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Don Quixote

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Vintage Books-2005-01-01

961 pages

Description:

Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading chivalric romances, that he determines to become a knight-errant himself. In the company of his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, his exploits blossom in all sorts of wonderful ways. While Quixote's fancy often leads him astray - he tilts at windmills, imagining them to be giants - Sancho acquires cunning and a certain sagacity. Sane madman and wise fool, they roam the world together, and together they have haunted readers' imaginations for nearly four hundred years.

9780099469698

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Categories:Contemporary Fiction,Classics,Fiction In Translation

Translators:Edith Grossman

Format:Paperback

Language:en

Pages Read:961

Series/Volume:Don Quixote, Vol. 1

The Castle

A New Translation Based on the Restored Text

Franz Kafka

Schocken-2012-12-05

352 pages

Description:

Translated and with a preface by Mark Harman Left unfinished by Kafka in 1922 and not published until 1926, two years after his death, The Castle is the haunting tale of K.’s relentless, unavailing struggle with an inscrutable authority in order to gain access to the Castle. Scrupulously following the fluidity and breathlessness of the sparsely punctuated original manuscript, Mark Harman’s new translation reveals levels of comedy, energy, and visual power previously unknown to English language readers.

9780307829481

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Categories:Literary,Classics,Absurdist

Format:Ebook

Language:en

Pages Read:352

The Trial

A New Translation Based on the Restored Text

Franz Kafka

Schocken-2012-10-03

304 pages

Description:

Written in 1914, The Trial is one of the most important novels of the twentieth century: the terrifying tale of Josef K., a respectable bank officer who is suddenly and inexplicably arrested and must defend himself against a charge about which he can get no information. Whether read as an existential tale, a parable, or a prophecy of the excesses of modern bureaucracy wedded to the madness of totalitarianism, Kafka's nightmare has resonated with chilling truth for generations of readers. This new edition is based upon the work of an international team of experts who have restored the text, the sequence of chapters, and their division to create a version that is as close as possible to the way the author left it. In his brilliant translation, Breon Mitchell masterfully reproduces the distinctive poetics of Kafka's prose, revealing a novel that is as full of energy and power as it was when it was first written.

9780307829443

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2023-01-05 - 2023-01-11

Categories:Literary,Classics

Format:Ebook

Language:en

Pages Read:304

The Tartar Steppe

Dino Buzzati

Canongate Books Ltd-2007-01-01

265 pages

Description:

Often likened to Kafka's The Castle, The Tartar Steppe is both a scathing critique of military life and a meditation on the human thirst for glory. It tells of young Giovanni Drogo, who is posted to a distant fort overlooking the vast Tartar steppe. Although not intending to stay, Giovanni suddenly finds that years have passed, as, almost without his noticing, he has come to share the others' wait for a foreign invasion that never happens. Over time the fort is downgraded and Giovanni's ambitions fade until the day the enemy begins massing on the desolate steppe...

9781841959283

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Categories:Contemporary Fiction,Classics,Fiction In Translation

Translators:Stuart Hood

Format:Paperback

Language:en

Pages Read:265

No Longer Human

Osamu Dazai

New Directions-1973-01-17

176 pages

Description:

Portraying himself as a failure, the protagonist of Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human narrates a seemingly normal life even while he feels himself incapable of understanding human beings. Oba Yozo's attempts to reconcile himself to the world around him begin in early childhood, continue through high school, where he becomes a "clown" to mask his alienation, and eventually lead to a failed suicide attempt as an adult. Without sentimentality, he records the casual cruelties of life and its fleeting moments of human connection and tenderness.

9780811220071

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Categories:Fiction

Format:Ebook

Language:en

Pages Read:176

The Master and Margarita

Mikhail Bulgakov

The Overlook Press-2011-01-01

448 pages

Description:

The Master & Margarita is a satirical novel by Mikhail Bulgakov which was published posthumously. The story features a talking cat and the visit of the Devil to the atheistic Soviet Union. The second part of the novel takes place in Pontius Pilate's Jerusalem. This acclaimed translation also includes notes on the text.

9781590206942

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Categories:Fiction

Translators:Diana Lewis Burgin,Katherine Tiernan O'Connor

Format:Ebook

Language:en

Pages Read:448

Voyage au bout de la nuit

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Gallimard-2016-12-01

505 pages

Description:

«- Bardamu, qu'il me fait alors gravement et un peu triste, nos pères nous valaient bien, n'en dis pas de mal !... - T'as raison, Arthur, pour ça t'as raison ! Haineux et dociles, violés, volés, étripés et couillons toujours, ils nous valaient bien ! Tu peux le dire ! Nous ne changeons pas ! Ni de chaussettes, ni de maîtres, ni d'opinions, ou bien si tard, que ça n'en vaut plus la peine. On est nés fidèles, on en crève nous autres ! Soldats gratuits, héros pour tout le monde et singes parlants, mots qui souffrent, on est nous les mignons du Roi Misère. C'est lui qui nous possède ! Quand on est pas sage, il serre... On a ses doigts autour du cou, toujours, ça gêne pour parler, faut faire bien attention si on tient à pouvoir manger... Pour des riens, il vous étrangle... C'est pas une vie... - Il y a l'amour, Bardamu ! - Arthur, l'amour c'est l'infini mis à la portée des caniches et j'ai ma dignité moi ! que je lui réponds.»

9782070360284

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Categories:Contemporary Fiction

Format:Paperback

Language:fr

Pages Read:505

Series/Volume:Ferdinand Bardamu, Vol. 1

Grapes of Wrath

John Steinbeck

Bantam Books-2000-01-01

Description:

The Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression, a book that galvanized—and sometimes outraged—millions of readers. First published in 1939, Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads—driven from their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. Out of their trials and their repeated collisions against the hard realities of an America divided into Haves and Have-Nots evolves a drama that is intensely human yet majestic in its scale and moral vision, elemental yet plainspoken, tragic but ultimately stirring in its human dignity. A portrait of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless, of one man’s fierce reaction to injustice, and of one woman’s stoical strength, the novel captures the horrors of the Great Depression and probes into the very nature of equality and justice in America. At once a naturalistic epic, captivity narrative, road novel, and transcendental gospel, Steinbeck’s powerful landmark novel is perhaps the most American of American Classics.

9780553023541

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Format:Paperback

Language:en

The Invisible Man

Herbert George Wells

Arcturus Publishing Limited-2019-01-01

207 pages

Description:

This masterpiece of science fiction is the fascinating story of Griffin, a scientist who creates a serum to render himself invisible, and his descent into madness that follows.

9781838575625

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Categories:Classic Science Fiction

Format:Paperback

Language:en

Pages Read:207

1984

George Orwell

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt-2017-04-04

304 pages

Description:

A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick With extraordinary relevance and renewed popularity, George Orwell’s 1984 takes on new life in this hardcover edition. “Orwell saw, to his credit, that the act of falsifying reality is only secondarily a way of changing perceptions. It is, above all, a way of asserting power.”—The New Yorker In 1984, London is a grim city in the totalitarian state of Oceania where Big Brother is always watching you and the Thought Police can practically read your mind. Winston Smith is a man in grave danger for the simple reason that his memory still functions. Drawn into a forbidden love affair, Winston finds the courage to join a secret revolutionary organization called The Brotherhood, dedicated to the destruction of the Party. Together with his beloved Julia, he hazards his life in a deadly match against the powers that be. Lionel Trilling said of Orwell’s masterpiece “1984 is a profound, terrifying, and wholly fascinating book. It is a fantasy of the political future, and like any such fantasy, serves its author as a magnifying device for an examination of the present.” Though the year 1984 now exists in the past, Orwell’s novel remains an urgent call for the individual willing to speak truth to power.

9781328869333

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2022-11-09 - 2022-11-18

Categories:Classics

Format:Hardcover

Language:en

Pages Read:304

A Hero Of Our Time

Mikhail Lermontov

Abrams-2009-01-16

210 pages

Description:

The first major Russian novel, A Hero of Our Time was both lauded and reviled upon publication. Its dissipated hero, twenty-five-year-old Pechorin, is a beautiful and magnetic but nihilistic young army officer, bored by life and indifferent to his many sexual conquests. Chronicling his unforgettable adventures in the Caucasus involving brigands, smugglers, soldiers, rivals, and lovers, this classic tale of alienation influenced Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, and Chekhov in Lermontov’s own century, and finds its modern-day counterparts in Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange, the novels of Chuck Palahniuk, and the films and plays of Neil LaBute.

9781590209561

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Categories:Literary Criticism

Translators:Vladimir Nabokov

Format:Ebook

Language:en

Pages Read:210

Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Penguin Books-2007-01-01

434 pages

Description:

Raskolnikov, an impoverished student living in the St. Petersburg of the tsars, is determined to overreach his humanity and assert his untrammeled individual will. When he commits an act of murder and theft, he sets into motion a story that, for its excruciating suspense, its atmospheric vividness, and its depth of characterization and vision is almost unequaled in the literatures of the world. The best known of Dostoevsky’s masterpieces, Crime and Punishment can bear any amount of rereading without losing a drop of its power over our imaginations. Dostoevsky’s drama of sin, guilt, and redemption transforms the sordid story of an old woman’s murder into the nineteenth century’s profoundest and most compelling philosophical novel. Award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky render this elusive and wildly innovative novel with an energy, suppleness, and range of voice that do full justice to the genius of its creator.

9780140623512

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Categories:Contemporary Fiction,Classics

Format:Paperback

Language:en

Pages Read:434

Steppenwolf

Hermann Hesse

Penguin UK-2012-04-05

272 pages

Description:

A new translation by David Horrocks. At first sight Harry Haller seems like a respectable, educated man. In reality he is the Steppenwolf: wild, strange, alienated from society and repulsed by the modern age. But as he is drawn into a series of dreamlike and sometimes savage encounters - accompanied by, among others, Mozart, Goethe and the bewitching Hermione - the misanthropic Haller discovers a higher truth, and the possibility of happiness. This haunting portrayal of a man who feels he is half-human and half-wolf became a counterculture classic for a disaffected generation. Yet it is also a story of redemption, and an intricately-structured modernist masterpiece. This is the first new translation of Steppenwolf for over eighty years, returning to the fresh, authentic language of Hesse's original.

9780141938684

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Categories:Fiction

Language:en

Pages Read:272

Dubliners (ppc)

James Joyce

Penguin Classic-1996-06-04

256 pages

Description:

"Don't you think there is a certain resemblance between the mystery of the Mass and what I am trying to do? To give people some kind of intellectual pleasure or spiritual enjoyment by converting the bread of everyday life into something that has a permanent artistic life of its own." (James Joyce, in a letter to his brother). With these fifteen stories James Joyce reinvented the art of fiction, using a scrupulous, deadpan realism to convey truths that were at once blasphemous and sacramental. Whether writing about the death of a fallen priest ("The Sisters"), the petty sexual and fiscal machinations of "Two Gallants," or of the Christmas party at which an uprooted intellectual discovers just how little he really knows about his wife ("The Dead"), Joyce takes narrative places it had never been before.

9780140622171

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Categories:Fiction

Format:Paperback

Language:en

Pages Read:256

La Peste

Albert Camus

Éditions Talantikit-2014-01-01

294 pages

Description:

Oran, un jour d'avril 194., le docteur Rieux découvre le cadavre d'un rat sur son palier. Quelques jours plus tard, une agence de presse annonce que plus de six mille rats ont été ramassés le même. L'angoisse s'accroit. Monsieur Michel, le concierge de l'immeuble de Rieux, tombe malade. Le docteur Rieux essaye de le soigner mais ne peut rien faire pour le sauver. Le concierge succombe à un mal violent et mystérieux. Rieux consulte ses confrères. L'un d'eux, le vieux Castel, confirme ses soupçons : il s'agit bien de la peste.

9789947819340

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Format:Paperback

Language:fr

Pages Read:294

The Metamorphosis

Franz Kafka,Claudine Raboin

GF Flammarion-2010-01-01

103 pages

Description:

"As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. He was laying on his hard, as it were armor-plated, back and when he lifted his head a little he could see his domelike brown belly divided into stiff arched segments on top of which the bed quilt could hardly keep in position and was about to slide off completely. His numerous legs, which were pitifully thin compared to the rest of his bulk, waved helplessly before his eyes." With this startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first opening, Kafka begins his masterpiece, The Metamorphosis. It is the story of a young man who, transformed overnight into a giant beetle-like insect, becomes an object of disgrace to his family, an outsider in his own home, a quintessentially alienated man. A harrowing -- though absurdly comic -- meditation on human feelings of inadequacy, guilt, and isolation, The Metamorphosis has taken its place as one of the most widely read and influential works of twentieth-century fiction. As W.H. Auden wrote, "Kafka is important to us because his predicament is the predicament of modern man." *Summary by the publisher

9782081244887

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Categories:Classics

Translators:Bernard Lortholary

Format:Paperback

Language:fr

Pages Read:103

The Karamazov Brothers

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Wordsworth Editions-2010-01-05

896 pages

Description:

"What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love." Translated by Constance Garnett, with an Introduction by A. D. P. Briggs. As Fyodor Karamazov awaits an amorous encounter, he is violently done to death. The three sons of the old debauchee are forced to confront their own guilt or complicity. Who will own to parricide? The reckless and passionate Dmitri? The corrosive intellectual Ivan? Surely not the chaste novice monk Alyosha? The search reveals the divisions which rack the brothers, yet paradoxically unite them. Around the writhings of this one dysfunctional family Dostoevsky weaves a dense network of social, psychological and philosophical relationships. At the same time he shows - from the opening 'scandal' scene in the monastery to a personal appearance by an eccentric Devil - that his dramatic skills have lost nothing of their edge. The Karamazov Brothers, completed a few months before Dostoevsky's death in 1881, remains for many the high point of his genius as novelist and chronicler of the modern malaise. It cast a long shadow over D. H. Lawrence, Thomas Mann, Albert Camus, and other giants of twentieth-century European literature.

9781840221862

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Categories:Classics

Translators:Constance Garnett

Format:Paperback

Language:en

Pages Read:896

Series/Volume:The Brothers Karamazov, Vol. 1

Madame Bovary

Gustave Flaubert

Penguin Classics-2015-05-26

384 pages

Description:

Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. An ardent reader of sentimental novels, she longs for passion and seeks escape in fantasies of high romance, in voracious spending and, eventually, in adultery. But even her affairs bring her disappointment and devastating consequences. Flaubert's erotically charged and psychologically acute portrayal of Emma Bovary caused a moral outcry on its publication in 1857. It was deemed so lifelike that many women claimed they were the model for his heroine; but Flaubert insisted: "Madame Bovary, c'est moi." One of the greatest novels of the 19th century, Flaubert’s torrid debut lives on in Geoffrey Wall’s brilliant translation. This edition features an introduction by Wall, and a preface on Emma Bovary's femininity and modernity by novelist Michèle Roberts. Part of Penguin’s beautiful hardcover Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.

9780141394671

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Categories:Literary,Classics,Romance

Illustrators:Coralie Bickford-Smith

Translators:Geoffrey Wall

Format:Hardcover

Language:en

Pages Read:384

The Odyssey

The Odyssey [paperback] [jan 01, 2016] Homer

Homer

Prakash Book Depot-2015-08-01

368 pages

Description:

This poem mainly centers on the Greek hero Odysseus (or Ulysses, as he was known in Roman myths) and his long journey home following the fall of Troy. It takes Odysseus ten years to reach Ithaca after the ten-year Trojan War.[2] In his absence, it is assumed he has died, and his wife Penelope and son Telemachus must deal with a group of unruly suitors, called Proci, competing for Penelope's hand in marriage.

9788175993051

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Categories:Classics

Format:Paperback

Language:en

Pages Read:368

The Secret Garden

Frances Hodgson Burnett

WilliamCol-2013-07-02

288 pages

Description:

′Where, you tend a rose, my lad, A thistle cannot grow.′ Orphaned and sent to live with her uncle in his austere manor on the moors, Mary Lennox is a lonely and unhappy child. A meeting with Dickon, her servant′s brother begins her adventure and it is through their friendship and her relationship with her troubled hypochondriac cousin Colin that she begins to learn about herself. Their lives all begin to change when a Robin shows Mary the door to a mysterious secret garden.

9780007351060

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null - 2020-02-02

Categories:FICTION/Classics

Format:Paperback

Language:en

Pages Read:288

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde

Wordsworth Editions-2001-05-01

194 pages

Description:

Wilde’s only novel, first published in 1890, is a brilliantly designed puzzle, intended to tease conventional minds with its exploration of the myriad interrelationships between art, life and consequence. From its provocative Preface, challenging the reader to belief in ‘art for art’s sake’, to its sensational conclusion, the story self-consciously experiments with the notion of sin as an element of design. Yet Wilde himself underestimated the consequences of his experiment, and its capacity to outrage the Victorian establishment. Its words returned to haunt him in his court appearances in 1895, and he later recalled the ‘note of doom’ which runs like ‘a purple thread’ through its carefully crafted prose.

9781853260155

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null - 2020-01-25

Categories:Contemporary Fiction,Classics,Thrillers

Format:Paperback

Language:en

Pages Read:194

Animal Farm

George Orwell

Penguin UK-2008-07-29

112 pages

Description:

Renowned urban artist Shepard Fairey's new look for Orwell's timeless satire'All animals are equal. But some animals are more equal than others.' Mr Jones of Manor Farm is so lazy and drunken that one day he forgets to feed his livestock. The ensuing rebellion under the leadership of the pigs Napoleon and Snowball leads to the animals taking over the farm. Vowing to eliminate the terrible inequities of the farmyard, the renamed Animal Farm is organised to benefit all who walk on four legs. But as time passes, the ideals of the rebellion are corrupted, then forgotten. And something new and unexpected emerges. . . Animal Farm - the history of a revolution that went wrong - is George Orwell's brilliant satire on the corrupting influence of power.

9780141036137

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null - 2020-01-25

Categories:Fiction,Dystopian,Political

Format:Paperback

Language:en

Pages Read:112

Sons and Lovers

D. H. Lawrence

HarperCollins-2010-09-01

528 pages

Description:

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.

9780007350957

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null - 2020-01-25

Categories:Classics

Format:Paperback

Language:en

Pages Read:528

To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee

Harper-2014-07-01

336 pages

Description:

Harper Lee's Pulitzer prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep south—and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatred, available now for the first time as an e-book. One of the best-loved stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than thirty million copies worldwide, served as the basis for an enormously popular motion picture, and was voted one of the best novels of the twentieth century by librarians across the country. A gripping, heart-wrenching, and wholly remarkable tale of coming-of-age in a South poisoned by virulent prejudice, it views a world of great beauty and savage inequities through the eyes of a young girl, as her father-a crusading local lawyer-risks everything to defend a black man unjustly accused of a terrible crime.

9780062368683

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2019-09-12 - 2019-11-13

Categories: FICTION/Literary,FICTION/Classics,FICTION/Coming of Age

Format:Ebook

Language:en

Pages Read:336

The Scent of Almonds and Other Stories

Camilla Lackberg

HarperCollins UK-2015-02-26

192 pages

Description:

THE SCENT OF ALMONDS AND OTHER STORIES is a collection of short stories from the No.1 international bestseller Camilla Lackberg. Perfect for fans of Stieg Larsson and Jo Nesbo.

9780008102081

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null - 2019-10-22

Categories:Fiction

Language:en

Pages Read:192

أنتيخريستوس Antichrist

أحمد خالد مصطفى

عصير الكتب-2015-01-28

312 pages

Description:

هي رواية من تأليف الكاتب أحمد خالد مصطفى تسرد وقائع تاريخية، حيث يظهر الكاتب حقائق غريبة بأسلوبه المشوق في التكلم عن الإنس والجن والعلاقة بينهما وما يحدث في العالم بالإضافة إلى تنبؤات مستقبلية المقدمة. أمير النور يوم خلق النور: تدور أحداثها حول حكاية النمرود وزواجه من سميراميس وتمرده على أبيه وحكاية تعلمه السحر على يد لوسيفر ولقاءه مع سيدنا ابراهيم ونهايته

9789778515671

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null - 2019-09-23

Categories:Young Adult Nonfiction

Format:Paperback

Language:ar

Pages Read:312

The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Scribner-2003-05-27

153 pages

Description:

The exemplary novel of the Jazz Age, F. Scott Fitzgeralds' third book, The Great Gatsby (1925), stands as the supreme achievement of his career. T. S. Eliot read it three times and saw it as the "first step" American fiction had taken since Henry James; H. L. Mencken praised "the charm and beauty of the writing," as well as Fitzgerald's sharp social sense; and Thomas Wolfe hailed it as Fitzgerald's "best work" thus far. The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan, of lavish parties on Long Island at a time when, The New York Times remarked, "gin was the national drink and sex the national obsession," it is an exquisitely crafted tale of America in the 1920s that resonates with the power of myth. A novel of lyrical beauty yet brutal realism, of magic, romance, and mysticism, The Great Gatsby is one of the great classics of twentieth-century literature. --simonandschuster.com

9780743246392

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null - 2019-09-23

Categories:Fiction

Format:Ebook

Language:en

Pages Read:153

The Idiot

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Wordsworth Editions-1998-04-01

592 pages

Description:

"Beauty will save the world" Translated by Constance Garnett, with an Introduction and Notes by Agnes Cardinal, Honorary Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literature at the University of Kent. Prince Myshkin returns to Russia from an asylum in Switzerland. As he becomes embroiled in the frantic amatory and financial intrigues which centre around a cast of brilliantly realised characters and which ultimately lead to tragedy, he emerges as a unique combination of the Christian ideal of perfection and Dostoevsky's own views, afflictions and manners. His serene selflessness is contrasted with the worldly qualities of every other character in the novel. Dostoevsky supplies a harsh indictment of the Russian ruling class of his day who have created a world which cannot accomodate the goodness of this idiot.

9781853261756

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null - 2019-09-23

Categories:Classics

Translators:Constance Garnett

Format:Paperback

Language:en

Pages Read:592

Candide ou L'optimisme
Voltaire
Gallimard-2016-10-20
224 pages

9782070793709

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null - 2019-09-23

Categories:Classics
Format:Paperback
Language:fr
Pages Read:224

Flowers for Algernon

Daniel Keyes

Mariner Books-2007-12-01

304 pages

Description:

With more than five million copies sold, "Flowers for Algernon" is the beloved, classic story of a mentally disabled man whose experimental quest for intelligence mirrors that of Algernon, an extraordinary lab mouse. In poignant diary entries, Charlie tells how a brain operation increases his IQ and changes his life. As the experimental procedure takes effect, Charlie's intelligence expands until it surpasses that of the doctors who engineered his metamorphosis. The experiment seems to be a scientific breakthrough of paramount importance--until Algernon begins his sudden, unexpected deterioration. Will the same happen to Charlie? An American classic that inspired the award-winning movie Charly.

9780547539638

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null - 2019-09-23

Categories:Fiction

Format:Ebook

Language:en

Pages Read:304

The Alchemist [30th Anniversary Edition]

The Alchemist [30th Anniversary Edition] (hardcover)

Paulo Coelho

HarperCollins Publishers Inc-2018-01-01

Description:

Paulo Coelho's masterpiece tells the mystical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure. His quest will lead him to riches far different—and far more satisfying—than he ever imagined. Santiago's journey teaches us about the essential wisdom of listening to our hearts, of recognizing opportunity and learning to read the omens strewn along life's path, and, most importantly, to follow our dreams.

9780062884107

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null - 2019-09-23

Categories:Contemporary Fiction

Format:Hardcover

The Old Man and the Sea

Ernest Hemingway

Scribner-1996-01-01

96 pages

Description:

This short novel, already a modern classic, is the superbly told, tragic story of a Cuban fisherman in the Gulf Stream and the giant Marlin he kills and loses — specifically referred to in the citation accompanying the author's Nobel Prize for literature in 1954.

9780684830490

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null - 2019-09-23

Categories:Contemporary Fiction

Format:Hardcover

Language:en

Pages Read:96

The Phantom Tollbooth

Norton Juster

Yearling-1988-10-12

272 pages

Description:

With almost 4 million copies sold more than 50 years after its original publication, generations of readers have now journeyed with Milo to the Lands Beyond in this beloved classic. Enriched by Jules Feiffer’s splendid illustrations, the wit, wisdom, and wordplay of Norton Juster’s offbeat fantasy are as beguiling as ever. “Comes up bright and new every time I read it . . . it will continue to charm and delight for a very long time yet. And teach us some wisdom, too.” --Phillip Pullman For Milo, everything’s a bore. When a tollbooth mysteriously appears in his room, he drives through only because he’s got nothing better to do. But on the other side, things seem different. Milo visits the Island of Conclusions (you get there by jumping), learns about time from a ticking watchdog named Tock, and even embarks on a quest to rescue Rhyme and Reason. Somewhere along the way, Milo realizes something astonishing. Life is far from dull. In fact, it’s exciting beyond his wildest dreams!

9780394820378

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null - 2019-09-23

Categories:Picture Books,Classics,Action & Adventure

Illustrators:Jules Feiffer

Format:Paperback

Language:en

Pages Read:272

The Catcher in the Rye

D J Salinger

Paw Prints-2008-11-21

277 pages

Description:

The hero-narrator of The Catcher in the Rye is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days. The boy himself is at once too simple and too complex for us to make any final comment about him or his story. Perhaps the safest thing we can say about Holden is that he was born in the world not just strongly attracted to beauty but, almost, hopelessly impaled on it. There are many voices in this novel: children's voices, adult voices, underground voices-but Holden's voice is the most eloquent of all. Transcending his own vernacular, yet remaining marvelously faithful to it, he issues a perfectly articulated cry of mixed pain and pleasure. However, like most lovers and clowns and poets of the higher orders, he keeps most of the pain to, and for, himself. The pleasure he gives away, or sets aside, with all his heart. It is there for the reader who can handle it to keep. J.D. Salinger's classic novel of teenage angst and rebellion was first published in 1951. The novel was included on Time's 2005 list of the 100 best English-language novels written since 1923. It was named by Modern Library and its readers as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. It has been frequently challenged in the court for its liberal use of profanity and portrayal of sexuality and in ...

9781439576649

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Categories:Classics

Language:en

Pages Read:277

Slaughterhouse-five, Or, The Children's Crusade

A Duty-dance with Death

Kurt Vonnegut

2009-01-01

275 pages

Description:

Billy Pilgrim returns home from the Second World War only to be kidnapped by aliens from the planet Tralfamadore, who teach him that time is an eternal present.

9781442088030

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Categories:Free will and determinism

Language:en

Pages Read:275

Cat's Cradle

A Novel

Kurt Vonnegut

The Dial Press-2009-11-04

304 pages

Description:

“A free-wheeling vehicle . . . an unforgettable ride!”—The New York Times Cat’s Cradle is Kurt Vonnegut’s satirical commentary on modern man and his madness. An apocalyptic tale of this planet’s ultimate fate, it features a midget as the protagonist, a complete, original theology created by a calypso singer, and a vision of the future that is at once blackly fatalistic and hilariously funny. A book that left an indelible mark on an entire generation of readers, Cat’s Cradle is one of the twentieth century’s most important works—and Vonnegut at his very best. “[Vonnegut is] an unimitative and inimitable social satirist.”—Harper’s Magazine “Our finest black-humorist . . . We laugh in self-defense.”—Atlantic Monthly

9780307567277

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Categories:Literary,Satire,Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic

Format:Ebook

Language:en

Pages Read:304

L'étranger

Albert Camus

Gallimard-2012-02-02

193 pages

Description:

"Quand la sonnerie a encore retenti, que la porte du box s'est ouverte, c'est le silence de la salle qui est monté vers moi, le silence, et cette singulière sensation que j'ai eue lorsque j'ai constaté que le jeune journaliste avait détourné les yeux. Je n'ai pas regardé du côté de Marie. Je n'en ai pas eu le temps parce que le président m'a dit dans une forme bizarre que j'aurais la tête tranchée sur une place publique au nom du peuple français..."

9782072376429

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Categories:Fiction

Format:Ebook

Language:fr

Pages Read:193

Le Petit Prince

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Editions Gallimard-2007-03-01

120 pages

Description:

«Le premier soir, je me suis donc endormi sur le sable à mille milles de toute terre habitée. J'étais bien plus isolé qu'un naufragé sur un radeau au milieu de l'océan. Alors, vous imaginez ma surprise, au lever du jour, quand une drôle de petite voix m'a réveillé. Elle disait : “S'il vous plaît... dessine-moi un mouton!” J'ai bien regardé. Et j'ai vu ce petit bonhomme tout à fait extraordinaire qui me considérait gravement...» Avec les aquarelles de l'auteur.

9782070612758

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Categories:Classics,Traditional,Foreign Languages

Format:Paperback

Language:fr

Pages Read:120

Catch-22

A Novel

Joseph Heller

Simon & Schuster-1999-10-05

415 pages

Description:

Presents the contemporary classic depicting the struggles of a U.S. airman attempting to survive the lunacy and depravity of a World War II base.

9780684865133

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Categories:Contemporary Fiction,Classics,Military Fiction

Format:Hardcover

Language:en

Pages Read:415

Series/Volume:Catch-22, Vol. 1