Books similar like The World Republic of Letters

All That Is Solid Melts Into Air: The Experience of Modernity

All That Is Solid Melts into Air is a dazzling exploration of modern consciousness. In this unparalleled book, Marshall Berman takes account of the social changes that swept millions of people into th…

Buy this book on Amazon

Orientalism

More than three decades after its first publication, Edward Said's groundbreaking critique of the West's historical, cultural, and political perceptions of the East has become a modern classic.

In this…

Buy this book on Amazon

Семейное счастие

Family Happiness (Russian: Семейное счастье [Semeynoye Schast'ye]) is an 1859 novella written by Leo Tolstoy, first published in The Russian Messenger.

Buy this book on Amazon

Simple Passion

In her spare, stark style, Annie Ernaux documents the desires and indignities of a human heart ensnared in an all-consuming passion. Blurring the line between fact and fiction, an unnamed narrator att…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Written World: The Power of Stories to Shape People, History, Civilization

Buy this book on Amazon

Vremea minunilor

Buy this book on Amazon

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…

Buy this book on Amazon

Viața la țară

Primul roman al ciclului Comăneștenilor este considerat aproape în unanimitate de criticii literari drept cel mai valoros, prin echilibrul de realism și de idealism, prin poezia pământului și a vechii…

Buy this book on Amazon

Black Skin, White Masks

A major influence on civil rights, anti-colonial, and black consciousness movements around the world, Black Skin, White Masks is the unsurpassed study of the black psyche in a white world. Hailed for …

Buy this book on Amazon

The Pleasure of the Text

Buy this book on Amazon

Triste tigre

J'ai voulu y croire, j'ai voulu rêver que le royaume de la littérature m'accueillerait comme n'importe lequel des orphelins qui y trouvent refuge, mais même à travers l'art, on ne peut pas sortir vain…

Buy this book on Amazon

Mythologies

"No denunciation without its proper instrument of close analysis," Roland Barthes wrote in his preface to Mythologies. There is no more proper instrument of analysis of our contemporary myths than thi…

Buy this book on Amazon

Bartleby the Scrivener

Academics hail it as the beginning of modernism, but to readers around the world—even those daunted by Moby-Dick—Bartleby the Scrivener is simply one of the most absorbing and moving novellas ever. Se…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Pillowman

A writer in a totalitarian state is interrogated about the gruesome content of his short stories and their similarities to a number of child-murders that are happening in his town.

'Sometimes you don't…

Buy this book on Amazon

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…

Buy this book on Amazon

Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature

Buy this book on Amazon

Les Fleurs du Mal

Charles Baudelaire's 1857 masterwork was scandalous in its day for its portrayals of sex, same-sex love, death, the corrupting and oppressive power of the modern city and lost innocence, Les Fleurs du…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Bastard of Istanbul

Buy this book on Amazon

Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror

John Ashberry won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror. Ashberry reaffirms the poetic powers that have made hi…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Roots of Romanticism

The Roots of Romanticism at last makes available in printed form Isaiah Berlin's most celebrated lecture series, the Mellon lectures, delivered in Washington in 1965, recorded by the BBC, and broadcas…

Buy this book on Amazon

Urcarea muntelui

Buy this book on Amazon

Oblomov

Even though Ivan Goncharov wrote several books that were widely read and discussed during his lifetime, today he is remembered for one novel, Oblomov, published in 1859, an indisputable classic of Rus…

Buy this book on Amazon

Ecograffiti

Buy this book on Amazon

Mă găsești când vrei

Într-un aeroport se întîlnesc un bărbat și o femeie care descoperă, întîmplător, că au aceeași destinație. După călătorie, scînteia atracției pe care au simțit-o unul față de celălalt îi împinge rapid…

Buy this book on Amazon

Un război de o sută de ani

Buy this book on Amazon

No Exit

Jean-Paul Sartre, the great French existentialist, displays his mastery of drama in NO EXIT, an unforgettable portrayal of hell.
The play is a depiction of the afterlife in which three deceased charact…

Buy this book on Amazon

Zeno's Conscience

Long hailed as a seminal work of modernism in the tradition of Joyce and Kafka, and now available in a supple new English translation, Italo Svevo’s charming and splendidly idiosyncratic novel conduct…

Buy this book on Amazon

The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction

Michel Foucault offers an iconoclastic exploration of why we feel compelled to continually analyze and discuss sex, and of the social and mental mechanisms of power that cause us to direct the questio…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Gambler

In this dark and compelling short novel, Dostoevsky tells the story of Alexey Ivanovitch, a young tutor working in the household of an imperious Russian general. Alexey tries to break through the wall…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Lonesome West (Acting Edition for Theater Productions)

This Student Edition features expert and helpful annotation, including a scene-by-scene summary, a detailed commentary on the dramatic, social and political context, and on the themes, characters, lan…

Buy this book on Amazon

The World Republic of Letters

Similar books (30)

Viața la țară