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The Complete Short Novels by Anton Chekhov
Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsAnton Chekhov, widely hailed as the supreme master of the short story, also wrote five works long enough to be called short novels. Here, brought together in one volume for the first time, in a masterly new translation by the award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky... -
![The Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works by William Shakespeare]()
The Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works by William Shakespeare
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFirst published in 1906, this edition of Shakespeare's Complete Works by W.J. Craig has been many times reprinted. The spelling has been modernised, and the punctuation revised. A short glossary of obsolete words is provided, and there is also an index of characters and of the first lines of songs.The drawing on the jacket, a reconstruction of the Fortune Theatre, 1600, is by C... -
![Jelena, žena koje nema by Ivo Andrić]()
Jelena, žena koje nema by Ivo Andrić
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsJelena, žena koje nema (Jelena, a Woman Who's Not Here; 1962) belongs to the inter-war period. It is the expression of an abstract idea in concrete terms, suggesting the force with which quite abstract notions and vague impressions can impose themselves on the imagination, demanding to be recognized as no less real than 'reality... -
![The Insulted and Injured by Fyodor Dostoevsky]()
The Insulted and Injured by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe Insulted and Injured is that tale of a love quadrangle -- an improbably unpossessive and uninvidious love quadrangle, at that -- told by a young novelist not to unlike Dostoevsky himself. (A young author who has just published a novel so much like Dostoevsky's Poor Folk, in fact, that we find ourselves tempted to wonder over the author's private life. But we'll refrain... -
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![Los renglones torcidos de Dios by Luca de Tena, Luca de Tena]()
Los renglones torcidos de Dios by Luca de Tena, Luca de Tena
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsthis book is from Andres Bello... -
![Short Stories From Rabindranath Tagore by Rabindranath Tagore]()
Short Stories From Rabindranath Tagore by Rabindranath Tagore
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe sixteen short stories collected here were written between 1891 and 1917 by the Bengali poet, writer, painter, musician and mystic, Sir Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941). Throughout these stories, Tagore's main interest is people and the kaleidoscope of human emotions, as men and women struggle with the restrictions and prohibitions of contemporary Hindu society... -
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Beginners by Raymond Carver
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsHere is the original manuscript of Raymond Carver’s seminal 1981 collection, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love. Carver is one of the most celebrated short-story writers in American literature—his style is both instantly recognizable and hugely influential—and the pieces in What We Talk About . .Categorized as:
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![Lost Illusions by Honoré de Balzac]()
Lost Illusions by Honoré de Balzac
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsHandsome would-be poet Lucien Chardon is poor and naive, but highly ambitious. Failing to make his name in his dull provincial hometown, he is taken up by a patroness, the captivating married woman Madame de Bargeton, and prepares to forge his way in the glamorous beau monde of Paris... -
![Fear by Stefan Zweig]()
Fear by Stefan Zweig
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsFinding her comfortable bourgeois existence as wife and mother predictable after eight years of marriage, Irene Wagner brings a little excitement into it by starting an affair with a rising young pianist. Her lover’s former mistress begins blackmailing her, threatening to give her secret away to her husband. Irene is soon in the grip of agonizing fear... -
![The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham]()
The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsBased on the life of Paul Gauguin, The Moon and Sixpence is W. Somerset Maugham's ode to the powerful forces behind creative genius. Charles Strickland is a staid banker, a man of wealth and privilege. He is also a man possessed of an unquenchable desire to create art... -
![Memento & Following by Christopher J. Nolan]()
Memento & Following by Christopher J. Nolan
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsChristopher Nolan's Memento is an intricate, original, fascinating thriller, hailed by Philip French of the Observer as 'one of the year's most exciting pictures'. Its protagonist Leonard (Guy Pearce) is a puzzle, even to himself. He sports the trappings of an expensive lifestyle, yet he lives in seedy motels, and seems to be on a desperate mission of revenge to find the man who murdered his wife... -
![Euthyphro, Apologia Socratis, Crito, Phaedo, Cratylus, Sophista, Politicus, Theaetetus by Plato]()
Euthyphro, Apologia Socratis, Crito, Phaedo, Cratylus, Sophista, Politicus, Theaetetus by Plato
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThis long awaited new edition contains seven of the dialogues of Plato, and is the first in the five-volume complete edition of Plato's works in the Oxford Classical Texts series. The result of many years of painstaking scholarship, the new volume will replace the now nearly one hundred-year-old original edition, and is destined to become just as long lasting a classic... -
![Nobel Prize for Literature Classics: The Stranger, the Plague by Albert Camus]()
Nobel Prize for Literature Classics: The Stranger, the Plague by Albert Camus
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsSimplified Chinese edition of two of the best of Albert Camus: The Stranger, The Plague. In Simplified Chinese. Annotation copyright Tsai Fong Books, Inc. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc... -
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![L'Idiot;: 1 by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Victor Derély]()
L'Idiot;: 1 by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Victor Derély
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible... -
![Four Major Plays: A Doll's House / Ghosts / Hedda Gabler / The Master Builder by Henrik Ibsen, James McFarlane]()
Four Major Plays: A Doll's House / Ghosts / Hedda Gabler / The Master Builder by Henrik Ibsen, James McFarlane
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsTaken from the highly acclaimed Oxford Ibsen, this collection of Ibsen's plays includes A Doll's House, Ghosts, Hedda Gabler and The Master Builder... -
![Crave by Sarah Kane]()
Crave by Sarah Kane
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSet in an unnamed city from which voices and images spring, Crave charts the disintegration of a human mind under the pressures of love, loss and desire.Produced by Paines Plough and Bright Ltd (Guy Chapman and Paul Spyker), Crave premiered at the Traverse Theatre for the 1998 Edinburgh Festival. It received its English premiere at the Royal Court Theatre, London in September 1998... -
![The Bet by Anton Chekhov]()
The Bet by Anton Chekhov
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA banker and a young lawyer make a bet with each other about whether the death penalty is better or worse than life in prison...Categorized as:
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![Open Secrets: Stories by Alice Munro]()
Open Secrets: Stories by Alice Munro
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn these eight tales, Munro evokes the devastating power of old love suddenly recollected. She tells of vanished schoolgirls and indentured frontier brides and an eccentric recluse who, in the course of one surpassingly odd dinner party, inadvertently lands herself a wealthy suitor from exotic Australia... -
![Memento Mori by Jonathan Nolan]()
Memento Mori by Jonathan Nolan
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA man named Earl has anterograde amnesia. Because of his inability to remember things for more than a few minutes, he uses notes and tattoos to keep track of new information... -
![The Dream Of A Ridiculous Man by Fyodor Dostoevsky]()
The Dream Of A Ridiculous Man by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars · 38 ratingsThis scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages... -
![The Effect by Lucy Prebble]()
The Effect by Lucy Prebble
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsYou're on a placebo, Tristan. Least I've got an excuse. She told me: you're nothing, you're a control. This is all just you.The Effect is a clinical romance. Two young volunteers, Tristan and Connie, agree to take part in a clinical drug trial...Categorized as:
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![The Moons of Jupiter by Alice Munro]()
The Moons of Jupiter by Alice Munro
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 18 ratings**Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature**The characters who populate an Alice Munro story live and breathe. Passions hopelessly conceived, affections betrayed, marriages made and broken: the joys, fears, loves and awakenings of women echo throughout these twelve unforgettable stories, laying bare the unexceptional and yet inescapable pain of human contact... -
![Geschichte eines Untergangs by Stefan Zweig]()
Geschichte eines Untergangs by Stefan Zweig
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsMme de Prie war bis vor Kurzem einflussreiche Mätresse am Hof von Louis XV. Mit Intrigen und manipulativen Spielen versucht sie sich ihren Platz in den höheren Pariser Kreisen zurückzuerobern... -
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![Fräulein Else by Arthur Schnitzler]()
Fräulein Else by Arthur Schnitzler
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA young woman is contacted by her mother, begging her to save her father from debtor's jail by visiting an elderly acquaintance in order to borrow money. This novel shows how the demands of her family force Else into the realization that everything has a price and morality has a most brittle veneer... -
![The Gentle Spirit by Fyodor Dostoevsky]()
The Gentle Spirit by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 24 ratings"The Gentle Spirit" (Russian: Кроткая, Krotkaya), sometimes also translated as "The Meek One", is a short story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky in 1876. The piece comes with the subtitle of "A Fantastic Story", and it chronicles the relationship between a pawnbroker and a girl that frequents his shop. It masterfully depicts desperation, greed, manipulation and suicide... -
![The Gentle Spirit by Fyodor Dostoevsky]()
The Gentle Spirit by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIn this compelling study of despair, based on a real-life incident, a pawnbroker mourns the loss of his wife, a quiet, gentle young girl. Why has she killed herself? Could he have prevented it? These are the questions the pawnbroker asks himself as he pieces together past events and minor incidents, changes of mood and passing glances, in his search for an answer that will relieve his torment... -
![The Counterfeiters by André Gide]()
The Counterfeiters by André Gide
Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsOriginally published in 1925, this book became known for the frank sexuality of its contents and its account of middle class French morality. The themes of the book explore the problem of morals, the problem of society and the problems facing writers. An appendix to this edition (Vintage, 1973) contains excerpts from the Gide's notebooks which he kept while writing this book... -
![Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac]()
Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsPère Goriot is the tragic story of a father whose obsessive love for his two daughters leads to his financial and personal ruin. Interwoven with this theme is that of the impoverished young aristocrat, Rastignac, who came to Paris from the provinces to hopefully make his fortune. He befriends Goriot and becomes involved with the daughters... -
![The Millstone by Margaret Drabble]()
The Millstone by Margaret Drabble
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsMargaret Drabble’s affecting novel is set in London during the 1960s. Rosamund Stacey is young and inexperienced at a time when sexual liberation is well on its way. She conceals her ignorance beneath a show of independence, and becomes pregnant as a result of a one night stand... -
![The Sorrows of Young Werther and Selected Writings by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]()
The Sorrows of Young Werther and Selected Writings by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe Sorrows of Young Werther brings to life an idyllic German village where a youth on vacation meets and falls for lovely Charlotte. The tragedy unfolds in the letters Werther writes to his friend about Charlotte's charms, even after he realizes his love will remain unrequited... -
![The Cocktail Party: A Comedy by T.S. Eliot]()
The Cocktail Party: A Comedy by T.S. Eliot
Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars · 14 ratings'Eliot has attempted here something very daring and well worth doing. He has taken the ordinary West End drawing room comedy convention - understatement, upper-class accents and all - and used it as a vehicle for utterly serious ideas... -
![Zeno's Conscience by Italo Svevo]()
Zeno's Conscience by Italo Svevo
Rated: 3.77 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsLong hailed as a seminal work of modernism in the tradition of Joyce and Kafka, and now available in a supple new English translation, Italo Svevo’s charming and splendidly idiosyncratic novel conducts readers deep into one hilariously hyperactive and endlessly self-deluding mind... -
![The Lottery Ticket by Anton Chekhov]()
The Lottery Ticket by Anton Chekhov
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhen Ivan Dmitritch's wife, Masha, invests her money in the lottery, he can help but feel it is a foolish waste of timing. However, having read through the rest of the paper, he agrees to check the numbers for his wife at her request. To his astonishment, the series number of Masha's lottery ticket matches the winning series number... -
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![Tonio Kröger by Thomas Mann]()
Tonio Kröger by Thomas Mann
Rated: 3.72 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA title in the Bristol Classical Press German Texts series, in German with English notes, vocabulary and introduction. Thomas Mann (1875-1955), was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1929, and "Tonio Kroger" occupies a central position in his spiritual and artistic development... -
![The Lady with the Toy Dog by Anton Chekhov]()
The Lady with the Toy Dog by Anton Chekhov
Rated: 3.72 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsBest Illustrated Books #6“The Lady with the Dog” is a 1899 short story by Anton Chekhov. It is one of his most renowned and highly valued works. It tells a story of an adulterous affair between Dmitri Gurow, who is a bank worker from Moscow, and Anna Sergeyevna. Both of them are married and have arrived in an unnamed provincial city for a holiday... -
![Thérèse by François Mauriac]()
Thérèse by François Mauriac
Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsFrom the moment she walks from court having been charged with attempting to poison her husband, to her banishment, escape to Paris, and final years of solitude and waiting, the life of Thérèse Desqueyroux is passionate and tortured. The victim of a hostile fate, Thérèse, as Mauriac said of her ‘belongs to that class of human beings … for whom night can end only when life itself ends... -
![Dream Story by Arthur Schnitzler]()
Dream Story by Arthur Schnitzler
Rated: 3.77 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsThis wonderful translation of Dream Story will allow a fresh generation of readers to enjoy this beautiful, heartless and baffling novella. Dream Story tells how through a simple sexual admission a husband and wife are driven apart into rival worlds of erotic intrigue and revenge... -
![The Following Story by Cees Nooteboom]()
The Following Story by Cees Nooteboom
Rated: 3.64 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsHerman Mussert went to bed last night in Amsterdam and wakes in Lisbon in a hotel room where he slept with another man’s wife more than twenty years ago. Winner of the European Literary Prize for Best Novel, and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Translated by Ina Rilke... -
![The Homecoming by Harold Pinter]()
The Homecoming by Harold Pinter
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsIn an old and slightly seedy house in North London there lives a family of men: Max, the aging but still aggressive patriarch; his younger, ineffectual brother Sam; and two of Max's three sons, neither of whom is marriedLenny, a small-time pimp, and Joey, who dreams of success as a boxer... -
![The Eternal Husband by Fyodor Dostoevsky]()
The Eternal Husband by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe most monstrous monster is the monster with noble feelings.This remarkably edgy and suspenseful tale shows that, despite being better known for his voluminous and sprawling novels, Fyodor Dostoevsky was a master of the more tightly-focused form of the novella... -
![Tristessa (Duluoz Legend) by Jack Kerouac, Aram Saroyan]()
Tristessa (Duluoz Legend) by Jack Kerouac, Aram Saroyan
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsTristessa is the name with which Kerouac baptized Esperanza Villanueva, a Catholic Mexican young woman, a prostitute and addict to certain drugs, whom he fell in love with during one of his stays in Mexico -a country that he frequently visited - by the middle of the fifties... -
![Exotic Neurotic by Kenneth Jarrett Singleton]()
Exotic Neurotic by Kenneth Jarrett Singleton
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsSYNOPSIS Exotic Neurotic is a book of poetry which involves subject matter such as depression, imbalance within one's personal self, angst, frustration, youthfulness, antisocial behavior, and violence. In addition, many of Exotic Neurotic's thematic properties also pertain to love, illness, death, human anatomy, physical deformities, elimination, birth, and abortion... -
![The War of the Roses by Warren Adler]()
The War of the Roses by Warren Adler
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWarren Adler is the acclaimed author of 25 novels, published in 30 languages. Two of his books, "The War of the Roses" and "Random Hearts" were made into major motion pictures. He lives in Jackson Hole, Wyoming and New York City. This is the book that became one of the most famous movies about divorce ever produced... -
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![Adolphe by Benjamin Constant, Leonard Tancock]()
Adolphe by Benjamin Constant, Leonard Tancock
Rated: 3.57 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAdolphe is a privileged and refined young man, bored by the stupidity he perceives in the world around him. After a number of meaningless conquests, he at last encounters Ellenore, a beautiful and passionate older woman. Adolphe is enraptured and gradually wears down her resistance to his declarations of love... -
![The Storm by Aleksandr Ostrovsky]()
The Storm by Aleksandr Ostrovsky
Rated: 3.56 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThis is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process... -
![My Mortal Enemy by Willa Cather]()
My Mortal Enemy by Willa Cather
Rated: 3.56 of 5 stars · 16 ratings"Sometimes, when I have watched the bright beginning of a love story, when I have seen a common feeling exalted into beauty by imagination, generosity, and the flaming courage of youth, I have heard again that strange complaint breathed by a dying woman into the stillness of night, like a confession of the soul: 'Why must I die like this, alone with my mortal enemy... -
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Everyman by Philip Roth
Rated: 3.58 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsPhilip Roth's new novel is a candidly intimate yet universal story of loss, regret, and stoicism. The best-selling author of The Plot Against America now turns his attention from "one family's harrowing encounter with history" (New York Times) to one man's lifelong skirmish with mortality... -
![The Dying Animal by Philip Roth]()
The Dying Animal by Philip Roth
Rated: 3.58 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsNo matter how much you know, no matter how much you think, no matter how much you plot and you connive and you plan, you’re not superior to sex. With these words our most unflaggingly energetic and morally serious novelist launches perhaps his fiercest book... -
![The Child Of Pleasure by Gabriele d'Annunzio]()
The Child Of Pleasure by Gabriele d'Annunzio
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe Child of Pleasure (written in 1888 and published in 1889) and its protagonist Andrea Sperelli introduced the Italian culture of the late 1800s to Aestheticism and a taste for decadence...
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