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Simone de Beauvoir

The Second Sex is a 1949 book by the French existentialist Simone de Beauvoir, in which the author discusses the treatment of women throughout history. Beauvoir researched and wrote the book in about 14 months between 1946 and 1949. She published it in two... read more

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Burning Secret and Other Novels

Stefan Zweig

Over the years, Stefan Zweig's short novels have been repeatedly published in various types of collections. He himself compiled three collections in which he presented his works on a thematic basis. The first one, "Burning Secret"(1911), with the original... read more

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In Cold Blood

Truman Capote

On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues.As... read more

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This Patient Labyrinth of Lines

Jorge Luis Borges

“A book is more than a verbal structure or series of verbal structures; it is the dialogue it establishes with its reader and the intonation it imposes upon his voice and the changing and durable images it leaves in his memory. A book is not an isolated... read more

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Summer Crossing

Truman Capote

Considered lost for over 50 years, this is the first novel by one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Set in New York during the summer of 1945, this is the story of a young carefree socialite, Grady, who must make serious decisions about... read more

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The Queen of Spades

Alexander S. Pushkin

The Queen of Spades (Russian: Pikovaya dama) is an acclaimed short story by Alexander Pushkin about human avariciousness. Pushkin wrote the story in autumn 1833 in Boldino and it was first published in literary magazine Biblioteka dlya chteniya in 1834. It... read more

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The Muses Are Heard

Truman Capote

The Muses Are Heard is an early journalistic work of Truman Capote. Originally published in The New Yorker, it is a narrative account of the cultural mission by The Everyman's Opera to the U.S.S.R. in the mid-1950s. Capote was sent to accompany the Opera as... read more

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The Pastures of Heaven

John Steinbeck

In Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck’s beautifully rendered depictions of small yet fateful moments that transform ordinary lives, these twelve early stories introduce both the subject and style of artistic expression that recur in the most important... read more

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Short Stories

Virginia Woolf

Throughout her life, Virginia Woolf worked and reworked short story ideas, trying to enacapsulate her thoughts perfectly in a concise form, but rarely did she publish them. Her stories often appear as streams of consciousness as the writer's attention is... read more

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Music for Chameleons

Truman Capote

Music for Chameleons (1980) is a collection by American author Truman Capote that includes both fiction and nonfiction. Capote's first offering of new material in 14 years, Music for Chamelons spent an unheard of (for a collection of short nonfiction) 16... read more

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Stories and Long Short Stories

Konstantin Konstantinov

This edition aims to rediscover Konstantin Konstantinov as a fiction writer. In chronological order are included works from his five collections of stories and short novels ("To the close", "Love", "Third class", "Day by day", "Seven o'clock in the... read more

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Jules and Jim

Henri-Pierre Roché

Henri-Pierre Roché's 1953 semi-autobiographical novel describes his relationships with the young writer Franz Hessel and Helen Grund. The famous French director François Truffaut came across the book in the mid-1950s whilst browsing through some... read more

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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

The first published novel from the controversial Nobel Prize winning Russian author of The Gulag Archipelago. In the madness of World War II, a dutiful Russian soldier is wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to ten years in a Siberian labor camp. So... read more

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Short Stories for a Year

Luigi Pirandello

The 14 stories selected in this volume evoke sadness, smiles, astonishment, sympathy, reflection on the multifaceted human fate provided by the imagination of a great writer and humanist - the Italian Nobel laureate Luigi Pirandello. With discerning... read more

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Crimson Sails

Alexander Grin

Crimson Sails is a classic adventure tale of love and hope in the beauty of one’s dreams. Written by Russia’s Alexander Grin in 1923, this short fantasy novel introduces readers to Soll, a hopeful young girl who has been ostracized in her village.... read more

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The World of Yesterday

Stefan Zweig

Written as both a recollection of the past and a warning for future generations, The World of Yesterday recalls the golden age of literary Vienna— its seeming permanence, its promise, and its devastating fall. Surrounded by the leading literary lights... read more

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Invitation to a Beheading

Vladimir Nabokov

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... read more

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Too Loud a Solitude

Bohumil Hrabal

TOO LOUD A SOLITUDE is a tender and funny story of Hant'a - a man who has lived in a Czech police state - for 35 years, working as compactor of wastepaper and books. In the process of compacting, he has acquired an education so unwitting he can't quite tell... read more

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Other Inquisitions

Jorge Luis Borges

This remarkable book by one of the great writers of our time includes essays on a proposed universal language, a justification of suicide, a refutation of time, the nature of dreams, and the intricacies of linguistic forms. Borges comments on such literary... read more

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As I Lay Dying

William Faulkner

"I set out deliberately to write a tour-de-force. Before I ever put pen to paper and set down the first word I knew what the last word would be and almost where the last period would fall." — William Faulkner on As I Lay Dying As I Lay Dying is... read more

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A Bend in the River

V. S. Naipaul

When Salim, a young Indian man, is offered a small business in Central Africa, he accepts. As he strives to establish himself, he becomes closely involved with the fluid and dangerous politics of the newly-dependent... read more

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The False Nero

Lion Feuchtwanger

The collection The False Nero casts unusual light on the author's talent, and presents him as a master of stories and short novels. “Can you remember, Acte...how much easier our belief in Nero made life for us in the old days? And can you remember the... read more

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Mary

Vladimir Nabokov

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,... read more

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Swann in Love

Marcel Proust

Swann in Love is a brilliant, devastating novella that tells of infatuation, love, and jealousy. Set against the backdrop of Paris at the end of the nineteenth century, the story of Charles Swann illuminates the fragilities and foibles of human beings when in... read more

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Dictionary of the Khazars (Male Edition)

Milorad Pavić

A national bestseller, Dictionary of the Khazars was cited by The New York Times Book Review as one of the best books of the year. Written in two versions, male and female, which are identical save for seventeen crucial lines, Dictionary is the imaginary book... read more

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Dictionary of the Khazars (Female Edition)

Milorad Pavić

A national bestseller, Dictionary of the Khazars was cited by The New York Times Book Review as one of the best books of the year. Written in two versions, male and female, which are identical save for seventeen crucial lines, Dictionary is the imaginary book... read more

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First Love and Other Novellas

Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev

This collection brings together several of Turgenev's best-known `long' short stories, in which he turns his skills of psychological observation and black comedy to subjects as diverse as the tyranny of serfdom, love, and revenge on the Russian steppes. These... read more

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Misunderstanding in Moscow

Simone de Beauvoir

"Misunderstanding in Moscow" was found after Beauvoir's death in 1986. It is a short novel involving an elderly French couple who confront their fears of... read more

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A Room of One's Own

Virginia Woolf

In this extraordinary essay, Virginia Woolf examines the limitations of womanhood in the early twentieth century. With the startling prose and poetic licence of a novelist, she makes a bid for freedom, emphasizing that the lack of an independent income, and... read more

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The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe

Read throughout the world, admired by Dostoyevsky and translated by Baudelaire, Edgar Allan Poe has become a legendary figure, representing the artist as obsessed outcast and romantic failure. His nightmarish visions, shaped by cool artistic calculation,... read more

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Early Stories

Truman Capote

The early fiction of one of the nation’s most celebrated writers, Truman Capote, as he takes his first bold steps into the canon of American literature Recently rediscovered in the archives of the New York Public Library, these short stories provide an... read more

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Last Love in Constantinople

Milorad Pavić

Acclaimed Serbian novelist Pavic, best known here for his Dictionary of the Khazars, offers another nonlinear novel that the reader is invited to experience in multiple ways. The book is divided into 21 chapters, or "keys", which are meant to parallel the 21... read more

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The Book of Sand

Jorge Luis Borges

"Borges is one of the most remarkable artists of our age", Mario Vargas Llosa said. "The Book of Sand" was the last of Borges' major collections to be published. The stories are, in his words, 'variations on favourite themes...combining a plain and at times... read more

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The Earth is Flat

Rudyard Kipling

This selection covers Kipling's extraordinary short stories from different periods of his career. Ranging in subject matter and style from domestic comedy to public tragedy, from bold realism to mysterious supernaturalism and chilling horror, each story is... read more

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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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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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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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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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