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…
Want to Read $ 5.99"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
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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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- literary fiction
- classics
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- 20th century
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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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- literary fiction
- classics
- literature
- philosophy
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- 20th century
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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. 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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- classics
- literature
- philosophy
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"E ti chiedi: “Dove sono i tuoi sogni?"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights
"Oh, how unbearable is a happy person sometimes!"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights
"Kalbim içimde konuşurken ben susmayı beceremem."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights
"But how could you live and have no story to tell?"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights
4. Szewcy
By: None
3.39
Format: 440 pages, Paperback
Centralnym zagadnieniem Szewcow (1934) uczynil Witkacy nadejscie nowego wspanialego swiata . W nauk… read more
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- classics
- fiction
5. The Myth of Sisyphus
By: Albert Camus , Justin O'Brien , James Wood , Justin Obrien
4.18
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselv… read more
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- literature
- philosophy
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"A fate is not a punishment."-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
"there are truths but no truth"-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
"To will is to stir up paradoxes"-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
"Le suicide est une solution à l'absurde."-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
6. The Plague
By: Albert Camus , Stuart Gilbert
4.02
Format: 308 pages, Paperback
The Plague is a novel by Albert Camus, published in 1947. It tells the story from the point of … read more
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"Who taught you all this, doctor?" The reply came promptly: "Suffering."-Albert Camus, The Plague
"The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits."-Albert Camus, The Plague
"They knew now that if there is one thing one can always yearn for, and sometimes attain, it is human love."-Albert Camus, The Plague
"I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold."-Albert Camus, The Plague
7. The Brothers Karamazov
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky
4.37
Format: 796 pages, Paperback
The Brothers Karamazov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry… read more
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- classics
- literature
- philosophy
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"How good life is when one does something good and just!"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
"Forgive me... for my love - for ruining you with my love."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
"Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
"What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
8. 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
9. The Idiot
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Constance Garnett , Joseph Frank , Alan Myers , Anna Brailovsky
4.21
Format: 667 pages, Paperback
Returning to Russia from a sanitarium in Switzerland, the Christ-like epileptic Prince Myshkin find… read more
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- classics
- literature
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"I'm drunk but truthful."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot
"Beauty will save the world."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot
"The Russian soul is a dark place."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot
"She is passion embodied, a flower of melodrama in eternal bloom."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot
10. 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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- german literature
- literary fiction
- classics
- literature
- czech literature
- philosophy
- dystopia
- fiction
- 20th century
- novels
"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
11. Steppenwolf
By: Hermann Hesse , Basil Creighton , کیکاووس جهانداری
4.75
Format: None pages, Paperback
Steppenwolfis a poetical self-portrait of a man who felt himself to be half-human and half-wolf. Th… read more
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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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"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. Przedwiośnie
By: Stefan Żeromski
4.15
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Przedwiosnie - ostatnia powiesc Zeromskiego - prezentuje panoramiczny obraz panstwa polskiego odrad… read more
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14. 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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- literature
- philosophy
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- fiction
"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
15. Tango
By: Sławomir Mrożek
3.83
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Tango to dramat o wspolczesnym spoleczenstwie, w ktorym panuje konformizm, anarchia, brak postaw. F… read more
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16. 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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- literature
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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
17. The Master and Margarita
By: Mikhail Bulgakov , None , Katherine Tiernan O'Connor , None
4.29
Format: 372 pages, Paperback
The first complete, annotated English Translation of Mikhail Bulgakov's comic masterpiece. An au… read more
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- literature
- 20th century
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"Cowardice is the most terrible of vices."-Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
"manuscripts don't burn" - "(рукописи не горят)"-Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
"The tongue may hide the truth but the eyes—never!"-Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
"Злых людей нет на свете, есть только люди несчастливые."-Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
18. The Fall
By: Albert Camus , Justin O'Brien
4.01
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
Elegantly styled, Camus' profoundly disturbing novel of a Parisian lawyer's confessions is a searin… read more
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19. 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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- literature
- novels
- classics
- fiction
"To define is to limit."-Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
"All art is quite useless."-Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
"What fire does not destroy, it hardens"-Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
"The basis of optimism is sheer terror."-Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
20. 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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- literature
- dystopia
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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
21. Mała apokalipsa
By: Tadeusz Konwicki
3.63
Format: 235 pages, Paperback
"Oto nadchodzi koniec świata. Oto nadciąga, zbliża się czy raczej przypełza mój własny koniec świat… read more
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"Dreams are debris from bad day. Dreams are poems by bad poets that never got written."-Tadeusz Konwicki, Mała apokalipsa
"Yes, I am confusing literature with life. I'm declaring my own ordinary life to be a work of literature."-Tadeusz Konwicki, Mała apokalipsa
"She smelled like water that had been warmed by the sun, and she also had the sharp, enticing aroma of birch leaves."-Tadeusz Konwicki, Mała apokalipsa
"Character is a lack of doubt, character is stubbornly persevering in an intention no matter how senseless it is, character is a lack of imagination, character is inborn dullness, character is the mis…"-Tadeusz Konwicki, Mała apokalipsa
