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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... -
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First Day Jitters by Julie Danneberg, Judy Love
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsEveryone knows the jumble of feelings as the first day of school approaches -- especially if it's the first day at a new school... -
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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... -
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The Highly Unreliable Account of the History of a Madhouse by Ayfer Tunç
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe novel opens in a provincial mental health hospital on the morning of the 14th February 2007 and comes to a cataclysmic end several hours later Lacklustre guest speaker (‘Love: Self-sacrifice? Or Self-preservation?’) Ülkü Birinci fails to impress the Medical Director, whose plans to write the history of the hospital are destined to remain stillborn... -
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Narcissistic Tendencies by Jennifer Peel
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsPsychologist Kate Morgan loves her job evaluating clients for the matchmaking service Binary Search. That is, until the one and only Nicholas Wells becomes a client and the new face of the company... -
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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... -
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The Vegas Accident: An Age Gap Surprise Pregnancy Romance (Forbidden Temptations) by Sofia T Summers
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt’s hard to keep an accidental marriage a secret when you end up pregnant.Yes, we were stupid in Vegas.But the stupidity didn’t just end there.It continued after the trip was over and Luke became my temporary roommate.Luke… as in my brother’s best friend.As in my new husband.My accidental husband.Did I say baby daddy yet?Luke is way older than me.Basically, he’s everything he shouldn’t be... -
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सुम्निमा [Sumnima] by Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala, विश्वेश्वरप्रसाद कोइराला
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSumnima a famous Nepali novel by B P Koirala, a former Prime Minister of Nepal is about the painful complications that arise in a man-woman relationship. The story is about the powerful attraction that exists between a Brahmin boy and an ordinary girl... -
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The Smart Cookie by Jory John
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsAn Instant New York Times Bestseller!Be a smart cookie—and don’t miss the fifth picture book in the #1 New York Times bestselling Food Group series from creators Jory John and Pete Oswald! This cookie has never felt like a smart cookie no matter how hard she tries, especially in comparison to all the clever cupcakes and brilliant rolls in the bakery... -
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Vladimir Nabokov: Novels 1955–1962 by Vladimir Nabokov
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis Library of America volume is the second of three volumes that contain the most authoritative versions of the English works of the brilliant Russian émigré, Vladimir Nabokov.Lolita (1955), Nabokov’s single most famous work, is one of the most controversial and widely read books of its time...Categorized as:
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Auto-da-Fé by Elias Canetti
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratings"Auto-da-Fé" is the story of Peter Kien, a distinguished, reclusive sinologist living in Vienna between the wars. With masterly precision, Canetti reveals Kien's character, displaying the flawed personal relationships which ultimately lead to his destruction... -
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Woman Lit by Fireflies by Jim Harrison, Ray Porter
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAcross the odd contours of the American landscape-Jim Harrison's country--its natives search for that which isn't quite irretrievably lost, for the incandescent beneath the ordinary... -
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Autumn in Peking by Boris Vian
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsBoris Vian was a jack of all trades - although unfortunately his name was Boris and "Boris of all trades" never took off as a turn of phrase. But nevertheless Vian was a great songwriter, playwright, singer, jazz critic and, of course novelist so it should have been Boris instead of Jack... -
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ثقوب في الثوب الأسود by إحسان عبد القدوس
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsرواية رائعة ..تتناول قضية الماتيس و هم من يولد لأب أبيض و أم زنجية و يعيش منبودا في المجتمع الأفريقي ..سامي الماتيس يكتشف نفسه بمساعدة الطبيب النفسي المصري و يقرر أن يكون زنجياً يدافع عن حقوق مجتمعه . -
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![خرده جنایتهای زناشوهری by Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt]()
خرده جنایتهای زناشوهری by Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsژیل بر اثر حادثهای مرموز دچار فراموشی میشود. همسرش لیزا او را به خانه میآورد اما ژیل حافظهاش را از دست داده است و سعی میکند از صحبتها و تعریفهای همسرش گذشته را بازسازی کند و هویت خود را باز یابد... -
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Let the Old Dead Make Room for the Young Dead by Milan Kundera
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFaber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles. A chance encounter leads a man to spend the afternoon with an older woman, now a widow, who escaped him fifteen years earlier. Neither of them doubts that the day will end in disgust, but for one intimate moment each finds a way to overcome mortality... -
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The Favorite Game by Leonard Cohen
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn this unforgettable novel, Leonard Cohen boldly etches the youth and early manhood of Lawrence Breavman, only son of an old Jewish family in Montreal... -
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The Full Ridiculous by Mark Lamprell
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe important thing is to position yourself so you go over the car when it hits. If you go under, most likely you get stuck on some sticky-out bit of the engine, dragged along and de-skinned, then kidney-squishingly, eye-poppingly, brain-squeezingly run over by one or more wheels. You go over, at least you've got a chance if you land right.Michael O’Dell is hit by a car... -
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Diary of a madman (English Edition) by Nikolai Gogol
Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsDiary of a Madman is a farcical short story by Nikolai Gogol. Along with The Overcoat and The Nose, Diary of a Madman is considered to be one of Gogol's greatest short stories. The tale centers on the life of a minor civil servant during the repressive era of Nicholas I. Following the format of a diary, the story shows the descent of the protagonist, Poprishchin, into insanity... -
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The Cook by Harry Kressing
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Cook opens with Conrad, nearly seven feet tall, gaunt, and dressed all in black, arriving on his bicycle in the town of Cobb. He quickly secures a job as cook for the wealthy Hill family, winning their hearts and stomachs with his delectable dishes, and before long he has everyone around him eating out of his hand... -
![Seduction of the Minotaur by Anaïs Nin]()
Seduction of the Minotaur by Anaïs Nin
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratings“Some voyages have their inception in the blueprint of a dream, some in the urgency of contradicting a dream. Lillian’s recurrent dream of a ship that could not reach the water, that sailed laboriously, pushed by her with great effort, through city streets, had determined her course toward the sea, as if she would give this ship, once and for all, its proper sea bed…... -
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Genetrix by François Mauriac
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMathilde Cazenave morte, sa belle-mère jubile : elle va pouvoir reconquérir totalement son fils bien-aimé. Félicité a tort de se réjouir trop vite, car, sur le visage apaisé de la jeune morte, Fernand entrevoit ce qu'aurait pu être le bonheur avec Mathilde... -
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We'll to the Woods No More: Novel by Édouard Dujardin
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA delightful period piece of Paris in the late 1880’s, We’ll to the Woods No More ( Les lauriers sont coupés ) retains its importance as the first use of the monologue intérieur and the inspiration for the stream-of-consciousness technique perfected by James Joyce... -
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![Look at the Harlequins! by Vladimir Nabokov]()
Look at the Harlequins! by Vladimir Nabokov
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA dying man cautiously unravels the mysteries of memory and creation. Vadim is a Russian emigre who, like Nabokov, is a novelist, poet and critic. There are threads linking the fictional hero with his creator as he reconstructs the images of his past from young love to his serious illness... -
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Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age by Bohumil Hrabal
Rated: 3.64 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThis ebullient, gallivanting novel encapsulates the world vision of the Czech Republic's best-loved author in one tumbling, breathtaking sentence. Saints and sinners, emperors and embezzlers, barmaids and balalaikas all play their part in the bawdy reminiscences of Hrabal's cobbler as he charms an audience of young beauties... -
![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... -
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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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Uncle's Dream by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Rated: 3.56 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA humorous story about a manipulative mother's attempts to arrange a marriage between her beautiful daughter and a wealthy elderly nobleman. The story provides an brilliant insight into the desperation, psychology, gossip, and rivalry of provincial merchants trying to better their position in life... -
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Another Man's Wife and a Husband Under the Bed by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Rated: 3.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThis is an audio presentation of Dostoevsky's short story "Another Man's Wife, or, The Husband Under the Bed," with occasional clarifying commentary from the reader...
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