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The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 66 ratingsAlternative cover for ISBN: 978-0-00-746123-3C.S. Lewis’ The Great Divorce is a classic Christian allegorical tale about a bus ride from hell to heaven. An extraordinary meditation upon good and evil, grace and judgment, Lewis’s revolutionary idea in the The Great Divorce is that the gates of Hell are locked from the inside... -
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Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Ben Marcus
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsA collection of powerful stories by one of the masters of Russian literature, illustrating the author's thoughts on political philosophy, religion and above all, humanity: Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead (150th Anniversary Edition)The compelling works presented in this volume were written at distinct periods in...Categorized as:
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The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989 by Samuel Beckett
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsNobel prize winner Samuel Beckett is one of the most profoundly original writers of our century. He gives expression to the anguish and isolation of the individual consciousness with a purity and minimalism that have altered the shape of world literature...Categorized as:
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![The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky by Fyodor Dostoevsky]()
The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThis collection, unique to the Modern Library, gathers seven of Dostoevsky's key works and shows him to be equally adept at the short story as with the novel...Categorized as:
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![A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov, Gary Shteyngart]()
A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov, Gary Shteyngart
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsIn its adventurous happenings–its abductions, duels, and sexual intrigues–A Hero of Our Time looks backward to the tales of Sir Walter Scott and Lord Byron, so beloved by Russian society in the 1820s and ’30s...Categorized as:
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![The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy, Hugh McLean]()
The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy, Hugh McLean
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsWith an Introduction and Notes by Dr T.C.B.Cook Count Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) is best known for War and Peace and Anna Karenina, commonly regarded as amongst the greatest novels ever written. He also, however, wrote many masterly short stories, and this volume contains four of the longest and best in distinguished translations that have stood the test of time...Categorized as:
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![Collected Stories and Other Writings by John Cheever]()
Collected Stories and Other Writings by John Cheever
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsJohn Cheever’s stories rank among the finest achievements of twentieth-century short fiction. Ensnared by the trappings of affluence, adrift in the emptiness of American prosperity, his characters find themselves in the midst of dramas that, however comic, pose profound questions about conformity and class, pleasure and propriety, and the conduct and meaning of an individual life... -
![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... -
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Roman Fever (and Other Stories) by Edith Wharton
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA Virago Modern Classic These stories - all powerful moral analyses - demonstrate the true professionalism of Edith Wharton...Categorized as:
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Storming Heaven by Denise Giardina
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAnnadel, West Virginia, was a small town rich in coal, farms, and close-knit families, all destroyed when the coal company came in. It stole everything it hadn't bothered to buy -- land deeds, private homes, and ultimately, the souls of its men and women...Categorized as:
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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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Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 42 ratingsA modern classic, Einstein’s Dreams is a fictional collage of stories dreamed by Albert Einstein in 1905, when he worked in a patent office in Switzerland. As the defiant but sensitive young genius is creating his theory of relativity, a new conception of time, he imagines many possible worlds. In one, time is circular, so that people are fated to repeat triumphs and failures over and over...Categorized as:
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Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars · 37 ratingsBazarov—a gifted, impatient, and caustic young man—has journeyed from school to the home of his friend Arkady Kirsanov. But soon Bazarov’s outspoken rejection of authority and social conventions touches off quarrels, misunderstandings, and romantic entanglements that will utterly transform the Kirsanov household and reflect the changes taking place across all of nineteenth-century Russia...Categorized as:
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![The Age of Reason by Jean-Paul Sartre]()
The Age of Reason by Jean-Paul Sartre
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsSet in France during the days immediately before World War II, this is the story of Mathieu, a French professor of philosophy obsessed with the idea of freedom. Translated from the French by Eric Sutton... -
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Antigone; Oedipus the King; Electra by Sophocles
Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsThis volume contains three masterpieces by the Greek playwright Sophocles, widely regarded since antiquity as the greatest of all the tragic poets. The vivid translations, which combine elegance and modernity, are remarkable for their lucidity and accuracy, and are equally suitable for reading for pleasure, study, or theatrical performance...Categorized as:
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King Lear by William Shakespeare
Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars · 68 ratingsShakespeare’s King Lear challenges us with the magnitude, intensity, and sheer duration of the pain that it represents. Its figures harden their hearts, engage in violence, or try to alleviate the suffering of others. Lear himself rages until his sanity cracks...Categorized as:
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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... -
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An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIn An Enemy of the People, Ibsen places his main characters, Dr. Thomas Stockman, in the role of an enlightened and persecuted minority of one confronting an ignorant, powerful majority. When the physician learns that the famous and financially successful baths in his hometown are contaminated, he insists they be shut down for expensive repairs... -
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Abel Sánchez by Miguel de Unamuno
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe stories "Abel Sánchez, " "The Madness of Doctor Montarco, " and "Saint Emmanuel the Good Marty" are three of the Spanish philosopher Unamuno's most haunting parables. Quixotic madmen are the protagonists of these imaginative stories, which probe the horror of a nothingness beyond death. The Introduction by Anthony Kerrigan, the translator, traces Unamuno's life...Categorized as:
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Quartet by Jean Rhys
Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe story of a woman on the edge caught in the stranglehold between her lover and his wife. When her husband is released from prison, the situation explodes... -
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Mad Shadows by Marie-Claire Blais
Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA harrowing pathology of the soul, Mad Shadows centres on a family group: Patrice, the beautiful and narcissistic son; his ugly and malicious sister, Isabelle-Marie; and Louise, their vain and uncomprehending mother. These characters inhabit an amoral universe where beauty reflects no truth and love is an empty delusion. Each character is ultimately annihilated by their own obsessions... -
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The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsMeet Moses, Galahad, Big City, Tolroy, Five Past Twelve, and other West Indians who have come to London in search of the dream. There to face a reality of racial discrimination, poverty, harsh winters, waiting to see what tomorrow brings. This novel both joyful and sad, is an ode to the survival instinct of the modern immigrant...Categorized as:
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![Amerika by Franz Kafka, E.L. Doctorow]()
Amerika by Franz Kafka, E.L. Doctorow
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 38 ratingsKafka's first and funniest novel, Amerika tells the story of the young immigrant Karl Rossmann who, after an embarrassing sexual misadventure, finds himself "packed off to America" by his parents. Expected to redeem himself in this magical land of opportunity, young Karl is swept up instead in a whirlwind of dizzying reversals, strange escapades, and picaresque adventures...Categorized as:
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Elective Affinities by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsElective Affinities was written when Goethe was sixty and long established as Germany's literary giant. This is a new edition of his penetrating study of marriage and passion, bringing together four people in an inexorable manner... -
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![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... -
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Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
Rated: 3.65 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsProsperous and socially prominent, George Babbitt appears to have everything a man could wish: good health, a fine family, and a profitable business in a booming Midwestern city. But the middle-aged real estate agent is shaken from his self-satisfaction by a growing restlessness with the limitations of his life...Categorized as:
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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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The Characters of Jean de La Bruyere by Jean de La Bruyère
Rated: 3.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsKessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for...Categorized as:
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Utopia by Thomas More, Paul Turner
Rated: 3.55 of 5 stars · 53 ratingsUtopia (Libellus vere aureus, nec minus salutaris quam festivus, de optimo rei publicae statu deque nova insula Utopia) is a satirical work of fiction and political philosophy by Thomas More (1478–1535) published in 1516 in Latin...Categorized as:
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Lineman Thiel by Gerhart Hauptmann
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratings"Thiel" is by far the best story ever written by Gerhart Hauptmann, a dramatist, novelist and a Nobel Prize winner.The novel follows the principles of the naturalist movement in its detailed portraying of the life of Thiel, a good decent and humble railway signalman... -
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The Lucky Mill by Ioan Slavici
Rated: 3.17 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThis volume was published in 1919.Excerpt from a Reviewer - 4 STARSReviewer: stbalbach - - January 12, 2011 Subject: The Lucky Mill Slavici wrote many novels and short stories, but his best known, outside of Romania, is The Lucky Mill (1881), adapted to film in 1957 as "The Mill of Good Luck". It appears to be the only major work of his that has been translated into English, in 1919...
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