Tender Shoots
By: Paul Morand
3.31
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
Clarissa , Delphine , and Aurora —three alluring and independent young women—are the titles of thre…
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1. A Sentimental Journey
By: Laurence Sterne , Paul Goring
3.31
Format: 170 pages, Paperback
A furiously witty response to Tobias Smollett's curmudgeonly 'Travels through France and Italy', La… read more
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- literature
- classics
- france
- fiction
"It had ever, as I told the reader, been one of the singular blessings of my life, to be almost every hour of it miserably in love with some one...."-Laurence Sterne, A Sentimental Journey
"Dear sensibility! Source inexhausted of all that's precious in our joys, or costly in our sorrows! Eternal fountain of our feelings! 'tis here I trace thee and this is thy divinity which stirs within…"-Laurence Sterne, A Sentimental Journey
"I could wish to spy the nakedness of their hearts, and through the different disguises of customs, climates, and religion, find out what is good in them, to fashion my own by. It is for this reason t…"-Laurence Sterne, A Sentimental Journey
2. Pinocchio
By: John Boyne , Unknown , Monteiro Lobato , Carlo Collodi
3.85
Format: 262 pages, Paperback
A timeless classic to be read over and over. This is the story of Pinocchio, filled with harrowi… read more
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- literature
- classics
- fiction
"Hunger is the best cook."-John Boyne, Pinocchio
"A conscience is that still small voice that people won't listen to."-John Boyne, Pinocchio
"Would it be possible to find a more ungrateful boy, or one with less heart than I have!"-John Boyne, Pinocchio
"Laziness is a serious illness and one must cure it immediately; yes, even from early childhood. If not, it will kill you in the end."-John Boyne, Pinocchio
3. Sodom and Gomorrah
By: Marcel Proust , Christopher Prendergast , John Sturrock
4.33
Format: 557 pages, Paperback
Sodom and Gomorrah – now in a superb translation by John Sturrock – takes up the theme of homosexua… read more
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- classics
- literature
- france
- french literature
- fiction
- 20th century
"He lives at Balbec?"-Marcel Proust, Sodom and Gomorrah
"کار ذهنن تا زمانی که مطیع واقعیت نیست آسان است"-Marcel Proust, Sodom and Gomorrah
"از شکل انداختن یک شاهکار خیلی از ساختناش مشکلتر است"-Marcel Proust, Sodom and Gomorrah
"هر خطای برطرف شده آدمی را از حس تازهای برخوردا میکند"-Marcel Proust, Sodom and Gomorrah
4. November
By: Gustave Flaubert , Nadine Gordimer
3.56
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
An intense, passionate, and profoundly moving work, Flaubert's November explores the notions of des… read more
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- classics
- france
- french literature
- fiction
5. Confessions of a Mask
By: Yukio Mishima
2.57
Format: 210 pages, Paperback
Confessions of a Maskis the story of an adolescent who must learn to live with the painful fact tha… read more
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- literature
- fiction
6. Till We Have Faces
By: C.S. Lewis
4.08
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
In this timeless tale of two mortal princesses- one beautiful and one unattractive- C.S. Lewis rewo… read more
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- classics
- fiction
7. Montauk
By: Max Frisch
4.31
Format: None pages, Paperback
Montauk ist ein indianischer Name, er bezeichnet die nordliche Spitze von Long Island, hundertzehn … read more
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- literature
- classics
- fiction
8. Story of the Eye
By: Georges Bataille , Joachim Neugroschel , Dovid Bergelson
3.66
Format: 103 pages, Paperback
Only Georges Bataille could write, of an eyeball removed from a corpse, that "the caress of the eye… read more
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- classics
- literature
- france
- french literature
- fiction
- 20th century
"We pedaled rapidly, without laughing or speaking, peculiarly satisfied with our mutual presence, akin to one another in the common isolation of lewdness, weariness, and absurdity."-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye
"Simone was tall and lovely. She was usually very natural; there was nothing heartbreaking in her eyes or her voice. But on a sensual level, she so bluntly craved any upheaval that the faintest call f…"-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye
"I remember that one day, when we were in a car tooling along at top speed,we crashed into a cyclist, an apparently very young and very pretty girl. Her head was almost totally ripped off by the wheel…"-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye
"As for the fact that Simone dared to piss on the corpse, whether in boredom or, at worst, in irritation: it mainly goes to prove how impossible it was for us to understand what was happening, and of …"-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye
9. Faust: First Part
By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Peter Salm
4.21
Format: None pages, Paperback
Goethe's masterpiece and perhaps the greatest work in German literature, Faust has made the legenda… read more
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- literature
- classics
- fiction
10. The Confusions of Young Törless
By: J.M. Coetzee , Shaun Whiteside , Robert Musil
3.38
Format: None pages, Paperback
Like his contemporary and rival Sigmund Freud, Robert Musil boldly explored the dark, irrational un… read more
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11. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
By: Laurence Sterne , Melvyn New
3.90
Format: 256 pages,
Laurence Sterne's great masterpiece of bawdy humour and rich satire defies any attempt to categoriz… read more
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12. The Tartar Steppe
By: Dino Buzzati , Stuart Hood
3.80
Format: 25 pages,
Often likened to Kafka's The Castle, The Tartar Steppe is both a scathing critique of military life… read more
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13. Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
By: Marcel Proust , Simon Vance , Lydia Davis
4.15
Format: 710 pages, Mass Market Paperback
«Et tout d'un coup le souvenir m'est apparu. Ce goût, c'était celui du petit morceau de madeleine q… read more
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- literature
- french literature
"Longtemps, je me suis couché de bonne heure."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"the comfort of reclusion, the poetry of hibernation"-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"Now are the woods all black, But still the sky is blue."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"Fall in love with a dog's bum, And thou'll think it pretty as a plum."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
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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- literature
- classics
- 20th century
- fiction
"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. Collected Poems and Other Verse
By: Stéphane Mallarmé , A.M. Blackmore , E.H. Blackmore
3.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
Stephane Mallarme was the most radically innovative of nineteenth-century poets, and a key figure i… read more
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16. Sentimental Education
By: Gustave Flaubert , Geoffrey Wall , Robert Baldick
3.81
Format: 460 pages, Paperback
Based on Flaubert’s own youthful passion for an older woman, Sentimental Education was described by… read more
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- classics
- literature
- france
- french literature
- fiction
"Cheer up,' said the captain's son. 'Life is long, and we are young."-Gustave Flaubert, Sentimental Education
"A man so habituated to corruption that he would happily pay for the pleasure of selling himself."-Gustave Flaubert, Sentimental Education
"...I'm going to write a little novel entitled 'The History of the Idea of Justice' and won't it be funny!"-Gustave Flaubert, Sentimental Education
"It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find."-Gustave Flaubert, Sentimental Education
17. Selected Poems
By: W.B. Yeats , John Kelly
3.27
Format: 64 pages, Hardcover
"All things can tempt me from this craft of verse: " "One time it was a woman's face, or worse-" "T… read more
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18. Malina
By: Philip Boehm , Ingeborg Bachmann , Mark Anderson , Michael Bullock
4.64
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Tells the story of lives painfully intertwined: the unnamed narrator, haunted by nightmarish memori… read more
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19. 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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20. Tender Shoots
By: Paul Morand
3.31
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
Clarissa , Delphine , and Aurora —three alluring and independent young women—are the titles of thre… read more
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- cultural
- classics
- literature
- short stories
- france
- french literature
- fiction
- 20th century
21. En el pueblo hay una casa pequeña y oscura (Spanish Edition)
By: Vladimir Rivera Órdenes
3.96
Format: 128 pages, Kindle Edition
Surcos del territorio es una colección de crónicas literarias que narran la experiencia de crecer e… read more
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