The Stranger
By: Albert Camus , Matthew Ward , Stuart Gilbert , None
4.02
Format: 123 pages, Paperback
Published in 1942 by French author Albert Camus, The Stranger has long been considered a classic of…
Want to Read $ 8.99"It is better to burn than to disappear."-Albert Camus, The Stranger
"Everything is true, and nothing is true!"-Albert Camus, The Stranger
"After awhile you could get used to anything."-Albert Camus, The Stranger
"To stay or to go, it amounted to the same thing."-Albert Camus, The Stranger
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1. Nausea
By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Lloyd Alexander , Hayden Carruth
3.94
Format: 178 pages, Hardcover
Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In… read more
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"It was true, I had always realized it—I hadn’t any “right"-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
"Then time started flowing again and the emptiness grew larger."-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
"I see the insipid flesh blossoming and palpitating with abandon."-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
"My existence began to worry me seriously. Was I not a simple spectre?"-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
2. The Stranger
By: Albert Camus , Matthew Ward , Stuart Gilbert , None
4.02
Format: 123 pages, Paperback
Published in 1942 by French author Albert Camus, The Stranger has long been considered a classic of… read more
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"It is better to burn than to disappear."-Albert Camus, The Stranger
"Everything is true, and nothing is true!"-Albert Camus, The Stranger
"After awhile you could get used to anything."-Albert Camus, The Stranger
"To stay or to go, it amounted to the same thing."-Albert Camus, The Stranger
3. Norwegian Wood
By: Haruki Murakami , Jay Rubin
4.01
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
Toru, a quiet and preternaturally serious young college student in Tokyo, is devoted to Naoko, a be… read more
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"I wonder what ants do on rainy days?"-Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
"We're all kind of weird and twisted and drowning."-Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
"Don't feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that."-Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
"I’ve never once thought about how I was going to die,"-Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
4. White Nights
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky
4.06
Format: 82 pages, Paperback
White Nights is a short story by Fyodor Dostoevsky that was published in 1848. Set in St. Petersbur… read more
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"E ti chiedi: “Dove sono i tuoi sogni?"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights
"Kalbim içimde konuşurken ben susmayı beceremem."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights
"Oh, how unbearable is a happy person sometimes!"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights
"But how could you live and have no story to tell?"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights
5. The Little Prince
By: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry , Richard Howard , Dom Marcos Barbosa , None
4.33
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
A pilot stranded in the desert awakes one morning to see, standing before him, the most extraordina… read more
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"I wonder,"-Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
"Where are the people?"-Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
"No one is ever satisfied where he is."-Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
"Words are the source of misunderstandings."-Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
6. The Catcher in the Rye
By: J.D. Salinger
3.80
Format: 277 pages, Paperback
It's Christmas time and Holden Caulfield has just been expelled from yet another school... Fleei… read more
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"Sleep tight, ya morons!"-J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
"People never notice anything."-J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
"Mothers are all slightly insane."-J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
"But I'm Crazy. I swear to God I am."-J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
7. Animal Farm
By: George Orwell , Russell Baker , C.M. Woodhouse
3.99
Format: 141 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Librarian's note: There is an Alternate Cover Edition for this edition of this book here. A farm… read more
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"Four legs good, two legs bad."-George Orwell, Animal Farm
"The only good human being is a dead one."-George Orwell, Animal Farm
"Surely, comrades, you don't want Jones back?"-George Orwell, Animal Farm
"Weak or strong, clever or simple, we are all brothers."-George Orwell, Animal Farm
8. The Great Gatsby
By: F. Scott Fitzgerald
4.06
Format: None pages, Paperback
THE GREAT GATSBY, F. Scott Fitzgerald's third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career… read more
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9. The Old Man and the Sea
By: Ernest Hemingway
3.80
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found here This short novel, already a moder… read more
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"My big fish must be somewhere."-Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
"I shouldn’t have gone out so far, fish,"-Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
"The setting of the sun is a difficult time for all fish."-Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
"Have faith in the Yankees my son. Think of the great DiMaggio."-Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
10. The Death of Ivan Ilych
By: Leo Tolstoy , Aylmer Maude
4.13
Format: 86 pages, Paperback
Hailed as one of the world's supreme masterpieces on the subject of death and dying, The Death of I… read more
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"If you look for the working classes in fiction, and especially English fiction, all you find is a hole."-Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych
"And the further he departed from childhood and the nearer he came to the present the more worthless and doubtful were the joys."-Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych
"In the depths of his heart he knew that he was dying but, so far from growing used to the idea, he simply did not and could not grasp it."-Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych
"It can't be that life is so senseless and horrible. But if it really has been so horrible and senseless, why must I die and die in agony? There is something wrong!"-Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych
11. The Trial
By: Franz Kafka , Max Brod , Edwin Muir , Willa Muir
3.95
Format: 255 pages, Paperback
Written in 1914 but not published until 1925, a year after Kafka’s death, The Trial is the terrifyi… read more
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"But I’m not guilty,"-Franz Kafka, The Trial
"Asking questions were the most important thing."-Franz Kafka, The Trial
"It was very learned, but it didn't actually say anything."-Franz Kafka, The Trial
"The way she sits on my lap as if it were her proper place!"-Franz Kafka, The Trial
12. Siddhartha
By: Hermann Hesse , Hilda Rosner
3.17
Format: 319 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Siddhartha Este libro electronico tiene una mesa activa de los contenidos Siddhartha es una novela … read more
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13. No Longer Human
By: Osamu Dazai , Donald Keene
3.99
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human, this leading postwar Japanese writer's second novel, tells the poign… read more
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"Show me what you've written," I said, although I wanted desperately to avoid looking at it."-Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human
"He could only consider me as the living corpse of a would-be suicide, a person dead to shame, an idiot ghost."-Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human
"Then what's a synonym for woman?" "Entrails." "You're not very poetic, are you? Well, then, what's the antonym for entrails?" "Milk."-Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human
"I felt as though the vessel if my suffering had become empty, as if nothing could interest me now. I had lost even the ability to suffer."-Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human
14. The Bell Jar
By: Sylvia Plath
4.06
Format: 294 pages, Paperback
The Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented… read more
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"I woke to the sound of rain."-Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
"I wanted to be where nobody I knew could ever come."-Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
"When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn't know."-Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
"I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow."-Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
15. The Metamorphosis
By: Franz Kafka , Stanley Corngold
3.88
Format: 201 pages, Paperback
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 0553213695 / 9780553213690 "As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning fr… read more
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"Oh, God"-Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis
"I only fear danger where I want to fear it."-Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis
"What's happened to me,' he thought. It was no dream."-Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis
"It was half past six and the hands were quietly moving forwards."-Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis
16. Crime and Punishment
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , David McDuff
4.27
Format: 671 pages, Paperback
Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St Petersburg a… read more
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"Life [had] replaced logic."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
"I drink because I wish to multiply my sufferings."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
"The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
"It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
17. Lolita
By: Vladimir Nabokov , Craig Raine
3.88
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Librarian's note: Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780141182537. Humbert Humbert - scholar, aest… read more
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"There was no Lo to behold."-Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
"My little cup brims with tiddles."-Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
"Don't touch me; I'll die if you touch me."-Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
"Because you took advantage of my disadvantage."-Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
18. Brave New World
By: Aldous Huxley
3.99
Format: 268 pages, Paperback
Aldous Huxley's profoundly important classic of world literature, Brave New World is a searching vi… read more
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"Pain was a fascinating horror"-Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
"Ending is better than mending."-Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
"The more stitches, the less riches."-Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
"If one's different, one's bound to be lonely."-Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
19. Notes from Underground
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Norman Dietz , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky , Boris de Schlœzer , Emanuela Guercetti , None , Donald Fanger , None , None , None
4.17
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
Dostoevsky’s most revolutionary novel, Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between ninet… read more
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"l'homme de la nature et de la verite"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground
"I'll go this minute!' Of course, I remained."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground
"إذ ما العذاب والألم ... سوى المحرك الوحيد للوعي."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground
"To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground
20. The Picture of Dorian Gray
By: Oscar Wilde
4.13
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Oscar Wilde’s only novel is the dreamlike story of a young man who sells his soul for eternal youth… read more
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"To define is to limit."-Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
"All art is quite useless."-Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
"The basis of optimism is sheer terror."-Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
"What fire does not destroy, it hardens"-Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
21. 1984
By: George Orwell
4.19
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
A masterpiece of rebellion and imprisonment where war is peace freedom is slavery and Big Brother i… read more
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"Power is not a means; it is an end."-George Orwell, 1984
"To die hating them, that was freedom."-George Orwell, 1984
"In the face of pain there are no heroes."-George Orwell, 1984
"It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words."-George Orwell, 1984
