Black Orpheus
By: Jean-Paul Sartre
3.59
Format: 65 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Translation of: Orphee noir, originally published 1948 as the preface to Anthologie de la nouvelle …
Want to Read"What then did you expect when you unbound the gag that muted those black mouths? That they would chant your praises? Did you think that when those heads that our fathers had forcibly bowed down to the ground were raised again, you would find adoration in their eyes?"-Jean-Paul Sartre, Black Orpheus
"What then did you expect when you unbound the gag that muted those black mouths? That they would chant your praises? Did you think that when those heads that our fathers had forcibly bowed down to the ground were raised again, you would find adoration in their eyes?"-Jean-Paul Sartre, Black Orpheus
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1. The Book of the Courtier
By: Baldassare Castiglione , Leonard Eckstein Opdycke
3.62
Format: 470 pages, Paperback
Widely acknowledged as the sixteenth century's most significant handbook on leadership, The Book of… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
"Practise in everything a certain nonchalance that shall conceal design and show that what is done and said is done without effort and almost without thought."-Baldassare Castiglione, The Book of the Courtier
"Take care lest perchance you fall into the mistake of thinking to gain more by being merciful than by being just; for to pardon him too easily that has transgressed is to wrong him that transgresses …"-Baldassare Castiglione, The Book of the Courtier
"There be also many wicked men that have the comeliness of a beautiful countenance, and it seemeth that nature hath so shaped them because they may be the readier to deceive, and that this amiable loo…"-Baldassare Castiglione, The Book of the Courtier
"Outward beauty is a true sign of inner goodness. This loveliness, indeed, is impressed upon the body in varying degrees as a token by which the soul can be recognized for what it is, just as with tre…"-Baldassare Castiglione, The Book of the Courtier
2. El caballero de Olmedo
By: Lope de Vega , Francisco Rico
3.47
Format: 222 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Sobre un cantar de gran difusión e intrigante origen que sirve de lugar de encuentro del autor y su… read more
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"Es tan bella que el mismo sol la envidia."-Lope de Vega, El caballero de Olmedo
"Las penas anticipadas dicen que matan dos veces."-Lope de Vega, El caballero de Olmedo
3. The Wretched of the Earth
By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Richard Philcox , Frantz Fanon , Homi K. Bhabha
4.32
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Fr… read more
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- philosophy
- race
- nonfiction
"إن لجوءك إلى لُغة تكنيكيَّة معناه أنّك قرَّرتَ أن تَعُدَّ الجماهير جاهلة"-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much greater business of plunder."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"إن المناضل ليدرك في كثير من الأحيان أن عمله لا أن يقاتل القوى العدوة فحسب، بل كذلك حبات اليأس المتبلورة في جسم المستعمَر."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
4. Hymns to the Night
By: Novalis , Dick Higgins
4.05
Format: 55 pages, Paperback
This bilingual, revised, third edition of Higgins' best-selling translation presents the complete A… read more
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- philosophy
"Ama geceye sadık kalır Gizli yüreğim Ve gecenin kızı olan Yaratıcı sevgiye. Gösterebilir misin bana Sonrasız sadık bir yürek? Senin güneşinin Sevgi dolu gözleri var mı Beni tanıyabilen?"-Novalis, Hymns to the Night
5. In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (In Search of Lost Time, #2)
By: Marcel Proust , Christopher Prendergast , James Grieve
4.35
Format: 26 pages, Paperback
In the Shadow of Young Girls in Floweris Proust's spectacular dissection of male and female adolesc… read more
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6. Leviathan
By: Thomas Hobbes , Crawford Brough Macpherson
3.71
Format: 736 pages, Paperback
'The life of man, solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short' Written during the chaos of the En… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
"Hell is truth seen too late."-Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
"LET THE GAY BEGI- I MEAN GAMES BEGIN!"-Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
"The Conscience is a thousand witnesses."-Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
" Scientia potentia est. Knowledge is power."-Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
7. Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
By: Sophocles , J.E. Thomas , Elizabeth Osborne
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
"...what man wins more happiness than just its shape and the ruin when that shape collapses?" Sopho… read more
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8. Cassandra: A Novel and Four Essays
By: Christa Wolf , Jan van Heurck
3.97
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
In this volume, the distinguished East German writer Christa Wolf retells the story of the fall of … read more
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9. Selected Poems of Ezra Pound
By: Ezra Pound
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
The verse and criticism which he produced during the early years of the twentieth century very larg… read more
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10. The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
By: Robert Fagles , Aeschylus , William Bedell Stanford
4.01
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Alternate covers of this ISBN here, here, here, here. Most recent cover is here. In the Oresteia… read more
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"I cannot not grieve."-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
"Learning comes through pain."-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
"Do I not live? Badly, I know, but I live."-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
"Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know Except pain"-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
11. Das Kapital
By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky
4.22
Format: None pages, Paperback
Das Kapital, Karl Marx's seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth centu… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
12. Trilogia della città di K.
By: Ágota Kristóf , Armando Marchi , Giovanni Bogliolo , Virginia Ripa di Meana
3.35
Format: 520 pages, Paperback
<>. Rosetta Loy Il grande quaderno La prova La terza menzogna read more
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13. 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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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- essays
"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
14. Death in Venice
By: Thomas Mann , Michael Cunningham , Michael Henry Heim
3.74
Format: 142 pages, Paperback
The world-famous masterpiece by Nobel laureate Thomas Mann -- here in a new translation by Michael … read more
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"Nothing gladdens a writer more than a thought that can become pure feeling and a feeling that can become pure thought."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
"Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
"Denn der Mensch liebt und ehrt den Menschen , solange er ihn nicht zu beurteilen vermag, und die Sehnsucht ist ein Erzeunis mangelhafter Erkenntnis."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
"Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
15. Nathan der Weise
By: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing , Peter von Düffel
4.01
Format: 511 pages, Paperback
Gotthold Ephraim Lessings Nathan der Weise (1779 erschienen und 1783 uraufgefuhrt) ist eines der ze… read more
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16. 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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17. The Discourses
By: Niccolò Machiavelli , Bernard Crick , None
3.17
Format: 55 pages, Paperback
Few figures in intellectual history have proved as notorious and ambiguous as Niccolo Machiavelli. … read more
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18. The Epic of Gilgamesh
By: Anonymous , N.K. Sandars
3.74
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
Miraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as much as four thousand years, the poem of Gilg… read more
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"As for man, his days are numbered, whatever he might do, it is but wind."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"Now let the gate of sorrow be closed behind me, and let it be sealed with tar and pitch."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"Gilgamesh was called a god and a man; Enkidu was an animal and a man. It is the story of their becoming human together."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"When all the illusions of personal immortality are stripped away, there is only the act to maintain the freedom to act."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
19. The Invention of Morel
By: Jorge Luis Borges , Suzanne Jill Levine , Adolfo Bioy Casares , Norah Borges de Torre , Ruth L.C. Simms
4.00
Format: 103 pages, Paperback
Jorge Luis Borges declared The Invention of Morel a masterpiece of plotting, comparable to The Turn… read more
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"So I was dead! The thought delighted me."-Jorge Luis Borges, The Invention of Morel
"The sea is endless when you are in a rowboat."-Jorge Luis Borges, The Invention of Morel
"To be sure, nothing created by man is perfect."-Jorge Luis Borges, The Invention of Morel
"...when one is alone it is impossible to be dead."-Jorge Luis Borges, The Invention of Morel
20. Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
By: Marcel Proust , Simon Vance , Lydia Davis
4.15
Format: 710 pages, Mass Market Paperback
«Et tout d'un coup le souvenir m'est apparu. Ce goût, c'était celui du petit morceau de madeleine q… read more
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"Longtemps, je me suis couché de bonne heure."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"the comfort of reclusion, the poetry of hibernation"-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"Now are the woods all black, But still the sky is blue."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"Fall in love with a dog's bum, And thou'll think it pretty as a plum."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
21. The Vocation Lectures: Science as a Vocation/Politics as a Vocation
By: Max Weber , Tracy B. Strong , Rodney Livingstone , None
4.14
Format: None pages, Paperback
Originally published separately, Weber's Science as a Vocation and Politics as a Vocation stand as … read more
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22. La dama boba
By: Lope de Vega , None
3.92
Format: 381 pages, Paperback
La dama bobaha sido una de las piezas dramaticas de Lope de Vega que ha mantenido una estimacion y … read more
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23. Theogony/Works and Days
By: Hesiod , None
4.30
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Hesiod, one of the oldest known Greek poets, stands out as the first personality in European litera… read more
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24. Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
By: Friedrich Engels
4.24
Format: 86 pages, Paperback
Modern socialism is not a doctrine, Engels explains, but a working-class movement growing out of th… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
"State interference in social relations becomes, in one domain after another, superfluous, and then dies out of itself; the government of persons is replaced by the administration of things, and by th…"-Friedrich Engels, Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
"Las fuerzas activas de la sociedad obran, mientras no las conocemos y contamos con ellas, exactamente lo mismo que las fuerzas de la naturaleza: de un modo ciego, violento, destructor. Pero, una vez …"-Friedrich Engels, Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
25. Boquitas pintadas
By: Manuel Puig
3.89
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
El titulo hace referencia a un fox trot, Rubias de New York, que Carlos Gardel cantaba en una pelic… read more
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26. Black Skin, White Masks
By: Frantz Fanon , None
2.56
Format: 201 pages, Paperback
A major influence on international civil rights, anticolonial, and black consciousness movement, Bl… read more
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27. Politics
By: Aristotle
3.67
Format: 542 pages, Paperback
What is the relationship of the individual to the state? What is the ideal state, and how can it br… read more
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28. Moby-Dick or, The Whale
By: Herman Melville , Tom Quirk , Andrew Delbanco
3.55
Format: 720 pages, Paperback
"It is the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships' cables and hawsers. A Polar … read more
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"Call me Ishmael."-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
"Ignorance is the parent of fear"-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
"Ignorance is the parent of fear."-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
"Speak, thou vast and venerable head,"-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
29. Monsieur Teste
By: Paul Valéry
4.18
Format: 578 pages,
The famous opening line of Monsieur Teste -- "Stupidity is not my strong suit" -- is typical of Mon… read more
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30. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017
By: Rashid Khalidi
4.50
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more
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- nonfiction
31. Black Orpheus
By: Jean-Paul Sartre
3.59
Format: 65 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Translation of: Orphee noir, originally published 1948 as the preface to Anthologie de la nouvelle … read more
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- race
- philosophy
- grad school
- nonfiction
- essays
"What then did you expect when you unbound the gag that muted those black mouths? That they would chant your praises? Did you think that when those heads that our fathers had forcibly bowed down to th…"-Jean-Paul Sartre, Black Orpheus
