Proofs and Three Parables
By: George Steiner
3.51
Format: 114 pages, Paperback
This collection of short stories includes "Proofs", a literary thriller which explores the conflict…
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1. Heart of a Dog
By: Mikhail Bulgakov , Mirra Ginsburg , Michail Bulgakov
4.10
Format: 123 pages, Paperback
This satirical novel tells the story of the surgical transformation of a dog into a man, and is an … read more
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- fiction
"A dog's spirit dies hard."-Mikhail Bulgakov, Heart of a Dog
"One can find time for everything if one is never in a hurry."-Mikhail Bulgakov, Heart of a Dog
"Why bother to learn to read when you can smell meat a mile away?"-Mikhail Bulgakov, Heart of a Dog
"İki ayağını bir pabuca sokmayan herkes, her şey için zaman bulabilir."-Mikhail Bulgakov, Heart of a Dog
2. Nausea
By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Lloyd Alexander , Hayden Carruth
3.94
Format: 178 pages, Hardcover
Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In… read more
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- philosophy
- fiction
"It was true, I had always realized it—I hadn’t any “right"-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
"Then time started flowing again and the emptiness grew larger."-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
"I see the insipid flesh blossoming and palpitating with abandon."-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
"My existence began to worry me seriously. Was I not a simple spectre?"-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
3. Roadside Picnic
By: Theodore Sturgeon , Arkady Strugatsky , Boris Strugatsky , Antonina W. Bouis , None
4.14
Format: 145 pages, Paperback
Red Schuhart is a stalker, one of those young rebels who are compelled, in spite of extreme danger,… read more
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- fiction
"Keep your head high,"-Theodore Sturgeon, Roadside Picnic
"Los halagos son el bálsamo de los complejos."-Theodore Sturgeon, Roadside Picnic
"You need money so you don’t have to think about money."-Theodore Sturgeon, Roadside Picnic
"Щастие за всички даром и нека никой да не бъде пренебрегнат!"-Theodore Sturgeon, Roadside Picnic
4. El gran número, Fin y principio y otros poemas
By: Wisława Szymborska , María Filipowicz-Rudek
3.70
Format: 168 pages,
Esta traduccion espanola de la poesia de Wislawa Szymborska esta compuesta por dos de sus libros, l… read more
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5. Les Onze
By: Pierre Michon
4.50
Format: 532 pages, Paperback
Les voila, encore une fois : Billaud, Carnot, Prieur, Prieur, Couthon, Robespierre, Collot, Barere,… read more
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- fiction
6. El Leviatán
By: Joseph Roth
3.86
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Esta es la historia de Nissen Piczenik, un comerciante de corales de la pequena ciudad de Progrody.… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
7. Difficult Loves
By: Italo Calvino
3.71
Format: 656 pages, Paperback
Tales of love and loneliness in which the author blends reality and illusion. "The quirkiness and g… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
8. The Aleph and Other Stories
By: Jorge Luis Borges , Andrew Hurley
4.33
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
Full of philosophical puzzles and supernatural surprises, these stories contain some of Borges's mo… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
9. Bilinmeyen Bir Kadının Mektubu
By: Stefan Zweig , Ahmet Cemal
4.11
Format: 68 pages, Hardcover
Stefan Zweig Bilinmeyen Bir Kadının Mektubu (Brief einer Unbekannten) adlı uzun öyküsünü 1920'li yı… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
"იმდენი ვიოცნებე,რომ, თუ შეიძლება ასე ითქვას ოცნება გადავცვითე..."-Stefan Zweig, Bilinmeyen Bir Kadının Mektubu
"... bir tel gibi gergindim ve varlığının ona her dokunuşuyla tınlıyordum."-Stefan Zweig, Bilinmeyen Bir Kadının Mektubu
"...el momento apasionado que se apaga sin dejar rastro en el humo del olvido."-Stefan Zweig, Bilinmeyen Bir Kadının Mektubu
"Je veux te dévoiler toute ma vie, cette vie qui n'a vraiment commencé que le jour où je t'ai connu."-Stefan Zweig, Bilinmeyen Bir Kadının Mektubu
10. Invisible
By: Paul Auster
4.20
Format: 488 pages, Hardcover
"One of America's greatest novelists" dazzlingly reinvents the coming-of-age story in his most pass… read more
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11. The Savage Detectives
By: Roberto Bolaño , Natasha Wimmer
4.48
Format: 334 pages,
New Year's Eve, 1975: Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, founders of the visceral realist movement in p… read more
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12. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
By: Italo Calvino , William Weaver
3.90
Format: 216 pages,
If on a Winter's Night a Traveleris a marvel of ingenuity, an experimental text that looks longingl… read more
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13. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
By: Mark Fisher
4.00
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
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14. Ulysses
By: James Joyce
3.75
Format: 925 pages, Paperback
Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It was first serialized in parts in the A… read more
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"Shite and onions!"-James Joyce, Ulysses
"Let my country die for me."-James Joyce, Ulysses
"Be just before you are generous."-James Joyce, Ulysses
"no more pain. wake no more. nobody owns"-James Joyce, Ulysses
15. Tre piani
By: Eshkol Nevo , Ofra Bannet , Raffaella Scardi
3.91
Format: 631 pages, Paperback
In Israele, nei pressi di Tel Aviv, si erge una tranquilla palazzina borghese di tre piani. Il parc… read more
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16. Soumission
By: Michel Houellebecq
3.65
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
Dans une France assez proche de la nôtre, un homme s’engage dans la carrière universitaire. Peu mot… read more
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"It’s submission,"-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission
"There is no Israel for me."-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission
"Intimacy isn’t something men talk about."-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission
"I was about as political as a bath towel."-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission
17. Bir Kadının Yaşamından Yirmi Dört Saat
By: Stefan Zweig , Mahmure Kahraman
3.90
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Zweig bu novellasında bir kadının yaşamını bütünüyle değiştiren yirmi dört saatlik deneyimini anlat… read more
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- fiction
"La vérité à demi ne vaut rien, il la faut toujours entière."-Stefan Zweig, Bir Kadının Yaşamından Yirmi Dört Saat
"Envejecer no significa otra cosa que no tener miedo al pasado"-Stefan Zweig, Bir Kadının Yaşamından Yirmi Dört Saat
"Değerli olan her zaman için gerçeğin yarısı değil, tamamıdır."-Stefan Zweig, Bir Kadının Yaşamından Yirmi Dört Saat
"Ceux qui tombent entraînent souvent dans leur chute ceux qui se portent à leur secours."-Stefan Zweig, Bir Kadının Yaşamından Yirmi Dört Saat
18. The Terra-Cotta Dog (Inspector Montalbano, #2)
By: Andrea Camilleri , Stephen Sartarelli
3.66
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
The Terra-Cotta Dogopens with a mysterious tete-a-tete with a mafioso, some inexplicably abandoned … read more
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19. Dept. of Speculation
By: Jenny Offill
4.60
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
Dept. of Speculation is a portrait of a marriage. It is also a beguiling rumination on the mysterie… read more
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20. Chess Story
By: Stefan Zweig , Joel Rotenberg , Peter Gay , None , None , None , None , None
3.00
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
Chess Story, also known as The Royal Game, is the Austrian master Stefan Zweig's final achievement,… read more
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21. 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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- fiction
"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
22. Vi avverto che vivo per l'ultima volta. Noi e Anna Achmatova
By: Paolo Nori
3.80
Format: 257 pages, Hardcover
«E noi, che cosa stiamo diventando? E io, cosa sono diventato?» si chiede Paolo Nori. E la risposta… read more
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23. Humus
By: Gaspard Kœnig
3.64
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Deux étudiants en agronomie, angoissés comme toute leur génération par la crise écologique, refusen… read more
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- fiction
"Vous aurez compris que pour ma part, je renonce. J'ai été jusqu'au bout de mon expérience et j'ai constaté que nous étions déjà condamnés. Nous profitons encore un peu, ivres morts, du sursis que nou…"-Gaspard Kœnig, Humus
24. La vita intima
By: Niccolò Ammaniti
3.46
Format: 317 pages, Kindle Edition
Maria Cristina Palma ha una vita all'apparenza perfetta, è bella, ricca, famosa, il mondo gira into… read more
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25. Le Mage du Kremlin
By: Giuliano da Empoli
4.13
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
On l’appelait le « mage du Kremlin ». L’énigmatique Vadim Baranov fut metteur en scène puis product… read more
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26. Le perfezioni
By: Vincenzo Latronico
3.30
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Tutti vorrebbero la vita di Anna e Tom. Un lavoro creativo senza troppi vincoli; un appartamento a … read more
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27. La città dei vivi
By: Nicola Lagioia
4.20
Format: 472 pages, Hardcover
Nel marzo 2016, in un anonimo appartamento della periferia romana, due ragazzi di buona famiglia di… read more
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"Ci sono le città dei vivi, popolate da morti. E poi ci sono le città dei morti, le uniche dove la vita abbia ancora un senso."-Nicola Lagioia, La città dei vivi
"Distruggere il più debole. Oppure indebolire il più forte per poi distruggerlo. L'aggressione come garanzia per la sopravvivenza. Colpire per sottrarsi alla paura di essere colpiti. Sentirsi impotent…"-Nicola Lagioia, La città dei vivi
"«A questo punto mi pare evidente che il problema siamo noi, – fece uno degli scrittori, – intendo noi romani, la classe dirigente è lo specchio del nostro marciume, tutto è marcio, anche i turisti. I…"-Nicola Lagioia, La città dei vivi
28. Intimacies
By: Katie Kitamura
3.65
Format: 225 pages, Hardcover
A novel from the author of A Separation, a taut and electrifying story about a woman caught between… read more
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- fiction
"I thought—I want to go home. I want to be in a place that feels like home. Where that was, I did not know."-Katie Kitamura, Intimacies
"I had lived with my slow-moving grief for so long that I had ceased to notice it, or recognize how it blunted my feeling."-Katie Kitamura, Intimacies
"This was done for obvious reasons, there were great chasms beneath words, between two or sometimes more languages, that could open up without warning."-Katie Kitamura, Intimacies
"I realized, belatedly, that she had likely applied the makeup for Adriaan’s sake; certainly she had not done so for mine. I wondered then what it was like to be a man, so often surrounded by such del…"-Katie Kitamura, Intimacies
29. Having and Being Had
By: Eula Biss
3.83
Format: 324 pages, Hardcover
"My adult life can be divided into two distinct parts," Eula Biss writes, "the time before I owned … read more
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- philosophy
- short stories
"Art unmakes the world made by work."-Eula Biss, Having and Being Had
"Not having money is time consuming. There are hours spent at laundromats, hours at bus stops, hours at free clinics, hours at thrift stores, hours on the phone with the bank or the credit card compan…"-Eula Biss, Having and Being Had
"Why is water so often a metaphor for money? Perhaps because we like to believe that our economic system is naturally occurring, not man-made. Maybe the movement of money feels inevitable if you imagi…"-Eula Biss, Having and Being Had
"Some people choose their precarity - evidence that precarity is not just a condition of our time, but a response to it. The precariat includes people who have forgone stable employment and retirement…"-Eula Biss, Having and Being Had
30. Proofs and Three Parables
By: George Steiner
3.51
Format: 114 pages, Paperback
This collection of short stories includes "Proofs", a literary thriller which explores the conflict… read more
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