Two Cities: On Exile, History, and the Imagination
By: Adam Zagajewski
3.76
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
In this varied collection of deeply personal, lyrical essays and short literary sketches, leading c…
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1. Chronicles, Volume One
By: Bob Dylan
3.97
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
"I'd come from a long ways off and had started a long ways down. But now destiny was about to manif… read more
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"People were people."-Bob Dylan, Chronicles, Volume One
"My big fear was that my guitar would go out of tune."-Bob Dylan, Chronicles, Volume One
"Sometimes you just have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on."-Bob Dylan, Chronicles, Volume One
"Sebuah lagu laksana mimpi, dan kita berusaha untuk membuatnya jadi kenyataan."-Bob Dylan, Chronicles, Volume One
2. In Praise of Shadows
By: Edward G. Seidensticker , Jun'ichirō Tanizaki , Thomas J. Harper , Charles Moore , None
4.75
Format: 335 pages, Paperback
An essay on aesthetics by the Japanese novelist, this book explores architecture, jade, food, and e… read more
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4. Gravity and Grace
By: Simone Weil , Emma Crawford
4.03
Format: 246 pages, Paperback
Gravity and Gracewas the first ever publication by the remarkable thinker and activist, Simone Weil… read more
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5. Un roman russe
By: Emmanuel Carrère
3.67
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
La folie et l'horreur ont obsédé ma vie. Les livres que j'ai écrits ne parlent de rien d'autre. Apr… read more
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6. The Pit and the Pendulum
By: Edgar Allan Poe
4.15
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
Get set for true terror in one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous short stories. We enter the mind… read more
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"How at least shall we distinguish its shadows from those of the tomb?"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum
"In the deepest slumber-no! In delirium-no! In a swoon-no! In death-no! even in the grave all is not lost."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum
"In death - no! even in the grave all is not lost. Else there is no immortality for man. Arousing from the most profound slumbers, we break the gossamer web of some dream. Yet in a second afterward, (…"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum
"He who has never swooned, is not he who finds strange palaces and wildly familiar faces in coals that glow; is not he who beholds floating in mid-air the sad visions that the many may not view; is no…"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum
7. The Total Art of Stalinism: Avant-Garde, Aesthetic Dictatorship, and Beyond
By: Boris Groys
3.92
Format: 292 pages, Hardcover
As communism collapses into ruins, Boris Groys provokes our interest in the aesthetic goals pursued… read more
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8. Invisible Cities
By: Italo Calvino , William Weaver
4.11
Format: 15 pages, Paperback
"Kublai Khan does not necessarily believe everything Marco Polo says when he describes the cities v… read more
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9. The End of the Affair
By: Graham Greene , Monica Ali
3.90
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
"A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses a moment of experience from which to look… read more
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"As long as one suffers one lives."-Graham Greene, The End of the Affair
"I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist."-Graham Greene, The End of the Affair
"Why do we have this desire to tease the innocent? Is it envy?"-Graham Greene, The End of the Affair
"I can never think of you as a friend. You can do without a friend."-Graham Greene, The End of the Affair
10. A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women: Essays on Art, Sex, and the Mind
By: Siri Hustvedt
2.69
Format: 88 pages, Hardcover
A compelling and radical collection of essays on art, feminism, neuroscience, psychology, and philo… read more
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11. Vilnius Poker
By: Ričardas Gavelis , None
4.33
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
An assemblage of troubled grotesques struggle to retain identity and humanity in an alternately men… read more
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12. Letters from a Stoic
By: Seneca , Robin Campbell
4.75
Format: 118 pages, Paperback
The power and wealth which Seneca the Younger (c.4 B.C. - A.D. 65) acquired as Nero's minister were… read more
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13. Essayism
By: Brian Dillon
3.82
Format: 736 pages, Paperback
The essay is a venerable form that may well be the genre of the future. It has its origins in a mod… read more
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14. Mr Palomar
By: Italo Calvino
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
<<Rileggendo il tutto, m'accorgo che la storia di Palomarsi puo riassumere in due frasi: "Un uomo s… read more
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15. Medea
By: Euripides , Rex Warner
3.42
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
One of the most powerful and enduring of Greek tragedies, Medeacenters on the myth of Jason, leader… read more
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16. Pnin
By: Vladimir Nabokov , David Lodge
4.00
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
One of the best-loved of Nabokov's novels, Pninfeatures his funniest and most heart-rending charact… read more
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17. Old Masters: A Comedy
By: Thomas Bernhard , Ewald Osers
4.29
Format: 426 pages, Paperback
In this exuberantly satirical novel, the tutor Atzbacher has been summoned by his friend Reger to m… read more
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18. Poeta chileno
By: Alejandro Zambra
4.39
Format: 421 pages, Paperback
En Santiago de Chile, a principios de los años noventa del pasado siglo, dos quinceañeros, Gonzalo … read more
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"fumar rabiosamente y aguantar las lágrimas, lo que no era fácil, porque fumar y llorar son actividades complementarias"-Alejandro Zambra, Poeta chileno
"Decir que eso la felicidad: nunca sentir que sería mejor estar en otra parte, nunca sentir que sería mejor ser alguien más. Otra persona. Alguien más joven, más viejo. Alguien mejor."-Alejandro Zambra, Poeta chileno
"El padre señala con sutileza y autoridad la forma correcta de patear la pelota, porque el padre sabe de esas cosas. El padre se deja ganar, porque para ser un buen padre hay que dejarse ganar. Ser pa…"-Alejandro Zambra, Poeta chileno
"It is better to write than not to write. Poetry is subversive because it exposes you, tears you apart. You dare to distrust yourself. You dare to disobey. That's the idea, to disobey everyone. Disobe…"-Alejandro Zambra, Poeta chileno
19. Selected Poems, 1968-1996
By: Joseph Brodsky
3.88
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Joseph Brodsky spent his life advocating for the place of the poet in society. As Derek Walcott sai… read more
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20. Two Cities: On Exile, History, and the Imagination
By: Adam Zagajewski
3.76
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
In this varied collection of deeply personal, lyrical essays and short literary sketches, leading c… read more
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