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9 best books like Irish Myths and Legends (Lady Augusta Gregory): Requiem for a Dream, On Bullshit, The Surrendered, The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, The Kindly Ones, The Shadow-Line, Το λάθος, Η μεγάλη χίμαιρα, Non è stagione

Requiem for a Dream
AuthorHubert Selby Jr.
ISBN1560252480
In Coney Island, Brooklyn, Sarah Goldfarb, a lonely widow, wants nothing more than to lose weight and appear on a television game show. She becomes addicted to diet pills in her obsessive quest, while her junkie son, Harry, along with his girlfriend, Marion, and his best friend, Tyrone, have devised...
On Bullshit
AuthorHarry G. Frankfurt
ISBN0691122946
One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share. But we tend to take the situation for granted. Most people are rather confident of their ability to recognize bullshit and to avoid being taken in by it. So the phenomenon...
The Surrendered
AuthorChang-rae Lee
ISBN1594489769
A stunning story about how love and war inalterably change the lives of those they touch, The Surrendered is elegant, suspenseful, and unforgettable: a profound meditation on the nature of heroism and sacrifice, the power of love, and the possibilities for mercy and salvation.

With his three...
The Watchmaker of Filigree Street
AuthorNatasha Pulley
ISBN1620408333
1883. Thaniel Steepleton returns home to his tiny London apartment to find a gold pocket watch on his pillow. Six months later, the mysterious timepiece saves his life, drawing him away from a blast that destroys Scotland Yard. At last, he goes in search of its maker, Keita Mori, a kind, lonely immigrant...
The Kindly Ones
AuthorJonathan Littell
ISBN0061353450
Named one of the "100 Best Books of the Decade" by The Times of London "Oh my human brothers, let me tell you how it happened." A former Nazi officer, Dr. Maximilien Aue has reinvented himself, many years after the war, as a middle-class family man and factory owner in France. An intellectual steeped in...
The Shadow-Line
AuthorJoseph Conrad
ISBN0192801708
Written in 1915, The Shadow-Line is based upon events and experiences from twenty-seven years earlier to which Conrad returned obsessively in his fiction. A young sea captain's first command brings with it a succession of crises: his sea is becalmed, the crew laid low by fever, and his deranged first...
Το λάθος
AuthorAntonis Samarakis
ISBN9600316694
Το Καθεστώς είναι ο τέλειος μηχανισμός εξόντωσης του ανθρώπου. Όπλο του οι πράκτορες της Ασφάλειας, και η αμείλικτα τετράγωνη λογική τους. Όπλο του, επίσης,...
Η μεγάλη χίμαιρα
AuthorM. Karagatsis
ISBN9600510121
"Η μεγάλη χίμαιρα" είναι ένα λεπτομερές ψυχογράφημα. Ο συγγραφέας καταπιάνεται με ένα γυναικείο χαρακτήρα και τον αναλύει συστηματικά. Η ιστορία της...
Non è stagione
AuthorAntonio Manzini
C'è un'azione parallela, in questa inchiesta del vicequestore Rocco Schiavone, che affianca la storia principale. È perché il passato dell'ispido poliziotto è segnato da una zona oscura e si ripresenta a ogni richiamo. Come un debito non riscattato. Come una ferita condannata a riaprirsi....
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