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Narcissus and Goldmund
This is the story of a passionate yet uneasy friendship between two men of opposite character who set each other on different paths in life.
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The Handmaid's Tale
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An instant classic and eerily prescient cultural phenomenon, from “the patron saint of feminist dystopian fiction” (The New York Times). Now an award-winning Hulu …
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American Psycho
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • In this modern classic, the acclaimed author of The Shards explores the incomprehensible depths of madness and captures the insanity of violence in our time or any …
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The Wasp Factory
Powerful, perverse, and engrossing, this controversial novel offers a graphic portrait of a serial killer told in the first-person. "Read it if you dare!"--"The Daily Express".
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Nightwood
Nightwood, Djuna Barnes' strange and sinuous tour de force, "belongs to that small class of books that somehow reflect a time or an epoch" (Times Literary Supplement). That time is …
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Lolita
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 doomed passion for the nymphet …
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Valley of the Dolls
Three women seek escape as they learn about the bitterness, corruption, and falsehoods of the show-business world.
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Closer
Like Jean Genet and William Burroughs, Dennis Cooper assaults the senses as he engages the mind with visions of nightmare intensity in a world where stimulation without excitement and experience …
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Ficciones. C Edited and with an Introduction by Anthony Kerrigan
Seventeen short stories.
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Howl, and Other Poems
This collection of poems by Ginsberg created a sensation when it was first published in 1956, becoming the subject of an obscenity trial and changing the literary landscape forever.
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The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
Because of the boyhood trauma of seeing his mother make love to another man in the presence of his dying father, Mizoguchi becomes a hopeless stutterer. Taunted by his schoolmates, …
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Une saison en enfer & Le bateau ivre
The classic influential poems by Rimbaud, in a bilingual en face edition featuring acclaimed translations by Louise Varése.
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Ariel
"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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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
First published in 1865, these endearing tales of an imaginative child's dream world by Lewis Carroll, pen name for Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, are written with charming simplicity. While delighting children …
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The Trial
From one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, the author of The Metamorphosis: Written in 1914 but not published until 1925, a year after Kafka’s death, The Trial …
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Nadja
"Nadja, " originally published in France in 1928, is the first and perhaps best Surrealist romance ever written, a book which defined that movement's attitude toward everyday life. The principal …
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Nineteen Eighty-four
Eternal warfare is the price of bleak prosperity in this satire of totalitarian barbarism.