The Apocryphal Gospels (Penguin Classics)
By: Simon Gathercole
3.86
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
A new translation of the oldest non-canonical Christian gospels, including the Gospel of Thomas, th…
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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. The Theology of the Book of Revelation (New Testament Theology)
By: Richard Bauckham
4.37
Format: 177 pages, Paperback
Richard Bauckham expounds the theology of the Book of its understanding of God, Christ and the Spi… read more
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- christian
- theology
- christianity
- religion
- nonfiction
3. 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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"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
4. The Imitation of Christ
By: Thomas à Kempis , William Benham , Richard Challoner, D.D.
4.32
Format: 632 pages, Paperback
Only the Bible has been more influential as a source of Christian devotional reading than The Imita… read more
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- classics
- christian
- theology
- christianity
- religion
- nonfiction
5. Egil's Saga
By: Anonymous , Bernard Scudder , Svanhildur Óskarsdóttir , Egill Skallagrímsson
3.80
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
Egil's Saga tells the story of the long and brutal life of tenth-century warrior-poet and farmer Eg… read more
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- classics
- history
6. Being and Time
By: Martin Heidegger
4.05
Format: 589 pages, Hardcover
One of the most important philosophical works of our time, a work that has had tremendous influence… read more
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- classics
- nonfiction
"But “nowhere"-Martin Heidegger, Being and Time
"El ente existente “se"-Martin Heidegger, Being and Time
"الترجمة ضرب من أدب الضيافة إزاء تراث ما"-Martin Heidegger, Being and Time
"Everyone is the other and no one is himself."-Martin Heidegger, Being and Time
7. The Conformist
By: Alberto Moravia , Tami Calliope
3.63
Format: 353 pages, Paperback
Secrecy and Silence are second nature to Marcello Clerici, the hero of The Conformist, a book which… read more
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- classics
8. The New Oxford Annotated Bible: New Revised Standard Version
By: Anonymous , Michael D. Coogan , Marc Zvi Brettler , Pheme Perkins , None
3.69
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Countless students, professors and general readers alike have relied upon The New Oxford Annotated … read more
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- classics
- history
- theology
- christianity
- religion
9. Crow: From the Life and Songs of the Crow
By: Ted Hughes
4.26
Format: 999 pages, Hardcover
Crowwas Ted Hughes's fourth book of poems for adults and a pivotal moment in his writing career. In… read more
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10. Das Kapital
By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky
4.22
Format: None pages, Paperback
Das Kapital, Karl Marx's seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth centu… read more
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- nonfiction
- classics
- history
11. The Anatomy of Melancholy
By: William H. Gass , Robert Burton
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
One of the major documents of modern European civilization, Robert Burton's astounding compendium, … read more
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- classics
- history
12. The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English
By: Anonymous , Géza Vermes
3.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in the Judean desert between 1947 and 1956 was one of the gre… read more
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- history
- theology
- religion
- nonfiction
13. The Coming of the Third Reich
By: Richard J. Evans
3.44
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
From one of the world's most distinguished historians, a magisterial new reckoning with Hitler's ri… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
14. On Anarchism
By: Noam Chomsky , Barry Pateman
4.42
Format: 718 pages, Paperback
We all know what Noam Chomsky is against. His scathing analysis of everything that's wrong with our… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
15. The Vampyre and Other Tales of the Macabre
By: John William Polidori , Robert Morrison
4.00
Format: None pages,
John Polidori's classic tale The Vampyre(1819), was a product of the same ghost-story competition t… read more
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- classics
16. The Prose Edda
By: Snorri Sturluson , Jesse L. Byock
3.56
Format: None pages, Paperback
'What was the beginning, or how did things start? What was there before?' The Prose Eddais the most… read more
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- nonfiction
- classics
- history
17. The Tales of Ise
By: Anonymous , H. Jay Harris
4.24
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
A timeless work, beloved since the Middle Ages, takes a glorious new form in this deluxe modern edi… read more
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- classics
18. The Civil War
By: Gaius Julius Caesar , Jane F. Gardner
3.36
Format: None pages, Paperback
A military leader of legendary genius, Caesar was also a great writer, recording the events of his … read more
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19. Ten Years Later
By: Alexandre Dumas
3.73
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later is the third and last of the d'Artagnan Romances, follow… read more
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20. The Decameron
By: Giovanni Boccaccio , G.H. McWilliam
4.35
Format: 255 pages, Paperback
The Decameron (c.1351) is an entertaining series of one hundred stories written in the wake of the … read more
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21. Arthurian Romances
By: Chrétien de Troyes , William W. Kibler , Carleton W. Carroll
3.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
Taking the legends surrounding King Arthur and weaving in new psychological elements of personal de… read more
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22. Dracula's Guest
By: Bram Stoker
4.36
Format: 39 pages,
A passage from the manuscript of Dracula. read more
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23. Ragazzi di vita
By: Pier Paolo Pasolini
4.44
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Pasolini e diventato famoso con questo romanzo acre, violento, fortissimo. La miseria italiana, i b… read more
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24. The Hole
By: Hiroko Oyamada
3.49
Format: 92 pages, Paperback
Asa’s husband is transferring jobs, and his new office is located near his family’s home in the cou… read more
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"I moved out here with my husband."-Hiroko Oyamada, The Hole
"It's just, families are strange things, aren't they? You have this couple: one man, one woman. A male and a female, if you will. They mate, and why? To leave children behind. And what are the childre…"-Hiroko Oyamada, The Hole
"Abrí la ventana y oí a las cigarras cantar. No sé si era porque estaba en el campo y había muchos árboles o por la influencia del clima de ese año, pero nunca las había oído con tanta intensidad. Era…"-Hiroko Oyamada, The Hole
25. Glorious Exploits
By: Ferdia Lennon
4.24
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An utterly original celebration of that which binds humanity across battle lines and history. On… read more
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"He sang a song from Media's chorus, it was a few bitter scenes later when the kids are dead, and it gives a weird sense of time mergin', and for a moment I had the feeling that the future and the pas…"-Ferdia Lennon, Glorious Exploits
"He sang a song from Media's chorus, it was a few bitter scenes later when the kids are dead, and it gives a weird sense of time mergin', and for a moment I have the feeling that the future and the pa…"-Ferdia Lennon, Glorious Exploits
26. Hervelino
By: Mathieu Lindon
3.57
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
« Ce fut vite ma façon d’appeler Hervé, avec ma manie d’italianiser les noms de mes proches… Hervel… read more
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- nonfiction
27. Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls: Revealing the Jewish Roots of Christianity
By: John Bergsma
4.51
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A major new work on the Dead Sea Scrolls, the oldest sacred documents of Judaism, which reveals the… read more
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28. Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through
By: T. Fleischmann
4.01
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
How do the bodies we inhabit affect our relationship with art? How does art affect our relationship… read more
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"Is beauty panacean, able to instill in us moments of transcendence? Or does the sun just melt the ice, beauty appreciated only when it is the constituent hum of a thing that fades?"-T. Fleischmann, Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through
"If the aliens do show up, I hope they’ll see people they want to save. Friends and magnificent sluts, smashing the walls of the prisons and burning all the money, running around with signs that decla…"-T. Fleischmann, Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through
"Anyway, you never get there, you just keep going. Things are repeated, and sometimes we mistake the fact of their repetition for their value. It can make it seem like we aren’t supposed to change, or…"-T. Fleischmann, Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through
"The best version of me isn't the person who falls in love, but the person who takes love squarely for what it is, as an occasion to know someone else, to learn about their desires, to be each a bette…"-T. Fleischmann, Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through
29. The Apocryphal Gospels (Penguin Classics)
By: Simon Gathercole
3.86
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
A new translation of the oldest non-canonical Christian gospels, including the Gospel of Thomas, th… read more
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- classics
- history
- christian
- theology
- christianity
- ancient
- religion
- nonfiction
30. Paul and the Resurrection of Israel: Jews, Former Gentiles, Israelites
By: Jason A. Staples
4.97
Format: 350 pages, Hardcover
The gospel promoted by Paul has for many generations stirred passionate debate. That gospel proclai… read more
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31. The Aeneid
By: Virgil
3.87
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
The founding epic of Rome, rendered in a fluid, metrical translation that sings Virgil’s stately ve… read more
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- ancient
- classics
"Death's brother, sleep."-Virgil, The Aeneid
"No help or hope of help existed."-Virgil, The Aeneid
"Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit."-Virgil, The Aeneid
"Non ignora mali, miseris succurrere disco."-Virgil, The Aeneid
