At the Edge of the Night (Hesperus Classics)
By: Friedo Lampe
3.93
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
This poignant novel, beautifully translated by Simon Beattie, was, in Lampe’s words, "born into a r…
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1. Wise Blood
By: Flannery O'Connor
3.83
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
(This is an alternate-cover edition for ISBN 9780374530631) The American short story master Flan… read more
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- classics
- fiction
"Jesus died to redeem you,"-Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood
"It's easier to bleed than sweat, Mr. Motes."-Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood
"In yourself right now is all the place you've got."-Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood
"If you want to get anywhere in religion, you got to keep it sweet."-Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood
2. In Praise of Shadows
By: Edward G. Seidensticker , Jun'ichirō Tanizaki , Thomas J. Harper , Charles Moore , None
4.75
Format: 335 pages, Paperback
An essay on aesthetics by the Japanese novelist, this book explores architecture, jade, food, and e… read more
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3. The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
By: Luis Sepúlveda
4.04
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
In a remote river town deep in the Ecuadoran jungle, Antonio Jose Bolivar seeks refuge in amorous n… read more
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- classics
- fiction
4. Mirall trencat
By: Mercè Rodoreda
4.20
Format: 288 pages,
Mirall trencat, publicada l'any 1974, es una novel*la de maduresa de Merce Rodoreda que recull la v… read more
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- classics
- fiction
- historical fiction
5. Satantango
By: George Szirtes , László Krasznahorkai
4.14
Format: 274 pages, Hardcover
Already famous as the inspiration for the filmmaker Béla Tarr’s six-hour masterpiece, Satantango is… read more
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- fiction
- classics
- 20th century
"They’re waiting patiently, like the long-suffering lot they are, in the firm conviction that someone has conned them. They are waiting, belly to the ground, like cats at pig-killing time, hoping for …"-George Szirtes, Satantango
"Irimiás: God is not made manifest in language, you dope. He's not manifest in anything. He doesn't exist... God was a mistake. I've long understood there is zero difference between me and a bug, or a…"-George Szirtes, Satantango
6. The Vampire of Ropraz
By: Jacques Chessex , None , Donald Wilson
3.76
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Silky prose in this harrowing account of crime and punishment."--Kirkus Reviews "Using spare, effe… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
7. Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno
By: Italo Calvino
3.71
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Pubblicato nel 1947, Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno e il romanzo d'esordio di Italo Calvino. Protago… read more
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- classics
- fiction
- historical fiction
8. The Counterfeiters
By: André Gide
3.54
Format: None pages, Paperback
Originally published in 1925, this book became known for the frank sexuality of its contents and it… read more
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- classics
- 20th century
- fiction
9. Il visconte dimezzato
By: Italo Calvino
3.82
Format: 143 pages, Paperback
[Trovi un'edizione con copertina alternativa per questo ISBN qui] Il narratore rievoca la storia… read more
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- fiction
- classics
- magical realism
- 20th century
"نظراً لقلة معرفتهم بكل ما هو خطيئة ,كانوا يضاعفون في الممنوعات حتى لا يخطئوا."-Italo Calvino, Il visconte dimezzato
"Gridò, se si può dir che gridi chi parla senza emetter quasi suono ma con tutta la sua forza."-Italo Calvino, Il visconte dimezzato
"جوانی... سنی که احساس ها هنوز حالتی مبهم دارند و خیر و شر هنوز مشخص نیست، سنی که عشق به زندگی به هر تجربه جدید، حتی غیر انسانی و مرگبار، حدت و جوش و خروش خاصی می بخشد."-Italo Calvino, Il visconte dimezzato
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- fiction
11. Cymbeline
By: William Shakespeare , Harold Bloom , Gabriele Baldini
3.50
Format: 142 pages, Paperback
Cymbeline also known as Cymbeline, King of Britain or The Tragedy of Cymbeline, is a play by Willia… read more
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- classics
- fiction
12. Life and Fate
By: Vasily Grossman , Robert Chandler
4.09
Format: 156 pages,
Life and Fate is an epic tale of a country told through the fate of a single family, the Shaposhnik… read more
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13. Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction
By: J.D. Salinger
4.10
Format: 9 pages, Paperback
The author writes: The two long pieces in this book originally came out in The New Yorker ? RAISE H… read more
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14. All's Well That Ends Well
By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine
3.99
Format: 273 pages,
In the acclaimed BBC Radio Shakespeare series, each play is introduced by Richard Eyre, former Dire… read more
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15. Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
By: Philip K. Dick
3.98
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Jason Tavener woke up one morning to find himself completely unknown. The night before he had been … read more
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16. War with the Newts
By: Karel Čapek , Ewald Osers
4.17
Format: 241 pages, Paperback
Man discovers a species of giant, intelligent newts and learns to exploit them so successfully that… read more
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- fiction
- classics
- 20th century
"V holandských koloniích žádní čerti nejsou; jsou-li nějací, tedy ve francouzských. kapitán J. van Toch"-Karel Čapek, War with the Newts
"Without a sense of art, it is impossible ever to think of something new. We need to be poets if we are to keep the world moving."-Karel Čapek, War with the Newts
"His life was now the life of a collector, and that gave it meaning. Evening after evening he would count and arrange his cuttings under the indulgent eyes of Mrs. Povondra who knew that every man is …"-Karel Čapek, War with the Newts
"They all had a thousand good economic and political reasons why they couldn’t stop. I’m not a politician or a businessman; how am I supposed to persuade them about these things. What are we supposed …"-Karel Čapek, War with the Newts
17. Mythologies
By: Roland Barthes , Annette Lavers
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
"No denunciation without its proper instrument of close analysis," Roland Barthes wrote in his pref… read more
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18. Vernon Subutex, 2 (Vernon Subutex, #2)
By: Virginie Despentes
3.10
Format: None pages,
QUI EST VERNON SUBUTEX ? Une legende urbaine. Un ange dechu. Un disparu qui ne cesse de ressurgir. … read more
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19. Man in the Dark
By: Paul Auster
4.14
Format: 438 pages, Hardcover
Man in the Dark is Paul Auster's brilliant, devastating novel about the many realities we inhabit a… read more
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20. A Jew Must Die
By: Jacques Chessex , None
3.67
Format: 363 pages, Paperback
Praise for A Jew Must Die: "Chessex, our new Flaubert, has no equal when describing horror without … read more
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21. The Prague Cemetery
By: Umberto Eco , Richard Dixon
3.50
Format: 445 pages, Hardcover
19th-century Europe—from Turin to Prague to Paris—abounds with the ghastly and the mysterious. … read more
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- classics
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Religious conversion evidently transforms not just the soul but also facial appearances."-Umberto Eco, The Prague Cemetery
"People are never so completely and enthusiastically evil as when they act out of religious conviction."-Umberto Eco, The Prague Cemetery
"Die Menschen tun das Böse nie so vollständig und begeistert, wie wenn sie es aus religiöser Überzeugung tun."-Umberto Eco, The Prague Cemetery
"Zawsze tak jest - jeśli ci sie nie powiedzie, szukasz kogoś, aby oskarżając go, usprawiedliwić własne niedołęstwo."-Umberto Eco, The Prague Cemetery
22. Nightwood
By: T.S. Eliot , Jeanette Winterson , Djuna Barnes
4.07
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Nightwood, Djuna Barnes' strange and sinuous tour de force, "belongs to that small class of books t… read more
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23. Vineland
By: Thomas Pynchon
2.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
A group of Americans in Northern California in 1984 are struggling with the consequences of their l… read more
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24. Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme
By: Édouard Louis
4.13
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Pendant une grande partie de sa vie ma mère a vécu dans la pauvreté et la nécessité, à l'écart de t… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
"Why do I feel as though I'm writing a sad story, when my aim was to tell the story of a liberation?"-Édouard Louis, Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme
"I'd gotten so used to seeing her unhappy at home that the joy on her face seemed scandalous to me, a deceit, a lie that had to be exposed as soon as possible."-Édouard Louis, Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme
"I started this book wanting to tell the story of a woman, but I've realized that yours is the story of a human being who fought for the right to exist as a woman, as opposed to the nonexistence impos…"-Édouard Louis, Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme
"A final memory. A few months ago, in the garden of a teahouse where I’d suggested we meet, she told me how she had once been called to the school by my teacher when I was six years old. The teacher w…"-Édouard Louis, Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme
25. Shy
By: Max Porter
3.63
Format: 136 pages, Hardcover
A novel about guilt, rage, imagination, and boyhood, about being lost in the dark and learning you’… read more
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- fiction
"He could learn to speak this language: night-end."-Max Porter, Shy
"He feels colossally sad. Blisteringly sad. Almost ecstatically sad."-Max Porter, Shy
"Shy said It's our music, coming out of our shit towns, it's not from Staten Island or Seattle or Detroit, it's from Walsall and Watford. Shaun and his mate Andy burst out laughing and Andy did a sque…"-Max Porter, Shy
"He smells of pond. Everything smells of pond. He feels like he could sniff his way into individual microbes, earthy worming growgreen liquid stink, newts and shoots, silty, fruity, and as he walks he…"-Max Porter, Shy
26. Time Shelter
By: Georgi Gospodinov
3.75
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning Bulgarian author Georgi Gospodinov has enthralled readers around the world with his l… read more
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- fiction
"Има ли миналото срок на годност?"-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter
"Time feeds on us. We are food for time."-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter
"Ако не сме в нечия памет, има ли ни изобщо?"-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter
"There is no time machine except the human being."-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter
27. Balada para Sophie
By: Filipe Melo
4.68
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A vida de Julien Dubois, pianista de sucesso, confunde-se com a história da Europa do século XX. De… read more
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- historical fiction
28. När jag var snö
By: Ingela Strandberg
3.84
Format: 47 pages, Hardcover
Res dig up ur graven, katt Gå med mig nerför vägen Vi ska gå rakt mot den helvetiska fruktsamhete… read more
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29. När en man faller
By: Klara Krantz
3.84
Format: 696 pages, Hardcover
En natt i februari 1986 avlossas skottet som ger svallvågor över hela världen och för alltid föränd… read more
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30. Morgue & Other Expressionist Verse
By: Gottfried Benn
4.26
Format: 15 pages, ebook
Desde su aparición en 1912 Morgue y Otros Poemas de Gottfried Benn supuso una ruptura radical con l… read more
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- german literature
- germany
31. At the Edge of the Night (Hesperus Classics)
By: Friedo Lampe
3.93
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
This poignant novel, beautifully translated by Simon Beattie, was, in Lampe’s words, "born into a r… read more
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- german literature
- classics
- magical realism
- lgbt
- germany
- 20th century
- fiction
- historical fiction
- queer
