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Kaysen's memoir encompasses horror and razor-edged perception while providing vivid portraits of her fellow patients and their keepers. It is a brilliant evocation of a "parallel universe" set within the kaleidoscopically shifting landscape of the late sixties. Girl, Interrupted is a clear-sighted, unflinching documnet that gives lasting and specific dimension to our definitions of sane and insane, mental illness and recovery.]]> 169 Susanna Kaysen 0679746048 Aida 3 3.95 1993
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]]> 58146207 محمد رضایی‌را�� Aida 0 to-read 3.54
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]]> 193856 Ami lecteur, prend garde à toi ! Autour de Carmen c'est la mort qui plane.

Carmen est une des œuvres magistrales de Prosper Mérimée. Cette nouvelle à la fois picaresque et tragique a fait le tour du monde, se déclinant en une multitude de films et opéras.]]> 64 Prosper Mérimée 2011552354 Aida 3 3.53 1845
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"But Carmen will always be free."
]]> 1388929 داستان- ادبيات اصغر عبداللهی Aida 0 to-read 3.54 2002
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]]> 22364136 This is an alternate cover edition for ISBN 9780141439679.

'Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root everything else'

Coketown is dominated by the figure of Mr Thomas Gradgrind, school owner and model of Utilitarian success. Feeding both his pupils and his family with facts, he bans fancy and wonder from young minds. As a consequence his obedient daughter Louisa marries the loveless businessman and 'bully of humility' Mr Bounderby, and his son Tom rebels to become embroiled in gambling and robbery. And, as their fortunes cross with those of free-spirited circus girl Sissy Jupe and victimised weaver Stephen Blackpool, Gradgrind is eventually forced to recognise the value of the human heart in an age of materialism and machinery.

This edition of Hard Times is based on the text of the first volume publication of 1854. Kate Flint's introduction sheds light on the frequently overlooked character interplay in Dickens' great critique of Victorian industrial society.]]> 321 Charles Dickens Aida 3 3.42 1854
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]]> 220341389 John Green, the #1 bestselling author of The Anthropocene Reviewed and a passionate advocate for global healthcare reform, tells a deeply human story illuminating the fight against the world’s deadliest disease.

Tuberculosis has been entwined with humanity for millennia. Once romanticized as a malady of poets, today tuberculosis is a disease of poverty that walks the trails of injustice and inequity we blazed for it.

In 2019, John Green met Henry, a young tuberculosis patient at Lakka Government Hospital in Sierra Leone while traveling with Partners in Health. John became fast friends with Henry, a boy with spindly legs and a big, goofy smile. In the years since that first visit to Lakka, Green has become a vocal and dynamic advocate for increased access to treatment and wider awareness of the healthcare inequities that allow this curable, treatable infectious disease to also be the deadliest, killing 1.5 million people every year.

In Everything is Tuberculosis, John tells Henry’s story, woven through with the scientific and social histories of how tuberculosis has shaped our world and how our choices will shape the future of tuberculosis.]]> 208 John Green 0525556575 Aida 3 4.54 2025
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]]> 445305
The last thing known is that he moved to a remote stretch of the Uruguayan coastline and built himself a house out of his enormous and valuable library. How he got there, and why, is the subject of this seductive novel-part mystery, part social comedy, and part examination of all the many forms of bibliomania.

Charmingly illustrated by Peter Sís, The House of Paper is a tribute to the strange and passionate relationship between people and their books.]]> 112 Carlos María Domínguez 0151011478 Aida 5 3.71 2002
author: Carlos María Domínguez
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The irony of reading this on a Kindle.
]]> 23942 160 William S. Burroughs 0330300164 Aida 0 to-read 3.57 1985
author: William S. Burroughs
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]]> 8493341
کتاب از چند بخش مهم تشکیل شده است: الف. ترجمه ای نو و ادبی از کتاب ایوب ( از عهد عتیق )؛ ب. نوشتاری در باب مراحل شکل گیری داستان ایوب در منابع ادبی-تفسیری اسلامی ( با اتکا به قصص قرآن مجید سورآبادی، تفسیر کیمبریج، قصص الأنبیاء نیشابوری، کشف الأسرار و عدة الأبرار میبدی، و روض الجنان و روح الجنان ابولفتوح رازی )؛ ج. آوردن متن داستان ایوب از منابع مذکور؛ د. آوردن طراحی های ویلیام بلیک شاعر انگلیسی از داستان ایوب

ترجمه ی کتاب مبتنی بر ترجمه ی انگلیسی عصر شاه جیمز است. در ضمن به درخواست مترجم ترجمه با عبری تطبیق داده شده است]]> 236 Anonymous Aida 5 4.28
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از تو می‌طلب�� و تو اجابتم خواهی کرد.
]]> 55077548 Told in an inimitable voice, Leaving Breezy Street is the stunning account of Brenda Myers-Powell’s brutal and beautiful life.

“Careful―don’t think prostitution is just about money. It’s never just the money. It’s about slipping in at all the wrong places. Getting into dangerous situations and getting out of them. That’s exciting. That’s what you want. But you want something else, too.��

What did Brenda Myers-Powell want? When she turned to prostitution at the age of fifteen, she wanted to support her two baby daughters and have a little money for herself. She was pretty and funny as hell, and although she called herself “Breezy,�� she was also tough―a survivor in every sense of the word. Over the next twenty-five years, she would move across the country, finding new pimps, parties, drugs, and endless, profound heartache. And she would begin to want something else, something huge: a life of dignity, self-acceptance, and love. Astonishingly, she managed to find the strength to break from an unsparing world and save not only herself but also future Breezys.

We have no say into which worlds we are born. But sometimes we can find a way out.]]> 288 Brenda Myers-Powell 0374151695 Aida 0 to-read 3.95 2021
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]]> 4738019 یک تذکرهٔ کوچک تغزل
‫مربو�� به سال ۴۸]]> 73 Reza Baraheni Aida 3
بعضی جملاتش، مثل همین، دقیقا همون اعتلا رو در تقاطع کلیشه و عشق واقعی و شعر پیدا کرده که بعدا در اسماعیل بهش می‌رس��. بعضی دیگرش با توجه به اینکه هنوز تحول ظل‌الل�� در شعرش اتفاق نیفتاده و سبک خاص خودش رو در خطاب به پروانه‌ه�� پیدا نکرده کمی خام به نظر میاد. خیلی دوست‌داشتن�� بود.]]> 3.39 1970
author: Reza Baraheni
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دعا کنید که عاشق تمام خواهد شد.

بعضی جملاتش، مثل همین، دقیقا همون اعتلا رو در تقاطع کلیشه و عشق واقعی و شعر پیدا کرده که بعدا در اسماعیل بهش می‌رس��. بعضی دیگرش با توجه به اینکه هنوز تحول ظل‌الل�� در شعرش اتفاق نیفتاده و سبک خاص خودش رو در خطاب به پروانه‌ه�� پیدا نکرده کمی خام به نظر میاد. خیلی دوست‌داشتن�� بود.
]]> 53458770 592 زين الدين العاملي، شهید ثانی 9645662451 Aida 0 currently-reading 3.50 1373
author: زين الدين العاملي، شهید ثانی
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]]> 346507
آهنگ آشنای صدای او
مثل عبور نور
مثل عبور نوروز
مثل صدای آمدن روز است
آن روز ناگزیر که می‌آی��
روزی که عابران خمیده
یک لحظه وقت داشته باشند
تا سربلند باشند
و آفتاب را
در آسمان ببینند]]> 168 قیصر امین‌پو�� 9646003494 Aida 3 3.78 2001
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هربار می‌خونم�� شعرهاش بنظرم بهتر میاد. بعد میام یه ستاره اضافه می‌کن��. نمی‌دون�� بخاطر اینه که از ادبیات دور شدم یا بخاطر اینه که بزرگ شدم.
]]> 18043620
Southern California, as readers of Jessica Mitford's "The American Way of Death" will know, is unique in the splendid elaboration of its graveyards and funeral customs.

Set against a background of embalming rooms and crematoria and the unforgettable Whispering Glades Memorial Park, "The Loved One" is as ludicrous as "Decline and Fall", as incisively shocking as "Vile Bodies" and - underneath the laughs - as moving as death itself.

A triumph of barbed flippancy.]]> 127 Evelyn Waugh Aida 0 to-read 3.66 1948
author: Evelyn Waugh
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]]> 257445
Fanboy, though, has a a graphic novel he’s been working on without telling anyone, a graphic novel that he is convinced will lead to publication, fame, and—most important of all—a way out of the crappy little town he lives in and all the people that make it hell for him.

When Fanboy meets Kyra, a.k.a. Goth Girl, he finds an outrageous, cynical girl who shares his love of comics as well as his hatred for jocks and bullies. Fanboy can’t resist someone who actually seems to understand him, and soon he finds himself willing to heed her advice—to ignore or crush anyone who stands in his way.]]> 311 Barry Lyga 0618723927 Aida 0 to-read 3.63 2006
author: Barry Lyga
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]]> 16077360
My dearest little Maggie,

I'm sorry in ways you may never understand. Please know that I never wanted to leave you....

It wasn't the traditional birthday letter Greg had written his daughter four times before. But traditions, like everything else, had utterly unraveled.

Adrift in a workaday society he no longer recognizes, Greg is rattled in unexpected ways by the heartbreak in Haiti that clear January morning when he spots an unusual opportunity in the looped nightly news, something he can do - a small way he just might be able to help.

Facing divorce and an anesthetized hereafter, Greg shucks tradition and packs his motorcycle, headed to a shattered country to unexpectedly find the one thing he's abandoned.]]> 282 L.W. Montgomery Aida 0 to-read 3.74 2012
author: L.W. Montgomery
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]]> 11623
A major literary event--the complete, uncensored journals of Sylvia Plath, published in their entirety for the first time.

Sylvia Plath's journals were originally published in 1982 in a heavily abridged version authorized by Plath's husband, Ted Hughes. This new edition is an exact and complete transcription of the diaries Plath kept during the last twelve years of her life. Sixty percent of the book is material that has never before been made public, more fully revealing the intensity of the poet's personal and literary struggles, and providing fresh insight into both her frequent desperation and the bravery with which she faced down her demons. The complete Journals of Sylvia Plath is essential reading for all who have been moved and fascinated by Plath's life and work.]]> 732 Sylvia Plath 0385720254 Aida 0 to-read 4.27 2000
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]]> 858313 75 Lillian Hellman 0822202050 Aida 0 to-read 3.97 1934
author: Lillian Hellman
name: Aida
average rating: 3.97
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]]> 89717 182 Shirley Jackson 0143039989 Aida 0 to-read 3.85 1959
author: Shirley Jackson
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]]> 16299
"Ten little boys went out to dine; One choked his little self and then there were nine. Nine little boys sat up very late; One overslept himself and then there were eight. Eight little boys traveling in Devon; One said he'd stay there then there were seven. Seven little boys chopping up sticks; One chopped himself in half and then there were six. Six little boys playing with a hive; A bumblebee stung one and then there were five. Five little boys going in for law; One got in Chancery and then there were four. Four little boys going out to sea; A red herring swallowed one and then there were three. Three little boys walking in the zoo; A big bear hugged one and then there were two. Two little boys sitting in the sun; One got frizzled up and then there was one. One little boy left all alone; He went out and hanged himself and then there were none."

When they realize that murders are occurring as described in the rhyme, terror mounts. One by one they fall prey. Before the weekend is out, there will be none. Who has choreographed this dastardly scheme? And who will be left to tell the tale? Only the dead are above suspicion.]]> 264 Agatha Christie 0312330871 Aida 0 to-read 4.28 1939
author: Agatha Christie
name: Aida
average rating: 4.28
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]]> 6609549
While she’s on the site, Daelyn blogs about her life, uncovering a history of bullying that goes back to kindergarten. When she’s not on the Web, Daelyn’s at her private school, where she’s known as the freak who doesn’t talk.

Then, a boy named Santana begins to sit with her after school while she’s waiting to for her parents to pick her up. Even though she’s made it clear that she wants to be left alone, Santana won’t give up. And it’s too late for Daelyn to be letting people into her life... isn't it?

National Book Award finalist Julie Anne Peters shines a light on how bullying can push young people to the very edge.]]> 200 Julie Anne Peters 1423116186 Aida 0 to-read 3.85 2009
author: Julie Anne Peters
name: Aida
average rating: 3.85
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]]> 31436554 276 Nikki Moyes Aida 0 to-read 3.86 2016
author: Nikki Moyes
name: Aida
average rating: 3.86
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]]> 10975 366 William Faulkner Aida 0 to-read 3.86 1929
author: William Faulkner
name: Aida
average rating: 3.86
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]]> 4406
Adam Trask came to California from the East to farm and raise his family on the new rich land. But the birth of his twins, Cal and Aaron, brings his wife to the brink of madness, and Adam is left alone to raise his boys to manhood. One boy thrives nurtured by the love of all those around him; the other grows up in loneliness enveloped by a mysterious darkness.

First published in 1952, East of Eden is the work in which Steinbeck created his most mesmerizing characters and explored his most enduring themes: the mystery of identity, the inexplicability of love, and the murderous consequences of love's absence. A masterpiece of Steinbeck's later years, East of Eden is a powerful and vastly ambitious novel that is at once a family saga and a modern retelling of the Book of Genesis.]]> 601 John Steinbeck 0142000655 Aida 0 to-read 4.41 1952
author: John Steinbeck
name: Aida
average rating: 4.41
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]]> 227603 368 Elizabeth Wurtzel 1573225126 Aida 0 to-read 3.64 1994
author: Elizabeth Wurtzel
name: Aida
average rating: 3.64
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]]> 10956 250 Jeffrey Eugenides 0747560595 Aida 0 to-read 3.81 1993
author: Jeffrey Eugenides
name: Aida
average rating: 3.81
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]]> 24874322
Autobiographical stories from one of Japan's masters of modernist story-telling.

Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions.

Ryunosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927)

Akutagawa's Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories is also available in Penguin Classics.]]> 55 Ryūnosuke Akutagawa 0141397721 Aida 0 to-read 3.65 1927
author: Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
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]]> 814318 1145 Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi 9646678297 Aida 0 dnf 4.49 1273
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]]> 7332753
In other words, Christopher Hitchens contains multitudes. He sees all sides of an argument. And he believes the personal is political.

This is the story of his life, a life lived large.]]> 435 Christopher Hitchens 0446540331 Aida 0 currently-reading 4.01 2010
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]]> 7603 Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a bold and inspired teacher named Azar Nafisi secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics. As Islamic morality squads staged arbitrary raids in Tehran, fundamentalists seized hold of the universities, and a blind censor stifled artistic expression, the girls in Azar Nafisi's living room risked removing their veils and immersed themselves in the worlds of Jane Austen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry James, and Vladimir Nabokov. In this extraordinary memoir, their stories become intertwined with the ones they are reading. Reading Lolita in Tehran is a remarkable exploration of resilience in the face of tyranny and a celebration of the liberating power of literature.

]]> 356 Azar Nafisi 081297106X Aida 0 currently-reading 3.64 2003
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]]> 17846575 328 سید حسین صفایی 9647896387 Aida 0 دارم می‌میر��. 3.94
author: سید حسین صفایی
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دارم می‌میر��.
]]> 4048346
برشت هنرمندی است نمایشنامه نویس، شاعر، مقاله نگار، هنرمند تئاتر و نویسندۀ رمان و داستان کوتاه. ولی کار عظیم او در دنیای نمایشنامه نویسی است.نزدیک به چهل نمایشنامه از او در دست است. تاکنون هشت دیوان شعر از وی انتشار یافته و چاپ آثارش ادامه دارد.مکتب برشت، تنها مکتبی هنری نیست، بلکه مکتبی است فلسفی و هنری بر اساس پیشرو ترین مکتب ها و مستقل از آنها. برشت در این جهان چشم اندازهای آموزنده و جالبی در برابر دیدگان جوینده می گشاید.برشت به آگاهی و روشن بینی و مسئولیت شناسی انسان قرن بیستم توجۀ خاص دارد. به نظر او فلسفه و هنر دو برادر همزاد و همگام اند. معتقد است که «عالمی از نو بباید ساخت وزنو آدمی».]]> 192 Bertolt Brecht 9644484231 Aida 0 to-read 3.90 1941
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]]> 1967181 189 شاهرخ مسکوب 964321012X Aida 0 to-read 3.72 1992
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name: Aida
average rating: 3.72
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]]> 2241021 161 شاهرخ مسکوب Aida 0 to-read 3.86 1969
author: شاهرخ مسکوب
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average rating: 3.86
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]]> 33807326 87 شاهرخ مسکوب 6006182769 Aida 0 to-read 3.77 2016
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average rating: 3.77
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]]> 25536833 246 شاهرخ مسکوب Aida 0 to-read 3.94 1971
author: شاهرخ مسکوب
name: Aida
average rating: 3.94
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]]> 2133894 128 شاهرخ مسکوب Aida 0 to-read 3.95 2007
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]]> 1967142 739 شاهرخ مسکوب 2912490367 Aida 0 to-read 4.39 2000
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]]> 55145261 A deeply moving and mind-expanding collection of personal essays in the first ever work of non-fiction from #1 internationally bestselling author John Green

The Anthropocene is the current geological age, in which human activity has profoundly shaped the planet and its biodiversity. In this remarkable symphony of essays adapted and expanded from his ground-breaking, critically acclaimed podcast, John Green reviews different facets of the human-centered planet - from the QWERTY keyboard and Halley's Comet to Penguins of Madagascar - on a five-star scale.

Complex and rich with detail, the Anthropocene's reviews have been praised as 'observations that double as exercises in memoiristic empathy', with over 10 million lifetime downloads. John Green's gift for storytelling shines throughout this artfully curated collection about the shared human experience; it includes beloved essays along with six all-new pieces exclusive to the book.]]> 304 John Green 0525555218 Aida 4 4.37 2021
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]]> 336843 114 Larry Mitchell 0930762002 Aida 0 to-read 4.52 1977
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]]> 662768 288 Romain Gary 9644481429 Aida 0 to-read 3.84 1964
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]]> 2124218 190 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 9644481070 Aida 0 to-read 3.60 1939
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]]> 294189
ژرمینال زیباترین و بزرگترین اثر زولاست. حماسۀ برادری است فلاکت: داستان سرنوشت بشر.]]> 552 Émile Zola 9644482611 Aida 0 to-read 4.43 1885
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]]> 3326146 1019 Fyodor Dostoevsky Aida 0 to-read 4.54 1872
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]]> 10005316 109 Fyodor Dostoevsky 964209083X Aida 4 3.92 1848
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]]> 22377855 کتاب جنگ و صلح 4جلدی به نویسندگی لئون تالستوی توسط انتشارات نیلوفر منتشر شده است.]]> 1692 Leo Tolstoy 9644484126 Aida 0 to-read 4.41 1869
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]]> 41962939
“Empathetic, incisive. . . . A sweeping overview of Nabokov's major works. . . . Graceful [and] discerning.”�� Kirkus Reviews

The ruler of a totalitarian state seeks validation from a former schoolmate, now the nation’s foremost thinker, in order to access a cultural cache alien to his regime. A literary critic provides commentary on an unfinished poem that both foretells the poet’s death and announces the critic’s secret identity as the king of a lost country. The greatest of Vladimir Nabokov’s enchanters—Humbert—is lost within the antithesis of a fairy story, in which Lolita does not hold the key to his past but rather imprisons him within the knowledge of his distance from that past.

In this precursor to her international best seller Reading Lolita in Tehran , Azar Nafisi deftly explores the worlds apparently lost to Nabokov’s characters, their portals of access to those worlds, and how other worlds hold a mirror to Nabokov’s experiences of physical, linguistic, and recollective exile. Written before Nafisi left the Islamic Republic of Iran, and now published in English for the first time and with a new introduction by the author, this book evokes the reader’s quintessential journey of discovery and reveals what caused Nabokov to distinctively shape and reshape that journey for the author.]]> 376 Azar Nafisi 0300158831 Aida 0 to-read 3.11
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]]> 110106
This collection showcases the real scope and complexity of Iran through the work of a stellar group of contributors-including Azar Nafisi and with original art by Marjane Satrapi. Their collective goal is to counter the many existing cultural and political clichés about Iran. Some of the pieces concern feminism, sexuality, or eroticism under the Islamic Republic; others are unorthodox political testimonies or about race and religion. Almost all these contributors have broken artistic and cultural taboos in their work.

Journalist Reza Aslan, author of No God But God, explains why Iran is not a theocracy but, rather, a "mullahcracy." Mehrangiz Kar, a lawyer and human rights activist who was jailed in Iran and is currently a fellow at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, argues that the Iranian Revolution actually engendered the birth of feminism in Iran. Journalist Azadeh Moaveni reveals the underground parties and sex culture in Tehran, while Gelareh Asayesh, author of Saffron Sky, writes poignantly on why Iranians are not considered white in America, even though they think they are. Poet and writer Naghmeh Zarbafian expounds on the surreal experience of reading censored books in Iran, while Roya Hakakian, author of Journey from the Land of A Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran, recalls the happy days of Iranian Jews. With a sharp, incisive introduction by Lila Azam Zanganeh, this diverse collection will alter what you thought you knew about Iran.

" My Sister, Guard Your Veil; My Brother, Guard Your Eyes aims to corrode fixed ideas and turns cultural and political clichés on their heads . . . Iranians themselves live in a complex and schizophrenic reality, at a surreal crossroads between political Islam and satellite television, massive national oil revenues, and searing social inequalities."--From the Introduction by Lila Azam Zanganeh

Contributors Azar Nafisi, author of the best-selling Reading Lolita in Tehran , Marjane Satrapi, author of Persepolis , Shirin Neshat, internationally acclaimed visual artist, Abbas Kiarostami, award-winning filmmaker of Taste of Cherry , Shohreh Aghdashloo, Oscar nominee for House of Sand and Fog , Azadeh Moaveni, author of Lipstick Jihad]]> 132 Azar Nafisi 0807004634 Aida 0 to-read 3.79 2006
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]]> 49867396
What is the role of literature in an era when the president wages war on writers and the press? What is the connection between political strife in our daily lives, and the way we meet our enemies on the page in fiction? How can literature, through its free exchange, affect politics?

In this galvanizing guide to resistance literature, Nafisi seeks to answer these questions. Drawing on her experiences as a woman and voracious reader living in the Islamic Republic of Iran, her life as an immigrant in the United States, and her role as literature professor in both countries, she crafts an argument for why, in a genuine democracy, we must engage with the enemy, and how literature can be a vehicle for doing so.

Structured as a series of letters to her father, Baba, who taught her as a child about how literature can rescue us in times of trauma, Nafisi explores the most probing questions of our time through the works of Toni Morrison, Salman Rushdie, James Baldwin, Margaret Atwood, and more.]]> 240 Azar Nafisi 0062947362 Aida 0 to-read 4.02 2022
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]]> 2910034 I started making a list in my diary entitled Things I Have Been Silent About. Under it I wrote: “Falling in Love in Tehran. Going to Parties in Tehran. Watching the Marx Brothers in Tehran. Reading Lolita in Tehran. I wrote about repressive laws and executions, about public and political abominations. Eventually I drifted into writing about private betrayals, implicating myself and those close to me in ways I had never imagined.--From Things I Have Been Silent About

Azar Nafisi, author of the beloved international bestseller Reading Lolita in Tehran, now gives us a stunning personal story of growing up in Iran, memories of her life lived in thrall to a powerful and complex mother, against the background of a country’s political revolution. A girl’s pain over family secrets; a young woman’s discovery of the power of sensuality in literature; the price a family pays for freedom in a country beset by political upheaval–these and other threads are woven together in this beautiful memoir, as a gifted storyteller once again transforms the way we see the world and “reminds us of why we read in the first place�� (Newsday).

Nafisi’s intelligent and complicated mother, disappointed in her dreams of leading an important and romantic life, created mesmerizing fictions about herself, her family, and her past. But her daughter soon learned that these narratives of triumph hid as much as they revealed. Nafisi’s father escaped into narratives of another kind, enchanting his children with the classic tales like the Shahnamah, the Persian Book of Kings. When her father started seeing other women, young Azar began to keep his secrets from her mother. Nafisi’s complicity in these childhood dramas ultimately led her to resist remaining silent about other personal, as well as political, cultural, and social, injustices.

Reaching back in time to reflect on other generations in the Nafisi family, Things I’ve Been Silent About is also a powerful historical portrait of a family that spans many periods of change leading up to the Islamic Revolution of 1978-79, which turned Azar Nafisi’s beloved Iran into a religious dictatorship. Writing of her mother’s historic term in Parliament, even while her father, once mayor of Tehran, was in jail, Nafisi explores the remarkable “coffee hours�� her mother presided over, where at first women came together to gossip, to tell fortunes, and to give silent acknowledgment of things never spoken about, and which then evolved into gatherings where men and women would meet to openly discuss the unfolding revolution.

Things I’ve Been Silent About is, finally, a deeply personal reflection on women’s choices, and on how Azar Nafisi found the inspiration for a different kind of life. This unforgettable portrait of a woman, a family, and a troubled homeland is a stunning book that readers will embrace, a new triumph from an author who is a modern master of the memoir.]]> 336 Azar Nafisi 1400063612 Aida 0 to-read 3.68 2008
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]]> 24130929 85 Nils Melzer Aida 0 4.00 2009
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ببخشید فیدتون رو پر از این چرت و پرتا می‌کن��
]]> 1795116 Listening to the Silences: Women and War exposes the reader to a diversity of women s voices. These voices, both personal and academic, demonstrate that women are increasingly taking on less traditional roles during war, and that these roles are multifaceted, complicated and sometimes contradictory. The experiences of a judge, forensic anthropologist, survivor of sexual slavery, soldier, activist, journalist, humanitarian worker and others provide the reader with the opportunity to consider the depth of women s involvement in armed conflict. Their voices highlight the fact that the international community at large has historically failed to listen to women, even as they have tried to tell their own individual tales of horror, heroism, courage, devastation, betrayal, violence and integrity during armed conflict. Concurrently the book examines in detail the legal infrastructure in this area, including debates on the adequacy of international law; developments in jurisprudence and the implementation of international resolutions. This book reveals that responses to women s requirements during times of war will continue to be inadequate so long as we persist in silencing these differing perspectives and fail to take account of women s dynamic and changing needs during war. Listening to the Silences: Women and War is a collection of women s voices, each of which makes a unique contribution to a topic that is gathering international momentum and interest. The perspectives of these women greatly enhance our understanding of the gendered dimensions of armed conflict - they help to move the discourse beyond silence and towards inclusion, greater understanding and peace."]]> 276 Helen Durham 9004143653 Aida 0 to-read 4.33 2005
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]]> 17403380 400 Marco Sassòli Aida 0 to-read 4.75
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]]> 849051 690 Jean-Marie Henckaerts 0521005280 Aida 0 to-read 4.17 2004
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]]> 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 Aida 0 dnf 3.70 1906
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]]> 7654160 336 ابوالفضل قاضی Aida 0 dnf 3.73
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]]> 56018705
لخص الغزالي في كتاب تهافت الفلاسفة إلى فكرة أنه من المستحيل تطبيق قوانين الجزء المرئي من الإنسان لفهم طبيعة الجزء المعنوي وعليه فإن الوسيلة المثلى لفهم الجانب الروحي يجب أن تتم بوسائل غير فيزيائية

كان الغزالي أول الفلاسفة المسلمين الذين أقاموا صلحا بين المنطق والعلوم الإسلامية حين بين أن أساسيات المنطق اليوناني يمكن أن تكون محايدة ومفصولة عن التصورات الميتافيزيقية اليونانية. توسع الغزالي في هذا الكتاب في شرح المنطق واستخدمه في علم أصول الفقه، لكنه شن هجوما عنيفا على الرؤى الفلسفية للفلاسفة المسلمين المشائين الذين تبنوا الفلسفة اليونانية. اعتبر الغزالي محاولة الفلاسفة في إدراك شيء غير قابل للإدراك بحواس الإنسان منافيا لمفهوم الفلسفة من الأساس. رد عليه لاحقا ابن رشد في كتابه تهافت التهافت.]]> 368 Abu Hamid al-Ghazali 9647468326 Aida 0 dnf 1.50 1100
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]]> 8562239 448 Homa Katouzian 0300169329 Aida 0 dnf 4.15 1392
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]]> 75596152 292 أبو الطيب المتنبي 9643632660 Aida 0 dnf 4.50
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]]> 460645 240 علی رضاقلی 9643123502 Aida 0 dnf 3.71 1999
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]]> 42768432 360 Nils Melzer Aida 0 4.17
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]]> 51762640 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.

Truman Capote (1924��1984) was an American writer whose non-fiction, stories, novels, and plays are recognized literary classics. His first novel, 'Other Voices, Other Rooms' (1948) stayed on the bestseller list for nine weeks. In the 1950s and 1960s, Capote remained prolific producing both fiction and non-fiction, such as the novella 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' (1958). His masterpiece, 'In Cold Blood' (1965), became a worldwide success, after which he published rarely and suffered from alcohol addiction. He died in 1984 at age 59. At least 20 films and TV dramas have been produced from Capote novels, stories and screenplays.]]> 178 Truman Capote 0679745653 Aida 0 to-read 3.84 1958
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]]> 88414 624 Vladimir Nabokov 0156936100 Aida 0 to-read 4.24 1989
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]]> 8149 Library of America in an authoritative three-volume set, earning a place as one of the greatest writers of America, his beloved adopted home.

The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, the first novel Nabokov wrote in English, published a year after he settled in the U. S., is a tantalizing literary mystery in which a writer’s half brother searches to unravel the enigma of the life of a famous author. A characteristically cunning play on identity and deception, this novel was published in 1941.

Bend Sinister (1947), Nabokov’s most explicitly political novel, is the haunting, dreamlike story of Adam Krug, a quiet philosophy professor caught up in the bureaucratic bungling of a totalitarian police state. “I am neither a didacticist nor an allegorizer,�� Nabokov affirms in his introduction to the novel, but goes on to state: “There can be distinguished, no doubt, certain reflections in the glass caused by idiotic and despicable regimes that we all know and that have brushed against me in the course of my life: worlds of tyranny and torture, of Fascists and Bolshevists, of Philistine thinkers and jack-booted baboons.��

Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited (1951; revised 1966), Nabokov’s dazzling memoir of his childhood in imperial Russia and exile in Europe, is central to an understanding of his art. With its balance of inner and outer worlds—of family chronicle and private fantasy, revolutions and butterflies, the games of childhood and the disasters of politics—the work that Nabokov called “a systematically correlated assemblage of personal recollections�� is a haunting transmutation of life into art. “I have to make a rapid inventory of the universe…I have to have all space and all time participate in my emotion, in my mortal love,�� he writes toward the end of the book, “so that the edge of its mortality is taken off, thus helping me to fight the utter degradation, ridicule, and horror of having developed an infinity of sensation and thought within a finite existence.��

The texts of this volume incorporate Nabokov’s penciled corrections in his own copies of his works and correct long-standing errors. They are the most authoritative versions available and have been prepared with the assistance of Dmitri Nabokov, the novelist’s son.]]> 710 Vladimir Nabokov 1883011183 Aida 0 to-read 4.25 1996
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]]> 56222723 117 Vladimir Nabokov 6220106369 Aida 0 to-read 3.27
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]]> 54993 272 Vladimir Nabokov 0679727280 Aida 0 to-read 3.74 1974
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]]> 8148 ]]> 385 Vladimir Nabokov 0156027755 Aida 0 to-read 4.35 1980
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]]> 142529
The first novel Nabokov wrote while living in America and the most overtly political novel he ever wrote, Bend Sinister is a modern classic.  While it is filled with veiled puns and characteristically delightful wordplay, it is, first and foremost, a haunting and compelling narrative about a civilized man caught in the tyranny of a police state.  Professor Adam Krug, the country's foremost philosopher, offers the only hope of resistance to Paduk, dictator and leader of the Party of the Average Man.  In a folly of bureaucratic bungling and ineptitude, the government attempts to co-opt Krug's support in order to validate the new regime.]]> 192 Vladimir Nabokov 0141185767 Aida 0 to-read 3.82 1947
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]]> 46326 The Eye is as much a farcical detective story as it is a profoundly refractive tale about the vicissitudes of identities and appearances. Nabokov's protagonist, Smurov, is a lovelorn, excruciatingly self-conscious Russian émigré living in pre-war Berlin, who takes his own life after being humiliated by a jealous husband, only to suffer even greater indignities in the afterlife.]]> 104 Vladimir Nabokov 067972723X Aida 0 to-read 3.71 1930
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]]> 46323 Mary is a gripping tale of youth, first love, and nostalgia--Nabokov's first novel.  In a Berlin rooming house filled with an assortment of seriocomic Russian émigrés, Lev Ganin, a vigorous young officer poised between his past and his future, relives his first love affair.  His memories of Mary are suffused with the freshness of youth and the idyllic ambience of pre-revolutionary Russia.  In stark contrast is the decidedly unappealing boarder living in the room next to Ganin's, who, he discovers, is Mary's husband, temporarily separated from her by the Revolution but expecting her imminent arrival from Russia.]]> 114 Vladimir Nabokov 0679726209 Aida 3 3.71 1926
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]]> 376561 An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here

Like Kafka's The Castle, Invitation to a Beheading embodies a vision of a bizarre and irrational world. In an unnamed dream country, the young man Cincinnatus C. is condemned to death by beheading for "gnostical turpitude", an imaginary crime that defies definition. Cincinnatus spends his final days in an absurd jail, where he is visited by chimerical jailers, an executioner who masquerades as a fellow prisoner, and by his in-laws, who lug their furniture with them into his prison cell.]]> 223 Vladimir Nabokov 0679725318 Aida 4 3.95 1935
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]]> 8151 292 Vladimir Nabokov 0811216748 Aida 0 to-read 4.02 1932
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]]> 30593 Pnin features his funniest and most heart-rending character. Professor Timofey Pnin is a haplessly disoriented Russian émigré precariously employed on an American college campus in the 1950's. Pnin struggles to maintain his dignity through a series of comic and sad misunderstandings, all the while falling victim both to subtle academic conspiracies and to the manipulations of a deliberately unreliable narrator.

Initially an almost grotesquely comic figure, Pnin gradually grows in stature by contrast with those who laugh at him. Whether taking the wrong train to deliver a lecture in a language he has not mastered or throwing a faculty party during which he learns he is losing his job, the gently preposterous hero of this enchanting novel evokes the reader’s deepest protective instinct.

Serialized in The New Yorker and published in book form in 1957, Pnin brought Nabokov both his first National Book Award nomination and hitherto unprecedented popularity.]]> 184 Vladimir Nabokov 1400041988 Aida 0 to-read 3.89 1957
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]]> 7805
Nabokov's darkly witty, richly inventive masterpiece is a suspenseful whodunit, a story of one-upmanship and dubious penmanship, and a glorious literary conundrum.

Part of a major new series of the works of Vladimir Nabokov, author of Lolita and Pale Fire, in Penguin Classics.]]> 246 Vladimir Nabokov Aida 0 to-read 4.17 1962
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]]> 45891631 339 Slavoj Žižek 9641855581 Aida 0 to-read 4.20 1991
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]]> 28250598 جز این آرزو ندارم که حالت خوب و فکرت راحت واعصابت آرام باشد. در کارت توفیق حاصل کنی و پشتیبان روحی پدرت باشی که امیدش هستی و می‌دان�� که درباره‌‌ا�� چه عقیده و چه قضاوتی دارد. در عین حال دلم می‌خواه�� واقعا دنیا را بشناسی و با چشم باز و عقل سلیم در مسائل نگاه کنی و درحالی که جسماً و روحاً جوانی خود را حفظ می‌کن�� و از زندگی کوتاهی که آدمی‌زا�� در این چهار صباح عمر خود دارد لذت می‌بر�� و هر ساعت زندگیت را غنیمتی بازیافته تلقی می‌کنی�� ازلحاظ فکر و معرفت هر ساعت پیرتر و جهاندیده‌ت�� بشوی. دلم می‌تپ�� و آرزو دارم که به این خواست من لبیک بگویی و بکوشی این جور باشد.]]> 96 احمد شاملو Aida 2 2.59 2015
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]]> 93261 108 Washington Irving 0809594080 Aida 0 to-read 3.71 1820
author: Washington Irving
name: Aida
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“One of my oldest crusades is against the distinction between thought and feeling, which is really the basis of all anti-intellectual views: the heart and the head, thinking and feeling, fantasy and judgment . . . and I don’t believe it’s true. . . . I have the impression that thinking is a form of feeling and that feeling is a form of thinking.��

Susan Sontag, one of the most internationally renowned and controversial intellectuals of the latter half of the twentieth century, still provokes. In 1978 Jonathan Cott, a founding contributing editor of Rolling Stone magazine, interviewed Sontag first in Paris and later in New York. Only a third of their twelve hours of discussion ever made it to print. Now, more than three decades later, Yale University Press is proud to publish the entire transcript of Sontag’s remarkable conversation, accompanied by Cott’s preface and recollections. Sontag’s musings and observations reveal the passionate engagement and breadth of her critical intelligence and curiosities at a moment when she was at the peak of her powers. Nearly a decade after her death, these hours of conversation offer a revelatory and indispensable look at the self-described "besotted aesthete" and "obsessed moralist."

“I really believe in history, and that’s something people don’t believe in anymore. I know that what we do and think is a historical creation. . . .We were given a vocabulary that came into existence at a particular moment. So when I go to a Patti Smith concert, I enjoy, participate, appreciate, and am tuned in better because I’ve read Nietzsche.��

“There’s no incompatibility between observing the world and being tuned into this electronic, multimedia, multi-tracked, McLuhanite world and enjoying what can be enjoyed. I love rock and roll. Rock and roll changed my life. . . .You know, to tell you the truth, I think rock and roll is the reason I got divorced. I think it was Bill Haley and the Comets and Chuck Berry that made me decide that I had to get a divorce and leave the academic world and start a new life.”]]> 168 Jonathan Cott 0300189796 Aida 0 to-read 4.25 1978
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]]> 208107364 A wry and riveting debut novel about family, mental illness, and a hard-won path between two sisters

It is said that when one person in a family is unstable, the whole family is destabilized. Meet the Shreds. Olivia is the sister in the spotlight, but when her stunning confidence morphs into something erratic and unpredictable, she becomes a hurricane leaving people wrecked in her wake. Put simply, she has no brakes.

Younger sister Amy, cautious and studious to the core, survives Ollie’s bullying and outcast status throughout her school years. She dreams of winning a Nobel Prize and unlocking the mysteries of the mind. Amy believes in facts, proof, and the empirical world. Except none of that can explain what’s happening to Ollie, whose physical beauty and charisma mask the bipolar disorder that will shatter Amy’s carefully constructed world.

As Amy comes of age and seeks to find her place—first in academics, then New York publishing, and through a series of troubled relationships—every step brings collisions with Ollie, who slips in and out of the Shred family without warning. For all that upends and unsettles these sisters, an inextricable bond always draws them back.

Spanning two decades, Shred Sisters is an intimate and bittersweet story exploring the fierce complexities of sisterhood, mental health, loss and love. If anything is true it’s what Amy learns on her road to self-acceptance: No one will love you or hurt you more than a sister.]]> 272 Betsy Lerner 080216370X Aida 0 to-read 3.77
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]]> 217127081
اوبخرو این رمان را که در سال ۲۰۲۱ منتشر شده قبل از همه‌گیر�� کووید نوشت، اما گویی برای همین زمانه است، زمانه‌ا�� که یافتن هارمونی از دل فاجعه بسیار دشوار است. حتی وِزوِز دائمی زنبورهایی که کلبه را محاصره کرده‌ان�� یادآور سروصدای بی‌اما�� و سرسام‌آو�� اخبار، جاروجنجال‌ه�� و شایعات بی‌پایه‌واسا�� است. اما در دل بلوا و تراژدی و خطر، زندگی و زیبایی راه خودشان را باز می‌کنن��.

خوسه اوبخرو در سال ۱۹۵۸ در مادرید به دنیا آمد، اما بیشتر عمرش را خارج از اسپانیا، بیشتر در آلمان و بلژیک، گذراند. او تاکنون چندین مجموعه‌�� شعر، مقاله، سفرنامه، داستان کوتاه و رمان منتشر کرده است. اوبخرو تاکنون جوایز زیادی کسب کرده که آخرین و مهم‌ترینشا�� جایزه‌�� آلفاگوارا برای رمان «اختراع عشق» است.]]> 192 José Ovejero 622332104X Aida 0 to-read 3.96 2021
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]]> 18490 This is an alternate cover edition for ISBN 9780141439471

'Now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart ...'

Obsessed with creating life itself, Victor Frankenstein plunders graveyards for the material to fashion a new being, which he shocks into life with electricity. But his botched creature, rejected by Frankenstein and denied human companionship, sets out to destroy his maker and all that he holds dear. Mary Shelley's chilling Gothic tale was conceived when she was only eighteen, living with her lover Percy Shelley near Byron's villa on Lake Geneva. It would become the world's most famous work of horror fiction, and remains a devastating exploration of the limits of human creativity.

Based on the third edition of 1831, this volume contains all the revisions Mary Shelley made to her story, as well as her 1831 introduction and Percy Bysshe Shelley's preface to the first edition. This revised edition includes as appendices a select collation of the texts of 1818 and 1831 together with 'A Fragment' by Lord Byron and Dr John Polidori's 'The Vampyre: A Tale'.]]> 288 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Aida 0 to-read 3.77 1818
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]]> 45869262 چاپ اول ۱۳۶۱ 103 Bahram Beyzaie 9641941321 Aida 0 to-read 3.76 1982
author: Bahram Beyzaie
name: Aida
average rating: 3.76
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]]> 380609 96 Euripides 1854594117 Aida 0 to-read 3.89 -405
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name: Aida
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]]> 212305494 131 بنفشه رحمانی 6220111648 Aida 4 3.69 2023
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name: Aida
average rating: 3.69
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rating: 4
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]]> 2564830 64 Bahram Beyzaie 9645512638 Aida 0 to-read 3.91 1982
author: Bahram Beyzaie
name: Aida
average rating: 3.91
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]]> 209203278 193 مهدی سلیمانیه Aida 0 to-read 3.40
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]]> 60299038
در این کتاب، لارا فرایند طولانی و اغلب دشوارِ انتقال افکار درهم و آشفته‌�� نویسنده از ذهن او به کاغذ و از کاغذ به دست خواننده را روشن، دقیق و گام‌‌به‌گا�� توضیح می‌ده�� و با مثال‌ه�� و تمرین‌های�� مفید، راه‌های�� برای تقویت مهارتِ نوشتن از خود پیش پای خواننده می‌گذار��.]]> 352 Adair Lara Aida 0 to-read 4.13 2009
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]]> 60500931
مقالهٔ اول، استاندارد دوگانهٔ پیرشدن، به بررسی قاعدهٔ استاندارد دوگانهٔ پیرشدن پرداخته که به‌تفصیل�� فضای متفاوت و ساختار ذهنی دیدگاه‌ها�� زنانه و مردانه و نیز کل جامعه را تحلیل کرده وبه نقش زنان در فرایند تغییر دیدگاه‌ه�� تأکید می‌کن��.

مقالهٔ دوم، جهان سوم زنان، پرسش‌وپاسخ�� است که مجلهٔ پارتیزان برای سوزان سانتاگ و دیگر زنان فمینیست معاصر، همچون سیمون دوبوار ترتیب داده است. در این مصاحبه سانتاگ به‌صراح�� از وضعیت زنان در جامعه و جایگاه آن‌ه�� در روند مبارزه برای به‌دست‌آورد�� آزادی و پیشرفت صحبت می‌کن��.

مقالهٔ سوم، زیبایی زن، منشأ ذلت یا منبع قدرت، بسیار کوتاه و موجز دربارهٔ زیبایی زن از منظر دیدگاه‌ها�� یونانی و مسیحی به تحلیل پرداخته و از زیبایی زن به‌عنوا�� ابزاری برای ارج‌نهاد�� یا فروکاست زنان صحبت می‌کن��.

مقالهٔ چهارم، زیبایی چگونه در آینده متحول خواهد شد، نیز از تحولات در امر زیبادیدن، پرداختن به زیبایی و تلاش برای زیباتر دیده‌شد�� می‌گوید�� همچنان که روندها و گرایش‌ه�� به‌سم�� تغییر دیدگاه‌ها�� تغییر سلیقه‌ه�� و تعمیم زیبایی زن در جهت دگرگونی، تعدیل و شمولیت جامعه حرکت می‌کن��.]]> 104 Susan Sontag 6003677538 Aida 4 3.30 2023
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روی جلد: طرح بشقابی عتیق در موزۀ واتیکان: در دروازۀ شهر تبای ادیپوس گوش به معمای ابوالهول سپرده است.]]> 376 Sophocles Aida 0 4.40 -450
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]]> 23769586 272 Roland Barthes 6005759108 Aida 4 4.00 2009
author: Roland Barthes
name: Aida
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]]> 16118352 ایگنیشس جی رایلی، قهرمان داستان، یک متخصص قرون وسطا است که تمام دنیا را از دریچه‌�� کتاب تسلای فلسفه‌�� بوئتیوس، فیلسوف قرون وسطایی، می‌بین��. تمام زندگی‌ا�� فلسفه‌باف�� است و انزجار از جامعه‌�� آمریکا. او که یک دن کیشوت امروزی است، وادار می ‌و�� از خلوت خود بیرون بیاید و با جامعه‌ا�� که از آن متنفر است روبه‌ر�� شود و به شیوه‌�� دیوانه‌وا�� خود با آن بستیزد. بسیاری از منتقدان، اتحادیه ابلهان را بزرگ‌تری�� رمان کمدی قرن می‌دانن��.]]> 467 John Kennedy Toole Aida 0 to-read 3.48 1980
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name: Aida
average rating: 3.48
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]]> 86624728 Salaires mirobolants des joueurs, omniprésence des sponsors, corruption des instances internationales, inflation insensée des droits de retransmission télévisée : le football incarne aujourd'hui les pires dérives du capitalisme débridé. À contre-pied du foot-business et de son cadre institutionnel, Mickaël Correia propose une histoire " par en bas " de ce sport populaire qui demeure aussi généreux que subversif.

De l'Angleterre à la Palestine, de l'Allemagne au Mexique, du Brésil à l'Égypte, de la France à l'Afrique du Sud, ce livre raconte une autre histoire du ballon rond, depuis ses origines jusqu'à nos jours.

Le football ne se résume pas au foot-business : depuis plus d'un siècle, il a été un puissant instrument d'émancipation pour les ouvriers, les féministes, les militants anticolonialistes, les jeunes des quartiers populaires et les contestataires du monde entier.

L'auteur retrace le destin de celles et ceux qui, pratiquant ce sport populaire au quotidien, en professionnels ou en amateurs, ont trop longtemps été éclipsés par les équipes stars et les légendes dorées. Prenant à contre-pied les clichés sur les supporters de foot, il raconte aussi l'étonnante histoire des contre-cultures footballistiques nées après la Seconde Guerre mondiale, des hooligans anglais jusqu'aux ultras qui ont joué un rôle central dans les printemps arabes de 2011.

En proposant une histoire " par en bas ", en s'attachant à donner la parole à tous les protagonistes de cette épopée, Mickaël Correia rappelle que le football peut être aussi généreux que subversif.

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]]> 107698229 نقد ادبی 512 محمدرضا شفیعی کدکنی 9643726266 Aida 2 4.12 2012
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]]> 85767 Gender Trouble has become one of the key works of contemporary feminist theory, and an essential work for anyone interested in the study of gender, queer theory, or the politics of sexuality in culture. This is the text where Judith Butler began to advance the ideas that would go on to take life as "performativity theory," as well as some of the first articulations of the possibility for subversive gender practices, and she writes in her preface to the 10th anniversary edition released in 1999 that one point of Gender Trouble was "not to prescribe a new gendered way of life [...] but to open up the field of possibility for gender [...]" Widely taught, and widely debated, Gender Trouble continues to offer a powerful critique of heteronormativity and of the function of gender in the modern world.]]> 236 Judith Butler 0415389550 Aida 0 to-read 4.08 1989
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]]> 171257 Undoing Gender constitutes Judith Butler's recent reflections on gender and sexuality, focusing on new kinship, psychoanalysis and the incest taboo, transgender, intersex, diagnostic categories, social violence, and the tasks of social transformation. In terms that draw from feminist and queer theory, Butler considers the norms that govern and fail to govern gender and sexuality as they relate to the constraints on recognizable personhood. The book constitutes a reconsideration of her earlier view on gender performativity from Gender Trouble. In this work, the critique of gender norms is clearly situated within the framework of human persistence and survival. And to "do" one's gender in certain ways sometimes implies "undoing" dominant notions of personhood. She writes about the "New Gender Politics" that has emerged in recent years, a combination of movements concerned with transgender, transsexuality, intersex, and their complex relations to feminist and queer theory.]]> 288 Judith Butler 0415969239 Aida 0 to-read 4.12 2004
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]]> 127282429 From a global icon, a bold, essential account of how a fear of gender is fueling reactionary politics around the world.

Judith Butler, the groundbreaking thinker whose iconic book Gender Trouble redefined how we think about gender and sexuality, confronts the attacks on “gender�� that have become central to right-wing movements today. Global networks have formed “anti-gender ideology movements�� that are dedicated to circulating a fantasy that gender is a dangerous, perhaps diabolical, threat to families, local cultures, civilization―and even “man�� himself. Inflamed by the rhetoric of public figures, this movement has sought to nullify reproductive justice, undermine protections against sexual and gender violence, and strip trans and queer people of their rights to pursue a life without fear of violence.

The aim of Who’s Afraid of Gender? is not to offer a new theory of gender but to examine how “gender�� has become a phantasm for emerging authoritarian regimes, fascist formations, and transexclusionary feminists. In their vital, courageous new book, Butler illuminates the concrete ways that this phantasm of “gender�� collects and displaces anxieties and fears of destruction. Operating in tandem with deceptive accounts of “critical race theory�� and xenophobic panics about migration, the anti-gender movement demonizes struggles for equality, fuels aggressive nationalism, and leaves millions of people vulnerable to subjugation.

An essential intervention into one of the most fraught issues of our moment, Who’s Afraid of Gender? is a bold call to refuse the alliance with authoritarian movements and to make a broad coalition with all those whose struggle for equality is linked with fighting injustice. Imagining new possibilities for both freedom and solidarity, Butler offers us a hopeful work of social and political analysis that is both timely and timeless―a book whose verve and rigor only they could deliver.]]> 320 Judith Butler 0374608229 Aida 0 to-read 4.02 2024
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]]> 75867 159 Antonin Artaud 0802150306 Aida 0 to-read 4.19 1938
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name: Aida
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]]> 1322317 'Kuli'.

Adapun Don Juan, ia adalah orang kaya baru, birokrat muda. Mengenakan pakaian abu-abu dan celana panjang yang agak longgar model Charleston, model yang sudah ketinggalan kira-kira enam tahun. Rambutnya basah oleh minyak rambut. Cincinnya terbuat dari permata palsu, dan kukunya bercahaya kerena dimanikur.

Don Juan yang seorang eksekutif muda ini sangat pandai mempesona wanita. Awalnya, ia dan tunangan Hassam hanya berdansa. Namun dansa ini pun berkelajutan...Bukan main cemburunya Hassam. Don Juan yang bermodalakan bualan-bualan dan aksesoris palsu ini benar-benar berhasil memperdayai tunangannya.]]> Sadegh Hedayat Aida 0 to-read 3.35 2007
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]]> 38208963 150 Afsaneh Najmabadi 6007683656 Aida 3 3.94 2005
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name: Aida
average rating: 3.94
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نیمی از کتاب ترجمه نشده و بحث در میانه رها می‌شو��.
]]> 62047984
So what if June edits Athena’s novel and sends it to her agent as her own work? So what if she lets her new publisher rebrand her as Juniper Song—complete with an ambiguously ethnic author photo? This piece of history deserve to be told, whoever the teller. That is what June believes, and The New York Times bestseller list agrees.

But June cannot escape Athena’s shadow, and emerging evidence threatens her stolen success. As she races to protect her secret she discovers exactly how far she will go to keep what she thinks she deserves.]]> 319 R.F. Kuang 000853277X Aida 3 Kuang touches very nicely on what my issue has been with books like The Good Earth all these years, among other things. A very interesting read.]]> 3.69 2023
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3.5
Kuang touches very nicely on what my issue has been with books like The Good Earth all these years, among other things. A very interesting read.
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