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<<< 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 >>>     sort list by author | publication date Overcoat and Other Tales of Good and Evil Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol Pan From Lieutenant Thomas Glahn's Papers Knut Hamsun Paris Peasant Louis Aragon, Simon Watson Taylor "I was seeking... a new kind of novel that would break all the traditional rules governing the writing of fiction, one that would be neither a narrative (a story) nor a character study (a portrait)... The Passport (Masks) Herta Müller From the winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature! "A swift, stinging narrative, fable-like in its stoic concision and painterly detail."—The Philadelphia Inquirer The Passport is a beautiful, haunting novel whose subject is a German village in... Pataphysical Essays René Daumal Pataphysical Essays collects Daumal's overtly pataphysical writings from 1929 to 1941, from his landmark exposition on pataphysics and laughter to his late essay, "The Pataphysics of Ghosts." Daumal's "Treatise on Patagrams" offers the reader... The Patience of the Spider Andrea Camilleri The latest mystery in Andrea Camilleri's internationally bestselling Inspector Montalbano series Winning fans in Europe and America for their dark sophistication and dry humor, Andrea Camilleri's crime novels are classics of the genre. Set once... Perfume The Story of a Murderer Patrick Suskind An acclaimed bestseller and international sensation, Patrick Suskind's classic novel provokes a terrifying examination of what happens when one man's indulgence in his greatest passion-his sense of smell-leads to murder.In the slums of... The Perpetual Motion Machine The Story of an Invention Paul Scheerbart In the last days of 1907, the German novelist and exponent of glass architecture Paul Scheerbart embarked upon an attempt to invent a perpetual motion machine. For the next two and a half years he would document his ongoing efforts (and failures) from... The Plague Albert Camus The Nobel prize-winning Albert Camus, who died in 1960, could not have known how grimly current his existentialist novel of epidemic and death would remain. Set in Algeria, in northern Africa, The Plague is a powerful study of human life and its... Points of Departure New Stories from Mexico Gustavo Segade, Mónica Lavin These seventeen stories represent the best of the generation of Mexican writers born in the 50s and 60s. Magical realism and exoticism are nowhere to be found in this collection of sophisticated, very contemporary stories. Rather, the surreal... The Polish Boxer Eduardo Halfon This strange and beautiful book at the outset defies definition. It is neither a collection of short stories or a novel but rather a tapestry of loosely connected movements that, when taken together, compose something haunting and enigmatic... Queen Cocaine A Novel Nuria Amat Following the footsteps of a writer persecuted because of his ideas and tortured by his own frustrations, a young Catalan woman embarks on an adventure in the jungles of Colombia where her familiar world shatters and from which nothing emerges... The Rebel An Essay on Man in Revolt Albert Camus By one of the most profoundly influential thinkers of our century, The Rebel is a classic essay on revolution. For Albert Camus, the urge to revolt is one of the "essential dimensions" of human nature, manifested in man's timeless Promethean struggle... The Round and Other Cold Hard Facts J. M. G. Le Clezio Set largely in locations near the French Riviera, these eleven short stories depict the harsh realities of life for the less-privileged inhabitants of this very privileged region. Distinguished French writer J. M. G. Le Clézio lends his voice to the... <<< 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 >>>