The Bedbug and Selected Poetry
By: Vladimir Mayakovsky , Max Hayward , None
4.20
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
This selection of Mayakovsky's work covers his entire career―from the earliest pre-revolutionary ly…
Want to Read"Have you seen a dog lick the hand that thrashed it?!"-Vladimir Mayakovsky, The Bedbug and Selected Poetry
"Then there's amortization, the deadliest of all; amortization of the heart and soul."-Vladimir Mayakovsky, The Bedbug and Selected Poetry
"Oleg Bard: I understand, but by virtue of that power of imagination which, according to [Georgi] Plekhanov, is granted to Marxists, I can already see as through a prism, so to speak, the triumph of your class as symbolized by your sublime, ravishing, elegant, and class-conscious wedding!"-Vladimir Mayakovsky, The Bedbug and Selected Poetry
"Usher: Why do you play only on the black keys [of the piano]? I suppose you think black is good enough for the proletariat. You play on all the keys only for the bourgeoisie, is that it? Oleg Bard: Please, citizen, please! I'm concentrating on the white ones! Usher: So you think white is best? Play on both! Oleg Bard: I am playing on both! Usher: So you compromise with [the] Whites, opportunist!"-Vladimir Mayakovsky, The Bedbug and Selected Poetry
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1. Heart of a Dog
By: Mikhail Bulgakov , Mirra Ginsburg , Michail Bulgakov
4.10
Format: 123 pages, Paperback
This satirical novel tells the story of the surgical transformation of a dog into a man, and is an … read more
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"A dog's spirit dies hard."-Mikhail Bulgakov, Heart of a Dog
"One can find time for everything if one is never in a hurry."-Mikhail Bulgakov, Heart of a Dog
"Why bother to learn to read when you can smell meat a mile away?"-Mikhail Bulgakov, Heart of a Dog
"İki ayağını bir pabuca sokmayan herkes, her şey için zaman bulabilir."-Mikhail Bulgakov, Heart of a Dog
2. Doctor Zhivago
By: Boris Pasternak , John Bayley , Manya Harari , Max Hayward
4.01
Format: 592 pages, Paperback
This epic tale about the effects of the Russian Revolution and its aftermath on a bourgeois family … read more
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"Only the superfluous is sordid"-Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
"Only the familiar transformed by genius is truly great."-Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
"The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable."-Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
"And the strong are dominated by the weak and the ignoble."-Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
3. The Bedbug and Selected Poetry
By: Vladimir Mayakovsky , Max Hayward , None
4.20
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
This selection of Mayakovsky's work covers his entire career―from the earliest pre-revolutionary ly… read more
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"Have you seen a dog lick the hand that thrashed it?!"-Vladimir Mayakovsky, The Bedbug and Selected Poetry
"Then there's amortization, the deadliest of all; amortization of the heart and soul."-Vladimir Mayakovsky, The Bedbug and Selected Poetry
"Oleg Bard: I understand, but by virtue of that power of imagination which, according to [Georgi] Plekhanov, is granted to Marxists, I can already see as through a prism, so to speak, the triumph of y…"-Vladimir Mayakovsky, The Bedbug and Selected Poetry
"Usher: Why do you play only on the black keys [of the piano]? I suppose you think black is good enough for the proletariat. You play on all the keys only for the bourgeoisie, is that it? Oleg Bard: P…"-Vladimir Mayakovsky, The Bedbug and Selected Poetry
4. The Book of Disquiet
By: Fernando Pessoa , Richard Zenith
4.41
Format: 544 pages, Paperback
Fernando Pessoa was many writers in one. He attributed his prolific writings to a wide range of alt… read more
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"My past is everything I failed to be."-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
"Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life."-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
"Ah, it's my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me!"-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
"There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful."-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
5. Ethics
By: Baruch Spinoza , Edwin M. Curley , Stuart Hampshire , None
4.10
Format: 186 pages, Paperback
Published shortly after his death, the Ethics is undoubtedly Spinoza's greatest work—an elegant, fu… read more
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"Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself."-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
"The object of the idea constituting the human mind is the body"-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
"Benevolentia nihil aliud est, quam cupiditas ex commiseratione orta."-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
"Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility."-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
6. 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
7. Letters to Milena
By: Franz Kafka , Aarno Peromies , Philip Boehm , Milena Jesenská
3.89
Format: 298 pages, Paperback
In no other work does Kafka reveal himself as in the Letters to Milena, which begin essentially as … read more
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"I can't hold enough of you in my hands."-Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
"Il sogno è l'ultima notizia che possiedo di te."-Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
"وهذه هي النهاية في الحقيقة, فلقد مضيت عني بعيدا."-Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
"I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it."-Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
8. Les Fleurs du Mal
By: Charles Baudelaire , Richard Howard
4.20
Format: 365 pages, Paperback
Charles Baudelaire's 1857 masterwork was scandalous in its day for its portrayals of sex, same-sex … read more
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"L'orage rajeunit les fleurs"-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
"I am the vampire at my own veins."-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
"Beauty, you walk on corpses, mocking them;"-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
"My heart is lost; the beasts have eaten it."-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
9. Fear and Trembling
By: Søren Kierkegaard , Alastair Hannay
4.75
Format: 335 pages, Paperback
Soren Kierkegaard was a Danish philosopher, theologian and religious author interested in human psy… read more
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10. Austerlitz
By: Anthea Bell , W.G. Sebald
4.67
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with f… read more
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11. The Waste Land
By: T.S. Eliot , Michael North
3.80
Format: 245 pages, Paperback
The text of Eliot's 1922 masterpiece is accompanied by thorough explanatory annotations as well as … read more
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12. We
By: Yevgeny Zamyatin , Clarence Brown
3.89
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
The exhilarating dystopian novel that inspired George Orwell's 1984 and foreshadowed the worst exce… read more
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"Her smile was a bite, and I was its target."-Yevgeny Zamyatin, We
"There is no final one; revolutions are infinite."-Yevgeny Zamyatin, We
"knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith"-Yevgeny Zamyatin, We
"You're in a bad way! Apparently, you have developed a soul."-Yevgeny Zamyatin, We
13. Selected Poems
By: Elaine Feinstein , Marina Tsvetaeva
4.56
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
An admired contemporary of Rilke, Akhmatova, and Mandelstam, Russian poet Marina Tsvetayeva bore wi… read more
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14. Tender Buttons
By: Gertrude Stein
4.43
Format: 303 pages, Paperback
Tender Buttons is the best known of Gertrude Stein's "hermetic" works. It is a small book separated… read more
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15. Love's Work: A Reckoning with Life
By: Gillian Rose
4.16
Format: 293 pages, Paperback
A devastating confrontation with mortality leads Gillian Rose, one of England's most distinguished … read more
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16. The Nicomachean Ethics
By: Aristotle , Jonathan Barnes , None , Hugh Tredennick
3.99
Format: 329 pages, Paperback
‘One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly neither can one day, or a brie… read more
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"Philosophy can make people sick."-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
"A man without regrets cannot be cured."-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
"Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules."-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
"The beginning seems to be more than half of the whole."-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
17. The Passion According to G.H.
By: Clarice Lispector , None
4.13
Format: 173 pages, Paperback
G.H., a well-to-do Rio sculptress, enters the room of her maid, which is as clear and white 'as in … read more
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"I don't want beauty, I want identity."-Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.
"I' is merely one of the world's instantaneous spasms."-Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.
"The world's continual breathing is what we hear and call silence."-Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.
"In the world there exists no aesthetic plane, not even the aesthetic plane of goodness."-Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.
18. Red Cavalry
By: Isaac Babel , Michael Dirda
3.95
Format: 473 pages, Paperback
One of the great masterpieces of Russian literature, the Red Cavalrycycle retains today the shockin… read more
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19. Eugene Onegin
By: Alexander Pushkin , James E. Falen
4.10
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Eugene Onegin is the master work of the poet whom Russians regard as the fountainhead of their lite… read more
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"He's happy now, he's almost sane."-Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin
"Habit is heaven's gift to us: a substitute for happiness."-Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin
"My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you..."-Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin
"I'm only writing this to show That I stopped sinning long ago."-Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin
20. The Birth of Tragedy
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , Shaun Whiteside
3.99
Format: 121 pages, Paperback
A compelling argument for the necessity for art in life, Nietzsche's first book is fuelled by his e… read more
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"Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art."-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy
"Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion."-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy
"Look at this! Look carefully! It is your life! It is the hour-hand of your clock of existence!"-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy
"Večita je to pojava: požudna volja uvek nalazi sredstva da iluzijom prostrtom preko stvari zadrži svoje stvorove u životu i da ih prisili da i dalje žive."-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy
21. 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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