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  Tender Is the Night

  by F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Published in 1934, Tender Is the Night was one of the most talked-about books of the year. "It's amazing how excellent much of it is," Ernest Hemingway said to Maxwell Perkins. "I will say now," John O'Hara wrote Fitzgerald, "Tender Is the Night is in the early stages of being my favorite book, even more than This Side of Paradise." And Archibald MacLeish exclaimed: "Great God, Scott...You are a fine... (more)
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  The Bell Jar

  by Sylvia Plath

  Esther Greenwood is brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented and successful, but slowly going under — maybe for the last time. In her acclaimed and enduring masterwork, Sylvia Plath brilliantly draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity that her insanity becomes palpably real, even rational — as accessible an experience as going to the movies. A deep penetration into the darkest and most... (more)
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  Hollywood

  by Charles Bukowski

  Hank and his wife, Sarah, agree to write a screenplay, and encounter the strange world of the movie industry.
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  Surrender the Pink

  by Carrie Fisher

  Dinah Kaufman writes scripts for a living, and it fits: her life is full of bad lines. Particularly with men. They are all losers. Worse, they turn her down. Imagine her feelings when she finds a real man, Rudy Gendler, polished and successful, who loves her and wants to get married. Alas, he is not what he seems and the marriage ends just short of disaster. Dinah pulls herself together and finds...that she... (more)
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  Der Turm

  by Uwe Tellkamp

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  Parties

  Scenes from Contemporary New York Life

  by Carl Van Vechten

  jazz age novel set up in Harlem
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  Schundroman

  by Bodo Kirchhoff

  Im Schundroman segnet der Ahnungslose, Louis Freytag genannt, passenderweise an einem Buchstand am Frankfurter Flughafen das Zeitliche. Ein Betriebsunfall nur, verursacht durch den aus Manila eingereisten Auftragskiller Willem Hold, der einen Frankfurter Großkopferten kaltmachen soll. Dummerweise hat sich der Schweigsame mit dunkler Vergangenheit und Uhrentick auf dem Nachtflug in seine Sitznachbarin, die... (more)
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  Wiederentdeckte Autorinnen

  Das Weisse Abendkleid

  by Victoria Wolff

  Vier Frauen, ein magisches Kleid und die Liebe - die Wiederentdeckung eines zauberhaften Romans aus den 30er JahrenLa joie tremblante, zitternde Freude, nennt ein Pariser Modeschöpfer sein neuestes Modell, ein weißes Abendkleid. Er spürt sofort, dass er ein Kleid erschaffen hat, das sich von all seinen bisherigen Kreationen unterscheidet. Und tatsächlich: Von dem Kleid geht eine Magie aus, die seine... (more)
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  Esra: Roman

  by Maxim Biller

  Maxim Biller hat einen Liebesroman geschrieben, wie es ihn lange nicht mehr gegeben hat – den Roman von Adam und Esra, die zusammen das Glück suchen, es fast finden und ihre Liebe auch dann nicht verraten, als sie ihnen für immer zu entgleiten droht. Warum lieben die Menschen von heute so sehr die Liebe? Ist sie die letzte Utopie, die wir noch haben? Adam, der junge Schriftsteller, kann sich ein Leben ohne Esra... (more)
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  Heart of Darkness

  by Joseph Conrad

  Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness was first published in 1899 in serial form in London’s Blackwood’s Magazine. Loosely based on Conrad’s firsthand experience of rescuing a company agent from a remote station in the heart of the Congo, the novel is considered a literary bridge between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. With its modern literary approach to questions such as the ambiguous nature of good and... (more)
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  The Mandarins

  by Simone de Beauvoir

  The Mandarins takes an unflinching look at Parisian intellectual society at the end of World War II. In fictionally relating the stories of those around her --Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, Arthur Koestler, Nelson Algren --de Beauvoir dissects the emotional and philosophical currents of her time. At once an engrossing drama and an intriguing political tale, The Mandarins is the emotional odyssey of a woman torn... (more)
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  Buddenbrooks

  The Decline of a Family

  by Thomas Mann

  Text: German
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  Midnight's Children

  by Salman Rushdie

  Midnight's Children a book by Salman Rushdie deals with India's transition from British colonialism to independence and the partition of India. It is considered an example of postcolonial literature and magical realism. The story is told by its chief protagonist, Saleem Sinai, and is set in the context of actual historical events as with historical fiction.The book begins with the story of the Sinai family,... (more)
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  Suzanne Vale: Book 1

  Postcards from the Edge

  by Carrie Fisher

  "I'm expecting a breakthrough any decade now..." POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE Suzanne Vale is funny and famous, a thirty-ish actress who has crash-landed in rehab, and navigated the humorous and harrowing byways of all of her addictions...even love. Tough yet fragile, she's hanging on -- and she's not sure why. There is her unsupporting cast of friends and lovers: Alex, an arrogantly handsome TV writer. Suzanne... (more)
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  Flame

  by Gabriele D'Annunzio

  Text: English (translation) Original Language: Italian