Notes from Hampstead: The Writer's Notes: 1954-1971
By: Elias Canetti
3.89
Format: 217 pages, Hardcover
Notes from Hampstead is a map to the late Nobel laureate's thinking, a triumphant compendium of aph…
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1. The Book of Disquiet
By: Fernando Pessoa , Richard Zenith
4.41
Format: 544 pages, Paperback
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"My past is everything I failed to be."-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
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"There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful."-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
2. The Club Dumas
By: Arturo Pérez-Reverte , Sonia Soto
0.00
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3. In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (In Search of Lost Time, #2)
By: Marcel Proust , Christopher Prendergast , James Grieve
4.35
Format: 26 pages, Paperback
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4. In Praise of Shadows
By: Edward G. Seidensticker , Jun'ichirō Tanizaki , Thomas J. Harper , Charles Moore , None
4.75
Format: 335 pages, Paperback
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5. The New York Trilogy
By: Paul Auster , Art Spiegelman
4.36
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
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6. Historia de la vida del Buscón
By: Francisco de Quevedo
3.00
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7. De Profundis
By: Oscar Wilde , Richard Ellmann
4.03
Format: 246 pages,
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8. On the Heights of Despair
By: Emil M. Cioran , Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnston
4.53
Format: 194 pages, Paperback
Born of a terrible insomnia--"a dizzying lucidity which would turn even paradise into hell"--this b… read more
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9. Bartleby the Scrivener
By: Herman Melville
3.93
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
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10. Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe
By: Bill Bryson
3.24
Format: 202 pages, Paperback
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11. The Unnamable
By: Samuel Beckett
4.19
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
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12. Invisible Cities
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4.11
Format: 15 pages, Paperback
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13. The Epic of Gilgamesh
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3.74
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
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"Gilgamesh was called a god and a man; Enkidu was an animal and a man. It is the story of their becoming human together."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"When all the illusions of personal immortality are stripped away, there is only the act to maintain the freedom to act."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
14. Jakob von Gunten
By: Robert Walser , Christopher Middleton
4.30
Format: 503 pages,
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15. 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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16. Ficciones
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3.53
Format: 320 pages,
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17. The House on the Borderland
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5.00
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18. The Prague Cemetery
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3.50
Format: 445 pages, Hardcover
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19. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2)
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3.89
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20. Malpertuis
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4.29
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21. Notes from Hampstead: The Writer's Notes: 1954-1971
By: Elias Canetti
3.89
Format: 217 pages, Hardcover
Notes from Hampstead is a map to the late Nobel laureate's thinking, a triumphant compendium of aph… read more
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