 | Nights As Day, Days As Night (Eridano's Library, 5) by Michel Leiris
Buy used from: $10.00 A collection of dream entries, most no more than a paragraph or two, and reflections titled "half-asleep" and "real-life" span a period of 37 years. Referred to by the translator as "prose poems," they loosely mirror Leiris's own eclectic career and uncanny surrealism.
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| Irene's Cunt
Buy used from: $12.00 "This work of genius...a lyrically urgent evocation of the mystical core of true sexual carnality."
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 | My Mother, Madame Edwarda and The Dead Man by Georges Bataille
Buy new: $12.71 / Used from: $4.36 My Mother is a unique bildungsroman of a young man's sexual initiation and corruption by his mother.?
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| The Faerie Queene, Books I and II, the Mutability Cantos and Minor Poetry by Edmund; Kellog, Robert (Ed. ); Steele, Oliver (Ed. ) Spencer
Buy used from: $3.50 This is a fantastic work of art. Keats could not put it down lest it was to immerse himself in Shakespeare or Milton.
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 | The Cantos of Ezra Pound (New Directions Paperbook) by Ezra Pound
Buy new: $17.13 / Used from: $15.75 Ezra Pound was a genius we are afraid to challange ourselves with, perhaps fearing what we may come to realize about our present day culture.
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| ODYSSEY: A MODERN SEQUEL (Touchstone Books) by Nikos Kazantzakis
Buy used from: $6.06 Arguably one of the best and most enjoyable epics of the 20th century. Every used bookstore has a few copies collecting dust. WHY?
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 | A Queer Book (The Collected Works of James Hogg) by James Hogg
Buy new: $16.00 / Used from: $10.98 James Hogg's poetry collection is yet unchartered territory for most all literary critics. This prism of esoterica is a composition that defies close reading unless you are as mad as the author himself. Hogg himself boasted upon publication that "it will be a grand book for the Englishers for they won't understand a word of it." How far commercialism has come since those delicious days...
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 | Jerusalem Delivered (Gerusalemme liberata) by Torquato Tasso
Buy new: $25.28 / Used from: $12.28 Only recently has the United States literary arena come to browse and wonder about Tasso's JD and Aminta.
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 | Julie, or the New Heloise: Letters of Two Lovers Who Live in a Small Town at the Foot of the Alps (Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, Works. Vol. 6.) (v. 6) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Buy new: $23.10 / Used from: $14.94 Too beautiful a ovel in French, and so lame in English when set against the great epistolary novels Britain produced around the same time. Samuel Richardson and Frances Burney are only a couple to prefer over Rousseau's most Romantic work. I might add the least interesting also.
Clarissa Harlowe any day over la nouvelle Heloise
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 | Virgil's Aeneid (Penguin Classics) by Virgil
Buy new: $15.00 / Used from: $1.93 Vergil is read and better be read as often as time allows. Dryden's translation has become as dry as Pope's Homer. We are blessed today with excellent translators. Dryden's Plutarch is much more worth the time and love.
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| Paradise Regained, a Poem, in Four Books by John Milton
Buy used from: $114.50 Not up to par. Read it anyway please. Some great moments where Milton's genius shines as brilliantly as in Paradise Lost. Not enough though...
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 | Being and Time by Martin Heidegger
Buy used from: $8.99 A plodding and clambering course as fun as Witttgenstein's Tractatus and as insightful as the Bible. In other words, a must read for any real "philosopher". All the talk about his affiliation with the Nazi has also abscured his presence amoungst the everyday reading public vs the scholar.
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 | Finnegans Wake (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin) by James Joyce
Buy new: $14.28 / Used from: $5.38 Aughhhhhhh. Got to love Joyce...
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 | Joseph and His Brothers: The Stories of Jacob, Young Joseph, Joseph in Egypt, Joseph the Provider by Thomas Mann
Buy new: $27.72 / Used from: $22.94 Excellent work, but the subject matter is too blunt. One must read Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus and Buddenbrooks, and his short prose works are gems that make you feel wealthy when you are done reading them.
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| Pendennis by William Makepeace Thackeray
Buy new: $98.00 / Used from: $39.95 Thackeray is so much fun. Vanity Fair and Barry Lyndon and the Newcomers and the Sketches...but Pendennis is a tough read for some reason I've yet to come to terms with.
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 | The Princess Casamassima (Penguin Classics) by Henry James
Buy new: $12.48 / Used from: $2.00 Beauty. Perfection. Verbose and tiresome, dense and tottering.
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 | When Nietzsche Wept by Irvin D. Yalom
Buy new: $10.19 / Used from: $4.97 Anything from Yalom is just hilarious (not sure if i mean that in a good way or not)...
This talky first novel by psychotherapist Yalom is set in 1882, when Joseph Breuer, an eminent physician and mentor of Sigmund Freud, strives to apply his recently discovered talking cure to the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.
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 | The Complete Idiot's Guide to Amazing Sex, Third Edition by Sari Locker
Buy new: $12.97 / Used from: $7.78 ...bless the soul that buys this book for him or herself.
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 | Happily Ever After: Walking with Peace and Courage Through a Year of Divorce by Kristin Armstrong
Buy used from: $0.98 ...bless the soul that buys this book for him or herself.
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 | Fighting for Your Marriage: Positive Steps for Preventing Divorce and Preserving a Lasting Love (New & Revised) by Howard J. Markman
Buy new: $11.02 / Used from: $1.97 ...bless the soul that buys this book for him or herself.
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 | Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life (Penguin Classics) by Herman Melville
Buy new: $9.89 / Used from: $0.01 One of Melville's best works. Actually I think Pierre to be more fun and less read, but Typee is called upon more often and quoted with much more ease when compared with the novel that flopped and is still haunting the inner recesses of Melville's psyche as scholars dig through it like it were an archeological site.
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