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Collected Essays
Jorge Luis Borges

Collected Essays

Although his fame rests mainly on his production of short stories, Jorge Luis Borges began his career writing poems and essays, and continued to do so throughout his life. However, there is no separate Borges the essayist, Borges the poet, or Borge
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What Maisie Knew
Henry James

What Maisie Knew

What Maisie Knew is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in the Chap-Book and (revised and abridged) in the New Review in 1897 and then as a book later in the same year. The story of the sensitive daughter of divorced and
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Tamburlaine the Great
Christopher Marlowe

Tamburlaine the Great

Tamburlaine the Great achieved, and sustained, great success on the Elizabethan stage. And it speaks provocatively to our own time, when it has been the subject of numerous major productions. Timur Khan--to give Tamburlaine his original name--was l
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Portraits and Observations
Truman Capote

Portraits and Observations

This volume of collected essays is both a long overdue and welcome addition to the Capote revival. It's arranged chronologically—from a short 1946 piece on New Orleans, written when Capote was 22, to a brief appreciation of Willa Cathe
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Tieta
Jorge Amado

Tieta

Banished for promiscuity, Tieta returns to the seaside village of Agreste after twenty-six years. Thinking she is now a rich, respectable widow, her mercenary family welcomes her with open arms. But Tieta is forced to reveal her true i
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Sixty Stories
Dino Buzzati

Sixty Stories

Buzzati’s greatest success would be in the genre of the short story, the form in which he really excelled. The anthology Sessanta racconti (Sixty Stories) winning him the prestigious Strega prize in 1958. With certain peculiarity or extrav
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Diary of a Mad Old Man
Jun'ichiro Tanizaki

Diary of a Mad Old Man

"Seventy-seven-year-old Utsugi, a retired businessman, is the protagonist and diarist of this book. Various aches and pains plague him, but his spirits are buoyed by a growing erotic obsession with his daughter-in-law, Satsuko, a former nightclub
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Mrs Dalloway
Virginia Woolf

Mrs Dalloway

Mrs Dalloway (published on 14 May 1925) is a novel by Virginia Woolf that details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway in post-World War I England. It is one of Woolf's best-known novels. Created from two short stories, "Mrs Dalloway in
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The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire
Tennessee Williams

The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire

The Glass Menagerie is a four-character memory play by Tennessee Williams. Williams worked on various drafts of the play prior to writing a version of it as a screenplay for MGM, to whom Williams was contracted. Initial ideas stemmed
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Other Voices, Other Rooms
Truman Capote

Other Voices, Other Rooms

Other Voices, Other Rooms is a novel written in the Southern Gothic style by Truman Capote. It is published in January 1948. Other Voices, Other Rooms is significant because it is both Truman Capote's first published novel and semi-autobiographica
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The Rainbow
David Herbert Lawrence

The Rainbow

The Rainbow is a 1915 novel by the British author D. H. Lawrence. It follows the stories of three generations of the Brangwen family, particularly focusing on the sexual dynamics of, and relations between, the characters. Lawrence'
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Ficciones
Jorge Luis Borges

Ficciones

Reading Jorge Luis Borges is an experience akin to having the top of one's head removed for repairs. First comes the unfamiliar breeze tickling your cerebral cortex; then disorientation, even mild discomfort; and finally, the sense that the w
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Cakes and Ale
W. Somerset Maugham

Cakes and Ale

"Cakes and Ale" (1930) tells about the life of Edward Driffield in whom the contemporaries of the writer easily recognize another great English writer - Thomas Hardy. Somerset Maugham fills the story with splendid dialogues and charming wit, typical
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After Many a Summer Dies the Swan
Aldous Huxley

After Many a Summer Dies the Swan

“After Many a Summer Dies the Swan” was published in 1939 under the title “After Many a Summer”. Later in the same year, the novel was republished under its current title, taken from Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poem “Tithon
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The Way of a Serpent
Torgny Lindgren

The Way of a Serpent

"The way of a Serpent" tells the story of a farmer family in a poverty-stricken region in the northern parts of Sweden in the nineteenth century. The family formerly owned its land, but had to sell it cheap during a succession of years of famine.
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Travels with My Aunt
Graham Greene

Travels with My Aunt

The novel begins when Henry Pulling, a conventional and uncharming bank manager who has taken early retirement, meets his septuagenarian Aunt Augusta for the first time in over fifty years at his mother's funeral. Despite having little in co
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Unique Item
Milorad Pavić

Unique Item

Buying this book, the reader receives one hundred ends instead one. The author of "Dictionary Of The Khazars" has invented a unique literary play – a novel-delta. This is a love-story novel which is based on a detective narrative
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A Tree of Night
Truman Capote

A Tree of Night

The local colour and the melodrama of the south gothic, the urban tales of horror, the childhood memories, seen through the fiction; the provincial Christmas, the maze of New York – for the first time the short stories
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The Waterworks
Edgar Lawrence Doctorow

The Waterworks

The setting of the novel is New York in the year 1871. Martin Pemberton, a freelance journalist, was at odds with his father Augustus, who died a few years ago. After his father’s death, Martin sees his father, briefly and accidentally in a
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The Tanners
Robert Walser

The Tanners

Loosely based on his own life and his large family, The Tanners follows Simon Tanner as he wanders from job to job, in search of a calling. Along his journey of self-definition, we meet his other siblings: the painter brother whose romantic b
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Second Body
Milorad Pavić

Second Body

Milorad Pavić, the acclaimed Serbian writer and literary historian, was born in Belgrade in 1929. His unconventional novels can be compared with those of Jorge Louis Borges, Julio Cortázar, Umberto Eco, Italo Calvino, and B.
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Travels with Charley
John Steinbeck

Travels with Charley

Travels with Charley: In Search of America is a travelogue by American author John Steinbeck. It documents the road trip he took with his poodle Charley around the United States in 1960. He wrote that he was moved by a desire to see his country
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How the Turks Discovered America
Jorge Amado

How the Turks Discovered America

Raduan Murad and Jamil Bichara discovered America together, having come to port in Bahia on the same emigrant ship in 1903. On the southern coast of the State they were referred to as “Turks”, the Brazilian designation for all A
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Demian
Hermann Hesse

Demian

Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth is a Bildungsroman by Hermann Hesse, first published in 1919, but a prologue was added in 1960. Demian was first published under the pseudonym "Emil Sinclair", the name of the narrator of the story
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Novel with Cocaine
Marc Levy

Novel with Cocaine

An emigrant’s novel from 1934, the book’s author is identified more than sixty years later. Until that moment it was believed that the book was written by Nabokov and M. Ageyev was one of his pseudonyms. It was recently proven
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Disgrace
J. M. Coetzee

Disgrace

Emerging from the dissident calibrations of literary voices joined together in the culture of protest against the apartheid regime, the distinctive writing of the novelist, critic and academic J M Coetzee has become identified as one of the most f
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Our Man in Havana
Graham Greene

Our Man in Havana

Our Man in Havana (1958) is a novel by British author Graham Greene. Certain aspects of the plot, in particular the importance of rocket-launchers, appear to predict the Cuban Missile Crisis, which took place in 1962. It was adapted into a film o
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The World according to Garp
John Irving

The World according to Garp

The World According to Garp is John Irving's fourth novel. Published in 1978, the book was a bestseller for several years. A movie adaptation starring Robin Williams was released in 1982. The story deals with the life of T. S. Garp. His mother, Je
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A Very Long Engagement
Sébastien Japrisot

A Very Long Engagement

A Very Long Engagement is an antiwar novel that exposes the cruelty and horror of trench warfare, and the official lies and corruption that allowed atrocities to take place. The novel is also a detective story, as Mathilde unravels the mystery of w
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The Inner Side of the Wind
Milorad Pavić

The Inner Side of the Wind

The Inner Side of the Wind has two beginnings and the end is in the middle of the book, so it should be read at least one time and a half. It is based on an ancient Greek legend about the doomed love between the beautiful Thracian pri
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Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon
Jorge Amado

Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon

Gabriela, Cravo y Canela (Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon) is a Brazilian Modernist novel. It was written by Jorge Amado in 1958. It is widely considered one of his finest works. The story begins in 1925 in the provincial port of Ilheus in Bra
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The Woman Destroyed
Simone de Beauvoir

The Woman Destroyed

How dumb (or in denial) can a woman be? Her husband has been having affairs with other women, on and off, for the past 10 years -- putting in all that overtime at work. All her friends know, her grown daughters know, the people her (highly-suc
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Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands
Jorge Amado

Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands

Dona Flor e Seus Dois Maridos (Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands) is a Brazilian Modernist novel, written by Jorge Amado in 1966. If Charles Dickens had been Brazilian, then he might have written Dona Flor — the Dickens of The Pickwick Paper
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The Comedians
Graham Greene

The Comedians

The Comedians is a novel by Graham Greene, first published in 1966. It depicts life in Haiti under the rule of François "Papa Doc" Duvalier and his secret police, the Tonton Macoute. The setting for much of the novel, the Hotel Trianon, was i
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The Kiss of the Spider-Woman
Manuel Puig

The Kiss of the Spider-Woman

Novel by Manuel Puig, published in 1976 as El beso de la mujer arana. Mostly consisting of dialogue between two men in an Argentine jail cell, the novel traces the development of their unlikely friendship. Molina is a middle-aged homosexual who p
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Three Comrades
Erich Maria Remarque

Three Comrades

The year is 1928. On the outskirts of a large German city, three young men are earning a thin and precarious living. Fully armed young storm troopers swagger in the streets. Restlessness, poverty, and violence are everywhere. For these three, frien
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Death in Venice
Thomas Mann

Death in Venice

Novella by Thomas Mann, published in German as Der Tod in Venedig in 1912. A symbol-laden story of aestheticism and decadence, Mann's best-known novella exemplifies the author's regard for Sigmund Freud's writings on the unconscious. Gust
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Sonatas
Ramon del Valle-Inclan

Sonatas

"These pages are a fragment from "Pleasant Memories" which Marquis de Bradomin, already very old, began to write while inexile. A charming Don Juan. Perhaps the most charming! He was unsightly, a Catholic and sentimental." In this way Ramon del
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Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Don Quixote

Don Quixote is universally regarded as Cervantes' masterwork and one of the greatest novels of all time. The novel is actually two separate books that cover the adventures of Don Quixote, also known as the knight or man of La Mancha, a hero who c
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Memoirs of a Yellow Dog
O. Henry

Memoirs of a Yellow Dog

The book “Memoirs of a Yellow Dog. Short Stories” contains the following O. Henry's short stories: “The red street”, “A Cosmopolite In A Cafe”, “The Furnished Room”, “Between Rounds&rdquo
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A Chronicle of Our Own Times
Anatole France

A Chronicle of Our Own Times

Anatole France is the first one to introduce to the French literature the character of the intellectual bibliophile. In the tetralogy A Chronicle of Our Own Time this character is situated in the contemporary Third Republic which is a rough
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Fables
Jean de La Fontaine

Fables

Charming and elegant, Jean de La Fontaine's (1621-1695) animal fables depict sly foxes and scheming cats, vain birds and greedy wolves, all of which subtly express his penetrating insights into French society and the beasts found in all of us
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Tales of the Fantastic
Théophile Gautier

Tales of the Fantastic

“Tales of the Fantastic” contains some of the short novels of the famous French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and literary critic Théophile Gautier. Through this book the readers will take delight

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