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A Certain Hunger
Chelsea G. Summers • 2020
A Room of One's Own
A Room of One's Own
The Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka · 2025
The Metamorphosis<br/>FRANZ KAFKA<br/><br/>The Metamorphosis tells the unsettling story of Gregor Samsa’s transformation into something entirely unexpected: “a monstrous insect.”<br/>This is not just a novel about physical transformation but also a deep reflection on alienation and loneliness.<br/>This special edition of The Metamorphosis includes illustrations that capture the oppressive atmosphere of the story and a modern adaptation of the text. All of this will allow the reader not only to enjoy Kafka’s incomparable style but also to confront the vital questions that only a masterpiece can provoke.
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
Anna Karenina
Anna Karenina
War and Peace
War and Peace (Vintage Classics)
The Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka • 2009
The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts and an Epilogue
The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts and an Epilogue
Animal Farm
George Orwell · 1984
Gone With the Wind
Margaret Mitchell • 1996
Notes from Underground
Fyodor Dostoevsky • 1994
A philosophical novella exploring the mind of a bitter, isolated narrator, delving into themes of existentialism, free will, and human consciousness.
The Stranger
Albert Camus · 1989
Girl, Interrupted.
Girl, Interrupted.
White Nights
White Nights
The Idiot
Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 2004
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky • 1993
<b>Hailed by <i>Washington Post Book World</i> as “the best [translation] currently available" when it was first published, this second edition of <i>Crime and Punishment </i>has been updated in honor of the 200th anniversary of Dostoevsky’s birth. • <b>ONE OF <i>TIME MAGAZINE</i>'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME</b></b><br><br>With the same suppleness, energy, and range of voices that won their translation of <i>The Brothers Karamazov</i> the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Prize, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky offer a brilliant translation of <i>Crime and Punishment, </i>Dostoevsky's astounding pyschological thriller, newly revised for his bicentenniel. <br><br>In <i>Crime and Punishment</i>, when Raskolnikov, an impoverished student living in the St. Petersburg of the tsars, commits an act of murder and theft, he sets into motion a story that is almost unequalled in world literature for its excruciating suspense, its atmospheric vividness, and its depth of characterization and vision. Dostoevsky’s drama of sin, guilt, and redemption transforms the sordid story of an old woman’s murder into the nineteenth century’s profoundest and most compelling philosophical novel.
The Bell Jar (Modern Classics)
The Bell Jar (Modern Classics)
Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov • 1955
I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream
Harlan Ellison · 1967
No Longer Human
Osamu Dazai · 1973
<p> Mine has been a life of much shame. I can't even guess myself what it must be to live the life of a human being. </p><p>Portraying himself as a failure, the protagonist of Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human narrates a seemingly normal life even while he feels himself incapable of understanding human beings. His attempts to reconcile himself to the world around him begin in early childhood, continue through high school, where he becomes a "clown" to mask his alienation, and eventually lead to a failed suicide attempt as an adult. Without sentimentality, he records the casual cruelties of life and its fleeting moments of human connection and tenderness.</p><p>Still one of the ten bestselling books in Japan, No Longer Human is an important and unforgettable modern classic: "The struggle of the individual to fit into a normalizing society remains just as relevant today as it was at the time of writing." (The Japan Times)</p>
1984
George Orwell · 1961
<b>Written more than 70 years ago, <i>1984</i> was George Orwell’s chilling prophecy about the future. And while 1984 has come and gone, his dystopian vision of a government that will do anything to control the narrative is timelier than ever...<br><br><b>• Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s <i>The Great American Read •</i></b><br></b><br>“<i>The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.</i>”<br><br>Winston Smith toes the Party line, rewriting history to satisfy the demands of the Ministry of Truth. With each lie he writes, Winston grows to hate the Party that seeks power for its own sake and persecutes those who dare to commit thoughtcrimes. But as he starts to think for himself, Winston can’t escape the fact that Big Brother is always watching...<br><br>A startling and haunting novel, <i>1984</i> creates an imaginary world that is completely convincing from start to finish. No one can deny the novel’s hold on the imaginations of whole generations, or the power of its admonitions—a power that seems to grow, not lessen, with the passage of time.
Coraline
Neil Gaiman · 2012
