Charlotte Mew
By: Penelope Fitzgerald
4.06
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Penelope Fitzgerald's fascinating porttrait of Bloomsbury's saddest poet. Charlotte Mew (1869--1928…
Want to Read $ 9.49"Behind their dark glass, the mad own nothing."-Penelope Fitzgerald, Charlotte Mew
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1. Slouching Towards Bethlehem
By: Joan Didion
4.19
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
The first nonfiction work by one of the most distinctive prose stylists of our era, Joan Didion's S… read more
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- nonfiction
- classics
- biography
"Happiness is,' after all, a consumption ethic."-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
"There is a common superstition that “self-respect"-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
"The ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language."-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
"The future always looks good in the golden land, because no one remembers the past."-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
2. Orlando
By: Virginia Woolf , Sandra M Gilbert
3.87
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Virginia Woolf's Orlando 'The longest and most charming love letter in literature', playfully const… read more
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- classics
- lgbt
"Life and a lover"-Virginia Woolf, Orlando
"Thoughts are divine."-Virginia Woolf, Orlando
"All extremes of feeling are allied with madness."-Virginia Woolf, Orlando
"Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence."-Virginia Woolf, Orlando
3. Death in Venice
By: Thomas Mann , Michael Cunningham , Michael Henry Heim
3.74
Format: 142 pages, Paperback
The world-famous masterpiece by Nobel laureate Thomas Mann -- here in a new translation by Michael … read more
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- classics
- lgbt
"Nothing gladdens a writer more than a thought that can become pure feeling and a feeling that can become pure thought."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
"Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
"Denn der Mensch liebt und ehrt den Menschen , solange er ihn nicht zu beurteilen vermag, und die Sehnsucht ist ein Erzeunis mangelhafter Erkenntnis."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
"Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
4. A Month in the Country
By: J.L. Carr , Michael Holroyd
3.76
Format: None pages,
In J. L. Carr's deeply charged poetic novel, Tom Birkin, a veteran of the Great War and a broken ma… read more
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- classics
5. Lady Chatterley’s Lover
By: D.H. Lawrence
3.50
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
Lawrence's frank portrayal of an extramarital affair and the explicit sexual explorations of its ce… read more
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- classics
"We fucked a flame into being."-D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover
"She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte."-D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover
"It's terrible, once you've got a man into your blood!" she said."-D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover
"A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it."-D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover
6. The Turn of the Screw
By: Henry James
3.39
Format: 121 pages, Paperback
The Turn of the Screw is an 1898 horror novella by Henry James that first appeared in serial format… read more
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- classics
"When I'm bad I am bad !"-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
"He fairly glittered in the gloom."-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
"I was ready to know the very worst that was to be known."-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
"There was something between them." "There was everything."-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
7. Lolly Willowes
By: Sylvia Townsend Warner , Alison Lurie
3.50
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
In Lolly Willowes, an ageing spinster rebels against her role as the universal aunt, at everybody's… read more
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8. Lessico famigliare
By: Natalia Ginzburg , Cesare Garboli
5.00
Format: 36 pages, Paperback
Lessico famigliaree la storia di una famiglia ebrea, quella della stessa scrittrice, che si svolge … read more
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9. Look at Me
By: Anita Brookner
3.28
Format: 5 pages,
A lonely art historian absorbed in her research seizes the opportunity to share in the joys and ple… read more
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10. The House in Paris
By: Elizabeth Bowen
4.45
Format: 864 pages, Paperback
One of Elizabeth Bowen's most artful and psychologically acute novels, The House in Parisis a timel… read more
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11. Mothering Sunday
By: Graham Swift
4.25
Format: 179 pages, Hardcover
A luminous, intensely moving tale that begins with a secret lovers' assignation in the spring of 19… read more
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12. Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life
By: Hermione Lee
3.71
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
Penelope Fitzgerald (1916-2000) was a great English writer, who would never have described herself … read more
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13. The New Life
By: Tom Crewe
3.77
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
Two Victorian marriages, two dangerous love affairs, one extraordinary partnership . . .London, 189… read more
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- lgbt
"Science requires a rational audience."-Tom Crewe, The New Life
"True development does not respect comfort."-Tom Crewe, The New Life
"We British are used to being ruthless, of course, but only the men. The women aren't. We don't grab. We shouldn't . But we have to, to make some room for ourselves."-Tom Crewe, The New Life
"...John wondered if she would ever be so unthinkingly imperious again; whether her childish powers of command would survive the dislocation from home, the knowledge of her smallness in the greater wo…"-Tom Crewe, The New Life
14. Happiness, as Such
By: Natalia Ginzburg
3.98
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
At the heart of Happiness, as Such is an absence—an abyss that pulls everyone to its brink—created … read more
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- classics
"This life now has nothing to equal to the places and moments we passed through to get here"-Natalia Ginzburg, Happiness, as Such
"Ma è vero che a un certo punto della nostra vita i rimorsi li inzuppiamo nel caffè la mattina come biscotti."-Natalia Ginzburg, Happiness, as Such
"Ma non si amano soltanto le memorie felici. A un certo punto della vita, ci si accorge che si amano le memorie."-Natalia Ginzburg, Happiness, as Such
"So I wasn’t there when he died, which I regret. But after a certain point in life a person has to dunk her regrets in the morning coffee, just like biscuits."-Natalia Ginzburg, Happiness, as Such
15. Charlotte Mew
By: Penelope Fitzgerald
4.06
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Penelope Fitzgerald's fascinating porttrait of Bloomsbury's saddest poet. Charlotte Mew (1869--1928… read more
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- poetry
- classics
- biography
- lgbt
- nonfiction
"Behind their dark glass, the mad own nothing."-Penelope Fitzgerald, Charlotte Mew
