Italian Hours
By: Henry James
3.63
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
The charm of certain vacant grassy spaces, in Italy, overfrowned by masses of brickwork that are ho…
Want to Read $ 1.02"The number of persons in Venice who evidently never have enough to eat is painfully large; but it would be more painful if we did not equally perceive that the rich Venetian temperament may bloom upon a dog’s allowance. Nature has been kind to it, and sunshine and leisure and conversation and beautiful views form the greater part of its sustenance. It takes a great deal to make a successful American, but to make a happy Venetian takes only a handful of quick sensibility. The Italian people have at once the good and the evil fortune to be conscious of few wants; so that if the civilisation of a society is measured by the number of its needs, as seems to be the common opinion to-day, it is to be feared that the children of the lagoon would make but a poor figure in a set of comparative tables. Not their misery, doubtless, but the way they elude their misery, is what pleases the sentimental tourist, who is gratified by the sight of a beautiful race that lives by the aid of its imagination."-Henry James, Italian Hours
"The number of persons in Venice who evidently never have enough to eat is painfully large; but it would be more painful if we did not equally perceive that the rich Venetian temperament may bloom upon a dog’s allowance. Nature has been kind to it, and sunshine and leisure and conversation and beautiful views form the greater part of its sustenance. It takes a great deal to make a successful American, but to make a happy Venetian takes only a handful of quick sensibility. The Italian people have at once the good and the evil fortune to be conscious of few wants; so that if the civilisation of a society is measured by the number of its needs, as seems to be the common opinion to-day, it is to be feared that the children of the lagoon would make but a poor figure in a set of comparative tables. Not their misery, doubtless, but the way they elude their misery, is what pleases the sentimental tourist, who is gratified by the sight of a beautiful race that lives by the aid of its imagination."-Henry James, Italian Hours
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1. Papillon
By: Henri Charrière
4.23
Format: 544 pages, Paperback
Henri Charrière, called "Papillon," for the butterfly tattoo on his chest, was convicted in Paris i… read more
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"The important thing was that we were alive..."-Henri Charrière, Papillon
"You don't have to be a graduate of Saint-Cyr to know that all wrecks end up on shore."-Henri Charrière, Papillon
"Everybody was stark naked, day and night. Luckily it was hot. They let me wear socks."-Henri Charrière, Papillon
"My heart was flooded with warmth: at last I had escaped from the road down the drain, and now it was for good."-Henri Charrière, Papillon
2. A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
By: David Foster Wallace
4.15
Format: 353 pages, Paperback
In this exuberantly praised book — a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television… read more
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"What I know about auto racing could be inscribed with a dry Magic Marker on the lip of a Coke bottle."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
"If Realism called it like it saw it, Metafiction simply called it as it saw itself seeing itself see it."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
"Quentin Tarantino is interested in watching somebody's ear getting cut off; David Lynch is interested in the ear."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
"American human beings are a slippery and protean bunch in real life, hard as hell to get any kind of universal handle on."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
3. How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America
By: Kiese Laymon
4.03
Format: 453 pages, Paperback
Author and essayist Kiese Laymon is one of the most unique, stirring, and powerful new voices in Am… read more
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4. Hotel du Lac
By: Anita Brookner
3.93
Format: 245 pages, Paperback
"Impeccably written and suffused with pleasing wit."--Newsweek In the novel that won her the Booker… read more
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6. Silence: The Power of Quiet in a World Full of Noise
By: Thich Nhat Hanh
3.16
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
The Zen master and one of the world's most beloved teachers returns with a concise, practical guide… read more
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7. Gilead (Gilead, #1)
By: Marilynne Robinson
3.85
Format: 247 pages, Paperback
Nearly 25 years after Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson returns with an intimate tale of three gener… read more
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"How I wish you could have known me in my strength."-Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (Gilead, #1)
"Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was."-Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (Gilead, #1)
"When something ought to be true then it proves to be a very powerful truth."-Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (Gilead, #1)
"That is to say, I pray for you. And there's an intimacy in it. That's the truth."-Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (Gilead, #1)
8. The Children of Noisy Village
By: Astrid Lindgren , Ilon Wikland , Florence Lamborn
4.54
Format: 380 pages, Paperback
Welcome to Noisy Village! Go crayfishing in the summer at Nocken, "dipping in the pot" at Christmas… read more
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9. Three Men in a Boat (Three Men, #1)
By: Jerome K. Jerome
4.60
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
Martyrs to hypochondria and general seediness, J. and his friends George and Harris decide that a j… read more
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10. The Blind Assassin
By: Margaret Atwood
5.00
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Margaret Atwood takes the art of storytelling to new heights in a dazzling novel that unfolds layer… read more
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11. Back When We Were Grownups
By: Anne Tyler
3.89
Format: None pages, Paperback
The latest #1 New York Times bestseller by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Accidental Tour… read more
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12. Travels With My Aunt
By: Graham Greene
4.07
Format: 189 pages, Paperback
"I met Aunt Augusta for the first time at my mother's funeral..." Described by Graham Greene as "th… read more
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13. A Room with a View
By: E.M. Forster
5.00
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
'"But you do," he went on, not waiting for contradiction. "You love the boy body and soul, plainly,… read more
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14. The Queen of Spades
By: Alexander Pushkin , None
2.18
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
The Queen of Spades(Russian: Pikovaya dama) is an acclaimed short story by Alexander Pushkin about … read more
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15. A House of Pomegranates
By: Oscar Wilde
0.00
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
A House of Pomegranates is a collection of whimisical short stories by Oscar Wilde. This collection… read more
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16. Bonjour tristesse
By: Françoise Sagan
3.72
Format: 154 pages, Mass Market Paperback
(English follows French) La villa est magnifique, l'été brûlant, la Méditerranée toute proche. C… read more
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"Je serais intelligente, cultivée, un peu détachée, comme Anne."-Françoise Sagan, Bonjour tristesse
"Il est très vaniteux ou très peu sûr de lui, comme vous voulez."-Françoise Sagan, Bonjour tristesse
"Bet juk taip malonu paklusti savo impulsams, o paskui gailėtis..."-Françoise Sagan, Bonjour tristesse
"Et de plus, Cyril m'aimait ... cette pensée suffisait à mon euphorie."-Françoise Sagan, Bonjour tristesse
17. Cat's Eye
By: Margaret Atwood
4.09
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
"Cat's Eye" is the story of Elaine Risley, a controversial painter who returns to Toronto, the city… read more
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18. The Street of Crocodiles
By: Jonathan Safran Foer , Bruno Schulz , Jerzy Ficowski , Celina Wieniewska
4.02
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
The Street of Crocodiles in the Polish city of Drogobych is a street of memories and dreams where r… read more
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"Reality is as thin as paper, and betrays with all its cracks its imitative character."-Jonathan Safran Foer, The Street of Crocodiles
"Can there be anything sadder than a human being changed into the rubber tube of an enema?"-Jonathan Safran Foer, The Street of Crocodiles
"They were villages forgotten in the depth of time, peopled by creatures chained forever to their tiny destinies."-Jonathan Safran Foer, The Street of Crocodiles
"The days hardened with cold and boredom like last year's loaves of bread. One began to cut them with blunt knives without appetite, with a lazy indifference."-Jonathan Safran Foer, The Street of Crocodiles
19. Portnoy's Complaint
By: Philip Roth , Luca Marinelli
3.07
Format: None pages, Paperback
The famous confession of Alexander Portnoy, who is thrust through life by his unappeasable sexualit… read more
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20. Pnin
By: Vladimir Nabokov , David Lodge
4.00
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
One of the best-loved of Nabokov's novels, Pninfeatures his funniest and most heart-rending charact… read more
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21. Flights
By: Olga Tokarczuk
3.76
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From the incomparably original Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk, Flights interweaves reflections on tra… read more
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"The truth is terrible: describing is destroying."-Olga Tokarczuk, Flights
"the truest argument was an old one—the earth is round, let us not be too attached, then, to directions."-Olga Tokarczuk, Flights
"Drawing is never reproducing - in order to see, you have to know how to look, and you have to know what you’re looking at."-Olga Tokarczuk, Flights
"I believe, unswervingly, agonizingly, that it is in freaks that Being breaks through to the surface and reveals its true nature."-Olga Tokarczuk, Flights
22. White Cat, Black Dog: Stories
By: Kelly Link
3.84
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Seven ingeniously reinvented fairy tales that play out with astonishing consequences in the modern … read more
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"Pity the introvert with the face of a therapist or a kindergarten teacher. Like the werewolf, we are uneasy in human spaces and human company, though we wear a human skin."-Kelly Link, White Cat, Black Dog: Stories
"And so, some think it may be possible to survive their presence if only one can enter into a state in which one is not afraid. Only we are so very afraid of them. How could we not be? They are monste…"-Kelly Link, White Cat, Black Dog: Stories
23. The Pavilion in the Clouds
By: Alexander McCall Smith
3.95
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
It is 1938 and the final days of the British Empire. In a bungalow high up in the green hills above… read more
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24. Ciała
By: Annie Ernaux
4.28
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
Jak oddać paraliżujący strach towarzyszący niechcianej ciąży i potajemnej aborcji? Jak opisać nasto… read more
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25. Orbital
By: Samantha Harvey
3.73
Format: 207 pages, Hardcover
A slender novel of epic power, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more
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"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
26. Anna In w grobowcach świata
By: Olga Tokarczuk
3.82
Format: 223 pages, Paperback
Jeden z najstarszych mitów w historii ludzkości w nowej, współczesnej odsłonie. Uwalniająca wyobraź… read more
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"Mówić do kogoś, kto nie rozumie, to próbować otworzyć zamek źdźbłem trawy, to kroić chleb gałązką bazylii, wkręcać żarówkę w ptasie gniazdo, wkładać dyskietkę między dwa kamienie."-Olga Tokarczuk, Anna In w grobowcach świata
"To jest koszmar wszystkich ludzi, wszystkich mieszkańców miasta - że tropi ich coś, przed czym nie ma ucieczki. Cały świat jest kryjówką [...]. I dopóki człowiek ucieka, dopóty jest ścigany. [...] Gd…"-Olga Tokarczuk, Anna In w grobowcach świata
27. Księga gaju laurowego i inne eseje
By: Béla Hamvas
4.23
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
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28. Rumowiska
By: Wit Szostak
3.90
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Rumowiska to wiele strumieni, z których każdy ma swoje źródło. Jest opowieść o dziadku Tomaszu, pod… read more
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29. Samosiejki
By: Dominika Słowik
3.65
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Najbardziej wyrazista i oddziałująca na zmysły książka Dominiki Słowik. Po głośnych powieściach … read more
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30. Italian Hours
By: Henry James
3.63
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
The charm of certain vacant grassy spaces, in Italy, overfrowned by masses of brickwork that are ho… read more
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- classics
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- 19th century
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"The number of persons in Venice who evidently never have enough to eat is painfully large; but it would be more painful if we did not equally perceive that the rich Venetian temperament may bloom upo…"-Henry James, Italian Hours
