Anna's bookshelf: all en-US Wed, 23 Apr 2025 14:11:28 -0700 60 Anna's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg Воскресенье (Russian Edition) 99220554
This book, "Воскресенье", by Л. Н. Толстой, is a replication of a book originally published before 1901. It has been restored by human beings, page by page, so that you may enjoy it in a form as close to the original as possible.]]>
518 Лев Толстой 5517966047 Anna 0 to-read 4.22 Воскресенье (Russian Edition)
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Les Fleurs du Mal 203220 Les Fleurs du Mal (The Flowers of Evil) remains powerful and relevant for our time.

In Spleen et idéal," Baudelaire dramatizes the erotic cycle of ecstacy and anguish--of sexual and romantic love. Tableaux Parisiens condemns the crushing effects of urban planning on a city's soul and praises the city's anti-heroes including the deranged and derelict. Le Vin centers on the search for oblivion in drink and drugs. The many kinds of love that lie outside traditional morality is the focus of Fleurs du Mal while rebellion is at the heart of éDZٱ.]]>
365 Charles Baudelaire 0879234628 Anna 0 currently-reading 4.23 1857 Les Fleurs du Mal
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<![CDATA[Becoming Bulletproof: Protect Yourself, Read People, Influence Situations, and Live Fearlessly]]> 49531236 Former Secret Service agent and star of ’s Spy Games Evy Poumpouras shares lessons learned from protecting presidents, as well insights and skills from the oldest and most elite security force in the world to help you prepare for stressful situations, instantly read people, influence how you are perceived, and live a more fearless life.

Becoming Bulletproof means transforming yourself into a stronger, more confident, and more powerful person. Evy Poumpouras—former Secret Service agent to three presidents and one of only five women to receive the Medal of Valor—demonstrates how we can overcome our everyday fears, have difficult conversations, know who to trust and who might not have our best interests at heart, influence situations, and prepare for the unexpected. When you have become bulletproof, you are your best, most courageous, and most powerful version of you. Poumpouras shows us that ultimately true strength is found in the mind, not the body.

Courage involves facing our fears, but it is also about resilience, grit, and having a built-in BS detector and knowing how to use it. In Becoming Bulletproof, Poumpouras demonstrates how to heighten our natural instincts to employ all these qualities and move from fear to fearlessness.]]>
320 Evy Poumpouras 1982103752 Anna 4 4.11 2020 Becoming Bulletproof: Protect Yourself, Read People, Influence Situations, and Live Fearlessly
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Холстомер (Russian Edition) 27818892 48 Leo Tolstoy Anna 0 3.91 1886 Холстомер (Russian Edition)
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The Death of Ivan Ilych 18386
How, Tolstoy asks, does an unreflective man confront his one and only moment of truth?

This short novel was an artistic culmination of a profound spiritual crisis in Tolstoy's life, a nine-year period following the publication of Anna Karenina during which he wrote not a word of fiction.
A thoroughly absorbing, and, at times, terrifying glimpse into the abyss of death, it is also a strong testament to the possibility of finding spiritual salvation.]]>
86 Leo Tolstoy Anna 0 4.12 1886 The Death of Ivan Ilych
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Martin Eden 929782 Martin Eden is the most vital and original character Jack London ever created. Set in San Francisco, this is the story of Martin Eden, an impoverished seaman who pursues, obsessively and aggressively, dreams of education and literary fame. London, dissatisfied with the rewards of his own success, intended Martin Eden as an attack on individualism and a criticism of ambition; however, much of its status as a classic has been conferred by admirers of its ambitious protagonist.

Andrew Sinclair's wide-ranging introduction discusses the conflict between London's support of socialism and his powerful self-will. Sinclair also explores the parallels and divergences between the life of Martin Eden and that of his creator, focusing on London's mental depressions and how they affected his depiction of Eden.]]>
480 Jack London Anna 5 4.47 1909 Martin Eden
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Записки на манжетах 18488857 192 Mikhail Bulgakov 5306002641 Anna 0 currently-reading 3.44 1922 Записки на манжетах
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Бег 25566030 71 Mikhail Bulgakov Anna 0 currently-reading 4.25 1969 Бег
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A Country Doctor's Notebook 897363
With the ink still wet on his diploma, the twenty-five-year-old Dr. Mikhail Bulgakov was flung into the depths of freezing rural Russia which, in 1916-17, was still largely unaffected by such novelties as the motor car, the telephone or electric light. How his alter-ego copes (or fails to cope) with the new and often appalling responsibilities of a lone doctor in a vast country practice � on the eve of Revolution� is described in Bulgakov's delightful blend of candid realism and imaginative exuberance.]]>
158 Mikhail Bulgakov 1860461654 Anna 0 4.35 1925 A Country Doctor's Notebook
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<![CDATA[The Short Novels of John Steinbeck]]> 6665330 Of Mice and Men, to the tough yet charming portrait of people on the margins of society in Cannery Row, to The Pearl's examination of the fallacy of the American dream, Steinbeck stories of realism, that were imbued with energy and resilience.]]> 610 John Steinbeck 0143105779 Anna 0 to-read 4.29 2009 The Short Novels of John Steinbeck
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<![CDATA[Travels with Charley: In Search of America]]> 5306 A quest across America, from the northernmost tip of Maine to California’s Monterey Peninsula

To hear the speech of the real America, to smell the grass and the trees, to see the colors and the light—these were John Steinbeck's goals as he set out, at the age of fifty-eight, to rediscover the country he had been writing about for so many years.

With Charley, his French poodle, Steinbeck drives the interstates and the country roads, dines with truckers, encounters bears at Yellowstone and old friends in San Francisco. Along the way he reflects on the American character, racial hostility, the particular form of American loneliness he finds almost everywhere, and the unexpected kindness of strangers.]]>
214 John Steinbeck 0142000701 Anna 0 to-read 4.07 1961 Travels with Charley: In Search of America
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Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1) 4799 Cannery Row is a book without much of a plot. Rather, it is an attempt to capture the feeling and people of a place, the cannery district of Monterey, California, which is populated by a mix of those down on their luck and those who choose for other reasons not to live "up the hill" in the more respectable area of town. The flow of the main plot is frequently interrupted by short vignettes that introduce us to various denizens of the Row, most of whom are not directly connected with the central story. These vignettes are often characterized by direct or indirect reference to extreme violence: suicides, corpses, and the cruelty of the natural world.

The "story" of Cannery Row follows the adventures of Mack and the boys, a group of unemployed yet resourceful men who inhabit a converted fish-meal shack on the edge of a vacant lot down on the Row.

Sweet Thursday is the sequel to Cannery Row.]]>
181 John Steinbeck 014200068X Anna 0 to-read 4.06 1943 Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)
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A Christmas Carol 5326
Introduction and Afterword by Joe Wheeler
To bitter, miserly Ebenezer Scrooge, Christmas is just another day. But all that changes when the ghost of his long-dead business partner appears, warning Scrooge to change his ways before it's too late.

Part of the Focus on the Family Great Stories collection, this abridged edition features an in-depth introduction and discussion questions by Joe Wheeler to provide greater understanding for today's reader. "A Christmas Carol" captures the heart of the holidays like no other novel.]]>
184 Charles Dickens 1561797464 Anna 2 4.06 1843 A Christmas Carol
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Oliver Twist 18254
The story of Oliver Twist - orphaned, and set upon by evil and adversity from his first breath - shocked readers when it was published. After running away from the workhouse and pompous beadle Mr Bumble, Oliver finds himself lured into a den of thieves peopled by vivid and memorable characters - the Artful Dodger, vicious burglar Bill Sikes, his dog Bull's Eye, and prostitute Nancy, all watched over by cunning master-thief Fagin. Combining elements of Gothic Romance, the Newgate Novel and popular melodrama, Dickens created an entirely new kind of fiction, scathing in its indictment of a cruel society, and pervaded by an unforgettable sense of threat and mystery.

This Penguin Classics edition of Oliver Twist is the first critical edition to faithfully reproduce the text as its earliest readers would have encountered it from its serialisation in Bentley's Miscellany, and includes an introduction by Philip Horne, a glossary of Victorian thieves' slang, a chronology of Dickens's life, a map of contemporary London and all of George Cruikshank's original illustrations.

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.]]>
608 Charles Dickens Anna 3 3.88 1838 Oliver Twist
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American Psycho 28676 American Psycho is a bleak, bitter, black comedy about a world we all recognize but do not wish to confront.]]> 399 Bret Easton Ellis 0679735771 Anna 2 3.82 1991 American Psycho
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Tender Is the Night 46164 Tender Is the Night is the tragic romance of the young actress Rosemary Hoyt and the stylish American couple Dick and Nicole Diver. A brilliant young psychiatrist at the time of his marriage, Dick is both husband and doctor to Nicole, whose wealth goads him into a lifestyle not his own, and whose growing strength highlights Dick's harrowing demise. A profound study of the romantic concept of character, Tender Is the Night is lyrical, expansive, and hauntingly evocative.]]> 430 F. Scott Fitzgerald Anna 5 3.81 1934 Tender Is the Night
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<![CDATA[At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror]]> 32769
Table of Contents:

At the Mountains of Madness � [Cthulhu Mythos] � (1936) � novel by H. P. Lovecraft
The Dreams in the Witch-House � [Cthulhu Mythos] � (1933) � novelette by H. P. Lovecraft
The Shunned House � (1928) � novelette by H. P. Lovecraft
The Statement of Randolph Carter � [Randolph Carter] � (1920) � shortstory by H. P. Lovecraft]]>
184 H.P. Lovecraft 0345329457 Anna 5 4.26 1981 At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror
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Мы (сборник) 20453952
Для старшего школьного возраста.]]>
432 Yevgeny Zamyatin 5080049529 Anna 5 4.18 Мы (сборник)
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Bonjour tristesse 61672
La villa est magnifique, l'été brûlant, la Méditerranée toute proche. Cécile a dix-sept ans. Elle ne connaît de l'amour que des baisers, des rendez-vous, des lassitudes. Pas pour longtemps. Son père, veuf, est un adepte joyeux des liaisons passagères et sans importance. Ils s'amusent, ils n'ont besoin de personne, ils sont heureux. La visite d'une femme de cœur, intelligente et calme, vient troubler ce délicieux désordre. Comment écarter la menace ? Dans la pinède embrasée, un jeu cruel se prépare.
C'était l'été 1954. On entendait pour la première fois la voix sèche et rapide d'un « charmant petit monstre » qui allait faire scandale. la deuxième moitié du XXe siècle commençait. Elle serait à l'image de cette adolescente déchirée entre le remords et le culte du plaisir.

Set against the translucent beauty of France in summer, Bonjour Tristesse is a bittersweet tale narrated by Cecile, a seventeen-year-old girl on the brink of womanhood, whose meddling in her father's love life leads to tragic consequences.

Endearing, self-absorbed, seventeen-year-old Cécile is the very essence of untroubled amorality. Freed from the stifling constraints of boarding school, she joins her father—a handsome, still-young widower with a wandering eye—for a carefree, two-month summer vacation in a beautiful villa outside of Paris with his latest mistress. Cécile cherishes the free-spirited moments she and her father share, while plotting her own sexual adventures with a "tall and almost beautiful" law student. But the arrival of her late mother's best friend intrudes upon a young girl's pleasures. And when a relationship begins to develop between the adults, Cécile and her lover set in motion a plan to keep them apart...with tragic, unexpected consequences.

The internationally beloved story of a precocious teenager's attempts to understand and control the world around her, Françoise Sagan's Bonjour Tristesse is a beautifully composed, wonderfully ambiguous celebration of sexual liberation, at once sympathetic and powerfully unsparing.]]>
154 Françoise Sagan 2266127748 Anna 5 3.76 1954 Bonjour tristesse
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A Certain Smile 471808 A Certain Smile, the second novel by French author Françoise Sagan, tells the story of Dominique, a bored twenty-year-old law student at the Sorbonne in mid-1950s Paris who embarks on a love affair with a middle-aged man. Frank and spontaneous, vulnerable and cruel, thoughtless and insightful, Sagan's young narrator explores such perennial themes as unrequited love and the precarious balance of irrational emotions and self-restraint.]]> 128 Françoise Sagan 9997413393 Anna 4 3.82 1955 A Certain Smile
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Nine Stories 4009
The stories are:

"A Perfect Day for Bananafish"
"Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut"
"Just Before the War with the Eskimos"
"The Laughing Man"
"Down at the Dinghy"
"For Esmé � with Love and Squalor"
"Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes"
"De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period"
"Teddy"]]>
302 J.D. Salinger 0316767727 Anna 5 4.20 1953 Nine Stories
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The Liar 41021698 Stephen Fry's breathtakingly outrageous debut novel is by turns eccentric, shocking, brilliantly comic and achingly romantic.

Adrian Healey loves to lie. He does it all the time. Every minute, every moment. And worse, he does it wonderfully, imaginatively, brilliantly. He lies to buck the system, to express his contempt for convention, but mostly because he just plain likes to. It’s fun; it’s high camp. He invents a lost pornographic novel by Charles Dickens, and for himself a career as a Piccadilly rent boy hireable by the hour. But Adrian’s lies eventually bring realworld danger, as he finds himself caught up in the machinations of a shadowy network that puts his own life at risk. A dazzling, outrageous first novel that has delighted liars everywhere.


From the Trade Paperback edition.]]>
404 Stephen Fry 1569478090 Anna 4 3.63 1991 The Liar
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Intermezzo 208931300 An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family—but especially love—from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.

Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common.

Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties—successful, competent, and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father’s death, he’s medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different women—his enduring first love, Sylvia, and Naomi, a college student for whom life is one long joke.

Ivan is a twenty-two-year-old competitive chess player. He has always seen himself as socially awkward, a loner, the antithesis of his glib elder brother. Now, in the early weeks of his bereavement, Ivan meets Margaret, an older woman emerging from her own turbulent past, and their lives become rapidly and intensely intertwined.

For two grieving brothers and the people they love, this is a new interlude—a period of desire, despair, and possibility; a chance to find out how much one life might hold inside itself without breaking.]]>
454 Sally Rooney 0374602638 Anna 4 3.87 2024 Intermezzo
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Король, дама, валет 50157128 271 Vladimir Nabokov Anna 4 4.19 1928 Король, дама, валет
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Sunlight on Cold Water 471809
Here he meets Nathalie, the wife of a country lawyer. She falls deeply in love with him, a passion to which he soon responds. But back in Paris her innate goodness contrasts oddly with the frivolity of Gilles’s life. Soon it seems as if their relationship is doomed, as if their happiness is a mere gleam of sunlight on cold water…”]]>
144 Françoise Sagan 0140035877 Anna 5 3.89 1969 Sunlight on Cold Water
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Dubrovsky 2651456 185 Alexander Pushkin 0828526338 Anna 0 4.00 1841 Dubrovsky
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Тимур и его команда 3778034 Arkady Gaydar Anna 0 3.86 1940 Тимур и его команда
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Гранатовый браслет 16693151
Александр Иванович Куприн (1870-1938) один из величайших русских писателей, в творческом наследии которого более десятка повестей и романов («Впотьмах», «Олеся», «Гранатовый браслет»), множество рассказов и очерков.]]>
40 Aleksandr Kuprin Anna 0 3.77 1911 Гранатовый браслет
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Morphine 4531917 80 Mikhail Bulgakov Anna 0 to-read 4.22 1926 Morphine
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Ruslan and Ludmila 385028 134 Alexander Pushkin 5050047730 Anna 0 4.08 1820 Ruslan and Ludmila
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Poor Folk 67326
Inspired by the works of Gogol, Pushkin, and Karamzin, as well as English and French authors, Poor Folk is written in the form of letters between the two main characters, Makar Devushkin and Varvara Dobroselova, who are poor third cousins twice removed. The novel showcases the life of poor people, their relationship with rich people, and poverty in general, all common themes of literary naturalism. A deep but odd friendship develops between them until Dobroselova loses her interest in literature, and later in communicating with Devushkin after a rich widower Mr. Bykov proposes to her. Devushkin, a prototype of the clerk found in many works of naturalistic literature at that time, retains his sentimental characteristics; Dobroselova abandons art, while Devushkin cannot live without literature.

Contemporary critics lauded Poor Folk for its humanitarian themes. While Vissarion Belinsky dubbed the novel Russia's first "social novel" and Alexander Herzen called it a major socialist work, other critics detected parody and satire. The novel uses a complicated polyphony of voices from different perspectives and narrators. Initially offered by Dostoyevsky to the liberal-leaning magazine Fatherland Notes, the novel was published in the almanac, St. Petersburg Collection, on January 15, 1846. It became a huge success nationwide. Parts of it were translated into German by Wilhelm Wolfsohn and published in an 1846/1847 magazine. The first English translation was provided by Lena Milman in 1894, with an introduction by George Moore, cover art design by Aubrey Beardsley, and publication by London's Mathews and Lane.]]>
167 Fyodor Dostoevsky 1592244319 Anna 0 3.77 1846 Poor Folk
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The Tale of Tsar Saltan 111750 32 Alexander Pushkin 0803720017 Anna 0 4.23 1831 The Tale of Tsar Saltan
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<![CDATA[Village Evenings Near Dikanka and Mirgorod]]> 195680 stories. The only translation available of this cycle of stories, this edition captures fully the spirit and vigor of his important early work for the first time.]]> 496 Nikolai Gogol 0192828800 Anna 0 4.21 Village Evenings Near Dikanka and Mirgorod
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<![CDATA[Sketches from a Hunter's Album]]> 28458 Sketches: the observations and anecdotes of the author during his travels through Russia satisfying his passion for hunting. His album is filled with moving insights into the lives of those he acquaints with, peasants and landowners, doctors and bailiffs, neglected wives and bereft mothers each providing a glimpse of love, tragedy, courage and loss, and anticipating Turgenev's great later works such as First Love and Fathers and Sons. His depiction of the cruelty and arrogance of the ruling classes was considered subversive and led to his arrest and confinement to his estate, but these sketches opened the minds of contemporary readers to the plight of the peasantry and were even said to have led Tsar Alexander II to abolish serfdom.]]> 403 Ivan Turgenev 0140445226 Anna 0 3.94 1852 Sketches from a Hunter's Album
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Taras Bulba 104696 Nicolas Gogol (1809-1852)

"« Voyons, tourne-toi. Dieu, que tu es drôle ! Qu’est-ce que cette robe de prêtre ? Est-ce que vous êtes tous ainsi fagotés à votre académie ? »

Voilà par quelles paroles le vieux Boulba accueillait ses deux fils qui venaient de terminer leurs études au séminaire de Kiew(1), et qui rentraient en ce moment au foyer paternel.

Ses fils venaient de descendre de cheval. C’étaient deux robustes jeunes hommes, qui avaient encore le regard en dessous, comme il convient à des séminaristes récemment sortis des bancs de l’école. Leurs visages, pleins de force et de santé, commençaient à se couvrir d’un premier duvet que n’avait jamais fauché le rasoir. L’accueil de leur père les avait fort troublés ; ils restaient immobiles, les yeux fixés à terre.

« Attendez, attendez ; laissez que je vous examine bien à mon aise. Dieu ! que vous avez de longues robes ! dit-il en les tournant et retournant en tous sens. Diables de robes ! je crois qu’on n’en a pas encore vu de pareilles dans le monde. Allons, que l’un de vous essaye un peu de courir : je verrai s’il ne se laissera pas tomber le nez par terre, en s’embarrassant dans les plis.

� Père, ne te moque pas de nous, dit enfin l’aîné.

� Voyez un peu le beau sire ! et pourquoi donc ne me moquerais-je pas de vous ?

� Mais, parce que... quoique tu sois mon père, j’en jure Dieu, si tu continues de rire, je te rosserai.

� Quoi ! fils de chien, ton père ! dit Tarass Boulba en reculant de quelques pas avec étonnement. "

Nicolas Gogol nous fait pénétrer dans le monde belliqueux des Cosaques au XVIIe siècle. Tarass Boulba, guerrier reconnu, part en guerre contre les Polonais, avec ses deux fils, au nom de la foi orthodoxe. Seront-ils à la hauteur ? Une éventuelle défaite ne sera-t-elle pas le déclin de ces fiers Cosaques ?

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228 Nikolai Gogol 1406946168 Anna 0 3.71 1835 Taras Bulba
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The White Guard 229733 The Master and Margarita, The White Guard is still an engrossing book, though completely different in tone. It is set in Kiev during the Russian revolution and tells the story of the Turbin family and the war's effect on the middle-classes (not workers).

The story was not seen as politically correct, and thereby contributed to Bulgakov's lifelong troubles with the Soviet authorities. It was, however, a well-loved book, and the novel was turned into a successful play at the time of its publication in 1967.]]>
304 Mikhail Bulgakov 0099490668 Anna 0 currently-reading 4.04 1924 The White Guard
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<![CDATA[The Overcoat and Other Short Stories]]> 19104 103 Nikolai Gogol 0486270572 Anna 0 4.23 1836 The Overcoat and Other Short Stories
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Demons 5695 0679734511. (ISBN13: 9780679734512)

Inspired by the true story of a political murder that horrified Russians in 1869, Fyodor Dostoevsky conceived of Demons as a "novel-pamphlet" in which he would say everything about the plague of materialist ideology that he saw infecting his native land. What emerged was a prophetic and ferociously funny masterpiece of ideology and murder in pre-revolutionary Russia.]]>
733 Fyodor Dostoevsky Anna 0 to-read 4.31 1872 Demons
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<![CDATA[Отец Сергий (Мировая Классика) (Russian Edition)]]> 44435064 62 Лев Толстой 1787240509 Anna 0 4.50 1911 Отец Сергий (Мировая Классика) (Russian Edition)
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Князь Серебряный 3253020
Содержание:
* Упырь (повесть)
* Семья вурдалака (рассказ)
* Князь Серебряный (роман)]]>
624 Anna 0 4.24 Князь Серебряный
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Крейцерова соната 24296910 99 Leo Tolstoy Anna 0 3.98 1889 Крейцерова соната
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<![CDATA[Лев Толстой: Собрание сочинений: Война и мир. Том 2]]> 18779867 400 Leo Tolstoy Anna 0 4.33 1865 Лев Толстой: Собрание сочинений: Война и мир. Том 2
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Theatre 31326 Theatre, W. Somerset Maugham–the author of the classic novels Of Human Bondage and Up at the Villa–introduces us to Julia Lambert, a woman of breathtaking poise and talent whose looks have stood by her forty-six years. She is a star UK stage actress�-so good, in fact, that perhaps she never stops acting.

It seems that noting can ruffle her satin feathers, until a quiet stranger challenges Julia's very sense of self. As a result, she will endure rejection for the first time, her capacity as a mother will be affronted, and her ability to put on whatever face she desired for her public will prove limited. In Theatre, Maugham subtly exposes the tensions and triumphs that occur when acting and reality blend together, and–for Julia–ultimately reverse.]]>
304 W. Somerset Maugham 037572463X Anna 0 to-read 4.17 1937 Theatre
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Doctor Zhivago 130440
Dr. Yury Zhivago, Pasternak's alter ego, is a poet, philosopher, and physician whose life is disrupted by the war and by his love for Lara, the wife of a revolutionary. His artistic nature makes him vulnerable to the brutality and harshness of the Bolsheviks. The poems he writes constitute some of the most beautiful writing featured in the novel.]]>
592 Boris Pasternak 0679774386 Anna 0 4.03 1957 Doctor Zhivago
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The Cider House Rules 4687 1064 John Irving 0786226749 Anna 0 to-read 4.16 1985 The Cider House Rules
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Man’s Search for Meaning 4069 Man's Search for Meaning has become one of the most influential books in America; it continues to inspire us all to find significance in the very act of living.]]> 165 Viktor E. Frankl 080701429X Anna 0 to-read 4.39 1946 Man’s Search for Meaning
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The Sun Also Rises 3876 The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta) is one of Ernest Hemingway's masterpieces and a classic example of his spare but powerful writing style. A poignant look at the disillusionment and angst of the post-World War I generation, the novel introduces two of Hemingway's most unforgettable characters: Jake Barnes and Lady Brett Ashley. The story follows the flamboyant Brett and the hapless Jake as they journey from the wild nightlife of 1920s Paris to the brutal bullfighting rings of Spain with a motley group of expatriates. It is an age of moral bankruptcy, spiritual dissolution, unrealized love, and vanishing illusions. First published in 1926, The Sun Also Rises helped to establish Hemingway as one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century.]]> 189 Ernest Hemingway Anna 0 3.81 1926 The Sun Also Rises
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Where the Wild Things Are 19543 38 Maurice Sendak 0099408392 Anna 0 to-read 4.25 1963 Where the Wild Things Are
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<![CDATA[Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)]]> 15881
And strike it does. For in Harry’s second year at Hogwarts, fresh torments and horrors arise, including an outrageously stuck-up new professor and a spirit who haunts the girls� bathroom. But then the real trouble begins � someone is turning Hogwarts students to stone. Could it be Draco Malfoy, a more poisonous rival than ever? Could it possibly be Hagrid, whose mysterious past is finally told? Or could it be the one everyone at Hogwarts most suspects� Harry Potter himself!]]>
352 J.K. Rowling Anna 0 4.42 1998 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
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Memoirs of a Geisha 929
In "Memoirs of a Geisha," we enter a world where appearances are paramount; where a girl's virginity is auctioned to the highest bidder; where women are trained to beguile the most powerful men; and where love is scorned as illusion. It is a unique and triumphant work of fiction - at once romantic, erotic, suspenseful - and completely unforgettable.]]>
503 Arthur Golden 1400096898 Anna 0 to-read 4.31 1997 Memoirs of a Geisha
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<![CDATA[Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1)]]> 35074096
This stunning book features classical artwork inspired by the myths, as well as learned notes from the author. Each adventure is infused with Fry's distinctive wit, voice, and writing style. Connoisseurs of the Greek myths will appreciate this fresh-yet-reverential interpretation, while newcomers will feel welcome. Retellings brim with humor and emotion and offer rich cultural context

Celebrating the thrills, grandeur, and unabashed fun of the Greek myths, Mythos breathes life into ancient tales—from Pandora's box to Prometheus's fire.

This gorgeous volume invites you to explore a captivating world with the brilliant storyteller Stephen Fry as your guide.]]>
416 Stephen Fry 0718188721 Anna 0 to-read 4.27 2017 Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1)
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The Stranger 49552 The Stranger has long been considered a classic of twentieth-century literature. Le Monde ranks it as number one on its "100 Books of the Century" list. Through this story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on a sundrenched Algerian beach, Camus explores what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd."]]> 123 Albert Camus Anna 0 to-read 4.04 1942 The Stranger
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The Iliad 1371
Combining the skills of a poet and scholar, Robert Fagles, winner of the PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation and a 1996 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, brings the energy of contemporary language to this enduring heroic epic. He maintains the drive and metric music of Homer’s poetry, and evokes the impact and nuance of the Iliad’s mesmerizing repeated phrases in what Peter Levi calls “an astonishing performance.”]]>
614 Homer 0140275363 Anna 0 3.88 -800 The Iliad
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<![CDATA[Мемуары в двух книгах: До изгнания. 1887-1919; В изгнании]]> 26061429
Дори женитбата му с племенницата на императора само привидно укротява неудържимия му нрав. Свободният му дух го сближава със забележителни личности на неговото време, забърква го в невероятни ситуации, които той споделя с неподражаемо чувство за хумор.

Октомври 1917 г. е ножът, който разрязва на две живота на княза. Прокуден от революцията, Юсупов разказва безбройните си митарства в емиграция. Оригинален, артистичен и разкрепостен, той се впуска в множество начинания, пътува из Европа и до Щатите, дори успява да осъди филмовия колос „Метро Голдуин Майер� за засягане на честта му във филм за Распутин.

Семейство Юсупови, руснаци до мозъка на костите, никога не приемат френско гражданство и до сетния си дъх се надяват, че ще се върнат в родината. Нещо, което така и не се случва.]]>
432 Феликс Юсупов 5815912344 Anna 0 to-read 4.60 Мемуары в двух книгах: До изгнания. 1887-1919; В изгнании
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Fausto / Werther 2026509 276 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 9684321945 Anna 0 3.92 Fausto / Werther
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Aelita 245715 280 Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy 1589633741 Anna 0 to-read 3.66 1923 Aelita
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The Gambler 12857 The Gambler, Dostoevsky reaches the heights of drama with this stunning psychological portrait.]]> 188 Fyodor Dostoevsky Anna 0 to-read 3.95 1866 The Gambler
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La Chute 774027 160 Albert Camus 2070360105 Anna 5 3.87 1956 La Chute
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The Hippopotamus 41021732 "I’ve suffered for my art, now it’s your turn."

So begins the tale of Ted Wallace, unaffectionately known as the Hippopotamus. Failed poet, failed theater critic, failed father and husband, Ted is a shameless womanizer, drinks too much, and is at odds in his cranky but maddeningly logical way with most of modern life.
Fired from his newspaper, Ted seeks a few months� repose and free liquor at Swafford Hall, the country mansion of his old friend Michael Logan. This world of boozy dinners, hunting parties, and furtive liaisons has recently been turned on its head by miracles, healings, and phenomena beyond Ted’s comprehension.

As the mysteries deepen, The Hippopotamus builds into “a deliciously wicked and amusing little fable� (The New York Times).

From the Trade Paperback edition.]]>
418 Stephen Fry 1616954744 Anna 0 3.64 1994 The Hippopotamus
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<![CDATA[Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life / The Little Book of Lykke / Lagom: The Swedish Art of Balanced Living]]> 40534545 3 Books Collection Set:

Ikigai: The Japanese secret to a long and happy life

The people of Japan believe that everyone has an ikigai � a reason to jump out of bed each morning. And according to the residents of the Japanese island of Okinawa � the world’s longest-living people � finding it is the key to a longer and more fulfilled life. Inspiring and comforting, this book will give you the life-changing tools to uncover your personal ikigai. It will show you how to leave urgency behind, find your purpose, nurture friendships and throw yourself into your passions.

The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Well

The Danish word hygge is one of those beautiful words that doesn't directly translate into English, but it more or less means comfort, warmth or togetherness. Hygge is the feeling you get when you are cuddled up on a sofa with a loved one, in warm knitted socks, in front of the fire, when it is dark, cold and stormy outside. It that feeling when you are sharing good, comfort food with your closest friends, by candle light and exchanging easy conversation. It is those cold, crisp blue sky mornings when the light through your window is just right.

Lagom: The Swedish Art of Balanced Living

Step aside Hygge. Lagom is the new Scandi lifestyle trend taking the world by storm. This delightfully illustrated book gives you the lowdown on this transformative approach to life and examines how the lagom ethos has helped boost Sweden to the No.10 ranking in 2017's World Happiness Report. Lagom (pronounced 'lah-gom') has no equivalent in the English language but is loosely translated as 'not too little, not too much, just right'. It is widely believed that the word comes from the Viking term 'laget om', for when a mug of mead was passed around a circle and there was just enough for everyone to get a sip.]]>
Héctor García 9123672609 Anna 3 3.85 2018 Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life / The Little Book of Lykke / Lagom: The Swedish Art of Balanced Living
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Gulliver’s Travels 7733 A wickedly clever satire uses comic inversions to offer telling insights into the nature of man and society. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.

Gulliver's Travels describes the four voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, a ship's surgeon. In Lilliput he discovers a world in miniature; towering over the people and their city, he is able to view their society from the viewpoint of a god. However, in Brobdingnag, a land of giants, tiny Gulliver himself comes under observation, exhibited as a curiosity at markets and fairs. In Laputa, a flying island, he encounters a society of speculators and projectors who have lost all grip on everyday reality; while they plan and calculate, their country lies in ruins. Gulliver's final voyage takes him to the land of the Houyhnhnms, gentle horses whom he quickly comes to admire - in contrast to the Yahoos, filthy bestial creatures who bear a disturbing resemblance to humans. This text, based on the first edition of 1726, reproduces all the original illustrations and includes an introduction by Robert Demaria, Jr, which discusses the ways Gulliver's Travels has been interpreted since its first publication. Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) was born in Dublin.

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.]]>
306 Jonathan Swift 0141439491 Anna 0 3.59 1726 Gulliver’s Travels
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<![CDATA[Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, #2)]]> 83346 228 Lewis Carroll 0688120490 Anna 0 4.05 1871 Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, #2)
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<![CDATA[The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)]]> 8921 256 Arthur Conan Doyle Anna 0 4.15 1901 The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)
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The Color Purple 11486
Then her husband's lover, a flamboyant blues singer, barreled into her world and gave Celie the courage to ask for more - to laugh, to play, and finally - to love.]]>
295 Alice Walker Anna 0 to-read 4.22 1982 The Color Purple
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The Grapes of Wrath 18114322
First published in 1939, Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads—driven from their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. Out of their trials and their repeated collisions against the hard realities of an America divided into Haves and Have-Nots evolves a drama that is intensely human yet majestic in its scale and moral vision, elemental yet plainspoken, tragic but ultimately stirring in its human dignity. A portrait of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless, of one man’s fierce reaction to injustice, and of one woman’s stoical strength, the novel captures the horrors of the Great Depression and probes into the very nature of equality and justice in America. At once a naturalistic epic, captivity narrative, road novel, and transcendental gospel, Steinbeck’s powerful landmark novel is perhaps the most American of American Classics.]]>
496 John Steinbeck 067001690X Anna 0 to-read 4.06 1939 The Grapes of Wrath
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Animal Farm 170448 Librarian's note: There is an Alternate Cover Edition for this edition of this book here.

A farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming idealism and stirring slogans, they set out to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality. Thus the stage is set for one of the most telling satiric fables ever penned –a razor-edged fairy tale for grown-ups that records the evolution from revolution against tyranny to a totalitarianism just as terrible.
When Animal Farm was first published, Stalinist Russia was seen as its target. Today it is devastatingly clear that wherever and whenever freedom is attacked, under whatever banner, the cutting clarity and savage comedy of George Orwell’s masterpiece have a meaning and message still ferociously fresh.]]>
141 George Orwell 0451526341 Anna 0 to-read 4.07 1945 Animal Farm
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<![CDATA[The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)]]> 2054 379 Raymond Chandler 0394757688 Anna 0 to-read 4.19 1953 The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)
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Flowers for Algernon 18373 Winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Awards, the powerful, classic story about a man who receives an operation that turns him into a genius...and introduces him to heartache.

Charlie Gordon is about to embark upon an unprecedented journey. Born with an unusually low IQ, he has been chosen as the perfect subject for an experimental surgery that researchers hope will increase his intelligence � a procedure that has already been highly successful when tested on a lab mouse named Algernon.

As the treatment takes effect, Charlie's intelligence expands until it surpasses that of the doctors who engineered his metamorphosis. The experiment appears to be a scientific breakthrough of paramount importance, until Algernon suddenly deteriorates. Will the same happen to Charlie?]]>
311 Daniel Keyes 015603008X Anna 0 to-read 4.19 1966 Flowers for Algernon
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Night 1617 Night is the terrifying record of Elie Wiesel's memories of the death of his family, the death of his own innocence, and his despair as a deeply observant Jew confronting the absolute evil of man. This new translation by his wife and most frequent translator, Marion Wiesel, corrects important details and presents the most accurate rendering in English of Elie Wiesel's testimony to what happened in the camps and of his unforgettable message that this horror must simply never be allowed to happen again.]]> 120 Elie Wiesel 0374500010 Anna 0 to-read 4.38 1956 Night
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Les Liaisons dangereuses 49540 Les Liaisons dangereuses (1782) one of the most scandalous and controversial novels in European literature. The subject of major film and stage adaptations, the novel's prime movers, the Vicomte de Valmont and the Marquise de Merteuil, form an unholy alliance and turn seduction into a game - a game which they must win. This new translation gives Laclos a modern voice, and readers will be able a judge whether the novel is as "diabolical" and "infamous" as its critics have claimed, or whether it has much to tell us about the kind of world we ourselves live in. David Coward's introduction explodes myths about Laclos's own life and puts the book in its literary and cultural context.]]> 402 Pierre Choderlos de Laclos 0192838679 Anna 0 4.08 1782 Les Liaisons dangereuses
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White Nights 1772910 82 Fyodor Dostoevsky Anna 0 to-read 4.16 1848 White Nights
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The Heart-Keeper 1053823 Tout devrait donc être bien qui finit en somme pas trop mal si Dorothy n'éprouvait une certaine pitié pour le blessé et ne l'installait chez elle, malgré les avertissements de Paul - inquiet de la voir héberger un garçon amateur de LSD au point de se lancer sur un bolide roulant à cent cinquante à l'heure.
Paul a-t-il tort, a-t-il raison? Lewis, le garçon en question, a parfois une expression inquiétante, c'est vrai. Mais il est jeune, beau, distant, discret et sa compagnie enchante Dorothy jusqu'au jour où il se précipite sur un quidam et l'aurait étranglé sans l'intervention de Paul. Pourquoi? A force d'y réfléchir, Dorothy sent naître une certitude affolante. Avoir un " garde du cœur " n'est pas une situation de tout repos...]]>
100 Françoise Sagan 0719518296 Anna 0 to-read 3.67 1968 The Heart-Keeper
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That Mad Ache 5547739 That Mad Ache, set in high-society Paris in the mid-1960’s, recounts the emotional battle unleashed in the heart of Lucile, a sensitive but rootless young woman who finds herself caught between her carefree, tranquil love for 50-year-old Charles, a gentle, reflective, and well-off businessman, and her sudden wild passion for 30-year-old Antoine, a hot-blooded, impulsive, and struggling editor. As Lucile explores these two versions of love, she vacillates in confusion, but in the end she must choose, and her heart’s instinct is surprising and poignant. Originally published under the title La Chamade, this new translation by Douglas Hofstadter returns a forgotten classic to English.

In Translator, Trader, Douglas Hofstadter reflects on his personal act of devotion in rewriting Françoise Sagan’s novel La Chamade in English, and on the paradoxes that constantly plague any literary translator on all scales, ranging from the humblest of commas to entire chapters. Flatly rejecting the common wisdom that translators are inevitably traitors, Hofstadter proposes instead that translators are traders, and that translation, like musical performance, deserves high respect as a creative act. In his view, literary translation is the art of making subtle trades in which one sometimes loses and sometimes gains, often both losing and gaining at the same time. This view implies that there is no reason a translation cannot be as good as the original work, and that the result inevitably bears the stamp of the translator, much as a musical performance inevitably bears the stamp of its artists. Both a companion to the beloved Sagan novel and a singular meditation on translation, Translator, Trader is a witty and intimate exploration of words, ideas, communication, creation, and faithfulness.]]>
311 Françoise Sagan Anna 0 to-read 3.96 1965 That Mad Ache
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Wonderful Clouds 965955 112 Françoise Sagan 0140023704 Anna 0 to-read 3.61 1960 Wonderful Clouds
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Scars on the Soul 1053822 Scars on the Soul 0 Françoise Sagan 0140043578 Anna 0 to-read 3.72 1972 Scars on the Soul
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The Razor’s Edge 31196 314 W. Somerset Maugham 1400034205 Anna 5 4.20 1944 The Razor’s Edge
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The Magic Mountain 88077
The Magic Mountain is a monumental work of erudition and irony, sexual tension and intellectual ferment, a book that pulses with life in the midst of death.]]>
706 Thomas Mann Anna 0 currently-reading 4.12 1924 The Magic Mountain
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Death in Venice 53061
Published on the eve of World War I, a decade after Buddenbrooks had established Thomas Mann as a literary celebrity, Death in Venice tells the story of Gustav von Aschenbach, a successful but aging writer who follows his wanderlust to Venice in search of spiritual fulfillment that instead leads to his erotic doom.
In the decaying city, besieged by an unnamed epidemic, he becomes obsessed with an exquisite Polish boy, Tadzio. "It is a story of the voluptuousness of doom," Mann wrote. "But the problem I had especially in mind was that of the artist's dignity."]]>
142 Thomas Mann 0060576170 Anna 0 3.77 1911 Death in Venice
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The Moon and Sixpence 44796 The Moon and Sixpence is W. Somerset Maugham's ode to the powerful forces behind creative genius. Charles Strickland is a staid banker, a man of wealth and privilege. He is also a man possessed of an unquenchable desire to create art. As Strickland pursues his artistic vision, he leaves London for Paris and Tahiti, and in his quest makes sacrifices that leave the lives of those closest to him in tatters. Through Maugham's sympathetic eye, Strickland's tortured and cruel soul becomes a symbol of the blessing and the curse of transcendent artistic genius, and the cost in humans' lives it sometimes demands.]]> 187 W. Somerset Maugham 1598185217 Anna 0 4.15 1919 The Moon and Sixpence
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<![CDATA[Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts]]> 1330086 112 Joseph von Eichendorff Anna 0 to-read 3.34 1826 Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts
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The Insulted and Humiliated 329803 460 Fyodor Dostoevsky 0898751047 Anna 0 4.26 1861 The Insulted and Humiliated
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Heart of a Dog 113205 123 Mikhail Bulgakov 0802150594 Anna 0 4.15 1925 Heart of a Dog
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La Prisonnière 865124 Paru en 1923, La Prisonnière est le premier des trois volumes publiés après la mort de Proust et, quoique solidaire, bien sûr, de Sodome et Gomorrhe qui le précède comme d’Albertine disparue qui le suit, une certaine unité lui est propre, entre l’enfermement initial du narrateur et le départ final de la jeune fille. Pour l’essentiel, trois journées simplement se déroulent ici –le plus souvent dans l’espace clos de l’appartement �, et ce sont comme les trois actes d’un théâtre où la jalousie occupe toute la place.]]> 496 Marcel Proust Anna 0 to-read 4.27 1923 La Prisonnière
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Pygmalion 7714
In Shaw's clever adaptation, Professor Henry Higgins, a linguistic expert, takes on a bet that he can transform an awkward cockney flower seller into a refined young lady simply by polishing her manners and changing the way she speaks. In the process of convincing society that his creation is a mysterious royal figure, the Professor also falls in love with his elegant handiwork.

The irresistible theme of the emerging butterfly, together with Shaw's brilliant dialogue and splendid skills as a playwright, have made Pygmalion one of the most popular comedies in the English language. A staple of college drama courses, it is still widely performed.]]>
82 George Bernard Shaw 0486282228 Anna 0 3.89 1913 Pygmalion
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La Belle Dame sans Merci 13627197 The poem is considered an English classic, stereotypical to other of Keats' works. It avoids simplicity of interpretation despite simplicity of structure. At only a short twelve stanzas, of only four lines each, with a simple ABCB rhyme scheme, the poem is nonetheless full of enigmas, and has been the subject of numerous interpretations.]]> John Keats Anna 0 to-read 4.13 1820 La Belle Dame sans Merci
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Горе от ума 97390 "Горе от ума" - комедия, давшая русской литературе первого "лишнего человека".
Эта комедия с трагическим, в сущности, финалом - поистине "русская комедия" с отчетливым горьким осадком и бесконечным сочувствием герою.
Издание снабжено комментарием, а также отрывками из статей А.С.Пушкина, И.А.Гончарова и А.Григорьева, посвященных комедии "Горе от ума", что, несомненно, поможет всем, кто изучает русскую словесность.]]>
206 Alexander Griboyedov 5080039159 Anna 0 4.14 1825 Горе от ума
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The Three Sisters 143513 The Three Sisters probes the lives and dreams of Olga, Masha, and Irina, former Muscovites now living in a provincial town from which they long to escape. Their hopes for a life more suited to their cultivated tastes and sensibilities provide a touching counterpoint to the relentless flow of compromising events in the real world.
In this powerful play, a landmark of modern drama, Chekhov masterfully interweaves character and theme in subtle ways that make the work's finale seem as inevitable as it is deeply moving. It is reprinted here from a standard text with updated transliteration of character names and additional explanatory footnotes.]]>
81 Anton Chekhov Anna 0 to-read 3.78 1900 The Three Sisters
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The Queen of Spades 279614 52 Alexander Pushkin 1557424373 Anna 0 3.97 1834 The Queen of Spades
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The Seducer's Diary 46973
"She sits on the sofa by the tea table and I sit on a chair at her side. This position has an intimate quality and at the same time a detaching dignity."

Less erotic than an intellectual depiction of seduction, Diary of a Seducer shows the casuist Kierkegaard in what he characterized as the aesthetic mode.]]>
232 Søren Kierkegaard 0691017379 Anna 0 to-read 3.74 1843 The Seducer's Diary
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The Premature Burial 6815174
It's theme is that of being buried alive, which was a common fear at the time and Poe takes advantage of the public interest. The unnamed narrator describes his struggle with "attacks of the singular disorder which physicians have agreed to term catalepsy," a condition which sees a person falling into a death-like trance with no forewarning. This leads to the narrator's overwhelming fear. "The true wretchedness," he says, is "to be buried while alive."

One morning, he awakens to find his worst fears realized!]]>
32 Edgar Allan Poe Anna 0 3.77 1844 The Premature Burial
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The Ugly Duckling 122967 40 Hans Christian Andersen 068815932X Anna 0 4.20 1843 The Ugly Duckling
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The Snow Queen 139987 96 Hans Christian Andersen 0375415122 Anna 0 3.74 1844 The Snow Queen
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<![CDATA[The Adolescent (Vintage Classics)]]> 5700 The Adolescent (first published in English as A Raw Youth) is Arkady Dolgoruky, a naive 19-year-old boy bursting with ambition and opinions. The illegitimate son of a dissipated landowner, he is torn between his desire to expose his father’s wrongdoing and the desire to win his love. He travels to St. Petersburg to confront the father he barely knows, inspired by an inchoate dream of communion and armed with a mysterious document that he believes gives him power over others. This new English version by the most acclaimed of Dostoevsky’s translators is a masterpiece of pathos and high comedy.]]> 580 Fyodor Dostoevsky 0375719008 Anna 0 3.96 1875 The Adolescent (Vintage Classics)
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Annabel Lee 178911 24 Edgar Allan Poe Anna 0 4.32 1849 Annabel Lee
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The Captain's Daughter 604578 124 Alexander Pushkin 184391154X Anna 0 3.90 1836 The Captain's Daughter
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<![CDATA[The Complete Stories and Poems]]> 23919 821 Edgar Allan Poe 0385074077 Anna 0 4.39 1849 The Complete Stories and Poems
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The Interpretation of Dreams 93981 630 Sigmund Freud 1566195764 Anna 0 3.86 1899 The Interpretation of Dreams
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The Seagull 79649
When it first opened in St Petersburg in 1896, The Seagull survived only five performances after a disastrous first opening night. Two years later it was revived by Nemirovich-Danchenko at the newly-founded Moscow Art Theatre with Stanslasky as Trigorin and was an immediate success. Checkhov's description of the play was characteristically self-mocking: "A comedy - 3F, 6M, four acts, rural scenery (a view over a lake); much talk of literature, little action, five bushels of love".
Michael Frayn's translation was commissioned by the Oxford Playhouse Company.]]>
65 Anton Chekhov 0413771008 Anna 0 3.93 1895 The Seagull
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The Black Cat 391724
The tale centers on two matters, a black cat and the deterioration of a man. The man is one who enjoyed family life with his wife and numerous pets, but then he changed radically for the worse. The story is often compared to "The Tell-Tale Heart" because of the profound psychological elements these two works share. "The Black Cat" is a story you will never forget.

Librarian's note: this entry relates to the story "The Black Cat." Collections and other short stories by the author can be found elsewhere on ŷ.]]>
24 Edgar Allan Poe 1594561753 Anna 0 4.07 1843 The Black Cat
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