Arne
By: Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
3.28
Format: 204 pages, Paperback
Arne is a peasant with a strain of poetry in him; he is a dreamer of dreams and a maker of songs, b…
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1. The Voyage Out (The Virginia Woolf Library)
By: Virginia Woolf
3.75
Format: 375 pages, Paperback
Woolf’s first novel is a haunting book, full of light and shadow. It takes Mr. and Mrs. Ambrose and… read more
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- fiction
"I want to write a novel about Silence," he said; “the things people don’t say."-Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out (The Virginia Woolf Library)
"J'ai un faible pour les gens qui ne se décident pas à commencer quelque chose."-Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out (The Virginia Woolf Library)
"I can’t imagine anything nicer than to sit out in the moonlight and listen to music—"-Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out (The Virginia Woolf Library)
"Ce qu'on attend de l'être avec qui l'on vit c'est qu'il vous maintienne au niveau le plus élevé de vous-même."-Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out (The Virginia Woolf Library)
2. The Nibelungenlied
By: Unknown , A.T. Hatto
3.82
Format: 404 pages, Paperback
Written by an unknown author in the twelfth century, this powerful tale of murder and revenge reach… read more
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- classics
- fiction
3. Beyond Sing the Woods
By: Trygve Gulbranssen
4.37
Format: 333 pages, Hardcover
For the 2005 Norwegian edition, see: ISBN13: 9788203189081. The story of three generations of an… read more
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- classics
- scandinavian literature
- fiction
4. Small Gods (Discworld, #13)
By: Terry Pratchett
4.32
Format: 389 pages, Paperback
In the beginning was the Word. And the Word was: "Hey, you!" For Brutha the novice is the Ch… read more
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- fiction
"Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you."-Terry Pratchett, Small Gods (Discworld, #13)
"Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off."-Terry Pratchett, Small Gods (Discworld, #13)
"Thou shalt not submit thy god to market forces."-Terry Pratchett, Small Gods (Discworld, #13)
"There’s no point in believing in things that exist."-Terry Pratchett, Small Gods (Discworld, #13)
5. The Ice Palace
By: Tarjei Vesaas , Elizabeth Rokkan
3.86
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Commonly seen as the legendary Norwegian writer's masterpiece, this story tells the tale of Siss an… read more
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- classics
- scandinavian literature
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"The promise was a strong tie, hard, but I knew where I stood. If it's gone, I don't know where I am. When there's a strong scent in the spring twilight, I know least of all."-Tarjei Vesaas, The Ice Palace
"The darkness at the sides of the road. It possesses neither form nor name, but whoever passes here knows when it comes out and follows after and sends shudders like rippling streams down his back."-Tarjei Vesaas, The Ice Palace
"Lovnad i djupaste snøen frå Siss til Unn: Det lovar eg deg at eg ikkje vil tenke på noko anna enn deg. Tenke på alt eg veit om deg. Tenke på deg heime og på skolen, og på skolevegen. Tenke på deg hei…"-Tarjei Vesaas, The Ice Palace
"Four eyes full of gleams and radiance beneath their lashes, filling the looking-glass. Questions shooting out and then hiding again. I don't know: Gleams and radiance, gleaming from you to me, from m…"-Tarjei Vesaas, The Ice Palace
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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- classics
- 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. Moving Pictures (Discworld, #10; Industrial Revolution, #1)
By: Terry Pratchett
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
'Holy wood is a different sort of place. People act differently here. Everywhere else the most impo… read more
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- fiction
8. Benito Cereno
By: Herman Melville , Wyn Kelley
3.60
Format: 316 pages, Paperback
"What has cast such a shadow upon you?" "The Negro." With its intense mix of mystery, adventure, an… read more
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- 19th century
- classics
- fiction
9. We
By: Yevgeny Zamyatin , Clarence Brown
3.89
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
The exhilarating dystopian novel that inspired George Orwell's 1984 and foreshadowed the worst exce… read more
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- classics
- fiction
"Her smile was a bite, and I was its target."-Yevgeny Zamyatin, We
"There is no final one; revolutions are infinite."-Yevgeny Zamyatin, We
"knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith"-Yevgeny Zamyatin, We
"You're in a bad way! Apparently, you have developed a soul."-Yevgeny Zamyatin, We
10. The Neverending Story
By: Michael Ende , Roswitha Quadflieg , Ralph Manheim
3.33
Format: 170 pages, Hardcover
This epic work of the imagination has captured the hearts of millions of readers worldwide since it… read more
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- classics
- fiction
11. Bartleby the Scrivener
By: Herman Melville
3.93
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Academics hail it as the beginning of modernism, but to readers around the world—even those daunted… read more
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- 19th century
- classics
- fiction
"I would prefer not to."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
"To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
"Bartleby in a singularly mild, firm voice, replied, “I would prefer not to."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
"At present I would prefer not to be a little reasonable,' was his mildly cadaverous reply."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
12. Victoria
By: Knut Hamsun
3.75
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
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- 19th century
- classics
- scandinavian literature
- fiction
"Åh, kjærligheten den er en sommernatt med stjerner på himmelen"-Knut Hamsun, Victoria
"Yes," he answered, "it's a strain being witty at my age. I'm giving it up."-Knut Hamsun, Victoria
"О, любовта превръща човешкото сърце в градина, едновременно разкошна и безсрамна, в която избуяват и цветя, и бурени!"-Knut Hamsun, Victoria
"Love was God's first word, the first thought that sailed across his mind. He said, Let there be light, and there was love."-Knut Hamsun, Victoria
13. The Tale of Genji
By: Royall Tyler , Murasaki Shikibu
3.90
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
See an alternate cover edition . Written in the eleventh century, this portrait of courtly life in… read more
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- classics
- fiction
14. Prelude to Foundation
By: Isaac Asimov
3.69
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Alternate cover edition for ISBN: It is 12,020 G.E. and Emperor Cleon I sits uneasily on the Impe… read more
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- fiction
15. The Wreath (Kristin Lavransdatter, #1)
By: Tiina Nunnally , Sigrid Undset
3.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
Originally published in Norwegian in 1920 and set in fourteenth-century Norway, The Wreath chronicl… read more
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- classics
- scandinavian literature
- fiction
16. The Unknown Masterpiece
By: Arthur C. Danto , Honoré de Balzac , Richard Howard
3.64
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
One of Honore de Balzac's most celebrated tales, "The Unknown Masterpiece" is the story of a painte… read more
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- classics
- fiction
17. In Times of Fading Light
By: Anthea Bell , Eugen Ruge
4.35
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Enthrallingly expansive in its geographical and temporal sweep, this story of a German family tells… read more
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- fiction
18. Vera
By: Elizabeth von Arnim
3.00
Format: 285 pages,
First published in 1921, Verais a darkly comic story about Lucy Entwhistle and Everard Wemyss. Both… read more
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19. Die dunkle Königin (Das Lied von Eis und Feuer, #8)
By: George R.R. Martin , Andreas Helweg
3.22
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Aber wenn sie auch als Eroberin ins vom Burgerkrieg geschwachte Westeros kommt, so konnte sie doch … read more
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20. Theogony
By: Hesiod , None , None
5.00
Format: None pages, paper
This translation contains an introduction, commentary and interpretive essay and well as numerous n… read more
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21. Hunger
By: Knut Hamsun , George Egerton
4.05
Format: 134 pages, Paperback
One of the most important and controversial writers of the 20th century, Knut Hamsun made literary … read more
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- 19th century
- classics
- scandinavian literature
- fiction
"Yoksul aydın, zengin aydından çok daha kuvvetli görür.(s.128)"-Knut Hamsun, Hunger
"It was not my intention to collapse; no, I would die standing."-Knut Hamsun, Hunger
"God be praised, I had raised myself in my own estimation again!"-Knut Hamsun, Hunger
"Truth is neither ojectivity nor the balanced view; truth is a selfless subjectivity."-Knut Hamsun, Hunger
22. The Wind from the Mountains
By: Trygve Gulbranssen , Naomi Walford
4.23
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
For the 1937 English hardback, see . For the 2006 Norwegian hardback, see . read more
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23. The Sense of an Ending
By: Julian Barnes
4.05
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single sitting, with stunning psychological and … read more
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24. The Jungle Book
By: Rudyard Kipling
3.90
Format: 277 pages, Paperback
'There is no harm in a man's cub.' Best known for the 'Mowgli' stories, Rudyard Kipling's The Ju… read more
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- classics
- fiction
"Mark my trail..."-Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book
"Each dog barks in its own yard."-Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book
"Go, and peace go with thee. Only, another time do not meddle with my game."-Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book
"It is better to lie quiet in the mud than to be disturbed on good bedding."-Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book
25. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2)
By: Jules Verne , Anthony Bonner
3.89
Format: 269 pages, Hardcover
When an unidentified “monster” threatens international shipping, French oceanographer Pierre Aronna… read more
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- fiction
"We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones."-Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2)
"Aures habent et non audient` - `They have ears but hear not"-Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2)
"If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning."-Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2)
"Steam seems to have killed all gratitude in the hearts of sailors."-Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2)
26. Keep the Aspidistra Flying
By: George Orwell
4.00
Format: 592 pages, Paperback
London, 1936. Gordon Comstock has declared war on the money god; and Gordon is losing the war. Near… read more
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27. The Republic
By: Plato , Desmond Lee
3.96
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, this classi… read more
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- classics
"Appearance tyrannizes over truth."-Plato, The Republic
"The comprehensive mind is always dialectical."-Plato, The Republic
"Those who don't know must learn from those who do."-Plato, The Republic
"Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance"-Plato, The Republic
28. 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
29. El Gran Galeoto
By: José Echegaray
3.36
Format: 134 pages, Paperback
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was cond… read more
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- fiction
30. Familien på Gilje
By: Jonas Lie
3.08
Format: 187 pages, Hardcover
Familien på Gilje, som utkom i 1883, er Jonas Lies mest berømte roman. Boka har undertittelen «… read more
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31. Arne
By: Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
3.28
Format: 204 pages, Paperback
Arne is a peasant with a strain of poetry in him; he is a dreamer of dreams and a maker of songs, b… read more
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