Sebastian's bookshelf: all en-US Mon, 30 Jun 2025 17:26:37 -0700 60 Sebastian's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg The Abolition of Man 25825420
The Abolition of Man, Lewis uses his graceful prose, delightful humor, and keen understanding of the human mind to challenge our notions about how to best teach our children--and ourselves--not merely reading and writing, but also a sense of morality.]]> 113 C.S. Lewis Sebastian 4 4.16 1943 The Abolition of Man
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average rating: 4.16
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]]> And Then There Were None 16299
"Ten little boys went out to dine; One choked his little self and then there were nine. Nine little boys sat up very late; One overslept himself and then there were eight. Eight little boys traveling in Devon; One said he'd stay there then there were seven. Seven little boys chopping up sticks; One chopped himself in half and then there were six. Six little boys playing with a hive; A bumblebee stung one and then there were five. Five little boys going in for law; One got in Chancery and then there were four. Four little boys going out to sea; A red herring swallowed one and then there were three. Three little boys walking in the zoo; A big bear hugged one and then there were two. Two little boys sitting in the sun; One got frizzled up and then there was one. One little boy left all alone; He went out and hanged himself and then there were none."

When they realize that murders are occurring as described in the rhyme, terror mounts. One by one they fall prey. Before the weekend is out, there will be none. Who has choreographed this dastardly scheme? And who will be left to tell the tale? Only the dead are above suspicion.]]> 264 Agatha Christie 0312330871 Sebastian 5 4.27 1939 And Then There Were None
author: Agatha Christie
name: Sebastian
average rating: 4.27
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rating: 5
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]]> The Old Man and the Sea 2165 Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found here

This short novel, already a modern classic, is the superbly told, tragic story of a Cuban fisherman in the Gulf Stream and the giant Marlin he kills and loses—specifically referred to in the citation accompanying the author's Nobel Prize for literature in 1954.]]> 96 Ernest Hemingway 0684830493 Sebastian 5 3.81 1952 The Old Man and the Sea
author: Ernest Hemingway
name: Sebastian
average rating: 3.81
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rating: 5
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]]> Crooked House 16315
The Leonides are one big happy family living in a sprawling, ramshackle mansion. That is until the head of the household, Aristide, is murdered with a fatal barbiturate injection.

Suspicion naturally falls on the old man’s young widow, fifty years his junior. But the murderer has reckoned without the tenacity of Charles Hayward, fiancé of the late millionaire’s granddaughter.]]> 276 Agatha Christie 031298166X Sebastian 5 4.07 1949 Crooked House
author: Agatha Christie
name: Sebastian
average rating: 4.07
book published: 1949
rating: 5
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]]> Una Visita Inesperada 41787139 0 Agatha Christie 8422685450 Sebastian 5 4.18 1999 Una Visita Inesperada
author: Agatha Christie
name: Sebastian
average rating: 4.18
book published: 1999
rating: 5
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]]> Flush 18844 204 Virginia Woolf 0156319527 Sebastian 4 3.86 1933 Flush
author: Virginia Woolf
name: Sebastian
average rating: 3.86
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rating: 4
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]]> The Three Sisters 143513 The Three Sisters probes the lives and dreams of Olga, Masha, and Irina, former Muscovites now living in a provincial town from which they long to escape. Their hopes for a life more suited to their cultivated tastes and sensibilities provide a touching counterpoint to the relentless flow of compromising events in the real world.
In this powerful play, a landmark of modern drama, Chekhov masterfully interweaves character and theme in subtle ways that make the work's finale seem as inevitable as it is deeply moving. It is reprinted here from a standard text with updated transliteration of character names and additional explanatory footnotes.]]> 81 Anton Chekhov Sebastian 4 3.78 1900 The Three Sisters
author: Anton Chekhov
name: Sebastian
average rating: 3.78
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rating: 4
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]]> The Giving Tree 370493
So begins a story of unforgettable perception, beautifully written and illustrated by the gifted and versatile Shel Silverstein.

Every day the boy would come to the tree to eat her apples, swing from her branches, or slide down her trunk...and the tree was happy. But as the boy grew older he began to want more from the tree, and the tree gave and gave and gave.

This is a tender story, touched with sadness, aglow with consolation. Shel Silverstein has created a moving parable for readers of all ages that offers an affecting interpretation of the gift of giving and a serene acceptance of another's capacity to love in return.]]> 64 Shel Silverstein 0060256656 Sebastian 4 4.38 1964 The Giving Tree
author: Shel Silverstein
name: Sebastian
average rating: 4.38
book published: 1964
rating: 4
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]]> El alquimista 45497 203 Paulo Coelho 970051336X Sebastian 5 3.71 1988 El alquimista
author: Paulo Coelho
name: Sebastian
average rating: 3.71
book published: 1988
rating: 5
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]]> El principito 866618 87 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Sebastian 5 4.38 1943 El principito
author: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
name: Sebastian
average rating: 4.38
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rating: 5
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]]> Matilda 39988 “The Trunchbull” is no match for Matilda!

Matilda is a little girl who is far too good to be true. At age five-and-a-half she's knocking off double-digit multiplication problems and blitz-reading Dickens. Even more remarkably, her classmates love her even though she's a super-nerd and the teacher's pet. But everything is not perfect in Matilda's world...

For starters she has two of the most idiotic, self-centered parents who ever lived. Then there's the large, busty nightmare of a school principal, Miss ("The") Trunchbull, a former hammer-throwing champion who flings children at will, and is approximately as sympathetic as a bulldozer. Fortunately for Matilda, she has the inner resources to deal with such annoyances: astonishing intelligence, saintly patience, and an innate predilection for revenge.

Roald Dahl was a spy, ace fighter-pilot, chocolate historian, and medical inventor. He was also the author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, The BFG, and many more brilliant stories. He remains the World's No. 1 Storyteller.]]> 240 Roald Dahl 043512398X Sebastian 5 4.33 1988 Matilda
author: Roald Dahl
name: Sebastian
average rating: 4.33
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]]> <![CDATA[The da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)]]> 55019161 This is an alternate cover for 9780307277671. Others can be found:
here, here, here, here, and here

While in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum. Near the body, police have found a baffling cipher. While working to solve the enigmatic riddle, Langdon is stunned to discover it leads to a trail of clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci -- clues visible for all to see -- yet ingeniously disguised by the painter.

Langdon joins forces with a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, and learns the late curator was involved in the Priory of Sion -- an actual secret society whose members included Sir Isaac Newton, Botticelli, Victor Hugo, and Da Vinci, among others.

In a breathless race through Paris, London, and beyond, Langdon and Neveu match wits with a faceless powerbroker who seems to anticipate their every move. Unless Langdon and Neveu can decipher the labyrinthine puzzle in time, the Priory's ancient secret -- and an explosive historical truth -- will be lost forever.

The Da Vinci Code heralds the arrival of a new breed of lightning-paced, intelligent thriller utterly unpredictable right up to its stunning conclusion.]]> 480 Dan Brown Sebastian 5 4.24 2003 The da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
author: Dan Brown
name: Sebastian
average rating: 4.24
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rating: 5
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]]> Inferno (Robert Langdon, #4) 17212231 ‘Seek and ye shall find.’

With these words echoing in his head, eminent Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon awakes in a hospital bed with no recollection of where he is or how he got there. Nor can he explain the origin of the macabre object that is found hidden in his belongings.

A threat to his life will propel him and a young doctor, Sienna Brooks, into a breakneck chase across the city of Florence. Only Langdon’s knowledge of hidden passageways and ancient secrets that lie behind its historic facade can save them from the clutches of their unknown pursuers.

With only a few lines from Dante’s dark and epic masterpiece, The Inferno, to guide them, they must decipher a sequence of codes buried deep within some of the most celebrated artefacts of the Renaissance – sculptures, paintings, buildings – to find the answers to a puzzle which may, or may not, help them save the world from a terrifying threat…

Set against an extraordinary landscape inspired by one of history’s most ominous literary classics, Inferno is Dan Brown’s most compelling and thought-provoking novel yet, a breathless race-against-time thriller that will grab you from page one and not let you go until you close the book.]]> 463 Dan Brown 0385537859 Sebastian 5 3.88 2013 Inferno (Robert Langdon, #4)
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average rating: 3.88
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]]> La noche es virgen 1322993 192 Jaime Bayly 8433966367 Sebastian 4 3.51 1997 La noche es virgen
author: Jaime Bayly
name: Sebastian
average rating: 3.51
book published: 1997
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[La Luz en los Dedos (Luis Braille)]]> 20430522 111 Miguel Álvarez 8421845551 Sebastian 3 3.36 2010 La Luz en los Dedos (Luis Braille)
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average rating: 3.36
book published: 2010
rating: 3
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]]> Historia del ojo 965555 Historia del ojo se aborda mediante una prosa en clave surrealista la esencia obsesiva del sexo, la muerte y la fe que configura, en realidad, gran parte de la obra de Bataille. Partiendo de un proceso creativo muy querido de los surrealistas, relaciona, en una trama anecdótica, las imágenes que de un modo inconsciente y automático evocan el ojo, el huevo, el sol, los genitales del toro, con toda su carga de connotaciones atávicas, y nos las «revela» en su contenido erótico más revulsivo. El personaje de la joven Simone, que transgrede en todos sus actos cualquier norma de comportamiento sexual admitido, moral y conscientemente, es la encarnación, por una parte, del Deseo inconsciente y, por otra, del Pecado, de lo Prohibido y por ende del Placer, que a su vez, por ser fruto del mal, no es más que portador del máximo castigo : la muerte. Así pues, el goce en su plenitud sabe siempre a muerte.

Es una satisfacción para nosotros acompañar la edición española de esta pequeña gran obra de Bataille con un extenso y revelador ensayo de Mario Vargas Llosa, titulado El placer glacial, y de las espléndidas y revulsivas ilustraciones que Hans Bellmer, uno de las más destacados artistas plásticos del movimiento surrealista, realizó en 1944 para un lujosa edición reducida de Historia del ojo.]]> 143 Georges Bataille 8472233103 Sebastian 4 3.44 1928 Historia del ojo
author: Georges Bataille
name: Sebastian
average rating: 3.44
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rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[La palabra del mudo: Cuentos 1952-1972 (tomo I)]]> 514126 292 Julio Ramón Ribeyro 8439907648 Sebastian 5 4.50 1973 La palabra del mudo: Cuentos 1952-1972 (tomo I)
author: Julio Ramón Ribeyro
name: Sebastian
average rating: 4.50
book published: 1973
rating: 5
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]]> Uncle Vanya 231560 116 Anton Chekhov 1406507881 Sebastian 4 3.86 1897 Uncle Vanya
author: Anton Chekhov
name: Sebastian
average rating: 3.86
book published: 1897
rating: 4
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]]> Mumu 879879
The story of Gerasim, a deaf and mute serf whose life of poverty is brought into sharp relief by his connection with Mumu, a dog he rescued, brought greater national attention to the cruelties of serfdom, and received praise for its brutal portrayal of this institution in Russian society.]]> 60 Ivan Turgenev 1425469272 Sebastian 5 3.76 1852 Mumu
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average rating: 3.76
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]]> İnsan Ne İle Yaşar? 11029733 Michael stays and works with Simon for six years. In all this time he only smiles three times... Then comes the day he leaves, and explains what happened to him...]]> 126 Leo Tolstoy 9944425354 Sebastian 0 to-read 4.01 1885 İnsan Ne İle Yaşar?
author: Leo Tolstoy
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]]> The Gambler 12857 The Gambler, Dostoevsky reaches the heights of drama with this stunning psychological portrait.]]> 188 Fyodor Dostoevsky Sebastian 0 to-read 3.95 1866 The Gambler
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]]> The Dream of a Ridiculous Man 329866 32 Fyodor Dostoevsky 1419160222 Sebastian 0 to-read 4.15 1877 The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
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]]> The Double 210190 Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, and The Idiot, Dostoyevsky also wrote much superb short fiction. The Double is one of the finest of his shorter works. It appeared in 1846 (his second published work) and is by far the most significant of his early stories, not least for its successful, straight-faced treatment of a hallucinatory theme.
In The Double, the protagonist, Golyadkin senior, is persecuted by his double, Golyadkin junior, who resembles him closely in almost every detail. The latter abuses the former with mounting scorn and brutality as the tale proceeds toward its frightening denouement. Characteristic Dostoyevskyan themes of helplessness, victimization, and scandal are beautifully handled here with an artistry that qualifies the story as a small masterpiece.
Students of literature, admirers of Dostoyevsky, and general readers will all be delighted to have this classic work available in this inexpensive but high-quality edition.
]]> 144 Fyodor Dostoevsky 0486295729 Sebastian 0 to-read 3.70 1846 The Double
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]]> Notes from Underground 49455 Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction, and between the visions of self each century embodied. One of the most remarkable characters in literature, the unnamed narrator is a former official who has defiantly withdrawn into an underground existence. In complete retreat from society, he scrawls a passionate, obsessive, self-contradictory narrative that serves as a devastating attack on social utopianism and an assertion of man’s essentially irrational nature.

Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, whose Dostoevsky translations have become the standard, give us a brilliantly faithful edition of this classic novel, conveying all the tragedy and tormented comedy of the original.]]> 136 Fyodor Dostoevsky 067973452X Sebastian 0 to-read 4.21 1864 Notes from Underground
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]]> The Kreutzer Sonata 141077
In her Introduction, Doris Lessing shows how relevant The Kreutzer Sonata is to our understanding of Tolstoy the artist, as well as to feminism and literature. This Modern Library Paperback Classic also contains Tolstoy’s Sequel to the Kruetzer Sonata .]]> 128 Leo Tolstoy 0812968239 Sebastian 0 to-read 3.90 1889 The Kreutzer Sonata
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]]> Distant Star 63030 Distant Star is Alberto Ruiz-Tagle, who exploits the 1973 coup to launch his own version of the New Chilean Poetry: a multimedia enterprise involving sky-writing, poetry, torture, and photo exhibitions.

Our unnamed narrator first encounters him in a college poetry workshop (where Ruiz-Tagle only has eyes for the beautiful Garmendia twins, Veronica and Angelica: unfortunately for them).

The next sighting comes as the narrator stands in a prison camp for political undesirables, gazing up at a WWII Messerschmitt sky-writing over the Andes. The aviator is none other than Ruiz-Tagle, now serving in the Chilean air force under his actual name, Carlos Wieder. Behind any evil act in the darkness of Pinochet’s regime, our narrator, more and more obsessed, suspects Wieder’s silent hand.

Within Bolaño’s darkest visions a corrosive, mocking humor sparkles. And while many Chilean authors have written about the “bloody events of the early Pinochet years, the abductions and murders,” Richard Eder commented in The New York Times (reviewing By Night in Chile): “None has done it in so dark and glittering a fashion as Roberto Bolaño.”]]> 150 Roberto Bolaño 0811215865 Sebastian 0 to-read 3.99 1996 Distant Star
author: Roberto Bolaño
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]]> Qué hacer con estos pedazos 59558308
"En la escritura de Piedad Bonnett se concentran las virtudes que más admiro en la literatura: profundidad y concisión. La desdicha que se narra en esta novela podría noquearte, pero está vestida con imágenes que la vuelven un sacudón reconfortante. Es un retrato inclemente de los lazos familiares ("son como grilletes"), del deterioro de las relaciones, de las casas, del cuerpo, de la propia mirada, del matrimonio ("una pared escoriada por la que hay que trepar cada día hiriéndose las manos"). Además del peso culposo que cargamos cuando nuestros padres envejecen y la herida siempre abierta de ser madre, el texto mete el dedo en vínculos menos obvios, aunque igual de lacerantes. Como el de los esposos añosos, fermentados de rencor, que ya no toleran ni una conversación lacónica; o el de la patrona y la empleada, unidas por una lealtad displicente. El recorrido nos deja frente a un vacío en el que flota esa pregunta que te redime o te remata: ¿valió la pena? Lectores del mundo, lean este libro, que sí lo vale". Margarita García Robayo]]> 168 Piedad Bonnett Sebastian 0 to-read 3.98 Qué hacer con estos pedazos
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]]> Lo que no tiene nombre 17565948
En este libro dedicado a la vida y la muerte de su hijo Daniel, Piedad Bonnett alcanza con las palabras los lugares más extremos de la existencia.

Lo que han dicho otros autores...

«La naturalidad y la extrañeza conviven en sus páginas igual que en su mirada conviven la sequedad de la inteligencia y el latido más intenso de la emoción. Buscar respuestas es sólo un modo de hacerse preguntas, de negociar con las preguntas, de saber cuántas preguntas caben en una obsesión. Es también una forma de seguir cuidando al hijo más allá de la muerte, de defenderlo contra el frío, comprarle ropa nueva, preguntarle por los estudios y por su arte. Aunque no haya ningún sobre en la habitación, todo suicidio es una carta a los seres que se dejan en la vida. El dolor, el amor, los recuerdos, las imaginaciones, los sentimientos de culpa, la conciencia de haber ayudado y la certeza de la enfermedad se mezclan en nuestros ojos al leer esa carta y nos interpelan sobre nuestra propia realidad. Piedad Bonnett ha vivido el duelo en compañía de la literatura. Toda la lucidez y toda la emoción pudorosa que han caracterizado su poesía y su narrativa se condensan aquí. La gran literatura convierte la historia personal en una experiencia humana colectiva. Por eso este libro habla de la fragilidad de cualquier vida, de cualquier mundo en el que pueden desaparecer los oficios y las artes, de cualquier estado que pretenda engañarnos con su estabilidad. Habla también de la necesidad de seguir viviendo». Luis García Montero

«Preguntas que sólo una madre puede hacerse frente al suicidio de un hijo pero con la potencia y el aserto que sólo una gran escritora puede pretender. Preguntas sin respuesta que construirán, otra vez, una única gran pregunta. Y que el lector deberá animarse a pronunciar. Un testimonio demoledor del hecho más doloroso que una mujer puede imaginar para su vida, escrito con la pluma pesada y pudorosa que sólo puede tener quien se sabe vencida por los demonios pero aún nos mira desde los ojos de sus ángeles. Me da terror y me angustia, sentir, entrada por entrada, que este libro es bello, pero eso es: un libro de una belleza notable, ahogada y triste, muda de música, pero tan real como la vida misma». Pablo Ramos

«El dolor de la madre es aquí, por desgracia y también por milagro, tan infinito como el oficio de la escritora. Su doliente serenidad para nombrar lo innombrable, para narrar la peor de las pérdidas, provoca una admiración que es, a partes iguales, de índole personal y estética. “El pensamiento no se acalla”, leemos. Tampoco la literatura, capaz de llegar allí donde la vida nos silencia. Lúcida ante cada palabra que pronuncia en estas páginas de terrible belleza, ante la delicadeza de su herida, Piedad Bonnet nos incorpora conmovedoramente a su familia». Andrés Neuman]]> 130 Piedad Bonnett 958758533X Sebastian 0 to-read 4.61 2013 Lo que no tiene nombre
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]]> Las gratitudes 56591408
A ambos personajes –Marie y Jérôme– los une su relación con Michka Seld, una anciana cuyos últimos meses de vida nos relatan estas dos voces cruzadas. Marie es su vecina: cuando era niña y su madre se ausentaba, Michka cuidaba de ella. Jérôme es el logopeda que intenta que la anciana, que acaba de ser ingresada en un geriátrico, recupere aunque sea parcialmente el habla, que va perdiendo por culpa de una afasia.

Y ambos personajes se involucrarán en el último deseo de Michka: encontrar al matrimonio que, durante los años de la ocupación alemana, la salvó de morir en un campo de exterminio acogiéndola y ocultándola en su casa. Nunca les dio las gracias y ahora querría mostrarles su gratitud...

Escrita con un estilo contenido, casi austero, esta narración a dos voces nos habla de la memoria, el pasado, el envejecimiento, las palabras, la bondad y la gratitud hacia aquellos que fueron importantes en nuestras vidas. Son las respectivas gratitudes las que unen a los tres inolvidables personajes cuyas historias se entrelazan en esta conmovedora y deslumbrante novela.]]> 176 Delphine de Vigan 8433980831 Sebastian 0 to-read 4.37 2019 Las gratitudes
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]]> Canto yo y la montaña baila 45479298
Canto yo y la montaña baila es una novela en la que toman la palabra mujeres y hombres, fantasmas y mujeres de agua, nubes y setas, perros y corzos que habitan entre Camprodon y Prats de Molló, en los Pirineos. Una zona de alta montaña y de frontera que, más allá de la leyenda, conserva la memoria de siglos de lucha por la supervivencia, de persecuciones guiadas por la ignorancia y el fanatismo, de guerras fratricidas, pero que encarna también una belleza a la que no le hacen falta muchos adjetivos. Un terreno fértil para liberar la imaginación y el pensamiento, las ganas de hablar y de contar historias. Un lugar, quizás, para empezar de nuevo y encontrar cierta redención.

De la obra de Irene Solà se ha dicho: «Lo que triunfa en todo el relato es la alegría de narrar» (Ponç Puigdevall, El País).
«El oficio narrativo entendido como un esfuerzo de construcción, de ir y volver, de no dar nada por bueno a la primera, de jugar con la fina línea que separa la realidad y la ficción» (Esteve Plantada, Nació Digital).]]> 200 Irene Solà 8433998773 Sebastian 0 to-read 4.22 2019 Canto yo y la montaña baila
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]]> The Vegetarian 25489025
Celebrated by critics around the world, The Vegetarian is a darkly allegorical, Kafka-esque tale of power, obsession, and one woman’s struggle to break free from the violence both without and within her.]]> 188 Han Kang 0553448188 Sebastian 0 to-read 3.62 2007 The Vegetarian
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]]> Happening 129263635
This is the story, written forty years later, of a trauma Ernaux never overcame. In a France where abortion was illegal, she attempted, in vain, to self-administer the abortion with a knitting needle. Fearful and desperate, she finally located an abortionist, and ends up in a hospital emergency ward where she nearly dies.

In Happening, Ernaux sifts through her memories and her journal entries dating from those days. Clearly, cleanly, she gleans the meanings of her experience.

Now an award-winning film by Audrey Diwan

Winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice International Film Festival

Official Selection of the Sundance Film Festival]]> 96 Annie Ernaux 1609809483 Sebastian 0 to-read 4.36 2000 Happening
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]]> El libro vacío 11778731
En un nivel diegético, la anécdota de la novela es sencilla, la historia de un hombre que se propone escribir una novela que, sin embargo nunca llega; en contrapunto, la construcción de personajes y del diseño narrativo son más complejos y originales, como se verá más adelante. El protagonista principal, narrador y, aunque en primera instancia suene contradictorio, escritor del libro vacío, es José García, quien se ha pensado podría representar una suerte de alter ego de la misma Josefina Vicens.]]> 230 Josefina Vicens Sebastian 0 to-read 4.32 1958 El libro vacío
author: Josefina Vicens
name: Sebastian
average rating: 4.32
book published: 1958
rating: 0
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]]> Un mundo para Julius 60756
Julius es un niño inteligente y bien tratado por la fortuna, que resulta pretexto, punto de continua confluencia de un sistema de costumbres y de ideas que configuran una situación tenida de buen gusto, amenazada por la fragilidad y subrayada por una injusticia terrible.]]> 480 Alfredo Bryce Echenique 987580004X Sebastian 5 4.20 1970 Un mundo para Julius
author: Alfredo Bryce Echenique
name: Sebastian
average rating: 4.20
book published: 1970
rating: 5
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]]> Spring Torrents 28462
A novel of haunting beauty, "Spring Torrents" (1870-1) is a fascinating, partly autobiographical account of one of Turgenev's favourite themes - a man's inability to love without losing his innocence and becoming enslaved to obsessive passions.]]> 240 Ivan Turgenev 014044369X Sebastian 5 3.96 1872 Spring Torrents
author: Ivan Turgenev
name: Sebastian
average rating: 3.96
book published: 1872
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[The Nose (Penguin Little Black Classics, #46)]]> 24874312
With this pair of absurd, comic stories Gogol indulges his imagination and delights readers.

Contains 'The Nose' and 'The Carriage'.]]> 53 Nikolai Gogol 0141397527 Sebastian 4 3.77 1836 The Nose (Penguin Little Black Classics, #46)
author: Nikolai Gogol
name: Sebastian
average rating: 3.77
book published: 1836
rating: 4
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]]> The Inspector General 142262 The Inspector General skewers the stupidity, greed, and venality of Russian provincial officials. When it is announced that the Inspector General is coming to visit incognito, Anton, the chief of police, hastens to clean up the town before his arrival. Local officials scurry to hide evidence of bribe-taking and other misdeeds, setting the stage for the arrival from St. Petersburg of Ivan, a penurious gambler and rake who is promptly taken by the townspeople to be the dreaded Inspector General. Ivan, and his servant, Osip, soon take advantage of the situation with hilarious results. First performed in 1836, the play transcends regional and national boundaries to offer a biting, highly entertaining glimpse of universal human foibles and failings.
]]> 80 Nikolai Gogol 0486285006 Sebastian 4 4.03 1835 The Inspector General
author: Nikolai Gogol
name: Sebastian
average rating: 4.03
book published: 1835
rating: 4
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]]> Yo, robot 34910695 Alternate cover for ISBN13 9788435015745. Los robots de Isaac Asimov son máquinas capaces de llevar a cabo muy diversas tareas, y que a menudo se plantean a sí mismos problemas de 'conducta humana'. Pero estas cuestiones se resuelven en Yo, robot en el ámbito de las tres leyes fundamentales de la robótica, concebidas por Asimov, y que no dejan de proponer extraordinarias paradojas que a veces se explican por errores de funcionamiento y otras por la creciente complejidad de los 'programas'. Las paradojas que se plantean en estos relatos futuristas no son sólo ingeniosos ejercicios intelectuales sino sobre todo una indagación sobre la situación del hombre actual en relación con los avances tecnológicos y con la experiencia del tiempo.

Relación de relatos:
- "Robbie" ("Robbie", 1950)

- "Sentido giratorio" ("Runaround", 1942)

- "Razón" ("Reason", 1941)

- "Atrapa esa liebre" ("Catch that Rabbit", 1944)

- "¡Embustero!" ("Liar!", 1941)

- "Pequeño robot perdido" ("Little Lost Robot", 1947)

- "Evasión" ("Escape!", 1950)

- "La evidencia" ("Evidence", 1946)

- "Conflicto inevitable" ("The Evitable Conflict", 1950)]]> 322 Isaac Asimov Sebastian 4 4.08 1950 Yo, robot
author: Isaac Asimov
name: Sebastian
average rating: 4.08
book published: 1950
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[El Delfin. La historia de un sonador]]> 46013243 "El delfín la historia de un soñador", nos muestra el mágico viaje de un joven delfín llamado Daniel Alejandro, que abandona la seguridad de su manada y su isla, y se aventura hacia lo desconocido en busca de un sueño: descubrir el verdadero propósito de su vida. El viaje no será fácil; habrá peligros y retos, amigos y enemigos, pero Daniel Alejandro deberá confiar en la voz de su corazón para lograr su cometido, mas sí logra cumplir su sueño. El delfín ha sido hasta el día de hoy traducido a más de 50 idiomas y dialectos en todo el mundio, con más de 15 millones de copias vendidas.

]]> 111 Sergio Bambaren Roggero Sebastian 4 3.56 1994 El Delfin. La historia de un sonador
author: Sergio Bambaren Roggero
name: Sebastian
average rating: 3.56
book published: 1994
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[The Adventures of Captain Underpants (Captain Underpants, #1)]]> 207266 125 Dav Pilkey 0439014573 Sebastian 4 4.01 1997 The Adventures of Captain Underpants (Captain Underpants, #1)
author: Dav Pilkey
name: Sebastian
average rating: 4.01
book published: 1997
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Charlie Bucket, #1)]]> 6310 (back cover)]]> 176 Roald Dahl 0142403881 Sebastian 4 4.16 1964 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Charlie Bucket, #1)
author: Roald Dahl
name: Sebastian
average rating: 4.16
book published: 1964
rating: 4
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]]> George's Marvellous Medicine 74532 120 Roald Dahl 0224064908 Sebastian 4 4.05 1981 George's Marvellous Medicine
author: Roald Dahl
name: Sebastian
average rating: 4.05
book published: 1981
rating: 4
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]]> Le Petit Nicolas 74256 167 René Goscinny 2070364232 Sebastian 4 4.14 1959 Le Petit Nicolas
author: René Goscinny
name: Sebastian
average rating: 4.14
book published: 1959
rating: 4
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]]> Fantastic Mr. Fox 6693 96 Roald Dahl 0375822070 Sebastian 4 4.09 1970 Fantastic Mr. Fox
author: Roald Dahl
name: Sebastian
average rating: 4.09
book published: 1970
rating: 4
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]]> The Metamorphosis 485894 Alternate cover edition of ISBN 0553213695 / 9780553213690

"As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. He was laying on his hard, as it were armor-plated, back and when he lifted his head a little he could see his domelike brown belly divided into stiff arched segments on top of which the bed quilt could hardly keep in position and was about to slide off completely. His numerous legs, which were pitifully thin compared to the rest of his bulk, waved helplessly before his eyes."

With it's startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first opening, Kafka begins his masterpiece, The Metamorphosis. It is the story of a young man who, transformed overnight into a giant beetle-like insect, becomes an object of disgrace to his family, an outsider in his own home, a quintessentially alienated man. A harrowing—though absurdly comic—meditation on human feelings of inadequacy, guilt, and isolation, The Metamorphosis has taken its place as one of the most widely read and influential works of twentieth-century fiction. As W.H. Auden wrote, "Kafka is important to us because his predicament is the predicament of modern man."]]> 201 Franz Kafka 0553213695 Sebastian 4 3.90 1915 The Metamorphosis
author: Franz Kafka
name: Sebastian
average rating: 3.90
book published: 1915
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1)]]> 960
A devastating new weapon of destruction.
When world-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyze a mysterious symbol -- seared into the chest of a murdered physicist -- he discovers evidence of the unimaginable: the resurgence of an ancient secret brotherhood known as the Illuminati...the most powerful underground organization ever to walk the earth. The Illuminati has now surfaced to carry out the final phase of its legendary vendetta against its most hated enemy -- the Catholic Church.

Langdon's worst fears are confirmed on the eve of the Vatican's holy conclave, when a messenger of the Illuminati announces they have hidden an unstoppable time bomb at the very heart of Vatican City. With the countdown under way, Langdon jets to Rome to join forces with Vittoria Vetra, a beautiful and mysterious Italian scientist, to assist the Vatican in a desperate bid for survival.
Embarking on a frantic hunt through sealed crypts, dangerous catacombs, deserted cathedrals, and even the most secretive vault on earth, Langdon and Vetra follow a 400-year-old trail of ancient symbols that snakes across Rome toward the long-forgotten Illuminati lair...a clandestine location that contains the only hope for Vatican salvation.

An explosive international thriller, Angels & Demons careens from enlightening epiphanies to dark truths as the battle between science and religion turns to war.]]> 736 Dan Brown 1416524797 Sebastian 5 3.95 2000 Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1)
author: Dan Brown
name: Sebastian
average rating: 3.95
book published: 2000
rating: 5
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]]> The Bridges of Madison County 83674 182 Robert James Waller 0446364495 Sebastian 4 3.67 1992 The Bridges of Madison County
author: Robert James Waller
name: Sebastian
average rating: 3.67
book published: 1992
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[El robo de la máscara del inca: La búsqueda de los héroes (Spanish Edition)]]> 117474518 63 Richar Primo Sebastian 3 3.00 El robo de la máscara del inca: La búsqueda de los héroes (Spanish Edition)
author: Richar Primo
name: Sebastian
average rating: 3.00
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rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[Cuentos de la ciudad (Spanish Edition)]]> 62712772 69 Richar Primo Sebastian 4 3.50 Cuentos de la ciudad (Spanish Edition)
author: Richar Primo
name: Sebastian
average rating: 3.50
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rating: 4
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]]> Los perros hambrientos 496744 Los perros hambrientos ambientada en la puna andina, la naturaleza adversa o benéfica es la que marca la pauta del comportamiento de la vida humana.]]> 288 Ciro Alegría 8437614929 Sebastian 5 3.95 1939 Los perros hambrientos
author: Ciro Alegría
name: Sebastian
average rating: 3.95
book published: 1939
rating: 5
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]]> El túnel 53447 El túnel es la mejor introducción al universo prodigioso de Ernesto Sábato; para quien la conoce, un clásico de las letras del continente, una historia sobre el drama del hombre arrojado en el sinsentido más doloroso: la conciencia de la nada.
El narrador describe una historia de amor y muerte en la que muestra la soledad del individuo contemporáneo. No están ausentes de esta trama policial y de suspenso, la locura y la increíble reflexión del protagonista, el pintor Juan Pablo Castel, debatiéndose por comprender las causas que lo arrastraron a matar a la mujer que amaba, María Iribarne, y que era su única vía de salvación. En este alucinante drama de la vida interior, seres intrincados en la bestial búsqueda de comprensión ceden a la mentira, la hipocresía y los celos desmedidos hasta el crimen más inexplicable. Aventura amorosa, aventura onírica, aventura del ser que dan testimonio de un asesinato, de cierta memoria culpable y de una valiente introspección.
Técnicamente perfecta y de lectura apasionante, El túnel excede el negativismo ácido de Sartre y la frenética huida hacia el vacío que plantea El extranjero de Camus, pero tiene de esos dos maestros literarios la impronta genial que hace de la escritura una radiografía del alma atormentada.]]> 158 Ernesto Sabato 9871144261 Sebastian 5 4.04 1948 El túnel
author: Ernesto Sabato
name: Sebastian
average rating: 4.04
book published: 1948
rating: 5
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]]> Bajo la misma estrella 14762463 A Hazel y a Gus les gustaría tener vidas más corrientes. Algunos dirían que no han nacido con estrella, que su mundo es injusto. Hazel y Gus son solo adolescentes, pero si algo les ha enseñado el cáncer que ambos padecen es que no hay tiempo para lamentos, porque, nos guste o no, solo existe el hoy y el ahora. Y por ello, con la intención de hacer realidad el mayor deseo de Hazel —conocer a su escritor favorito—, cruzarán juntos el Atlántico para vivir una aventura contrarreloj, tan catártica como desgarradora. Destino: Ámsterdam, el lugar donde reside un enigmático y malhumorado escritor, la única persona que tal vez pueda ayudarles a ordenar las piezas del enorme rompecabezas del que forman parte...]]> 304 John Green 8415594011 Sebastian 4 3.92 2012 Bajo la misma estrella
author: John Green
name: Sebastian
average rating: 3.92
book published: 2012
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Antes de diciembre (Meses a tu lado, #1)]]> 49644532
Una de las historias de amor más adictivas de Wattpad.

Para Jenna Brown, su primer año en la Universidad suponía alejarse de su familia y sus amigos y enfrentarse al mundo por primera vez en su vida.

Su novio le había dejado claras sus intenciones: a partir de ese momento, tenían una relación a distancia y abierta. Ambos podían hacer lo que quisieran porque sabían que se querían el uno al otro.

Así que no pasaba nada si no dejaba de acercarse al mejor amigo del novio de su compañera de habitación, ¿no?

De todos modos, ¿qué importaba si estaba con él en ausencia de su novio? Todo volvería a la normalidad en diciembre. ¿Cambiaría algo?

Tenía hasta entonces para descubrirlo.]]> 496 Joana Marcús 8418949139 Sebastian 3 4.38 2019 Antes de diciembre (Meses a tu lado, #1)
author: Joana Marcús
name: Sebastian
average rating: 4.38
book published: 2019
rating: 3
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]]> Juan Salvador Gaviota 56866 96 Richard Bach 8466612491 Sebastian 4 3.72 1970 Juan Salvador Gaviota
author: Richard Bach
name: Sebastian
average rating: 3.72
book published: 1970
rating: 4
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]]> The Seagull 79649
When it first opened in St Petersburg in 1896, The Seagull survived only five performances after a disastrous first opening night. Two years later it was revived by Nemirovich-Danchenko at the newly-founded Moscow Art Theatre with Stanslasky as Trigorin and was an immediate success. Checkhov's description of the play was characteristically self-mocking: "A comedy - 3F, 6M, four acts, rural scenery (a view over a lake); much talk of literature, little action, five bushels of love".
Michael Frayn's translation was commissioned by the Oxford Playhouse Company.]]> 65 Anton Chekhov 0413771008 Sebastian 4 3.93 1895 The Seagull
author: Anton Chekhov
name: Sebastian
average rating: 3.93
book published: 1895
rating: 4
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]]> A Modest Proposal 5206937
A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People From Being a Burthen to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick, commonly referred to as A Modest Proposal, is a Juvenalian satirical essay written and published anonymously by Jonathan Swift in 1729. Swift suggests that the impoverished Irish might ease their economic troubles by selling their children as food for rich gentlemen and ladies. This satirical hyperbole mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor, who were predominantly Irish Catholic, as well as British policy towards the Irish in general.]]> 48 Jonathan Swift 1605977276 Sebastian 4 4.04 1729 A Modest Proposal
author: Jonathan Swift
name: Sebastian
average rating: 4.04
book published: 1729
rating: 4
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]]> Cien años de soledad 370523 "Muchos años después, frente al pelotón de fusilamiento, el coronel Aureliano Buendía había de recordar aquella tarde remota en que su padre lo llevó a conocer el hielo". Con estas palabras empieza una novela ya legendaria en los anales de la literatura universal, una de las aventuras literarias más fascinantes de nuestro siglo. Millones de ejemplares de Cien años de Soledad leídos en todas las lenguas y el premio Nobel de Literatura coronando una obra que se había abierto paso "boca a boca".

La Real Academia Española y la Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española presentan Cien años de soledad, una edición popular conmemorativa cuyo texto ha revisado el propio Gabriel García Márquez. A pesar del esmero con que el propio escritor corrigió las pruebas de la primera edición (Sudamericana, 1967), se deslizaron en ella indeseadas erratas y expresiones dudosas que editores sucesivos han tratado de resolver con mejor o peor fortuna. Un estudio comparativo detallado de cada caso ha permitido ahora presentar una propuesta razonada al propio autor, que ha querido revisar las pruebas de imprenta completas, enriqueciendo así esta edición con su trabajo de depuración y fijación del texto.

]]> 609 Gabriel García Márquez 8420471836 Sebastian 5 4.43 1967 Cien años de soledad
author: Gabriel García Márquez
name: Sebastian
average rating: 4.43
book published: 1967
rating: 5
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]]> The Overcoat 537094 57 Nikolai Gogol 1419176528 Sebastian 0 to-read 4.17 1842 The Overcoat
author: Nikolai Gogol
name: Sebastian
average rating: 4.17
book published: 1842
rating: 0
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]]> El jardín de los cerezos 17449756 Published to tie in with the world premiere at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin

In Chekhov's tragi-comedy - perhaps his most popular play - the Gayev family is torn by powerful forces, forces rooted deep in history and in the society around them. Their estate is hopelessly in debt: urged to cut down their beautiful cherry orchard and sell the land for holiday cottages, they struggle to act decisively. Tom Murphy's fine vernacular version allows us to re-imagine the events of the play in the last days of Anglo-Irish colonialism. It gives this great play vivid new life within our own history and social consciousness.



]]> 57 Anton Chekhov Sebastian 4 3.41 1903 El jardín de los cerezos
author: Anton Chekhov
name: Sebastian
average rating: 3.41
book published: 1903
rating: 4
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]]> Noches blancas 1628287 Noches blancas es una novela del autor ruso Fiódor Dostoievski publicada en 1848, al inicio de la carrera del autor. Como muchas de sus obras, esta novela está narrada en primera persona por un narrador, sin nombre. El protagonista es el arquetipo del joven soñador y solitario e imagina constantemente su vejez solitaria. Durante uno de sus largos y cotidianos paseos por las calles de San Petersburgo se encuentra con una joven, Nástienka. Hasta entonces, él nunca había hablado con mujeres y mucho menos se había enamorado, pero hay algo en ella que le hechiza. El relato está estructurado durante cuatro noches y una mañana.]]> 84 Fyodor Dostoevsky 9580471509 Sebastian 5 4.10 1848 Noches blancas
author: Fyodor Dostoevsky
name: Sebastian
average rating: 4.10
book published: 1848
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Alicia en el pais de las maravillas]]> 42770314 par excellence, and ensured that Carroll's book is the best loved and most widely read in children's literature.]]> 104 Lewis Carroll Sebastian 4 3.74 1865 Alicia en el pais de las maravillas
author: Lewis Carroll
name: Sebastian
average rating: 3.74
book published: 1865
rating: 4
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]]> El alquimista 21526368 12 H.P. Lovecraft Sebastian 3 3.49 1916 El alquimista
author: H.P. Lovecraft
name: Sebastian
average rating: 3.49
book published: 1916
rating: 3
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]]> The Call of Cthulhu 15730101 The Call of Cthulhu is a harrowing tale of the weakness of the human mind when confronted by powers and intelligences from beyond our world.]]> 43 H.P. Lovecraft Sebastian 4 3.97 1928 The Call of Cthulhu
author: H.P. Lovecraft
name: Sebastian
average rating: 3.97
book published: 1928
rating: 4
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]]> Edipo Rey 10790716 100 Sophocles Sebastian 4 3.78 -429 Edipo Rey
author: Sophocles
name: Sebastian
average rating: 3.78
book published: -429
rating: 4
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]]> Pedro Páramo 38787
As one enters Juan Rulfo's legendary novel, one follows a dusty road to a town of death. Time shifts from one consciousness to another in a hypnotic flow of dreams, desires, and memories, a world of ghosts dominated by the figure of Pedro Páramo - lover, overlord, murderer.

Rulfo's extraordinary mix of sensory images, violent passions, and unfathomable mysteries has been a profound influence on a whole generation of Latin American writers, including Carlos Fuentes, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Gabriel García Márquez. To read Pedro Páramo today is as overwhelming an experience as when it was first published in Mexico back in 1955.]]> 128 Juan Rulfo 0802133908 Sebastian 5 4.06 1955 Pedro Páramo
author: Juan Rulfo
name: Sebastian
average rating: 4.06
book published: 1955
rating: 5
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]]> Bodas de sangre 77903 167 Federico García Lorca 8437605601 Sebastian 4 3.91 1932 Bodas de sangre
author: Federico García Lorca
name: Sebastian
average rating: 3.91
book published: 1932
rating: 4
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]]> El llano en llamas 2075382 210 Juan Rulfo 9500718030 Sebastian 4 4.22 1953 El llano en llamas
author: Juan Rulfo
name: Sebastian
average rating: 4.22
book published: 1953
rating: 4
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]]> Ficciones 426504 Ficciones demonstrate the whirlwind of Borges's genius and mirror the precision and potency of his intellect and inventiveness, his piercing irony, his skepticism, and his obsession with fantasy. Borges sends us on a journey into a compelling, bizarre, and profoundly resonant realm; we enter the fearful sphere of Pascal's abyss, the surreal and literal labyrinth of books, and the iconography of eternal return. To enter the worlds in Ficciones is to enter the mind of Jorge Luis Borges, wherein lies Heaven, Hell, and everything else in between.

Part One: The Garden of Forking Paths
Prologue
Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius (1940)
The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim (1936, not included in the 1941 edition)
Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote (1939)
The Circular Ruins (1940)
The Lottery in Babylon (1941)
An Examination of the Work of Herbert Quain (1941)
The Library of Babel (1941)
The Garden of Forking Paths (1941)
Part Two: Artifices
Prologue
Funes the Memorious (1942)
The Form of the Sword (1942)
Theme of the Traitor and the Hero (1944)
Death and the Compass (1942)
The Secret Miracle (1943)
Three Versions of Judas (1944)
The End (1953, 2nd edition only)
The Sect of the Phoenix (1952, 2nd edition only)
The South (1953, 2nd edition only)]]> 174 Jorge Luis Borges 0802130305 Sebastian 0 to-read 4.46 1944 Ficciones
author: Jorge Luis Borges
name: Sebastian
average rating: 4.46
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]]> Pride and Prejudice 1885 Pride and Prejudice has remained one of the most popular novels in the English language. Jane Austen called this brilliant work "her own darling child" and its vivacious heroine, Elizabeth Bennet, "as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print." The romantic clash between the opinionated Elizabeth and her proud beau, Mr. Darcy, is a splendid performance of civilized sparring. And Jane Austen's radiant wit sparkles as her characters dance a delicate quadrille of flirtation and intrigue, making this book the most superb comedy of manners of Regency England.

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780679783268]]> 279 Jane Austen 1441341706 Sebastian 0 to-read 4.28 1813 Pride and Prejudice
author: Jane Austen
name: Sebastian
average rating: 4.28
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]]> To Kill a Mockingbird 56916837 To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than forty million copies worldwide, served as the basis for an enormously popular motion picture, and was voted one of the best novels of the twentieth century by librarians across the country. A gripping, heart-wrenching, and wholly remarkable coming-of-age tale in a South poisoned by virulent prejudice, it views a world of great beauty and savage iniquities through the eyes of a young girl, as her father — a crusading local lawyer — risks everything to defend a black man unjustly accused of a terrible crime.]]> 323 Harper Lee Sebastian 0 to-read 4.22 1960 To Kill a Mockingbird
author: Harper Lee
name: Sebastian
average rating: 4.22
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]]> The Great Gatsby 41733839 here and here.

James L.W. West III to include the author’s final revisions and features a note on the composition and text, a personal foreword by Fitzgerald’s granddaughter, Eleanor Lanahan—and a new introduction by two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward.

The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. First published in 1925, this quintessential novel of the Jazz Age has been acclaimed by generations of readers. The story of the mysteriously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan, of lavish parties on Long Island at a time when The New York Times noted “gin was the national drink and sex the national obsession,” it is an exquisitely crafted tale of America in the 1920s.]]> 180 F. Scott Fitzgerald Sebastian 0 to-read 3.95 1925 The Great Gatsby
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A farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming idealism and stirring slogans, they set out to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality. Thus the stage is set for one of the most telling satiric fables ever penned –a razor-edged fairy tale for grown-ups that records the evolution from revolution against tyranny to a totalitarianism just as terrible.
When Animal Farm was first published, Stalinist Russia was seen as its target. Today it is devastatingly clear that wherever and whenever freedom is attacked, under whatever banner, the cutting clarity and savage comedy of George Orwell’s masterpiece have a meaning and message still ferociously fresh.]]> 141 George Orwell 0451526341 Sebastian 0 to-read 4.08 1945 Animal Farm
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