 | Nadja by Andre Breton
Buy new: $7.15 / Used from: $6.27 Since dreams don't really have endings, one should never finish this book. I've gone back to the begining at least ten times.
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 | Adolphe (Penguin Classics) by Benjamin Constant
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $2.66 Written in 1816, this is often referred to as the "reverse" of Goethe's Young Werther.
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 | The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea by Yukio Mishima
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $4.77 One of the most memorable short books I read in high school
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 | The Island: Three Tales by Gustaw Herling
Buy new: $11.90 / Used from: $0.01 Three tales about solitude, extreme suffering and redemption, evoking the best of Kafka, Poe and Heine.
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 | Nightmare Abbey & Crotchet Castle (Penguin English Library El 45) by Thomas Love Peacock
Buy new: $13.26 / Used from: $0.71 Nightmare Abbey is a friendly satire of our favorite Romantic poets. Peacock's unique style has probably influenced the likes of Anatole France and Thomas Pynchon.
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 | The Celestina: A Fifteenth-Century Spanish Novel in Dialogue (No. Cal 26) by Fernando De Rojas
Buy used from: $0.01 The first European novel, predating Don Quixote. It's really more like a play.
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 | Death in Venice, Tonio Krvger, and Other Writings (German Library) by Frederick A. Lubich
Buy new: $29.95 / Used from: $6.78 |
 | The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (Penguin Classics) by Samuel Johnson
Buy used from: $0.01 a philosophical adventure
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 | The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Buy new: $9.35 / Used from: $0.67 Good, though not as good as Adolphe
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 | Thais by Anatole France
Buy used from: $3.00 Religious folly in the early days of Christendom-A reissue is now available through Wildside Press.
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 | Book Of Disquiet, The by Fernando Pessoa
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $18.93 Not a short book, but best digested in smaller morsels.
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 | Washington Square (Modern Library) by Henry James
Buy used from: $4.09 Only James could write a simple story that is so full of psychological complexity.
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 | To Criticize the Critic and Other Writings by T. S. Eliot
Buy new: $16.95 / Used from: $2.94 One doesn't need to subscribe to Eliot's runcible elitism to appreciate his thoughts and lucid prose.
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 | The Metamorphosis, In The Penal Colony, and Other Stories by Franz Kafka
Buy new: $10.55 / Used from: $3.99 A Country Doctor especially
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 | Representations of the Intellectual: The 1993 Reith Lectures by Edward W. Said
Buy new: $10.10 / Used from: $4.88 courageous contrarians versus power-hungry criminals like Henry Kissinger
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 | Candide and Other Stories (Oxford World's Classics) by Voltaire
Buy used from: $0.01 Zadig is not to be missed.
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 | A Simple Heart (New Directions Bibelot) by Gustave Flaubert
Buy new: $11.95 / Used from: $0.98 |
 | What Makes a Man Start Fires? by Minutemen
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $7.98 short songs
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