The Opposing Shore
By: Julien Gracq
4.01
Format: 292 pages, Paperback
The great maritime state of Orsenna has long been lulled by settled peace and prosperity. It is thr…
Want to Read $ 6.46"[Original text in French] Giovanni n'avait pas menti. Sagra était une merveille baroque, une collision improbable et inquiétante de la nature et de l'art. [My translation to English] Giovanni hadn't lied. Sagra was a Baroque wonder, an unlikely and disturbing collision between Nature and Arts. [My translation to Spanish] Giovanni no había mentido. Sagra era una maravilla barroca, una colisión improbable e inquitante de la naturaleza con el arte."-Julien Gracq, The Opposing Shore
"[Original text in French] Giovanni n'avait pas menti. Sagra était une merveille baroque, une collision improbable et inquiétante de la nature et de l'art. [My translation to English] Giovanni hadn't lied. Sagra was a Baroque wonder, an unlikely and disturbing collision between Nature and Arts. [My translation to Spanish] Giovanni no había mentido. Sagra era una maravilla barroca, una colisión improbable e inquitante de la naturaleza con el arte."-Julien Gracq, The Opposing Shore
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1. The Opposing Shore
By: Julien Gracq
4.01
Format: 292 pages, Paperback
The great maritime state of Orsenna has long been lulled by settled peace and prosperity. It is thr… read more
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"[Original text in French] Giovanni n'avait pas menti. Sagra était une merveille baroque, une collision improbable et inquiétante de la nature et de l'art. [My translation to English] Giovanni hadn't …"-Julien Gracq, The Opposing Shore
2. The Emigrants
By: Michael Hulse , W.G. Sebald
4.17
Format: 237 pages, Paperback
At first The Emigrants appears simply to document the lives of four Jewish émigrés in the twentieth… read more
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"It is hard, said Mme Landau, when I told her about those railway lessons, in the end it is hard to know what it is that someone dies of. Yes, it is very hard, said Mme Landau, one really doesn't know."-Michael Hulse, The Emigrants
"The tiny features below, taken together with the gentle mass of Montblanc towering above them, the Vanoise glacier almost invisible in the shimmering distance, and the Alpine panorama that occupied h…"-Michael Hulse, The Emigrants
3. The Recognitions
By: William H. Gass , William Gaddis
4.20
Format: 976 pages, Paperback
The book Jonathan Franzen dubbed the "ur-text of postwar fiction" and the "first great cultural cri… read more
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- literary fiction
- classics
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"Women get desperate, but they don't understand despair."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
"That fever had passed; but for the rest of his life it never left his eyes."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
"Reading Proust isn't just reading a book, it's an experience and you can't reject an experience."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
"Most people are clever because they don't know how to be honest." William Gaddis, The Recognitions."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
4. On the Marble Cliffs
By: Stuart Hood , George Steiner , Ernst Jünger
3.80
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
The peaceful and traditional people, located on the shores of a large bay, are surrounded by the ro… read more
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"The downfall of order brings good to none."-Stuart Hood, On the Marble Cliffs
"Such are the cellars over which the proud castles of tyranny rise and above which the aromas of their feast swirl: putrid caves of a gruesome kind in which the depraved rabble regales itself with the…"-Stuart Hood, On the Marble Cliffs
"We cannot count on seeing our work completed here below, and happy is the man whose will is not too painfully invested in his efforts. No house is built, no plan created, in which ruin is not the cor…"-Stuart Hood, On the Marble Cliffs
"I had often doubted; now I was convinced: there were still noble beings among us in whose hearts knowledge of the higher order was preserved and perpetuated. A lofty example enjoins us to follow, and…"-Stuart Hood, On the Marble Cliffs
5. Justine (The Alexandria Quartet, #1)
By: Lawrence Durrell
3.85
Format: 253 pages, Paperback
The time is the eve of the World War II. The place is Alexandria, an Egyptian city that once housed… read more
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- classics
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"Poverty is a great cutter-off and riches a great shutter-off."-Lawrence Durrell, Justine (The Alexandria Quartet, #1)
"One always falls in love with the love-choice of the person one loves."-Lawrence Durrell, Justine (The Alexandria Quartet, #1)
"Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?"-Lawrence Durrell, Justine (The Alexandria Quartet, #1)
"Who invented the human heart, I wonder? Tell me, and then show me the place where he was hanged."-Lawrence Durrell, Justine (The Alexandria Quartet, #1)
6. Gagner la guerre
By: Jean-Philippe Jaworski
4.49
Format: 684 pages, Paperback
Au bout de dix heures de combat, quand j’ai vu la flotte du Chah flamber d’un bout à l’autre de l’h… read more
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- france
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"- Je suis ravi de vous trouver si arrangeant, don Ostina, sourit mon patron. - Je ne suis pas arrangeant, je suis mourant. Ca abrège nécessairement le cours des négociations."-Jean-Philippe Jaworski, Gagner la guerre
"Et vous, oui vous ! mon cher lecteur ! Vous vous prélassez bien au chaud, sur votre coussiège favori ou dans la cathèdre de votre cabinet de lecture, en tournant d'une main indolente les pages de ce …"-Jean-Philippe Jaworski, Gagner la guerre
7. Gargantua
By: Andrew Brown , François Rabelais , Paul Bailey
2.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
As a companion volume to Pantagruel, this new edition of Gargantuacontinues Rabelais' acclaimed fan… read more
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8. L'Assommoir (The Dram Shop) (Les Rougon-Macquart, #7)
By: Émile Zola , Robin Buss
3.33
Format: 170 pages, Paperback
The seventh novel in the Rougon-Macquart cycle, L'Assommoir(1877) is the story of a woman's struggl… read more
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9. Gargoyles
By: Thomas Bernhard , Richard Winston , Clara Winston
3.34
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
The playwright and novelist Thomas Bernhard was one of the most widely translated and admired write… read more
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10. Gathering Evidence
By: Thomas Bernhard
3.34
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Born in 1931, the illegitimate child of an abandoned mother, Thomas Bernhard was brought up by an e… read more
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- literature
11. The Counterfeiters
By: André Gide
3.54
Format: None pages, Paperback
Originally published in 1925, this book became known for the frank sexuality of its contents and it… read more
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12. Salammbô
By: Gustave Flaubert , A.J. Krailsheimer
3.71
Format: 412 pages, Paperback
An epic story of lust, cruelty, and sensuality, this historical novel is set in Carthage in the day… read more
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13. The Charterhouse of Parma
By: Robert Andrew Parker , Richard Howard , Stendhal , Arthur Schurig
3.79
Format: 532 pages, Paperback
Richard Howard's exuberant and definitive rendition of Stendhal's stirring tale has brought about t… read more
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"Mutluluğu uzaklarda aramaya kalkmanın ne anlamı var, işte burada, elimin altında!"-Robert Andrew Parker, The Charterhouse of Parma
"Hay que confesar que había días en que la condesa no dirigía la palabra a nadie; era vista paseando bajo los altos castaños, hundida en sombríos ensueños; era demasiado inteligente para no sentir a v…"-Robert Andrew Parker, The Charterhouse of Parma
"Men siden året 1635, da Milano-provinsen ble underlagt spanjolene, disse tause, mistenksomme, hovmodige herrer som alltid fryktet opprør, hadde livsgleden vært borte. Folk tok etter herskernes livsfo…"-Robert Andrew Parker, The Charterhouse of Parma
"El lejano sonido de la campana de un pueblecito escondido bajo los árboles conmueve nuestra imaginación. Estos sones que las aguas transportan dulcificándolos adquieren un tinte de dulce melancolía y…"-Robert Andrew Parker, The Charterhouse of Parma
14. Man's Fate
By: André Malraux , Haakon Chevalier
3.40
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
As explosive and immediate today as when it was originally published in 1933, 'Man's Fate' ('La Con… read more
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15. Compass
By: Mathias Énard , Charlotte Mandell
4.22
Format: None pages, Hardcover
As night falls over Vienna, Franz Ritter, an insomniac musicologist, takes to his sickbed with an u… read more
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16. The Tartar Steppe
By: Dino Buzzati , Stuart Hood
3.80
Format: 25 pages,
Often likened to Kafka's The Castle, The Tartar Steppe is both a scathing critique of military life… read more
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17. Les Nourritures terrestres: suivi de Les nouvelles nourritures
By: André Gide
3.68
Format: 248 pages, Pocket Book
« Nathanaël, je t'enseignerai la ferveur. Une existence pathétique, Nathanaël, plutôt que la tranq… read more
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"ای کاش «اهمیت» در نگاه تو باشد نه در چیزی که به آن مینگری."-André Gide, Les Nourritures terrestres: suivi de Les nouvelles nourritures
"Commandements de Dieu, vous avez rendu malade mon âme, / Vous avez entouré de murs les seuls eaux pour me désaltérer."-André Gide, Les Nourritures terrestres: suivi de Les nouvelles nourritures
"My happiness is made of fervour. Through the medium of all things without distinction, I have passionately worshipped"-André Gide, Les Nourritures terrestres: suivi de Les nouvelles nourritures
"Que toute émotion sache te devenir une ivresse. Si ce que tu manges ne te grise pas, c'est que tu n'avais pas assez faim."-André Gide, Les Nourritures terrestres: suivi de Les nouvelles nourritures
18. Journey to the End of the Night
By: Louis-Ferdinand Céline , Ralph Manheim , William T. Vollmann
4.19
Format: 453 pages, Paperback
Louis-Ferdinand Celine's revulsion and anger at what he considered the idiocy and hypocrisy of soci… read more
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"If you aren't rich you should always look useful."-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night
"When you write, you should put your skin on the table."-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night
"Sonuçta savaş dediğiniz şey, anlamadığınız ne varsa odur"-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night
"Nearly all a poor bastard's desires are punishable by jail."-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night
19. Under Satan's Sun
By: Georges Bernanos , None
4.16
Format: None pages, Paperback
This new translation marks the seventy-fifth anniversary of Georges Bernanos's first novel, Under S… read more
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20. Alcools
By: Guillaume Apollinaire , Donald Revell
4.33
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
Alcools, first published in 1913 and one of the few indispensable books of twentieth- century poetr… read more
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21. My Friends
By: Emmanuel Bove , None
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Emanuel Bove's first novel, My Friends, relates the story of Victor Baton, a wounded war veteran tr… read more
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