Thus Were Their Faces: Selected Short Stories
By: Jorge Luis Borges , Helen Oyeyemi , Silvina Ocampo , Daniel Balderston
4.21
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
An NYRB Classics Original Silvina Ocampo is undoubtedly one of the twentieth century's great master…
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1. Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali
By: Mamadou Kouyaté , Djibril Tamsir Niane
3.63
Format: 101 pages, Paperback
This epic - part history, part legend - is a great adventure story. Other tellings can be found und… read more
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- classics
"The lion has walked."-Mamadou Kouyaté, Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali
"He was great among kings, he was peerless among men."-Mamadou Kouyaté, Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali
"How few things good fortune prizes!' Yes, the day you are fortunate is also the day when you are the most unfortunate, for in good fortune you cannot imagine what suffering is."-Mamadou Kouyaté, Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali
"We are vessels of speech, we are the repositories which harbour secrets many centuries old. The art of eloquence has no secrets for us; without us the names of kings would vanish into oblivion, we ar…"-Mamadou Kouyaté, Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali
2. Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
By: Clayton Eshleman , Aimé Césaire , Annette Smith , Annette Smith
4.10
Format: 66 pages, Paperback
Aime Cesaire's masterpiece, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land, is a work of immense cultural … read more
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- classics
"A man screaming is not a dancing bear. Life is not a spectacle."-Clayton Eshleman, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
"Écoutez le monde blanc horriblement las de son effort immense ses articulations rebelles craquer sous les étoiles dures ses raideurs d'acier bleu transperçant la chair mystique écoute ses victoires p…"-Clayton Eshleman, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
"And if all I know how to do is speak, it is for you that I shall speak. My lips shall speak for miseries that have no mouth, my voice shall be the liberty of those who languish in the dungeon of desp…"-Clayton Eshleman, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
". . . car il n'est point vrai que l'oeuvre de l'homme est finie que nous n'avons rien à faire au monde que nous parasitons le monde qu'il suffit que nous nous mettions au pas du monde mais l'oeuvre d…"-Clayton Eshleman, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
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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- classics
- fiction
"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. The Comedy of Errors
By: William Shakespeare
3.72
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Excerpt from Die Kom�die der Irrungen Geste Grayorum or the History of the High and mighty Princ… read more
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"Why should their liberty than ours be more?"-William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors
"El tiempo es insolvente y debe más de lo que tiene."-William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors
"Mi corazón ora por él, aunque mi lengua lo maldiga."-William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors
"¡A cuántos tontos enamorados esclaviza la locura de los celos!"-William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors
5. The Home and the World
By: Rabindranath Tagore , Anita Desai , Surendranath Tagore , None , William Radice
3.83
Format: 213 pages, Paperback
Set on a Bengali noble's estate in 1908, this is both a love story and a novel of political awakeni… read more
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- fiction
"Mientras estemos en llamas, sepamos arder y bullir"-Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World
"জীবনটাকে কেঁদে ভাসিয়ে দেওয়ার চেয়ে হেসে উড়িয়ে দেওয়াই ভালো।"-Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World
"Hasta el océano de las lágrimas tiene otra orilla; si así no fuera, nadie habría llorado nunca"-Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World
"When at last we have to die it will be time enough to get cold. While we are on fire let us seethe and boil."-Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World
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7. The Book of Frank
By: C.A. Conrad
4.20
Format: None pages, Paperback
Winner of the 2009 Gil Ott Book Award, this expanded edition of The Book of Frank features addition… read more
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- fiction
8. The Faerie Queene, Book One
By: Edmund Spenser , Andrew Hadfield , None , None , None
3.09
Format: None pages, Paperback
Framed in Spenser's distinctive, opulent stanza and in some of the trappings of epic, Book One of S… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
9. Here
By: Richard McGuire
4.10
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Hereis Richard McGuire's unique graphic novel based on the legendary 1989 comic strip of the same n… read more
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- fiction
10. Thus Were Their Faces: Selected Short Stories
By: Jorge Luis Borges , Helen Oyeyemi , Silvina Ocampo , Daniel Balderston
4.21
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
An NYRB Classics Original Silvina Ocampo is undoubtedly one of the twentieth century's great master… read more
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- classics
- magical realism
- latin american
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- fantasy
11. Mother Courage and Her Children
By: David Hare , Bertolt Brecht
3.78
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Widely considered one of the great dramatic creations of the modern stage, "Mother Courage and Her … read more
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- fiction
12. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: Written by Himself
By: Olaudah Equiano , Robert J. Allison
3.75
Format: None pages, Paperback
Widely admired for its vivid accounts of the slave trade, Olaudah Equiano's autobiography -- the fi… read more
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13. 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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14. The Invention of Morel
By: Jorge Luis Borges , Suzanne Jill Levine , Adolfo Bioy Casares , Norah Borges de Torre , Ruth L.C. Simms
4.00
Format: 103 pages, Paperback
Jorge Luis Borges declared The Invention of Morel a masterpiece of plotting, comparable to The Turn… read more
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- classics
- latin american
- fantasy
- fiction
"So I was dead! The thought delighted me."-Jorge Luis Borges, The Invention of Morel
"The sea is endless when you are in a rowboat."-Jorge Luis Borges, The Invention of Morel
"To be sure, nothing created by man is perfect."-Jorge Luis Borges, The Invention of Morel
"...when one is alone it is impossible to be dead."-Jorge Luis Borges, The Invention of Morel
15. Speedboat
By: Renata Adler
5.00
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Won the Ernest Hemingway Prize for Best First Novel in 1976 It has been over 35 years since Renata … read more
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16. The Hour of the Star
By: Clarice Lispector , Giovanni Pontiero
4.09
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
The Hour of the Star, Clarice Lispector's consummate final novel, may well be her masterpiece. Narr… read more
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- classics
- latin american
- fiction
"Sou um monstro ou isso é ser uma pessoa?"-Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star
"Don't forget that for now it's strawberry season"-Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star
"Do not mourn the dead. They know what they are doing."-Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star
"Όσο για το γράψιμο, περισσότερο αξίζει ένα ζωντανό σκυλί."-Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star
17. The Musical Brain: And Other Stories
By: César Aira , Chris Andrews
3.96
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A delirious collection of short stories from the Latin American master of microfiction, Cesar Aira-… read more
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18. The Recognition of Śakuntalā
By: Kālidāsa , W.J. Johnson
3.93
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
Kalidasa's play about the love of King Dusyanta for Sakuntala, a monastic girl, is the supreme work… read more
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20. The Children's Book
By: A.S. Byatt
4.18
Format: 411 pages, Hardcover
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize A spellbinding novel, at once sweeping and intimate, from the … read more
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21. I Is Another: Septology III-V
By: Jon Fosse
4.44
Format: 271 pages, Paperback
Asle is an ageing painter and widower who lives alone on the southwest coast of Norway. His only fr… read more
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"...I just keep the mistakes and let them be wrong, because it’s often the mistakes that eventually lead to something right..."-Jon Fosse, I Is Another: Septology III-V
"...one of the most important things when it comes to painting is being able to stop at the right time, to know when a picture is saying what it can say, if you keep going too long then more often tha…"-Jon Fosse, I Is Another: Septology III-V
"...a person comes from God and goes back to God, I think, for the body is conceived and born, it grows and declines, it dies and vanishes, but the spirit is a unity of body and soul, the way form and…"-Jon Fosse, I Is Another: Septology III-V
"...everyone has a deep longing inside them, we always always long for something and we believe that what we long for is this or that, this person or that person, this thing or that thing, but actuall…"-Jon Fosse, I Is Another: Septology III-V
