Twentysix Gasoline Stations
By: Ed Ruscha
3.95
Format: 48 pages, None
1963/1969. Third edition (1969; originally published in 1963 in an edition of 400 numbered copies).…
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By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine , Cynthia Marshall
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A romantic tragedy about the relationship between Mark Antony and the Queen of Egypt, including not… read more
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"Melt Egypt into Nile!"-William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra
"Make death proud to take us."-William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra
"...make death proud to take us."-William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra
"Thou are the armourer of my heart—"-William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra
2. Codex Seraphinianus. Ein Orbis Pictus des Universums der Phantasie.
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4.50
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Questo codice miniato fantastico e misterioso, "l'enciclopedia di un visionario" (nella definizione… read more
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3. The Lover
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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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"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
"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
"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
4. How it Is
By: Samuel Beckett
3.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
Published as Comment c'estin French in 1961, and in Beckett's English in 1964, How It Isdivides int… read more
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5. 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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6. King Lear
By: William Shakespeare , William James Rolfe
3.91
Format: 338 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Shakespeare’s King Lear challenges us with the magnitude, intensity, and sheer duration of the pain… read more
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"Fortune love you."-William Shakespeare, King Lear
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"All dark and comfortless."-William Shakespeare, King Lear
"Nothing can come of nothing."-William Shakespeare, King Lear
7. Correction
By: Thomas Bernhard , Sophie Wilkins
3.34
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Roithamer, a character based on Wittgenstein, has committed suicide having been driven to madness b… read more
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8. Happy Days
By: Samuel Beckett
5.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
In 'Happy Days, ' Beckett pursues his relentless search for the meaning of existence, probing the t… read more
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9. Venus and Adonis
By: William Shakespeare , Christa Jansohn
3.28
Format: 404 pages,
Venus and Adonis is Shakespeare's narrative poem about the love of the goddess Venus for the mortal… read more
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10. The Cantos
By: Ezra Pound
3.14
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
Delmore Schwartz said about The Cantos, "They are one of the touchstones of modern poetry." William… read more
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11. Critique of Pure Reason
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3.96
Format: 785 pages, Paperback
'The purpose of this critique of pure speculative reason consists in the attempt to change the old … read more
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"The great mass of people are worthy of our respect."-Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
"I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith."-Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
"Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.."-Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
"Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind."-Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
12. Proust
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3.88
Format: None pages, Paperback
Samuel Beckett's celebrated early study of Marcel proust, whose theories of time were to play a lar… read more
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13. Tree of Codes
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4.33
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Tree of Codesis a haunting new story by best-selling American writer, Jonathan Safran Foer. With a … read more
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3.97
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Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, Gravity's Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustiv… read more
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15. The Book of Tea
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Now available in a gorgeous hardcover slipcase edition, this "object d'art" will be sure to add gra… read more
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16. Paintings in Proust: A Visual Companion to In Search of Lost Time
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17. The Cipher
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3.54
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Nicholas is a would-be poet and video-store clerk with a weeping hole in his hand - weeping not blo… read more
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18. The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way: Nāgārjuna's Mūlamadhyamakakārikā
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4.60
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The Buddhist saint Nagarjuna, who lived in South India in approximately the second century CE, is u… read more
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19. The Rings of Saturn
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20. The Laugh of the Medusa
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Although Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) created a wide range of poetry, essays, and fairy tales (and one n… read more
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"Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art."-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy
"Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion."-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy
"Look at this! Look carefully! It is your life! It is the hour-hand of your clock of existence!"-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy
"Večita je to pojava: požudna volja uvek nalazi sredstva da iluzijom prostrtom preko stvari zadrži svoje stvorove u životu i da ih prisili da i dalje žive."-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy
23. Cindy Sherman: Untitled Films Stills
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"Como la luna en el budismo, una partícula no existe; el acto de medición la vuelve un objeto real"-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
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"Una de las cosas que siempre me han sorprendido de Chile es la aversión que sentimos por la cordillera. No habitamos las montañas."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Solo una visione di insieme, come quella di un santo, di un pazzo o di un mistico, ci permetterà di decifrare la forma in cui è organizzato l’universo."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
25. Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands
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4.41
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Celebrated cartoonist Kate Beaton vividly presents the untold story of Canada. Before there was … read more
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29. Twentysix Gasoline Stations
By: Ed Ruscha
3.95
Format: 48 pages, None
1963/1969. Third edition (1969; originally published in 1963 in an edition of 400 numbered copies).… read more
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30. The Aeneid
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3.87
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The founding epic of Rome, rendered in a fluid, metrical translation that sings Virgil’s stately ve… read more
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"Death's brother, sleep."-Virgil, The Aeneid
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"Non ignora mali, miseris succurrere disco."-Virgil, The Aeneid
31. Minor White: Rites And Passages
By: James Baker Hall
4.26
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
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