Amiel's Journal
By: Henri-Frédéric Amiel
4.25
Format: 500 pages, Paperback
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge …
Want to Read"Let us do better."-Henri-Frédéric Amiel, Amiel's Journal
"Let us do better."-Henri-Frédéric Amiel, Amiel's Journal
"Let us do better."-Henri-Frédéric Amiel, Amiel's Journal
"Whoever becomes a sheep is eaten by wolves."-Henri-Frédéric Amiel, Amiel's Journal
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1. Among Others
By: Jo Walton
3.71
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Startling, unusual, and yet irresistably readable, Among Others is at once the compelling story of … read more
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"I like her. She's restful."-Jo Walton, Among Others
"I wish magic was more dramatic"-Jo Walton, Among Others
"Trees are what paper was, and wants to be."-Jo Walton, Among Others
"I'll take Heinlein over a headmistress any day."-Jo Walton, Among Others
2. The Master
By: Colm Tóibín
3.84
Format: 339 pages, Paperback
“Colm Tóibín’s beautiful, subtle illumination of Henry James’s inner life” (The New York Times) cap… read more
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"It is terrible to be an unprotected being."-Colm Tóibín, The Master
"For the first time in years, he felt the deep sadness of exile, knowing that he was alone here, an outsider, and too alert to the ironies, the niceties, the manners, and indeed, the morals to be able…"-Colm Tóibín, The Master
"His consolation was that at least he had known her as the world had not, and the pain of living without her was no more than a penalty he paid for the privilege of having been young with her. What on…"-Colm Tóibín, The Master
"He had grown fat on solitude, he thought, and had learned to expect nothing from the day but at best a dull contentment. Sometimes the dullness came to the fore with a strange and insistent ache whic…"-Colm Tóibín, The Master
3. The Book of Disquiet
By: Fernando Pessoa , Richard Zenith
4.41
Format: 544 pages, Paperback
Fernando Pessoa was many writers in one. He attributed his prolific writings to a wide range of alt… read more
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- philosophy
"My past is everything I failed to be."-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
"Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life."-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
"Ah, it's my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me!"-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
"There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful."-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
4. Madame Bovary
By: Gustave Flaubert , Margaret Mauldon , Malcolm Bowie , Mark Overstall
3.70
Format: 329 pages, Paperback
Madame Bovary is the debut novel of French writer Gustave Flaubert, published in 1856. The characte… read more
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- 19th century
- france
"Every notary carries about inside him the debris of a poet."-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
"Speech is a rolling-mill that always thins out the sentiment."-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
"How oft the warmth of the sun above Makes a pretty young girl dream of love."-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
"For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat."-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
5. Diary of a Madman and Other Stories
By: Nikolai Gogol
4.35
Format: 26 pages, Paperback
Hailed by Nabokov as "the greatest artist that Russia has yet produced," Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852) … read more
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- 19th century
6. Letters to a Young Poet
By: Rainer Maria Rilke , Franz Xaver Kappus , Reginald Snell
4.29
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
In 1903, a student at a military academy sent some of his verses to a well-known Austrian poet, req… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"Everything is gestation and then birthing."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
"Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. ...live in the question."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
"A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
"Perhaps all dragons in our lives are really princesses just waiting to see us just once being beautiful and courageous."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
7. The Sea, the Sea
By: Iris Murdoch , Mary Kinzie
3.66
Format: 341 pages, Paperback
Charles Arrowby, leading light of England's theatrical set, retires from glittering London to an is… read more
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8. Gertrude
By: Hermann Hesse , Hilda Rosner
3.00
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
With Gertrude, Herman Hesse continues his lifelong exploration of the irreconcilable elements of hu… read more
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- philosophy
9. De Profundis
By: Oscar Wilde , Richard Ellmann
4.03
Format: 246 pages,
De Profundis (Latin: "from the depths") is a 50,000 word letter written by Oscar Wilde during his i… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
10. A Moveable Feast
By: Ernest Hemingway
5.00
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
Begun in the autumn of 1957 and published posthumously in 1964, Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast… read more
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- nonfiction
- france
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11. 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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12. Childhood, Boyhood, Youth
By: Leo Tolstoy , Rosemary Edmonds
5.00
Format: 398 pages, Paperback
Leo Tolstoy began his trilogy, Childhood, Boyhood, Youth, in his early twenties. Although he would … read more
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- 19th century
13. The Talented Mr. Ripley (Ripley, #1)
By: Patricia Highsmith
4.20
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Since his debut in 1955, Tom Ripley has evolved into the ultimate bad boy sociopath, influencing co… read more
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14. The Prophet
By: Kahlil Gibran
4.01
Format: 511 pages, Paperback
Kahlil Gibran's masterpiece, The Prophet, is one of the most beloved classics of our time. Publishe… read more
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15. Space And Place: The Perspective of Experience
By: Yi-Fu Tuan , None
4.36
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A study of the ways in which people feel and think about space, how they form attachments to home, … read more
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16. The Revolt of the Masses
By: José Ortega y Gasset
4.00
Format: 199 pages, Paperback
Social upheaval in early 20th-century Europe is the historical setting for this seminal study by th… read more
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17. Ciuleandra
By: Liviu Rebreanu
4.00
Format: 142 pages, Paperback
Desi a fost in general bine primit imediat dupa aparitie de critica de intampinare in exercitiu (au… read more
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18. The Essential Rumi
By: Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi , Coleman Barks
4.10
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
This revised and expanded edition of The Essential Rumiincludes a new introduction by Coleman Barks… read more
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- nonfiction
19. Narcissus and Goldmund
By: Hermann Hesse , Ursule Molinaro
4.05
Format: 336 pages,
Narcissus and Goldmundtells the story of two medieval men whose characters are diametrically opposi… read more
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20. The Glass Bead Game
By: Theodore Ziolkowski , Hermann Hesse , Richard Winston , Clara Winston
4.75
Format: None pages, Paperback
The final novel of Hermann Hesse, for which he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946, 'The Gla… read more
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21. The Word for World is Forest
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.36
Format: 189 pages, ebook
Centuries in the future, Terrans have established a logging colony & military base named "New Tahit… read more
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22. The Setting Sun
By: Osamu Dazai , Donald Keene
4.36
Format: 303 pages, Paperback
The post-war period in Japan was one of immense social change as Japanese society adjusted to the s… read more
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23. The Journal of Jules Renard
By: Jules Renard
4.19
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Spanning from 1887 to a month before his death in 1910, The Journal of Jules Renard is a unique aut… read more
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24. Washington Square
By: Henry James , Michael Cunningham
3.89
Format: 440 pages, Paperback
The plot of Washington Squarehas the simplicity of old-fashioned melodrama: a plain-looking, good-h… read more
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25. Death Comes for the Archbishop
By: Willa Cather
3.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
There is something epic--and almost mythic--about this sparsely beautiful novel by Willa Cather, al… read more
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26. Charles Dickens
By: Claire Tomalin
4.00
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
The tumultuous life of England's greatest novelist, beautifully rendered by unparalleled literary b… read more
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27. Pensées
By: Blaise Pascal , A.J. Krailsheimer
3.95
Format: 334 pages, Paperback
Blaise Pascal, the precociously brilliant contemporary of Descartes, was a gifted mathematician and… read more
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- france
- nonfiction
"Lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity."-Blaise Pascal, Pensées
"Le cœur a ses raisons que la raison ne connaît point."-Blaise Pascal, Pensées
"Le coeur a ses raisons que le raison ne connaît point."-Blaise Pascal, Pensées
"Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical."-Blaise Pascal, Pensées
28. The Lottery and Other Stories
By: Shirley Jackson
4.32
Format: 480 pages,
The Lottery, one of the most terrifying stories written in this century, created a sensation when i… read more
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29. Speak, Memory
By: Vladimir Nabokov
4.00
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
'Speak, memory' said Vladimir Nabokov. And immediately there came flooding back to him a host of en… read more
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30. Time Shelter
By: Georgi Gospodinov
3.75
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning Bulgarian author Georgi Gospodinov has enthralled readers around the world with his l… read more
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"Има ли миналото срок на годност?"-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter
"Time feeds on us. We are food for time."-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter
"Ако не сме в нечия памет, има ли ни изобщо?"-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter
"There is no time machine except the human being."-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter
31. Amiel's Journal
By: Henri-Frédéric Amiel
4.25
Format: 500 pages, Paperback
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge … read more
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- 19th century
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- france
"Let us do better."-Henri-Frédéric Amiel, Amiel's Journal
"Whoever becomes a sheep is eaten by wolves."-Henri-Frédéric Amiel, Amiel's Journal
"A dog's life! and not so much as a cat to help me..."-Henri-Frédéric Amiel, Amiel's Journal
"Whoever is unwilling to make mistakes should not act."-Henri-Frédéric Amiel, Amiel's Journal
