El Zahir
By: Jorge Luis Borges
4.00
Format: 117 pages, ebook
Cuento "El Zahir", de Jorge Luis Borges, originalmente publicado en el libro El Aleph, en 1949.
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1. The Mystery of Marie Rogêt (C. Auguste Dupin, #2)
By: Edgar Allan Poe
2.97
Format: 49 pages, ebook
".. Marie Roget" is often subtitled "A Sequel to The Murders in the Rue Morgue." It is a short stor… read more
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"Разумът търси пътя към истината чрез поставяне на очебийното над обичайното."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Mystery of Marie Rogêt (C. Auguste Dupin, #2)
"Целта на нашите вестници е по-скоро да правят сензации, отколкото да помагат за откриване на истината."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Mystery of Marie Rogêt (C. Auguste Dupin, #2)
"Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Mystery of Marie Rogêt (C. Auguste Dupin, #2)
"..bear in mind that, in general, it is the object of our newspapers rather to create a sensation-to make a point-than to further the cause of truth." Dupin in "The Mystery of Marie Roget"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Mystery of Marie Rogêt (C. Auguste Dupin, #2)
2. Blow-Up and Other Stories
By: Julio Cortázar , Paul Blackburn
4.21
Format: 277 pages, Paperback
A young girl spends her summer vacation in a country house where a tiger roams . . . A man reading … read more
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- short stories
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"She smells fresh, like the shadow under trees."-Julio Cortázar, Blow-Up and Other Stories
"...no sé si has visto cómo el paisaje se va rompiendo cuando lo miras alejarse..."-Julio Cortázar, Blow-Up and Other Stories
"...como un gato que mira fijo pero se ve que está por completo en otra cosa; que es otra cosa."-Julio Cortázar, Blow-Up and Other Stories
"Habits, Andrea, are concrete forms of rhythm, are that portion of rhythm which helps to keep us alive."-Julio Cortázar, Blow-Up and Other Stories
3. Annabel Lee
By: Edgar Allan Poe , Gilles Tibo
4.32
Format: 24 pages,
"Annabel Lee" is the last complete poem composed by American author Edgar Allan Poe. Like many of P… read more
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"I was a child and she was a child, In this kingdom by the sea, But we loved with a love that was more than love— I and my Annabel Lee—"-Edgar Allan Poe, Annabel Lee
"For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And the stars never rise but i feel the bright eyes Of the beautiful Annabel Lee."-Edgar Allan Poe, Annabel Lee
"But our love it was stronger by far than the love Of those who were older than we— Of many far wiser than we— And neither the angels in Heaven above Nor the demons down under the sea Can ever disseve…"-Edgar Allan Poe, Annabel Lee
"But our love was stronger by far than the love Of those who were older than we Of many far wiser than we And neither the angels in heaven above, Nor the demons down under the sea, Can ever dissever m…"-Edgar Allan Poe, Annabel Lee
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4. Casa tomada [Cuento]
By: Julio Cortázar , Juan Fresan
3.95
Format: 5 pages, ebook
Cuento "Casa tomada" de Julio Cortázar, originalmente incluido en el libro Bestiario en 1951. read more
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5. The Oval Portrait
By: Edgar Allan Poe
3.94
Format: None pages,
In this story of artistic obsession, a wounded man finds shelter in an abandoned chteau in the Appe… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
6. Berenice
By: Edgar Allan Poe
3.00
Format: 12 pages, Paperback
Bereniceis a horror short story by Edgar Allan Poe. The tale is centered on the death of a young gi… read more
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7. The Black Cat
By: Edgar Allan Poe
3.40
Format: 300 pages,
"The Black Cat" is one of Edgar Allan Poe's most memorable stories. The tale centers around a black… read more
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8. La leggenda del santo bevitore
By: Joseph Roth , Chiara Colli Staude
3.69
Format: 143 pages, Paperback
La leggenda del santo bevitorefu pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1939, pochi mesi dopo la morte d… read more
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9. Rashomon and Other Stories
By: Ryūnosuke Akutagawa , Takashi Kojima
3.78
Format: 479 pages, Paperback
Writing at the beginning of the twentieth century, Ryunosuke Akutagawa created disturbing stories o… read more
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10. Things We Lost in the Fire
By: Mariana Enríquez , Megan McDowell
4.06
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
In these wildly imaginative, devilishly daring tales of the macabre, internationally bestselling au… read more
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"El problema es que no nos creen."-Mariana Enríquez, Things We Lost in the Fire
"Hace años que Lala decidió ser mujer y brasileña, pero había nacido varón y uruguayo."-Mariana Enríquez, Things We Lost in the Fire
"Me acuerdo de la risa de mi madre, de lo joven que era esa tarde de verano, del olor a champú de limón de su pelo y de la carcajada de chicle de menta."-Mariana Enríquez, Things We Lost in the Fire
"Apagábamos las luces y jugábamos en la oscuridad con inciensos encendidos; parecían luciérnagas y a mí me hacían llorar, me hacían acordar a una casa de tejas con parque lejos de la ciudad, una casa …"-Mariana Enríquez, Things We Lost in the Fire
11. Cronopios and Famas
By: Julio Cortázar , Paul Blackburn
4.39
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
"The Instruction Manual," the first chapter, is an absurd assortment of tasks and items dissected i… read more
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12. The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
By: Edgar Allan Poe
2.83
Format: 124 pages, Paperback
Suspense, fear and the supernatural provide the center for this tale by the master prose writer. In… read more
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14. The Pit and the Pendulum
By: Edgar Allan Poe
4.15
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
Get set for true terror in one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous short stories. We enter the mind… read more
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"How at least shall we distinguish its shadows from those of the tomb?"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum
"In the deepest slumber-no! In delirium-no! In a swoon-no! In death-no! even in the grave all is not lost."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum
"In death - no! even in the grave all is not lost. Else there is no immortality for man. Arousing from the most profound slumbers, we break the gossamer web of some dream. Yet in a second afterward, (…"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum
"He who has never swooned, is not he who finds strange palaces and wildly familiar faces in coals that glow; is not he who beholds floating in mid-air the sad visions that the many may not view; is no…"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum
15. Poesía completa
By: Alejandra Pizarnik , Ana María Becciu
2.74
Format: None pages,
Publicamos la obra poetica completa de una de las escritoras argentinas mas emblematicas de la segu… read more
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16. Morella
By: Edgar Allan Poe
4.55
Format: 160 pages,
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17. Pickman's Model
By: H.P. Lovecraft
4.49
Format: 288 pages, ebook
"Pickman's Model" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft, written in September 1926 and first publishe… read more
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18. Metzengerstein
By: Edgar Allan Poe
4.04
Format: None pages,
The story takes place in Hungary, between two rival families: the Metzengersteins and the Berlifitz… read more
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19. El Zahir
By: Jorge Luis Borges
4.00
Format: 117 pages, ebook
Cuento "El Zahir", de Jorge Luis Borges, originalmente publicado en el libro El Aleph, en 1949. read more
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20. The Selected Poems
By: Federico García Lorca , Donald M. Allen , None
4.06
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Selected Poems of Federico Garcia Lorcahas introduced generations of American readers to mesmer… read more
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21. 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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"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
"It is frightening to accept so much good fortune!"-Jorge Luis Borges, The Invention of Morel
22. Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
By: Marcel Proust , Simon Vance , Lydia Davis
4.15
Format: 710 pages, Mass Market Paperback
«Et tout d'un coup le souvenir m'est apparu. Ce goût, c'était celui du petit morceau de madeleine q… read more
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"Longtemps, je me suis couché de bonne heure."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"the comfort of reclusion, the poetry of hibernation"-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"Now are the woods all black, But still the sky is blue."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"Fall in love with a dog's bum, And thou'll think it pretty as a plum."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
23. The Purloined Letter
By: Edgar Allan Poe
3.00
Format: 468 pages, Library Binding
The Purloined Letter" is a short story by American author Edgar Allan Poe. It is the third of his t… read more
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24. 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
25. The Fall of the House of Usher
By: Edgar Allan Poe
3.87
Format: 36 pages, Paperback
Take the plunge. Dive into this classic from the singular mind of Edgar Allan Poe, who is widely re… read more
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"[Son] cœur est un luth suspendu; Sitôt qu'on le touche il résonne. — De Béranger "-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher
"A cadaverousness of complexion; an eye large, liquid and very luminous...finely molded chin, speaking, in its want of prominence, of a want of moral energy."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher
"It was, perhaps, the narrow limits to which he thus confined himself upon the guitar, which gave birth, in great measure, to the fantastic character of his performances."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher
"Er is geen twijfel mogelijk dat mijn bewustzijn van de snelle groei van mijn bijgeloof (want waarom zou ik het niet zo noemen?) de groei alleen maar scheen te versnellen. Dat is, zoals ik al lange ti…"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher
26. Kiss of the Spider Woman
By: Manuel Puig
4.01
Format: 281 pages, Paperback
Sometimes they talk all night long. In the still darkness of their cell, Molina re-weaves the glitt… read more
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"¿Qué pasa que a veces alguien dice algo y conquista para siempre a otra persona?"-Manuel Puig, Kiss of the Spider Woman
"--And the good thing about feeling happy, you know, Valentin? ...It's that you think it's forever, that one's never ever going to feel unhappy again."-Manuel Puig, Kiss of the Spider Woman
"– Io non ci credo alla faccenda del godi e non pensare al domani, Molina. Nessuno gode senza pensare al domani. Va bene solo per il paradiso terrestre."-Manuel Puig, Kiss of the Spider Woman
"—And what's so bad about being soft like a woman? Why is it men or whoever, some poor bastard, some queen, can't be sensitive, too, if he's got a mind to? —I don't know, but sometimes that kind of be…"-Manuel Puig, Kiss of the Spider Woman
27. The Cask of Amontillado
By: Edgar Allan Poe
4.08
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
"The Cask of Amontillado" (sometimes spelled "The Casque ..") is a short story written by Edgar All… read more
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"For the love of God, Montresor!"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado
"He did not perceive that my smile now was at the thought of his immolation."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado
"The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado
"The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could; but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado
28. Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There
By: Lewis Carroll , John Tenniel , Peter Glassman
3.46
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
In 1865, English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898), aka Lewis Carroll, wrote a fantastica… read more
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29. The Murders in the Rue Morgue (C. Auguste Dupin, #1)
By: Edgar Allan Poe
3.82
Format: 38 pages, Paperback
".. Rue Morgue" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe first published in "Graham's Magazine" in 1841.… read more
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"The mental features discoursed of as the analytical, are, in themselves, but little susceptible of analysis."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue (C. Auguste Dupin, #1)
"I was deeply interested in the little family history which he detailed to me with all that candor which a Frenchman indulges whenever mere self is the theme."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue (C. Auguste Dupin, #1)
"There are very few persons who have not, at some period of their lives, amused themselves in retracing the steps by which particular conclusions of their own minds have been attained."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue (C. Auguste Dupin, #1)
"You will say, no doubt, using the language of the law, that 'to make out my case,' I should rather undervalue, than insist upon a full estimation of the activity required in this matter. This may be …"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue (C. Auguste Dupin, #1)
30. Un lugar soleado para gente sombría
By: Mariana Enríquez
3.82
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
Quien ose adentrarse en las páginas de este libro sentirá un escalofrío recorriéndole la espina dor… read more
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31. Carta a una señorita en París
By: Julio Cortázar
3.94
Format: None pages, None
In 'Brief aan een meisje in Parijs', een keuze uit de bundels 'Final des juego' en 'Bestiario', bou… read more
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