The Ash Wednesday Supper (RSART: Renaissance Society of America Reprint Text Series)
By: Giordano Bruno
3.73
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
Giordano Bruno was an itinerant Italian friar who was burned at the stake in 1600 for heresies, tha…
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1. Discourse on Metaphysics/The Monadology (Philosophical Classics)
By: Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz , George R. Montgomery , Albert R. Chandler
3.71
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
One of the 17th century's most important thinkers, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz exercised enormous inf… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
2. The Glass Bees
By: Louise Bogan , Bruce Sterling , Ernst Jünger , Elizabeth Mayer
3.69
Format: 209 pages, Paperback
In The Glass Bees the celebrated German writer Ernst Jünger presents a disconcerting vision of the … read more
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- philosophy
"Every master has the servant he deserves."-Louise Bogan, The Glass Bees
"A great physicist is always a metaphysicist as well; he has a higher concept of his knowledge and his task."-Louise Bogan, The Glass Bees
"Unfortunately robots capable of manufacturing robots do not exist. That would be the philosopher's stone, the squaring of the circle."-Louise Bogan, The Glass Bees
"We do not escape our boundaries or our innermost being. We do not change. It is true we may be transformed, but we always walk within our boundaries, within the marked-off circle."-Louise Bogan, The Glass Bees
3. Andreas
By: Hugo von Hofmannsthal , None , Olivier Berggruen , Marie D. Hottinger
3.29
Format: 189 pages, Paperback
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"He seeks life where it is to be found: in all that is most delicate, in the folds of things."-Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Andreas
4. Manfred
By: Lord Byron
3.79
Format: 84 pages, Paperback
Manfred contains supernatural elements, in keeping with the popularity of the ghost story in Englan… read more
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"Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most must mourn the deepest o’er the fatal truth, the Tree of Knowledge is not that of Life."-Lord Byron, Manfred
"The stars are forth, the moon above the tops Of the snow-shining mountains.—Beautiful! I linger yet with Nature, for the night Hath been to me a more familiar face Than that of man; and in her starry…"-Lord Byron, Manfred
"The mind which is immortal makes itself Requital for its good or evil thoughts, Is its own origin of ill and end, And its own place and time; its innate sense, When stripped of this mortality, derive…"-Lord Byron, Manfred
"There is an order Of mortals on the earth, who do become Old in their youth, and die ere middle age, Without the violence of warlike death; Some perishing of pleasure, some of study, Some worn with t…"-Lord Byron, Manfred
5. The Lover
By: Marguerite Duras , Barbara Bray , Maxine Hong Kingston
3.72
Format: 117 pages, Paperback
Set against the backdrop of French colonial Vietnam, The Lover reveals the intimacies and intricaci… read more
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"The air was blue, you could hold it in your hand. Blue. The sky was the continual throbbing of the brilliance of the light."-Marguerite Duras, The Lover
"He says he’s lonely, horribly lonely because of this love he feels for her. She says she’s lonely too. She doesn’t say why."-Marguerite Duras, The Lover
"When it's in a book I don't think it'll hurt any more ...exist any more. One of the things writing does is wipe things out. Replace them."-Marguerite Duras, The Lover
"You didn't have to attract desire. Either it was in the woman who aroused it or it didn't exist. Either it was there at first glance or else it had never been."-Marguerite Duras, The Lover
6. This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
By: David Foster Wallace
4.06
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Only once did David Foster Wallace give a public talk on his views on life, during a commencement a… read more
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- nonfiction
7. Dead Souls
By: Nikolai Gogol , Robert A. Maguire
3.98
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in a provincial town and visits a succession of landowner… read more
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"Keep not money, but keep good people's company."-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls
"Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young."-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls
"A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe."-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls
"A Russian peasant scratching the back of his head means many different things."-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls
8. Demons
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky
4.30
Format: 733 pages, Paperback
Alternate Cover Edition ISBN 0679734511. (ISBN13: 9780679734512) Inspired by the true story of a… read more
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"God is the pain of the fear of death"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons
"Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. It's only that."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons
"Marriage is the moral death of every proud soul, of all independence."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons
"...and in fact I've noticed that faith always seems to be less in the daytime"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons
9. La symphonie pastorale
By: André Gide
4.57
Format: None pages, Paperback
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10. Doğunun Limanları
By: Saadet Özen , Amin Maalouf
3.63
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Adana'da ayaklanmalar olmustu. Kalabalik, Ermeni mahallesini yagmalamisti. Alti yil sonra cok daha… read more
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11. The Divine Comedy
By: Dante Alighieri , Eugenio Montale , Allen Mandelbaum
4.29
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
The Divine Comedy, translated by Allen Mandelbaum, begins in a shadowed forest on Good Friday in th… read more
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12. The Complete Essays
By: Michel de Montaigne , M.A. Screech
4.23
Format: 1344 pages, Paperback
Michel de Montaigne was one of the most influential figures of the Renaissance, singlehandedly resp… read more
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- nonfiction
"The thing I fear most is fear."-Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
"We should tend our freedom wisely."-Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
"Why do people respect the package rather than the man?"-Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
"To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it."-Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
13. The Upanishads: Translations from the Sanskrit
By: Anonymous , Juan Mascaró
4.00
Format: 199 pages, Paperback
The Upanishads, the earliest of which were composed in Sanskrit between 800 and 400 bce by sages an… read more
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14. Faust: First Part
By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Peter Salm
4.21
Format: None pages, Paperback
Goethe's masterpiece and perhaps the greatest work in German literature, Faust has made the legenda… read more
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15. The Aleph and Other Stories
By: Jorge Luis Borges , Andrew Hurley
4.33
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
Full of philosophical puzzles and supernatural surprises, these stories contain some of Borges's mo… read more
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16. To Live
By: Michael Berry , Yu Hua
4.34
Format: 250 pages, Paperback
From the author of Brothers and China in Ten Words this celebrated contemporary classic of Chinese … read more
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"It’s better to live an ordinary life. If you go on striving for this and that, you’ll end up paying with your life."-Michael Berry, To Live
17. Utopia
By: Paul Turner , Thomas More
3.55
Format: 113 pages, Paperback
In his most famous and controversial book, Utopia, Thomas More imagines a perfect island nation whe… read more
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"The change of the word does not alter the matter"-Paul Turner, Utopia
"Isn't this conception of absolute justice absolutely unjust?"-Paul Turner, Utopia
"Dünyada kaygısız, rahat yürekle, sevinçle yaşamaktan daha büyük zenginlik olabilir mi?"-Paul Turner, Utopia
"Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all."-Paul Turner, Utopia
18. The Savage Detectives
By: Roberto Bolaño , Natasha Wimmer
4.48
Format: 334 pages,
New Year's Eve, 1975: Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, founders of the visceral realist movement in p… read more
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19. And Quiet Flows the Don
By: Mikhail Sholokhov
2.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
And Quiet Flows the Don or Quietly Flows the Don (Tikhii Don, lit. "The Quiet Don") is 4-volume epi… read more
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20. 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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22. Discourse on Method
By: René Descartes , Donald A. Cress
3.85
Format: None pages, Paperback
By far the most widely used translation in North American college classrooms, Donald A. Cress's tra… read more
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23. Korku
By: Stefan Zweig , İlknur İgan
4.16
Format: None pages, Paperback
Rahat ve korunakli bir yasam suren saygin bir kadin, sekiz yillik evliliginden sikilmis, burjuva du… read more
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24. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
By: Victor Hugo , Walter J. Cobb
4.02
Format: 510 pages, Paperback
This extraordinary historical French gothic novel, set in Medieval Paris under the twin towers of i… read more
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"Homo homini monstrum"-Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
"Oh! Everything I loved!"-Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
"by making himself a priest made himself a demon."-Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
"a mother who loses her child can no longer believe in God"-Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
25. Canto yo y la montaña baila
By: Irene Solà
4.24
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Primero llegan la tormenta y el rayo y la muerte de Domènec, el campesino poeta. Luego, Dolceta, qu… read more
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"La eternidad, cosa ligera. Cosa diaria, cosa pequeña."-Irene Solà, Canto yo y la montaña baila
"Em diu coses boniques que no entenc però sí que entenc"-Irene Solà, Canto yo y la montaña baila
"Quan arribés a casa s'hauria de fer escalfar aigua per rentar-se el fred i la plutja"-Irene Solà, Canto yo y la montaña baila
"S'hi està bé aquí sota. S'hi està bé, en aquest bosc. En aquest tros de terra. En aquest tros de món."-Irene Solà, Canto yo y la montaña baila
26. Deli İbram Divanı
By: Ahmet Büke
4.34
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Deli İbram Divanı, öykücülüğümüzün yaşayan büyük ismi Ahmet Büke’nin romanda da ne kadar mahir oldu… read more
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27. Filosofía del budismo Zen
By: Byung-Chul Han
3.73
Format: 169 pages, Kindle Edition
Byung-Chul Han busca hacer explícita la filosofía que está implícita en el budismo Zen, y lo hace a… read more
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- nonfiction
28. El criterio
By: Jaime Balmes y Urpià
3.98
Format: 264 pages, Kindle Edition
Jaime Luciano Antonio Balmes y Urpiá (Vic, 28 de agosto de 1810 - Barcelona, 9 de julio de 1848), c… read more
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"La Intuición: tener a la vista el objeto inundado de luz, cuando los demás están en tinieblas."-Jaime Balmes y Urpià, El criterio
29. The Ash Wednesday Supper (RSART: Renaissance Society of America Reprint Text Series)
By: Giordano Bruno
3.73
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
Giordano Bruno was an itinerant Italian friar who was burned at the stake in 1600 for heresies, tha… read more
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- italy
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- mysticism
- science
30. Il paese del vento
By: Grazia Deledda
3.58
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Nobel Edebiyat Ödülü’nü alan ikinci kadın yazar Grazia Deledda, doğduğu Sardinya Adası’nı eserlerin… read more
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31. Dokunulmaz
By: Nedret Kılıç
4.67
Format: 472 pages, Paperback
Sırtüstü uzanıyorum yıldızlardan örülü örtüm altına! Derime kazıttığım yaşım kadar *yetmiş* suretin… read more
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