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<<< 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 >>>     sort list by title | author The Fall Albert Camus Elegantly styled, Camus' profoundly disturbing novel of a Parisian lawyer's confessions is a searing study of modern... The Woman in the Dunes Kobo Abe If you've seen the 1964 Teshigahara film you've already experienced Abe's brilliance (he wrote the screenplay as well). If you haven't, read this first. The haunting story of a vacationing entomologist trapped in a sand-pit with an enigmatic woman... Forty Stories Anton Chekhov If any one writer can be said to have invented the modem short story, it is Anton Chekhov. It is not just that Chekhov democratized this art form; more than that, he changed the thrust of short fiction from relating to revealing. The Sorrows of Young Werther Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A major work of German romanticism in a translation that is acknowledged as the definitive English language version. The Vintage Classics edition also includes Novella, Goethe's poetic vision of an idyllic pastoral... Dictionary of the Khazars Milorad Pavic A national bestseller, Dictionary of the Khazars was cited by The New York Times Book Review as one of the best books of the year. Written in two versions, male and female (both available in Vintage International), which are identical save for... 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... The Stranger Albert Camus Through the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach, Camus explored what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd." First published in 1946; now in a new translation by Matthew Ward. A Bend in the River V. S. Naipaul In the "brilliant novel" (The New York Times) V.S. Naipaul takes us deeply into the life of one man—an Indian who, uprooted by the bloody tides of Third World history, has come to live in an isolated town at the bend of a great river in a newly... Memoirs of a Woman Doctor Nawal El Saadawi Rebelling against the contraints of family and society, a young Egyptian woman decides to study medicine, becoming the only woman in a class of men. Her encounters with the other students- as well as the male and female corpses in the autopsy room... Clamor of Innocence Stories from Central America Barbara Paschke These stories taken together are an eye on Central America, focusing on the real lives and enduring passions of today's men and women. Here are tales from the quiet villages, from the urban vortex, from the field of battle... Always Astonished Selected Prose Fernando Pessoa "After looking for him in the poems, we search for him in the prose. The pursuit of the Other in Pessoa's work is never-ending," writes Edwin Honig. Essential to understanding the great Portuguese poet are the essays written about (and by) his... The Master and Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov, Mirra Ginsburg Suppressed in the Soviet Union for twenty-six years, Mikhail Bulgakov's masterpiece is an ironic parable of power and its corruption, good and evil, and human frailty and the strength of love. Hopscotch Julio Cortazar Horacio Oliveira is an Argentinian writer who lives in Paris with his mistress, La Maga, surrounded by a loose-knit circle of bohemian friends who call themselves "the Club." A child's death and La Maga's disappearance put an end to his life of empty... The House of the Dead Fyodor Dostoevsky In January, 1850, Dostoyevsky was sent to a remote Siberian prison camp for his part in a political conspiracy. The four years he spent there, startlingly re-created in The House of the Dead, were the most agonizing of his life. In this... <<< 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 >>>