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1. Count Zero (Sprawl, #2)
By: William Gibson
4.02
Format: 308 pages, Paperback
William Gibson continues the visionary Sprawl Trilogy that began with Neuromancer in this frighteni… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
"<> es una expresión que usamos, más o menos quiere decir que trabajan en los dos extremos. Blanco y negro, ¿me entiendes?"-William Gibson, Count Zero (Sprawl, #2)
"Trabajar con las dos manos" es una expresión que usamos, más o menos quiere decir que trabajan en los dos extremos. Blanco y negro, ¿me entiendes?"-William Gibson, Count Zero (Sprawl, #2)
"In Heathrow a vast chunk of memory detached itself from a blank bowl of airport sky and fell on him. He vomited into a blue plastic canister without breaking stride."-William Gibson, Count Zero (Sprawl, #2)
"And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human."-William Gibson, Count Zero (Sprawl, #2)
2. Selected Poems (William Carlos Williams)
By: William Carlos Williams , Charles Tomlinson
4.16
Format: 302 pages, Paperback
Opening with Professor Tomlinson's superbly clear and helpful introduction this selection reflects … read more
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- literature
- classics
- fiction
- british literature
"they are mystified by certain instances."-William Carlos Williams, Selected Poems (William Carlos Williams)
"Sun benches at the curb bespeak another season, truncated poplars that having served for shade served also later for the fire."-William Carlos Williams, Selected Poems (William Carlos Williams)
"I have found that Lost World in the Lost and Found Columns whose gray illegible advertisements My soul has memorized world after world: LOST - NOTHING. STRAYED FROM NOWHERE. NO REWARD."-William Carlos Williams, Selected Poems (William Carlos Williams)
"When I was young and miserable and pretty And poor, I'd wish What all girls wish: to have a husband, A house and children. Now that I'm old, my wish Is womanish: That the boy putting groceries in my …"-William Carlos Williams, Selected Poems (William Carlos Williams)
3. A Severed Head
By: Iris Murdoch
3.74
Format: 204 pages, Paperback
As macabre as a Jacobean tragedy, as frivolous as a Restoration comedy, Iris Murdoch's fifth novel … read more
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- literature
- classics
- fiction
- british literature
"I could not see other human beings at present."-Iris Murdoch, A Severed Head
"This sort of quiet gazing, which was like a feeding of the heart..."-Iris Murdoch, A Severed Head
"The trouble with people nowadays is they don't know how to do nothing."-Iris Murdoch, A Severed Head
"I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture."-Iris Murdoch, A Severed Head
4. Bleak House
By: Charles Dickens , Hablot Knight Browne , Nicola Bradbury
4.02
Format: 1017 pages, Paperback
The complex story of a notorious law-suit in which love and inheritance are set against the classic… read more
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- literature
- classics
- fiction
- british literature
"You can be nothing better than yourself; be that [...]"-Charles Dickens, Bleak House
"I find the nights long, for I sleep but little, and think much."-Charles Dickens, Bleak House
"I am not at all respectable, and I don't want to be. Odd perhaps, but so it is!"-Charles Dickens, Bleak House
"if the world go wrong, it was, in some off-hand manner, never meant to go right."-Charles Dickens, Bleak House
5. Les Misérables: Volume Two (Les Misérables, #2)
By: Victor Hugo
4.41
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
Les Miserables is widely considered one of the greatest novels of the 19th century. First published… read more
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- literature
- classics
- fiction
"That figure stood for a long time wholly in the light; this arose from a certain legendary dimness evolved by the majority of heroes, and which always veils the truth for a longer or shorter time; bu…"-Victor Hugo, Les Misérables: Volume Two (Les Misérables, #2)
6. Dead Souls
By: Nikolai Gogol , Robert A. Maguire
3.98
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in a provincial town and visits a succession of landowner… read more
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- literature
- classics
- humor
- fiction
"Keep not money, but keep good people's company."-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls
"Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young."-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls
"A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe."-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls
"A Russian peasant scratching the back of his head means many different things."-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls
7. The Red Pony
By: John Steinbeck
3.48
Format: 95 pages, Paperback
Young Jody Tiflin lives on his father's California ranch. He is thrilled when his father gives him … read more
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- literature
- classics
- fiction
"It would be a dreadful thing to tell anyone about it, for it would destroy some fragile structure of truth. It was truth that might be shattered by division."-John Steinbeck, The Red Pony
"On the fences the shiny blackbirds with red epaulets clicked their dry call. The meadowlarks sang like water, and the wild doves, concealed among the bursting leaves of the oaks, made a sound of rest…"-John Steinbeck, The Red Pony
"At last he said, "Did you come out of the big mountains?" Gitano shook his head slowly. "No, I walked down the Salinas Valley." The afternoon thought would not let Joey go. "Did you ever go into the …"-John Steinbeck, The Red Pony
"The grandfather was dresses in a black broadcloth suit and he wore kid congress gaiters and a black tie on a short, hard collar. He carried his black slouch hat in his hand. His white beard was cropp…"-John Steinbeck, The Red Pony
8. Lincoln in the Bardo
By: George Saunders
4.17
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In his long-awaited first novel, American master George Saunders delivers his most original, transc… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
9. The Red Queen (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #3)
By: Philippa Gregory
4.00
Format: 205 pages, Hardcover
The second book in Philippa's stunning new trilogy, The Cousins' War, brings to life the story of M… read more
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- fiction
- british literature
10. On the Beach
By: Nevil Shute
3.13
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
After a nuclear World War III has destroyed most of the globe, the few remaining survivors in south… read more
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- classics
- fiction
11. A Philosophy of Walking
By: John Howe , Clifford Harper , Frédéric Gros
3.74
Format: 228 pages, Hardcover
In A Philosophy of Walking, leading thinker Frédéric Gros charts the many different ways we get fro… read more
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"Thus the man who walks all day has become certain by nightfall."-John Howe, A Philosophy of Walking
"Just as there are several solitudes, so there are several silences."-John Howe, A Philosophy of Walking
"Discipline is the impossible conquered by the obstinate repetition of the possible."-John Howe, A Philosophy of Walking
"You don't walk to kill time but to welcome it, to pick off its leaves and petals one by one, second by second."-John Howe, A Philosophy of Walking
12. Ferdydurke
By: Witold Gombrowicz , Danuta Borchardt
3.78
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
In this bitterly funny novel by the renowned Polish author Witold Gombrowicz. a writer finds himsel… read more
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- literature
- classics
- humor
- fiction
"Oy, stil – tiranların aleti!"-Witold Gombrowicz, Ferdydurke
"Yakında kendi kişiliklerimizden ve kişiselliklerimizden korkmaya başlayacağız, çünkü onların hiç de sonuna kadar bizim olmadıkları, bizler için apaçık olacak. Ve “Ben buna inanıyorum – ben bunu hisse…"-Witold Gombrowicz, Ferdydurke
"I wished, first of all, to buy my way into people's good graces with my book so that, in subsequent personal contact, I would find the ground already prepared, and, I reasoned, if I succeeded in impl…"-Witold Gombrowicz, Ferdydurke
"Sonuna kadar insan olmayanların sonuna kadar dünya olmayan dünyasını bir ân bile unutamıyordum -ve panikle korka korka, acayip iğrene iğrene, onun bataklık yeşilini sadece gözümde canlandırdığımda bi…"-Witold Gombrowicz, Ferdydurke
13. Light in August
By: William Faulkner
3.89
Format: 704 pages,
Light in August, a novel that contrasts stark tragedy with hopeful perseverance in the face of mort… read more
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14. Mr Pye
By: Mervyn Peake
3.51
Format: None pages, Paperback
Equipped with love, Mr Harold Pye lands on the island of Sark, his mission to convert the islanders… read more
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15. The House on the Borderland
By: William Hope Hodgson
5.00
Format: 32 pages,
A manuscript is found: filled with small, precise writing and smelling of pit-water, it tells the s… read more
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16. The Drowned World
By: Martin Amis , J.G. Ballard
4.50
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
First published in 1962, J.G. Ballard's mesmerizing and ferociously prescient novel imagines a terr… read more
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17. Moonraker (James Bond, #3)
By: Ian Fleming
3.80
Format: 247 pages, Paperback
‘For several minutes he stood speechless, his eyes dazzled by the terrible beauty of the greatest w… read more
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- classics
- fiction
"Champagne and Benzedrine! Never again."-Ian Fleming, Moonraker (James Bond, #3)
"In angry protest the red telephone splintered the silence."-Ian Fleming, Moonraker (James Bond, #3)
"They want us dead,' said Bond calmly. 'So we have to stay alive."-Ian Fleming, Moonraker (James Bond, #3)
"And people with obsessions, reflected Bond, were blind to danger."-Ian Fleming, Moonraker (James Bond, #3)
18. Great-Uncle Harry: A Tale of War and Empire
By: Michael Palin
4.17
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the time, many years ago, when Michael Palin first heard that his grandfather had a brother, H… read more
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19. Pew
By: Catherine Lacey
3.70
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In a small unnamed town in the American South, a church congregation arrives to a service and finds… read more
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- religion
- fiction
"The human mind is so easily bent, and so uneasily smoothed."-Catherine Lacey, Pew
"Why did living feel so invisibly brief and unbearably long at once?"-Catherine Lacey, Pew
"Did you have parents or just some people who thought they should own somebody?"-Catherine Lacey, Pew
"What a terror a body must live through. It’s a wonder there are people at all."-Catherine Lacey, Pew
20. The Passenger
By: Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz
3.95
Format: 266 pages, Hardcover
Hailed as a remarkable literary discovery, a lost novel of heart-stopping intensity and harrowing a… read more
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- classics
- fiction
21. A Tomb With a View: The Stories & Glories of Graveyards
By: Peter Ross
4.27
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Enter a grave new world of fascination and delight as award-winning writer Peter Ross uncovers the … read more
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- british literature
"Exposure to a particle of darkness means one does not sicken with it."-Peter Ross, A Tomb With a View: The Stories & Glories of Graveyards
