Molloy
By: Samuel Beckett , Patrick Bowles
4.04
Format: 241 pages, Paperback
Molloy, the first of the three masterpieces which constitute Samuel Beckett’s famous trilogy, appea…
Want to Read $ 9.99"This should all be rewritten in the pluperfect."-Samuel Beckett, Molloy
"You can't have everything, I've often noticed it."-Samuel Beckett, Molloy
"Constipation is a sign of good health in pomeranians."-Samuel Beckett, Molloy
"Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto."-Samuel Beckett, Molloy
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1. The Crying of Lot 49
By: Thomas Pynchon
3.69
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
Suffused with rich satire, chaotic brilliance, verbal turbulence and wild humor, The Crying of Lot … read more
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- literary fiction
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"As if the dead really do persist, even in a bottle of wine."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
"Death glided by, shadowless, among the empties on the grass."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
"I am having a hallucination now, I don't need drugs for that."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
"the casting had been typically Hollywood: they didn't look or act a bit alike."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
2. The Marquise of O— and Other Stories
By: Heinrich von Kleist , None , Nigel Reeves
3.54
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
In The Marquise of O-, a virtuous widow finds herself unaccountably pregnant. And although the baff… read more
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- literature
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- classics
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"In M---, an important town in northern Italy, the widowed Marquise of O---, a lady of unblemished reputation and the mother of several well-brought-up children, inserted the following announcement in…"-Heinrich von Kleist, The Marquise of O— and Other Stories
3. Omensetter's Luck
By: William H. Gass
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
Greeted as a masterpiece when it was first published in 1966, Omensetter's Luckis the quirky, impre… read more
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- literary fiction
- classics
- literature
- 20th century
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- novels
4. The Tunnel
By: William H. Gass
4.17
Format: None pages,
Thirty years in the making, William Gass's second novel first appeared on the literary scene in 199… read more
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- literary fiction
- classics
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- 20th century
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- novels
5. 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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- literature
- literary fiction
- fiction
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6. Correction
By: Thomas Bernhard , Sophie Wilkins
3.34
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Roithamer, a character based on Wittgenstein, has committed suicide having been driven to madness b… read more
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- literary fiction
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7. The Loser
By: Thomas Bernhard , Jack Dawson
3.34
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Thomas Bernhard was one of the most original writers of the twentieth century. His formal innovatio… read more
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- classics
- literature
- 20th century
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8. Concrete
By: Thomas Bernhard , David McLintock
3.34
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Instead of the book he's meant to write, Rudolph, a Viennese musicologist, produces this tale of pr… read more
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- literary fiction
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9. Satantango
By: George Szirtes , László Krasznahorkai
4.14
Format: 274 pages, Hardcover
Already famous as the inspiration for the filmmaker Béla Tarr’s six-hour masterpiece, Satantango is… read more
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- literary fiction
- classics
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"They’re waiting patiently, like the long-suffering lot they are, in the firm conviction that someone has conned them. They are waiting, belly to the ground, like cats at pig-killing time, hoping for …"-George Szirtes, Satantango
"Irimiás: God is not made manifest in language, you dope. He's not manifest in anything. He doesn't exist... God was a mistake. I've long understood there is zero difference between me and a bug, or a…"-George Szirtes, Satantango
10. Solenoid
By: Mircea Cărtărescu
3.59
Format: 83 pages, Paperback
,,Vreau sa scriu o dare de seama despre anomaliile mele. In viata mea obscura, in afara oricarei is… read more
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11. The Plains
By: Gerald Murnane
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Fiction. Born in Melbourne, Austrailia, in 1939, Gerald Murnane recently retired as the senior lect… read more
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12. Jakob von Gunten
By: Robert Walser , Christopher Middleton
4.30
Format: 503 pages,
The Swiss writer Robert Walser is one of the quiet geniuses of twentieth-century literature. Largel… read more
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13. 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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- literature
- literary fiction
"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)
14. Molloy
By: Samuel Beckett , Patrick Bowles
4.04
Format: 241 pages, Paperback
Molloy, the first of the three masterpieces which constitute Samuel Beckett’s famous trilogy, appea… read more
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- literature
- france
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- 20th century
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- ireland
- irish literature
"This should all be rewritten in the pluperfect."-Samuel Beckett, Molloy
"You can't have everything, I've often noticed it."-Samuel Beckett, Molloy
"Constipation is a sign of good health in pomeranians."-Samuel Beckett, Molloy
"Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto."-Samuel Beckett, Molloy
15. Ulysses
By: James Joyce
3.75
Format: 925 pages, Paperback
Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It was first serialized in parts in the A… read more
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- literary fiction
- classics
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- 20th century
- fiction
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- ireland
- irish literature
"Shite and onions!"-James Joyce, Ulysses
"Let my country die for me."-James Joyce, Ulysses
"Be just before you are generous."-James Joyce, Ulysses
"no more pain. wake no more. nobody owns"-James Joyce, Ulysses
16. Extinction
By: Thomas Bernhard , David McLintock
4.28
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Thomas Bernhard is one of the greatest twentieth-century writers in the German language. Extinction… read more
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17. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
By: James Joyce , Seamus Deane
3.64
Format: 329 pages, Paperback
The portrayal of Stephen Dedalus's Dublin childhood and youth, his quest for identity through art a… read more
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"My heart is quite calm now. I will go back."-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
"God spoke to you by so many voices but you would not hear."-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
"Are you not weary of ardent ways? Tell no more of enchanted days."-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
"He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place."-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
18. Under the Volcano
By: Malcolm Lowry
3.77
Format: 423 pages, Paperback
Geoffrey Firmin, a former British consul, has come to Quauhnahuac, Mexico. His debilitating malaise… read more
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"Even almost bad poetry is better than life"-Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano
"My lover. Oh come to me again as once in May."-Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano
"What is man but a little soul holding up a corpse?"-Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano
"The dead. Do they sleep? Why should they, when we cannot?"-Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano
19. Zone
By: Mathias Énard , Charlotte Mandell
3.50
Format: 424 pages, Paperback
Francis Servain Mirkovic, a French-born Croat who has been working for the French Intelligence Serv… read more
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20. Gehen
By: Thomas Bernhard
3.94
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
Auf regelmäßigen Spaziergängen berichtet Oehler, der früher mit Karrer ging, einem Dritten, warum K… read more
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"We always look for everything in the immediate proximity, that is a mistake."-Thomas Bernhard, Gehen
"There is nothing more dreadful than having to go walking on one’s own on Monday."-Thomas Bernhard, Gehen
"The whole process of life is a process of deterioration in which everything—and this is the most cruel law—continually gets worse."-Thomas Bernhard, Gehen
21. Essays One
By: Lydia Davis
4.29
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
Best known for her short stories and translations, Davis's also writes nonfiction. In Essays I, Dav… read more
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"Read the best writers from all different periods; keep your reading of contemporaries in proportion - you do not want a steady diet of contemporary literature. You already belong to your time."-Lydia Davis, Essays One
