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Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov
The most famous and controversial novel from one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century tells the story of Humbert Humbert’s obsessive, devouring, and …
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Henry and June
by AnaĂŻs Nin
A year in the life (1931-1932) of writer Anais Nin when she met Henry Miller and his wife June.
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The Red Queen
by Matt Ridley
Referring to Lewis Carroll's Red Queen from Through the Looking-Glass, a character who has to keep running to stay in the same place, Matt Ridley …
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The Selfish Gene
by Richard Dawkins
Science need not be dull and bogged down by jargon, as Richard Dawkins proves in this entertaining look at evolution. The themes he takes up …
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Godel, Escher, Bach
by Douglas R. Hofstadter
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize A metaphorical fugue on minds and machines in the spirit of Lewis Carroll Douglas Hofstadter's book is concerned directly with …
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Memoirs of a Geisha
by Arthur Golden
A literary sensation and runaway bestseller, this brilliant debut novel tells with seamless authenticity and exquisite lyricism the true confessions of one of Japan's most …
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Ariel
by Sylvia Plath
"In these poems...Sylvia Plath becomes herself, becomes something imaginary, newly, wildly and subtly created." -- From the Introduction by Robert Lowell
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A New Kind of Science
by Stephen Wolfram
Índice: 1. The Foundations for a New Kind of Science -- 2. The Crucial Experiment -- 3. The World of Simple Programs -- 4. Systems …
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This Side Of Paradise
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The story of Amory Blaine from prep school to Princeton.
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Thus Spake Zarathustra
by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
The author uses the ancient Persian religious leader, Zarathustra (or Zoroaster) to voice his own views, including the introduction of the controversial doctrine of the …
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White Noise
by Don DeLillo
The National Book Award-winning classic from the author of Underworld and Libra—an “eerie, brilliant, and touching” (New York Times) family drama about mass culture and …
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