Books to read and reread

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Wittgenstein's Mistress

by David Markson

Wittgenstein's Mistress is a novel unlike anything David Markson or anyone else has ever written before. It is the story of a woman who is …
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Nausea

by Jean-Paul Sartre

Presents Jean-Paul Sartre's existentialist novel, first published in 1938, in which Antoine Roquentin, a French writer, chronicles his reactions to the world and people around …
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The Name of the World

 

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The Radetzky March

by Joseph Roth

The Radetzky March, Joseph Roth's classic saga of the privileged von Trotta family, encompasses the entire social fabric of the Austro-Hungarian Empire just before World …
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The Stranger

by Albert Camus

With the intrigue of a psychological thriller, The Stranger—Camus's masterpiece—gives us the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an …
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Wittgenstein's Nephew

by Thomas Bernhard

It is 1967, in a Viennese hospital. In separate wards: the narrator named Thomas Bernhard, is stricken with a lung ailment; his friend Paul, nephew …
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Zeno's Conscience

by Italo Svevo

Long hailed as a seminal work of modernism in the tradition of Joyce and Kafka, and now available in a supple new English translation, Italo …
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A Hero of Our Time

by Mikhail Lermontov

In its adventurous happenings–its abductions, duels, and sexual intrigues–A Hero of Our Time looks backward to the tales of Sir Walter Scott and Lord Byron, …
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To the Lighthouse

by Virginia Woolf

The novel that established Virginia Woolf as a leading writer of the twentieth century, To the Lighthouse is made up of three powerfully charged visions …
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The Waves

by Virginia Woolf

One of Woolf's most experimental novels, The Waves presents six characters in monologue - from morning until night, from childhood into old age - against …
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Three Novels

by Samuel Beckett

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Invisible Man

by Ralph Ellison

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In this deeply compelling novel and epic milestone of American literature, a nameless narrator tells his story …
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Homo Faber

by Max Frisch

Loneliness and despair invade the world of an engineer who comes to realize that he has failed as a friend, husband, and father.
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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 …
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If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

by Italo Calvino

Italo Calvino's classic, multifaceted novel about writing and readers.
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

by James Joyce

James Joyce's coming-of-age story, a tour de force of style and technique The first, shortest, and most approachable of James Joyce’s novels, A Portrait of …
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The Complete Stories

by Franz Kafka

The complete stories of one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial. “An important book, valuable …
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Under the Volcano

by Malcolm Lowry

It is the Day of Death and the fiesta is in fullswing. Geoffrey Firmin, H.M. ex-consul, is drowning himself in liquor and mescal, while his …
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The Idiot

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Revealing Dostoevsky's acute artistic sense and penetrating psychological insight, this new translation is meticulously faithful to the original.