Conversations With James Joyce

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  Death in Venice

  The world-famous masterpiece by Nobel laureate Thomas Mann -- here in a new translation by Michael Henry Heim.
  
  Published on the eve of World War I, a decade after Buddenbrooks had established Thomas Ma…

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  Estudios sobre el amor

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  The Epic of Gilgamesh

  Miraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as much as four thousand years, the poem of Gilgamesh, king of Uruk, is the world’s oldest epic, predating Homer by many centuries. The story tells o…

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  The Pole

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  The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

  The Modern Library’s fifth volume of In Search of Lost Time contains both The Captive (1923) and The Fugitive (1925). In The Captive, Proust’s narrator describes living in his mother’s Paris apartment…

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  Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals

  Immanuel Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals ranks alongside Plato's Republic and Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics as one of the most profound and influential works in moral philosophy ever w…

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  Ulysses

  Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It was first serialized in parts in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920 and then published in its entirety…

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  When Nietzsche Wept

  In 19th-century Vienna, a drama of love, fate, and will is played out amid the intellectual ferment that defined the era.
  
  Josef Breuer, one of the founding fathers of psychoanalysis, is at the height o…

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  Laughable Loves

  Laughable Loves is a collection of stories that first appeared in print in Prague before 1968, but was then was subsequently banned. The seven stories are all concerned with love, or rather with the c…

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  A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

  The portrayal of Stephen Dedalus's Dublin childhood and youth, his quest for identity through art and his gradual emancipation from the claims of family, religion and Ireland itself, is also an obliqu…

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  Dubliners

  'I regret to see that my book has turned out un fiasco solenne.' James Joyce's disillusion with the publication of Dubliners in 1914 was the result of ten years battling with publishers, resisting the…

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  Exiles

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  The Magic Mountain

  In this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Mann uses a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps, a community devoted exclusively to sickness, as a microcosm for Europe, which in the years before 1914 was already exh…

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  Poetics

  'What is poetry, how many kinds of it are there, and what are their specific effects?'
  
  Aristotle's Poetics is the most influential book on poetry ever written. A founding text of European aesthetics a…

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  Faust, First Part

  Goethe’s masterpiece and perhaps the greatest work in German literature, Faust has made the legendary German alchemist one of the central myths of the Western world. Here indeed is a monumental Faust,…

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  Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity

  Where do ideas come from?
  
  In Catching the Big Fish, internationally acclaimed filmmaker David Lynch provides a rare window into his methods as an artist, his personal working style, and the immense cre…

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  The Setting Sun

  The post-war period in Japan was one of immense social change as Japanese society adjusted to the shock of defeat and to the occupation of Japan by American forces and their allies. Osamu Dazai’s The …

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  The Passion According to G.H.

  G.H., a well-to-do Rio sculptress, enters the room of her maid, which is as clear and white 'as in an insane asylum from which dangerous objects have been removed'. There she sees a cockroach - black,…

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  The Book of Job (Bible, #18)

  The theme of The Book of Job is nothing less than human suffering and the transcendence of it: it pulses with moral energy, outrage, and spiritual insight.
  
  Now, The Book of Job has been rendered into E…

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  The Years

  Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirist’s defining work and a breakout bestseller when published in France in 2008.
  
  The Years is a personal narrative of the period 1941 to 2006 told throug…

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