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  A Doll's House

  by Henrik Ibsen

  A Doll's House is a play written in 1879 by Norweigian playwright Henrik Ibsen. This play, being Ibsen's most famous, is a required reading in many high schools and colleges around the world. Although the play was considered controversial when it was originally published, it's critical view of victorian marriage is now seen as being educational. This work is known for its unconventional ending, which ends in a... (more)
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  Siddhartha

  by Hermann Hesse

  A young Indian mystic, a contemporary of Buddha, sacrifices everything to search for the true meaning of life.
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  Delta of Venus

  by Anaïs Nin

  This is a collection of short stories which explore the ultimate in sexual possiblility, from a female angle.
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  Nausea

  by Jean-Paul Sartre

  Among readers and critics familiar with the whole of Sartre's work, it is generally recognized that his earliest novel, Le Nausée (first published in 1938), is his finest and most significant. It is unquestionably a key novel of the Twentieth Century and a landmark in Existentialist fiction. Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In impressionistic, diary... (more)
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  The Family of Pascual Duarte

  by Camilo José Cela

  Unabridged edition of Cela's modern novel, with study aids. Winner of the 1989 Nobel Prize for Literature.
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  Laughable Loves

  by Milan Kundera

  Milan Kundera is a master of graceful illusion and illuminating surprise. In one of these stories a young man and his girlfriend pretend that she is a stranger he picked up on the road--only to become strangers to each other in reality as their game proceeds. In another a teacher fakes piety in order to seduce a devout girl, then jilts her and yearns for God. In yet another girls wait in bars, on beaches, and on... (more)
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  Nin's Continuous Novel: Book 3

  The Four-Chambered Heart

  by Anaïs Nin

  The Four-Chambered Heart, Anais Nin's third title in the Cities of the Interior series of novels, is one of Nin's most compelling books, with well-defined characters (Djuna, Rango, and Zora), rhythmic waves of tension, and a powerful climax. Based on Nin's own relationship with the Peruvian radical Gonzalo More and his wife Helba, The Four-Chambered Heart examines how each of us experiences love in our own way,... (more)
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  Eroshima

  by Dany Laferrière

  Text: French
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  Night Trilogy: Book 1

  Night

  by Elie Wiesel

  Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. Elie Wiesel reflects on the enduring importance of Night and his lifelong, passionate dedication to ensuring that the world never forgets man capacity for inhumanity to man. Night offers much more than a litany of the daily terrors, everyday ... (more)
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  A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian

  by Marina Lewycka

  "An amusing, astonishing debut . . . about how a family learns to let go of the past and live and love in the present." — The Atlanta Journal-Constitution With this wise, tender, and deeply funny novel, Marina Lewycka takes her place alongside Zadie Smith and Monica Ali as a writer who can capture the unchanging verities of family. When an elderly and newly widowed Ukrainian immigrant announces his... (more)
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  The Unbearable Lightness of Being

  by Milan Kundera

  A young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing; one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful lover — these are the two couples whose story is told in this masterful novel. In a world in which lives are shaped by irrevocable choices and by fortuitous events, a world in which everything occurs but once, existence seems to lose its substance, its weight. Hence, we feel... (more)
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  The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

  by Milan Kundera

  Rich in its stories, characters, and imaginative range, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting is the novel that brought Milan Kundera his first big international success in the late 1970s. Like all his work, it is valuable for far more than its historical implications. In seven wonderfully integrated parts, different aspects of human existence are magnified and reduced, reordered and emphasized, newly examined,... (more)
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  The Lover

  by Marguerite Duras

  Back in print in paperback, "an exquisite jewel of a novel, as multifaceted as a diamond, as seamless and polished as a pearl" ("Boston Herald"). This edition includes an Introduction by Maxine Hong Kingston that looks back at Duras's world from an intriguing new perspective--that of a visitor to Vietnam today.