One Arm
By: Yasunari Kawabata
3.40
Format: 23 pages, ebook
A young woman removes her right arm and gives it to the a man (the protagonist) to keep for the nig…
Want to Read"Su angustia no era común a todas las mujeres en el acto de la entrega. Y con ella ocurrió solamente en aquella única vez. El hilo de plata estaba cortado, la taza de oro destruida."-Yasunari Kawabata, One Arm
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1. Tony Takitani
By: Haruki Murakami , Yao Michiko , None
3.78
Format: 44 pages, Paperback
Tony Takitani, hijo de un músico de jazz, vive absorto en su trabajo de ilustrador. Hasta que de pr… read more
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- literature
- asia
- short stories
- japanese literature
- japan
"Life: I’ll never understand it."-Haruki Murakami, Tony Takitani
"Each memory was now the shadow of a shadow of a shadow. The only thing that remained tangible to him was the sense of absence."-Haruki Murakami, Tony Takitani
"There was something odd for him about not feeling lonely. The very fact that he had ceased to be lonely caused him to fear the possibility of becoming lonely again."-Haruki Murakami, Tony Takitani
"To him, they looked like shadows that his wife had left behind. Size 7 shadows of his wife hung there in long rows, layer upon layer, as if someone had gathered and hung up samples of the infinite po…"-Haruki Murakami, Tony Takitani
2. Mendel el de los libros
By: Stefan Zweig , Berta Vias Mahou
4.00
Format: 57 pages, Paperback
Escrito en 1929, Mendel el de los libros narra la trágica historia de un excéntrico librero de viej… read more
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- literature
- short stories
"لا ننتج الكتب إلا لكي نبقى على صلة بالبشر فيما وراء الموت فنزود بذلك عن أنفسنا ضد العدو الألد للحياة ، ضد الزمن الذي يمضي ، ضد النسيان"-Stefan Zweig, Mendel el de los libros
"Los libros sólo se escriben para, por encima del propio aliento, unir a los seres humanos, y así defendernos frente al inexorable reverso de toda existencia: la fugacidad y el olvido"-Stefan Zweig, Mendel el de los libros
"...avrei dovuto sapere che i libri si fanno solo per legarsi agli uomini al di là del nostro breve respiro e difendersi così dall'inesorabile avversario di ogni vita: la caducità e l'oblio."-Stefan Zweig, Mendel el de los libros
3. Pídeme lo que quieras, ahora y siempre (Pídeme lo que quieras, #2)
By: Megan Maxwell
3.86
Format: 382 pages, Paperback
Pídeme lo que quieras, ahora y siempre es el segundo volumen de la serie erótica más adictiva de Me… read more
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"Soy dueña de mi vida. Soy dueña de mis actos."-Megan Maxwell, Pídeme lo que quieras, ahora y siempre (Pídeme lo que quieras, #2)
"Por favor, sonríe; si yo no te veo sonreír, no puedo ser feliz."-Megan Maxwell, Pídeme lo que quieras, ahora y siempre (Pídeme lo que quieras, #2)
4. Diary of a Madman and Other Stories
By: Nikolai Gogol
4.35
Format: 26 pages, Paperback
Hailed by Nabokov as "the greatest artist that Russia has yet produced," Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852) … read more
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- literature
- short stories
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
- japanese literature
- japan
6. The Nose
By: Nikolai Gogol , Ronald Wilks
4.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
'Strangely enough, I mistook it for a gentleman at first. Fortunately I had my spectacles with me s… read more
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- short stories
7. The Country of the Blind
By: H.G. Wells
4.17
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"The Country of the Blind" is a short story written by H. G. Wells. It was first published in the A… read more
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- short stories
8. The Vampyre; A Tale
By: John William Polidori
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Vampyreis a short story by John William Polidori. It is based on a fragment written by Lord Byr… read more
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- short stories
9. Beneath the Wheel
By: Hermann Hesse , None
4.47
Format: 310 pages,
In Hermann Hesse's Beneath the Wheelor The Prodigy, Hans Giebenrath lives among the dull and respec… read more
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- literature
10. Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
By: Aeschylus , Patricia E. Easterling , John Harrison , Judith Affleck , None
3.83
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Treating ancient plays as living drama. Classical Greek drama is brought vividly to life in this se… read more
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- literature
"Every medicine is vain."-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
"A curse burns bright on crime."-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
"There is no avoidance in delay."-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
"In war, the first casualty is truth."-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
11. Embers
By: Sándor Márai , Carol Brown Janeway
3.87
Format: 268 pages, Paperback
Originally published in 1942 and now rediscovered to international acclaim, this taut and exquisite… read more
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12. The Gentle Spirit
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky
3.89
Format: 86 pages, Paperback
In this compelling study of despair, based on a real-life incident, a pawnbroker mourns the loss of… read more
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- literature
- short stories
"I'm a master of speaking silently—all my life I've spoken silently and I've lived through entire tragedies in silence."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gentle Spirit
"Oh, I have always been proud, I always wanted all or nothing! You see it was just because I am not one who will accept half a happiness, but always wanted all"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gentle Spirit
"I worked it through with pride,I almost spoke without words, and i'm masterly at speaking without words.All my life I have spoken without words, and I have passed through whole tragedies on my own ac…"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gentle Spirit
"Listen! This is where it began but I keep getting muddled... The fact of the matter is that I now want to recall everything, every trifle, every little detail. I still want to collect my thoughts and…"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gentle Spirit
13. Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
By: Jorge Luis Borges
3.68
Format: 189 pages, Paperback
Here is a handsome edition of one of Borges' "ficciones," in a translation first published in "Laby… read more
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14. Aura
By: Carlos Fuentes
3.82
Format: 118 pages, Paperback
Felipe Montero is employed in the house of an aged widow to edit her deceased husband's memoirs. Th… read more
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- literature
- short stories
"Hay que morir antes de renacer."-Carlos Fuentes, Aura
"También el demonio fue un ángel, antes…"-Carlos Fuentes, Aura
"Hay un momento en el que ya no es posible distinguir el paso de los años."-Carlos Fuentes, Aura
"La soledad es necesaria para alcanzar la santidad. Se han olvidado de que en la soledad la tentación es más grande."-Carlos Fuentes, Aura
15. Kokoro
By: Natsume Sōseki , Edwin McClellan
3.77
Format: None pages,
Hailed by The New Yorker as "rich in understanding and insight,"Kokoro -- "the heart of things"-- i… read more
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16. The Vegetarian
By: Han Kang , Deborah Smith
4.00
Format: 204 pages,
Before the nightmare, Yeong-hye and her husband lived an ordinary life. But when splintering, blood… read more
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17. Las voladoras
By: Mónica Ojeda
3.95
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Mónica Ojeda se ha convertido en una de las voces más exitosas y leídas de la nueva generación lite… read more
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- short stories
"Cuando uno está arriba piensa que ver bien será difícil, pero no es verdad. Ves nítidamente lo que eres y lo que son los otros, que abajo todo es pequeño y miserable y que de allí provienes. Ese es e…"-Mónica Ojeda, Las voladoras
18. The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)
By: Guy de Maupassant
3.89
Format: 159 pages, Paperback
Before succumbing to the insanity that ravaged his later life, Guy de Maupassant established a repu… read more
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- short stories
"A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption."-Guy de Maupassant, The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)
"Es evidente que la soledad resulta peligrosa para las mentes que piensan demasiado."-Guy de Maupassant, The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)
"I said, 'If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn't we meet them a long time ago?"-Guy de Maupassant, The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)
"Whence come those mysterious influences which change our happiness into discouragement, and our self-confidence into diffidence?"-Guy de Maupassant, The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)
19. Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom
By: Sylvia Plath
3.98
Format: 40 pages, Paperback
Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at… read more
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- short stories
"«Pero ¿qué es el noveno reino?», le pregunta a una mujer de ojos azules y piel arrugada. «Es el reino de la negación, de la voluntad congelada -responde-. No hay retorno posible.»"-Sylvia Plath, Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom
20. One Arm
By: Yasunari Kawabata
3.40
Format: 23 pages, ebook
A young woman removes her right arm and gives it to the a man (the protagonist) to keep for the nig… read more
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- literature
- asia
- short stories
- japanese literature
- japan
"Su angustia no era común a todas las mujeres en el acto de la entrega. Y con ella ocurrió solamente en aquella única vez. El hilo de plata estaba cortado, la taza de oro destruida."-Yasunari Kawabata, One Arm
21. Clean
By: Alia Trabucco Zerán
3.99
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER! From a global star and International Booker Prize finalist, a razor-sh… read more
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"Yo jamás me comí las uñas. Tampoco mi mamá. Para eso, me imagino, hay que tener las manos desocupadas."-Alia Trabucco Zerán, Clean
