Friedrich Hölderlin's Life, Poetry and Madness
By: Wilhelm Waiblinger
3.97
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
After a childhood marked by loss and grief, Hölderlin studied theology in the illustrious company o…
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1. The Emigrants
By: Michael Hulse , W.G. Sebald
4.17
Format: 237 pages, Paperback
At first The Emigrants appears simply to document the lives of four Jewish émigrés in the twentieth… read more
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"It is hard, said Mme Landau, when I told her about those railway lessons, in the end it is hard to know what it is that someone dies of. Yes, it is very hard, said Mme Landau, one really doesn't know."-Michael Hulse, The Emigrants
"The tiny features below, taken together with the gentle mass of Montblanc towering above them, the Vanoise glacier almost invisible in the shimmering distance, and the Alpine panorama that occupied h…"-Michael Hulse, The Emigrants
2. Dora Bruder
By: Patrick Modiano , None
3.57
Format: 123 pages, Hardcover
Patrick Modiano opens Dora Bruder by telling how in 1988 he stumbled across an ad in the personal c… read more
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"But I am a patient man. I can wait for hours in the rain."-Patrick Modiano, Dora Bruder
"Existen casualidades, encuentros y coincidencias que se ignorarán siempre…"-Patrick Modiano, Dora Bruder
"El éxtasis no dura mucho, sin embargo. No tiene porvenir. Pronto nuestro impulso es frenado en seco."-Patrick Modiano, Dora Bruder
"That is her secret. A poor and precious secret that not even the executioners, the decrees, the occupying authorities, the Depot, the barracks, the camps, History, time-everything that defiles and de…"-Patrick Modiano, Dora Bruder
3. Ariel
By: Sylvia Plath
4.19
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Sylvia Plath's celebrated collection. When Sylvia Plath died, she not only left behind a prolifi… read more
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- poetry
- classics
"I do not fear it: I have been there."-Sylvia Plath, Ariel
"For the eyeing of my scars, there is a charge"-Sylvia Plath, Ariel
"I could not run without having to run forever"-Sylvia Plath, Ariel
"Stasis in darkness. Then the substanceless blue"-Sylvia Plath, Ariel
4. Les Fleurs du Mal
By: Charles Baudelaire , Richard Howard
4.20
Format: 365 pages, Paperback
Charles Baudelaire's 1857 masterwork was scandalous in its day for its portrayals of sex, same-sex … read more
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- poetry
- classics
"L'orage rajeunit les fleurs"-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
"I am the vampire at my own veins."-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
"Beauty, you walk on corpses, mocking them;"-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
"My heart is lost; the beasts have eaten it."-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
5. 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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- poetry
- classics
- nonfiction
"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
6. Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman
By: Stefan Zweig , Cedar Paul , M. Eden Paul
4.38
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
Life at the court of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette has long captivated readers, drawn by accounts … read more
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- classics
- nonfiction
"Noținea de „revoluție"-Stefan Zweig, Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman
"Erst im Unglück weiß man wahrhaft, wer man ist."-Stefan Zweig, Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman
"по наследство се предава единствено кралската корона, но не и свързаните с нея могъщество и величие."-Stefan Zweig, Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman
"O femeie este cu atît mai nobilă și mai cinstită cu cît urmează, liberă, sentimentul ei sincer, îndelung încercat – și o regină este cu atît mai regală, cu cît se poartă cît mai omenește."-Stefan Zweig, Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman
7. The Walk
By: Robert Walser , Susan Bernofsky
4.20
Format: None pages, Paperback
Walser's alternate, preferred version of his most famous tale. A pseudo-biographical "stroll" throu… read more
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- classics
8. Nutcracker
By: E.T.A. Hoffmann , Ralph Manheim , Maurice Sendak
3.93
Format: 245 pages, Hardcover
The tale of Nutcracker, written by E.T.A. Hoffmann in 1816, has fascinated and inspired artists, co… read more
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- classics
9. The Woman Destroyed
By: Simone de Beauvoir , Patrick O'Brian
3.75
Format: None pages,
Una crisi coniugale o familiare costringe tre donne a mettere in discussione la propria vita e il p… read more
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- classics
10. The Man Who Planted Trees
By: Jean Giono
3.85
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
Simply written, but powerful and unforgettable, The Man Who Planted Trees is a parable for modern t… read more
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- classics
11. The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and Effectiveness
By: Epictetus , Sharon Lebell
3.37
Format: None pages,
Epictetus was born into slavery about 55 C.E. in the eastern outreaches of the Roman Empire. Sold a… read more
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- nonfiction
12. Solenoid
By: Mircea Cărtărescu
3.59
Format: 83 pages, Paperback
,,Vreau sa scriu o dare de seama despre anomaliile mele. In viata mea obscura, in afara oricarei is… read more
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13. The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
By: Olivia Laing
4.22
Format: 206 pages, Hardcover
An expertly crafted work of reportage, memoir and biography on the subject of loneliness told throu… read more
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14. The Life of a Stupid Man
By: Jay Rubin , Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
3.85
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
'What is the life of a human being - a drop of dew, a flash of lightning? This is so sad, so sad.' … read more
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15. Lyrical Ballads
By: William Wordsworth , Samuel Taylor Coleridge , None
4.08
Format: None pages, Paperback
The majority of the following poems are to be considered as experiments. They were written chiefly … read more
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16. The Sound and the Fury
By: William Faulkner
3.86
Format: 366 pages, Paperback
The tragedy of the Compson family features some of the most memorable characters in literature: bea… read more
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- classics
"I say money has no value; it's just the way you spend it."-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
"with that sort of gigantic delicacy of an elephant picking up a peanut."-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
"Caddy put her arms around me, and her shining veil, and I couldn't smell trees anymore and I began to cry."-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
"A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune"-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
17. HHhH
By: Laurent Binet
4.58
Format: 226 pages, Paperback
Deux parachutistes tchecoslovaques envoyes par Londres sont charges d'assassiner Reinhard Heydrich,… read more
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18. Woyzeck
By: Georg Büchner
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
Kaum ein bedeutendes Werk der deutschen Literatur ist in seiner Textfassung so problematisch wie Bu… read more
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19. Songs of Innocence and of Experience
By: William Blake
4.09
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
Songs of Innocence and of Experience is an collection of poems by William Blake. Note: For a com… read more
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- poetry
- classics
"Cruelty has a human heart, And Jealousy a human face;"-William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience
"Then cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door."-William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience
"And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires."-William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience
"Can I see anothers woe, And not be in sorrow too. Can I see anothers grief, And not seek for kind relief. - On Anothers Sorrow "-William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience
20. La casa de las bellas durmientes
By: Yasunari Kawabata , None
4.07
Format: 253 pages, Paperback
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21. La Bête humaine
By: Émile Zola , Henri Mitterand
3.03
Format: 234 pages, Mass Market Paperback
<< L'essentiel de La Bete humaine, c'est l'instinct de mort dans le personnage principal, la felure… read more
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22. German Autumn
By: Stig Dagerman
4.13
Format: None pages, Paperback
In late 1946, Stig Dagerman was assigned by the Swedish newspaper Expressen to report on life in Ge… read more
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23. Sweet Days of Discipline
By: Tim Parks , Fleur Jaeggy
4.50
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Set in postwar Switzerland, Fleur Jaeggy's eerily beautiful novel begins simply and innocently enou… read more
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24. Poems and Fragments
By: Sappho , Stanley Lombardo , Pamela Gordon
3.98
Format: None pages, Paperback
Little remains today of the writings of the archaic Greek poet Sappho (fl. late 7th and early 6th c… read more
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25. Novecento. Un monologo
By: Alessandro Baricco
3.37
Format: 204 pages, Paperback
Il Virginianera un piroscafo. Negli anni tra le due guerre faceva la spola tra Europa e America, co… read more
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26. Baumgartner
By: Paul Auster
3.78
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A taut yet expansive novel of love, memory, and grief from Paul Auster, best-selling, award-winning… read more
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"Vivir es sentir dolor, y vivir con miedo al dolor es negarse a vivir"-Paul Auster, Baumgartner
"To live is to feel pain, he told himself, and to live in fear of pain is to refuse to live."-Paul Auster, Baumgartner
"at some point in the coming years, the two books should be combined and reconfigured into a large, one-volume collected poems—a monument of singing pages that will overwhelm the silence of Anna’s gra…"-Paul Auster, Baumgartner
"the story turns out to be so astounding and so powerful that your jaw drops open and you feel that it has changed or enhanced or deepened your understanding of the world, does it matter if the story …"-Paul Auster, Baumgartner
27. Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
By: Olga Tokarczuk
3.95
Format: 12 pages, Audible Audio
In a remote Polish village, Janina devotes the dark winter days to studying astrology, translating … read more
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"To wielka tajemnica, że każde wyzwanie uruchamia w nas prawdziwie żywotne siły"-Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
"A man's free to do what he wants with his life, until he falls foul of the banks."-Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
"There are some things we may not understand, but we can sense them perfectly well."-Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
"The best conversations are with yourself. At least there's no risk of a misunderstanding."-Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
28. La plus secrète mémoire des hommes
By: Mohamed Mbougar Sarr
4.18
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
Un magistral roman d'apprentissage, une saisissante enquête sur les traces d'un mystérieux auteur m… read more
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"Nunca intentes decir de qué habla un gran libro. O si lo haces, la única respuesta posible es: de nada."-Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, La plus secrète mémoire des hommes
"He alcanzado el estado terminal de la inmigración: simplemente ya no creo en la posibilidad del regreso."-Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, La plus secrète mémoire des hommes
"Estuvo tanto tiempo en el exilio - medio siglo! - que nos decíamos que debía de haberse dejado una parte de sí mismo por el camino"-Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, La plus secrète mémoire des hommes
"Nos apetece hablar de todo, menos del exilio. De todas formas, no hay nada que decir sobre el exilio. No conozco un tema más molesto en este mundo."-Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, La plus secrète mémoire des hommes
29. L'Ordre du jour
By: Éric Vuillard
3.90
Format: 138 pages, Kindle Edition
L’Allemagne nazie a sa légende. On y voit une armée rapide, moderne, dont le triomphe parait inexor… read more
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- nonfiction
"The sun is a cold star."-Éric Vuillard, L'Ordre du jour
"Political maneuvering tramples facts."-Éric Vuillard, L'Ordre du jour
"Si l'on soulève les haillons hideux de l'Histoire, on trouve cela: la hiérarchie contre légalité et l'ordre contre la liberté. (p127)"-Éric Vuillard, L'Ordre du jour
"They might not give in to the demands of justice, they might not yield to an insurgent populace, but they'll always fold before a bluff."-Éric Vuillard, L'Ordre du jour
30. Friedrich Hölderlin's Life, Poetry and Madness
By: Wilhelm Waiblinger
3.97
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
After a childhood marked by loss and grief, Hölderlin studied theology in the illustrious company o… read more
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