Three Uneasy Pieces
By: Patrick White
3.49
Format: 59 pages, Hardcover
First edition. Good hard cover, with unclipped dust jacket. General shelf and handling wear; jacket…
Want to Read"Superficially my war was a comfortable exercise in futility carried out in a grand Scottish hotel amongst the bridge players and swillers of easy-come-by whisky. My chest got me out of active service and into guilt, as I wrote two, or is it three of the novels for which I am now acclaimed."-Patrick White, Three Uneasy Pieces
"Superficially my war was a comfortable exercise in futility carried out in a grand Scottish hotel amongst the bridge players and swillers of easy-come-by whisky. My chest got me out of active service and into guilt, as I wrote two, or is it three of the novels for which I am now acclaimed."-Patrick White, Three Uneasy Pieces
"I would like to believe in the myth that we grow wiser with age. In a sense my disbelief is wisdom. Those of a middle generation, if charitable or sentimental, subscribe to the wisdom myth, while the callous see us as dispensable objects, like broken furniture or dead flowers. For the young we scarcely exist unless we are unavoidable members of the same family, farting, slobbering, perpetually mislaying teeth and bifocals."-Patrick White, Three Uneasy Pieces
"I would like to believe in the myth that we grow wiser with age. In a sense my disbelief is wisdom. Those of a middle generation, if charitable or sentimental, subscribe to the wisdom myth, while the callous see us as dispensable objects, like broken furniture or dead flowers. For the young we scarcely exist unless we are unavoidable members of the same family, farting, slobbering, perpetually mislaying teeth and bifocals."-Patrick White, Three Uneasy Pieces
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1. Serious Concerns
By: Wendy Cope
3.88
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
A collection of poems featuring works by Cope such as "Bloody Men", "Men and their Boring Arguments… read more
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"Write to amuse? What an appalling suggestion! I write to make people anxious and miserable and to worsen their indigestion."-Wendy Cope, Serious Concerns
"The day he moved out was terrible – That evening she went through hell. His absence wasn’t a problem But the corkscrew had gone as well."-Wendy Cope, Serious Concerns
"At lunchtime I bought a huge orange The size of it made us all laugh. I peeled it and shared it with Robert and Dave— They got quarters and I had a half. And that orange it made me so happy, As ordin…"-Wendy Cope, Serious Concerns
"Bloody men are like bloody buses — You wait for about a year And as soon as one approaches your stop Two or three others appear. You look at them flashing their indicators, Offering you a ride. You’r…"-Wendy Cope, Serious Concerns
2. The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
By: Marcel Proust , None , Terence Kilmartin , D.J. Enright
4.39
Format: 957 pages, Paperback
The Modern Library’s fifth volume of In Search of Lost Time contains both The Captive (1923) and Th… read more
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- fiction
"...every social class has its own pathology..."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
"Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
"Love is space and time made perceptible to the heart."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
"There are optical errors in time as there are in space."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
3. Alias Grace
By: Margaret Atwood
4.04
Format: 468 pages, Hardcover
It's 1843, and Grace Marks has been convicted for her involvement in the vicious murders of her emp… read more
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- fiction
"The small details of life often hide a great significance."-Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace
"If they want a monster so badly they ought to be provided by one."-Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace
"[...] he often talked to himself and he was the best conversationalist he knew; [...]"-Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace
"I don’t know why it is, a girl of fifteen or sixteen is accounted a woman, but a boy of fifteen or sixteen is still a boy."-Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace
4. A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
By: Flannery O'Connor
4.17
Format: 252 pages, Hardcover
This now classic book revealed Flannery O'Connor as one of the most original and provocative writer… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
"The trouble with the world was that nobody stopped or took any care."-Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
"He had a look of composed dissatisfaction, as if he understood life thoroughly."-Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
"The thing you do with a boy it is to show him all the to show. Don't hold nothing back."-Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
"We're all damned," she said, “but some of us have taken off our blindfolds and see that there’s nothing to see. It’s a kind of salvation."-Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
5. رباعيات خيام
By: محمدعلی فروغی , Omar Khayyám , None
4.17
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
Philosopher, astronomer and mathematician, Khayyam as a poet possesses a singular originality. His … read more
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- fiction
"فعاشر الناس على ريبة .. منهم ولا تكثر منَ الأصدقاء"-محمدعلی فروغی, رباعيات خيام
"Now the New Year reviving old Desires, The thoughtful Soul to Solitude retires."-محمدعلی فروغی, رباعيات خيام
"Ah, my Belovéd, fill the cup that clears To-day of past Regret and future Fears."-محمدعلی فروغی, رباعيات خيام
"The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop, The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one."-محمدعلی فروغی, رباعيات خيام
6. 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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- fiction
"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
7. Faithful and Virtuous Night
By: Louise Glück
4.11
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2014 National Book Award for Poetry A luminous, seductive new collection from the "fe… read more
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- fiction
8. Bluets
By: Maggie Nelson
4.22
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color... A lyrical, philosophica… read more
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9. No Great Mischief
By: Alistair MacLeod
4.02
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Alistair MacLeod musters all of the skill and grace that have won him an international following to… read more
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- fiction
10. The Crucible
By: Arthur Miller , Christopher Bigsby
3.60
Format: 137 pages, Paperback
"I believe that the reader will discover here the essential nature of one of the strangest and most… read more
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11. A Woman's Story
By: Annie Ernaux
4.23
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
A Woman's Story is Annie Ernaux's "deeply affecting account of mothers and daughters, youth and age… read more
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"Until I was twenty, I thought I was responsible for her growing old."-Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story
"With so much misery around, fighting for social advancement had lost all meaning."-Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story
"I believe I am writing about my mother because it is my turn to bring her into the world."-Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story
"Het beeld van haar wordt langzaam weer dat wat ik mij voorstel te hebben gehad van haar in mijn babytijd, een grote, blanke schaduw boven mij."-Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story
12. Honeybee
By: Craig Silvey
4.40
Format: 421 pages, Paperback
Late in the night, fourteen-year-old Sam Watson steps onto a quiet overpass, climbs over the rail a… read more
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- fiction
- australia
"And I’m not wrong, I’m me. And I don’t want to be invisible anymore. I want people to see who I am"-Craig Silvey, Honeybee
"I wasn't cold, but I was shivering when I walked onto the Clayton Road overpass. I wasn't scared either, even when I climbed over the rail. I didn't feel much of anything."-Craig Silvey, Honeybee
"When we don’t think we’re worth much, we find ways to make our world small. We don’t allow ourselves to hope because we’ve already excepted failure. And this pattern of thinking often determines the …"-Craig Silvey, Honeybee
13. 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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- fiction
"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
14. Olga
By: Bernhard Schlink
3.78
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping novel of love and passion from author of the international bestseller The Reader about a… read more
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- fiction
"History is not the past as it really was. It's the shape we give it."-Bernhard Schlink, Olga
"No quiero desterrarte de mi vida. Siempre tendrás un lugar en mi corazón, un cofrecillo tuyo y de nadie más ante el que de vez en cuando me detendré para pensar en ti. Pero a hora tengo que cerrar el…"-Bernhard Schlink, Olga
15. Three Uneasy Pieces
By: Patrick White
3.49
Format: 59 pages, Hardcover
First edition. Good hard cover, with unclipped dust jacket. General shelf and handling wear; jacket… read more
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- fiction
- short stories
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"Superficially my war was a comfortable exercise in futility carried out in a grand Scottish hotel amongst the bridge players and swillers of easy-come-by whisky. My chest got me out of active service…"-Patrick White, Three Uneasy Pieces
"I would like to believe in the myth that we grow wiser with age. In a sense my disbelief is wisdom. Those of a middle generation, if charitable or sentimental, subscribe to the wisdom myth, while the…"-Patrick White, Three Uneasy Pieces
