De Profundis and Other Writings
By: Oscar Wilde , Hesketh Pearson
4.37
Format: None pages,
This collection contains, too, many examples of that humorous and epigrammatic genius which capture…
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1. Our Lady of the Flowers
By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Jean Genet , Bernard Frechtman
4.01
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Jean Genet's seminal Our Lady Of The Flowers (1943) is generally considered to be his finest fictio… read more
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"En prison on ferme plus de portes qu'on n'en ouvre."-Jean-Paul Sartre, Our Lady of the Flowers
"Slowly but surly I want to strip her of every kind of happiness as to make a saint of her."-Jean-Paul Sartre, Our Lady of the Flowers
"Dzięki temu,że powiedział mi,iż nie żyję,pogodziłem się z faktem,że ludzie wyrzucili mnie ze swoich myśli"-Jean-Paul Sartre, Our Lady of the Flowers
"on him, under him, with his mouth pressed to hers, he sang to her uncouth songs that moved through her body."-Jean-Paul Sartre, Our Lady of the Flowers
2. The Emperor's New Clothes
By: Hans Christian Andersen , Virginia Lee Burton
3.98
Format: 48 pages, Hardcover
This is the imaginative tale of a vain Emperor who is hilariously deceived due to his own vanity an… read more
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3. Reform or Revolution
By: Rosa Luxemburg , Κώστας Βρετός
4.20
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Why capitalism cannot overcome its internal contradictions and the working class cannot "reform" aw… read more
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- nonfiction
"If the proletariat came to power, it could draw from Bernstein's theory the following 'practical' conclusion: to go to sleep."-Rosa Luxemburg, Reform or Revolution
"What distinguishes bourgeoisie society from other class societies…? Precisely the fact that class domination does not rest on “acquired rights"-Rosa Luxemburg, Reform or Revolution
"Fourier's scheme of changing, by means of phalansteries, the water of all the seas into tasty lemonade was surely a phantastic idea. But Bernstein, proposing to change the sea of capitalist bitternes…"-Rosa Luxemburg, Reform or Revolution
"Social Democracy, does not, however, expect to attain its aim either as a result of the victorious violence of a minority or through the numerical superiority of a majority. It sees socialism come as…"-Rosa Luxemburg, Reform or Revolution
4. A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4)
By: Anaïs Nin
3.71
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
Although Anais Nin found in her diaries a profound mode of self-creation and confession, she could … read more
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"Innocence was gone from all our acts. Our habitual state of rebellion became a serious political crime."-Anaïs Nin, A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4)
"We are more severe judges of our own acts... We judge our thoughts, our intents, our secret curses, our secret hates, not only our acts."-Anaïs Nin, A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4)
"At first she beckoned and lured one into her world; then, she blurred the passageways, confused all the images, as if to elude detection."-Anaïs Nin, A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4)
"Later he´ll be drunk in extremis and will only be able to speak the esperanto of alcoholics, which is a language full of stutterings from the geological layers of our animal ancestors"-Anaïs Nin, A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4)
5. Book of Longing
By: Leonard Cohen
4.00
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Leonard Cohen is one of the great writers, performers, and most consistently daring artists of our … read more
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- poetry
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"I am this thing that needs to sing."-Leonard Cohen, Book of Longing
"need to see I never saw your need for me your longing raw"-Leonard Cohen, Book of Longing
"How bitter were the Prozac pills of the last few hundred mornings"-Leonard Cohen, Book of Longing
"My animal howls My angel's upset But I'm not allowed A trace of regret"-Leonard Cohen, Book of Longing
6. Confessions of an English Opium Eater
By: Thomas de Quincey , Barry Milligan
4.00
Format: 50 pages, Paperback
A masterpiece of autobiography, and perhaps the first literary memoir of an addict, the Penguin Cla… read more
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- biography
7. Maurice
By: E.M. Forster
3.65
Format: None pages, Paperback
Set in the elegant Edwardian world of Cambridge undergraduate life, this story by a master novelist… read more
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8. The Well of Loneliness
By: Radclyffe Hall
4.35
Format: None pages, Paperback
First published in 1928, this timeless portrayal of lesbian love is now a classic. The thinly disgu… read more
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9. The Last Man
By: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
4.02
Format: None pages, Paperback
A futuristic story of tragic love and of the gradual extermination of the human race by plague, The… read more
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10. De Profundis and Other Writings
By: Oscar Wilde , Hesketh Pearson
4.37
Format: None pages,
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11. The Second Sex
By: Simone de Beauvoir , Deirdre Bair , H.M. Parshley
3.60
Format: 253 pages, Paperback
Newly translated and unabridged in English for the first time, Simone de Beauvoir's masterwork is a… read more
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12. Thoughts
By: Edoardo Albinati , Giacomo Leopardi , None
3.99
Format: None pages, Paperback
Still unfinished at the time of his death, Thoughts,now in its first English translation, represent… read more
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13. Chéri
By: Colette Gauthier-Villars
4.36
Format: 512 pages,
Lea de Lonval is an aging courtesan, a once famous beauty facing the end of her sexual career. She … read more
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14. A Simple Heart
By: Gustave Flaubert , Arthur McDowall
4.14
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
A Simple Heart, also published as A Simple Soul. In A Simple Heart, the poignant story that inspire… read more
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15. Poor Folk and Other Stories
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , David McDuff
3.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
Poor Folk was Dostoyevsky's first great triumph in fiction and the work that looks forward to the d… read more
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16. Against Interpretation and Other Essays
By: Susan Sontag
3.28
Format: 5 pages, Paperback
First published in 1966, this celebrated book--Sontag's first collection of essays--quickly became … read more
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17. Delta of Venus
By: Anaïs Nin
4.14
Format: None pages,
In Delta of VenusAnais Nin penned a lush, magical world where the characters of her imagination pos… read more
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18. Shooting an Elephant
By: George Orwell
4.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Shooting an Elephant" is Orwell's searing and painfully honest account of his experience as a poli… read more
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19. An Oresteia
By: Euripides , Sophocles , Aeschylus , Anne Carson
3.68
Format: 113 pages, Hardcover
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20. Twilight of the Idols/The Anti-Christ
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner
3.33
Format: 75 pages, Paperback
In 1888, the last sane year of his life Nietsche produced these two brief but devastating books. Tw… read more
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21. La società senza dolore: Perché abbiamo bandito la sofferenza dalle nostre vite
By: Byung-Chul Han
3.90
Format: 96 pages, ebook
Il mondo contemporaneo è terrorizzato dalla sofferenza. La paura del dolore è così pervasiva e diff… read more
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