The Pleasures of Reading in an Ideological Age
By: Robert Alter
3.90
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
“A book that ought to be placed in the hands of any person who shows the slightest interest in seri…
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1. The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
By: Marcel Proust , None , Terence Kilmartin , D.J. Enright
4.39
Format: 957 pages, Paperback
The Modern Library’s fifth volume of In Search of Lost Time contains both The Captive (1923) and Th… read more
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"...every social class has its own pathology..."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
"Love is space and time made perceptible to the heart."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
"Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
"There are optical errors in time as there are in space."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
2. The Natural
By: Bernard Malamud , Kevin Baker
4.12
Format: None pages,
The classical novel (and basis for the acclaimed film) now in a new edition Introduction by Kevin B… read more
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- literature
3. Anatomy of Criticism
By: Northrop Frye
4.57
Format: None pages, Paperback
Striking out at the conception of criticism as restricted to mere opinion or ritual gesture, Northr… read more
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4. Don Quixote
By: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra , Roberto González Echevarría , John Rutherford
3.66
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading chivalric romances, that he determines to become a k… read more
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5. How Fiction Works
By: James Wood
4.16
Format: 84 pages, Paperback
What makes a story a story? What is style? What's the connection between realism and real life? The… read more
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6. Notes of a Native Son
By: James Baldwin
4.08
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A new edition published on the twenty-fifth anniversary of Baldwin's death, including a new introdu… read more
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7. Mansfield Park
By: Jane Austen
3.87
Format: 488 pages, Paperback
Taken from the poverty of her parents' home in Portsmouth, Fanny Price is brought up with her rich … read more
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"I was quiet, but I was not blind."-Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
8. 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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9. How to Read and Why
By: Harold Bloom
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
Information is endlessly available to us; where shall wisdom be found?" is the crucial question wit… read more
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10. The Myth of the Eternal Return or Cosmos and History
By: Mircea Eliade , Willard R. Trask
4.00
Format: None pages,
This founding work of the history of religions, first published in English in 1954, secured the Nor… read more
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11. 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
12. As I Lay Dying
By: William Faulkner
3.72
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
As I Lay Dying is Faulkner’s harrowing account of the Bundren family’s odyssey across the Mississip… read more
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"vomiting the crying"-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
"But peace is my heart: I know it is."-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
"it's better to build a tight chicken coop than a shoddy courthouse."-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
"sometimes i lose faith in human nature for a time; i am assailed by doubt."-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
13. Death Comes for the Archbishop
By: Willa Cather
3.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
There is something epic--and almost mythic--about this sparsely beautiful novel by Willa Cather, al… read more
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14. Gravity's Rainbow
By: Thomas Pynchon , Andrés Ibáñez , None
3.97
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
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. Creation
By: Gore Vidal
3.84
Format: 95 pages, Hardcover
Once again the incomparable Gore Vidal interprets and animates history -- this time in a panoramic … read more
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16. Anything Is Possible
By: Elizabeth Strout
3.20
Format: None pages,
Short story collection Anything Is Possibleexplores the whole range of human emotion through the in… read more
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17. The Burden of Responsibility: Blum, Camus, Aron, and the French Twentieth Century
By: Tony Judt
5.00
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Using the lives of the three outstanding French intellectuals of the twentieth century, renowned hi… read more
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18. The Red and the Black
By: Stendhal , None
3.86
Format: 577 pages, Paperback
Handsome, ambitious Julien Sorel is determined to rise above his humble provincial origins. Soon re… read more
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"A good book is an event in my life."-Stendhal, The Red and the Black
"Toute vraie passion ne songe qu'a elle."-Stendhal, The Red and the Black
"It seems that my destiny is to die dreaming."-Stendhal, The Red and the Black
"A novel is a mirror walking along a main road."-Stendhal, The Red and the Black
19. Shakespeare's Sonnets
By: William Shakespeare , Katherine Duncan-Jones
4.45
Format: 122 pages, Paperback
T.S. Eliot once wrote that, "Shakespeare gives the greatest width of human passion," and it is this… read more
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20. War and Peace
By: Leo Tolstoy , Louise Maude , Aylmer Maude , Henry Gifford
4.16
Format: 1392 pages, Paperback
In Russia's struggle with Napoleon, Tolstoy saw a tragedy that involved all mankind. War and Pe… read more
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"God is the same everywhere."-Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
"Kings are the slaves of history."-Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
"Everything depends on upbringing. "-Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
"We are asleep until we fall in Love!"-Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
21. Moby-Dick or, The Whale
By: Herman Melville , Tom Quirk , Andrew Delbanco
3.55
Format: 720 pages, Paperback
"It is the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships' cables and hawsers. A Polar … read more
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"Call me Ishmael."-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
"Ignorance is the parent of fear"-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
"Ignorance is the parent of fear."-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
"Speak, thou vast and venerable head,"-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
22. Literary Theory: An Introduction
By: Terry Eagleton
4.00
Format: 204 pages, Paperback
Written in 1982, this work appeared, as Professor Eagleton explains, at the watershed of two very d… read more
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23. La crisis de la narración
By: Byung-Chul Han
3.90
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Las narraciones crean lazos. De ellas nace lo que nos conecta y vincula. De este modo, fundan comun… read more
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"Nuevas narraciones hacen posible una nueva percepción. La "nueva valoración de todos los valores" de la que hablaba Nietzsche abre una nueva perspectiva al mundo."-Byung-Chul Han, La crisis de la narración
24. Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
By: Rachel Aviv
4.12
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In Strangers to Ourselves, a powerful and gripping debut, Rachel Aviv raises fundamental questions … read more
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"It's startling to realize how narrowly we avoid, or miss, living radically different lives."-Rachel Aviv, Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
"For a child, solipsistic by nature, there are limits to the ways that despair can be communicated. Culture shapes the scripts that expressions of distress will follow. In both anorexia and resignatio…"-Rachel Aviv, Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
25. The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War
By: Louis Menand
4.23
Format: 880 pages, Hardcover
In his follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Metaphysical Club, Louis Menand offers a new int… read more
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26. The Pleasures of Reading in an Ideological Age
By: Robert Alter
3.90
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
“A book that ought to be placed in the hands of any person who shows the slightest interest in seri… read more
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