The Guesthouse at the Sign of the Teetering Globe
By: Franziska zu Reventlow
4.00
Format: 142 pages, Paperback
In 1917, the world appears to be tilting on its axis. Accustomed certainties are no more, alliances…
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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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- fiction
"...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. Acceptance (Southern Reach, #3)
By: Jeff VanderMeer
3.64
Format: 341 pages, Paperback
It is winter in Area X, the mysterious wilderness that has defied explanation for thirty years, reb… read more
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"What does the border look like?"-Jeff VanderMeer, Acceptance (Southern Reach, #3)
"I hope to find Area X in Area X."-Jeff VanderMeer, Acceptance (Southern Reach, #3)
"The time for expeditions was over."-Jeff VanderMeer, Acceptance (Southern Reach, #3)
"Was this first contact, or last contact?"-Jeff VanderMeer, Acceptance (Southern Reach, #3)
3. Nightmare Alley
By: William Lindsay Gresham , Nick Tosches
3.83
Format: 275 pages, Paperback
Nightmare Alley begins with an extraordinary description of a carnival-show geek—alcoholic and abje… read more
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"Also Dad said it was a shame to go to bed early and miss everything when you could sleep late the next day and catch up..."-William Lindsay Gresham, Nightmare Alley
"Beyond that elfin face, the steady eyes, there was something breathing, something that was fed blood from a tiny heart beating under pointed breasts. But is was cobweb under the fingers. Cobweb in th…"-William Lindsay Gresham, Nightmare Alley
"Hoatley - First Carnival Owner: Now this creature - There he is, THE GEEK! He has puzzled the foremost scientists of Europe and America. Is he the missing link? Is he man or beast? Some have pronounc…"-William Lindsay Gresham, Nightmare Alley
"The speech fascinated him. His ear caught the rhythm of it and he noted their idioms and worked some of them into his patter. He had found the reason behind the peculiar, drawling language of the old…"-William Lindsay Gresham, Nightmare Alley
4. Afloat
By: Guy de Maupassant , Douglas Parmée
5.00
Format: 362 pages, Paperback
Afloat, originally published as Sur l'eau in 1888, is a book of dazzling but treacherously shifting… read more
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5. The Obscene Bird of Night
By: José Donoso , Hardie St. Martin , Leonard Mades
4.21
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
This haunting jungle of a novel has been hailed as "a masterpiece" by Luis Bunuel and "one of the g… read more
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6. Rakkóx the Billionaire & the Great Race
By: W.C. Bamberger , Paul Scheerbart , Félix Vallotton
4.34
Format: 132 pages, Paperback
Two novellas from the inventor of perpetual motion and godfather of German science fiction. Rakkox … read more
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7. Middlemarch
By: Michel Faber , George Eliot
4.02
Format: 912 pages, Mass Market Paperback
"People are almost always better than their neighbours think they are" George Eliot’s most ambit… read more
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"After all, the true seeing is within."-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
"I shall do everything it becomes me to do."-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
"I protest against any absolute conclusion."-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
"What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?"-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
8. The Cabinet
By: Kim Un-Su
3.53
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Munhakdongne Novel Award, South Korea’s most prestigious literary prize. Cabinet 1… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
"There are two types of lives people can live,' he said. 'The kind of life in which one writes in a diary every day, and the kind of life in which one doesn't. They're as different as a country with a…"-Kim Un-Su, The Cabinet
"I wonder if my lost time is rolling around somewhere. I could have loved someone with that time -- I could have done something beautiful for someone. But I've nothing to show for that lost time. No w…"-Kim Un-Su, The Cabinet
9. Pienen hauen pyydystys
By: Juhani Karila
4.35
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
Elina Ylijaako palaa kotiseudulleen Itä-Lappiin saattamaan loppuun sen, mikä on pantu alulle vuosia… read more
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"- Tiiäkkö sinä että sulla on peijooni takapenkillä. - Tiedän. - Ei sitte mittään."-Juhani Karila, Pienen hauen pyydystys
"Néha úgy tűnik nekem, hogy a világ nem süllyed bele a tengerbe, nem is sivatagosodik el, csak egyszerűen elmocsarasodik. A mezőket elnyelik a mocsarak. Az útjelzőket, a körforgalmakat, a felhőkarcoló…"-Juhani Karila, Pienen hauen pyydystys
10. Cold Enough for Snow
By: Jessica Au
3.73
Format: 99 pages, Paperback
A mother and daughter travel from abroad to meet in Tokyo: they walk along the canals through the a… read more
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"She had kept, I knew, all the tickets, brochures and guides we had been given to take home, as if she would take them out later to read as one reads a novel."-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow
"The best we could do in this life was to pass through it, like smoke through the branches, suffering, until we either reached the state of nothingness, or else suffered elsewhere."-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow
"Nowadays, she said, people were hungry to know everything, thinking that they could understand it all, as if enlightenment were just around the corner. But, she said, in fact there was no control, an…"-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow
"Then she reached for her bag and took out a small book. She explained she had found it at a store near her home, and that it described the nature of your character based on the date of your birth. (.…"-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow
11. A Guest in the House
By: Emily Carroll
4.06
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In this graphic novel by Emily Carroll, a young woman marries a kind dentist only to discover a dar… read more
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"I don’t sleep for days after seeing her. And when I finally do, my dreams are tangled, dripping things."-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House
"I used to dream of dragons. I would find them, panting, pacing. Sung inside damp caverns. When I lived through them they would release their riches in a stinking swell of gore and glittering jewels…a…"-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House
"At night, every noise could be her. I know she’s here now, right now, even though she won’t show herself to me. (I tried to find her the other night, down by the front door like before, but nothing c…"-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House
"David tells me the first week they lived here, Crystal had nightmares about the attic, about things dripping down from it at night. She would stop crying until he put a lock on it. There’d been anima…"-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House
12. Faith, Hope and Carnage
By: Nick Cave
4.44
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
Faith, Hope and Carnage is a book about Nick Cave’s inner life. Created from more than forty hou… read more
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"I think people can do both terrible things and wonderful things when faced with the true understanding of their own powerlessness, vulnerability and lack of control."-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage
"Vulnerability is essential to spiritual and creative growth. Finding enormous strength through vulnerability. You're being open to whatever happens, including failure and shame. The two are connected…"-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage
"I guess not, but who says creativity it the be all and end all? Who says that our accomplishments are the only true measure of what is important in our lives? Perhaps there are other lives worth livi…"-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage
"The usual precepts collapse under the weight of the calamity: the terrible demands that we place upon ourselves; our own internal judging voice; the endless expectations and opinions of others. They …"-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage
13. Vercoquin y el plancton
By: Boris Vian
3.61
Format: 222 pages, Paperback
Alocada y fresca, turgente y frutal, Vercoquin y el plancton, primera novela de Boris Vian, inédita… read more
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14. Life in the Folds
By: Henri Michaux
4.03
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
Life in the Folds , originally published in French in 1949, is the Belgian-born author and artist H… read more
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15. Death
By: Anna Croissant-Rust
3.35
Format: 170 pages, Paperback
To the fretful mother of a sick child it comes in the form of the long-awaited doctor. To a feeble … read more
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16. The Beauty of the Metropolis
By: August Endell
3.56
Format: 150 pages, Paperback
Where do we feel at home? What do our cities look like? How do we see? In 1908, architect and theor… read more
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17. The Guesthouse at the Sign of the Teetering Globe
By: Franziska zu Reventlow
4.00
Format: 142 pages, Paperback
In 1917, the world appears to be tilting on its axis. Accustomed certainties are no more, alliances… read more
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- short stories
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