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Satan comes to Soviet Moscow in this critically acclaimed translation of one of the most important and best-loved modern classics in world literature.
The Master and Margarita has been captivating readers around the world ever since its first publication in 1967. Written during Stalin's time in power but suppressed in the Soviet Union for decades, Bulgakov's masterpiece is an ironic parable on power and its corruption, on good and...
The Master and Margarita has been captivating readers around the world ever since its first publication in 1967. Written during Stalin's time in power but suppressed in the Soviet Union for decades, Bulgakov's masterpiece is an ironic parable on power and its corruption, on good and...
2) The Willows
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The Willows is a novella by English author Algernon Blackwood, originally published as part of his 1907 collection The Listener and Other Stories. It is one of Blackwood's best known works and has been influential on a number of later writers. Horror author H.P. Lovecraft considered it to be the finest supernatural tale in English literature. "The Willows" is an example of early modern horror and is connected within the literary tradition of weird...
3) Die, My Love
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Man Booker International Prize 2018 Finalist
In a forgotten patch of French countryside, a woman is battling her demons: embracing exclusion yet wanting to belong, craving freedom whilst feeling trapped, yearning for family life but wanting to burn the entire house down. Given surprising leeway by her family for her increasingly erratic behaviour, she nevertheless feels ever more stifled and repressed. Motherhood, womanhood,
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The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner is a novel by the Scottish author James Hogg, published anonymously in 1824. Considered by turns part-gothic novel, part-psychological mystery, part-metafiction, part-satire, part-case study of totalitarian thought, it can also be thought of as an early example of modern crime fiction, in which the story is told, for the most part, from the point of view of its criminal anti-hero. The action...
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Die Verwandlung ist ein Meisterwerk der Literatur, das der körperlichen und emotionalen Verwandlung von Gregor Samsa, einem jungen Handelsreisenden, nachspürt, der eines Tages als riesiges Insekt erwacht. Gefangen in seiner neuen Gestalt, sieht sich Gregor mit der Isolation und Ablehnung durch seine eigene Familie konfrontiert, die zwar von ihm abhängig ist, sich jedoch vor seinem neuen Aussehen entsetzt. Durch diese schockierende Metamorphose...
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One man wants to publish, so another must perish, in this darkly witty philosophical novel.
The Third Policeman follows a narrator who is obsessed with the work of a scientist and philosopher named de Selby (who believes that Earth is not round but sausage-shaped)-and has finally completed what he believes is the definitive text on the subject. But, broke and desperate for money to get his scholarly masterpiece published, he winds up committing robbery-and...
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“If Duchamp or maybe Magritte wrote a novel (and maybe they did. Did they?) it might look something like this remarkable little book of Padgett Powell’s.”
—Richard Ford
The Interrogative Mood is a wildly inventive, jazzy meditation on life and language by the novelist that Ian Frazier hails as “one of the best writers in America, and one of the funniest, too.” A novel composed entirely
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"Es lunes, aunque no importa –podría ser cualquier otro día laborable–. El abogado y propietario de la oficina, por el bien de todos, designa a cada uno de sus subalternos las tareas que hay que resolver. Tres sencillas palabras, pronunciadas por el último empleado contratado, harán que, desde esos despachos, el mundo comience a tambalearse.
Con su «preferiría no hacerlo», Bartleby deja perplejo a todo aquel incapaz de ver más allá de...
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With "a voice as clear, sincere, and wry as any I've read in current American fiction" (Joshua Cohen), Martin Riker's poignant and startlingly original novel asks how to foster a brave mind in anxious times, following a newly jobless academic rehearsing a speech on John Maynard Keynes for a surprising audience
In a hotel room in the middle of the night, Abby, a young feminist economist, lies awake next to her sleeping husband
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LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE. One of Tor.com's Best Books of 2019.
"Readers of this breakout work [will leave] thrilled and disoriented in equal measure." --Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal
One of The Daily Beast's Best Summer Beach Reads of 2019, one of Lit Hub and The Millions's Most Anticipated Books of 2019, one of Buzzfeed and Tor.com's Books to Read This Spring, and one of the Chicago Review of Books' Best...
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NEW WORLDS RADIATION GAME is the tale of a couple's surreal adventure as they journey through a fantasy inner space, after ingesting an unknown substance. Part sci-fi fantasy, part absurdist prose, part outsider art graphic novel, ALL BIZARRO! Non-explicit, but recommended for adults. First published and printed by Perry Mark Stratychuk in 1998.
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Mal and Loll is the same person; born in a man's body, but always struggling to accept things as they are. Mal pushes herself to the fore and Loll has to take second place in a life of manic schizophrenia and bizarre circumstances. Mal gets cancer but decides to fight to the bitter end with anybody and anything which stands in the way of her pleasure; trouble is it's not the end but the beginning.
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Fairy tale movies and commercials are everywhere. They are very popular. And that's great, because all those fairy tale characters need the work. All the Snow Whites, Three Pigs and a variety of Big Bad Wolves all are clients of the Madre and Gander Employment Agency. That's how Humpty Dumpty finally gets a crack into Show Business.
Madre and Gander is a casting agency where they supply all the fairy tale denizens a film production can ask for. Ethel...
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¿Dónde está el infierno? Esa es una pregunta que me he hecho muchas veces, y siempre me respondo lo mismo: debe estar en un enorme campo verde esmeralda, con un cielo nuboso como cuando está a punto de empezar a llover. Un campo que parece tranquilo y hermoso, pero que esconde un secreto terrible. Un campo que está flanqueado por torres grises, altas y frías, que proyectan su sombra hasta el horizonte de mi vista. Torres que son la morada de...
16) Skunk Hunt
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Killed in a botched robbery, Skunk McPherson returns to life via a series of letters to his children. In them he plants clues that send Mute, Sweet Tooth and Doubletalk McPherson on a wild hunt for hidden loot, all the while trailed by lovers and ex-lovers, Skunk's old cronies, private detectives, the police and a host of unsuspected relatives. Death and comedy combine in a spectacularly twistedjourney of self-discovery.
17) My Little I
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A collection of short stories from the first person that includes peeing on one's own tires, tracking down an annoying chirp, playing a child's game for the fate of the world, a fascinating encounter by the river, an extraordinary customer, a late night visit, a guilty conscience, a college trip, a human encounter of the nonhuman kind, and the end of summer.
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Attention all poetry lovers! Get ready to embark on a journey of self-discovery and contemplation with our latest collection of poems. This book brings together pieces that delve into the complexities of the human experience and explore the abstract depths of existence.From the philosophical musings of existential absurdism to the raw emotions of everyday life, this book has something for everyone. Each poem is crafted with care and attention to detail,...
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There is a great war coming. The Duck has been waiting, watching and preparing to once again rise and crush humanity. Those enlightened few of us who are capable of seeing this threat in time must learn, study and arm ourselves against the coming storm. Use this book to educate yourself and prepare for what may be our species' most perilous days.
20) Gutter Ball
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John's down to the last day on his rent and one whole moldy sandwich to eat. To add insult to injury, somebody left a bowling ball on the kitchen table. John's never seen it before, didn't know how it got there, or what he's supposed to do with it. It has to belong to somebody, and so he sets out to find out who. Maybe he'll pick a job or something to eat along the way, too.
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