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Tehlikeli Oyunlar by Oğuz Atay
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsKişinin kendiyle savaşmasını ve yenmesini, kendini dönüştürmesinin hayati bir sorun olarak algılamaya çağıran, çarpıcı ve sarsıca bir roman... -
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Art of the Return of the King by Gary Russell
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsWith Peter Jackson's Acadamy Award-winning epic motion picture trilogy drawing to a spectacular and triumphant close, Gary Russell's detailed research takes us back into the world of Middle-earth, to relive all the visual drama and excitement of The Return of the King... -
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Art of the Two Towers by Gary Russell
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsA companion to The Art of The Fellowship of the Ring, this authoritative and insightful book is packed with more than five hundred full-color images — many exclusive to this volume — and shows the development of the imagery in The Two Towers from concept drawings to wide-screen glory... -
![Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe]()
Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsEdgar Allan Poe was one of the most original writers in the history of American letters, a genius who was tragically misunderstood in his lifetime... -
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![Golpo Guccho by Rabindranath Tagore]()
Golpo Guccho by Rabindranath Tagore
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsGolpo Guccho by Rabindranath Tagore is a popular Bengali book of Rabindranath Tagore. The book is collection of 95 Short Stories which are most popular. Tagore wrote most of the stories from Bengali Year 1298 to 1310. The books was published in Indian Publishing House in 1908 to 1909 by Five Parts... -
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![Ficciones / El Aleph / El informe de Brodie by Jorge Luis Borges]()
Ficciones / El Aleph / El informe de Brodie by Jorge Luis Borges
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSi hay juego en esa álgebra metafísica con que Borges captura el universo, también lo hay en la praxis de su elaboración narrativa... -
![Shonkhonil Karagar by Humayun Ahmed]()
Shonkhonil Karagar by Humayun Ahmed
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsShonkhonil Karagar is a 1973 novel by Bangladeshi author Humayun Ahmed. It is also a book that was made into a popular movie in Bangladesh. The book was made into the 1992 film with the same title, starring Zafar Iqbal, Champa, Doli Johur, Abul Hayat, Suborna Mustafa and Asaduzzaman Noor. It was filmed in 1992 in Dhaka, Bangladesh... -
![Duino Elegies and The Sonnets to Orpheus by Rainer Maria Rilke, Mark Doty]()
Duino Elegies and The Sonnets to Orpheus by Rainer Maria Rilke, Mark Doty
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsRilke is one of the most widely read poets of the 20th century. In his poetry, Rilke addresses the problems of death, God, and "destructive time," and attempts to overcome and transform these problems into an indestructive inner world...Categorized as:
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![Profesor Wilczur by Tadeusz Dolega-Mostowicz, Agnieszka Conkel]()
Profesor Wilczur by Tadeusz Dolega-Mostowicz, Agnieszka Conkel
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThis is the story of a renowned Polish doctor, Wilczur, who loses his memory. In his process of finding the truth about his identity, he becomes a quack... -
![Raag Darbari by Shrilal Shukla, श्रीलाल शुक्ल]()
Raag Darbari by Shrilal Shukla, श्रीलाल शुक्ल
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsRaag Darbari is a Hindi novel written by Srilal Sukla, an author known for his social and political satire. He was awarded the Sahitya Academy Award, the highest Indian literary award, in 1969 for this novel.The novel highlights the failing values present in post-Independence Indian society... -
![गोदान [Godaan] by Munshi Premchand, मुंशी प्रेमचंद]()
गोदान [Godaan] by Munshi Premchand, मुंशी प्रेमचंद
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsPremchand is the most famous Hindi novelist and Godaan is Premchand’s most celebrated novel. Economic and social conflict in a north Indian village are brilliantly captured in the story of Hori, a poor farmer and his family’s struggle for survival and self-respect. Hori does everything he can to fulfill his life’s desire: to own a cow, the peasant’s measure of wealth and well-being... -
![Πούσι by Nikos Kavvadias, Νίκος Καββαδίας]()
Πούσι by Nikos Kavvadias, Νίκος Καββαδίας
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsΤο Πούσι είναι η δεύτερη ποιητική συλλογή του Νίκου Καββαδία και εκδόθηκε για πρώτη φορά το 1947 από τον Α. Καραβία. Έκτοτε εκδόθηκε 4 φορές στις εκδ. Γαλαξίας (1961-1971), 16 φορές στις εκδ. Κέδρος (1975-1989) και, από τον Οκτώβριο 1989 μέχρι τον Δεκέμβριο 2000, 13 φορές στις εκδ. Άγρα... -
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The Titan: by Theodore Dreiser
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIf there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it... -
![Great Short Works of Leo Tolstoy by Leo Tolstoy, John Bayley]()
Great Short Works of Leo Tolstoy by Leo Tolstoy, John Bayley
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsOf all Russian writers Leo Tolstoy is probably the best known to the Western world, largely because of War and Peace, his epic in prose, and Anna Karenina, one of the most splendid novels in any language. But during his long lifetime Tolstoy also wrote enough shorter works to fill many volumes... -
![Complete Works Ultimate Collection by Algernon Charles Swinburne, Darryl Marks]()
Complete Works Ultimate Collection by Algernon Charles Swinburne, Darryl Marks
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsExclusive 10 Unique Painted Illustrations created for this collectionHistorical & Literary Context Notes Incl... -
![The Stories of Raymond Carver by Raymond Carver]()
The Stories of Raymond Carver by Raymond Carver
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWill You Please Be Quiet, Please? What We Talk About When We Talk About Love... -
![The Shawshank Redemption by Mark Kermode]()
The Shawshank Redemption by Mark Kermode
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThis study traces the history of "The Shawshank Redemption" and draws on interviews with writer/director Frank Darabont and leading players Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman. The book also explores the near-religious fervour that the film inspires in a huge number of devoted fans... -
![The Grapes of Wrath and Other Writings 1936–1941: The Long Valley / The Grapes of Wrath / The Log from the Sea of Cortez / The Harvest Gypsies by John Steinbeck]()
The Grapes of Wrath and Other Writings 1936–1941: The Long Valley / The Grapes of Wrath / The Log from the Sea of Cortez / The Harvest Gypsies by John Steinbeck
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe second volume in the Library of America’s authoritative edition of John Steinbeck features his acknowledged masterpiece, The Grapes of Wrath. Written in an incredibly compressed five-month period, the novel had an electrifying impact upon publication in 1939, unleashing a political storm with its vision of America’s dispossessed struggling for survival... -
![A Part of Speech by Joseph Brodsky, Иосиф Бродский]()
A Part of Speech by Joseph Brodsky, Иосиф Бродский
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA Part of Speech contains poems from the years 1965-1978, translated by various hands... -
![The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Volume II A by Ben Bova, C.M. Kornbluth]()
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Volume II A by Ben Bova, C.M. Kornbluth
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsEleven Classic Novellas by the most honored authors of science fiction:This volume is the definitive collection of the best science fiction novellas between 1929 to 1964 and contains eleven great classics. There is no better anthology that captures the birth of science fiction as a literary field... -
![Collected Poems in English by Joseph Brodsky]()
Collected Poems in English by Joseph Brodsky
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsOne of the greatest and grandest advocates of the literary vocation, Joseph Brodsky truly lived his life as a poet, and for it earned eighteen months of internal exile at hard labor, expulsion from his native country, and the Nobel Prize in Literature... -
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![The History of the Hobbit, Part Two: Return to Bag-End by John D. Rateliff, J.R.R. Tolkien]()
The History of the Hobbit, Part Two: Return to Bag-End by John D. Rateliff, J.R.R. Tolkien
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFirst published in 1938, The Hobbit is a story that “grew in the telling,” and many characters and events in the published book are completely different from what Tolkien first wrote to read aloud to his young sons as part of their “fireside reads... -
![What Work Is by Philip Levine]()
What Work Is by Philip Levine
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWinner of the National Book Award in 1991 “This collection amounts to a hymn of praise for all the workers of America. These proletarian heroes, with names like Lonnie, Loo, Sweet Pea, and Packy, work the furnaces, forges, slag heaps, assembly lines, and loading docks at places with unglamorous names like Brass Craft or Feinberg and Breslin’s First-Rate Plumbing and Plating...Categorized as:
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![95 Poems by E.E. Cummings]()
95 Poems by E.E. Cummings
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsPublished in 1958, 95 Poems is the last book of new poems published in Cummings's lifetime. Remarkable for its vigor, freshness, interest in ordinary individuals, and awareness of the human life cycle, the book reflects Cummings's observations on nature and his prevailing gratitude for whatever life offers: "Time's a strange fellow: more he gives than takes... -
![El amor, las mujeres y la vida by Mario Benedetti]()
El amor, las mujeres y la vida by Mario Benedetti
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAn outstanding collection of award-winning books and authors Santillana USA has compiled a selection of the most popular books in Spanish under the Alfaguara imprint. The world-renowned authors cover a range of genres including novels, short stories, anthologies, and poetry... -
![A Season in Hell/Illuminations by Arthur Rimbaud]()
A Season in Hell/Illuminations by Arthur Rimbaud
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWritten by Rimbaud at the age of 18 in the wake of his tempestuous affair with fellow poet Paul Verlaine, "A Season in Hell" has been a touchstone for anguished poets, artists, and lovers for more than a century... -
![Scrisoare de dragoste by Mihail Drumeş]()
Scrisoare de dragoste by Mihail Drumeş
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratings„Iubirea nu se poate cumpăra cu toate comorile pământului. De aceea, în dragoste, şi săracii pot să fie miliardari, prinţi, regi, împăraţi.“ Mihail Drumeş O poveste de dragoste în care goana după bani şi carierismul fac ravagii, cu spectaculoase răsturnări de situaţie, suspans, melodramă, vervă, ironie şi dialoguri vii – reţeta celui mai bine vândut prozator român nu dă greş... -
![May I Feel Said He by E.E. Cummings]()
May I Feel Said He by E.E. Cummings
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn ecstatic tribute to the power of love and a humorous salute to the mating rituals between men and women, this poem, originally published in cummings' No Thanks collection, is one of the poet's best-loved works. Chagall's floating lovers and violin-playing horses provide the perfect complement to cummings' whimsical verse. 21 color illustrations... -
![Μικρό βιβλίο για μεγάλα όνειρα by Tasos Livaditis, Τάσος Λειβαδίτης]()
Μικρό βιβλίο για μεγάλα όνειρα by Tasos Livaditis, Τάσος Λειβαδίτης
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsΝενικήκαμενΌραμα μεγάλο πάνω απ’ τους δρόμους, σα φύλλα τουφθινοπώρου σκόρπιζαν οι ζητωκραυγές.Η πόλη είχε χαθεί κάτω απ’ τα φώτα, τις σημαίες, τηβουή. Γιορτάζαμε τη νίκη.Όμως την ίδια ώρα κάποιος σηκώνεται μες στο σιωπηλόσπίτι, δεν ανάβει φως, ντύνεται και κάθεται στοσκοτάδι.Κανείς δεν μπορεί να τον βοηθήσει... -
![The Brothers Karamazov (Classic Literature) by Fyodor Dostoevsky]()
The Brothers Karamazov (Classic Literature) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA profound novel in which Dostoevsky has searched for the truths about man, life and the existence of God. It presents the story of four brothers, each of them with the motive of murder. a gripping action that entangles its reader throughout the story. This was the authors last novel that will remain alive in the annals of history because of its language and unique literary style... -
![Nossa Senhora de Paris, Vol. II by Victor Hugo, M. Correia]()
Nossa Senhora de Paris, Vol. II by Victor Hugo, M. Correia
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe French title of the novel emphasizes Notre Dame's (A French memorial) role as a symbol of Paris. Primarily novel is concerned with the theme of revolution and social strife. Hugo was profoundly concerned by the class differences that set the 1789 French Revolution in motion. Hugo acknowledges that fate plays a powerful role, but implies that free will is also possible... -
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![İçimizdeki Şeytan by Sabahattin Ali]()
İçimizdeki Şeytan by Sabahattin Ali
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 26 ratings"In this dark novel, Sabahattin Ali (author of Madonna in a Fur Coat) explores the theme of hopelessness as experienced by an individual who cannot realise his talents... -
![P. G. Wodehouse: Five Complete Novels by P.G. Wodehouse]()
P. G. Wodehouse: Five Complete Novels by P.G. Wodehouse
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFive hilarious novels about the British upper crust -- wonderfully funny tales full of English butlers and Hollywood starlets in the Jazz Age. Two feature the supremely popular Bertie Wooster and his butler, Jeeves. Includes The Return of Jeeves, Bertle Wooster Sees It Through, Spring Fever, The Butler Did It, and The Old Reliable... -
![Дядо Йоцо гледа by Ivan Vazov, Иван Вазов]()
Дядо Йоцо гледа by Ivan Vazov, Иван Вазов
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsАпостолът в премеждиеЕдна българкаДядо Йоцо гледаИде ли?Павле...Categorized as:
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![Spotty Dog Running Along The Seashore by Chingiz Aitmatov, Çingiz Aytmatov]()
Spotty Dog Running Along The Seashore by Chingiz Aitmatov, Çingiz Aytmatov
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThis story is set among the Nyvkh people on Sakhalin Island in the icy Sea of Okhotsk north of Japan. Life is extremely harsh in those frigid wastes and is maintained only by hunting seals, of which every single piece is put to use for food, clothing, shelter and bone utensils by these relatives of the North American Eskimos... -
![ظلال المفاتيح (الملهاة الفلسطينية) by Ibrahim Nasrallah]()
ظلال المفاتيح (الملهاة الفلسطينية) by Ibrahim Nasrallah
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsفي رواية «ظلال المفاتيح» للشاعر والروائي إبراهيم نصرالله يبدو الفلسطيني صورة أسطورية لذاكرته، مثلما تبدو ذاكرته صورة لمعنى وجوده. رواية عابرة لأزمنة كثيرة وتحولات كبرى شهدتها فلسطين، وعاشتها شخصيات هذا العمل، في امتدادات الحدود القصوى لفكرة الوجود، والشتات، والتّماهي مع وطن سُلب بالقوة... -
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Poems 1913-1956 by Bertolt Brecht
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFirst Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company... -
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At Twilight They Return: A Novel in Ten Tales (The Margellos World Republic of Letters) by Zyranna Zateli
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe powerful and stylistically brilliant saga of a family by one of contemporary Greece’s most acclaimed literary masters Zyranna Zateli’s ambitious, multigenerational saga is the story of Christoforos, who first weds Petroula, and then Eftha, followed, after her death, by Persa; of his sexually promiscuous son Hesychios and the many bastard children left on the doorstep following the untimely... -
![Datta by Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay]()
Datta by Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA romantic story, influenced by the Victorian notion of 'romantic love', it dwells on the growing attachment, despite all odds, between an affluent Brahmo woman and an indigent but brilliant young man, a Hindu. The novel is at once serious and light... -
![Immortal Poems of the English Language by Oscar Williams]()
Immortal Poems of the English Language by Oscar Williams
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsImmortal Poems Here is the most inclusive anthology of verse ever published at so low a price. It contains not only the best-known works of the British and American masters but also the verse of the most brillant poets of our own day. Oscar Williams, who compiled Immortal Poems, was a distinguished editor and poet in his own right, of whom Robert Lowell wrote in the Sewanee Review: "Mr... -
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![Complete Prose Fiction by Alexander Pushkin]()
Complete Prose Fiction by Alexander Pushkin
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsPushkin’s prose tales are the foundation stones on which the great novels of Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Dostoevsky were built, but they are also brilliant and fascinating in their own right. In both prose and verse, Pushkin was one of the world’s great storytellers: direct and dramatic, clear-sighted, vivid, and passionate...Categorized as:
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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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Tolstoy: Anna Karenina by Anthony Thorlby
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsProfessor ThorIby offers a close reading of this classic novel and explores the subtle psychology in Tolstoy's characterisation. He avoids complex terminology and assumes a readership studying the text in English translation... -
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Interpreter of Maladies / The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsJhumpa Lahiri took the literary world by storm when her debut collection, Interpreter of Maladies, won the Pulitzer Prize in 2000. The collection was followed by her best-selling and critically acclaimed novel The Namesake—a finely wrought, deeply moving family drama. Presenting these works together here, this edition displays Lahiri’s enormous talent as a storyteller...Categorized as:
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Sifting Through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way by Charles Bukowski
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsfrom neither Shakespeare nor Mickey Spillane young young young, only wanting the Word, going mad in the streets and in the bars, brutal fights, broken glass, crazy women screaming in your cheap room, you a familiar guest at the drunk tank, North Avenue 21, Lincoln Heights sifting through the madness for the Word, the line the way, hoping for a check from somewhere, dreaming of a letter... -
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Rimas/ Rhymes by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer
Rated: 4.19 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...
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