Mathilde's bookshelf: all en-US Mon, 28 Oct 2024 11:31:14 -0700 60 Mathilde's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme 257213 Le Bourgeois gentilhomme est une comédie-ballet, en cinq actes en prose.

Le Bourgeois gentilhomme nous raconte l'histoire comique d'un riche bourgeois qui essaye d'imiter la façon de vivre et le comportement des nobles.]]> 240 ѴDZè 2038716617 Mathilde 5 3.72 1670 Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
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]]> Écrire la vie 13331801 .
Cette première écriture, celle de l’instant devenu souvenir, n’a rien de spontané. L’état des photos en témoigne. Elles ont souffert, la surface a perdu son aspect lisse, elles ont reçu quelques coups malgré tout le soin dont on sent qu’elles ont été entourées. Elles sont précieuses malgré leur modestie, et l’émotion nous étreint, sans que l’on sache pourquoi, à les regarder ainsi rassemblées. Sans doute parce que l’on pressent ce qu’elles cachent derrière ce qu’elles disent.]]> 1088 Annie Ernaux 2070132188 Mathilde 0 currently-reading 4.43 2011 Écrire la vie
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]]> Simple Passion 58678702 67 Annie Ernaux 1644213575 Mathilde 0 3.98 1991 Simple Passion
author: Annie Ernaux
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]]> I Am a Cat 62772
A classic of Japanese literature, I Am a Cat is one of Soseki's best-known novels. Considered by many as the most significant writer in modern Japanese history, Soseki's I Am a Cat is a classic novel sure to be enjoyed for years to come.]]> 470 Natsume Sōseki 080483265X Mathilde 0 currently-reading 3.70 1906 I Am a Cat
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]]> Courtes histoires de green 13550415 0 P.G. Wodehouse 2876232812 Mathilde 5 4.00 1966 Courtes histoires de green
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]]> Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk 58043
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Journalist and prose writer Nikolai Leskov is known for his powerful characterizations and the quintessentially Russian atmosphere of his stories.]]> 88 Nikolai Leskov 1843910683 Mathilde 0 3.95 1865 Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
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]]> Heartsnatcher 28377 245 Boris Vian 1564782999 Mathilde 0 to-read 4.07 1953 Heartsnatcher
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]]> Persian Letters 509686
C. J. Betts’s translation conveys the color of the original, and his introduction examines the inner meanings of Montesquieu’s satire. This edition also includes explanatory notes, appendices, and suggestions for further reading.]]> 352 Montesquieu 0140442812 Mathilde 5 3.76 1721 Persian Letters
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]]> <![CDATA[The Marriage of Figaro (Le Nozze Di Figaro): Vocal Score]]> 220092
The Marriage of Figaro is now regarded as a cornerstone of the standard operatic repertoire, and it appears among the top ten at the Operabase list of the most-performed operas worldwide]]> 496 Lorenzo Da Ponte 0793512085 Mathilde 4 3.89 1773 The Marriage of Figaro (Le Nozze Di Figaro): Vocal Score
author: Lorenzo Da Ponte
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]]> <![CDATA[The Count of Monte Cristo, V1 (The Count of Monte Cristo, part 1 of 2)]]> 46529 644 Alexandre Dumas 1404346864 Mathilde 5 4.47 1844 The Count of Monte Cristo, V1 (The Count of Monte Cristo, part 1 of 2)
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]]> Le Roseau Révolté 1393793
Tel est l'irrésistible talent de Berberova : en quelques traits elle vous campe les personnages dans leur vérité, puis vous précipite à leurs trousses avec une efficacité toute cinématographique. Ici, dans un récit sans doute plus que les autres nourri de sa propre histoire, elle raconte des amours qui sont de l'ordre de la tragédie et qui, parce qu'il s'en est fallu de si peu, pour longtemps vous hantent.]]> Nina Berberova 2742701575 Mathilde 3 3.58 1958 Le Roseau Révolté
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average rating: 3.58
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]]> Les Bonnes 90783
'The most extraordinary example of the whirligigs of being and appearance, of the imaginary and the real, is to be found in [Genet's] The Maids. It is the element of fake, of sham, of artificiality, that attracts Genet in the theatre.' Jean-Paul Sartre]]> 272 Jean Genet 2070412814 Mathilde 5 3.57 1947 Les Bonnes
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]]> Le Ventre de Paris 751183 128 Émile Lavielle Mathilde 5 4.00 1873 Le Ventre de Paris
author: Émile Lavielle
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]]> Bouvard and Pécuchet 40763 In the literary tradition of Rabelais, Cervantes, and Swift, this story is told in that blend of satire and sympathy that only genius can compound, and the reader becomes genuinely fond of these two Don Quixotes of Ideas. Apart from being a new translation, this edition includes Flaubert's Dictionary of Received Ideas.]]> 328 Gustave Flaubert 1564783936 Mathilde 0 to-read 3.86 1881 Bouvard and Pécuchet
author: Gustave Flaubert
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]]> ʴé 1277014 Celle-ci, en effet, cette longue et omniprésente tradition qu'a commencé de démanteler en Europe à la fin de la Renaissance le nouvel esprit scientifique, ancrait le besoin de connaître dans l'existence comme elle va, autrement dit dans le temps, avec pour horizon et énigme les moyens limités de la condition humaine, et le hasard des événements, et la fatalité de la mort. C'est par analogie avec ses situations de l'exister quotidien que les aspects que nous dirions les plus matériels du monde étaient abordés : choses que l'on percevait de ce fait comme des êtres, enchaînements qui semblaient dictés par un dessein, un vouloir. Et c'est donc de par l'intérieur de l'événement ou de l'objet qu'on avait l'impression d'accéder à leur raison d'être, à leur sens ; et sans avoir perdu pour autant contact avec leur apparence la plus immédiatement sensorielle, alors encore non simplifiée par les instruments de mesure. Par exemple, la passiflore était comprise, dans l'univers médiéval. On avait reconnu dans ses organes floraux une représentation abrégée � une image en miroir � des instruments de la Passion, chiffres eux-mêmes du salut, de la Providence. Et ce savoir préservait donc toute la présence sensible de cette fleur, il en voyait la couleur, il en respirait le parfum.
[...] Les couleurs, les odeurs, les sons restaient vifs dans l'idée de la passiflore ou du ciel étoilé, aussi riches ceux-ci apparaissaient-ils de significations symboliques ; et pour peu qu'on approfondît cette lecture de signes, on pouvait donc déboucher sur une expérience d'unité sans quitter le plan des réalités sensibles : l'expérience même que Mallarmé dans ses premiers textes appellera une extase.
Mallarmé qui a ressent durement, dès ses débuts de poète, que la connaissance ne s'élabore plus, de notre temps, que de l'extérieur, qu'elle réifie tout ce qu'elle touche, que les parfums, les couleurs, les sons ne soient donc pour nous que des émergences privées de tout sens profond, désordonnées.»
Yves Bonnefoy.]]> 298 Stéphane Mallarmé 2070327167 Mathilde 4 4.11 1899 ʴé
author: Stéphane Mallarmé
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]]> <![CDATA[Un amour de Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1.2)]]> 945735 Un amour de Swann est un fragment de À la recherche du temps perdu, la deuxième partie de Du côté de chez Swann.

Son sujet en est l'amour et la jalousie qu'éprouve Swann pour Odette de Crécy. C'est pourquoi il a depuis toujours fait l'objet d'éditions séparées, comme s'il constituait un petit roman autonome.]]> 256 Marcel Proust 2070367800 Mathilde 0 to-read 3.95 1913 Un amour de Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1.2)
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]]> <![CDATA[A Season in Hell & Illuminations]]> 168496 –Edward Hirsch

From Dante’s Inferno to Sartre’s No Exit, writers have been fascinated by visions of damnation. Within that rich literature of suffering, Arthur Rimbaud’s A Season in Hell–written when the poet was nineteen–provides an astonishing example of the grapple with self.

As a companion to Rimbaud’s journey, readers could have no better guide than Wyatt Mason. One of our most talented young translators and critics, Mason’s new version of A Season in Hell renders the music and mystery of Rimbaud’s tale of Hell on Earth with exceptional finesse and power.

This bilingual edition includes maps, a helpful chronology of Rimbaud’s life, and the unfinished suite of prose poems, Illuminations and A Season in Hell cement Rimbaud’s reputation as one of the foremost, and most influential, writers in French literature.]]> 240 Arthur Rimbaud 0679643273 Mathilde 5 4.29 1873 A Season in Hell & Illuminations
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]]> <![CDATA[Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)]]> 1 652 J.K. Rowling Mathilde 4 4.57 2005 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)
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]]> <![CDATA[Huis clos: suivi de Les Mouches]]> 822338 247 Jean-Paul Sartre 2070368076 Mathilde 5 4.04 1946 Huis clos: suivi de Les Mouches
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]]> Ma Mère 17282766 125 Georges Bataille 2264059907 Mathilde 1 3.22 1966 Ma Mère
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]]> Gertrude 34352 Gertrude, Herman Hesse continues his lifelong exploration of the irreconcilable elements of human existence. In this fictional memoir, the renowned composer Kuhn recounts his tangled relationships with two artists--his friend Heinrich Muoth, a brooding, self-destructive opera singer, and the gentle, self-assured Gertrude Imthor. Kuhn is drawn to Gertrude upon their first meeting, but Gertrude falls in love with Heinrich, to whom she is introduced when Kuhn auditions them for the leads in his new opera. Hopelessly ill-matched, Gertrude and Heinrich have a disastrous marriage that leaves them both ruined. Yet this tragic affair also becomes the inspiration for Kuhn's opera, the most important success of his artistic life.]]> 256 Hermann Hesse 0312424639 Mathilde 0 to-read 3.91 1910 Gertrude
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]]> Siddhartha 52036 152 Hermann Hesse Mathilde 0 to-read 4.07 1922 Siddhartha
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]]> For Whom the Bell Tolls 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 Mathilde 0 to-read 3.98 1940 For Whom the Bell Tolls
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]]> A Farewell to Arms 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 Mathilde 0 to-read 3.83 1929 A Farewell to Arms
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]]> <![CDATA[The Exploits and Subtleties of Mulla Nasrudin]]> 667145
Ellos te invitan a que elijas algunos que te resulten especialmente atractivos y que reflexiones sobre ellos, haciéndolos tuyos. Los maestros Sufis dicen que de esta manera se puede lograr un avance hacia una sabiduría superior.

Una sola historia puede funcionar en muchos desde el humorístico hasta aquel donde se inicia el pensamiento profundo.]]> 209 Idries Shah 0863040403 Mathilde 4 4.34 1974 The Exploits and Subtleties of Mulla Nasrudin
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]]> The Kreutzer Sonata 141077
In her Introduction, Doris Lessing shows how relevant The Kreutzer Sonata is to our understanding of Tolstoy the artist, as well as to feminism and literature. This Modern Library Paperback Classic also contains Tolstoy’s Sequel to the Kruetzer Sonata .]]> 128 Leo Tolstoy 0812968239 Mathilde 4 3.90 1889 The Kreutzer Sonata
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]]> <![CDATA[The Happy Prince and Other Tales]]> 779021 96 Oscar Wilde 0679444734 Mathilde 4 4.16 1888 The Happy Prince and Other Tales
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]]> Life is Elsewhere 44559 The Lyrical Age. The lyrical age, according to Kundera, is youth, and this novel, above all, is an epic of adolescence; an ironic epic that tenderly erodes sacrosanct values: childhood, motherhood, revolution, and even poetry. Jaromil is in fact a poet. His mother made him a poet and accompanies him (figuratively) to his love bed, and (literally) to his deathbed. A ridiculous and touching character, horrifying and totally innocent ("innocence with its bloody smile"!), Jaromil is at the same time a true poet. He's no creep, he's Rimbaud. Rimbaud entrapped by the communist revolution, entrapped in a sombre farce.]]> 432 Milan Kundera 0060997028 Mathilde 3 4.00 1973 Life is Elsewhere
author: Milan Kundera
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average rating: 4.00
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]]> óԱ𳦳첹 1276449 72 Lyudmila Ulitskaya 968411656X Mathilde 4 3.86 1992 óԱ𳦳첹
author: Lyudmila Ulitskaya
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]]> The Accompanist 795363 96 Nina Berberova 0811215342 Mathilde 4 3.64 1935 The Accompanist
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]]> Lucy Gayheart 599782 208 Willa Cather 0679728880 Mathilde 2 3.96 1935 Lucy Gayheart
author: Willa Cather
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average rating: 3.96
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]]> Le visage de la folle 14760588 742 Max Milan 274362339X Mathilde 3 3.25 2012 Le visage de la folle
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]]> I Don't Need You Any More 2021378 246 Arthur Miller 0413746607 Mathilde 4 3.72 1951 I Don't Need You Any More
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]]> When Nietzsche Wept 21031
Josef Breuer, one of the founding fathers of psychoanalysis, is at the height of his career. Friedrich Nietzsche, Europe's greatest philosopher, is on the brink of suicidal despair, unable to find a cure for the headaches and other ailments that plague him. When he agrees to treat Nietzsche with his experimental "talking cure", Breuer never expects that he, too, will find solace in their sessions. Only through facing his own inner demons can the gifted healer begin to help his patient.

In When Nietzsche Wept, Irvin Yalom blends fact and fiction, atmosphere and suspense to unfold an unforgettable story about the redemptive power of friendship.]]> 310 Irvin D. Yalom 0060748125 Mathilde 3 4.36 1992 When Nietzsche Wept
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]]> The Schopenhauer Cure 19508 358 Irvin D. Yalom Mathilde 4 4.28 2005 The Schopenhauer Cure
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]]> Women in Love 9784 Women in Love is both a lucid account of English society before the First World War, and a brilliant evocation of the inexorable power of human desire.

Women in Love continues where The Rainbow left off, with the third generation of Brangwens: Ursula Brangwen, now a teacher at Beldover, a mining town in the Midlands, and her sister Gudrun, who has returned from art school in London. The focus of the novel is primarily on their relationships, Ursula's with Rupert Birkin, a school inspector, and Gudrun's with industrialist Gerald Crich, and later with a sculptor, Loerke. Quintessentially modernist, Women in Love is one of Lawrence's most extraordinary, innovative and unsettling works.]]> 416 D.H. Lawrence 0486424588 Mathilde 3 3.68 1920 Women in Love
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average rating: 3.68
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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 Mathilde 4 3.81 1926 The Sun Also Rises
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average rating: 3.81
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]]> Of Mice and Men 890 “I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's why.�

They are an unlikely pair: George is "small and quick and dark of face"; Lennie, a man of tremendous size, has the mind of a young child. Yet they have formed a "family," clinging together in the face of loneliness and alienation. Laborers in California's dusty vegetable fields, they hustle work when they can, living a hand-to-mouth existence. But George and Lennie have a plan: to own an acre of land and a shack they can call their own.

While the powerlessness of the laboring class is a recurring theme in Steinbeck's work of the late 1930s, he narrowed his focus when composing Of Mice and Men, creating an intimate portrait of two men facing a world marked by petty tyranny, misunderstanding, jealousy, and callousness. But though the scope is narrow, the theme is universal: a friendship and a shared dream that makes an individual's existence meaningful.

A unique perspective on life's hardships, this story has achieved the status of timeless classic due to its remarkable success as a novel, a Broadway play, and three acclaimed films.]]> 107 John Steinbeck 0142000671 Mathilde 0 to-read 3.88 1937 Of Mice and Men
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]]> The Grapes of Wrath 4395 The Grapes of Wrath is a landmark of American literature. 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. Although it follows the movement of thousands of men and women and the transformation of an entire nation, The Grapes of Wrath is also the story of one Oklahoma family, the Joads, who are driven off 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.

First published in 1939, The Grapes of Wrath summed up its era in the way that Uncle Tom's Cabin summed up the years of slavery before the Civil War. Sensitive to fascist and communist criticism, Steinbeck insisted that "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" be printed in its entirety in the first edition of the book—which takes its title from the first verse: "He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored." At once a naturalistic epic, captivity narrative, road novel, and transcendental gospel, Steinbeck’s fictional chronicle of the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s is perhaps the most American of American Classics.]]> 455 John Steinbeck Mathilde 0 to-read 3.88 1939 The Grapes of Wrath
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]]> The Sound and the Fury 10975 366 William Faulkner Mathilde 5 3.86 1929 The Sound and the Fury
author: William Faulkner
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average rating: 3.86
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]]> 󾱲éԾ 838166 231 Jean Racine 2038714061 Mathilde 5 3.59 1674 󾱲éԾ
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]]> The Pickwick Papers 229432 The Pickwick Papers�-a comic masterpiece that catapulted its 24-year-old author to immediate fame. Readers were captivated by the adventures of the poet Snodgrass, the lover Tupman, the sportsman Winkle &, above all, by that quintessentially English Quixote, Mr Pickwick, & his cockney Sancho Panza, Sam Weller. From the hallowed turf of Dingley Dell Cricket Club to the unholy fracas of the Eatanswill election, via the Fleet debtor’s prison, characters & incidents sprang to life from Dickens’s pen, to form an enduringly popular work of ebullient humour & literary invention.]]> 801 Charles Dickens Mathilde 0 to-read 3.83 1837 The Pickwick Papers
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]]> Ballerina 1934775 415 Vicki Baum Mathilde 4 3.67 1958 Ballerina
author: Vicki Baum
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average rating: 3.67
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]]> Lady: My Life as a Bitch 824511
"My tail was going bananas as I rounded the corner and headed into Platt Fields park. The pavement was alive; my nose was an eye that sees into the past. I speeded up. Oh, I was in love with Terry, but to run and sniff and feel my ears catching sounds out of the air! But what do you know? Only a dog could understand what I mean."

Sandra Francy is seventeen and having way too much fun. Everyone wants to stop her but the problem is, she likes it. When she accidentally gets turned into a dog she's horrified at first, but soon she starts to wonder if being human is worth the effort. Her attempts to hang on to her humanity are bizarre and often hilarious-but her life as a dog leads her to pleasures she hardly knew existed.

Award-winning author Melvin Burgess brilliantly captures the realities of teenage life and hormone imbalance.]]> 256 Melvin Burgess 0805071482 Mathilde 3 2.97 2001 Lady: My Life as a Bitch
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]]> Smack 824508 293 Melvin Burgess 0380732238 Mathilde 4 3.93 1996 Smack
author: Melvin Burgess
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average rating: 3.93
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]]> Doing It 291583
The controversial book on which the cult favorite ABC television series Life as We Know It (now available on DVD) was based, Doing It introduces us to Dino, Jon, and Ben, three teenage best friends who can't stop thinking about, and talking about (and hoping to experience), sex.]]> 336 Melvin Burgess 0805080791 Mathilde 3 3.31 2003 Doing It
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average rating: 3.31
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]]> Kokoro 762476 The New Yorker as "rich in understanding and insight,"

Kokoro�"the heart of things"—is the work of one of Japan's most popular authors. This thought-provoking trilogy of stories explores the very essence of loneliness and stands as a stirring introduction to modern Japanese literature.

What is love, and what is friendship? What is the extent of our responsibility to ourselves and to others? A trilogy of stories that explores the very essence of loneliness, Kokoro opens with "Sensei and I," in which the narrator recounts his relationship with an intellectual who dwells in isolation but maintains a sophisticated worldview. "My Parents and I" brings the reader into the narrator's family circle, and "Sensei and His Testament" features the eponymous character's explanation of how he came to live a life of solitude.

Natsume Soseki (1867�1916), perhaps the greatest novelist of the Meiji period, remains one of Japan's most widely read authors. He wrote this novel in 1914, at the peak of his career, and it remains an excellent introduction to modern Japanese literature.]]> 256 Natsume Sōseki 0809260956 Mathilde 4 4.05 1914 Kokoro
author: Natsume Sōseki
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]]> <![CDATA[The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time]]> 1618 226 Mark Haddon 1400032717 Mathilde 4 3.89 2003 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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]]> <![CDATA[The Book of Laughter and Forgetting]]> 240976 The Book of Laughter and Forgetting is the novel that brought Milan Kundera his first big international success in the late 1970's. Like all his work, it is valuable for far more than just its historical implications. In seven wonderfully integrated parts, different aspects of human existence are magnified and reduced, reordered and emphasized, newly examined, analyzed and experienced.]]> 313 Milan Kundera 0060932147 Mathilde 3 4.01 1979 The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
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average rating: 4.01
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rating: 3
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]]> Living on Air 1350302 272 Anna Shapiro 1569474559 Mathilde 3 2.65 2006 Living on Air
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]]> <![CDATA[Life and Love, Such As They Are]]> 1350306 240 Anna Shapiro 0671871145 Mathilde 3 2.50 1994 Life and Love, Such As They Are
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]]> Hard Times 5344
Without a moral compass to guide them, the children sink into lives of desperation and despair, played out against the grim background of Coketown, a wretched community shadowed by an industrial behemoth. Louisa falls into a loveless marriage with Josiah Bouderby, a vulgar banker, while the unscrupulous Tom, totally lacking in principle, becomes a thief who frames an innocent man for his crime. Witnessing the degradation and downfall of his children, Gradgrind realizes that his own misguided principles have ruined their lives.

Considered Dickens' harshest indictment of mid-19th-century industrial practices and their dehumanizing effects, this novel offers a fascinating tapestry of Victorian life, filled with the richness of detail, brilliant characterization, and passionate social concern that typify the novelist's finest creations.

Of Dickens' work, the eminent Victorian critic John Ruskin had this to say: "He is entirely right in his main drift and purpose in every book he has written; and all of them, but especially Hard Times, should be studied with close and earnest care by persons interested in social questions."]]> 384 Charles Dickens 0321107217 Mathilde 0 to-read 3.55 1854 Hard Times
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]]> <![CDATA[Dark Victory: The Life of Bette Davis]]> 589523
The legendary Hollywood star blazes a fiery trail in this enthralling portrait of a brilliant actress and the movies her talent elevated to greatness
She was magnificent and exasperating in equal measure. Jack Warner called her "an explosive little broad with a sharp left." Humphrey Bogart once remarked, "Unless you're very big she can knock you down." Bette Davis was a force of nature--an idiosyncratic talent who nevertheless defined the words "movie star" for more than half a century and who created an extraordinary body of work filled with unforgettable performances.

In Dark Victory, the noted film critic and biographer Ed Sikov paints the most detailed picture ever delivered of this intelligent, opinionated, and unusual woman who was--in the words of a close friend--"one of the major events of the twentieth century." Drawing on new interviews with friends, directors, and admirers, as well as archival research and a fresh look at the films, this stylish, intimate biography reveals Davis's personal as well as professional life in a way that is both revealing and sympathetic. With his wise and well-informed take on the production and accomplishments of such movie milestones as Jezebel, All About Eve, and Now, Voyager, as well as the turbulent life and complicated personality of the actress who made them, Sikov's Dark Victory brings to life the two-time Academy Award-winning actress's unmistakable screen style, and shows the reader how Davis's art was her own dark victory.
]]> 496 Ed Sikov 0805075488 Mathilde 4 3.87 2007 Dark Victory: The Life of Bette Davis
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average rating: 3.87
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]]> <![CDATA[The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials, #3)]]> 18122
But how can he go looking for Lord Asriel when Lyra is gone? Only with her help can he fathom the myriad plots and intrigues that beset him.

The two great powers of the many worlds are lining up for war, and Will must find Lyra, for together they are on their way to battle, an inevitable journey that will even take them to the world of the dead...]]> 465 Philip Pullman 0440238153 Mathilde 1 4.11 2000 The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials, #3)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials, #2)]]> 119324
Each is searching—Lyra for the meaning of Dark Matter, Will for his missing father—but what they find instead is a deadly secret, a knife of untold power. And neither Lyra nor Will suspects how tightly their lives, their loves, and their destinies are bound together... until they are split apart.]]> 326 Philip Pullman 0679879250 Mathilde 3 4.12 1997 The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials, #2)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1)]]> 119322
Can one small girl make a difference in such great and terrible endeavors? This is Lyra: a savage, a schemer, a liar, and as fierce and true a champion as Roger or Asriel could want--but what Lyra doesn't know is that to help one of them will be to betray the other.]]> 399 Philip Pullman 0679879242 Mathilde 4 4.02 1995 The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)]]> 2
Harry has had enough. He is beginning to think he must do something, anything, to change his situation, when the summer holidays come to an end in a very dramatic fashion. What Harry is about to discover in his new year at Hogwarts will turn his world upside down...]]> 912 J.K. Rowling Mathilde 5 4.50 2003 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
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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 Mathilde 5 4.42 1998 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
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]]> <![CDATA[Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)]]> 6 734 J.K. Rowling 0439139597 Mathilde 5 4.56 2000 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
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]]> <![CDATA[Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)]]> 136251
In this final, seventh installment of the Harry Potter series, J.K. Rowling unveils in spectacular fashion the answers to the many questions that have been so eagerly awaited.]]> 759 J.K. Rowling Mathilde 3 4.61 2007 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
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]]> <![CDATA[Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)]]> 5 435 J.K. Rowling 043965548X Mathilde 5 4.57 1999 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
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]]> <![CDATA[Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)]]> 3 309 J.K. Rowling 0439554934 Mathilde 5 4.47 1997 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
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]]> The Tempest 12985
Each edition includes:
� Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play

� Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play

� Scene-by-scene plot summaries

� A key to famous lines and phrases

� An introduction to reading Shakespeare's language

� An essay by an outstanding scholar providing a modern perspective on the play

� Illustrations from the Folger Shakespeare Library's vast holdings of rare books]]> 218 William Shakespeare Mathilde 5 3.78 1611 The Tempest
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]]> Victimes du devoir 2383847 160 Eugène Ionesco 2070387909 Mathilde 5 3.31 1990 Victimes du devoir
author: Eugène Ionesco
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]]> <![CDATA[The Chronicles of Narnia (The Chronicles of Narnia, #1-7)]]> 11127 Librarian note: An alternate cover for this edition can be found here: 2005.

Journeys to the end of the world, fantastic creatures, and epic battles between good and evil—what more could any reader ask for in one book? The book that has it all is The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, written in 1949 by Clive Staples Lewis. But Lewis did not stop there. Six more books followed, and together they became known as The Chronicles of Narnia.

For the past fifty years, The Chronicles of Narnia have transcended the fantasy genre to become part of the canon of classic literature. Each of the seven books is a masterpiece, drawing the reader into a land where magic meets reality, and the result is a fictional world whose scope has fascinated generations.

This edition presents all seven books—unabridged—in one impressive volume. The books are presented here in chronlogical order, each chapter graced with an illustration by the original artist, Pauline Baynes. Deceptively simple and direct, The Chronicles of Narnia continue to captivate fans with adventures, characters, and truths that speak to readers of all ages, even fifty years after they were first published.]]> 767 C.S. Lewis 0066238501 Mathilde 5 4.27 1956 The Chronicles of Narnia (The Chronicles of Narnia, #1-7)
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]]> Paris (Timeless Places) 4011539 96 Judith Mahoney Pasternak 1567999263 Mathilde 5 3.73 2000 Paris (Timeless Places)
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]]> <![CDATA[A Parent's Guide to New York City]]> 4385094 200 Judith Mahoney Pasternak 0967512700 Mathilde 5 5.00 2001 A Parent's Guide to New York City
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]]> The Castle 333538 Translated and with a preface by Mark Harman

Left unfinished by Kafka in 1922 and not published until 1926, two years after his death, The Castle is the haunting tale of K.’s relentless, unavailing struggle with an inscrutable authority in order to gain access to the Castle. Scrupulously following the fluidity and breathlessness of the sparsely punctuated original manuscript, Mark Harman’s new translation reveals levels of comedy, energy, and visual power, previously unknown to English language readers.]]> 328 Franz Kafka 0805211063 Mathilde 0 to-read 3.97 1926 The Castle
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]]> Nausea 298275 Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In impressionistic, diary form he ruthlessly catalogues his every feeling and sensation about the world and people around him.

His thoughts culminate in a pervasive, overpowering feeling of nausea which "spread at the bottom of the viscous puddle, at the bottom of our time, the time of purple suspenders and broken chair seats; it is made of wide, soft instants, spreading at the edge, like an oil stain."

Roquentin's efforts to try and come to terms with his life, his philosophical and psychological struggles, give Sartre the opportunity to dramatize the tenets of his Existentialist creed.

The introduction for this edition of Nausea by Hayden Carruth gives background on Sartre's life and major works, a summary of the principal themes of Existentialist philosophy, and a critical analysis of the novel itself.]]> 178 Jean-Paul Sartre 0811201880 Mathilde 5 3.96 1938 Nausea
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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 Mathilde 0 to-read 4.12 1924 The Magic Mountain
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]]> Les Caprices de Marianne 6527343 95 Alfred de Musset 227730039X Mathilde 5 3.42 1833 Les Caprices de Marianne
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]]> Les Précieuses Ridicules 910821 Les Précieuses ridicules est une satire en un acte et en prose.

Les Précieuses sont Magdelon et Cathos, deux jeunes provinciales, qui sont venus à Paris en quête d'amour et de jeux d'esprit. Gorgibus, père de Magdelon et oncle de Cathos, décide qu'ils doivent se marier à un couple de jeunes hommes, mais les deux femmes trouvent les hommes pas assez raffinés et leur ridiculisent. Les hommes s'engagent à prendre revanche. Apparaît Mascarille, un jeune homme qui prétend être un homme sophistiqué du monde qui fréquente les meilleurs cercles. Magdelon tombe amoureuse de lui. Puis apparaît un autre jeune homme, Jodelet, et maintenant c'est Cathos qui tombe amoureux. Il est révélé que ces deux hommes, Mascarille et Jodelet, sont des imposteurs qui sont en réalité que les valets des deux premiers hommes qui ont été méprisés et rejetés. Alors que le rideau tombe, les précieuses et Gorgibus sont tombées dans le piège et ont donc montré le ridicule de leur vanité.]]> 159 ѴDZè 2038716692 Mathilde 5 3.56 1659 Les Précieuses Ridicules
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]]> On ne badine pas avec l'amour 570255 185 Alfred de Musset Mathilde 5 3.68 1834 On ne badine pas avec l'amour
author: Alfred de Musset
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]]> <![CDATA[Knock ou le triomphe de la médecine]]> 386377 Knock : Attention. Ne confondons pas. Est-ce que ça vous chatouille, ou est-ce que ça vous grattouille ?
Le Tambour : ça me grattouille. Mais ça me chatouille bien un peu aussi...
Knock : est-ce que ça ne vous grattouille pas davantage quand vous avez mangé de la tête de veau à la vinaigrette ?
Le Tambour : je n'en mange jamais. Mais il me semble que si j'en mangeais, effectivement, ça me grattouillerait plus.]]> 160 Jules Romains 2070360601 Mathilde 5 3.60 1927 Knock ou le triomphe de la médecine
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]]> Gentlemen Prefer Blondes 512704 165 Anita Loos 0871401703 Mathilde 5 3.57 1925 Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
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]]> The Paris Wife 8683812
Though deeply in love, the Hemingways are ill prepared for the hard-drinking and fast-living life of Jazz Age Paris, which hardly values traditional notions of family and monogamy. Surrounded by beautiful women and competing egos, Ernest struggles to find the voice that will earn him a place in history, pouring all the richness and intensity of his life with Hadley and their circle of friends into the novel that will become The Sun Also Rises. Hadley, meanwhile, strives to hold on to her sense of self as the demands of life with Ernest grow costly and her roles as wife, friend, and muse become more challenging. Despite their extraordinary bond, they eventually find themselves facing the ultimate crisis of their marriage—a deception that will lead to the unraveling of everything they’ve fought so hard for.

A heartbreaking portrayal of love and torn loyalty, The Paris Wife is all the more poignant because we know that, in the end, Hemingway wrote that he would rather have died than fallen in love with anyone but Hadley.]]> 314 Paula McLain 0345521307 Mathilde 3 3.81 2011 The Paris Wife
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average rating: 3.81
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]]> <![CDATA[The Complete Stories and Poems]]> 23919 821 Edgar Allan Poe 0385074077 Mathilde 5 4.39 1849 The Complete Stories and Poems
author: Edgar Allan Poe
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average rating: 4.39
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]]> Further Freaky Fables 6319414 64 J.B. Handelsman 0413422704 Mathilde 5 5.00 1986 Further Freaky Fables
author: J.B. Handelsman
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average rating: 5.00
book published: 1986
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]]> David Copperfield 58696 882 Charles Dickens Mathilde 5 4.02 1850 David Copperfield
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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 Mathilde 5 4.20 1953 Nine Stories
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]]> High Fidelity 285092
Rob does. He keeps a list, in fact. But Laura isn't on it—even though she's just become his latest ex. He's got his life back, you see. He can just do what he wants when he wants: like listen to whatever music he likes, look up the girls that are on his list, and generally behaves as if Laura never mattered. But Rob finds he can't move on. He's stuck in a really deep groove—and it's called Laura. Soon, Rob's asking himself some big questions: about love, about life—and about why we choose to share ours with the people we do.]]> 323 Nick Hornby 1573225517 Mathilde 4 3.92 1995 High Fidelity
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average rating: 3.92
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]]> Answered Prayers 2288
As it follows the career of a writer of uncertain parentage and omnivorous erotic tastes, Answered Prayers careens from a louche bar in Tangiers to a banquette at La Côte Basque, from literary salons to high-priced whorehouses. It takes in calculating beauties and sadistic husbands along with such real-life supporting characters as Colette, the Duchess of Windsor, Montgomery Clift, and Tallulah Bankhead. Above all, this malevolently funny book displays Capote at his most relentlessly observant and murderously witty.]]> 150 Truman Capote 0679751823 Mathilde 4 3.39 1986 Answered Prayers
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average rating: 3.39
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]]> <![CDATA[Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories]]> 251688 Holly Golightly knows that nothing bad can ever happen to you at Tiffany's.

In this seductive, wistful masterpiece, Capote created a woman whose name has entered the American idiom and whose style is a part of the literary landscape—her poignancy, wit, and naïveté continue to charm.

It's New York in the 1940s, where the martinis flow from cocktail hour till breakfast at Tiffany's... And nice girls don't, except, of course, Holly Golightly. Pursued by Mafia gangsters and playboy millionaires, Holly is a fragile eyeful of tawny hair and turned-up nose, a heart-breaker, a perplexer, a traveler, a tease. She is irrepressibly 'top banana in the shock department', and one of the shining flowers of American fiction.

Also included are three of Capote's best-known stories:
� House of Flowers - Ottilie is entranced by a beautiful young man, and leaves her life and friends to live with him and his old grandmother, who seems to hate her.
� A Diamond Guitar - Hear the story of the prized possession of a younger prison inmate, a rhinestone-studded guitar.
� A Christmas Memory - A poignant tale of two innocents—a small boy and the old woman who is his best friend—whose sweetness contains a hard, sharp kernel of truth.]]> 142 Truman Capote Mathilde 5 3.87 1958 Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories
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]]> A Midsummer Night’s Dream 1622 298 William Shakespeare 0743477545 Mathilde 5 3.95 1595 A Midsummer Night’s Dream
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]]> Madame Bovary 2175 329 Gustave Flaubert 0192840398 Mathilde 5 3.70 1856 Madame Bovary
author: Gustave Flaubert
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]]> The House of Mirth 17728
Lily Bart, beautiful, witty and sophisticated, is accepted by ‘old money� and courted by the growing tribe of nouveaux riches. But as she nears thirty, her foothold becomes precarious; a poor girl with expensive tastes, she needs a husband to preserve her social standing and to maintain her in the luxury she has come to expect. Whilst many have sought her, something � fastidiousness or integrity- prevents her from making a ‘suitable� match.]]> 351 Edith Wharton 1844082938 Mathilde 5 3.97 1905 The House of Mirth
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average rating: 3.97
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]]> The Age of Innocence 53835 The Age of Innocence is Edith Wharton’s masterful portrait of desire and betrayal during the sumptuous Golden Age of Old New York, a time when society people “dreaded scandal more than disease.�

This is Newland Archer’s world as he prepares to marry the beautiful but conventional May Welland. But when the mysterious Countess Ellen Olenska returns to New York after a disastrous marriage, Archer falls deeply in love with her. Torn between duty and passion, Archer struggles to make a decision that will either courageously define his life—or mercilessly destroy it.]]> 293 Edith Wharton 159308143X Mathilde 5 3.96 1920 The Age of Innocence
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]]> Roberto Zucco 90325
Who is Roberto Zucco?A prisoner or a secret agent? A lover or a rapist? A chameleon or a rhino? A peace-loving student or a killer on the run?

In a series of poetic, fast-moving scenes, Koltès takes his hero on a mythical journey through a landscape of strange and violent beauty.]]> 108 Bernard-Marie Koltès 0413730808 Mathilde 5 3.67 1990 Roberto Zucco
author: Bernard-Marie Koltès
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average rating: 3.67
book published: 1990
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]]> Narcissus and Goldmund 5954 Narcissus and Goldmund tells the story of two medieval men whose characters are diametrically opposite: Narcissus, an ascetic monk firm in his religious commitment, and Goldmund, a romantic youth hungry for knowledge and worldly experience. First published in 1930, Hesse's novel remains a moving and pointed exploration of the conflict between the life of the spirit and the life of the flesh. It is a theme that transcends all time.]]> 315 Hermann Hesse 0374506841 Mathilde 5 4.26 1930 Narcissus and Goldmund
author: Hermann Hesse
name: Mathilde
average rating: 4.26
book published: 1930
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]]> <![CDATA[Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family]]> 80890
As Mann charts the Buddenbrooks� decline from prosperity to bankruptcy, from moral and psychic soundness to sickly piety, artistic decadence, and madness, he ushers the reader into a world of stunning vitality, pieced together from births and funerals, weddings and divorces, recipes, gossip, and earthy humor.

First published in Germany in 1901, when Mann was only twenty-six, Buddenbrooks surpasses all other modern family chronicles in its immensity of scope, richness of detail, and fullness of humanity. With remarkable fidelity to the original German text, this superb translation emphasizes the magnificent scale of Mann’s achievement in this riveting, tragic novel.]]> 731 Thomas Mann 0679417370 Mathilde 5 4.17 1901 Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family
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]]> <![CDATA[The Unbearable Lightness of Being]]> 9717 The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera tells the story of a young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing and one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful lover. This magnificent novel juxtaposes geographically distant places, brilliant and playful reflections, and a variety of styles, to take its place as perhaps the major achievement of one of the world’s truly great writers.]]> 314 Milan Kundera 0571224385 Mathilde 5 4.12 1984 The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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average rating: 4.12
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]]> Immortality 28634
'It will make you cleverer, maybe even a better lover. Not many novels can do that.' Nicholas Lezard, GQ]]> 400 Milan Kundera 057114456X Mathilde 5 4.16 1990 Immortality
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average rating: 4.16
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]]> Nana 371456 473 Émile Zola 3746611091 Mathilde 5 3.87 1880 Nana
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name: Mathilde
average rating: 3.87
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]]> The Masterpiece 28409 The Masterpiece is the tragic story of Claude Lantier, an ambitious and talented young artist who has come from the provinces to conquer Paris but is conquered instead by the flaws of his own genius. Set in the 1860s and 1870s, it is the most autobiographical of the twenty novels in Zola's Rougon-Macquart series. It provides a unique insight into Zola's career as a writer and his relationship with Cezanne, a friend since their schooldays in Aix-en-Provence. It also presents a well-documented account of the turbulent Bohemian world in which the Impressionists came to prominence despite the conservatism of the Academy and the ridicule of the general public.]]> 400 Émile Zola 0192839632 Mathilde 5 4.00 1886 The Masterpiece
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average rating: 4.00
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]]> Choke 29059 Victor Mancini, a medical-school dropout, is an antihero for our deranged times.

Needing to pay elder care for his mother, Victor has devised an ingenious scam: he pretends to choke on pieces of food while dining in upscale restaurants. He then allows himself to be “saved� by fellow patrons who, feeling responsible for Victor’s life, go on to send checks to support him.

When he’s not pulling this stunt, Victor cruises sexual addiction recovery workshops for action, visits his addled mom, and spends his days working at a colonial theme park.

His creator, Chuck Palahniuk, renowned author of classics like Fight Club, is the visionary we need and the satirist we deserve.]]> 293 Chuck Palahniuk 0385720920 Mathilde 4 3.71 2001 Choke
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average rating: 3.71
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]]> Fight Club 5759 218 Chuck Palahniuk 0393327345 Mathilde 5 4.19 1996 Fight Club
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]]> Invisible Monsters 22290
Enter Brandy Alexander, Queen Supreme, one operation away from being a real woman, who will teach her that reinventing yourself means erasing your past and making up something better, and that salvation hides in the last place you'll ever want to look.

The narrator must exact revenge upon Evie, her best friend and fellow model; kidnap Manus, her two-timing ex-boyfriend; and hit the road with Brandy in search of a brand-new past, present and future.]]> 297 Chuck Palahniuk 0099285444 Mathilde 3 3.97 1999 Invisible Monsters
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average rating: 3.97
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]]> Invisible (Rough Cut) 6345193 “One of America’s greatest novelists� dazzlingly reinvents the coming-of-age story in his most passionate and surprising book to date

Sinuously constructed in four interlocking parts, Paul Auster’s fifteenth novel opens in New York City in the spring of 1967, when twenty-year-old Adam Walker, an aspiring poet and student at Columbia University, meets the enigmatic Frenchman Rudolf Born and his silent and seductive girfriend, Margot. Before long, Walker finds himself caught in a perverse triangle that leads to a sudden, shocking act of violence that will alter the course of his life.

Three different narrators tell the story of Invisible, a novel that travels in time from 1967 to 2007 and moves from Morningside Heights, to the Left Bank of Paris, to a remote island in the Caribbean. It is a book of youthful rage, unbridled sexual hunger, and a relentless quest for justice. With uncompromising insight, Auster takes us into the shadowy borderland between truth and memory, between authorship and identity, to produce a work of unforgettable power that confirms his reputation as “one of America’s most spectacularly inventive writers.” ]]> 308 Paul Auster 0805090800 Mathilde 4 3.75 2009 Invisible (Rough Cut)
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]]> The Music of Chance 19490 217 Paul Auster 0571203035 Mathilde 4 3.97 1990 The Music of Chance
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]]> The Casual Vacancy 13497818 A BIG NOVEL ABOUT A SMALL TOWN�

When Barry Fairbrother dies unexpectedly in his early forties, the little town of Pagford is left in shock. Pagford appears to be an English idyll—with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey—but behind its charming façade lies a town at war. The rich clash with the poor, teenagers battle their parents, wives contend with their husbands, and teachers struggle with their pupils. Pagford is far from what it seems.

The empty seat Barry leaves on the town council becomes the catalyst for the fiercest conflict the town has ever seen. The election to fill his seat is fraught with passion, duplicity, and unexpected revelations. Who will triumph in this battle of wills?

Blackly comic, thought-provoking, and constantly surprising, The Casual Vacancy is J.K. Rowling’s first novel for adults.]]> 503 J.K. Rowling 0316228532 Mathilde 4 3.28 2012 The Casual Vacancy
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average rating: 3.28
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