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Nine deeply moving and exquisitely crafted tales from a master of the short story

After a fortnight in Yalta, Dmitri Dmitritch Gurov has grown tired of the seaside. He is looking for a more interesting way to pass his vacation when a woman with a Pomeranian catches his eye. Gurov loathes his wife, and has spent his marriage chasing women, even though the affairs always end in disappointment. But Anna Sergeyevna will be different. For the first time in his life, Gurov will know love—and he will find it a very harsh mistress.
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Widely recognized as one of literature’s sharpest observers of human nature, Anton Chekhov has influenced generations of writers. Including such heartbreaking gems as “A Doctor’s Visit,�� “The Head of the Family,�� and “The Black Monk,�� this sparkling collection showcases a brilliant craftsman at the top of his form.
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]]> 24280 1463 Victor Hugo 0451525264 Ana 5 4.19 1862
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Extraordinary masterpiece. The best book ever written.
]]> 43416748
Antigone raises issues of law and morality that are just as relevant today as they were more than two thousand years ago. Whether this is your first reading or your twentieth, Antigone will move you as few pieces of literature can.

To make this quintessential Greek drama more accessible to the modern reader, this Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Edition includes a glossary of difficult terms, a list of vocabulary words, and convenient sidebar notes. By providing these, it is our intention that readers will more fully enjoy the beauty, wisdom, and intent of the play.]]> 0 Sophocles 8637907636 Ana 3 3.34 -441
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]]> 40962371 112 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 8684371429 Ana 5 4.54 1943
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]]> 30735 The Complete Essays is translated from the French and edited with an introduction and notes by M.A. Screech.

In 1572 Montaigne retired to his estates in order to devote himself to leisure, reading and reflection. There he wrote his constantly expanding 'assays', inspired by the ideas he found in books contained in his library and from his own experience. He discusses subjects as diverse as war-horses and cannibals, poetry and politics, sex and religion, love and friendship, ecstasy and experience. But, above all, Montaigne studied himself as a way of drawing out his own inner nature and that of men and women in general. The Essays are among the most idiosyncratic and personal works in all literature and provide an engaging insight into a wise Renaissance mind, continuing to give pleasure and enlightenment to modern readers.

With its extensive introduction and notes, M.A. Screech's edition of Montaigne is widely regarded as the most distinguished of recent times.

Michel de Montaigne (1533-1586) studied law and spent a number of years working as a counsellor before devoting his life to reading, writing and reflection.

If you enjoyed The Complete Essays, you might like Francois Rabelais's Gargantua and Pantagruel, also available in Penguin Classics.

'Screech's fine version ... must surely serve as the definitive English Montaigne'
A.C. Grayling, Financial Times

'A superb edition'
Nicholas Wollaston, Observer]]> 1344 Michel de Montaigne 0140446044 Ana 0 to-read 4.24 1580
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]]> 42641 562 Leo Tolstoy 0735102864 Ana 4 4.15 1899
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The theme of the book kind of reminds me of Anna Karenina - the romance and political/societal and religious/philosophical motives, but it seems more like a very subjective and personal view of the Russian 19th century society.
]]> 12857 The Gambler, Dostoevsky reaches the heights of drama with this stunning psychological portrait.]]> 188 Fyodor Dostoevsky Ana 4 3.95 1866
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]]> 7126 The epic tale of wrongful imprisonment, adventure and revenge, in its definitive translation

Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantès is confined to the grim fortress of If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of Monte Cristo and he becomes determined not only to escape, but also to use the treasure to plot the destruction of the three men responsible for his incarceration. Dumas�� epic tale of suffering and retribution, inspired by a real-life case of wrongful imprisonment, was a huge popular success when it was first serialized in the 1840s.

Translated with an Introduction by Robin Buss

An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here]]> 1276 Alexandre Dumas 0140449264 Ana 0 to-read 4.29 1846
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]]> 12505 667 Fyodor Dostoevsky 0679642420 Ana 5 4.22 1869
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]]> 54313389 Fyodor Dostoevsky 1710691816 Ana 0 to-read 4.39 1872
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]]> 4934
This award-winning translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky remains true to the verbal inventiveness of Dostoevsky’s prose, preserving the multiple voices, the humor, and the surprising modernity of the original. It is an achievement worthy of Dostoevsky’s last and greatest novel.]]> 796 Fyodor Dostoevsky 0374528373 Ana 5 Best book I've read so far. Absolutely in love with it.
"Hurra to Karamazov."]]> 4.36 1880
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Stunning!!
Best book I've read so far. Absolutely in love with it.
"Hurra to Karamazov."
]]> 31463 This is an alternate cover edition for ISBN 9780141439655

Independent and spirited Bathsheba Everdene has come to Weatherbury to take up her position as a farmer on the largest estate in the area. Her bold presence draws three very different suitors: the gentleman-farmer Boldwood, soldier-seducer Sergeant Troy and the devoted shepherd Gabriel Oak. Each, in contrasting ways, unsettles her decisions and complicates her life, and tragedy ensues, threatening the stability of the whole community. The first of his works set in the fictional county of Wessex, Hardy's novel of swift passion and slow courtship is imbued with his evocative descriptions of rural life and landscapes, and with unflinching honesty about sexual relationships.]]> 433 Thomas Hardy Ana 0 to-read 3.96 1874
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]]> 13496
Sweeping from a harsh land of cold to a summertime kingdom of epicurean plenty, A Game of Thrones tells a tale of lords and ladies, soldiers and sorcerers, assassins and bastards, who come together in a time of grim omens. Here an enigmatic band of warriors bear swords of no human metal; a tribe of fierce wildlings carry men off into madness; a cruel young dragon prince barters his sister to win back his throne; a child is lost in the twilight between life and death; and a determined woman undertakes a treacherous journey to protect all she holds dear. Amid plots and counter-plots, tragedy and betrayal, victory and terror, allies and enemies, the fate of the Starks hangs perilously in the balance, as each side endeavors to win that deadliest of conflicts: the game of thrones.]]> 835 George R.R. Martin 0553588486 Ana 0 to-read 4.44 1996
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]]> 42210 Life Is a Dream (La vida es sueño) is the masterpiece of Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1600��1681), a contemporary of Lope de Vega and one of Spain's greatest literary figures.

Acclaimed for his superb dramatic instincts and philosophical seriousness as well as his extraordinary imagination, Calderón exercised his best qualities in this allegorical play, an exploration of the mysteries of human destiny, the illusory nature of earthly existence, and the struggle between predestination and free will. The story revolves around the moral dilemmas of a Polish prince, unjustly imprisoned by his suspicious father. Against a background of revolution, Calderón builds a dramatic edifice of outstanding theatricality, rich in symbolism and metaphor, expressed in magnificent poetry.

This excellent new English translation is absolutely complete, and as close and direct as possible. Ample footnotes and an informative introductory Publisher's Note enhance the value of its modest price.]]> 96 Pedro Calderón de la Barca Ana 5 3.68 1635
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]]> 797388 49 Arthur Schnitzler 1557131767 Ana 0 to-read 3.60 1900
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]]> 816925 Le Ventre de Paris, ce sont les Halles, avec leur « souffle colossal épais encore de l'indigestion de la veille », leurs montagnes de mangeailles, de viandes saignantes, « de choses fondantes, de choses grasses », de « gradins de légumes » d'où montent « le râle de tous les potagers de la banlieue ». « L'idée générale, écrit Zola, est le ventre, la bourgeoisie digérant, ruminant, la bête broyant le foin au râtelier, la bedaine pleine et heureuse se ballonnant au soleil. » Aux « Gras » s'opposent les « Maigres » : Florent, un proscrit du 2 Décembre revenu à Paris qui fomente un complot contre le régime et sera dénoncé par Lisa, sa belle-sœur, une charcutière « au grand calme repu ». Florent retourne en prison et c'est à son ami Claude Lantier, le futur héros de ��'Œ�ܱ�����, que revient le mot de la fin : « Quels gredins que les honnêtes gens ! »]]> 470 Émile Zola Ana 0 to-read 3.85 1873
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]]> 28405 784 Marcel Proust Ana 0 to-read 4.45 1927
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]]> 28385 In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower is Proust’s spectacular dissection of male and female adolescence, charged with the narrator’s memories of Paris and the Normandy seaside. At the heart of the story lies his relationships with his grandmother and with the Swann family. As a meditation on different forms of love, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower has no equal. Here, Proust introduces some of his greatest comic inventions, from the magnificently dull M. de Norpois to the enchanting Robert de Saint-Loup. It is memorable as well for the first appearance of the two figures who for better or worse are to dominate the narrator’s life—the Baron de Charlus and the mysterious Albertine.
First time in Penguin Classics


A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition


The first completely new translation of Proust's novel since the 1920s, following Lydia Davis's brilliant translation of Swann's Way


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]]> 457264 746 Simone de Beauvoir 0679724516 Ana 0 to-read 4.16 1949
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]]> 55766986 El segundo sexo, Las inseparables narra la amistad apasionada que une a Sylvie y a Andrée -alter ego de la propia Simone de Beauvoir y de Élisabeth Lacoin (Zaza)- desde que con nueve años se conocen en la escuela. Andrée es alegre, inteligente y atrevida, y Sylvie, una niña formal que se siente irremediablemente atraída por su personalidad arrolladora. Juntas aprenderán a librarse de las convenciones y las expectativas asfixiantes de su entorno, ignorantes del trágico precio que tienen la libertad y la ambición intelectual y existencial.

Una historia catártica para la autora, tal vez demasiado reveladora para publicarla en vida, cuya recuperación -junto con algunas fotografías y cartas que sirven de testimonio- constituye un acontecimiento literario.]]> 160 Simone de Beauvoir 8426409474 Ana 0 to-read 4.13 2020
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]]> 112204 THE ONLY ONE-VOLUME EDITION CONTAINING ALL 1,775 OF EMILY DICKINSON’S POEMS

Only eleven of Emily Dickinson’s poems were published prior to her death in 1886; the startling originality of her work doomed it to obscurity in her lifetime. Early posthumously published collections-some of them featuring liberally “edited�� versions of the poems-did not fully and accurately represent Dickinson’s bold experiments in prosody, her tragic vision, and the range of her intellectual and emotional explorations. Not until the 1955 publication of The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, a three-volume critical edition compiled by Thomas H. Johnson, were readers able for the first time to assess, understand, and appreciate the whole of Dickinson’s extraordinary poetic genius.

This book, a distillation of the three-volume Complete Poems, brings together the original texts of all 1,775 poems that Emily Dickinson wrote.]]> 716 Emily Dickinson Ana 0 to-read 4.28 1890
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]]> 171547 Songs of Innocence and of Experience��is an collection of poems by��William Blake.

Note: For a complete Table of Contents of the included poems, see the 'Questions' section below.

This book appeared in two phases. A few first copies were printed and illuminated by William Blake himself in 1789; five years later he bound these poems with a set of new poems in a volume titled��Songs of Innocence and of Experience Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul.

The work compiles two contrasting but directly related books of poetry by William Blake. Songs of Innocence honors and praises the natural world, the natural innocence of children and their close relationship to God. Songs of Experience contains much darker, disillusioned poems, which deal with serious, often political themes. It is believed that the disastrous end to the French Revolution produced this disillusionment in Blake. He does, however, maintain that true innocence is achieved only through experience.]]> 56 William Blake 1420925806 Ana 5 4.10 1794
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]]> 112136 Lyrical Ballads, written with Coleridge, is a landmark in the history of English romantic poetry. His celebration of nature and of the beauty and poetry in the commonplace embody a unified and coherent vision that was profoundly innovative.

This volume presents the poems in their order of composition and in their earliest completed state, enabling the reader to trace Wordsworth's poetic development and to share the experience of his contemporaries. It includes a large sample of the finest lyrics, and also longer narratives such as The Ruined Cottage, Home at Grasmere, Peter Bell, and the autobiographical masterpiece, The Prelude (1805). All the major examples of Wordsworth's prose on the subject of poetry are also included.]]> 784 William Wordsworth 0192840444 Ana 0 to-read 4.04 1805
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]]> 138134
Upon its publication in 1978, Jack Stillinger's The Poems of John Keats won exceptionally high praise: "The definitive Keats," proclaimed The New Republic--"An authoritative edition embodying the readings the poet himself most probably intended, prepared by the leading scholar in Keats textual studies."

Now this scholarship is at last available in a graceful, clear format designed to introduce students and general readers to the "real" Keats. In place of the textual apparatus that was essential to scholars, Stillinger here provides helpful explanatory notes. These notes give dates of composition, identify quotations and allusions, gloss names and words not included in the ordinary desk dictionary, and refer the reader to the best critical interpretations of the poems. The new introduction provides central facts about Keats's life and career, describes the themes of his best work, and speculates on the causes of his greatness.]]> 416 John Keats 0679601082 Ana 5 4.25 1820
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]]> 25944971 76 Rainer Maria Rilke 1508603812 Ana 5 4.50 1978
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]]> 208621 424 Anton Chekhov 1417904887 Ana 0 to-read 4.36 1920
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]]> 11990
Translated from the French by Anthony Bower.]]> 320 Albert Camus 0679733841 Ana 0 to-read 4.16 1951
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]]> 26415
Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre ��provides basic writings of Dostoevsky, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Rilke, Kafka, Ortega, Jaspers, Heidegger, Sartre, and Camus, including some not previously translated, along with an invaluable introductory essay by Walter Kaufmann.]]> 384 Walter Kaufmann 0452009308 Ana 0 to-read 4.09 1956
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]]> 1772910 82 Fyodor Dostoevsky Ana 5 4.16 1848
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When you read Dostoevsky's novels and short stories you can always find kindness and politeness behind the words. This book proves it. So much style. Love it.
]]> 92967 L'Assommoir (1877) is the story of a woman's struggle for happiness in working-class Paris. At the center of the story stands Gervaise, who starts her own laundry and for a time makes a success of it. But her husband soon squanders her earnings in the Assommoir, a local drinking spot, and gradually the pair sink into poverty and squalor. L'Assommoir was a contemporary bestseller, outraged conservative critics, and launched a passionate debate about the legitimate scope of modern literature. This new translation captures not only the brutality but the pathos of its characters' lives.]]> 480 Émile Zola 0140447539 Ana 0 to-read 4.08 1876
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]]> 17877 As with a number of the author's other works, this profoundly influential novel brilliantly explores his characters' thoughts while probing the depths of the human soul. Describing in relentless detail the physical and mental suffering of the convicts, Dostoyevsky's character never loses faith in human qualities and the goodness of man.
A haunting and remarkable work filled with wonder and resignation, The House of the Dead ranks among the Russian novelist's greatest masterpieces. Of this powerful autobiographical novel, Tolstoy wrote, "I know no better book in all modern literature."]]> 247 Fyodor Dostoevsky 0486434095 Ana 0 to-read 4.07 1861
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]]> 63697 243 Oliver Sacks Ana 5 4.08 1985
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]]> 5129 Brave New World is a searching vision of an unequal, technologically-advanced future where humans are genetically bred, socially indoctrinated, and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively uphold an authoritarian ruling order–all at the cost of our freedom, full humanity, and perhaps also our souls. “A genius [who] who spent his life decrying the onward march of the Machine�� (The New Yorker), Huxley was a man of incomparable talents: equally an artist, a spiritual seeker, and one of history’s keenest observers of human nature and civilization. Brave New World, his masterpiece, has enthralled and terrified millions of readers, and retains its urgent relevance to this day as both a warning to be heeded as we head into tomorrow and as thought-provoking, satisfying work of literature. Written in the shadow of the rise of fascism during the 1930s, Brave New Worldd likewise speaks to a 21st-century world dominated by mass-entertainment, technology, medicine and pharmaceuticals, the arts of persuasion, and the hidden influence of elites.

"Aldous Huxley is the greatest 20th century writer in English." —Chicago Tribune]]> 268 Aldous Huxley 0060929871 Ana 0 to-read 3.99 1932
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]]> 325916 96 August Strindberg 0889225494 Ana 0 to-read 3.51 1888
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]]> 14662 The Red and the Black is a lively, satirical portrayal of French society after Waterloo, riddled with corruption, greed, and ennui, and Julien - the cold exploiter whose Machiavellian campaign is undercut by his own emotions - is one of the most intriguing characters in European literature.

Roger Gard's fine translation remains faithful to the natural, conversational tone of the original, while his introduction elucidates the complexities of Julien's character. This edition also contains a chronology, further reading and an appendix on Stendhal's use of epigraphs.]]> 577 Stendhal 0140447644 Ana 0 to-read 3.91 1830
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]]> 2440899 0 Carlo Goldoni 8449418232 Ana 5 3.44 1753
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]]> 25608939 48 Miroslav Krleža Ana 5 3.76 1918
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]]> 16179415 563 Miroslav Krleža 9531787514 Ana 5 4.20 1969
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]]> 12045920 Miroslav Krleža 9536041642 Ana 4 3.46 1995
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]]> 107898 On the Edge of Reason, his protagonist is a middle-aged lawyer whose life and career have been eminently respectable and respected. One evening, at a party attended by the local elite, he inadvertently blurts out an honest thought. From this moment, all hell breaks loose....��On the Edge of Reason��reveals the fundamental chasm between conformity and individuality. As folly piles on folly, hypocrisy on hypocrisy, reason itself begins to give way, and the edge between reality and unreality disappears.
--back cover]]> 192 Miroslav Krleža 0811213064 Ana 0 to-read 4.23 1938
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]]> 4645 The ideal introduction to the genius of Ernest Hemingway, The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories contains ten of Hemingway's most acclaimed and popular works of short fiction. Selected from Winner Take Nothing, Men Without Women, and The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories, this collection includes "The Killers," the first of Hemingway's mature stories to be accepted by an American periodical; the autobiographical "Fathers and Sons," which alludes, for the first time in Hemingway's career, to his father's suicide; "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber," a "brilliant fusion of personal observation, hearsay and invention," wrote Hemingway's biographer, Carlos Baker; and the title story itself, of which Hemingway said: "I put all the true stuff in," with enough material, he boasted, to fill four novels. Beautiful in their simplicity, startling in their originality, and unsurpassed in their craftsmanship, the stories in this volume highlight one of America's master storytellers at the top of his form.

]]> 144 Ernest Hemingway 0684862212 Ana 0 to-read 3.90 1936
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]]> 10775
A sensational bestseller when it appeared in 1986, The Garden of Eden is the last uncompleted novel of Ernest Hemingway, which he worked on intermittently from 1946 until his death in 1961. Set on the Côte d'Azur in the 1920s, it is the story of a young American writer, David Bourne, his glamorous wife, Catherine, and the dangerous, erotic game they play when they fall in love with the same woman. "A lean, sensuous narrative...taut, chic, and strangely contemporary," The Garden of Eden represents vintage Hemingway, the master "doing what nobody did better" (R. Z. Sheppard, Time).]]> 248 Ernest Hemingway 0684804522 Ana 0 to-read 3.73 1986
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]]> 4625 THE ONLY COMPLETE COLLECTION BY THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR

In this definitive collection of Ernest Hemingway's short stories, readers will delight in the author's most beloved classics such as "The Snows of Kilimanjaro," "Hills Like White Elephants," and "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place," and will discover seven new tales published for the first time in this collection. For Hemingway fans The Complete Short Stories is an invaluable treasury.]]> 650 Ernest Hemingway 0684843323 Ana 4 4.30 1987
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]]> 10799 A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse. Set against the looming horrors of the battlefield - the weary, demoralized men marching in the rain during the German attack on Caporetto; the profound struggle between loyalty and desertion—this gripping, semiautobiographical work captures the harsh realities of war and the pain of lovers caught in its inexorable sweep. Ernest Hemingway famously said that he rewrote his ending to A Farewell to Arms thirty-nine times to get the words right.]]> 293 Ernest Hemingway 0099910101 Ana 3 3.83 1929
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]]> 46170 For Whom the Bell Tolls. The story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades attached to an antifascist guerilla unit in the mountains of Spain, it tells of loyalty and courage, love and defeat, and the tragic death of an ideal. In his portrayal of Jordan's love for the beautiful Maria and his superb account of El Sordo's last stand, in his brilliant travesty of La Pasionaria and his unwillingness to believe in blind faith, Hemingway surpasses his achievement in The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms to create a work at once rare and beautiful, strong and brutal, compassionate, moving and wise. "If the function of a writer is to reveal reality," Maxwell Perkins wrote to Hemingway after reading the manuscript, "no one ever so completely performed it." Greater in power, broader in scope, and more intensely emotional than any of the author's previous works, it stands as one of the best war novels of all time.]]> 471 Ernest Hemingway Ana 3 3.98 1940
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]]> 74086 83 Harold Pinter 0802135102 Ana 3 3.70 1996
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]]> 96530 43 Harold Pinter 0822201844 Ana 4 3.69 1960
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]]> 18777011 Pisao je u časopisima Val i Vihor, gdje se buni protiv Austro-Ugarske i mađarona. Sudjelovao je u organiziranju atentata na Slavka Cuvaja. Po završetku Prvog svjetskog rata razočaran je ostvarenjem jugoslavenstva. Duševno rastrojen smješten je u duševnu bolnicu u Šibeniku, gdje je i umro. Pripada buntovnom i nadarenom naraštaju mladih hrvatskih književnika koji se kritički odnose prema političkoj i građansko-društvenoj situaciji s početka stoljeća. Objavljivao je feljtone, književno-kritičke studije, pjesme i brojne pjesme o hrvatskim piscima, a najviše nadahnut avangardnim pisanjem i oporbenim stavom Janka Polića Kamova.]]> Vladimir Čerina Ana 4 4.00
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]]> 34066197 Janko Polić Kamov Ana 4 3.71
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]]> 12611299 Janko Polić Kamov Ana 5 4.62 1907
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]]> 13608506 315 Janko Polić Kamov 9536317400 Ana 5 4.28 1973
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]]> 17159451 71 Janko Polić Kamov 9531508062 Ana 5 4.27 2007
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]]> 9709446 116 Janko Polić Kamov 9536537257 Ana 4 4.35 1997
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]]> 6120091 345 Janko Polić Kamov Ana 4 4.04 1957
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]]> 50067647 Milan Begović 9533281499 Ana 4 4.50
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]]> 1852 The Call of the Wild is regarded as Jack London's masterpiece. Based on London's experiences as a gold prospector in the Canadian wilderness and his ideas about nature and the struggle for existence, The Call of the Wild is a tale about unbreakable spirit and the fight for survival in the frozen Alaskan Klondike.]]> 172 Jack London Ana 0 to-read 3.89 1903
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]]> 10979 Light in August, a novel that contrasts stark tragedy with hopeful perseverance in the face of mortality, which features some of Faulkner’s most memorable characters: guileless, dauntless Lena Grove, in search of the father of her unborn child; Reverend Gail Hightower, a lonely outcast haunted by visions of Confederate glory; and Joe Christmas, a desperate, enigmatic drifter consumed by his mixed ancestry.]]> 507 William Faulkner 0679732268 Ana 0 to-read 3.93 1932
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]]> 10975 366 William Faulkner Ana 5 3.86 1929
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]]> 114240 The Torrents of Spring is a hilarious parody of the Chicago school of literature. Poking fun at that "great race" of writers, it depicts a vogue that Hemingway himself refused to follow. In style and substance, The Torrents of Spring is a burlesque of Sherwood Anderson's Dark Laughter, but in the course of the narrative, other literary tendencies associated with American and British writers akin to Anderson -- such as D. H. Lawrence, James Joyce, and John Dos Passos -- come in for satirical comment. A highly entertaining story, The Torrents of Spring offers a rare glimpse into Hemingway's early career as a storyteller and stylist.]]> 96 Ernest Hemingway 0684839075 Ana 0 to-read 3.15 1926
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]]> 28382 This collection offers an excellent introduction to the author's works. Opening a door to his bizarre world of broad comedy, fantasy, and social commentary, the title story portrays a petty official's mental disintegration as he struggles for the attention of the woman he loves. Set during the repressive rule of Nicholas I, it satirizes the bureaucratic excesses of the era. Additional tales include "The Nevski Prospect," a portrayal of the feverish pace of St. Petersburg street life, and "The Portrait," a gripping depiction of a soul's perdition.]]> 84 Nikolai Gogol 0486452352 Ana 0 to-read 4.15 1835
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]]> 537094 57 Nikolai Gogol 1419176528 Ana 4 4.17 1842
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]]> 28381 Dead Souls, Russia's first major novel, is one of the most unusual works of nineteenth-century fiction and a devastating satire on social hypocrisy.

In his introduction to this new translation, Robert A. Maguire discusses Gogol's life and literary career, his depiction of Russian society, and the language and narrative techniques employed in Dead Souls. This edition also includes a chronology, further reading, appendices, a glossary, map and notes.]]> 464 Nikolai Gogol 0140448071 Ana 0 to-read 4.00 1842
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]]> 77996
Volume I
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Ball-of-Fat (Boule de Suif)
The Diamond Necklace
A Piece of String
The Story of a Farm-Girl
In the Moonlight
Mme. Tellier's Excursion
Love
Mme. Fifi
Monsieur Parent
Useless Beauty
An Affair of State
Babette
A Cock Crowed
Lilie Lala
A Vagabond
The Mountebanks
Ugly
The Debt
A Normandy Joke
The Father
The Artist
False Alarm
That Pig of a Morin

Volume II
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Miss Harriet
The Hole
The Inn
A Family
Bellflower
In the Wood
The Marquis de Fumerol
Saved
The Signal
The Devil
The Venus of Braniza
The Rabbit
La Morillonne
Epiphany
Simon's Papa
Waiter, a Bock!
The Sequel to a Divorce
The Clown
The Mad Woman
Mademoiselle

Volume III
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A Bad Error
The Port
Chali
Jeroboam
Virtue in the Ballet
The Double Pins
How He Got the Legion of Honor
A Crisis
Graveyard Sirens
Growing Old
A French Enoch Arden
Julie Romain
An Unreasonable Woman
Rosalie Prudent
Hippolyte's Claim
Benoist
Fecundity
A Way to Wealth
Am I Insane?
Forbidden Fruit
The Charm Dispelled
Madame Parisse
Making a Convert

Volume IV
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A Little Walk
A Wife's Confession
A Dead Woman's Secret
Love's Awakening
Bed No. 29
Marroca
A Philosopher
A Mistake
Florentine
Consideration
Woman's Wiles
Moonlight
Doubtful Happiness
Humiliation
The Wedding Night
The Noncommissioned Officer
In the Court Room
A Peculiar Case
A Practical Joke
A Strange Fancy
After Death
On Cats
Room No. Eleven
One Phase of Love
Good Reasons
A Fair Exchange
The Tobacco Shop
A Poor Girl
The Substitute
A Passion]]> 520 Guy de Maupassant 1417936142 Ana 4 4.36 1902
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]]> 17258007 122 Ivo Vojnović 9536041359 Ana 5 3.26 1901
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]]> 9874533 Ekvinocijo, koji se donekle oslanja na pripovijetku Tužna Jele Mate Vodopića, dobiva prvu nagradu na natječaju upriličenom u povodu otvaranja nove kazališne zgrade u Zagrebu, gdje je u režiji Stjepana Miletića i praizvedena 1895. godine. Vojnović tom dramom znatno odstupa od devetnaestostoljetnog repertoara, te nagoviješta dramu hrvatske moderne, premda se ne okreće sasvim radikalno od tradicije i žanra društvene drame.

Ekvinocijo sadrži i verističke (naturalističke) i simbolističke elemente (ekvinocij, oluja). Smješten je u pučku sredinu, među dubrovački gruški puk i njegov govor, čime se dubrovački dijalekt vraća na scenu hrvatskog kazališta. Dramska situacija Ekvinocija je poznata, često obrađivana u književnosti, pa i u starijoj dubrovačkoj mladom zaljubljenom paru (Anica, Ivo) kao smetnja javlja se djevojčin otac (kapetan Frano) i stariji i bogati ženik, povratnik iz Amerike Niko, uz paralelnu radnju odnosa središnjeg lika majke Jele s Nikom, vanbračnim Ivinim ocem. Kroz izvanrednu karakterizaciju likova, kako glavnih tako i sporednih koji, kao i u kasnijim djelima, često imaju svoje realne predloške u stvarnom Dubrovniku (Vlaho Slijepi, Mare postjerica itd.), Vojnović među prvima progovara o siromaštvu puka i poremećaju vrijednosti zbog emigracije u Ameriku i bogatstva koje od tamo pristiže. U načinu prikaza dubrovačkih težaka, ribara i pomoraca Vojnović se najviše ugleda na naturalističko i verističko kazalište svoga doba (Hauptmann, Verga), ali se donekle oslanja i na dugu dubrovačku dramsku tradiciju.]]> 80 Ivo Vojnović Ana 4 3.12 1895
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]]> 25743 Four years after the Chmielnicki massacres of the seventeenth century, Jacob, a slave and cowherd in a Polish village high in the mountains, falls in love with Wanda, his master's daughter. Even after he is ransomed, he finds he can't live without her, and the two escape together to a distant Jewish community. Racked by his consciousness of sin in taking a Gentile wife and by the difficulties of concealing her identity, Jacob nonetheless stands firm as the violence of the era threatens to destroy the ill-fated couple.
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]]> 8340961 Tin Ujević Ana 5 4.56
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]]> 18109719 1 Antun Gustav Matoš Ana 5 3.16 1895
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]]> 15992634 175 Antun Gustav Matoš Ana 5 4.24 1981
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]]> 6682252 15 Leo Tolstoy Ana 0 to-read 3.76 1908
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]]> 1264155
For some weeks Father Sergius had been living with one persistent thought: whether he was right in accepting the position in which he had not so much placed himself as been placed by the Archimandrite and the Abbot. That position had begun after the recovery of the fourteen-year-old boy. From that time, with each month, week, and day that passed, Sergius felt his own inner life wasting away and being replaced by external life.]]> 58 Leo Tolstoy 1406952907 Ana 0 to-read 3.94 1911
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]]> 50270
It happened in the 'seventies in winter, on the day after St. Nicholas's Day. There was a fete in the parish and the innkeeper, Vasili Andreevich Brekhunov, a Second Guild merchant, being a church elder had to go to church, and had also to entertain his relatives and friends at home. But when the last of them had gone he at once began to prepare to drive over to see a neighbouring proprietor about a grove which he had been bargaining over for a long time. He was now in a hurry to start, lest buyers from the town might forestall him in making a profitable purchase.]]> 57 Leo Tolstoy 1421803674 Ana 0 to-read 4.05 1895
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]]> 17698 161 Leo Tolstoy 0812975049 Ana 0 to-read 3.84 1863
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]]> 241713 en face), including such masterpieces as "Le Cimetiere Marin" and portions of "La Jeune Parque"; then ranges through Valéry's work in fields as various as architecture, logic, the dance, literature, philosophy, and painting. It concludes with excerpts from his creative writings such as Monsieur Teste and the drama Mon Faust.



The list of translators for this volume is distinguished. Among them are Lionel Abel, Léonie Adams, Malcolm Cowly, James Kirkup, C. Day Lewis, Jackson Mathews, Louise Varese, and Vernon Watkins.]]> 256 Paul Valéry 0811202135 Ana 4 4.14 1950
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]]> 253878
In this shocking tale of sexual deception, Gautier draws readers into the bedrooms and boudoirs of a French château in a compelling exploration of desire and sexual intrigue, and gives voice to a longing which is larger in scope, namely, the wish for completeness in oneself.]]> 363 Théophile Gautier 0140448136 Ana 0 to-read 3.90 1835
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]]> 112110
For Wordsworth, as he so clearly stated in his celebrated preface to the 1800 edition (also reproduced here), the important thing was the emotion aroused by the poem, and not the poem itself. This acclaimed Routledge Classics edition offers the reader the opportunity to study the poems in their original contexts as they appeared to Coleridge's and Wordsworth's contemporaries, and includes some of their most famous poems, including Coleridge's Rime of the Ancyent Marinere.]]> 118 William Wordsworth 0140424628 Ana 5 3.96 1798
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]]> 16631 Steppenwolf is a poetical self-portrait of a man who felt himself to be half-human and half-wolf. This Faust-like and magical story is evidence of Hesse's searching philosophy and extraordinary sense of humanity as he tells of the humanization of a middle-aged misanthrope. Yet his novel can also be seen as a plea for rigorous self-examination and an indictment of the intellectual hypocrisy of the period. As Hesse himself remarked, "Of all my books Steppenwolf is the one that was more often and more violently misunderstood than any of the others".]]> 256 Hermann Hesse 0140282580 Ana 4 4.15 1927
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]]> 23513349 Milk and Honey is a collection of poetry and prose about survival. About the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss, and femininity.

It is split into four chapters, with each chapter dealing with a different pain. Healing a different heartache. Milk and Honey takes readers through a journey of the most bitter moments in life and finds sweetness in them -- because there is sweetness everywhere if you are just willing to look.]]> 204 Rupi Kaur 1502784270 Ana 3 3.97 2014
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]]> 1885 Pride and Prejudice has remained one of the most popular novels in the English language. Jane Austen called this brilliant work "her own darling child" and its vivacious heroine, Elizabeth Bennet, "as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print." The romantic clash between the opinionated Elizabeth and her proud beau, Mr. Darcy, is a splendid performance of civilized sparring. And Jane Austen's radiant wit sparkles as her characters dance a delicate quadrille of flirtation and intrigue, making this book the most superb comedy of manners of Regency England.

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780679783268]]> 279 Jane Austen 1441341706 Ana 0 to-read 4.28 1813
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]]> 17377894 Childhood, the first part of Tolstoy’s first novel, won immediate praise from Turgenev and others, and marked Tolstoy’s emergence as a major writer. Its originality was striking, as Tolstoy sought to communicate with great immediacy the “poetry�� of childhood—the intense emotions, confusions, and fears attendant upon a young boy, Nikolenka, as he grows up. In the years following, Boyhood and Youth appeared (a fourth volume was planned but never executed), each replete with psychological and philosophical subtleties hitherto unknown in Russian literature. In Scammell’s resplendent translation, Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth remains one of Tolstoy’s major works.]]> 348 Leo Tolstoy Ana 5 3.86 1886
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]]> 16394221 After supper I danced the promised quadrille with her, and though I had been infinitely happy before, I grew still happier every moment. We did not speak of love. I neither asked myself nor her whether she loved me. It was quite enough to know that I loved her. And I had only one fear - that something might come to interfere with my great joy.

After the Dance was written as a protest against human cruelty and tyranny. The short story was originally intended to be published in a book to help the Jews affected by the pogrom in Chisinau in 1903. But Tolstoy didn't finish it in time and so the story wasn't published until 1911, the year after his death.]]> 20 Leo Tolstoy 5551060985 Ana 0 to-read 3.49 1911
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]]> 12404139 252 Ivan Turgenev 9537160890 Ana 0 to-read 4.01 1862
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]]> 53639
The classic novel Zorba the Greek is the story of two men, their incredible friendship, and the importance of living life to the fullest. Zorba, a Greek working man, is a larger-than-life character, energetic and unpredictable. He accompanies the unnamed narrator to Crete to work in the narrator’s lignite mine, and the pair develops a singular relationship. The two men couldn’t be further apart: The narrator is cerebral, modest, and reserved; Zorba is unfettered, spirited, and beyond the reins of civility. Over the course of their journey, he becomes the narrator’s greatest friend and inspiration and helps him to appreciate the joy of living.

Zorba has been acclaimed as one of the most remarkable figures in literature; he is a character in the great tradition of Sinbad the Sailor, Falstaff, and Sancho Panza. He responds to all that life offers him with passion, whether he’s supervising laborers at a mine, confronting mad monks in a mountain monastery, embellishing the tales of his past adventures, or making love. Zorba the Greek explores the beauty and pain of existence, inviting readers to reevaluate the most important aspects of their lives and live to the fullest.]]> 335 Nikos Kazantzakis 0571203132 Ana 4 4.08 1946
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]]> 16128448 81 Tituš Brezovački 9536041111 Ana 4 3.64 1804
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]]> 11984300 479 Honoré de Balzac 9537160564 Ana 0 to-read 4.06 1838
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]]> 14935 Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780141439662

'The more I know of the world, the more am I convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!'

Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willoughby she ignores her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behaviour leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Meanwhile Elinor, always sensitive to social convention, is struggling to conceal her own romantic disappointment, even from those closest to her. Through their parallel experience of love—and its threatened loss—the sisters learn that sense must mix with sensibility if they are to find personal happiness in a society where status and money govern the rules of love.

This edition includes explanatory notes, textual variants between the first and second editions, and Tony Tanner's introduction to the original Penguin Classic edition.]]> 409 Jane Austen 0141439661 Ana 0 to-read 4.10 1811
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]]> 1228439 188 Pierre Corneille 2035831989 Ana 4 3.61 1636
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]]> 135617 Les Contemplations en 1856 alors qu'il vit un exil politique (thème qu'il abordera dans Les Châtiments). Il vit aussi depuis plusieurs années un exil intérieur qui hante Les Contemplations. Composées de deux parties distinctes, "Autrefois" et "Aujourd'hui", Les Contemplations est la première œuvre poétique maîtresse d'Hugo, plus de dix��mille signes jetés à la face de la mer et du ciel sur l'île de Jersey. Marqué à tout jamais par la mort de sa fille Léopoldine, Hugo annonce dans sa préface qu'on ne peut réconcilier ces deux parties��: "un abîme les sépare, le tombeau". Les plus beaux poèmes d'Hugo sur la force de la nature, la nostalgie de l'enfance et la fatalité de la mort se trouvent dans Les Contemplations. Ils sont indépassables. Dans cette œuvre en vers, Hugo joue d'une variété de rythme et de ton assez incroyable. Classique par moment, romantique, sage parfois, vénérant ses maîtres Gautier, Le��Conte de L'Isle ou Banville, romantique déchaîné souvent comme dans "Réponse à un acte d'accusation" �� poème que l'on peut considérer comme la profession de foi romantique d'Hugo �� partout et tout le temps, Hugo réinvente l'acte de création poétique. Ce que dit "La bouche d'ombre", poème de huit cents��vers, nous fait atteindre un degré supérieur dans l'ordre de la vision poétique. Le verbe d'Hugo se transforme en traité cosmogo-théologico-moral. "Dieu dictait, j'écrivais", constate logiquement Hugo à la fin du recueil. Aujourd'hui encore, après que Rimbaud, en lisant Les Contemplations, l'a considéré comme "le premier des voyants", que les surréalistes l'ont intronisé maître, Hugo continue d'impressionner par l'envergure de son génie protéiforme. --Denis Gombert]]> 471 Victor Hugo 2080708430 Ana 0 to-read 3.98 1856
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]]> 86336 war between two groups of Hungarian boys living in Budapest. One with Hungarian national colours (red, white, green) is defending the square from redshirts (from Garibaldi's redshirts), who want to occupy the square.]]> 208 Ferenc Molnár 9631345343 Ana 4 4.18 1906
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]]> 1466878 264 Karl Bruckner 3401027247 Ana 4 4.22 1961
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]]> 22911 Amerika tells the story of the young immigrant Karl Rossmann who, after an embarrassing sexual misadventure, finds himself "packed off to America" by his parents. Expected to redeem himself in this magical land of opportunity, young Karl is swept up instead in a whirlwind of dizzying reversals, strange escapades, and picaresque adventures.

Although Kafka never visited America, images of its vast landscape, dangers, and opportunities inspired this saga of the "golden land." Here is a startlingly modern, fantastic and visionary tale of America "as a place no one has yet seen, in a historical period that can't be identified," writes E. L. Doctorow in his new foreword. "Kafka made his novel from his own mind's mythic elements," Doctorow explains, "and the research data that caught his eye were bent like rays in a field of gravity."]]> 336 Franz Kafka 0805210644 Ana 0 to-read 3.77 1927
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U Teni se Kozarac pokazao kao odličan portretist, koji pored toga što ima odlično oko za detalje, posebnu pozornost pridaje likovima koje oživljava duboko i suptilno.

Roman završava pozitivno s vjerom i nadom da postoji mogućnost ispravljanja pogrešaka te s porukom da treba vjerovati u pravu ljubav i iskrene osjećaje. U djelu je opisan raspad tradicionalnog sela u Slavoniji na moralnom i materijalnom planu uz pomoć opisa detalja slike sela iz socijalne perspektive.]]> 71 Josip Kozarac 9531562555 Ana 3 3.40 1894
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]]> 3028996 124 Ivan Kozarac 9531560285 Ana 3 3.41 1909
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]]> 39729946 Janko Leskovar Ana 5 3.33
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]]> 14762208 Camao e Gli auguri, due delle novelle più note di Matoš (1873 - 1914) scritte in esilio. Entrambe le novelle oltre al tema del fantastico contemplano anche quello del simbolico, e testimoniano il debito che l'autore deve alla letteratura francese: Matoš fu uno dei primi ad accostare le proprie esperienze letterarie alle nuove tendenze, ed in lui si evidenziano in modo costante i richiami alla pittura impressionista ed alla cultura greca e latina.]]> 61 Antun Gustav Matoš 8874974353 Ana 5 3.28 1899
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]]> 5969576 64 Milan Begović Ana 5 4.03 1926
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]]> 38154 Orlando Furioso - a witty parody of the chivalric legends of Charlemagne and the Saracen invasion of France - this version faithfully recaptures the entire narrative and the subtle meanings behind it.]]> 630 Ludovico Ariosto 0192836773 Ana 3 4.00 1516
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]]> 51799
Translated with an Introduction and Notes by G. H. McWilliam]]> 909 Giovanni Boccaccio 0140449302 Ana 4 3.89 1349
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