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Dead Poets Society
N. H. Kleinbaum • 2006
American Psycho
Bret Easton Ellis • 1991
The Picture of Dorian Gray The Original 1890 Edition
Oscar Wilde • 1890
“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.” ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray<br/><br/>The Picture of Dorian Gray is a 1891 gothic and philosophical novel by Irish writer and playwright Oscar Wilde. First published as a serial story in the July 1890 issue of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, the editors feared the story was indecent, and without Wilde's knowledge, deleted five hundred words before publication.<br/><br/>Despite that censorship, The Picture of Dorian Gray offended the moral sensibilities of British book reviewers, some of whom said that Oscar Wilde merited prosecution for violating the laws guarding the public morality. In response, Wilde aggressively defended his novel and art in correspondence with the British press.<br/><br/>Wilde revised and expanded the magazine edition of The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890) for publication as a novel; the book edition (1891) featured an aphoristic preface — an apologia about the art of the novel and the reader. The content, style and presentation of the preface made it famous in its own literary right, as social and cultural criticism. In April 1891, the editorial house Ward, Lock and Company published the revised version of The Picture of Dorian Gray.<br/><br/>A True Classic that Belongs on Every Bookshelf!
The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath • 2005
<p><i>The Bell Jar</i> chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under -- maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity that Esther's insanity becomes completely real and even rational, as probable and accessible an experience as going to the movies. Such deep penetration into the dark and harrowing corners of the psyche is an extraordinary accomplishment and has made <i>The Bell Jar</i> a haunting American classic.</p> <p>This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.</p>
Fight Club A Novel
Chuck Palahniuk • 2018
The Odyssey
Homer • 2018
The Iliad
Homer • 2024
Dracula
Bram Stoker • 2000
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Mary Shelley • 2021
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury • 2012
to buy
Girls Against God
Jenny Hval • 2020
The Massacre at El Mozote
Mark Danner • 1994
The Monk
Matthew Lewis • 2016
I Don't Want to Be Understood
Joshua Jennifer Espinoza • 2024
Becoming a Visible Man
Jamison Green • 2020
The Transgender Issue An Argument for Justice
Shon Faye • 2021
Lie With Me A Novel
Philippe Besson • 2020
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky • 1993
Bunny A Novel
Mona Awad • 2020
My Year of Rest and Relaxation A Novel
Ottessa Moshfegh • 2019
Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, Time, NPR, Vice, Bustle, The New York Times, The Guardian, Kirkus Reviews, Entertainment Weekly, The AV Club, & Audible A New York Times Bestseller • New York Times Readers Pick: 100 Best Books of the 21st Century “One of the most compelling protagonists modern fiction has offered in years: a loopy, quietly furious pillhead whose Ambien ramblings and Xanaxed b*tcheries somehow wend their way through sad and funny and strange toward something genuinely profound.” — Entertainment Weekly “Darkly hilarious . . . [Moshfegh’s] the kind of provocateur who makes you laugh out loud while drawing blood.” —Vogue From one of our boldest, most celebrated new literary voices, a novel about a young woman's efforts to duck the ills of the world by embarking on an extended hibernation with the help of one of the worst psychiatrists in the annals of literature and the battery of medicines she prescribes. Our narrator should be happy, shouldn't she? She's young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, works an easy job at a hip art gallery, lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like the rest of her needs, by her inheritance. But there is a dark and vacuous hole in her heart, and it isn't just the loss of her parents, or the way her Wall Street boyfriend treats her, or her sadomasochistic relationship with her best friend, Reva. It's the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility; what could be so terribly wrong? My Year of Rest and Relaxation is a powerful answer to that question. Through the story of a year spent under the influence of a truly mad combination of drugs designed to heal our heroine from her alienation from this world, Moshfegh shows us how reasonable, even necessary, alienation can be. Both tender and blackly funny, merciless and compassionate, it is a showcase for the gifts of one of our major writers working at the height of her powers.
The Loney
Andrew Michael Hurley • 2016
Treasure and Empire in the Civil War
Neil P. Chatelain • 2024
On the Genealogy of Morals
Friedrich Nietzsche • 2014
Invisible Women Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
Caroline Criado Perez • 2019
Their End Is Our Beginning Cops, Capitalism, and Abolition
Brian Bean • 2025
Enemy Feminisms
Sophie Lewis • 2025
Perfect Victims
Mohammed El-Kurd • 2025
It's Not that Radical Climate Action to Transform Our World
Mikaela Loach • 2023
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
Angela Y. Davis • 2016
On Palestine
Noam Chomsky • 2015
We Are the Weather
Jonathan Safran Foer • 2019
Jesus and John Wayne How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
Kristin Kobes Du Mez • 2021
This Here Flesh
Cole Arthur Riley • 2022
The Making of Biblical Womanhood How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth
Beth Allison Barr • 2021
Men who Hate Women The Extremism Nobody is Talking about
Laura Bates • 2021
Dear America Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
Jose Antonio Vargas • 2018
"Prisons Make Us Safer"
Victoria Law • 2021
Nothing Personal
James Baldwin • 2021
Imperialism the Highest Stage of Capitalism
Vladimir Ilich Lenin • 2021
The Stranger
Albert Camus • 2022
Self: A Study in Ethics and Endocrinology
Michael Dillon • 2013
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Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics)
Jane Austen • 1813
Milkweed
Jerry Spinelli • 2005
The Hate You Give
F. O. Jones • 2018
The Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka • 2009
The Great Gatsby The Original 1925 Edition
Francis Scott Fitzgerald • 2021
The Secret History
Donna Tartt • 2004
<b><b><b><b>ONE OF <i>TIME MAGAZINE</i>'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • </b>INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A contemporary literary classic and "a<b>n accomplished psychological thriller ... absolutely chilling" (<i>Village Voice</i>)</b>, f<b>rom the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of <i>The Goldfinch.<br><br></i></b></b></b>One of <i>The Atlantic</i>’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years</b><br><br>Under the influence of a charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at a New England college discover a way of thought and life a world away from their banal contemporaries. But their search for the transcendent leads them down a dangerous path, beyond human constructs of morality.<br><br><b>“A remarkably powerful novel [and] a ferociously well-paced entertainment . . . Forceful, cerebral, and impeccably controlled.” —<i>The New York Times</i></b>
