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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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  Russian Debutante's Handbook

  by Gary Shteyngart

  This is the story of Vladimir Girshkin-part P.T. Barnum, part V.I. Lenin, the man who would conquer half of Europe (albeit the wrong half).
• Ice Around Our Lips: Finland-Swedish Poetry

  

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  Ice Around Our Lips: Finland-Swedish Poetry

  by David McDuff

  And Then by Gosta Agren And Thereby by Gosta Agren Anna Akhmatova by Gosta Agren Bird by Gosta Agren Black And White by Gosta Agren But by Gosta Agren The Cathedrals Of Europe by Gosta Agren Circle by Gosta Agren Copernicus by Gosta Agren Courage by Gosta Agren Diagnosis by Gosta Agren Ego by Gosta Agren Enlargement by Gosta Agren Epitaph By The Shore At Vasa by... (more)
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  Complete Poems

  by Edith Södergran

  All The Echoes In The Forest Animal Hymn The Armoured Train Arrival In Hades At Nietzsche's Grave At Sunrise Autumn Beauty Black Or White Bliss The Bride The Bull Captivity A Captured Bird The Chalice Of Suffering The Charm Christian Confession Churchyard Fantasy The Colours' Longing The Complaint Of The Tool The Condition A Counsel Creator Forms Dangerous Dreams The... (more)
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  Before You Sleep

  by Tiina Nunnally, Linn Ullmann

  Through the sublimely unreliable voice of its narrator, Karin, Before You Sleep reaches back from present-day Oslo to 1930s Brooklyn to relate the emotional legacies of the Blom family. Karin is both playful and melancholy-a serial seductress who defines herself in contrast to the women in her life: her mother, Anni, alluring, manipulative, and melodramatic; her sister Julie, a wife and mother undone by... (more)
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  Absurdistan

  by Gary Shteyngart

  “ Absurdistan is not just a hilarious novel, but a record of a particular peak in the history of human folly. No one is more capable of dealing with the transition from the hell of socialism to the hell of capitalism in Eastern Europe than Shteyngart, the great-great grandson of one Nikolai Gogol and the funniest foreigner alive.” –Aleksandar Hemon From the critically acclaimed, bestselling author of The... (more)