World Literature Books


Child of Europe: A New Anthology of East European Poetry (Penguin International Poets)Child of Europe: A New Anthology of East European Poetry (Penguin International Poets)
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First Love (Penguin Great Loves)First Love (Penguin Great Loves)
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I love the way Ivan Turgenev writes; his language is wonderful; his paragraphs well formed and...
Death in Venice and Other TalesDeath in Venice and Other Tales
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"Death in Venice" is so many wondrous treasures. It is the sound of a great heart...
Kristin Lavransdatter III: The Cross (Penguin Classics)Kristin Lavransdatter III: The Cross (Penguin Classics)
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THE CROSS is the final shattering novel in Sigrid Undset's KRISTAN LAVRANSDATTER trilogy. ...
Demons (Penguin Classics)Demons (Penguin Classics)
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Much should be said about Robert Maguire's fresh translation of the first book I ever read...


Cut & Run: When the Truth is No ProtectionCut & Run: When the Truth is No Protection
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The pseudonym-ed thriller debut ofa New Zealadn "successful writer in other media",...
SmokeSmoke
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Tying the Knot: A South African Bride's Survival GuideTying the Knot: A South African Bride's Survival GuideTwenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair: Dual-Language Edition (Penguin Classics) (Spanish Edition)Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair: Dual-Language Edition (Penguin Classics) (Spanish Edition)
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This is a wonderful romantic poetry book, Pablo has a way with words that gives you images in...
Twenty Chickens For A Saddle -Twenty Chickens For A Saddle -
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The Great Indian Love StoryThe Great Indian Love Story
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You Are HereYou Are Here
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'You Are Here'. This is a book about a young, 25 year old Arshi. The narrative is stream...
The Shahnameh: The Persian Book of KingsThe Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings
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Nobody has been very enthusiastic up till now, and so it must be up to me. I loved and adored...
The Good Person of Szechwan (Penguin Classics)The Good Person of Szechwan (Penguin Classics)
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"First comes eating and then comes morality". One day three Gods come down to...
Disquiet (Penguin Original)Disquiet (Penguin Original)
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This slim volume is the perfect book to choose for a sunny afternoon, when you have an hour or...

Emilie Du Chatelet: Daring Genius of the EnlightenmentEmilie Du Chatelet: Daring Genius of the Enlightenment
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Gabrielle Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise Du Châtelet wrote her last...
The Seville CommunionThe Seville Communion
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A hacker whom the Vatican codes"Vesper" leaves a message in the Pope's computer...
The Poems of St. John of the Cross: (Dual English/Spanish)The Poems of St. John of the Cross: (Dual English/Spanish)
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The Poems of St. John of the Cross, translated by Ken Krabbenhoft, disappoints on two levels:...
The Story Begins: Essays on LiteratureThe Story Begins: Essays on Literature
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I was introduced to Amos Oz through a short story of his, "Nomad and Viper." The...
Five Moral PiecesFive Moral Pieces
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My wife gave me this book as a gift. I love Eco's writings, so I immediately began reading...

Taking it Like a WomanTaking it Like a WomanTo Room NineteenTo Room Nineteen
Doris Lessing's excellent short-story "To Room Nineteen" is doubtless an...
Hard Time to be a FatherHard Time to be a FatherBuddha (1) - KapilavastuBuddha (1) - KapilavastuInes of My SoulInes of My Soul

All Gong and No Dinner: Home Truths and Domestic SayingsAll Gong and No Dinner: Home Truths and Domestic Sayings
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Over the last 30 years, hundreds of thousands of listeners of Quote?Unquote have written to...
Self-DiscoverySelf-Discovery
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Well, you know, the market for Russian literature in USA is such that if McMillian decided to...
Baby LoreBaby Lore
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Definitely Maybe: A Manuscript Discovered under Unusual Circumstances (Macmillan's Best of Soviet Science Fiction)Definitely Maybe: A Manuscript Discovered under Unusual Circumstances (Macmillan's Best of Soviet Science Fiction)
I like Strugatsky very much. I'm happy I can read them in Russian, but you can find many...
The STORY VINEThe STORY VINE
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Je suis arrivée à ce merveilleux livre en cherchant des livres sur les...

The Macmillan Illustrated Encyclopedia of Myths and LegendsThe Macmillan Illustrated Encyclopedia of Myths and Legends
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This book was an essential reference when I first got serious about studying comparative...
Letters and Drawings of Bruno Schulz: With Selected ProseLetters and Drawings of Bruno Schulz: With Selected Prose
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My recent reading of Bruno Schulz's "The Street of Crocodiles" intrigued me enough...
The Holy GrailThe Holy Grail
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The final volume of a comprehensive Camelot tetralogy chronicles the events surrounding the...
Hamish Brown's Scotland: A Chapbook of ExplorationsHamish Brown's Scotland: A Chapbook of Explorations
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Exquisite CorpseExquisite Corpse

Inca and Aztec States, 1400-1800: Anthropology and History (Studies in Anthropology)Inca and Aztec States, 1400-1800: Anthropology and History (Studies in Anthropology)
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Viewpoints 12 (Prentice Hall, Senior English)Viewpoints 12 (Prentice Hall, Senior English)
Viewpoints 12 features a collection of compelling texts ranging from the traditional to the...
The Rabbit in the Thorn TreeThe Rabbit in the Thorn TreeThis Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)
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Imre Kertesz, a concentration camp survivor and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature often...
The Philosophy of MagicThe Philosophy of Magic
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The Philosophy of Magic Arthur Versluis 1986 168 pages This is a quick and short read. I...

Eminent Maricones: Arenas, Lorca, Puig, and Me (Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiog)Eminent Maricones: Arenas, Lorca, Puig, and Me (Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiog)
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"Eminent Maricones: Arenas, Lorca, Puig, and Me" is an extraordinary...
War and Peace (Oxford World's Classics)War and Peace (Oxford World's Classics)
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I waited a long time. It is a 'classic' which makes it sound dull. But as I've...
Saint Exupéry: A BiographySaint Exupéry: A Biography
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Antoine de Saint-Exupery: born 8am June 29th 1900 in Lyons, France. I am only a few chapters...
Muerta Blanca (The Numa Files) (Spanish Edition)Muerta Blanca (The Numa Files) (Spanish Edition)
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The purpose of a book review is to review the book. If you bought this Spanish language book...
Love in the Time of Cholera (Oprah's Book Club)Love in the Time of Cholera (Oprah's Book Club)
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So, after reading many reviews, and after reading the book itself, I have come to a few...

TransitionTransition
Best Price: $7.93
Transition is a frustrating book. This is my second attempt at reading Iain Banks. My first...
Wit'ch StarWit'ch Star
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The story ends with the final insallment of the Banned and the Banished series. And it does, in...
Om on RaOm on Ra
Best Price: $38.03
What a pleasure it is to discover Victor Pelevin. His imagination and creativity seem to have...
THREE LITTLE PIGS CSD: From the Famous Walt Disney FilmTHREE LITTLE PIGS CSD: From the Famous Walt Disney FilmCrime and Punishment (Penguin Classics)Crime and Punishment (Penguin Classics)
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Crime and Punishment is book which completely changed my life. It was that instant which...

The Charterhouse of Parma (Penguin Classics)The Charterhouse of Parma (Penguin Classics)
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The key to this novel, and why it has lasted for over 150 years, is like that of _The Red and...
Madame Bovary (Penguin Popular Classics)Madame Bovary (Penguin Popular Classics)
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Destined for doom and misfortune, Madame Bovary, the female protagonist, falls down the wrong...
Waiting for the Barbarians: A Novel (Penguin Ink) (The Penguin Ink Series)Waiting for the Barbarians: A Novel (Penguin Ink) (The Penguin Ink Series)
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J. M. Coetzee's 1980 novel has perhaps become his most famous due to the strange allegorical...
BlindnessBlindness
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"Blindness was spreading, not like a sudden tide flooding everything and carrying all...
Year of Wonders: A Novel of the PlagueYear of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague
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It is difficult to categorically damn such a well respected book as Geraldine Brooks' Year...

The Fourth Bear: A Nursery Crime (Jack Spratt Investigates)The Fourth Bear: A Nursery Crime (Jack Spratt Investigates)
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Detective Inspector Jack Spratt and Detective Sergeant Mary Mary return in their second...
Treasure Island (World's Classics)Treasure Island (World's Classics)
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"Treasure Island will surely become--it must already have become, and will remain--in its...
Anna Karenina (Oxford World's Classics)Anna Karenina (Oxford World's Classics)
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Tolstoy's extraordinary wisdom and the beautiful precision, economy and grace of his writing...
Les Liaisons dangereuses (Oxford World's Classics)Les Liaisons dangereuses (Oxford World's Classics)
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Choderlos de Laclos' epistolary novel has been made into at least three film versions, but...
The Sacred Paw: The Bear in Nature, Myth, and LiteratureThe Sacred Paw: The Bear in Nature, Myth, and Literature
The 'Sacred Paw' looks at the long and profound relationship between bears and humans....

Athene: Image and Energy (Arkana)Athene: Image and Energy (Arkana)
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Images of the Greek goddess Athene tell us something about "the feminine", and so have...
Mutuwhenua : The Moon SleepsMutuwhenua : The Moon SleepsSelected Poems and Fragments (Penguin Classics) (English and German Edition)Selected Poems and Fragments (Penguin Classics) (English and German Edition)
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I don't have much to say about Holderlin's poetry, which I find a bit stodgy and...
The Penguin Book of Hebrew Verse (Penguin Classics)The Penguin Book of Hebrew Verse (Penguin Classics)
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An impressive compendium of a vast body of material. Fresh translations side-by-side with the...
Ghosts and Other PlaysGhosts and Other Plays
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Ghosts and Other Plays is a seminal series of plays that combine humor with scathing social...

The Quest of the Holy Grail (Penguin Classics)The Quest of the Holy Grail (Penguin Classics)
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Though this book lacks much of what people expect in an Arthurian tale it does contain an...
How Much Land Does a Man Need? and Other Stories (Penguin Classics)How Much Land Does a Man Need? and Other Stories (Penguin Classics)
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Tolstoy wrote some remarkable short fiction. There is, for example, the detached observer of...
The Tale of the Unknown IslandThe Tale of the Unknown Island
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Jose Saramago's book, The Tale of the Unknown Island is a little book that presents a little...
Death with InterruptionsDeath with Interruptions
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Horace Engdahl, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, which awards the Nobel Prize in...
As lonely as Franz KafkaAs lonely as Franz Kafka
Best Price: $25.00
Marthe Robert Kafka 's principal translator into French has written an original and...

Essays on Mexican ArtEssays on Mexican Art
Best Price: $15.00
Really enjoyed the book of essays by Octavio Paz,and the quick service and excellent condition...
Handbook of Christian Feasts & CustomsHandbook of Christian Feasts & Customs
I bought a copy of Weiser new a year or two before it went out of print. For many years I have...
Choiring Of The TreesChoiring Of The Trees
Best Price: $20.00
Donald Harington is my favorite author and this book is probably his best. Although it is not...
The king of the two SiciliesThe king of the two Sicilies
Best Price: $25.00
Visions: Stories and PhotographsVisions: Stories and Photographs
Best Price: $102.56
"In the solemn silence, broken only by the sad sound of the minutes ebbing away, five...

YucatanYucatan
Best Price: $3.72
Lion and the ostrich chicks, and other African folk talesLion and the ostrich chicks, and other African folk tales
Best Price: $1.98
The people of Africa have a rich heritage of storytelling. Included in this book of African...
One good story, that one: StoriesOne good story, that one: Stories
Best Price: $15.42
They say (in their current hardcopy catalog: "The 10 stories in this collection are...
PaulaPaula
Best Price: $103.36
Where the River NarrowsWhere the River Narrows
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This is a lyrical telling of the stories of the strong women of the Trembley family in Northern...

The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary FranceThe Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France
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The entire study is interesting but is almost entirely based upon a single set of documents...
Poorman's Nosegay: Flowers from a Cottage GardenPoorman's Nosegay: Flowers from a Cottage GardenA Captive of the CaucasusA Captive of the Caucasus
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The book arrived fast and in much better condition than I expected; it looked like new. Good...
The lake (Fontana paperbacks)The lake (Fontana paperbacks)
I think that unless I'd read on the dust jacket that Kawabata was a Nobel Prize winner I...
Beneath That Starry PlaceBeneath That Starry Place
Best Price: $3.87
This haunting and magical novel introduces us to Nathan Mann, the youngest of a family of...

Duncton Stone (The Book of Silence, Vol. 3)Duncton Stone (The Book of Silence, Vol. 3)
The Six Duncton books changed my life. William Horwood is the most amazing writer I have ever...
Sea KingdomsSea Kingdoms
Best Price: $192.31
I found this to be a completely enjoyable survey of history from the Celtic perspective. I...
The Tale of the Unknown IslandThe Tale of the Unknown Island
Best Price: $37.59
Jose Saramago's book, The Tale of the Unknown Island is a little book that presents a little...
Death with InterruptionsDeath with Interruptions
Best Price: $2.00
Horace Engdahl, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, which awards the Nobel Prize in...
As lonely as Franz KafkaAs lonely as Franz Kafka
Best Price: $25.00
Marthe Robert Kafka 's principal translator into French has written an original and...

Essays on Mexican ArtEssays on Mexican Art
Best Price: $15.00
Really enjoyed the book of essays by Octavio Paz,and the quick service and excellent condition...
Handbook of Christian Feasts & CustomsHandbook of Christian Feasts & Customs
I bought a copy of Weiser new a year or two before it went out of print. For many years I have...
Choiring Of The TreesChoiring Of The Trees
Best Price: $20.00
Donald Harington is my favorite author and this book is probably his best. Although it is not...
The king of the two SiciliesThe king of the two Sicilies
Best Price: $25.00
Visions: Stories and PhotographsVisions: Stories and Photographs
Best Price: $102.56
"In the solemn silence, broken only by the sad sound of the minutes ebbing away, five...

YucatanYucatan
Best Price: $3.72
Lion and the ostrich chicks, and other African folk talesLion and the ostrich chicks, and other African folk tales
Best Price: $1.98
The people of Africa have a rich heritage of storytelling. Included in this book of African...
   
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