The Life and Opinions of Zacharias Lichter (New York Review Books Classics)
By: Matei Călinescu
3.79
Format: 161 pages, Kindle Edition
A new translation of the only novel by lauded Romanian literary critic Matei CălinescuAn NYRB Class…
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1. Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe
By: François-René de Chateaubriand
3.96
Format: 1504 pages, Paperback
The only available edition in English of the greatest of all French autobiographies By the time … read more
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"It is a long way from these strict parents to the child-spoilers of today."-François-René de Chateaubriand, Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe
"Purgatory surpasses heaven and hell in poetry, because it represents a future and the others do not."-François-René de Chateaubriand, Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe
"There are only two true things: intelligent religion and youthful love, which is to say the future and the present. The rest is not worth the trouble"-François-René de Chateaubriand, Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe
"Life is spent hovering round our tomb. Our various sicknesses are but the winds which carry us more or less near to the haven. … Death is our friend, nevertheless we do not recognise it as such, beca…"-François-René de Chateaubriand, Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe
2. Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings
By: André Maurois , Jorge Luis Borges , James E. Irby , Donald A. Yates
3.63
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Although his work has been restricted to the short story, the essay, and poetry, Jorge Luis Borges … read more
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- literature
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3. Dirty Snow
By: Georges Simenon , William T. Vollmann , Marc Romano
4.18
Format: None pages, Paperback
Nineteen-year-old Frank Friedmaier lives in a country under occupation. Most people struggle to get… read more
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- classics
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4. The Loser
By: Thomas Bernhard , Jack Dawson
3.34
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Thomas Bernhard was one of the most original writers of the twentieth century. His formal innovatio… read more
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5. Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures
By: Mark Fisher
3.72
Format: None pages, Paperback
This collection of writings by Mark Fisher, author of the acclaimed Capitalist Realism, argues that… read more
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- philosophy
6. Innocent Erendira and Other Stories
By: Gabriel García Márquez , Gregory Rabassa
4.26
Format: None pages, Paperback
"The stories are rich and startling in their matter and confident in their manner....They are--the … read more
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7. Caim
By: José Saramago
4.57
Format: 201 pages, Paperback
Neste novo romance, o vencedor do premio Nobel Jose Saramago reconta episodios biblicos do Velho Te… read more
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8. Moscow to the End of the Line
By: Venedikt Erofeev , None
4.04
Format: 164 pages, Paperback
In this classic of Russian humor and social commentary, a fired cable fitter goes on a binge and ho… read more
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"...in Petushki the jasmine never stops blooming and the birds always sing..."-Venedikt Erofeev, Moscow to the End of the Line
"В Сибири вообще никто не живет, одни только негры живут. Продуктов им туда не завозят, выпить им нечего, не говоря уж "поесть". Только один раз в год им привозят из Житомира вышитые полотенца - и нег…"-Venedikt Erofeev, Moscow to the End of the Line
"Ард түмэн үхрийн мах худалдан авч чадахгүй байна, гэтэл архи түүнээс нь хямдхан байдаг, чухам иймээс л, орос эрчүүд ядуурлаас болж архи ууцгааж байна! Ард түмэн ном худалдан авч чадахгүй байна, яагаа…"-Venedikt Erofeev, Moscow to the End of the Line
"I like the fact that my compatriots have such vacant and protruding eyes. They fill me with virtuous pride. You can imagine what eyes are like (in the capitalist world). ...such eyes look at you with…"-Venedikt Erofeev, Moscow to the End of the Line
9. All's Well That Ends Well
By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine
3.99
Format: 273 pages,
In the acclaimed BBC Radio Shakespeare series, each play is introduced by Richard Eyre, former Dire… read more
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10. The Twelve Chairs
By: Ilya Ilf , Yevgeny Petrov , None , None
3.87
Format: 268 pages, Paperback
Ostap Bender is an unemployed con artist living by his wits in postrevolutionary Soviet Russia. He … read more
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11. The Artificial Silk Girl
By: Irmgard Keun , None , None
3.82
Format: 4 pages,
In 1931, a young woman writer living in Germany was inspired by Anita Loos's Gentlemen Prefer Blond… read more
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12. This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
By: Michael Kandel , Jan Kott , Tadeusz Borowski , None
3.92
Format: 594 pages, Paperback
Tadeusz Borowski's concentration camp stories were based on his own experiences surviving Auschwitz… read more
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13. Infinite Jest
By: David Foster Wallace
4.31
Format: 66 pages, Paperback
A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America. Set in an addicts' ha… read more
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14. Тёмные аллеи
By: Ivan Bunin , Иван Алексеевич Бунин
3.85
Format: None pages, Paperback
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15. Middlemarch
By: Michel Faber , George Eliot
4.02
Format: 912 pages, Mass Market Paperback
"People are almost always better than their neighbours think they are" George Eliot’s most ambit… read more
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"After all, the true seeing is within."-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
"I protest against any absolute conclusion."-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
"I shall do everything it becomes me to do."-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
"What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?"-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
16. The Magic Mountain
By: Thomas Mann , John E. Woods
4.13
Format: 706 pages, Paperback
In this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Mann uses a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps, a community devot… read more
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- 20th century
"Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul."-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
"A harmful truth is better than a useful lie."-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
"Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil."-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
"It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death."-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
17. Novel with Cocaine (European Classics)
By: M. Agueev , Michael Henry Heim , M. Ageyev
3.83
Format: 204 pages, Paperback
A Dostoevskian psychological novel of ideas, Novel with Cocaine explores the interaction between ps… read more
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- 20th century
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"And if all womankind banded together and took the male path, the world would turn into one huge brothel."-M. Agueev, Novel with Cocaine (European Classics)
"Boulevards are like people: similar in their youth, they undergo gradual change according to what ferments in them."-M. Agueev, Novel with Cocaine (European Classics)
"To begin with, I had never done any good deeds; besides, even if I had simply fabricated a few, I would not have enjoyed going on about them."-M. Agueev, Novel with Cocaine (European Classics)
"... try to understand that our souls work like swings: the stronger the push up towards the nobility of the soul, the stronger the swoop down towards the fury of the beast."-M. Agueev, Novel with Cocaine (European Classics)
18. In a Lonely Place
By: Paula Rabinowitz , Dorothy B. Hughes
3.64
Format: None pages, Paperback
Postwar Los Angeles is a lonely place where the American Dream is showing its seamy underside--and … read more
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19. The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.58
Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition
1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of… read more
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"All of history [is] a rehearsal for its own extinction."-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"...do you think if you died drunk you’d sober up before you met Jesus?"-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"The evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure"-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"She asked the girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said dead."-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
20. Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.87
Format: 190 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER. The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road returns with the second v… read more
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- literature
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- fiction
"I would like to belong but I dont."-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
"Love is quite possibly a mental disorder itself."-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
"The notion of nothing is an inconceivable notion"-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
"Rage is only for what you believe can be fixed. All the rest is grief."-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
21. The Netanyahus
By: Joshua Cohen
3.80
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Corbin College, not-quite-upstate New York, winter 1959-1960: Ruben Blum, a Jewish historian - but … read more
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22. My Death
By: Lisa Tuttle
3.98
Format: 93 pages, Paperback
A widowed writer begins to work on a biography of a novelist and artist—and soon uncovers bizarre p… read more
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23. Marshlands
By: André Gide
3.56
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
A slim but powerful work of metafiction by a Nobel Prize-winning French writer and intellectual. … read more
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- classics
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"Vertu des humbles - acceptation; et cela leur va si bien, à certains, qu'on croit comprendre que leur vie est faite à la mesure de leur âme. Surtout ne pas les plaindre : leur état leur convient ; dé…"-André Gide, Marshlands
24. Ierbar
By: Andrei Dósa
3.40
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Oscilînd între rutină şi senzaţiile induse de experienţele narcotice, un grup de prieteni navigheaz… read more
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25. nu mă întrerupe
By: Cătălina Stanislav
4.30
Format: 70 pages, Paperback
La 4 dimineața, când citeam cartea Cătălinei Stanislav, singura mea frustrare era că nu am cu cine … read more
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- romanian literature
26. Crisalidă
By: Mădălina Căuneac
4.17
Format: 109 pages, Paperback
Mantre ale devoalării. Dinspre hiperrealismul copilăriei înspre confruntarea și acceptarea sinelui.… read more
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27. Dmitri: INTJ
By: Dmitri Miticov
4.45
Format: 35 pages, Paperback
„Dmitri: INTJ e fără îndoială cea mai stranie carte de poezie a ultimilor ani, marcând totodată cea… read more
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28. Dezintegrare
By: Florentin Popa
4.20
Format: None pages, None
Florentin Popa a apărut în poezia română ca un OZN. A bombardat psihotronic, a plasat cipuri, a mod… read more
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29. The Life and Opinions of Zacharias Lichter (New York Review Books Classics)
By: Matei Călinescu
3.79
Format: 161 pages, Kindle Edition
A new translation of the only novel by lauded Romanian literary critic Matei CălinescuAn NYRB Class… read more
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- classics
- literature
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- romania
- romanian literature
- fiction
- 20th century
30. Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man (English and German Edition)
By: Thomas Mann
3.49
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Essays examine democracy, patriotism, political life, the nature of virtue, and the culture of Germ… read more
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"Ich wiederhole: Der Fortschritt hat alles für sich. Nur scheinbar ist er die Opposition. Der erhaltende Gegenwille ist es, der in Wahrheit immer und überall die Opposition bildet, der sich in der Ver…"-Thomas Mann, Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man (English and German Edition)
