Summerfolk (Drama Classics)
By: Maxim Gorky
3.40
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
The most Chekhovian of all Gorky's plays
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1. Hopscotch
By: Julio Cortázar , Gregory Rabassa
4.20
Format: 564 pages, Paperback
Horacio Oliveira is an Argentinian writer who lives in Paris with his mistress, La Maga, surrounded… read more
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"Pero el amor, esa palabra..."-Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch
"Explanation is a well-dressed error."-Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch
"Pobre amor el que de pensamiento se alimenta."-Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch
"Hay ausencias que representan un verdadero triunfo"-Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch
2. Chronicle of a Death Foretold
By: Gabriel García Márquez , Gregory Rabassa
3.97
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
A man returns to the town where a baffling murder took place twenty-seven years earlier, determined… read more
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"الشرف هو الحب" , هكذا كنت أسمع أمي تقول"-Gabriel García Márquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold
"Ningún lugar de la vida es más triste que una cama vacía"-Gabriel García Márquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold
"...ningún lugar de la vida es más triste que una cama vacía."-Gabriel García Márquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold
"He always considered death an unavoidable professional hazard."-Gabriel García Márquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold
3. Thérèse Raquin
By: Émile Zola , Robin Buss
3.73
Format: 201 pages, Paperback
One of Zola's most famous realist novels, Therese Raquin is a clinically observed, sinister tale of… read more
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"Quando non c’è più speranza nel futuro, il presente si colora di una spaventosa amarezza."-Émile Zola, Thérèse Raquin
"Au fond une pensée unique les rongeait : ils s’irritaient contre leur crime, ils se désespéraient d’avoir à jamais troublé leur vie."-Émile Zola, Thérèse Raquin
"Au fond une pensée unique les rongeait : ils s’irritaient contre leur crime, ils se désespéraient d’avoir a jamais troublé leur vie."-Émile Zola, Thérèse Raquin
"They dared not peer down into their own natures, down into the feverish confusion that filled their minds with a kind of dense, acrid mist."-Émile Zola, Thérèse Raquin
4. All About Love: New Visions
By: bell hooks
4.05
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
All About Love offers radical new ways to think about love by showing its interconnectedness in our… read more
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"All awakening to love is spiritual awakening"-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
"Couples who rarely or never have sex can know lifelong love. "-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
"Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue."-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
"Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair."-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
5. The Wretched of the Earth
By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Richard Philcox , Frantz Fanon , Homi K. Bhabha
4.32
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Fr… read more
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"إن لجوءك إلى لُغة تكنيكيَّة معناه أنّك قرَّرتَ أن تَعُدَّ الجماهير جاهلة"-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much greater business of plunder."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"إن المناضل ليدرك في كثير من الأحيان أن عمله لا أن يقاتل القوى العدوة فحسب، بل كذلك حبات اليأس المتبلورة في جسم المستعمَر."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
6. A Midsummer Night’s Dream
By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine , Catherine Belsey
3.95
Format: 298 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Shakespeare's intertwined love polygons begin to get complicated from the start--Demetrius and Lysa… read more
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"My soul is in the sky."-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
"Farewell, sweet playfellow."-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
"Lord, what fools these mortals be!"-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
"How now, spirit! Whither wander you?"-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
7. The Sorrows of Young Werther
By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Burton Pike
3.73
Format: None pages, Paperback
Visiting an idyllic German village, Werther, a sensitive and romantic young man, meets and falls in… read more
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8. Waiting for Godot
By: Samuel Beckett
3.63
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Cuando en 1953 se estreno en Paris Esperando a Godot, casi nadie sabia quien era Samuel Beckett, sa… read more
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9. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
By: Frederick Douglass
4.11
Format: 158 pages, Paperback
Born a slave circa 1818 (slaves weren't told when they were born) on a plantation in Maryland, Doug… read more
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"For my part, I should prefer death to hopeless bondage."-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
"You will be free as soon as you are twenty-one, but I am a slave for life! Have not I as good a right to be free as you have?"-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
"I say , this picture sometimes appalled us, and made us rather bear those ills we had. Than fly to others, that we knew not of."-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
"They attend with Pharisaical strictness to the outward forms of religion, and at the same time neglect the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith."-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
10. Ru
By: Kim Thúy
4.20
Format: None pages, Broche
Une femme voyage a travers le desordre des souvenirs : l'enfance dans sa cage d'or a Saigon, l'arri… read more
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11. Human Acts
By: Han Kang , Deborah Smith
4.37
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From the internationally bestselling author of The Vegetarian, a rare and astonishing (The Observer… read more
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12. The Three Sisters
By: Anton Chekhov
3.06
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
First performed at the Moscow Art Theatre in 1901, The Three Sistersprobes the lives and dreams of … read more
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13. The Trojan Women
By: Euripides , Gilbert Murray
4.16
Format: 331 pages, Paperback
"This is a new translation of the classic play. It combines a poet's translation with a scholar's i… read more
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14. Don Juan
By: Molière , Richard Wilbur
3.56
Format: 146 pages, Paperback
Molière's classic tale of the Seducer of Seville, an uproariously funny story flawlessly translated… read more
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"[...] il n'est rien de si doux que de triompher de la résistance d'une belle personne."-Molière, Don Juan
"[..] l'hypocrisie est un vice à la mode, et tous les vices à la mode passent pour vertus."-Molière, Don Juan
"Bah!, non andiamo a pensare a quel che può capitarci e pensiamo soltanto a quel che può darci piacere."-Molière, Don Juan
15. 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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"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
16. The Argonauts
By: Maggie Nelson
3.91
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family Ma… read more
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17. The Ballad Of Reading Gaol
By: Oscar Wilde
3.44
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Large format for easy reading. Perhaps the most famous poem from the famous dramatist, novelist and… read more
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18. A Universal History of Iniquity
By: Jorge Luis Borges , Andrew Hurley
3.59
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
In his writing, Borges always combined high seriousness with a wicked sense of fun. Here he reveals… read more
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19. Uncle Vanya
By: Anton Chekhov
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
Famous play by the Russian short story writer and playwright. His major plays are frequently revive… read more
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20. Rocannon's World
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.32
Format: 318 pages, Paperback
Adapted & expanded from the short story "The Dowry of Angyar". A world shared by three native human… read more
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21. A Doll's House
By: Henrik Ibsen , Michael Meyer
3.76
Format: 122 pages, Paperback
A Doll's House (1879), is a masterpiece of theatrical craft which, for the first time portrayed the… read more
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"Laughter's all the damned thing's fit for."-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House
"I must make up my mind which is right – society or I."-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House
"لن تفقدوني طويلاً، فالراحلون سرعان ما ينطوون في زوايا النسيان."-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House
"أنا ارى الناس صنفين .. صنف تعشقه المرأة، وصنف تحب أن تتجاذب معه أطراف الحديث."-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House
22. In the Penal Colony
By: Sadegh Hedayat , Franz Kafka , Hasan Ghaemian
3.92
Format: 381 pages, Paperback
"In the Penal Colony" is a short story by Franz Kafka written in German in October 1914, and first … read more
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23. Ivanov
By: Anton Chekhov , None , None
4.15
Format: None pages, Paperback
The first of Chekhov's full-length dramas, Ivanov treads a fine line between broad comedy and tragi… read more
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24. All Quiet on the Western Front
By: Erich Maria Remarque , A.W. Wheen
5.00
Format: 172 pages, Mass Market Paperback
This is the testament of Paul Baumer, who enlists with his classmates in the German army of World W… read more
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25. Bel-Ami
By: Guy de Maupassant , Douglas Parmée
3.85
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Guy de Maupassant's scandalous tale of an opportunistic young man corrupted by the allure of power,… read more
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"In fact living is dying."-Guy de Maupassant, Bel-Ami
"Vivre enfin, c'est mourir!"-Guy de Maupassant, Bel-Ami
"The only certainty is death."-Guy de Maupassant, Bel-Ami
"In the kingdom of the blind the one-eyed man is king."-Guy de Maupassant, Bel-Ami
26. Le Malade imaginaire
By: Molière
3.63
Format: 255 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Le Malade imaginaire est la dernière comédie et en même temps la dernière pièce écrite par Molière.… read more
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"La musique est accoutumée à ne point faire ce qu'on veut."-Molière, Le Malade imaginaire
"Presque tous les hommes meurent de leurs remèdes, et non pas de leurs maladies."-Molière, Le Malade imaginaire
27. Tintin au Congo (Tintin #2)
By: Hergé
4.42
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Apres son premier periple en Union Sovietique, c'est pour l'Afrique que s'embarquent cette fois-ci … read more
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28. The Republic
By: Plato , Desmond Lee
3.96
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, this classi… read more
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"Appearance tyrannizes over truth."-Plato, The Republic
"The comprehensive mind is always dialectical."-Plato, The Republic
"Those who don't know must learn from those who do."-Plato, The Republic
"Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance"-Plato, The Republic
29. The White Book
By: Han Kang
3.81
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Shortlisted for the 2018 Man Booker International Prize From Booker Prize-winner and literary p… read more
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"Now and then, the passage of time seems acutely apparent. Physical pain always sharpens the awareness."-Han Kang, The White Book
"This life needed only one of us to live it. If you had lived beyond those first few hours, I would not be living now. My life means yours is impossible."-Han Kang, The White Book
"And she frequently forgot, That her body (all our bodies) is a house of sand. That it shattered and is shattering still. Slipping stubbornly through fingers."-Han Kang, The White Book
"There is none of us whom life regards with any partiality. Sleet falls as she walks these streets, holding this knowledge inside her. Sleet that leaves cheeks and eyebrows heavy with moisture. Everyt…"-Han Kang, The White Book
30. Summerfolk (Drama Classics)
By: Maxim Gorky
3.40
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
The most Chekhovian of all Gorky's plays read more
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