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<<< 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 >>>     sort list by title | author The Book of Sand and Shakespeare's Memory Jorge Luis Borges Jorge Luis Borges has been called the greatest Spanish-language writer of the twentieth century. Now Borges’'s remarkable last major story collection, The Book of Sand, is paired with a handful of writings from the very end of his life. The Eleven Thousand Rods The Uncensored Erotic Classic, Les Onze Mille Verges Guillaume Apollinaire In Guillaume Apollinaire's The Eleven Thousand Rods (Les Onze Mille Verges), debauched aristocrat Mony Vibescu and a circle of fellow sybarites blaze a trail of uncontrollable lust, bloody cruelty and depravity across the streets of Europe. Published... Soul And Other Stories Andrey Platonov A Soviet author heavily censored in his time, Platonov writes about work, progress, war and love with incredible earnestness, dreamlike strangeness, and a uniquely animistic sense of the universe. The title story here is unforgettable: at once truly... Siddhartha Hermann Hesse In the novel, Siddhartha, a young man, leaves his family for a contemplative life, then, restless, discards it for one of the flesh. He conceives a son, but bored and sickened by lust and greed, moves on again. Near despair, Siddhartha comes to a... The Leopard A Novel Giuseppe di Lampedusa Set in the 1860s, The Leopard tells the spellbinding story of a decadent, dying Sicilian aristocracy threatened by the approaching forces of democracy and revolution. The dramatic sweep and richness of observation, the seamless intertwining of public... Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman Haruki Murakami From the bestselling author of Kafka on the Shore and The Wind-up Bird Chronicles comes this superb collection of twenty-four stories that generously expresses Murakami’s mastery of the form. Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel Garcia Marquez In this magnificent story of a romance, Garcia Marquez beautifully and unflinchingly explores the nature of love in all its guises, small and large, passionate and serene. Love can emerge like a disease in these characters, but it can also outlast bleak.. Wizard of the Crow Ngugi Wa'Thiong'O In exile now for more than twenty years, Kenyan novelist, playwright, poet and critic Ngugi wa Thiong’o has become one of the most widely read African writers. Commencing in “our times” and set in the fictional “Free Republic... The Gulag Archipelago Volume 1 An Experiment in Literary Investigation Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Volume 1 of the gripping epic masterpiece, Solzhenitsyn's chilling report of his arrest and interrogation, which exposed to the world the vast bureaucracy of secret police that haunted Soviet society... The Assistant Robert Walser This classic by Robert Walser—who was admired greatly by Kafka, Musil, Walter Benjamin, and W. G. Sebald—is now presented in English for the very first time. Labyrinths Selected Stories & Other Writings Jorge Luis Borges If Jorge Luis Borges had been a computer scientist, he probably would have invented hypertext and the World Wide Web. Instead, being a librarian and one of the world's most widely read people, he became the leading practitioner of a densely layered... The Possibility of an Island Michel Houellebecq A worldwide phenomenon and the most important French novelist since Camus, Michel Houellebecq now delivers his magnum opus–a tale of our present circumstances told from the future, when humanity as we know it has vanished. Surprisingly poignant... Last Evenings on Earth Roberto Bolaño Roberto Bolaño's story collection Last Evenings on Earth was acclaimed by Francine Prose in The New York Times Book Review as "something extraordinarily beautiful and (at least to me) entirely new.... Reading Roberto Bolaño is like hearing the secret... Foucault's Pendulum Umberto Eco Bored with their work, three Milanese editors cook up "the Plan," a hoax that connects the medieval Knights Templar with other occult groups from ancient to modern times. This produces a map indicating the geographical point from which all the powers... <<< 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 >>>