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Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin, The Queen of Spades, The Captain's Daughter

Alexander S. Pushkin

This volume contains three of Pushkin's best works of fiction. The Queen of Spades has long been acknowledged as one of the world's greatest short stories, in which Pushkin explores the nature of obsession. The Tales of Belkin are witty parodies of... read more

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The Diary of a Chambermaid

Octave Mirbeau

"I am no saint; I have known many men, and I know, by experience, all the madness, all the vileness, of which they are capable. But a man like Monsiuer?" - from THE DIARY OF A CHAMBERMAID The famous anarchist and art critic Octave Mirbeau (1848-1917)... read more

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The Emigrants

W. G. Sebald

At first The Emigrants appears simply to document the lives of four Jewish émigrés in the twentieth century. But gradually, as Sebald's precise, almost dreamlike prose begins to draw their stories, the four narrations merge into one overwhelming... read more

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To an Unknown Lady

André Maurois

"To an Unknown Lady" is an epistolary work, unreleased in Bulgaria so far. It is different from the other works by the author, mostly because of its intimate tone, sincerity and the deep feeling that gives it uniqueness. The writer addresses all the women who... read more

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Short Stories and Novels

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Every educated person knows that the "silent magician" Anton Pavlovich Chekhov is one of the greatest masters of the short story in the world literature. He discovered new spaces in front of psychological prose. But why the interest of the modern world to his... read more

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A Universal History of Iniquity

Jorge Luis Borges

In his writing, Borges always combined high seriousness with a wicked sense of fun. Here he reveals his delight in re-creating (or making up) colorful stories from the Orient, the Islamic world, and the Wild West, as well as his horrified fascination with... read more

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Jacob`s Room

Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf's first original and distinguished work, Jacob's Room is the story of a sensitive young man named Jacob Flanders. The life story, character and friends of Jacob are presented in a series for separate scenes and moments from his childhood,... read more

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Showdown (Tocaia Grande)

Jorge Amado

Amado's largest, most magnificent novel to date is set in earthy, tropical Brazil. It is an unforgettable tale of the frontier full of violence and courage, lust and adventure. The novel deals with the foundation of a community, Tocaia Grande ("big ambush"... read more

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Aurelien

Louis Aragon

The famous poet of the French Resistance movement of the late war, Louis Aragon, had chosen as setting for his best novel, Paris and the decadent artistic groups. Aragon had never before depicted so arrestingly the strange fascination and repulsion of Paris,... read more

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The Ice People

René Barjavel

When a French expedition in Antarctica reveals ruins of a 900,000 year old civilization, scientists from all over the world flock to the site to help explore and understand. The entire planet watches via global satellite TV, mesmerized, as they uncover a... read more

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Night and Day

Virginia Woolf

Katharine Hilbery is beautiful and privileged, but uncertain of her future. She must choose between becoming engaged to the oddly prosaic poet William Rodney, and her dangerous attraction to the passionate Ralph Denham. As she struggles to decide, the lives... read more

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Chéri

Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette

Léa de Lonval is an aging courtesan, a once famous beauty facing the end of her sexual career. She is also facing the end of her most intense love affair, with Fred Peloux—known as Chéri—a playboy half her age. This is absolute... read more

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Letters to a Young Poet. Letters to a Young Woman. Rainer Maria Rilke - Marina Tsvetaeva. Correspondence

Rainer Maria Rilke

Letters to a Young Poet collects the ten letters that Rilke wrote to Kappus. A book often encountered in adolescence, it speaks directly to the young. Rilke offers unguarded thoughts on such diverse subjects as creativity, solitude, self-reliance, living... read more

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The Bostonians

Henry James

This brilliant satire of the women’s rights movement in America is the story of the ravishing inspirational speaker Verena Tarrant and the bitter struggle between two distant cousins who seek to control her. Will the privileged Boston feminist Olive... read more

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The Garden of the Gods

Gerald Durrel

The third volume in the 'Corfu Trilogy' continues the accounts of the young Gerald Durrell during the years that he and his family lived in Corfu before the Second World War. While the animals of Corfu are young Gerald's focus, it is the antics of his family... read more

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Journey into the Past and Other Stories

Stefan Zweig

A deep study of the uneasy heart by one of the masters of the psychological novel, Journey into the Past, published here for the first time in America, is a novella that was found among Zweig’s papers after his death. Investigating the strange ways... read more

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Sonnets, hardcover

William Sheakspeare

This book is an important and complete collection of the Sonnets of William Shakespeare. Most readers are aware of the great plays and manuscripts written for the stage, but are unaware of the magnificent Sonnets which were written around the same period.... read more

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Dubliners

James Joyce

This work of art reflects life in Ireland at the turn of the last century, and by rejecting euphemism, reveals to the Irish their unromantic reality. Each of the 15 stories offers glimpses into the lives of ordinary Dubliners, and collectively they paint a... read more

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My Family and Other Animals

Gerald Durrel

When the unconventional Durrell family can no longer endure the damp, gray English climate, they do what any sensible family would do: sell their house and relocate to the sunny Greek isle of Corfu. My Family and Other Animals was intended to... read more

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The Aleph

Jorge Luis Borges

Full of philosophical puzzles and supernatural surprises, these stories contain some of Borges’s most fully realized human characters. With uncanny insight he takes us inside the minds of an unrepentant Nazi, an imprisoned Mayan priest, fanatical... read more

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Inspiration

Isaac Babel

The collection of stories "Inspiration" contains rarely issued Babel's stories, most of which had never been published in Bulgarian so far. Isaac Babel was born in Odessa in 1894, and grew up in the traditional atmosphere of a lower middle-class Jewish... read more

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Selected Essays

Virginia Woolf

"A good essay must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in, not out." According to Virginia Woolf, the goal of the essay 'is simply that it should give pleasure... It should lay us under a spell with its first word, and we... read more

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The Thief's Journal

Jean Genet

"The Thief's Journal" is perhaps Jean Genet's most authentically autobiographical novel, personifying his quest for spiritual glory through the pursuit of evil. Writing in the intensely lyrical prose style that is his trademark, the man Jean Cocteau dubbed... read more

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Adam Bede

George Eliot

Hailed for its sympathetic and accurate rendering of nineteenth-century English pastoral life, Adam Bede was George Eliot's first full-length novel and a bestseller from the moment of publication. Eliot herself called it "a country story - full of... read more

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Sweet Thursday

John Steinbeck

In Monterey, on the California coast, Sweet Thursday is what they call the day after Lousy Wednesday, which is one of those days that are just naturally bad. Returning to the scene of Cannery Row - the weedy lots and junk heaps and flophouses of... read more

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Complete Stories

Truman Capote

A landmark collection that brings together Truman Capote’s life’s work in the form he called his “great love,” The Complete Stories confirms Capote’s status as a master of the short story. Ranging from the gothic... read more

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Darker Muses: The Poet Nero

Dezső Kosztolányi

Nero is an emperor, but he wants to be something more - a poet. This is a book about the passion for glory that burns everything on his way. Nero, the all-powerful master, is a beggar at the foot of each poet of reputation. He is envious of the talented and... read more

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The Enchanter

Vladimir Nabokov

"The Enchanter" is the Ur-Lolita, the precursor to Nabokov's classic novel. At once hilarious and chilling, it tells the story of an outwardly respectable man and his fatal obsession with certain pubescent girls, whose coltish grace and subconscious coquetry... read more

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Beasts in My Belfry

Gerald Durrel

A hilarious record that no Durrell fan will want to miss. - Sunday TelegraphIf you looked you would think that his mind was full of beautiful and poetic thoughts...A ball of food would make its appearance at the base of the long neck and would travel... read more

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Home Is the Sailor

Jorge Amado

A humorous novel set in a sleepy Brazilian beach resort. When Captain Vasco Moscosco de Aragao arrives, the townspeople are enthralled by his talk of exotic romances and travel tales. Amado has written over 20 novels, including "The Violent Land" and... read more

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The Colossus of Maroussi

Henry Miller

"The Colossus of Maroussi" is an impressionist travelogue by Henry Miller, written in 1939 and first published in 1941 by Colt Press of San Francisco. As an impoverished writer in need of rejuvenation, Miller travelled to Greece at the invitation of his... read more

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The Mysteries of Paris, Vol. 1 and Vol. 2

Eugène Sue

The hero of the novel is the mysterious and distinguished Rodolphe, who is really the Grand Duke of Gerolstein (a fictional kingdom of Germany) but is disguised as a Parisian worker. Rodolphe can speak in argot, is extremely strong and a good fighter.... read more

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Honeymoon

Patrick Modiano

Modiano, winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature and winner of the Prix Goncourt, constructs "a haunting tale of quiet intensity" (Review of Contemporary Fiction). It parallels the story of Jean B., a filmmaker who abandons his wife and career to hole up... read more

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Dora Bruder

Patrick Modiano

Patrick Modiano opens Dora Bruder by telling how in 1988 he stumbled across an ad in the personal columns of the New Year's Eve 1941 edition of Paris Soir. Placed by the parents of a 15-year-old Jewish girl, Dora Bruder, who had run away from... read more

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The Blood of Others

Simone de Beauvoir

Jean Blomart, patriot leader against the German forces of occupation, waits throughout an endless night for his wounded lover, Hélène, to die. He is the one who sent her on the mission that led to her death, and before morning he must decide how... read more

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Fillets of Plaice

Gerald Durrel

Durrell's hilarious and warm "My Family and Other Animals" (1957) began a trio of reminiscences of his life growing up with a slightly dotty family—the overbearing and omniscient Larry; the affectionate and loving siblings, Margot and Leslie; and, of... read more

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Encounters with Animals

Gerald Durrel

Gerald Durrell's accounts of the animals he encountered on his travels were some of the first widely shared descriptions of the world's most extraordinary animals. "Encounters with Animals" is one of these entertaining accounts of the courtships, wars and... read more

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The Dain Curse

Dashiell Hammett

Everything about the Leggett diamond heist indicated to the Continental Op that it was an inside job. From the stray diamond found in the yard to the eyewitness accounts of a "strange man" casing the house, everything was just too pat. Gabrielle Dain-Leggett... read more

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Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage

Kurt Vonnegut

In this self-portrait by an American genius, Kurt Vonnegut writes with beguiling wit and poignant wisdom about his favorite comedians, country music, a dead friend, a dead marriage, and various cockamamie aspects of his all-too-human journey through life.... read more

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Six Problems for Don Isidro Parodi

Jorge Luis Borges, Adolfo Bioy Casares

"It is a brave moment in the literary annals of a nation when it gives birth to its first indigenous private eye. Until it does, local devotees of the murder story must endure the indignity - to say nothing of the expense - of having their sleuths shipped in... read more

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Birds, Beasts, and Relatives

Gerald Durrel

Part coming-of-age autobiography and part nature guide, Gerald Durrell's dazzling sequel to "My Family and Other Animals" is based on his boyhood on Corfu, from 1933 to 1939. Originally published in 1969 but long out of print, "Birds, Beasts, and Relatives"... read more

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The Hunting of the Snark

Lewis Carroll

It is Lewis Carroll's sublimely weird nonsense epic about an ill-fated hunting mission by a group of bizarre characters. Carroll says of his eight fits of Snarkdom that there is no real symbolism - the Snark is just a Snark. Or more precisely, a Boojum.... read more

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Seeing

José Saramago

On election day in the capital, it is raining so hard that no one has bothered to come out to vote. The politicians are growing jittery. Should they reschedule the elections for another day? Around three o’clock, the rain finally stops. Promptly at... read more

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Tales of Love, Madness and Death

Horacio Quiroga

This collection of stories includes tales about illness, despair, exile, and human brutality. The author himself compiled the selection. Held to be among the greatest writers of short-fiction, Horacio Quiroga has been compared to Kipling and... read more

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Slaughterhouse-Five

Kurt Vonnegut

"Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance With Death" is a 1969 novel by best-selling author Kurt Vonnegut. One of his most popular works and widely regarded as a classic, it combines science fiction elements with an analysis of the human... read more

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Nicholas Nickleby (Hardcover)

Charles Dickens

When Nicholas Nickleby is left penniless after his father's death, he appeals to his wealthy uncle to help him find work and to protect his mother and sister. But Ralph Nickleby proves both hard-hearted and unscrupulous, and Nicholas finds himself forced to... read more

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Nicholas Nickleby

Charles Dickens

When Nicholas Nickleby is left penniless after his father's death, he appeals to his wealthy uncle to help him find work and to protect his mother and sister. But Ralph Nickleby proves both hard-hearted and unscrupulous, and Nicholas finds himself forced to... read more

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Deadeye Dick

Kurt Vonnegut

Deadeye Dick is Kurt Vonnegut’s funny, chillingly satirical look at the death of innocence. Amid a true Vonnegutian host of horrors - a double murder, a fatal dose of radioactivity, a decapitation, an annihilation of a city by a neutron bomb - Rudy... read more

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The Plumed Serpent

David Herbert Lawrence

The story of a European woman's self-annihilating plunge into the intrigues, passions, and pagan rituals of Mexico. Lawrence's mesmerizing and unsettling 1926 novel is his great work of the political imagination. The novel has a contemporary setting during... read more

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Mary Stuart

Stefan Zweig

A gripping biography of the doomed Scottish queen, who spent her life embroiled in the power struggles of Renaissance Europe. Stefan Zweig was born in 1881 in Vienna, a member of a wealthy Austrian-Jewish family. He studied in Berlin and Vienna and was first... read more

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The Picnic and Suchlike Pandemonium

Gerald Durrel

This book constitutes a series of anecdotal snippets and short stories including ‘The Picnic’, a laugh-out-loud account of an ill-fated Durrell family excursion, which should have been a relaxing, jolly affair. But with the Durrells things are... read more

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Death with Interruptions

José Saramago

Nobel Prize-winner Jose Saramago's brilliant new novel poses the question -- what happens when the grim reaper decides there will be no more death? On the first day of the new year, no one dies. This of course causes consternation among politicians, religious... read more

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Laughter in the Dark

Vladimir Nabokov

Laughter in the Dark (Original Russian title: Kamera obskura) is a novel written by Vladimir Nabokov and serialised in Sovremennye Zapiski released in 1932. The first English translation, Camera Obscura, was made by Winifred Roy and published in London in... read more

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Story of O

Pauline Réage

“The free publication of Story of O in this country is an event of considerable importance… it is a significant measure of how far we have come in lifting the restrictions on art and our responses to it… In brief, Story of O relates... read more

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Orlando

Virginia Woolf

“Orlando”, Virginia Woolf's sixth major novel, is a fantastic historical biography, which spans almost 400 years in the lifetime of its protagonist. The novel was conceived as a "writer's holiday" from more structured and demanding novels. Woolf... read more

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Vile Bodies

Evelyn Waugh

“Vile Bodies” is a 1930 novel by Evelyn Waugh satirising the Bright Young People: decadent young London society between World War I and World War II. The title is a literal translation of the Latin phrase "corpora vilia," the plural of "corpus... read more

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