Michael's bookshelf: all en-US Thu, 17 Sep 2026 13:56:30 -0700 60 Michael's bookshelf: all 144 41 https://www.goodreads.com/images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[The Sonnets and Narrative Poems (Everyman's Library)]]> 108170
If William Shakespeare had never written a single play, if his reputation rested entirely upon the substantial and sterling body of nondramatic verse he left behind, he would still hold the position he does in the hierarchy of world literature. The strikingly modern sonnets–intimate, baroque, and expansive at once; the invigorating narratives drawn from classical subjects; and the flawless lyricism represented by a poem like “The Phoenix and the Turtle”–permanently deepen our understanding of the multiplicity and extravagant energy of our greatest poet.

(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed)]]> 248 William Shakespeare 0679417419 Michael 5 4.39 1992 The Sonnets and Narrative Poems (Everyman's Library)
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]]> <![CDATA[Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales]]> 1335019
H.P. Lovecraft's tales of the tentacled Elder God Cthulhu and his pantheon of alien deities were initially written for the pulp magazines of the 1920s and '30s. These astonishing tales blend elements of horror, science fiction and cosmic terror that are as powerful today as they were when they were first published.

This handsome tome collects together the very best of Lovecraft's tales of terror, including the complete Cthulhu Mythos cycle, just the way they were originally published. It will introduce a whole new generation of readers to Lovecraft's fiction, as well as being a must-buy for those fans who want all his work in a single, definitive, highly attractive volume.

Contents:
• Night-Gaunts
• Dagon
• The Statement of Randolph Carter
• The Doom The Came to Sarnath
• The Cats of Ulthar
• The Nameless City
• Herbert West - Reanimator
• The Music of Erich Zann
• The Lurking Fear
• The Hound
• The Rats in the Walls
• Under the Pyramids
• The Unnamable
• In the Vault
• The Outsider
• The Horror at Red Hook
• The Colour Out of Space
• Pickman’s Model
• The Call of Cthulhu
• Cool Air
• The Shunned House
• The Silver Key
• The Dunwich Horror
• The Whisperer in Darkness
• The Strange High House in the Mist
• The Dreams in the Witch-House
• From Beyond
• Through the Gates of the Silver Key
• At the Mountains of Madness
• The Shadow Over Innsmouth
• The Shadow Out of Time
• The Haunter of the Dark
• The Thing on the Doorstep
• The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
• The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath
• To a Dreamer
• Afterword: A Gentleman of Providence by Stephen Jones

See also: Eldritch Tales.]]> 878 H.P. Lovecraft 0575081562 Michael 0 4.23 Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales
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]]> A Confederate Girl's Diary 10102689 459 Sarah Morgan Dawson Michael 0 3.76 A Confederate Girl's Diary
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]]> <![CDATA[Richard Stark’s Parker: The Outfit]]> 7961296 152 Darwyn Cooke 1600107621 Michael 0 4.26 2010 Richard Stark’s Parker: The Outfit
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]]> <![CDATA[T.S. Eliot Reads: The Wasteland, Four Quartets and Other Poems]]> 22572

The Wasteland
The Hollow Men
Journey of the Magi from the Ariel Poems
La Figlia che Piange
Landscape: New Hampshite, Virginia, Usk, Rannoch, by Glencoe, Cape Ann
Morning at the Window
Difficulties of a Statesman from Coriolan
Sweeney Among the Nightingales
Whispers of Immortality
Macavity: the Mystery Cat
The Four Quartets
Ash Wednesday
A Song for the Simeon from the Ariel poems
Marina from the Ariel poems
Triumphal March from Coriolan
O Light Invisible, from The Rock
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Portrait of a Lady
Preludes
Mr. Eliot's Sunday Morning Service
Murder in the Cathederal: Part II, Opening Chorus
The Family Reunion: Part II, A Chorus]]> 0 T.S. Eliot 0694522767 Michael 4 4.36 T.S. Eliot Reads: The Wasteland, Four Quartets and Other Poems
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]]> <![CDATA[Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited]]> 5479 Brave New World, originally published in 1932, presents Aldous Huxley's vision of the future--of a world utterly transformed. Through the most efficient scientific and psychological engineering, people are genetically designed to be passive and therefore consistently useful to the ruling class. This powerful work of speculative fiction sheds a blazing critical light on the present and is considered to be Aldous Huxley's most enduring masterpiece.

The non-fiction work Brave New World Revisited, published in 1958, is a fascinating work in which Huxley uses his tremendous knowledge of human relations to compare the modern-day world with his prophetic fantasy envisioned in Brave New World, including the threats to humanity, such as over-population, propaganda, and chemical persuasion.]]> 340 Aldous Huxley 0060776099 Michael 5 4.17 1932 Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited
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]]> Neuromancer (Sprawl #1) 888628
Now a new employer has recruited him for a last-chance run against an unthinkably powerful artificial intelligence.

Case is ready – for the silicon-quick, bleakly prophetic adventure that upped the ante on an entire genre of fiction. . .]]> 278 William Gibson Michael 0 4.01 1984 Neuromancer (Sprawl #1)
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]]> Neuromancer (Sprawl #1) 22328 wrong people…]]> 271 William Gibson Michael 5 3.87 1984 Neuromancer (Sprawl #1)
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]]> Tales 36313 Weird Tales and Astounding Stories—and in the work that remained unpublished until after his death, including some of his best writing—H. P. Lovecraft adapted the conventions of horror stories and science fiction to express an intensely personal vision, cosmic in its ramifications and fearsome in its shuddering view of human destiny.

In this Library of America volume, the best-selling novelist Peter Straub brings together the very best of Lovecraft’s fiction in a treasury guaranteed to bring fright and delight both to longtime fans and to readers new to his work. Early stories such as “The Outsider,” “The Music of Erich Zann,” “Herbert West–Reanimator,” and “The Lurking Fear” demonstrate Lovecraft’s uncanny ability to blur the distinction between reality and nightmare, sanity and madness, the human and non-human. “The Horror at Red Hook” and “He” reveal the fascination and revulsion Lovecraft felt for New York City; “Pickman’s Model” uncovers the frightening secret behind an artist’s work; “The Rats in the Walls” is a terrifying descent into atavistic horror; and “The Colour Out of Space” explores the eerie impact of a meteorite on a remote Massachusetts valley.

In such later works as “The Call of Cthulhu,” “The Whisperer in Darkness,” “At the Mountains of Madness,” “The Shadow Over Innsmouth,” and “The Shadow Out of Time,” Lovecraft developed his own nightmarish mythology in which encounters with ancient, pitiless extraterrestrial intelligences wreak havoc on hapless humans who only gradually begin to glimpse “terrifying vistas of reality, and our frightful position therein.” Moving from old New England towns haunted by occult pasts to Antarctic wastes that disclose appalling secrets, Lovecraft’s tales continue to exert a dread fascination.

Table of Contents:
The Statement of Randolph Carter
The Outsider
The Music of Erich Zann
Herbert West—Reanimator
The Lurking Fear
The Rats in the Walls
The Shunned House
The Horror at Red Hook
He
Cool Air
The Call of Cthulhu
Pickman’s Model
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
The Colour Out of Space
The Dunwich Horror
The Whisperer in Darkness
At the Mountains of Madness
The Shadow Over Innsmouth
The Dreams in the Witch House
The Thing on the Doorstep
The Shadow Out of Time
The Haunter of the Dark]]> 838 H.P. Lovecraft 1931082723 Michael 0 4.35 2005 Tales
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]]> Monsignor Quixote 138995 221 Graham Greene 0671474707 Michael 0 3.95 1982 Monsignor Quixote
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]]> Cómo se cuenta un cuento 1314631 G.G.M. revela algunas de las claves fundamentales para la creación de un texto, los elementos de elaboración de una historia y expone algunas aristas de su propio trabajo creativo.]]> 256 Gabriel García Márquez 1400092957 Michael 0 3.69 1995 Cómo se cuenta un cuento
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]]> The Speed of Dark 1140949 With a new introduction by the author

In the near future, disease will be a condition of the past. Most genetic defects will be removed at birth; the remaining during infancy. Lou Arrendale, a high-functioning autistic adult, is a member of the lost generation, born at the wrong time to reap the rewards of medical science. He lives a low-key, independent life. But then he is offered a chance to try a brand-new experimental “cure” for his condition. With this treatment Lou would think and act and be just like everyone else. But if he was suddenly free of autism, would he still be himself? Would he still love the same classical music—with its complications and resolutions? Would he still see the same colors and patterns in the world—shades and hues that others cannot see? Most important, would he still love Marjory, a woman who may never be able to reciprocate his feelings? Now Lou must decide if he should submit to a surgery that might completely change the way he views the world... and the very essence of who he is.

Thoughtful, provocative, poignant, unforgettable, The Speed of Dark is a gripping journey into the mind of an autistic person as he struggles with profound questions of humanity and matters of the heart.]]> 376 Elizabeth Moon 0345447549 Michael 0 3.90 2002 The Speed of Dark
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]]> <![CDATA[Prufrock and Other Observations]]> 197315 Prufrock and Other Observations are the following poems:

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Portrait of a Lady
Preludes
Rhapsody on a Windy Night
Morning at the Window
The Boston Evening Transcript
Aunt Helen
Cousin Nancy
Mr. Apollinax
Hysteria
Conversation Galante
La Figlia Che Piange]]> 48 T.S. Eliot 1419143328 Michael 5 4.33 1915 Prufrock and Other Observations
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]]> <![CDATA[Tanith Low in the Maleficent Seven (Skulduggery Pleasant, #7.5)]]> 16119043
A brilliant, hilarious one-off novella in the Skulduggery Pleasant universe, from number-one-bestselling author Derek Landy

This time, the bad guys take the stage.

Tanith Low, now possessed by a remnant, recruits a gang of villains – many of whom will be familiar from previous Skulduggery adventures – in order to track down and steal the four God-Killer level weapons that could hurt Darquesse when she eventually emerges. Also on the trail of the weapons is a secret group of Sanctuary sorcerers, and doing his best to keep up and keep Tanith alive is one Mister Ghastly Bespoke.

When the villains around her are lying and scheming and plotting, Tanith needs to stay two steps ahead of her teammates and her enemies. After all, she's got her own double-crosses to plan – and she’s a villain herself…]]> 283 Derek Landy 0007500920 Michael 0 4.23 2013 Tanith Low in the Maleficent Seven (Skulduggery Pleasant, #7.5)
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]]> <![CDATA[The House at Pooh Corner (Winnie-the-Pooh, #2)]]> 776407 TIGGER COMES TO THE FOREST and other stories
Story 1 In which a house is built at Pooh Corner for Eeyore

Story 2 In which Tigger comes to the forest and has breakfast

Story 3 In which Tigger is unbounced

Story 4 In which Eeyore finds the Wolery and Owl moves into it

Story 5 In which Christopher Robin and Pooh come to an enchanted place

POOH INVENTS A NEW GAME and other stories
Story 1 In which Rabbit has a busy day

Story 2 In which Pooh invents a new game

Story 3 In which it is shown that Tiggers don’t climb trees

Story 4 In which a search is organized

Story 5 In which Piglet does a very grand thing]]> 180 A.A. Milne 0525444440 Michael 5 4.38 1928 The House at Pooh Corner (Winnie-the-Pooh, #2)
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]]> The Storyteller 53931 245 Mario Vargas Llosa 0312420285 Michael 0 3.74 1987 The Storyteller
author: Mario Vargas Llosa
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]]> <![CDATA[The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories]]> 99300
Written from a feminist perspective, often focusing on the inferior status accorded to women by society, the tales include "turned," an ironic story with a startling twist, in which a husband seduces and impregnates a naïve servant; "Cottagette," concerning the romance of a young artist and a man who's apparently too good to be true; "Mr. Peebles' Heart," a liberating tale of a fiftyish shopkeeper whose sister-in-law, a doctor, persuades him to take a solo trip to Europe, with revivifying results; "The Yellow Wallpaper"; and three other outstanding stories.

These charming tales are not only highly readable and full of humor and invention, but also offer ample food for thought about the social, economic, and personal relationship of men and women — and how they might be improved.

Collects:
—The Yellow Wallpaper
—Three Thanksgivings
—The Cottagette
—Turned
—Making a Change
—If I Were a Man
—Mr. Peebles' Heart]]> 129 Charlotte Perkins Gilman 0486298574 Michael 0 4.05 1892 The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories
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]]> <![CDATA[The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Short Stories]]> 143465
]]> 144 Leo Tolstoy Michael 0 3.95 2014 The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Short Stories
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]]> <![CDATA[Around the World in Eighty Days]]> 54479
Inspired by Jules Verne’s own sea travels and his fascination with circumnavigating the globe, the avid dreamer’s picaresque voyage inspired generations of adventurers who were eager to best Verne’s challenge—from nineteenth-century journalist Nellie Bly to Monty Python’s Michael Palin.]]> 252 Jules Verne 014044906X Michael 0 3.95 1872 Around the World in Eighty Days
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]]> <![CDATA[The Metamorphosis and Other Stories]]> 7723 The Metamorphosis,” a story that is both harrowing and amusing, and a landmark of modern literature.

Bringing together some of Kafka’s finest work, this collection demonstrates the richness and variety of the author’s artistry. “The Judgment,” which Kafka considered to be his decisive breakthrough, and “The Stoker,” which became the first chapter of his novel Amerika, are here included. These two, along with “The Metamorphosis,” form a suite of stories Kafka referred to as “The Sons,” and they collectively present a devastating portrait of the modern family.

Also included are “In the Penal Colony,” a story of a torture machine and its operators and victims, and “A Hunger Artist,” about the absurdity of an artist trying to communicate with a misunderstanding public. Kafka’s lucid, succinct writing chronicles the labyrinthine complexities, the futility-laden horror, and the stifling oppressiveness that permeate his vision of modern life.]]> 224 Franz Kafka 1593080298 Michael 0 4.07 1915 The Metamorphosis and Other Stories
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]]> Mansfield Park 45032 488 Jane Austen Michael 0 3.86 1814 Mansfield Park
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]]> <![CDATA[The Complete Sonnets and Poems]]> 42051 768 William Shakespeare 019281933X Michael 5 4.42 1992 The Complete Sonnets and Poems
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]]> The Call of Cthulhu 15730101 The Call of Cthulhu is a harrowing tale of the weakness of the human mind when confronted by powers and intelligences from beyond our world.]]> 43 H.P. Lovecraft Michael 0 3.95 1928 The Call of Cthulhu
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]]> Selected Poems 166004
The poems of Charles Baudelaire are filled with explicit and unsettling imagery, depicting with intensity every day subjects ignored by French literary conventions of his time. 'Tableaux parisiens' portrays the brutal life of Paris's thieves, drunkards and prostitutes amid the debris of factories and poorhouses. In love poems such as 'Le Beau Navire', flights of lyricism entwine with languorous eroticism, while prose poems such as 'La Chambre Double' deal with the agonies of artistic creation and mortality. With their startling combination of harsh reality and sublime beauty, formal ingenuity and revolutionary poetic language, these poems, including a generous selection from Les Fleurs du Mal , show Baudelaire as one of the most influential poets of the nineteenth century.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.]]> 229 Charles Baudelaire 0140446249 Michael 0 4.15 1860 Selected Poems
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]]> 1Q84 Book 1 (1Q84, #1) 6443834 そして2009年、『1Q84』は逆の方向から1984年を描いた近過去小説である。
そこに描かれているのは「こうであったかもしれない」世界なのだ。
私たちが生きている現在が、「そうではなかったかもしれない」世界であるのと、ちょうど同じように。]]> 554 Haruki Murakami 4103534222 Michael 0 4.02 2009 1Q84 Book 1 (1Q84, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Collaborator of Bethlehem: An Omar Yussef Mystery (Omar Yussef Mysteries)]]> 1352751 264 Matt Rees 0618959653 Michael 0 3.90 2006 The Collaborator of Bethlehem: An Omar Yussef Mystery (Omar Yussef Mysteries)
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]]> <![CDATA[Child of the Dark: The Diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus, 50th Anniversary Edition]]> 449170 A primeira publicação de Quarto de despejo: diário de uma favelada, de Carolina Maria de Jesus, data de 1960, por isso, em 2020, quando se comemoram os 60 anos de sua existência, a Somos Educação fará uma edição especial desta que é uma obra muito importante para a literatura brasileira. Com um projeto gráfico renovado e capa assinada pelo artista No Martins, além do texto original da autora, este livro conta com um prefácio assinado pela escritora Cidinha da Silva, fotografias dos manuscritos de Carolina Maria de Jesus e uma fortuna crítica com escritores como Alberto Moravia; críticos literários, como Marisa Lajolo, Carlos Vogt, Elzira Divina Perpétua, Fernanda Miranda; historiadores, como José Carlos Sebe Bom Meihy, e jornalistas, como Audálio Dantas, responsável pela publicação da primeira edição do livro, e Otto Lara Resende.]]> 224 Carolina Maria de Jesus 0451529103 Michael 4 4.04 1960 Child of the Dark: The Diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus, 50th Anniversary Edition
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]]> <![CDATA[One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich]]> 17125 The only English translation authorized by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

First published in the Soviet journal Novy Mir in 1962, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich stands as a classic of contemporary literature. The story of labor-camp inmate Ivan Denisovich Shukhov, it graphically describes his struggle to maintain his dignity in the face of communist oppression. An unforgettable portrait of the entire world of Stalin's forced work camps, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is one of the most extraordinary literary documents to have emerged from the Soviet Union and confirms Solzhenitsyn's stature as "a literary genius whose talent matches that of Dosotevsky, Turgenev, Tolstoy"--Harrison Salisbury

This unexpurgated 1991 translation by H. T. Willetts is the only authorized edition available, and fully captures the power and beauty of the original Russian.]]> 182 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Michael 5 3.98 1962 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
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]]> <![CDATA[Spoon River Anthology (Dover Thrift Editions: Poetry)]]> 753028 In these pages, no less than 214 individual voices are heard — some in no more than a dozen moving lines. Alternately plaintive, anguished, enigmatic, angry, and contemptuous, the voices of Spoon River, although distinctively small-town Americans, evoke themes of love and hope, disappointment and despair that are universal in their resonance. This American classic is reprinted here from the authoritative 1915 edition.]]> 144 Edgar Lee Masters 0486272753 Michael 0 3.96 1915 Spoon River Anthology (Dover Thrift Editions: Poetry)
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]]> <![CDATA[One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich]]> 600253
First published in the Soviet journal Novy Mir in 1962, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich stands as a classic of contemporary literature. The story of labor-camp inmate Ivan Denisovich Shukhov, it graphically describes his struggle to maintain his dignity in the face of communist oppression. An unforgettable portrait of the entire world of Stalin's forced work camps, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is one of the most extraordinary literary documents to have emerged from the Soviet Union and confirms Solzhenitsyn's stature as "a literary genius whose talent matches that of Dosotevsky, Turgenev, Tolstoy"--Harrison Salisbury

This unexpurgated 1991 translation by H. T. Willetts is the only authorized edition available and fully captures the power and beauty of the original Russian.]]> 188 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 0374521956 Michael 0 3.90 1962 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
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]]> <![CDATA[Listening Is an Act of Love Deluxe Gift Collection (Includes "Listening Is an Act of Love" / Notes on 10 Beloved Stories & How to Record Your Own / Bonus CD)]]> 6061354 0 Dave Isay 1594201617 Michael 0 4.26 Listening Is an Act of Love Deluxe Gift Collection (Includes "Listening Is an Act of Love" / Notes on 10 Beloved Stories & How to Record Your Own / Bonus CD)
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]]> <![CDATA[Le Ton beau de Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language]]> 248193
Le ton beau de Marot” literally means ”The sweet tone of Marot”, but to a French ear it suggests ”Le tombeau de Marot”—that is, ”The tomb of Marot”. That double entendre foreshadows the linguistic exuberance of this book, which was sparked a decade ago when Hofstadter, under the spell of an exquisite French miniature by Marot, got hooked on the challenge of recreating both its sweet message and its tight rhymes in English—jumping through two tough hoops at once. In the next few years, he not only did many of his own translations of Marot's poem, but also enlisted friends, students, colleagues, family, noted poets, and translators—even three state-of-the-art translation programs!—to try their hand at this subtle challenge.

The rich harvest is represented here by 88 wildly diverse variations on Marot's little theme. Yet this barely scratches the surface of Le Ton beau de Marot, for small groups of these poems alternate with chapters that run all over the map of language and thought.

Not merely a set of translations of one poem, Le Ton beau de Marot is an autobiographical essay, a love letter to the French language, a series of musings on life, loss, and death, a sweet bouquet of stirring poetry—but most of all, it celebrates the limitless creativity fired by a passion for the music of words.

Dozens of literary themes and creations are woven into the picture, including Pushkin's Eugene Onegin , Dante's Inferno, Salinger's Catcher in the Rye , Villon's Ballades, Nabokov’s essays, Georges Perec's La Disparition, Vikram Seth's The Golden Gate, Horace's odes, and more.

Rife with stunning form-content interplay, crammed with creative linguistic experiments yet always crystal-clear, this book is meant not only for lovers of literature, but also for people who wish to be brought into contact with current ideas about how creativity works, and who wish to see how today’s computational models of language and thought stack up next to the human mind.

Le Ton beau de Marot is a sparkling, personal, and poetic exploration aimed at both the literary and the scientific world, and is sure to provoke great excitement and heated controversy among poets and translators, critics and writers, and those involved in the study of creativity and its elusive wellsprings.]]> 632 Douglas R. Hofstadter 0465086454 Michael 0 to-read 4.25 1995 Le Ton beau de Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language
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]]> Another Country 38474
Stunning for its emotional intensity and haunting sensuality, this book depicts men and women, blacks and whites, stripped of their masks of gender and race by love and hatred at the most elemental and sublime.]]> 448 James Baldwin 0141186372 Michael 0 4.31 1962 Another Country
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]]> Selected Poems 846976 192 Roger Sharrock 0435150154 Michael 4 4.08 1963 Selected Poems
author: Roger Sharrock
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]]> <![CDATA[The Little Prince & Letter to a Hostage]]> 3241368
Letter to a Hostage, which contains certain theme that were appear ini The Little Prince, is Saint-Exupery's optimistic and humane open letter to a Jewish intellectual hiding in occupied France in 1943]]> 118 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 0141180927 Michael 0 4.42 1943 The Little Prince & Letter to a Hostage
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]]> The Remains of the Day 274186 here.

The Remains of the Day is a profoundly compelling portrait of the perfect English butler and of his fading, insular world postwar England. At the end of his three decades of service at Darlington Hall, Stevens embarks on a country drive, during which he looks back over his career to reassure himself that he has served humanity by serving “a great gentleman.” But lurking in his memory are doubts about the true nature of Lord Darlington’s “greatness” and graver doubts about his own faith in the man he served.]]> 245 Kazuo Ishiguro 0679731725 Michael 0 4.17 1989 The Remains of the Day
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]]> The Bhagavad-Gita 7302092 The Bhagavad-Gita has been an essential text of Hindu culture in India since the time of its composition in the first century A.D. One of the great classics of world literature, it has inspired such diverse thinkers as Henry David Thoreau, Mahatma Gandhi, and T.S. Eliot; most recently, it formed the core of Peter Brook's celebrated production of the Mahabharata.


From the Paperback edition.]]> 176 Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa 0553900390 Michael 0 4.17 -400 The Bhagavad-Gita
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]]> <![CDATA[Paycheck and Other Classic Stories]]> 216369 Electronic mechanic Jennings wakes up with no memory of the past two years of his life -- except that he had agreed to work for Retherick Construction. Payment for his services, now completed, is a bag of seemingly worthless objects: a code key, a ticket stub, a receipt, a length of wire, half a poker chip, a piece of green cloth and a bus token. But when he is confronted by the Special Police, who seem to be investigating Retherick for their own reasons, Jennings finds himself running for his life, realizing that the "worthless" objects are the key to unlocking his recent past, and ensuring that he has a future. ("Paycheck")

Viewed by many as the greatest science fiction writer on any planet, Philip K. Dick has written some of the most intriguing, original and thought-provoking fiction of our time. He has been described by The Wall Street Journal as the man who, "More than anyone else… really puts you inside people's minds."

Volume 1/5. Includes stories from 1952-1955:
- Stability
- Roog
- The Little Movement
- Beyond Lies the Wub
- The Gun
- The Skull
- The Defenders
- Mr. Spaceship
- Piper in the Woods
- The Infinites
- The Preserving Machine
- Expendable
- The Variable Man
- The Indefatigable Frog
- The Crystal Crypt
- The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford
- The Builder
- Meddler
- Paycheck
- The Great C
- Out in the Garden
- The King of the Elves
- Colony
- Prize Ship
- Nanny

Other editions of this volume have the same list of stories, and were published under these titles:
- The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford,
- Beyond Lies the Wub,
- The King of the Elves (+1 extra story).

]]> 432 Philip K. Dick 0806526300 Michael 0 4.03 1987 Paycheck and Other Classic Stories
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]]> <![CDATA[The Complete I Ching: The Definitive Translation]]> 34200 I Ching, or Book of Changes, is one of the 1st efforts of the human mind to place itself within the universe. It has exerted a living influence in China for 3000 years and interest in it has spread in the West.

Set down in the dawn of history as a book of oracles, the Book of Changes deepened in meaning when ethical values were attached to the oracular pronouncements; it became a book of wisdom, eventually one of the Five Classics of Confucianism, and provided the common source for both Confucianist and Taoist philosophy.

Wilhelm's rendering of the I Ching into German, published in 1924, presented it for the 1st time in a form intelligible to the general reader. Wilhelm, who translated many other ancient Chinese works and who wrote several books on Chinese philosophy and civilization, long resided in China. His close association with its cultural leaders gave him a unique understanding of the text of the I Ching. In the English translation, every effort has been made to preserve Wilhelm's pioneering insight into the spirit of the original.

This 3rd edition, completely reset, contains a new forward by Hellmut Wilhelm, one of the most eminent American scholars of Chinese culture. He discusses his father's textual methods and summarizes recent studies of the I Ching both in the West and in present-day China. The new edition contains minor textual corrections, bibliographical revisions and an index.]]> 576 Anonymous 0892811455 Michael 0 4.26 -850 The Complete I Ching: The Definitive Translation
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]]> <![CDATA[The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick 5: The Eye of The Sibyl]]> 22585
Volume 5/5. Contents:
- The Little Black Box (1964)
- The War With the Fnools (1964)
- A Game of Unchance (1964)
- Precious Artifact (1964)
- Retreat Syndrome (1965)
- A Terran Odyssey (1987)
- Your Appointment Will Be Yesterday (1966)
- Holy Quarrel (1966)
- Not by Its Cover (1968)
- Return Match (1967)
- Faith of Our Fathers (1967)
- The Story to End All Stories (1968)
- The Electric Ant (1969)
- Cadbury, the Beaver Who Lacked (1987)
- A Little Something for Us Tempunauts (1974)
- The Pre-Persons (1974)
- The Eye of the Sibyl (1987)
- The Day Mr. Computer Fell Out of Its Tree (1987)
- The Exit Door Leads In (1979)
- Chains of Air, Web of Aether (1980)
- Strange Memories of Death (1984)
- I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon (1980, also titled Frozen Journey)
- Rautavaara's Case (1980)
- The Alien Mind (1981)

Other editions of this volume are titled:
- The Little Black Box
- We can remember it for you wholesale
- The Eye of the Sibyl

Editions published by Citadel don't include the story "We can remember it for you wholesale" into Vol. 5, it was placed in their Vol. 2 instead. Apart from that, contents are the same across editions.]]> 396 Philip K. Dick 0806513284 Michael 0 4.27 1987 The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick 5: The Eye of The Sibyl
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]]> <![CDATA[The Ascent of Wonder: The Evolution of Hard SF]]> 490271
From Poe to Pohl, Wells to Wolfe, and Verne to Vinge, this hefty anthology fully charts the themes, trends, thoughts, and traditions that comprise the challenging yet rich literary form known as "hard SF."]]> 990 David G. Hartwell 0312855095 Michael 0 to-read 4.07 1994 The Ascent of Wonder: The Evolution of Hard SF
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]]> <![CDATA[The Tibetan Book of the Dead: The Great Liberation Through Hearing in the Bardo]]> 1777208
This centuries-old scripture was traditionally read aloud to the dying to help them attain liberation. This translation emphasizes the practical advice that the book offers to the living as well. The insightful commentary by Chögyam Trungpa, written in language anyone can understand, explains what the text teaches us about human psychology. It will interest people concerned with death and dying as well as those who seek spiritual understanding in everyday life.

Cover art: mandala of Smantabhadra, Supreme Buddha, Musées Nationaux (Musée Guimet, Paris).]]> 120 Padmasambhava 0877730741 Michael 3 4.04 1350 The Tibetan Book of the Dead: The Great Liberation Through Hearing in the Bardo
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]]> <![CDATA[The Tibetan Book of the Dead or The After-death Experiences on the Bardo Plane]]> 729941 The Tibetan Book of the Dead, or the Bardo Thödol, has since been revised and reprinted in several editions; for the Galaxy Books edition, Dr. Evans-Wentz prepared a special Preface. Although. the Bardo Thödol, is used in Tibet as a breviary, and read or recited on the occasion of death, it was originally conceived to serve as a guide not only for the dying and the dead, but for the living as well. As a contribution to the science of death and of existence after death, and of rebirth, The Tibetan Book of the Dead is unique among sacred books of the world.]]> 249 Karma-glin-pa 0195002237 Michael 0 4.08 1350 The Tibetan Book of the Dead or The After-death Experiences on the Bardo Plane
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]]> Poems 2060387 328 Ralph Waldo Emerson 1602067899 Michael 4 3.41 1867 Poems
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]]> <![CDATA[The Body (Penguin Readers, Level 5)]]> 542829
Penguin Readers are simplified texts which provide a step-by-step approach to the joys of reading for pleasure.]]> 80 Robin Waterfield 3526418179 Michael 0 4.00 1982 The Body (Penguin Readers, Level 5)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Constitution of the United States with the Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation]]> 597677 110 Founding Fathers 076072833X Michael 0 4.54 2002 The Constitution of the United States with the Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation
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]]> The Ballad of the Sad Café 805027 157 Carson McCullers 0140282726 Michael 0 3.89 1951 The Ballad of the Sad Café
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]]> The Alienist 13155523 A classic work of literature by “the greatest author ever produced in Latin America.” (Susan Sontag)

Brilliant physician Simão Bacamarte sacrifices a prestigious career to return home and dedicate himself to the budding field of psychology. Bacamarte opens the first asylum in Brazil hoping to crown himself and his hometown with “imperishable laurels.” But the doctor begins to see signs of insanity in more and more of his neighbors. . . 

With dark humor and sparse prose, The Alienist lets the reader ponder who is really crazy.]]> 98 Machado de Assis 161219107X Michael 0 3.89 1881 The Alienist
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]]> <![CDATA[Edgar Allan Poe's Annotated Short Stories]]> 6998854 The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, an unearthly sea adventure replete with shipwrecks, ghastly specters and the eternal lure of the unknown.]]> 648 Edgar Allan Poe 1933747196 Michael 0 4.21 1845 Edgar Allan Poe's Annotated Short Stories
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]]> <![CDATA[Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light: The Private Writings of the Saint of Calcutta]]> 1543796
During her lifelong service to the poorest of the poor, Mother Teresa became an icon of compassion to people of all religions; her extraordinary contributions to the care of the sick, the dying, and thousands of others nobody else was prepared to look after has been recognized and acclaimed throughout the world. Little is known, however, about her own spiritual heights or her struggles. This collection of her writing and reflections, almost all of which have never been made public before, sheds light on Mother Teresa's interior life in a way that reveals the depth and intensity of her holiness for the first time.

Compiled and presented by Fr. Brian Kolodiejchuk, M.C., who knew Mother Teresa for twenty years and is the postulator for her cause for sainthood and director of the Mother Teresa Center, MOTHER TERESA brings together letters she wrote to her spiritual advisors over decades. A moving chronicle of her spiritual journey—including moments, indeed years, of utter desolation—these letters reveal the secrets she shared only with her closest confidants. She emerges as a classic mystic whose inner life burned with the fire of charity and whose heart was tested and purified by an intense trial of faith, a true dark night of the soul.

Published to coincide with the tenth anniversary of her death, MOTHER TERESA is an intimate portrait of a woman whose life and work continue to be admired by millions of people.]]> 404 Brian Kolodiejchuk 0385520379 Michael 0 4.14 2007 Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light: The Private Writings of the Saint of Calcutta
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]]> <![CDATA[The Country of the Blind and Other Stories]]> 3979792
The collected stories' 1st publication:
"The Jilting of Jane" Pall Mall Budget 7/12/1894
"The Cone" Unicorn 9/18/1895
"The Stolen Bacillus" Pall Mall Budget 6/21/1894
"The Flowering of the Strange Orchid" Pall Mall Budget 8/2/1894
"In the Avu Observatory" Pall Mall Budget 8/9/1894
"Æpyornis Island" Pall Mall Budget 12/27/1894
"The Remarkable Case of Davidson's Eyes" Pall Mall Budget 3/28/1895
"The Lord of the Dynamos" Pall Mall Budget 9/6/1894
"The Moth" Pall Mall Gazette 3/28/1895
"The Treasure in the Forest" Pall Mall Budget 8/23/1894
"The Story of the Late Mr. Elvesham" The Idler 5/1896
"Under the Knife" The New Review 1/1896
"The Sea Raiders" The Weekly Sun Literary Supplement 12/6/1896
"The Obliterated Man" unpublished
"The Plattner Story" The New Review 4/1896
"The Red Room" The Idler 3/1896
"The Purple Pileus" Black & White 12/1896
"A Slip Under the Microscope" The Yellow Book 1/1896
"The Crystal Egg" The New Review 5/1897
"The Star" The Graphic 12/1897
"The Man Who Could Work Miracles" The Illustrated London News 7/1898
"A Vision of Judgement" Butterfly 9/1899
"Jimmy Goggles the God" The Graphic 12/1898
"Miss Winchelsea's Heart" The Queen 10/1898
"A Dream of Armageddon" Black & White 5-6/1901
"The Valley of Spiders" Pearson’s Magazine 3/1903
"The New Accelerator" The Strand 12/1901
"The Truth About Pyecraft" The Strand 4/1903
"The Magic Shop" The Strand 6/1903
"The Empire of the Ants" The Strand 12/1905
"The Door in the Wall" The Daily Chronicle 7/14/1906
"The Country of the Blind" The Strand 4/1904
"The Beautiful Suit" Colliers 4/10/1909]]> 574 H.G. Wells Michael 0 4.00 1911 The Country of the Blind and Other Stories
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]]> Harrison Bergeron 26028759 "The year was 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren't only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way..."

It is the year 2081. Because of Amendments 211, 212, and 213 to the Constitution, every American is fully equal, meaning that no one is stupider, uglier, weaker, or slower than anyone else. The Handicapper General and a team of agents ensure that the laws of equality are enforced.

One April, fourteen-year-old Harrison Bergeron is taken away from his parents, George and Hazel, by the government and to a place unknown. But what happens in the aftermath will challenge the status quo and inspire his peers about the hidden potential within one's own individuality.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (1922–2007) was an American novelist, satirist, and most recently, graphic artist. He was born in Indianapolis, later the setting for many of his novels. His experiences as an advance scout in the Battle of the Bulge during WWII, and in particular his witnessing of the bombing of Dresden, Germany whilst a prisoner of war, would inform much of his work. The novelist is best known for works blending satire, black comedy and science fiction, such as 'Slaughterhouse-Five' (1969), 'Cat's Cradle' (1963), and 'Breakfast of Champions' (1973).]]> 9 Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Michael 0 3.87 1961 Harrison Bergeron
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]]> <![CDATA[The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction]]> 3892153 111 Walter Benjamin 0141036192 Michael 0 4.02 1936 The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
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]]> Collected Stories 2474430 Collected Stories amply showcases his singular gifts as a fabulist and a born storyteller.

Later known for his immortal children’s books, including Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, and The BFG, Dahl also had a genius for adult short fiction, which he wrote throughout his life. Whether fictionalizing his dramatic exploits as a Royal Air Force pilot during World War II or concocting the ingeniously plotted fables that were dramatized on television as Tales of the Unexpected, Dahl was brilliant at provoking in his readers the overwhelming desire to know what happens next—and at satisfying that desire in ways that feel both surprising and inevitable.

Filled with devilish plot twists, his tales display a tantalizing blend of macabre humor and the absurdly grotesque. From “The Landlady,” about an unusual boardinghouse that features a small but very permanent clientele, to “Pig,” a brutally funny look at vegetarianism, to “Man from the South,” in which a fanatical gambler does his betting with hammer, nails, and a butcher’s knife, Dahl’s creations amuse and shock us in equal measure, gleefully reminding us of what might lurk beneath the surface of the ordinary.]]> 850 Jeremy Treglown 1841593001 Michael 0 4.31 2006 Collected Stories
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]]> <![CDATA[Adventures of Huckleberry Finn]]> 13235161 359 Mark Twain 0984725601 Michael 0 4.03 1885 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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]]> The Tiger's Wife 11784464 The Jungle Book and the stories he told her of his encounters over the years with “the deathless man.” But most extraordinary of all is the story her grandfather never told her—the legend of the tiger’s wife.]]> 338 Téa Obreht 0385343841 Michael 0 3.47 2011 The Tiger's Wife
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]]> Robert Frost's Poems 12207 Robert Frost's Poems contains all of Robert Frost's best-known poems-and dozens more-in a portable anthology. Here are "Birches," "Mending Wall," "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," "Two Tramps at Mudtime," "Choose Something Like a Star," and "The Gift Outright," which Frost read at the inauguration of John F. Kennedy." An essential addition to every home library, Robert Frost's Poems is a celebration of the New England countryside, Frost's appreciation of common folk, and his wonderful understanding of the human condition. These classic verses touch our hearts and leave behind a lasting impression.

* Over 100 poems
* All Frost's best known verses from throughout his life]]> 288 Robert Frost 0312983328 Michael 4 4.29 1949 Robert Frost's Poems
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]]> <![CDATA[The Dunwich Horror and Other Stories]]> 3539006
This edition is part of the Penguin Gothic Horror series designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith.]]> 201 H.P. Lovecraft 0141038764 Michael 0 4.03 1963 The Dunwich Horror and Other Stories
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]]> The Complete Poems and Plays 1623209 T.S. Eliot Michael 0 4.62 1952 The Complete Poems and Plays
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]]> Jazz Age Stories 553704 Flappers and Philosophers and Tales of the Jazz Age. Penguin's new Jazz Age Stories gathers all of these early pieces in one volume, which together capture the shine and seductive sound of early American jazz, the scandalous affronts to religious pieties, the nights of drunken revelry, and the impending doom of financial, moral, and intellectual dissolution. Spanning the early twentieth-century American landscape -- the Minnesota of his youth, the Princeton college years, the squalor and opulence of New York -- this collection contains unforgettable images of modern America, and eloquently expresses Fitzgerald's theme of the enchantment and disillusionment of materialism. Jazz Age Stories includes The Ice Palace, Bernice Bobs Her Hair, and A Diamond as Big as The Ritz.]]> 464 F. Scott Fitzgerald 014118048X Michael 0 4.00 1922 Jazz Age Stories
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]]> <![CDATA[Bhagavad Gita According to Gandhi(tr)]]> 99950 245 Mahatma Gandhi 1893163113 Michael 4 4.14 Bhagavad Gita According to Gandhi(tr)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Cinnamon Peeler: Selected Poems (Vintage International)]]> 5944 The Cinnamon Peeler, brings together poems written between 1963 and 1990, including work from his most recent collection, Secular Love. These poems bear witness to the extraordinary gifts that have won high praise for this truly original poet and novelist.]]> 210 Michael Ondaatje 0679779132 Michael 0 4.17 1989 The Cinnamon Peeler: Selected Poems (Vintage International)
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]]> <![CDATA[Memories of My Melancholy Whores]]> 5947099
Tender, knowing, and slyly comic, Memories of My Melancholy Whores is an exquisite addition to the master’s work.
--back cover]]> 115 Gabriel García Márquez 1400095948 Michael 0 3.58 2004 Memories of My Melancholy Whores
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]]> <![CDATA[The Screwtape Letters: Also Includes "Screwtape Proposes a Toast"]]> 674321 This edition includes a substantial new preface from the author who tells the reader something of the writing of the book, and answers the question often raised as to whether he "really believes in devils." The answer involves discussion of devils and angels in literature, art and life. "My symbol for hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or a thoroughly nasty business office." The edition also includes a new Screwtape piece, "Screwtape Proposes a Toast," and should find a new generation of readers for the wittiest piece of writing the 20th century has yet produced to stimulate the ordinary man to godliness.]]> 209 C.S. Lewis 0805420401 Michael 0 4.38 1942 The Screwtape Letters: Also Includes "Screwtape Proposes a Toast"
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]]> El laberinto de la soledad 13543479 El laberinto de la soledad es una de las piezas claves de la literatura moderna, ensayo el mismo moderno y reflexión critica sobre la modernidad. En la historia de la literatura hispanoamericana se trata de la prosa ensayística más importante de este siglo, la que ha influido mas en el pensamiento y en la literatura de lengua española y la que mas ha resonado en los de otras lenguas. En el contexto intelectual hispánico, pertenece a la tradición del ensayo de identidad nacional. En palabras de Octavio Paz: “Es un libro dentro de la tradición francesa del moralismo. Es una descripción de ciertas actitudes por una parte, y por otra, un ensayo de interpretación histórica”.]]> 191 Octavio Paz Michael 5 4.04 1950 El laberinto de la soledad
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rating: 5
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]]> Tell the Wolves I'm Home 17162148  
1987. There’s only one person who has ever truly understood fourteen-year-old June Elbus, and that’s her uncle, the renowned painter Finn Weiss. Shy at school and distant from her older sister, June can only be herself in Finn’s company; he is her godfather, confidant, and best friend. So when he dies, far too young, of a mysterious illness her mother can barely speak about, June’s world is turned upside down. But Finn’s death brings a surprise acquaintance into June’s life—someone who will help her to heal, and to question what she thinks she knows about Finn, her family, and even her own heart.
 
At Finn’s funeral, June notices a strange man lingering just beyond the crowd. A few days later, she receives a package in the mail. Inside is a beautiful teapot she recognizes from Finn’s apartment, and a note from Toby, the stranger, asking for an opportunity to meet. As the two begin to spend time together, June realizes she’s not the only one who misses Finn, and if she can bring herself to trust this unexpected friend, he just might be the one she needs the most.
 
An emotionally charged coming-of-age novel, Tell the Wolves I’m Home is a tender story of love lost and found, an unforgettable portrait of the way compassion can make us whole again.]]> 384 Carol Rifka Brunt 0812982851 Michael 0 to-read 4.12 2012 Tell the Wolves I'm Home
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]]> Il ciclo delle Fondazioni 9682235
Sono qui riuniti in un solo volume i quattro romanzi della "Fondazione", la più grandiosa saga di tutti i tempi, premiata nel 1966. Il capolavoro assoluto di un autore indimenticabile.]]> 744 Isaac Asimov 8804520736 Michael 4 4.48 1981 Il ciclo delle Fondazioni
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average rating: 4.48
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rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Bhagavad-Gita: The Song of God]]> 1445727 Mahabharata incorporates Bhagavad-Gita, a sacred Hindu text that takes the form of a philosophical dialogue in which Krishna instructs Arjuna, the prince, in ethical matters and the nature of God.

Krishna expounds the nature and the way that humans can come to know God to Arjuna, the warrior prince in the Bhagavad-Gita.

Mahabharata, a Sanskrit epic, contains the text of the Bhagavad-Gita.

This early epic poem recounts the conversation between the warrior and his charioteer, the divine manifestation. It sets out the important lessons to learn to change the outcome of the war in the moments before a great battle that the warrior fights, and culminates in revealing the true cosmic warrior and counselling him to search for the universal perfection of life. This most important work ranges from yoga postures to dense moral discussion and serves as a practical guide to living well.]]> Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa 0874810337 Michael 0 4.02 -400 Bhagavad-Gita: The Song of God
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]]> Cuentos 1947-1992 2186682 Ojos de perro azul, Los funerales de la Mamá Grande, La increíble y triste historia de la cándida Eréndira y de su abuela desalmada y Doce cuentos peregrinos. ]]> 540 Gabriel García Márquez 9580429391 Michael 0 4.14 2007 Cuentos 1947-1992
author: Gabriel García Márquez
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]]> <![CDATA[We Never Make Mistakes: Two Short Novels]]> 216514 140 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 039331474X Michael 0 3.92 1963 We Never Make Mistakes: Two Short Novels
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]]> <![CDATA[Sleeping Beauty and Other Favourite Fairy Tales]]> 610261 128 Angela Carter 0395607272 Michael 0 4.23 1977 Sleeping Beauty and Other Favourite Fairy Tales
author: Angela Carter
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average rating: 4.23
book published: 1977
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]]> <![CDATA[The Open Window and Other Short Stories]]> 6634598 Saki 2253063207 Michael 4 4.14 1914 The Open Window and Other Short Stories
author: Saki
name: Michael
average rating: 4.14
book published: 1914
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[The Bacchae of Euripides: A Communion Rite]]> 1488 120 Wole Soyinka 0393325830 Michael 0 3.86 1973 The Bacchae of Euripides: A Communion Rite
author: Wole Soyinka
name: Michael
average rating: 3.86
book published: 1973
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]]> Comedy in a Minor Key 8072646 Comedy in a Minor Key tells the story of Wim and Marie, a Dutch couple who first hide a Jew they know as Nico, then must dispose of his body when he dies of pneumonia. This novella, first published in 1947 and now translated into English for the first time, shows Hans Keilson at his best: deeply ironic, penetrating, sympathetic, and brilliantly modern, an heir to Joseph Roth and Franz Kafka. In 2008, when Keilson received Germany’s prestigious Welt Literature Prize, the citation praised his work for exploring “the destructive impulse at work in the twentieth century, down to its deepest psychological and spiritual ramifications.”

Published to celebrate Keilson’s hundredth birthday, Comedy in a Minor Key—and The Death of the Adversary, reissued in paperback—will introduce American readers to a forgotten classic author, a witness to World War II and a sophisticated storyteller whose books remain as fresh as when they first came to light.

Hans Keilson, born in Berlin in 1909, published his first novel in 1934. During World War II he joined the Dutch resistance. Later, as a psychiatist,, he pioneered the treatment of war trauma in children. He lives in Bussum, near Amsterdam.]]> 135 Hans Keilson 0374126755 Michael 0 3.69 1947 Comedy in a Minor Key
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]]> <![CDATA[Deer in Headlights (Good Gods, #1)]]> 17371003
Aphrodite never loses, not when it comes to love.

Immortality has its perks and its downsides. Boredom, for one, is unavoidable, but instead of playing parcheesi, the gods devised a game that uses humans as pawns. Remember Shakespeare? That was Apollo. Bonnie and Clyde? Aphrodite versus Ares.

Aphrodite is on deck once again, and she’ll defend her domain of love as she works to get the humans together before the clock runs out, while her opponent tries to keep them apart.

Game one is against Apollo, and Aphrodite knows she has her work cut out for her when he chooses Dean, a brooding rock star man-whore who believes women can’t be trusted. Aphrodite decides on Lex, a perfect match for Dean, even though her heart is guarded, locked away tight. She’d never let anyone in. Not ever. Of course, she hasn’t met Dean.

But there’s always more at stake than just the game when you’ve lived for thousands of years. The Olympians are the original dysfunctional family, surviving eons of love and lust, betrayal and lies, as friends and enemies, through feuds and wars. From Ares, the douchebag, who’s forever trying to start a fight and get Aphrodite into bed, to Persephone, her best friend, who she can always count on for a healthy helping of bacon on a bad day, the gods will take you on a lighthearted trip as they mess with humans, laugh and fight, lose love and gain power.]]> 163 Staci Hart 1482539705 Michael 0 to-read 3.96 2013 Deer in Headlights (Good Gods, #1)
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]]> The American 20675 The American is a novel by Henry James, originally published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly in 1876-77 and then as a book in 1877.
Christopher Newman, a ‘self-made’ American millionaire in France, falls in love with the beautiful aristocratic Claire de Bellegarde. Her family, however, taken aback by his brash American manner, rejects his proposal of marriage. When Newman discovers a guilty secret in the Bellegardes’ past, he confronts a moral dilemma: Should he expose them and thus gain his revenge? James’s masterly early work is at once a social comedy, a melodramatic romance and a realistic novel of manners.]]> 400 Henry James 0451529669 Michael 0 3.68 1877 The American
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]]> Go Tell It on the Mountain 392560 Mountain," Baldwin said, "is the book I had to write if I was ever going to write anything else." Go Tell It On The Mountain, first published in 1953, is Baldwin's first major work, a novel that has established itself as an American classic. With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating symbolic power, and a rage that is at once unrelenting and compassionate, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's discovery of the terms of his identity as the son of the minister of a storefront Pentecostal church in Harlem one Saturday in March of 1935. Baldwin's rendering of his protagonist's spiritual, sexual, and moral struggle of self-invention opened new possibilities in the American language and in the way Americans understand themselves.]]> 290 James Baldwin 0679601546 Michael 4 3.91 1953 Go Tell It on the Mountain
author: James Baldwin
name: Michael
average rating: 3.91
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]]> <![CDATA[Sacred Books of the East, Including Selections from Vedic Hymns, the Zend Avesta, the Dhammapada, the Upanishads, the Koran and the Life of Budha]]> 129283 457 Anonymous 0836421922 Michael 0 3.59 Sacred Books of the East, Including Selections from Vedic Hymns, the Zend Avesta, the Dhammapada, the Upanishads, the Koran and the Life of Budha
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]]> Broken Glass 7331797 Broken Glass is Mabanckou’s finest novel — a mocking satire of the dangers of artistic integrity.]]> 165 Alain Mabanckou 1593762739 Michael 0 3.61 2005 Broken Glass
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]]> <![CDATA[The Complete Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson: Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Nineteen Other Tales (Modern Library Classics)]]> 20408 Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, as well as "The Beach of Fales�" and Stevenson's previously uncollected stories. Arthur Conan Doyle has written that "[Stevenson's] short stories are certain to retain their position in English literature. His serious rivals are few indeed."

This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition includes explanatory notes, a Scots' Glossary, and a unique appendix dedicated to Stevenson's influence on the Oxford English Dictionary.]]> 818 Robert Louis Stevenson 0375761357 Michael 0 4.12 The Complete Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson: Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Nineteen Other Tales (Modern Library Classics)
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]]> <![CDATA[Mostly Harmless (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #5)]]> 76616 277 Douglas Adams 0517577402 Michael 0 3.74 1992 Mostly Harmless (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #5)
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book published: 1992
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]]> <![CDATA[Последние свидетели. Книга недетских рассказов]]> 13624689
«Последние свидетели» — это подвиг детской памяти.]]> 303 Svetlana Alexievich 596910230X Michael 0 to-read 4.59 1985 Последние свидетели. Книга недетских рассказов
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]]> Complete Prose Fiction 28627
This new and expanded Everyman’s edition of his stories includes all the mature work. In addition to such novella-length masterpieces as The Captain’s Daughter and The Tales of Belkin the collection now contains many more short pieces and the masterly History of Pugachev, a powerful account of the man who rebelled against Catherine the Great. This version is translated by Paul Debreczeny and Walter Arndt.]]> 560 Paul Debreczeny 0804718008 Michael 3 4.37 Complete Prose Fiction
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]]> <![CDATA[White Noise: Text and Criticism (Viking Critical Library)]]> 14137 National Book Award in 1985, White Noise is the story of Jack and Babette and their children from their six or so various marriages. They live in a college town where Jack is Professor of Hitler Studies (and conceals the fact that he does not speak a word of German), and Babette teaches posture and volunteers by reading from the tabloids to a group of elderly shut-ins. They are happy enough until a deadly toxic accident and Babette's addiction to an experimental drug make Jake question everything.White Noise is considered a postmodern classic and its unfolding of themes of consumerism, family and divorce, and technology as a deadly threat have attracted the attention of literary scholars since its publication. This Viking Critical Library edition, prepared by scholar Mark Osteen, is the only edition of White Noise that contains the entire text along with an extensive critical apparatus, including a critical introduction, selected essays on the author, the work and its themes, reviews, a chronology of DeLillo's life and work, a list of discussion topics, and a selected bibliography.]]> 538 Don DeLillo 0140274987 Michael 0 4.08 1985 White Noise: Text and Criticism (Viking Critical Library)
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]]> <![CDATA[Analytical Psychology, Its Theory and Practice (Tavistock Lectures)]]> 829352 239 C.G. Jung 0691019185 Michael 0 4.26 Analytical Psychology, Its Theory and Practice (Tavistock Lectures)
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]]> Walden & Civil Disobedience 116020 Walden, is a collection of his reflections on life and society. His simple but profound musings—as well as Civil Disobedience, his protest against the government's interference with civil liberty—have inspired many to embrace his philosophy of individualism and love of nature.]]> 320 Henry David Thoreau 0451529456 Michael 5 3.95 1849 Walden & Civil Disobedience
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]]> Gilgamesh: A Verse Narrative 138376 Epic of Gilgamesh is, above all, about mankind’s eternal struggle with the fear of death.

The Babylonian version has been known for over a century, but linguists are still deciphering new fragments in Akkadian and Sumerian.]]> 92 Anonymous 0618275649 Michael 5 3.77 -1800 Gilgamesh: A Verse Narrative
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]]> <![CDATA[Death in Venice and Seven Other Stories]]> 323328 Death in Venice, this volume includes "Mario and the Magician," "Disorder and Early Sorrow," "A Man and His Dog," "Felix Krull," "The Blood of the Walsungs," "Tristan," and "Tonio Kröger."

These stories, as direct as Thomas Mann's novels are complex, are perfect illustrations of their author's belief that "a story must tell itself." Varying in theme, in style, in tone, each is in its own way characteristic of Mann's prodigious talents. From the high art of the famous title novella ("A story," Mann said, "of death...of the voluptuousness of doom"), to the irony of "Felix Krull," the early story on which he later based his comic novel The Confessions of Felix Krull, they are stunning testimony to the mastery and virtuosity of a literary giant.

Translated from the German by H.T. Lowe-Porter.]]> 402 Thomas Mann 0679722068 Michael 0 3.90 1936 Death in Venice and Seven Other Stories
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]]> <![CDATA[Les Rites Secrets Des Indiens Sioux]]> 26876263
Recueillis oralement auprès de Héhaka Sapa (Wapiti Noir), dernier "gardien du Calumet", les rites secrets dévoilés ici concernent notamment le calumet sacré des Sioux ; les rites de purification ; l'imploration d'une vision ; la "préparation de la jeune fille aux devoirs de la femme" ; l'apparentage ; le jeu sacré de la balle ; ou encore la danse du Soleil.]]> 216 Black Elk 2228899283 Michael 0 3.75 1953 Les Rites Secrets Des Indiens Sioux
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]]> <![CDATA[Le Horla et autres contes fantastiques (Classiques hachette)]]> 77998 El Horla y otros cuentos fantásticos agrupa dieciocho relatos de Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) cuyos ingredientes son el misterio, la locura, los crímenes de oscuro origen, el suicidio, el miedo y la soledad. En ellos, el elemento fantástico no constituye una brutal intrusión en la normalidad, sino que se acompasa, de forma mucho más insidiosa, con la vida cotidiana; es lo incognoscible que ronda en torno al hombre, pero también el reflejo de los fantasmas que habitan su cerebro. En el prólogo que precede a la recopilación, Esther Benítez, traductora del volumen, explica sus criterios de selección y sitúa los relatos en el contexto de la obra y la personalidad de Maupassant.]]> 120 Guy de Maupassant 2011665833 Michael 0 3.89 1886 Le Horla et autres contes fantastiques (Classiques hachette)
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]]> <![CDATA[Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine, #1)]]> 11058389  
An abandoned orphanage.


 
A strange collection of very curious photographs.


 
It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling reading experience. As our story opens, a horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob explores its abandoned bedrooms and hallways, it becomes clear that the children were more than just peculiar. They may have been dangerous. They may have been quarantined on a deserted island for good reason. And somehow—impossible though it seems—they may still be alive. 

A spine-tingling fantasy illustrated with haunting vintage photography, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children will delight adults, teens, and anyone who relishes an adventure in the shadows.]]> 352 Ransom Riggs 1594745137 Michael 4 3.57 2011 Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Contract With God Trilogy: Life on Dropsie Avenue (The Contract With God Trilogy, #1-3)]]> 33472 alternate cover for ISBN 9780393061055

Will Eisner (1917–2005) saw himself as "a graphic witness reporting on life, death, heartbreak, and the never-ending struggle to prevail." The publication of A Contract With God when Eisner was sixty-one proved to be a watershed moment both for him and for comic literature. It marked the birth of the modern graphic novel and the beginning of an era when serious cartoonists could be liberated from their stultifying comic-book format.

More than a quarter-century after the initial publication of A Contract With God, and in the last few months of his life, Eisner chose to combine the three fictional works he had set on Dropsie Avenue, the mythical street of his youth in Depression-era New York City.

As the dramas unfold in A Contract With God, the first book in this new trilogy, it is at 55 Dropsie Avenue where Frimme Hersh, the pious Jew, first loses his beloved daughter, then breaks his contract with his maker, and ends up as a slumlord; it is on Dropsie Avenue where a street singer, befriended by an aging diva, is so beholden to the bottle that he fails to grasp his chance for stardom; and it is there that a scheming little girl named Rosie poisons a depraved super’s dog before doing in the super as well.

In the second book, A Life Force, declared by R. Crumb to be "a masterpiece," Eisner re-creates himself in his protagonist, Jacob Shtarkah, whose existential search reflected Eisner’s own lifelong struggle. Chronicling not only the Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression but also the rise of Nazism and the spread of left-wing politics, Eisner combined the miniaturist sensibility of Henry Roth with the grand social themes of novelists such as Dos Passos and Steinbeck.

Finally, in Dropsie Avenue: The Neighborhood, Eisner graphically traces the social trajectory of this mythic avenue over four centuries, creating a sweeping panorama of the city and its waves of new residents—the Dutch, English, Irish, Jews, African Americans, and Puerto Ricans—whose faces changed yet whose lives presented an unending "story of life, death, and resurrection."

The Contract With God Trilogy is a mesmerizing, fictional chronicle of a universal American experience and Eisner’' most poignant and enduring literary legacy.

]]> 498 Will Eisner Michael 0 4.25 2005 The Contract With God Trilogy: Life on Dropsie Avenue (The Contract With God Trilogy, #1-3)
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]]> Life of Pi 170453
The ship sinks. Pi finds himself alone in a lifeboat, his only companions a hyena, an orangutan, a wounded zebra, and Richard Parker, a 450-pound Bengal tiger. Soon the tiger has dispatched all but Pi, whose fear, knowledge, and cunning allow him to coexist with Richard Parker for 227 days while lost at sea.]]> 326 Yann Martel 0156027321 Michael 0 3.88 2001 Life of Pi
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]]> Aeneid: Books I-VI 1392 545 Virgil 0865164215 Michael 0 4.22 -19 Aeneid: Books I-VI
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]]> <![CDATA[Shanghai Girls (Shanghai Girls, #1)]]> 6552429 --back cover]]> 322 Lisa See 0812980530 Michael 0 3.82 2009 Shanghai Girls (Shanghai Girls, #1)
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]]> The Gold-Bug and Other Tales 291482 *The Fall of the House of Usher
*The Murders in the Rue Morgue
*The Masque of the Red Death
*The Pit and the Pendulum
*The Tell-Tale Heart
*The Gold-Bug
*The Black Cat
*The Cask of Amontillado]]> 121 Edgar Allan Poe 0486268756 Michael 0 4.04 1843 The Gold-Bug and Other Tales
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]]> <![CDATA[The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion]]> 1419286
"Although it's a pernicious fraud, The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion has unfortunately had a widespread influence--all of it evil--on the history of the 20th century. It was exposed as a hoax in 1921, yet it has been used as a justification for the Holocaust and for innumerable pogroms in Russia and the Soviet Union.

The Protocols was supposedly written in 1897 from the minutes of 24 secret meetings between Jews and Freemasons in which they conspired to bring down Western civilization and jointly rule the world. In reality, it is nothing of the sort. In 1921, Philip Graves of the London Times revealed The Protocols to be a fraud, showing it to be based on a French satire aimed at Napoleon III. In a series of side-by-side extracts printed in the Times, Graves demonstrated that the forgers took long portions of the original text, titled Dialogues in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu, and simply replaced "France" with "Zion" and "The Emperor" with "We the Jews." Further investigations by the Russian historian Vladimir Burtsev revealed other sources for The Protocols, including a fantasy novel by Hermann Goedsche and, more darkly, the hand of the Russian secret police.

Sadly, despite its clearly fraudulent nature, The Protocols continues today to feed the fears of the credulous and to fan the flames of fanaticism and hate." --Perry M. Atterberry (Amazon Review)]]> 312 Matvei Vasilyevich Golovinski 159364020X Michael 1 3.03 1903 The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion
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]]> <![CDATA[The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl]]> 201739 New York Times journalist and author Timothy Egan follows a half-dozen families and their communities through the rise and fall of the region, going from sod huts to new framed houses to huddling in basements with the windows sealed by damp sheets in a futile effort to keep the dust out. He follows their desperate attempts to carry on through blinding black blizzards, crop failure, and the death of loved ones. Drawing on the voices of those who stayed and survived—those who, now in their eighties and nineties, will soon carry their memories to the grave—Egan tells a story of endurance and heroism against the backdrop of the Great Depression.

Egan captures the very voice of the time—its grit, pathos, and abiding heroism—as only great history can. Combining the human drama of Isaac's Storm with the sweep of The American People in the Great Depression, The Worst Hard Time is a lasting and important work of American history.]]> 10 Timothy Egan 1400102200 Michael 5 3.85 2005 The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
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]]> The Gulag Archipelago 246422 660 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 0060803320 Michael 0 4.34 1973 The Gulag Archipelago
author: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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]]> Broken Monsters 20706269
If Lauren Beukes's internationally bestselling The Shining Girls was a time-jumping thrill ride through the past, her Broken Monsters is a genre-redefining thriller about broken cities, broken dreams, and broken people trying to put themselves back together again.]]> 442 Lauren Beukes 0316216828 Michael 0 to-read 3.58 2014 Broken Monsters
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