Disturbing the Peace
By: Richard Yates
3.80
Format: None pages, Paperback
Hailed as "America's finest realistic novelist" by the Boston Globe,Richard Yates, author of Revolu…
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1. Hippolytos
By: Euripides , Robert Bagg
3.81
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
In most versions of the Hippolytos myth, Phaidra is depicted as an utterly debauched character, a w… read more
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"There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course; a quiet conscience."-Euripides, Hippolytos
"I have pondered on the causes of a life's shipwreck. I think that our lives are worse than the mind's quality would warrant. There are many who know virtue. We know the good, we apprehend it clearly.…"-Euripides, Hippolytos
"О Зевс! Зачем ты создавал жену? И это зло с его фальшивым блеском Лучам небес позволил обливать? Иль для того, чтоб род людской продолжить, Ты обойтись без женщины не мог? Иль из своих за медь и злат…"-Euripides, Hippolytos
2. Miss Lonelyhearts
By: Nathanael West
3.58
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
NYC. Height of Depression. The male Miss G columnist is weighted down by gloom. Obscene rhymes rep… read more
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"It's solitary drinking that makes drunkards."-Nathanael West, Miss Lonelyhearts
"Humanity...I'm a humanity lover. All the broken bastards..."-Nathanael West, Miss Lonelyhearts
"He's an escapist. He wants to cultivate his interior garden."-Nathanael West, Miss Lonelyhearts
"He read it for the same reason an animal tears at a wounded foot: to hurt the pain."-Nathanael West, Miss Lonelyhearts
3. Fat City
By: Leonard Gardner
4.02
Format: 183 pages, Paperback
Fat City is a novel about the indestructibility of of hope, the anguish and comedy of the human con… read more
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"Profoundly moved, he kissed the lax waiting mouth with exquisite unhappiness."-Leonard Gardner, Fat City
"At times as he lay in bed listening to her breathing, a fear came over him that after marriage death was the next major event."-Leonard Gardner, Fat City
"He felt the guilt of inaction, of simply waiting while his life went to waste. No one was worth the gift of his life, no one could possibly be worth that. It belonged to him alone, and he did not des…"-Leonard Gardner, Fat City
"Out in the fog, weary, yet buoyant from the drinks, his mind dulled along with his aches and his energy returning, Tully was free of the sense of impending ordeal that had been with him for weeks. He…"-Leonard Gardner, Fat City
4. The Moviegoer
By: Walker Percy
3.65
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
When "The Moviegoer" was first published in 1961, it won the National Book Award and established Wa… read more
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"Peklo nemůže být plné ohně - existují daleko horší věci."-Walker Percy, The Moviegoer
"Have you noticed that only in time of illness or disaster or death are people real?"-Walker Percy, The Moviegoer
"I have discovered that most people have no one to talk to, no one, that is, who really wants to listen."-Walker Percy, The Moviegoer
"This Midwestern sky is the nakedest loneliest sky in America. To escape it, people live inside and underground."-Walker Percy, The Moviegoer
5. The Assistant
By: Bernard Malamud , Jonathan Rosen
4.00
Format: 32 pages,
Bernard Malamud's second novel, originally published in 1957, is the story of Morris Bober, a groce… read more
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6. Steps
By: Jerzy Kosiński
3.95
Format: None pages, Paperback
Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction From the esteemed author of the classics The Painted … read more
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7. Dog Soldiers
By: Robert Stone
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
In Saigon during the waning days of the Vietnam War, a small-time journalist named John Converse th… read more
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8. The Conformist
By: Alberto Moravia , Tami Calliope
3.63
Format: 353 pages, Paperback
Secrecy and Silence are second nature to Marcello Clerici, the hero of The Conformist, a book which… read more
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9. The Melancholy of Resistance
By: George Szirtes , László Krasznahorkai
2.50
Format: 62 pages, Paperback
The Melancholy of Resistance, Laszlo Krasznahorkai's magisterial, surreal novel, depicts a chain of… read more
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10. Zuckerman Unbound
By: Philip Roth
4.50
Format: 290 pages, Paperback
Following the wild success of his novel, Carnovsky, Nathan Zuckerman has been catapulted into the l… read more
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11. Levantado do Chão
By: José Saramago
4.15
Format: None pages, Paperback
"<>(Diario de Noticias, 9 de Outubro de 1998)" read more
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13. History
By: Elsa Morante , Lily Tuck
3.64
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Historywas written nearly thirty years after Elsa Morante and Alberto Moravia spent a year in hidin… read more
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14. Family Dancing
By: David Leavitt
3.61
Format: 523 pages, Paperback
Tender, unsettling, and amusing, these stories present families all unhappy in their own different … read more
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- fiction
- the united states of america
15. Disturbing the Peace
By: Richard Yates
3.80
Format: None pages, Paperback
Hailed as "America's finest realistic novelist" by the Boston Globe,Richard Yates, author of Revolu… read more
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16. China in Ten Words
By: Yu Hua , Allan H. Barr
3.93
Format: 40 pages, Hardcover
From one of China's most acclaimed writers, his first work of nonfiction to appear in English: a un… read more
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17. Hard Rain Falling
By: None , Don Carpenter
4.14
Format: 308 pages, Paperback
Don Carpenter's Hard Rain Falling is a tough-as-nails account of being down and out, but never down… read more
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"How do you wake up? It was one thing to know that you had been asleep all your life, but something else to wake up from it, to find out you were really alive and it wasn't anybody's fault but your ow…"-None, Hard Rain Falling
18. The Ghost Writer
By: Philip Roth
4.21
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Ghost Writerintroduces Nathan Zuckerman in the 1950s; a budding writer infatuated with the Grea… read more
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19. Boredom
By: Alberto Moravia , William Weaver , Angus Davidson
4.90
Format: None pages, Paperback
The novels that the great Italian writer Alberto Moravia wrote in the years following the World War… read more
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20. The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
By: Jonathan Franzen , Sloan Wilson
3.59
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
Here is the story of Tom and Betsy Rath, a young couple with everthing going for them: three health… read more
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21. Vertigo
By: Geoffrey Sainsbury , Boileau-Narcejac
4.29
Format: 156 pages, Paperback
L'histoire se deroule en France, durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Flavieres, ancien inspecteur de… read more
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22. The Counterlife
By: Philip Roth
3.42
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
The Counterlifeis about people enacting their dreams of renewal and escape, some of them going so f… read more
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23. Conversation in the Cathedral
By: Gregory Rabassa , Mario Vargas Llosa
4.00
Format: 204 pages, Paperback
A Haunting tale of power, corruption, and the complex search for identity, Conversation in The Cath… read more
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24. Baumgartner
By: Paul Auster
3.78
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A taut yet expansive novel of love, memory, and grief from Paul Auster, best-selling, award-winning… read more
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"Vivir es sentir dolor, y vivir con miedo al dolor es negarse a vivir"-Paul Auster, Baumgartner
"To live is to feel pain, he told himself, and to live in fear of pain is to refuse to live."-Paul Auster, Baumgartner
"at some point in the coming years, the two books should be combined and reconfigured into a large, one-volume collected poems—a monument of singing pages that will overwhelm the silence of Anna’s gra…"-Paul Auster, Baumgartner
"the story turns out to be so astounding and so powerful that your jaw drops open and you feel that it has changed or enhanced or deepened your understanding of the world, does it matter if the story …"-Paul Auster, Baumgartner
25. The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
By: Olivia Laing
4.07
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore a walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual pla… read more
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"One of the operations by which capitalism perpetuates itself is displacement, the determined and absolute separation of the product from the site of production, so that when we buy petrol or peat fro…"-Olivia Laing, The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
26. Kick the Latch
By: Kathryn Scanlan
4.11
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Kathryn Scanlan’s Kick the Latch vividly captures the arc of one woman’s life at the racetrack—the … read more
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27. Confidenza
By: Domenico Starnone
3.49
Format: 152 pages, Hardcover
Pietro vive con Teresa un amore tempestoso. Dopo l’ennesimo litigio, a lei viene un’idea: raccontam… read more
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"Far chiarezza all'interno della vita di coppia, mah, forse è un dovere, ma anche un lusso che è rischioso permettersi."-Domenico Starnone, Confidenza
"- Aveva per modello qualcuno dei suoi insegnanti? - I miei insegnanti? No, assolutamente no. Anzi, il mio unico imperativo era: non fare ai tuoi allievi il male che i tuoi insegnanti hanno fatto a te."-Domenico Starnone, Confidenza
"Pensai: ci innamoriamo di persone che sembrano vere ma non esistono, sono una nostra invenzione; questa donna così ferma, dalle frasi così scandite, questa donna senza timidezze, sferzante, non la co…"-Domenico Starnone, Confidenza
28. Trick
By: Domenico Starnone
3.71
Format: 176 pages, Kindle Edition
Imagine a duel. A face-off between a man and a boy. The same blood runs through their veins. One… read more
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"...and just to evade confrontation, he opens a window on the fourth floor, ready to jump. The abyss, more and more often, is the way to save ourselves from ourselves."-Domenico Starnone, Trick
"He stared at the first one, seeming to drink it up with his eyes, an antiquated metaphor that I’ve always loved: People and things dissolve, turn to liquid, and the eyes become mouth and throat, chan…"-Domenico Starnone, Trick
"I have enormous affection that grows rather than diminishes with time, for the I that I painfully cose from the many, my I. How we love—all of us—our chatty little imp. The toil begins when we toss h…"-Domenico Starnone, Trick
"Sexual pleasure, uncoupled once and for all from reproduction, which was its original purpose, continuously leaked fluids all over the planet, in every season. And there was no controlling it, whatev…"-Domenico Starnone, Trick
29. Cardiff, by the Sea: Four Novellas of Suspense
By: Joyce Carol Oates
3.73
Format: 404 pages, Hardcover
Joyce Carol Oates, the “grand mistress of ghoulishness” ( Publishers Weekly ), showcases her master… read more
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30. Nothing But the Night
By: John Williams
3.22
Format: 123 pages, Paperback
First published in 1948, Nothing but the Night marked the auspicious beginning of John Williams' ca… read more
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31. High as the Waters Rise
By: Anja Kampmann
3.18
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
German poet Anja Kampmann’s award-winning debut novel is the dazzling, heart-rending story of an oi… read more
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