Jettatura
By: Théophile Gautier
3.61
Format: 98 pages, Paperback
In una Napoli calda e luminosa, in una terra che è espressione del mito romantico, si intrecciano d…
Want to Read $ 4.99"It sometimes happens that a man who, up until now has believed himself to be gifted with perfect health, opens a medical book, either by chance or to pass the time, and on reading the pathological description of an illness, recognises that he is afflicted by it; enlightened by a fateful flash of insight, he feels at every symptom mentioned some obscure organ shuddering within him, or some hidden fibre of whose role in the body he had been unaware, and he pales as he realises that a death he thought was still a long way off is so imminent."-Théophile Gautier, Jettatura
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1. Nova
By: Samuel R. Delany
3.80
Format: 241 pages, Paperback
These are [at least some of] the ways you can read NOVA: as a fast-action farflung interstellar adv… read more
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- classics
- fiction
"The inevitable is that unprepared for."-Samuel R. Delany, Nova
"How many notes have you made on this book?"-Samuel R. Delany, Nova
"Wind passed again; the iris shuddered about the diamond chip."-Samuel R. Delany, Nova
"Right now I'm just a bright guy with a lot to say and nothing to say it about."-Samuel R. Delany, Nova
2. Dimentica il mio nome
By: Zerocalcare
4.39
Format: 236 pages, Hardcover
Quando l'ultimo pezzo della sua infanzia se ne va, Zerocalcare scopre cose sulla propria famiglia c… read more
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- fiction
"Forse crescere significa anche questo. Accettare che quel monte che protegge la vallata ha anche un altro versante, nascosto. Che il terreno non è tutto uguale, ci sono zone più fertili, altre più ar…"-Zerocalcare, Dimentica il mio nome
3. Les Fleurs du Mal
By: Charles Baudelaire , Richard Howard
4.20
Format: 365 pages, Paperback
Charles Baudelaire's 1857 masterwork was scandalous in its day for its portrayals of sex, same-sex … read more
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- classics
- literature
- france
- french literature
- fiction
"L'orage rajeunit les fleurs"-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
"I am the vampire at my own veins."-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
"Beauty, you walk on corpses, mocking them;"-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
"My heart is lost; the beasts have eaten it."-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
4. Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
By: Elizabeth Taylor , Paul Bailey
4.00
Format: 206 pages, Paperback
Librarian Note: An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found here On a rainy Sunday in Januar… read more
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- literature
- classics
- fiction
"Abrió el libro, pero ninguna página parecía ser lo bastante potente para borrar la soledad que sentía."-Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
"La catastrofe de la vejez residía en no atreverse a ir a cualquier parte, en resignarse a perder la libertad"-Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
"If you don't praise people just sometimes a little early on they die of despair, or turn into Hitlers, you know?"-Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
"...pensaba en el amor y en sus espantosas desigualdades. Siempre hay alguien que ofrece la mejilla y otro que la besa."-Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
5. Ogni maledetto lunedì su due
By: Zerocalcare
3.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
Quasi due anni di blog. Uno spaccato generazionale divertentissimo, ma tutt'altro che disimpegnato;… read more
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- fiction
6. Saints and Strangers
By: Angela Carter
4.16
Format: 331 pages, Paperback
Saints and Strangers(also published as Black Venus), is an anthology of short fiction. Angela Carte… read more
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- classics
- fiction
7. Illuminations
By: Arthur Rimbaud
5.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
The prose poems of the great French Symbolist, Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891), have acquired enormous p… read more
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- classics
- literature
- france
- french literature
- fiction
8. La profezia dell'armadillo
By: Zerocalcare
3.58
Format: 366 pages, Paperback
Centotrentasei tavole, divise in storie brevi alla sua maniera, storielle di una o quattro/cinque p… read more
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9. Of One Blood: Or, the Hidden Self: The Givens Collection
By: Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins
4.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
Of One Bloodis the last of four novels written by Pauline Hopkins. She is considered by some to be … read more
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- classics
- fiction
10. Prometheus Bound
By: Aeschylus , None , James Scully , C. John Herington
3.13
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Featuring an insightful introduction, comprehensive commentary on plot, characters, structure, and … read more
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- literature
- classics
- fiction
11. The Obscene Bird of Night
By: José Donoso , Hardie St. Martin , Leonard Mades
4.21
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
This haunting jungle of a novel has been hailed as "a masterpiece" by Luis Bunuel and "one of the g… read more
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- literature
- fiction
12. The Man Who Would Be King
By: Rudyard Kipling
3.95
Format: 145 pages, Paperback
"My gord, Carnehan," says Daniel, "This is a tremenjus business, and we've got the whole country as… read more
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13. The Green Child
By: Herbert Read
3.94
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
First published in 1935, The Green Childis Herbert Read's only novel. But if he had written nothing… read more
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14. The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice
By: Wilkie Collins
4.12
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Is there no explanation of the mystery of The Haunted Hotel? Is The Haunted Hotel the tale of a hau… read more
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15. Kiss of the Spider Woman
By: Manuel Puig
4.01
Format: 281 pages, Paperback
Sometimes they talk all night long. In the still darkness of their cell, Molina re-weaves the glitt… read more
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- literature
- classics
- fiction
"¿Qué pasa que a veces alguien dice algo y conquista para siempre a otra persona?"-Manuel Puig, Kiss of the Spider Woman
"--And the good thing about feeling happy, you know, Valentin? ...It's that you think it's forever, that one's never ever going to feel unhappy again."-Manuel Puig, Kiss of the Spider Woman
"– Io non ci credo alla faccenda del godi e non pensare al domani, Molina. Nessuno gode senza pensare al domani. Va bene solo per il paradiso terrestre."-Manuel Puig, Kiss of the Spider Woman
"—And what's so bad about being soft like a woman? Why is it men or whoever, some poor bastard, some queen, can't be sensitive, too, if he's got a mind to? —I don't know, but sometimes that kind of be…"-Manuel Puig, Kiss of the Spider Woman
16. A Voyage to Arcturus
By: John Clute , David Lindsay , Loren Eiseley
3.08
Format: 354 pages, Paperback
A stunning achievement in speculative fiction, A Voyage to Arcturushas inspired, enchanted, and uns… read more
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17. The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman
By: Angela Carter
3.74
Format: 221 pages, Paperback
Desiderio, an employee of the city under a bizarre reality attack from Doctor Hoffman's mysterious … read more
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- literature
- classics
- fiction
"Necessary connections are fabulous beasts."-Angela Carter, The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman
"[...] he had examined the world by the light of the intellect alone and had seen a totally different construction from that which the senses see by the light of reason."-Angela Carter, The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman
"She stayed beside me until I slept, waveringly, brilliantly, hooded in diaphanous scarlet, and occasionally she left an imperative written in lipstick on my dusty windowpane. BE AMOROUS! she exhorted…"-Angela Carter, The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman
"There had never been such roses as those that bloomed that summer. They clambered everywhere and dripped as if perspiring the heaviest most intoxicating perfume, which seemed to make the very masonry…"-Angela Carter, The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman
18. Un polpo alla gola
By: Zerocalcare
4.31
Format: 190 pages, Paperback
Tre amici, un comprensorio scolastico, un segreto. E quindici anni dopo, scoprire che ciascuno di l… read more
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- fiction
19. Jade Fire Gold
By: June C.L. Tan
3.70
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
In an empire on the brink of war... Ahn is no one, with no past and no family. Altan is a lo… read more
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- fiction
20. The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)
By: Hilary Mantel
4.39
Format: 759 pages, Paperback
With The Mirror & the Light, Hilary Mantel brings to a triumphant close the trilogy she began with … read more
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- literature
- fiction
"Everybody wants something, if only for the pain to stop."-Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)
"Those who think a heart cannot break have led blessed and sheltered lives."-Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)
"It was not by a serpent, but by paper and ink that evil came into the world."-Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)
"You can persuade the quick to think again, but you cannot remake your reputation with the dead."-Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)
21. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
By: David Graeber
4.20
Format: 692 pages, Hardcover
A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions abo… read more
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"Humans - from this other perspective, which is just as extreme in its own way - are at best an arbitrary constellation of cultural elements, perhaps assembled according to some prevailing spirit, cod…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"One might ask, how could that most basic element of all human freedoms, the freedom to make promises and commitments and thus build relationships, be turned into its very opposite: into peonage, serf…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"There is an obvious objection to evolutionary models which assume that our strongest social ties are based on close biological kinship: many humans just don’t like their families very much. And this …"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"In the Middle Ages, most people in other parts of the world who actually knew anything about northern Europe at all considered it an obscure and uninviting backwater full of religious fanatics who, a…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
22. Über Menschen
By: Juli Zeh
4.06
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Dora ist mit ihrer kleinen Hündin aufs Land gezogen. Sie brauchte dringend einen Tapetenwechsel, me… read more
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- fiction
"Aus dem Nachbargarten schallen fröhliche Stimmen herüber. Dora geht zur Mauer und steigt auf den Stuhl. Ein Fußballspiel ist in vollem Gang. Gote gegen Franzi und Jochen. Die Taktik der Mädchen-Hund-…"-Juli Zeh, Über Menschen
23. Athena's Child (The Grecian Women Trilogy, #1)
By: Hannah M. Lynn
3.76
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
For readers of Madeleine Miller and Claire Heywood comes the story of the most infamous monster of … read more
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- fiction
24. Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
By: Yanis Varoufakis
4.01
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
The #1 bestselling economist shows how capitalism has been replaced by a more exploitative system, … read more
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"Il profitto è vulnerabile alla competizione di mercato, mentre la rendita non lo è."-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
"Se non è un mercato capitalista, in cosa entriamo, buon Dio, quando andiamo su amazon.com ?"-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
"Oltre ad avvertirci che ogni nuova epoca forgiata da qualche tecnologia rivoluzionaria produce una generazione che “mai passerà un giorno immune da fatica e dolore, struggendosi anche di notte"-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
"La rivoluzione digitale potrebbe consistere nel trasformare i lavoratori salariati in proletari del cloud, che vivono una vita sempre più precaria e stressante sotto il controllo invisibile di capi a…"-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
25. Companion Piece
By: Ali Smith
3.82
Format: 230 pages, Hardcover
A celebration of companionship in all its timeless and contemporary, legendary and unpindownable, s… read more
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- literature
- fiction
26. Cahokia Jazz
By: Francis Spufford
4.03
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling tale of murder and mystery in a city where history has run a little differently—from th… read more
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27. 2022 on Goodreads
By: Various
4.08
Format: None pages, None
Whether or not you've had time to write your own reviews, here's a chance to review your entire 202… read more
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- literature
28. Eat the Rich
By: Sarah Gailey
3.71
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
When the rich and powerful are literal cannibals, how can regular people avoid being on the menu?WE… read more
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- fiction
29. Jettatura
By: Théophile Gautier
3.61
Format: 98 pages, Paperback
In una Napoli calda e luminosa, in una terra che è espressione del mito romantico, si intrecciano d… read more
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- classics
- literature
- france
- french literature
- fiction
"It sometimes happens that a man who, up until now has believed himself to be gifted with perfect health, opens a medical book, either by chance or to pass the time, and on reading the pathological de…"-Théophile Gautier, Jettatura
30. Il satiro scientifico. Storie di merda: Scienza, usi e costumi della materia fecale
By: Barbascura X
4.06
Format: 360 pages, Kindle Edition
A un certo punto, il signor Mondadori mi chiede di diventare il curatore di una rivista scientifica… read more
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31. The Book of Masks: An Anthology of French Symbolist & Decadent Writing (Atlas Arkhive, #2)
By: Andrew Mangravite
4.14
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
This anthology is the largest ever selection from the Decadent and Symbolist writers of the French … read more
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"Everything, indeed, in a work of art should be unedited,--and even the words, by the manner of grouping them, of shaping them to new meanings,--and one often regrets having an alphabet familiar to to…"-Andrew Mangravite, The Book of Masks: An Anthology of French Symbolist & Decadent Writing (Atlas Arkhive, #2)
"He was a young man of savage & unexpected originality, a diseased genius & quite frankly, a mad genius. Imbeciles grow insane & in their insanity the imbecility remains stagnant or agitated; in the m…"-Andrew Mangravite, The Book of Masks: An Anthology of French Symbolist & Decadent Writing (Atlas Arkhive, #2)
"To acquire the full consciousness of self is to know oneself so different from others that no longer feels allied with men except by purely animal contacts: nevertheless, among souls of this degree, …"-Andrew Mangravite, The Book of Masks: An Anthology of French Symbolist & Decadent Writing (Atlas Arkhive, #2)
