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Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg, better known as PewDiePie, is a YouTuber, comedian, and philanthropist, known primarily for his Let's Play videos and comedic formatted shows.
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The House of the Dead
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Accused of political subversion as a young man, Fyodor Dostoyevsky was sentenced to four years of hard labor at a Siberian prison camp — a horrifying experience from which he developed this astounding semi-autobiographical memoir of a man condemned to ten years of servitude for murdering his wife.As with a number of the author's other works, this p...
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Feb 20, 2019The Book of Disquiet
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Fernando Pessoa was many writers in one. He attributed his prolific writings to a wide range of alternate selves, each of which had a distinct biography, ideology. and horoscope. When he died in 1935, Pessoa left behind a trunk filled with unfinished and unpublished writings, among which were the remarkable pages that make up his posthumous masterp...
'What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?' Either/Or is the earliest of the major works of Søren Kierkegaard, one of the most startlingly original thinkers and writers of the nineteenth century, and the first which he wrote under a pseudonym, as he would for his greatest philosophical writings. Ad...
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Feb 20, 2019The Woman in the Dunes
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The Woman in the Dunes, by celebrated writer and thinker Kobo Abe, combines the essence of myth, suspense and the existential novel. After missing the last bus home following a day trip to the seashore, an amateur entomologist is offered lodging for the night at the bottom of a vast sand pit. But when he attempts to leave the next morning, he quick...
Lolita
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Awe and exhilaration--along with heartbreak and mordant wit--abound in Lolita, Nabokov's most famous and controversial novel, which tells the story of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze. Lolita is also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postw...
The Count of Monte Cristo
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Abridged by Lowell Blair.Set against the turbulent years of the Napoleonic era, Alexandre Dumas's thrilling adventure story is one of the most widely read romantic novels of all time. In it the dashing young hero, Edmond Dantès, is betrayed by his enemies and thrown into a secret dungeon in the Chateau d'If -- doomed to spend his life in a da...
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Mike Maples, Jr.Don Quixote
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Edith Grossman's definitive English translation of the Spanish masterpiece. Widely regarded as the world's first modern novel, and one of the funniest and most tragic books ever written, Don Quixote chronicles the famous picaresque adventures of the noble knight-errant Don Quixote of La Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, as they travel t...
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Gabor MatéThe Master and Margarita
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A masterful translation of one of the great novels of the 20th centuryNothing in the whole of literature compares with The Master and Margarita. Full of pungency and wit, this luminous work is Bulgakov’s crowning achievement, skilfully blending magical and realistic elements, grotesque situations and major ethical concerns. Written during the darke...
100,000 years ago, at least six human species inhabited the earth. Today there is just one. Us. Homo sapiens. How did our species succeed in the battle for dominance? Why did our foraging ancestors come together to create cities and kingdoms? How did we come to believe in gods, nations and human rights; to trust money, books and laws; and to be ens...
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Jun 26, 2018Also recommended by
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An American critic says "Strindberg is the greatest subjectivist of all time." Certainly neither Augustine, Rousseau, nor Tolstoy have laid bare their souls to the finest fibre with more ruthless sincerity than the great Swedish realist. He fulfilled to the letter the saying of Robertson of Brighton, "Woman and God are two rocks on which a man must...
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Jun 26, 2018In the Buddha's Words
An Anthology of Discourses from the Pali Canon (The Teachings of the Buddha)
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The works of the Buddha can feel vast, and it is sometimes difficult for even longtime students to know where to look, especially since the Buddha never explicitly defined the framework behind his teachings. Designed to provide just such a framework, In the Buddha's Words is an anthology of the Buddha's works that has been specifically compiled by ...
Spring Snow by Yukio Mishima
Runaway Horses by Yukio Mishima
No longer Human by Osamu Dazai
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Stoner by John Williams
The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart
Sun and Steel by Yukio Mishima
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
The Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi
Bushido by Inazo Nitobe
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima
The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea by Yukio Mishima