 | Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
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 | Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (Routledge Classics) by Ludwig Wittgenstein
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 | The Unbearable Lightness of Being: Twentieth Anniversary Edition by Milan Kundera
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 | Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
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 | HISTORY OF MADNESS by Michel Foucault
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 | In Search of Lost Time: Proust 6-pack (Proust Complete) by Marcel Proust
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 | The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke by Rainer Maria Rilke
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 | Illuminations: Essays and Reflections by Walter Benjamin
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 | The Uncanny (Penguin Classics) by Sigmund Freud
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 | Beyond the Pleasure Principle (Norton Library) by Sigmund Freud
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 | Against Interpretation: And Other Essays by Susan Sontag
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 | Cahiers du Cinéma: The 1950s: Neo-Realism, Hollywood, New Wave (Harvard Film Studies) (v. 1)
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 | A Season in Hell & Illuminations (Modern Library Classics) by Arthur Rimbaud
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 | Speak, Memory (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) by Vladimir Nabokov
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 | Lectures on Literature by Vladimir Nabokov
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 | Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977 by Michel Foucault
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 | Ulysses by James Joyce
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 | Basic Writings: from Being and Time (1927) to The Task of Thinking (1964) by Martin Heidegger
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 | Franz Kafka: The Complete Stories by Franz Kafka
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 | Euripides: Bacchae (Cambridge Translations from Greek Drama) by Euripides
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 | Leviathan (Broadview Literary Texts) by Thomas Hobbes
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 | Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is (Oxford World's Classics) by Friedrich Nietzsche
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 | On the Genealogy of Morals: A Polemic. By way of clarification and supplement to my last book Beyond Good and Evil (Oxford World's Classics) by Friedrich Nietzsche
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 | Poems of Paul Celan: A Bilingual German/English Edition, Revised Edition by Paul Celan
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 | Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for None and All by Friedrich Nietzsche
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 | Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud
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 | The Drowned and the Saved by Primo Levi
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 | The Man Without Qualities Vol. 2: Into the Millennium, from the Posthumous Papers by Robert Musil
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 | Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Penguin Classics) by Herman Melville
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 | Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq by Dahr Jamail
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 | Love is a Dog From Hell by Charles Bukowski
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 | Existentialism Is a Humanism by Jean Paul Sartre
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 | The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
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 | The Thief's Journal by Jean Genet
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 | The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs by Friedrich Nietzsche
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 | Brothers Karamozov (cassette) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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 | The Sheltering Sky (P.S.) by Paul Bowles
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 | The Complete Poems of Hart Crane (Centennial Edition) by Hart Crane
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 | The Sound and the Fury: The Corrected Text by William Faulkner
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