamından Yirmi Dört Saat
By: Stefan Zweig , Mahmure Kahraman
3.90
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Zweig bu novellasında bir kadının yaşamını bütünüyle değiştiren yirmi dört saatlik deneyimini anlat… read more
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- short stories
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- 20th century
"La vérité à demi ne vaut rien, il la faut toujours entière."-Stefan Zweig, Bir Kadının Yaşamından Yirmi Dört Saat
"Envejecer no significa otra cosa que no tener miedo al pasado"-Stefan Zweig, Bir Kadının Yaşamından Yirmi Dört Saat
"Değerli olan her zaman için gerçeğin yarısı değil, tamamıdır."-Stefan Zweig, Bir Kadının Yaşamından Yirmi Dört Saat
"Ceux qui tombent entraînent souvent dans leur chute ceux qui se portent à leur secours."-Stefan Zweig, Bir Kadının Yaşamından Yirmi Dört Saat
23. The Blind Owl
By: Sadegh Hedayat , D.P. Costello
3.97
Format: 148 pages, Paperback
Considered the most important work of modern Iranian literature, The Blind Owl is a haunting tale o… read more
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"افكار پوچ! از هر حقيقتی بيشتر مرا شكنجه ميكند"-Sadegh Hedayat, The Blind Owl
"در زندگی زخمهایی است که روح را آهسته در انزوا می خورد ومیتراشد"-Sadegh Hedayat, The Blind Owl
"در زندگی زخمهايی هست که مثل خوره روح را آهسته در انزوا می خورد و می تراشد"-Sadegh Hedayat, The Blind Owl
"از دور ریختن عقایدی که به من تلقین شده بود، آرامش مخصوصی در خودم حس میکردم."-Sadegh Hedayat, The Blind Owl
24. The Cherry Orchard
By: Anton Chekhov , Tom Murphy
4.29
Format: 156 pages, Paperback
Published to tie in with the world premiere at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin In Chekhov's tragi-comedy … read more
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25. The Art of Thinking Clearly
By: Rolf Dobelli
3.85
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
In engaging prose and with practical examples and anecdotes, an eye-opening look at human reasoning… read more
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26. Far from the Madding Crowd
By: Thomas Hardy , Rosemarie Morgan , Shannon Russell
3.73
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . Independent and spirited Bathsh… read more
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27. Shame
By: Annie Ernaux
3.67
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
"My father tried to kill my mother one Sunday in June, in the early afternoon." Thus begins Shame, … read more
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"People are forever remembering."-Annie Ernaux, Shame
"We have no true memory of ourselves."-Annie Ernaux, Shame
"Le pire dans la honte, c'est qu'on croit être seul à la ressentir"-Annie Ernaux, Shame
"anyone who doesn't speak "the way we do" is, to some extent, labeled a foreigner."-Annie Ernaux, Shame
28. A Girl's Story
By: Annie Ernaux
3.89
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Another masterpiece of remembering from Annie Ernau… read more
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"Un été immense comme ils le sont tous jusqu'à vingt-cinq ans"-Annie Ernaux, A Girl's Story
"Everywhere on earth, with every day that dawns, a woman stands surrounded by men ready to throw stones at her."-Annie Ernaux, A Girl's Story
"At this very moment, out in the streets, the open spaces, on the metro, in lecture halls, and inside millions of heads, millions of novels are being written chapter by chapter, erased and revised, an…"-Annie Ernaux, A Girl's Story
"Aucun autre projet d’écriture ne me paraît, non pas lumineux, ni nouveau, encore moins heureux, mais vital, capable de me faire vivre au-dessus du temps. Juste « profiter de la vie » est une perspect…"-Annie Ernaux, A Girl's Story
29. The White Book
By: Han Kang
3.81
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Shortlisted for the 2018 Man Booker International Prize From Booker Prize-winner and literary p… read more
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"Now and then, the passage of time seems acutely apparent. Physical pain always sharpens the awareness."-Han Kang, The White Book
"This life needed only one of us to live it. If you had lived beyond those first few hours, I would not be living now. My life means yours is impossible."-Han Kang, The White Book
"And she frequently forgot, That her body (all our bodies) is a house of sand. That it shattered and is shattering still. Slipping stubbornly through fingers."-Han Kang, The White Book
"There is none of us whom life regards with any partiality. Sleet falls as she walks these streets, holding this knowledge inside her. Sleet that leaves cheeks and eyebrows heavy with moisture. Everyt…"-Han Kang, The White Book
30. Wash
By: William Faulkner
3.48
Format: None pages, None
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