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[Anonymous No.2894238]

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>>The Book of Tea

The Book of Tea (茶の本 Cha no Hon?) by Okakura Kakuzō (1906), is a long essay linking the role of tea (Teaism) to the aesthetic and cultural aspects of Japanese life.
Addressed to a western audience, it was originally written in English and is one of the great English Tea classics. Okakura had been taught at a young age to speak English and was proficient at communicating his thoughts to the Western mind. In his book, he discusses such topics as Zen and Taoism, but also the secular aspects of tea and Japanese life. The book emphasizes how Teaism taught the Japanese many things; most importantly, simplicity. Kakuzō argues that this tea-induced simplicity affected art and architecture, and he was a long-time student of the visual arts. He ends the book with a chapter on Tea Masters, and spends some time talking about Sen no Rikyū and his contribution to the Japanese Tea Ceremony.
According to Tomonobu Imamichi, Heidegger’s concept of Dasein in Sein und Zeit was inspired — although Heidegger remains silent on this — by Okakura Kakuzō’s concept of das-in-der-Welt-sein (being-in-the-worldness) expressed in The Book of Tea to describe Zhuangzi’s philosophy, which Imamichi’s teacher had offered to Heidegger in 1919, after having followed lessons with him the year before.

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/769/769-h/769-h.htm

[Anonymous No.2894328]

>The Tokyo-Montana Express by Richard Brautigan

"The Tokyo-Montana Express is a collection of one hundred and thirty-one "stations" inspired by memories of Japan and Montana, January-July 1976, that seem to form a somewhat autobiographical work, was Brautigan's ninth published novel. Brautigan, defending the unique form of this novel, said each section of the novel represented a separate stop along a journey, a station along a metaporical rail line joining Japan and Montana. Common themes running through these stations include Brautigan's disillusionment with aging, the search for identity, the diversity of human nature, and cultural differences between Montana and Japan."

>http://www.mediafire.com/?dy7p2axydla2ch1

[Anonymous No.2894334]

>The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge by Rainer Maria Rilke

"In the only novel by one of the German language's greatest poets, a young man named Malte Laurids Brigge lives in a cheap room in Paris while his belongings rot in storage. Every person he sees seems to carry their death with them, and with little but a library card to distinguish him from the city's untouchables, he thinks of the deaths, and ghosts, of his aristocratic family, of which he is the sole living descendant. Suffused with passages of lyrical brilliance, Rilke's semi-autobiographical novel is a moving and powerful coming-of-age story."

>http://www.mediafire.com/?5rrrc5tmbge9w2b

[Anonymous No.2894337]

>Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age by Bohumil Hrabal

"Rake, drunkard, aesthete, gossip, raconteur extraordinaire: the narrator of Bohumil Hrabal’s rambling, rambunctious masterpiece Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age is all these and more. Speaking to a group of sunbathing women who remind him of lovers past, this elderly roué tells the story of his life—or at least unburdens himself of a lifetime’s worth of stories. Thus we learn of amatory conquests (and humiliations), of scandals both private and public, of military adventures and domestic feuds, of what things were like “in the days of the monarchy” and how they’ve changed since. As the book tumbles restlessly forward, and the comic tone takes on darker shadings, we realize we are listening to a man talking as much out of desperation as from exuberance."

>http://www.mediafire.com/?9capj2z6m9z59vz

[Anonymous No.2894343]

>War With the Newts by Karel Capek

"One of the great anti-utopian satires of the twentieth century, an inspiration to writers from Orwell to Vonnegut, at last in a modern translation. Man discovers a species of giant, intelligent newts and learns to exploit them so successfully that the newts gain skills and arms enough to challenge man's place at the top of the animal kingdom. Along the way, Karel Capek satirizes science, runaway capitalism, fascism, journalism, militarism, even Hollywood."

>http://www.mediafire.com/?9p6q5325e42t7cy

[Anonymous No.2894347]

(gonna throw in a few from the tail-end of the last thread that I don't think got much notice)

>Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day by Ben Loory

"Loory's collection of wry and witty, dark and perilous contemporary fables is populated by people--and monsters and trees and jocular octopi--who are motivated by the same fears and desires that isolate and unite us all. In this singular universe, televisions talk (and sometimes sing), animals live in small apartments where their nephews visit from the sea, and men and women and boys and girls fall down wells and fly through space and find love on Ferris wheels. In a voice full of fable, myth, and dream, Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day draws us into a world of delightfully wicked recognitions, and introduces us to a writer of uncommon talent and imagination."

>http://www.mediafire.com/?20p6jz6m57v3x64

[Anonymous No.2894349]

>Pereira Declares by Antonio Tabucchi

"Dr. Pereira is an aging, overweight journalist who has failed to notice the menacing cloud of fascism over Salazarist Portugal, until one day he meets an aspiring young writer and anti-fascist. Breaking out of his apolitical torpor, Pereira reluctantly rises to heroism."

>http://www.mediafire.com/?6jr5bfbnkiyyxnf

[Anonymous No.2894351]

OP is not a cigarette/homosexual/stick-bundle.

[Anonymous No.2894352]

>The Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat

"Considered one of the most important works of modern Iranian literature, The Blind Owl is a haunting tale of loss and spiritual degradation. Replete with potent symbolism and terrifying surrealistic imagery, Sadegh Hedayat's masterpice details a young man's despair after losing a mysterious lover. As the narrator gradually drifts into madness, the reader becomes caught in the sandstorm of Hedayat's bleak vision of the human condition."

>http://www.mediafire.com/?gk0dgndob6e3w8d

[Anonymous No.2894358]

>A Tiger for Malgudi by R.K. Narayan

"A venerable tiger, old and toothless now, looks back over his life from cubhood and early days roaming wild in the Indian jungle. Trapped into a miserable circus career as 'Raja the magnificent', he is then sold into films (co-starring with a beefy Tarzan in a leopard skin) until, finding the human world too brutish and bewildering, he makes a dramatic bid for freedom. R.K. Narayan's story combines Hindu mysticism with ripe Malgudi comedy, viewing human absurdities through the eyes of a wild animal and revealing how, quite unexpectedly, Raja finds sweet companionship and peace."

>http://www.mediafire.com/?zy3q4llc34h3po6

>>2894351
OP's not doing these, but I do hope he comes back and shares more than Okakura.

[Anonymous No.2894361]

>Ice by Anna Kavan

"In this haunting and surreal novel, the narrator and a man known as the warden"" search for an elusive girl in a frozen, post-nuclear, apocalyptic landscape. The country has been invaded and is being governed by a secret organization. There is destruction everywhere; great walls of ice overrun the world in this hallucinatory quest-novel."

>http://www.mediafire.com/?a31ddc6acdckujh

[Anonymous No.2894372]

>The Ubu Plays by Alfred Jarry

"Alfred Jarry is regarded as one of the founders of modern avant-garde theatre - 'Dada, Surrealism, Pataphysics, Theatre of Cruelty, the Absurd—all owe a debt to Jarry.' This volume contains his three classic Ubu texts: Ubu Roi, Ubu Cocu and Ubu Enchaine. Through the lucid translations of Connolly and Taylor, the reader comes to realize that the violent and loathsome Ubu is Jarry’s dark metaphor for man in the modern age. As Ubu himself said, 'We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well.'"

>http://www.mediafire.com/?an9os97757rub5o

[Anonymous No.2894378]

>Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

This new version of Morrison's 1977 novel is a fitting reminder of her early creative mastery. Song of Solomon is a powerful, sensual, and poetic exploration of four generations of a family mistakenly named Dead. Told through the eyes of "Milkman," a rare male protagonist in Morrison's wonderful catalog of unforgettable characters, we discover a century's worth of secrets, ghosts, and troubles. Milkman is faced with resolving the differing memories of his parents and his mysterious aunt Pilate, while questioning the historically charged realities thrown at him by the death of real-life victims of racism like Emmett Till as viewed by his lifelong friend Guitar. Lynne Thigpen was born to tell the author's stories, catching every lyrical note and each painful cry. A perfect marriage of author and reader, this will win new audiences and reassure audio veterans that by listening to books one truly can appreciate the magic of storytelling.

http://www.mediafire.com/?u3z4rdy1w43r5b3

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[Anonymous No.2894384]

>The Passion According to G.H. by Clarice Lispector

"The Passion According to G.H., Clarice Lispector’s mystical novel of 1964, concerns a well-to-do Rio sculptress, G.H., who enters her maid’s room, sees a cockroach crawling out of the wardrobe, and, panicking, slams the door —crushing the cockroach —and then watches it die. At the end of the novel, at the height of a spiritual crisis, comes the most famous and most genuinely shocking scene in Brazilian literature…"

>http://www.mediafire.com/?75oe3a282f20tv3

[Anonymous No.2894393]

>>2894384

>comes the most famous and most genuinely shocking scene in Brazilian literature

If that is a true statement, then Brazilian literature is very dull.

[Anonymous No.2894397]

>The Face of Another by Kobo Abe

"Like an elegantly chilling postscript to The Metamorphosis, this classic of postwar Japanese literature describes a bizarre physical transformation that exposes the duplicities of an entire world. The narrator is a scientist hideously deformed in a laboratory accident–a man who has lost his face and, with it, his connection to other people. Even his wife is now repulsed by him.

His only entry back into the world is to create a mask so perfect as to be undetectable. But soon he finds that such a mask is more than a disguise: it is an alternate self–a self that is capable of anything. A remorseless meditation on nature, identity and the social contract, The Face of Another is an intellectual horror story of the highest order."

>http://www.mediafire.com/?297s4j9d4i63t6d

[Anonymous No.2894408]

>>2894393
bro gtfo, it's a real tour de force

[Anonymous No.2894411]

>>2894408

It's pesudo-intellectual bullshit of the highest order and a goddamn soap box.

Besides, every little kid puts goddamn bugs in their mouth, why the fuck does it matter that a grown woman does so too?

[Anonymous No.2894416]

>>2894411
I was more of a pencil lead kinda guy, with the occasional used bubble gum too.

[Anonymous No.2894420]

>>2894411

What are you talking about? I didn't.

[Anonymous No.2894426]

To fuel the Lispector hate, have some more:

>Near to the Wild Heart by Clarice Lispector

"Near to the Wild Heart, published in Rio de Janeiro in 1943, introduced Brazil to what one writer called 'Hurricane Clarice': a twenty-three-year-old girl who wrote her first book in a tiny rented room and then baptized it with a title taken from Joyce: 'He was alone, unheeded, near to the wild heart of life.'

The book was an unprecedented sensation — the discovery of a genius. Narrative epiphanies and interior monologue frame the life of Joana, from her middle-class childhood through her unhappy marriage and its dissolution to transcendence, when she proclaims: 'I shall arise as strong and comely as a young colt.'"

>http://www.mediafire.com/?cy62g6l8ayfw7w1

[Anonymous No.2894429]

>>2894411
This. Over-dramatizing trivial things is a clear sigh that the author is full of baloney.

[Anonymous No.2894433]

>>2894429

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

—Arthur Schopenhauer

[Anonymous No.2894436]

>>2894433

No, we've all seen the putting-bugs-in-my-mouth target, we just realize only an idiot would think much of actually hitting it.

[Anonymous No.2894439]

>>2894426
Holy shit, this one is absolutely great. I strongly recommend it.

[Anonymous No.2894443]

>The Motion Demon by Stefan Grabinski

"Macabre trains and maverick railwaymen inhabit the world of THE MOTION DEMON, a translation of the highly-original short story collection from the pen of Stefan Grabinski, first published in 1919.

Sometimes called the “Polish Poe” or the “Polish Lovecraft,” Grabinski is a unique voice in fantastique literature who crafted his own style and addressed themes that no other horror/fantasy writer at the time was exploring. Grabinski’s work was largely ignored in his native country during his life, but in recent times there has been growing international interest in this writer, with notable voices, such as author China Mieville, proclaiming him a master of horror/fantasy."

>http://www.mediafire.com/?pl4qq9s9n64wbbd

[Anonymous No.2894444]

>>2894436
It's how she says it that makes a difference, bro. You're focusing on the action itself and you're underestimating what an author does with it.

[Anonymous No.2894448]

>>2894444

What she does with it is to try and shock the reader and make her "message" (if you could call that rambling lecture she gives a message) stick in the their minds.

[Anonymous No.2894452]

>>2894444
>you're underestimating what an author does with it

Making filler. Killing a cockroach was probably the most shocking act in the author's life.

[Anonymous No.2894453]

>>2894443
DUDE I FUCking LOVE TRAINS!

[Anonymous No.2894458]

>>2894448

what is exactly her message?

[Anonymous No.2894459]

>>2894448
>>2894452
Bah, why should I care. You guys probably think dragon slaying is better than this.

[Anonymous No.2894462]

>>2894458

I think (and again, the damn thing is almost plotless, so this is a guess) but the novel is basically a woman's existential crisis and how the only way to really exist in this world is to constantly self-analysis yourself and how far you're willing to go.

>>2894459

>Bah, stop hating what I like, you guys are probably into FANTASY

Don't you dare use the F word around me.

[Anonymous No.2894497]

bump

[Anonymous No.2894512]

Ten Days That Shook the World


An American journalist and revolutionary writer, John Reed became a close friend of Lenin and was an eyewitness to the 1917 revolution in Russia. Ten Days That Shook the World is Reed's extraordinary record of that event. Writing in the first flush of revolutionary enthusiasm, he gives a gripping account of the events in Petrograd in November 1917, when Lenin and the Bolsheviks finally seized power. Containing verbatim reports both of speeches by leaders and of the chance comments of bystanders, and set against an idealized backdrop of soldiers, sailors, peasants, and the proletariat uniting to throw off oppression, Reed's account is the product of passionate involvement and remains an unsurpassed classic of reporting.

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3076

Will try to match share for share here on

[Anonymous No.2894522]

>Billiards at Half-Past Nine by Heinrich Boll

"Böll’s well-known opposition to fascism and war informs this moving story of a single day in the life of traumatized soldier Robert Faehmel, scion of a family of successful Cologne architects, as he struggles to return to ordinary life after the Second World War. An encounter with a war-time nemesis, now a power in the reconstruction of Germany, forces him to confront private memories and the wounds of Germany’s defeat in the two World Wars."

>http://www.mediafire.com/?d6svj2631t11zf5

[Anonymous No.2894528]

>>2894459
Certainly, I would rather read a novel about slaying dragons than one about slaying cockroachs. I don't think there's anything particularly strange or bad about that, or why reading a novel about slaying a cockroach is inherently more interesting. That's nonsensical.

[Anonymous No.2894534]

>>2894528
2imaginative4u

[Anonymous No.2894542]

>The Empty Canvas (a.k.a Boredom) by Alberto Moravia

"The novels that the great Italian writer Alberto Moravia wrote in the years following the World War II represent an extraordinary survey of the range of human behavior in a fragmented modern society.

Boredom, the story of a failed artist and pampered son of a rich family who becomes dangerously attached to a young model, examines the complex relations between money, sex, and imperiled masculinity. This powerful and disturbing study in the pathology of modern life is one of the masterworks of a writer whom as Anthony Burgess once remarked, was "always trying to get to the bottom of the human imbroglio.""

>http://www.mediafire.com/?l8fkr93d7m2sat2

[Anonymous No.2894549]

>Butcher's Crossing by John Williams

"It is the 1870s, and Will Andrews, fired up by Emerson to seek “an original relation to nature,” drops out of Harvard and heads west. He washes up in Butcher’s Crossing, a small Kansas town on the outskirts of nowhere. Butcher’s Crossing is full of restless men looking for ways to make money and ways to waste it. Before long Andrews strikes up a friendship with one of them, a man who regales Andrews with tales of immense herds of buffalo, ready for the taking, hidden away in a beautiful valley deep in the Colorado Rockies. He convinces Andrews to join in an expedition to track the animals down. The journey out is grueling, but at the end is a place of paradisal richness. Once there, however, the three men abandon themselves to an orgy of slaughter, so caught up in killing buffalo that they lose all sense of time. Winter soon overtakes them: they are snowed in. Next spring, half-insane with cabin fever, cold, and hunger, they stagger back to Butcher’s Crossing to find a world as irremediably changed as they have been."

>http://www.mediafire.com/?96n0z3v6w38zqtl

[Anonymous No.2894556]

>Hav by Jan Morris

"Hav is like no place on earth. Rumored to be the site of Troy, captured during the crusades and recaptured by Saladin, visited by Tolstoy, Hitler, Grace Kelly, and Princess Diana, this Mediterranean city-state is home to several architectural marvels and an annual rooftop race that is a feat of athleticism and insanity. As Jan Morris guides us through the corridors and quarters of Hav, we hear the mingling of Italian, Russian, and Arabic in its markets, delight in its famous snow raspberries, and meet the denizens of its casinos and cafés."

>http://www.mediafire.com/?5ybz8c24yyzzeue

[Anonymous No.2894739]

>Point Omega - Don DeLillo - 2010

"From one of the country's greatest living writers comes a brief, unnerving, and hard-hitting new novel about a secret war advisor and a young filmmaker."

http://www.mediafire.com/?15cb5v0sd30mlwi

[Anonymous No.2894756]

Earth and Ashes - Atiq Rahimi - 2003 - Afghanistan

"When the Soviet army arrives in Afghanistan, the elderly Dastaguir witnesses the destruction of his village and the death of his clan. His young grandson Yassin, deaf from the sounds of the bombing, is one of the few survivors. The two set out through an unforgiving landscape, searching for the coal mine where Murad, the old man's son and the boy's father, works. They reach their destination only to learn that they must wait and rely for help on all that remains to them: a box of chewing tobacco, some unripe apples, and the kindness of strangers. Haunting in its spareness, Earth and Ashes is a tale of devastating loss, but also of human perseverance in the face of madness and war."

http://www.mediafire.com/?v82myn1toahnlki

The book was also adapted into a film, directed by the author.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0420715/

[Anonymous No.2894759]

Earth and Ashes - Atiq Rahimi - 2003 - Afghanistan

"When the Soviet army arrives in Afghanistan, the elderly Dastaguir witnesses the destruction of his village and the death of his clan. His young grandson Yassin, deaf from the sounds of the bombing, is one of the few survivors. The two set out through an unforgiving landscape, searching for the coal mine where Murad, the old man's son and the boy's father, works. They reach their destination only to learn that they must wait and rely for help on all that remains to them: a box of chewing tobacco, some unripe apples, and the kindness of strangers. Haunting in its spareness, Earth and Ashes is a tale of devastating loss, but also of human perseverance in the face of madness and war."

http://www.mediafire.com/?v82myn1toahnlki

The book was also adapted into a film, directed by the author.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0420715/

[Anonymous No.2894787]

The Castle of Otranto - Walpole


First published pseudonymously in 1764, The Castle of Otranto purported to be a translation of an Italian story of the time of the crusades. In it Walpole attempted, as he declared in the Preface to the Second Edition, "to blend the two kinds of romance: the ancient and the modern." Crammed with invention, entertainment, terror, and pathos, the novel was an immediate success and Walpole's own favorite among his numerous works. The novel is reprinted here from a text of 1798, the last that Walpole himself prepared for the press

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/696

[Anonymous No.2894793]

Vathek - Beckford

Vathek (1786), originally written in French, remains one of the strangest eighteenth-century novels and one of the most difficult to classify. Perverse and grotesque comedy alternates with scenes of 'oriental' magnificence and evocative beauty in the story of the ruthless Caliph Vathek's journey to superb damnation among the subterranean treasures of Eblis. Underlying the elegant prose is a strong element of self-indulgent personal fantasy on the part of Beckford, youthful millionaire, dreamer, and eventually social outcast. Byron, Poe, Mallarmé, and Swinburne are some of the literary figures who have admired Vathek's imaginative power

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2060

[Anonymous No.2894798]

Confessions of an English Opium Eater - Quincey


In this remarkable autobiography, Thomas De Quincey hauntingly describes the surreal visions and hallucinatory nocturnal wanderings he took through London—and the nightmares, despair, and paranoia to which he became prey—under the influence of the then-legal painkiller laudanum. Forging a link between artistic self-expression and addiction, Confessions seamlessly weaves the effects of drugs and the nature of dreams, memory, and imagination. First published in 1821, it paved the way for later generations of literary drug users, from Baudelaire to Burroughs, and anticipated psychoanalysis with its insights into the subconscious

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2040

[Anonymous No.2894800]

>Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity - David Lynch - 2006 - USA
(Non-fiction)

"In this "unexpected delight,"* filmmaker David Lynch describes his personal methods of capturing and working with ideas, and the immense creative benefits he has experienced from the practice of meditation."

http://www.mediafire.com/?x8cc8sq7m767l91

I've seen medication and transcendental meditation discussed here quite a few times. The book is an intresting insight into the process as used by one of America's most prominent artists.

[Anonymous No.2894803]

Thank you very much OP/contributor.

[Anonymous No.2894805]

Flatland - Abbott

"Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which Lines, Triangles, Squares, Pentagons, Hexagons, and other figures, instead of remaining fixed in their places, move freely about, on or in the surface, but without the power of rising above or sinking below it … and you will have a pretty correct notion of my country and countrymen."

Narrated by A. Square, Flatland is Edwin A. Abbott's delightful mathematical fantasy about life in a two-dimensional world. All existence is limited to length and breadth in Flatland, its inhabitants unable even to imagine a third dimension. Abbott's amiable narrator provides an overview of this fantastic world-its physics and metaphysics, its history, customs, and religious beliefs. But when a strange visitor mysteriously appears and transports the incredulous Flatlander to the Land of Three Dimensions, his worldview is forever shattered.

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/97

[Anonymous No.2894807]

Under Western Eyes - Conrad (more of an essential than most posted here, but would like it read more)

Joseph Conrad's "Under Western Eyes" is the story of a young Russian student named Razumov who when returning home to St. Petersburg, Russia discovers his friend Victor Haldin, an anarchist who has just committed a political assassination, hiding from the police in his apartment. Victor Haldin calls upon his friend Razumov to help him escape and in so doing puts him in the unenviable position of choosing between his loyalties to his friend or to abiding by the authority of the law in the service of justice

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2480

[Anonymous No.2894809]

The Jew of Malta - Marlowe

Prejudice, the intricacies of Mediterranean politics, and Machiavellian strategy abound in this masterpiece of Elizabethan theater. The eponymous character in this suspenseful drama, a prototype for Shakespeare's Shylock, schemes desperately against Christian and Moslem hostility to cling to his wealth, his status, and his daughter.

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/901

[Anonymous No.2894832]

Anyone else want to contribute?

[Anonymous No.2894836]

>>2894832
are we just posting books that are on gutenberg?

[Anonymous No.2894838]

>>2894836
Do what you want.

Doesn't have to be Gutenberg. I just read only pre-1950, so many of mine are there

[Anonymous No.2894849]

My Philosophy of Everything

>"What Am I reading?"
Of all the questions I pose and seek to anwser in this doccument, that question is by far the simplest. This is a collection of pure, *unedited* thoughts, and musings written by Luke E. MacIntosh. I debated even putting a name on this for a long time. But In reality what bloody differnce does it make. You would no more know Luke MacIntosh from Jerald P. Tallwacker, or any one else for that matter. So Im, ( and we are all) , still anynomous in a sense. [ Even celebrities will eventually become anynomous to the distant generations, but ideas have a tenacity for selfpreservance far beyond any mortal]

http://www.mediafire.com/?v15ei909ade5ppv

[Anonymous No.2894856]

Trivia - Logan Pearsall Smith

A collection of anecdotes, epigrams written by an Edwardian American-British academic. Very gentle, whimsical, charming. Sharply observed and well turned. Just a really enjoyable, readable little book.

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8544

[Anonymous No.2894864]

The Woman In White - Wilkie Collins

Written by a protege of Charles Dickens, and enormously popular in its own time, The Woman In White was one of the first mystery novels. A young art teacher, after a strange and inexplicable meeting with a woman clothed in white, takes a job as a tutor at an upper-class household; things more or less progress. Uneven, drags a bit in places, but has some really effective moments and some remarkable characters, including perhaps my favorite villain in literature.

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/583

[Anonymous No.2894879]

The Log Of A Cowboy - Andy Adams

Andy Adams was a real cowboy who, in the later part of his life, got angry at the unrealistic depictions of the cowboy life in popular literature and decided to write his own version. This is the result. It's the tale of a cattle drive from Mexico up to Montana, and it's compulsively readable and fascinating both from a historical perspective and on its own terms.

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12797

[Anonymous No.2894889]

Just a thanks. Always nice to have a few new suggestions.

[Anonymous No.2894904]

>The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes by Unknown
The bastard son of a prostitute, Lazarillo goes to work for a blind beggar, who beats and starves him, while teaching him some very useful dirty tricks. The boy then drifts in and out of the service of a succession of masters, each vividly sketched and together revealing the corrupt world of imperial Spain. Its miseries are made all the more apparent by the candor and surprising good cheer with which young Lazarillo recounts his ever more curious fate.
>http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/437

[Anonymous No.2894952]

Bump

[Anonymous No.2894958]

>The Golden Age by Michal Ajvaz
The Golden Age is a fantastical travelogue in which a modern-day Gulliver writes a book about a civilization he once encountered on a tiny island in the Atlantic. The islanders seem at first to do nothing but sit and observe the world, and indeed draw no distinction between reality and representation, so that a mirror image seems as substantial to them as a person (and vice versa); but the center of their culture is revealed to be “The Book,” a handwritten, collective novel filled with feuding royal families, murderous sorcerers, and narrow escapes. Anyone is free to write in “The Book,” adding their own stories, crossing out others, or even ap- pending “footnotes” in the form of little paper pouches full of extra text—but of course there are pouches within pouches, so that the story is impossible to read “in order,” and soon begins to overwhelm the narrator’s orderly treatise.
>http://www.mediafire.com/?wjpwftxgf0i86br

[Anonymous No.2894963]

>How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu
Minor Universe 31 is a vast story-space on the outskirts of fiction. Every day, people get into time machines and try to do the one thing they should never do: change the past. That’s where Charles Yu, time travel technician steps in. He helps save people from themselves. Literally. When he’s not taking client calls or consoling his boss, Phil, Yu visits his mother and searches for his father, who invented time travel and then vanished. Accompanied by TAMMY, an operating system, and Ed, a nonexistent but ontologically valid dog, Yu sets out, and back, and beyond, to find the one day where he and his father can meet in memory. He learns that the key may be found in a book he got from his future self. It’s called How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, and he’s the author. And somewhere inside it is the information that could help him—it may even save his life.
>http://www.mediafire.com/?p9t51141s3mlg1g

[Anonymous No.2895066]

Bump for nice shares.

[Anonymous No.2895084]

>>2894805
>scroll
>scroll
>scroll
>dat ass
>click
>no ass

[Anonymous No.2895095]

>>2895084
wut

[Anonymous No.2895127]

Can someone recommend a book on how to be a man? Not pua bullshit. Like Clint Eastwood in grand Torino. My dad was not very manly and I feel like I know more

[Anonymous No.2895166]

>>2895127

-Killing Floor by lee child (idealised tough guy)

-first blood by David Morrell (the famous rambo novel) (idealised tough guy)

-without remorse by tom clancy (idealised big man/tough guy)

-Bravo two zero by andy mcnab (or his nick stone series) (the sort of realist/gray man hard nut soldier)

-fear is the key by alistair maclean (pragmatic/realist/adventure flawed hero)

-desmond bagley (pragmatic/realist/adventure flawed hero)

Most of these are good pop culture reads that'll make you 'macho' if you inculcate their philosophies.

[Anonymous No.2895208]

>>2895127
Hemingway
/request

[Anonymous No.2895389]

>>2895127
Yukio Mishima bro.

Will try to scan his essay later if I stumble across it.

Some of the Way of the Samurai, Book of Five Rings, Bushido shit is pretty bad-ass manly too.

[Anonymous No.2895394]

>>2895389
> Will try to scan his essay later if I stumble across it.

Please do.

[Anonymous No.2895406]

>>2895394
Arrive in Japan in a couple weeks, will keep eye out. Will need to find scanner where I can do it in ease without getting into trouble too.

[Anonymous No.2895493]

Bump because best thread going at the moment

[Nicolas Cage !!4L3ydrPrJqa No.2895533]

>>2894849
It reads like a hyperbolical denouncement of /lit/ shitposters. That is, if the narrator were something created by the author, and not the author himself.

[Anonymous No.2895546]

>>2895389
Seconding Book of Five Rings

[Anonymous No.2895651]

http://www.mediafire.com/?07io37c7s3ecewn

Auto-da-Fé, Elias Canetti's only work of fiction, is a staggering achievement that puts him squarely in the ranks of major European writers such as Robert Musil and Hermann Broch. It is the story of Peter Kien, a scholarly recluse who lives among and for his great library. The destruction of Kien through the instrument of the illiterate, brutish housekeeper he marries constitutes the plot of the book. The best writers of our time have been concerned with the horror of the modern world--one thinks of Kafka, to whom Canetti has often been compared. But Auto-de-Fé stands as a completely original, unforgettable treatment of the modern predicament.

[Anonymous No.2895661]

http://www.mediafire.com/?y8kkv7k64r5tatd

Alfred Doblin (1878-1957) studied medicine in Berlin and specialized in the treatment of nervous diseases. Along with his experiences as a psychiatrist in the workers' quarter of Berlin, his writing was inspired by the work of Holderlin, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche and was first published in the literary magazine, Der Sturm. Associated with the Expressionist literary movement in Germany, he is now recognized as on of the most important modern European novelists.

Berlin Alexanderplatz is one of the masterpieces of modern European literature and the first German novel to adopt the technique of James Joyce. It tells the story of Franz Biberkopf, who, on being released from prison, is confronted with the poverty, unemployment, crime and burgeoning Nazism of 1920s Germany. As Franz struggles to survive in this world, fate teases him with a little pleasure before cruelly turning on him.

[Anonymous No.2895716]

it'd be great if threads like these become the new thing for /lit/

general sharethread is cool as fuck

[Anonymous No.2895783]

>The End: Hamburg 1943

Novelist Hans Erich Nossack was forty-two when the Allied bombardments of German cities began, and he watched the destruction of Hamburg—the city where he was born and where he would later die—from across its Elbe River. He heard the whistle of the bombs and the singing of shrapnel; he watched his neighbors flee; he wondered if his home—and his manuscripts—would survive the devastation. The End is his terse, remarkable memoir of the annihilation of the city, written only three months after the bombing. A searing firsthand account of one of the most notorious events of World War II, The End is also a meditation on war and hope, history and its devastation. And it is the rare book, as W. G. Sebald noted, that describes the Allied bombing campaign from the German perspective.

>http://www.mediafire.com/?d4b392kija4u17g

[Anonymous No.2895838]

>A Love Affair by Dino Buzzati
Milan, 1960. A fifty year old man, single and with a comfortable economic position, goes to a brothel. There he meets a new prostitute, about twenty years old, called Leide, to whom he becomes immediately smitten (despite the fact that she is not, in his own words, particularly attractive). They become lovers, he falls for her obvious lies, he spends a lot of money on her, despite knowing that she sees a lot of other men. He knows he is being taken by a fool by her, but he just can't cut his ties to Leide. As time goes by, Leide increasingly humiliates him with her behavior.
>http://www.mediafire.com/?95h16w2892czwma

[Anonymous No.2895913]

>>2895838
you don't happen to have Tartar Steppe as well, do you? I've looked for it everywhere multiple times and still haven't found anything.

[Anonymous No.2895923]

>>2895913
No man, I found this while looking for that actually.

[Anonymous No.2895949]

>>2894807
Is this book at all sympathetic to anarchism?

[Anonymous No.2895973]

Any good books on the history of Spain? Something long and somewhat comprehensive would be great.

[Anonymous No.2896501]

bump

[Anonymous No.2896637]

>>2895716
More people need to stop being scared and post recommendations with links.

It is not hard since so many of us have kindles/e-readers and definitely do not buy every book we read

[Anonymous No.2896683]

>>2896637
That will not happen

[Anonymous No.2896735]

>>2896683
Why?

[Anonymous No.2896870]

>>2896683
It's pretty simple yo, upload to mediafire, post link w goodreads or wiki description. Books for ALL!!!

[Anonymous No.2896940]

>>2896870
I was posting some Gutenberg ones

[Anonymous No.2897059]

Bump because faggot

[Anonymous No.2897423]

>Iceland's Bell by Halldor Laxness

"Sometimes grim, sometimes uproarious, and always captivating, Iceland’s Bell by Nobel Laureate Halldór Laxness is at once an updating of the traditional Icelandic saga and a caustic social satire. At the close of the 17th century, Iceland is an oppressed Danish colony, suffering under extreme poverty, famine, and plague. A farmer and accused cord-thief named Jon Hreggvidsson makes a bawdy joke about the Danish king and soon after finds himself a fugitive charged with the murder of the king’s hangman.

In the years that follow, the hapless but resilient rogue Hreggvidsson becomes a pawn entangled in political and personal conflicts playing out on a far grander scale. Chief among these is the star-crossed love affair between Snaefridur, known as “Iceland’s Sun,” a beautiful, headstrong young noblewoman, and Arnas Arnaeus, the king’s antiquarian, an aristocrat whose worldly manner conceals a fierce devotion to his downtrodden countrymen. As their personal struggle plays itself out on an international stage, Iceland’s Bell creates a Dickensian canvas of heroism and venality, violence and tragedy, charged with narrative enchantment on every page."

>http://www.mediafire.com/?bvtt7am7a55wezs

[Anonymous No.2897429]

>In Persuasion Nation by George Saunders

"Talking candy bars, baby geniuses, disappointed mothers, castrated dogs, interned teenagers, and moral fables-all in this hilarious and heartbreaking collection. The best work yet from an author hailed as the heir to Kurt Vonnegut and Thomas Pynchon."

>http://www.mediafire.com/?l6m8743po73uxk7

[Anonymous No.2897434]

>Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz

"Quo Vadis, the record-breaking international bestseller for which Henryk Sienkiewicz won the fifth Nobel Prize for Literature, is as compelling today as the moment it was written. An epic saga of love, courage, and devotion in the last days of the Roman Empire, it portrays the corruption and debauchery of Nero's rule alongside the agony and glory of early Christianity."

>http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2853

[Anonymous No.2898409]

bump

[Anonymous No.2898499]

anoybody got links for this books ?

today i wrote nothing - daniil kharms
novels in three lines - felix feneon
the voice imitator - thomas bernhard
one minute stories - istvan orkeny
microfictions - ana maria shua

[Anonymous No.2898530]

>>2898499
>today i wrote nothing - daniil kharms
That's interesting, I have this selected works thing which has a lot of stories and short plays and a longer story called 'the old woman' but it carries a different title (I Had Raised Dust). So I'm not sure it's what you're looking for.

[Anonymous No.2898546]

>>2898530

no its an unofficial book . actually its not a book at all . its less than 50 pages . im looking for today i wrote nothing its 300 pages . thank you by the way .

[Anonymous No.2898550]

>>2898546
oh meh, that sucks. I hadn't read it yet but I got excited when I found it. Ah well. Sorry I couldn't help, good luck.

[Anonymous No.2898557]

Sorry I'm not as good as you Raven

[Anonymous No.2898932]

Bump with a share
>Yama: the Pit by Aleksandr Kuprin
They come freely and simply, as to a restaurant or a depot; they sit, smoke, drink, convulsively pretend to be merry; they dance, executing abominable movements of the body imitative of the act of sexual love. At times attentively and long, at times with gross haste, they choose any woman they like and know beforehand that they will never meet refusal. Impatiently they pay their money in advance, and on the public bed, not yet grown cold after the body of their predecessor, aimlessly commit the very greatest and most beautiful of all universal mysteries--the mystery of the conception of new life
>http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4706

[Anonymous No.2899162]

Does anyone have The Blue Foxby Sjón?

Really want to read it.

[Anonymous No.2899188]

>>2899162
Just checked out the description, sounds p good.

Also interested

[Anonymous No.2899288]

The Cannibal by John Hawkes

No synopsis conveys the quality of this now famous novel about an hallucinated Germany in collapse after World War II. John Hawkes, in his search for a means to transcend outworn modes of fictional realism, has discovered a highly original technique for objectifying the perennial degradation of mankind within a context of fantasy… Nowhere has the nightmare of human terror and the deracinated sensibility been more concisely analyzed than in The Cannibal. Yet one is aware throughout that such analysis proceeds only in terms of a resolutely committed humanism.”
— Hayden Carruth on John Hawkes's The Cannibal

Second Skin by John Hawkes

Skipper, an ex-World War II naval Lieutenant and the narrator of "Second Skin," interweaves past and presentwhat he refers to as his "naked history"in a series of episodes that tell the story of a volatile life marked by pitiful losses, as well as a more elusive, overwhelming, joy. The past: the suicides of his father, wife and daughter, the murder of his son-in-law, a brutal rape, and subsequent mutiny at sea. The present: caring for his granddaughter on a "northern" island where he works as an artificial inseminator of cows, and attempts to reclaim the innocence with which he faced the tragedies of his earlier life. Combining unflinching descriptions of suffering with his sense of beauty, Hawkes is a master of nimble and sensuous prose who makes the awful and mundane fantastic, and occasionally makes the fantastic surreal

http://www.4shared.com/zip/EN-RHJhF/JHawkes.html?

[Anonymous No.2900711]

[Anonymous No.2900902]

>>2894426
>To fuel the Lispector hate, have some more:
They hate Lispector here? I loved The Hour of the Star.

[Anonymous No.2901492]

>>2899288
Bump

[Anonymous No.2901499]

>>2896940
If capguy can do it so can you anon.

Took 2 years for this nigga to find one button on his keyboard

[Anonymous No.2901937]

Anyone got some stuff by Thomas Ligotti? Preferably "The Conspiracy Against the Human Race"?

[Anonymous No.2901942]

>>2901937
Got the pdf, no mobi, interested?

[Anonymous No.2901951]

>>2901942
Not the guy who requested it, but I'm definitely interested in any Ligotti too.

[Anonymous No.2901954]

>>2901937
>>2901942
>>2901951
>The Conspiracy Against the Human Race by Thomas Ligotti
>http://www.mediafire.com/view/?txl7s9c5db94dl3

[Anonymous No.2901966]

>>2901954
Cheers!

[Anonymous No.2902055]

>>2901954
Thanks, friend!

[Anonymous No.2902102]

>This thread.

Thanks OP.

[Anonymous No.2903477]

Bump

[Anonymous No.2903551]

Any books similar to this gif?

[Anonymous No.2903558]

Man I wish I used caps again....

[Anonymous No.2903562]

>>2903558

Just do it. You identify yourself often enough as it is.

[Anonymous No.2903565]

>>2903562
ALRIGHT.

I'LL COME BACK TO THIS THREAD LATER WITH MORE SHARES HOPEFULLY

[Anonymous No.2903800]

>>2903565
Give us some Jap shit not in the Jap collection

[Anonymous No.2904096]

>>2903565
BUT I HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO IT ON PREVIOUS OCCASIONS.

CAN YOU CONTRIBUTE TO IT?

[Anonymous No.2904134]

Wow. I was just going to make a sharethread. I don't have anything to share though.

What I was going to ask for was novellas. If anyone has any, please share.

[Anonymous No.2904212]

>>2904134
>Going to start share thread
>No intention of sharing himself

Fuckwits these days

[Anonymous No.2904214]

>>2904212
i lold

[Anonymous No.2904220]

>>2904134
There are many novellas here. Scroll up.

[Anonymous No.2904278]

>>2904220
I KNOW MAN, HOW FUCKING LAZY CAN PEOPLE GET?

[Anonymous No.2904298]

Spring Torrents - Turgenev

Ivan Turngenev was a Russian author who lived from 1818-1893. 'The Torrents of Spring' is a classic novel written by him.

Returning to Russia from a tour in Italy, twenty-three-year-old Dimitry Sanin breaks his journey in Frankfurt. There, he encounters the beautiful Gemma Roselli, who works in her parents' patisserie, and falls deeply and deliriously in love for the first time. Convinced that nothing can come in the way of everlasting happiness with his fiancee, Dimitry impetuously decides to begin a new life and sell his Russian estates. But when he meets the potential buyer, the intriguing Madame Polozov, his youthful vulnerability makes him prey for a darker, destructive infatuation.

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9911

[Anonymous No.2904321]

I am not the biggest fan of this book ,but I am a big fan of his style and I notice that not much people know about him.

>Ugly Man by Dennis Cooper

The cult novelist's collection of short stories plumbs veins of dark humor amid the sex and gore his fans have come to expect. The contents range from short shorts—a rumination on The Fifteen Worst Russian Gay Porn Web Sites and an abortive episode entitled One Night in 1979 I Did Too Much Coke and Couldn't Sleep and Had What I Thought Was a Million-Dollar Idea to Write the Definitive Tell-all Book About Glam Rock Based on My Own Personal Experience but This Is as Far as I Got—to longer pieces in which sadistic male characters explore their preoccupations with the murder, mutilation and rape of nihilistic teenaged boys. Stories of the latter group often feature text pared down to dialogue alone or resembling scripts complete with stage directions. The lighter fare, such as it is, provides much needed comic relief, as in the case of The Anal-Retentive Line Editor, which proceeds through interstitial edits upon a series of drafts of a piece of gay erotica, forming a running conversation and problematic seduction between author and editor. This is classic Cooper: explicit, unconventional and, to the uninitiated, alarming

Also here is a link of him on bookworm
http://www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/bw/bw091008dennis_cooper/

http://www.4shared.com/office/rFLGk7Bz/DCUM.html?

[Anonymous No.2904325]

http://www.mediafire.com/?gszpac4i29wdins

The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East is a book published in 2005 by the award-winning English journalist Robert Fisk. The book is a compilation of many of the articles Fisk wrote when he was serving as a correspondent in the Middle East for The Times and The Independent. The book revolves around several key themes regarding the history of the modern Middle East: the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the Persian Gulf War as well as the 2003 Iraq War (United States invasion of Iraq) as well as other regional conflicts such as the Armenian Genocide and the Algerian Civil War.

1107 pp
epub

[Anonymous No.2904346]

>The Beautiful and Damned - F. Scott Fitzy - USA - 1922

"Anthony Patch, Harvard-educated, aspiring aesthete, falls in love and marries Gloria Gilbert, a stunning, beautiful woman. On the outside they look like the golden couple—rich, beautiful, young, and in love. However, beneath the surface, the marriage is not at all what it seems. Anthony and Gloria must wait to inherit Anthony's grandfather’s fortune. And wait they do, while drinking, and jetsetting to Europe and back to the states. The Beautiful and the Damned is a timeless story about society, money, and the deterioration of a marriage."

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?ak27ha6cvfbua8j

[Anonymous No.2904348]

Moon and Sixpence

The Moon and Sixpence, published in 1919, was one of the novels that galvanized W. Somerset Maugham’s reputation as a literary master. It follows the life of one Charles Strickland, a bourgeois city gent whose dull exterior conceals the soul of a genius. Compulsive and impassioned, he abandons his home, wife, and children to devote himself slavishly to painting. In a tiny studio in Paris, he fills canvas after canvas, refusing to sell or even exhibit his work. Beset by poverty, sickness, and his own intransigent, unscrupulous nature, he drifts to Tahiti, where, even after being blinded by leprosy, he produces some of his most extraordinary works of art. Inspired by the life of Paul Gauguin, The Moon and Sixpence is an unforgettable study of a man possessed by the need to create—regardless of the cost to himself and to others.

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/222

[Anonymous No.2904351]

The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana

Sir Richard F. Burton’s translation of The Kama Sutra remains one of the best English interpretations of this early Indian treatise on politics, social customs, love, and intimacy. Its crisp style set a new standard for Sanskrit translation.

The Kama Sutra stands uniquely as a work of psychology, sociology, Hindu dogma, and sexology. It has been a celebrated classic of Indian literature for 1,700 years and a window for the West into the culture and mysticism of the East.

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27827

[Anonymous No.2904358]

>>2904325
adding how many pages it has is a good idea.

[Anonymous No.2904361]

>The Vivisector - Patrick White - Australia - 1970

"Hurtle Duffield, a painter, coldly dissects the weaknesses of any and all who enter his circle. His sister's deformity, a grocer's moonlight indiscretion, the passionate illusions of the women who love him-all are used as fodder for his art. It is only when Hurtle meets an egocentric adolescent whom he sees as his spiritual child does he experience a deeper, more treacherous emotion in this tour de force of sexual and psychological menace that sheds brutally honest light on the creative experience."

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?ch5yce8thbzje7i

[Anonymous No.2904364]

Child of God - Cormac McCarthy - USA - 1973

"In this taut, chilling novel, Lester Ballard--a violent, dispossessed man falsely accused of rape--haunts the hill country of East Tennessee when he is released from jail. While telling his story, Cormac McCarthy depicts the most sordid aspects of life with dignity, humor, and characteristic lyrical brilliance."

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?acg354ef7ciwb23

Soon to be a motion feature, directed by James Franco, Adapted by James Franco and starring...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1951095/

[Anonymous No.2904373]

My Man Jeeves

Who can forget our beloved gentleman's personal gentleman, Jeeves, who ever comes to the rescue when the hapless Bertie Wooster falls into trouble. My Man Jeeves is sure to please anyone with a taste for pithy buffoonery, moronic misunderstandings, gaffes, and aristocratic slapstick.


http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8164

[Anonymous No.2904375]

>>2904364
Thanks!

[Anonymous No.2905282]

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6852

Venus in Furs describes the obsessions of Severin von Kusiemski, a European nobleman who desires to be enslaved to a woman. Severin finds his ideal of voluptuous cruelty in the merciless Wanda von Dunajew. This is a passionate and powerful portrayal of one man's struggle to enlighten and instruct himself and others in the realm of desire. Published in 1870, the novel gained notoriety and a degree of immortality for its author when the word "masochism"—derived from his name—entered the vocabulary of psychiatry. This remains a classic literary statement on sexual submission and control.

[Anonymous No.2905418]

>>2904321

>www.4shared.com

WTF is this shit?

[Anonymous No.2905608]

You posted any yet?

[Anonymous No.2905625]

>>2905418
I couldn't find any mediafire links. Sorry dude, it isn't that bad. If you want, you could just download both of them off #bookz

Also
>complaining about free books

[Anonymous No.2905630]

>>2904321
>>2905418
Since you are complaining I uploaded it

http://www.mediafire.com/?g7fbknb7b1jc9a9

[Anonymous No.2905633]

>>2899288
Mediafire mirror
http://www.mediafire.com/?csbbr9gycy0xbt9

[Anonymous No.2905634]

>>2894352

FUCK YES.

I've been looking for a copy of this FOREVER, since I read an excerpt in pic related.

I fucking love you OP, have my children, my money, my earthly possessions, and anything else of mine you want.

You're awesome

[Anonymous No.2905640]

>Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight. For the rest of his life he, too, will be trying to fly. With this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Morrison transfigures the coming-of-age story as audaciously as Saul Bellow or Gabriel García Márquez. As she follows Milkman from his rustbelt city to the place of his family’s origins, Morrison introduces an entire cast of strivers and seeresses, liars and assassins, the inhabitants of a fully realized black world.(l

http://www.mediafire.com/?v83ieumypt4q3wp

[Anonymous No.2905658]

>Shoplifting from American Apparel and Richard Yates by Towel In

If you don't know who this is I am a bit surprised. Sharing because if /lit/ is going to shit on his work might as well read them instead of spewing ignorant rage.


http://www.mediafire.com/?uqsyh8o26x53913

[Anonymous No.2905677]

>47 books by Philip K. Dick

I know that he is not the most obscure writer, but there is a handful of works that are ignored.

"Philip Kindred Dick (December 16, 1928 – March 2, 1982) was an American novelist, short story writer and essayist whose published work is almost entirely in the science fiction genre. Dick explored sociological, political and metaphysical themes in novels dominated by monopolistic corporations, authoritarian governments, and altered states. In his later works Dick's thematic focus strongly reflected his personal interest in metaphysics and theology. He often drew upon his own life experiences in addressing the nature of drug abuse, paranoia, schizophrenia, and transcendental experiences in novels such as A Scanner Darkly and VALIS.[6]
The novel The Man in the High Castle bridged the genres of alternate history and science fiction, earning Dick a Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1963.[7] Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said, a novel about a celebrity who awakens in a parallel universe where he is unknown, won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best novel in 1975.[8] "I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not the world we actually have, because the world we actually have does not meet my standards," Dick wrote of these stories. "In my writing I even question the universe; I wonder out loud if it is real, and I wonder out loud if all of us are real."[9]"

-Wikipedia

http://www.mediafire.com/?im1g16jmcwyp7yb

[Anonymous No.2905687]

>>2905630

>.pdf

YGSIU

[Anonymous No.2905696]

>>2905687

>doesn't have calibre


pleb.

[Anonymous No.2905699]

>>2905687
>>2905687
Share something instead of complaining they are FREE books.

[Anonymous No.2905706]

>>2905658

.zip file

[Anonymous No.2905711]

>>2905706
What are you talking about, it contains both of the books.

Do you not have an extractor?

[Anonymous No.2905721]

>>2894963
Just want to say I loved this book--I suppose it's pretty goddamned self-indulgent, but it's funny, wrenching, and a bit mind-boggling to boot. The central metaphor really, really works for me.

[Anonymous No.2905858]

Don't really have anything to contribute, but thanks to everyone who has contributed to this thread

[Anonymous No.2905894]

>>2894238
that sounds so boring

[Anonymous No.2905899]

>>2905282
THANK YOU SO MUCH


...

this is my fetish

[Anonymous No.2906393]

>>2905677
Yay. I can't get enough Dick.

[Anonymous No.2906394]

Bump. Thank-you Caps and whoever else shared!

[Anonymous No.2906420]

is there a way to download all these at once?

[Anonymous No.2906445]

>>2906420

Get 4chan linkify, JDownloader extension, and JDownloader. Then, you just right click and download with JD. It may 404 soon, so right click and save the webpage for later.

[Strawberry ♥（人´∀`*） !!zETHKcn9dze No.2906572]

>this whole thread
i'm in heaven

[Anonymous No.2906645]

awesome thread, thanks everyone

[Anonymous No.2906655]

Threads like these make me wish I had an e-reader

[Anonymous No.2906664]

>>2906655
You have a computer screen right?

[Anonymous No.2906683]

>>2895661
this link is deleted, was really looking forward to reading it.

[Anonymous No.2906712]

>>2905658
Fuck yeah, Thanks so much dude. I've really been wanting to read Tao Lin since everybody on here kept talking about him, but if he's really like some people say he is, there's no way in hell I should pay for his shit. Really curious about these.

Also general thanks to everybody in this thread and OP. You guys rock!

[Anonymous No.2906719]

>>2906712
Seconded. I shall be read both of Tao's works, thanks uploader!

[Anonymous No.2906741]

BUMP

[Anonymous No.2906780]

>>2906664

Reading on the computer hurts my eyes

[Anonymous No.2906815]

>>2906780
Not trolling but you might need glasses. Try lowering the brightness of your screen.

[Anonymous No.2906927]

>>2906815
OR GETTING AN EREADER.

THEY ARE VERY CHEAP NOW

I REMEMBER I BOUGHT MY FIRST KINDLE FOR LIKE $250 I BELIEVE. SOMETHING LIKE THAT

[Anonymous No.2906996]

LAST BUMP

[Anonymous No.2907041]

Giles Goat Boy by John Barth
>In this outrageously farcical adventure, hero George Giles sets out to conquer the terrible Wescac computer system that threatens to destroy his community in this brilliant "fantasy of theology, sociology, and sex".
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?7sk3mr7v5va6a4f

[Anonymous No.2907047]

>>2907041
The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
>The Castle of Otranto is a 1764 novel by Horace Walpole. It is generally regarded as the first gothic novel, initiating a literary genre which would become extremely popular in the later 18th century and early 19th century
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?naacp7pob1xf185

[Anonymous No.2907056]

>>2907047
Les Chants de Maldoror by Comte de Lautréamont
>The work concerns the misanthropic character of Maldoror, a figure of absolute evil who is opposed to God and humanity, and has renounced conventional morality and decency. The iconoclastic imagery and tone is typically violent and macabre, and ostensibly nihilistic.
http://www.mediafire.com/?jrc1bi8yxbufkl5

[Anonymous No.2907065]

>>2907056
Untouchable by Mulk Raj Anand
>Untouchable’ is the story of a single day in the life of 18 year old untouchable boy named Bakha, who lives in pre-independence India. Bakha is described as `strong and able-bodied`, full of enthusiasm and dreams varying from to dressing like a ‘Tommie’ (Englishmen) in ‘fashun’ to playing hockey. However, his limited means and the fact that he belongs to the lowest caste even amongst untouchables, forces him to beg for food, to often face humiliation, and to be at the mercy of the whims of other, higher caste, Hindus.
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?im8u1iiyiekf492
And I'm out.

[Anonymous No.2907071]

La-Bas

First published in 1891, this is the first new translation in 77 years. The enervated anti-hero, Durtal, is writing a book about Gilles de Rais, child-murderer and comrade in arms of Joan of Arc. When he's not studying alchemy, visiting Rais' ruined castle and fantasizing about a mystery woman, he is pondering Catholicism with his friends. His sexual adventures and historical studies mesh when he's invited to witness a black mass The follow-up to A Rebours, La Bas takes Huysmans' quest for the exotic and extreme sensations a stage further

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14323

[Anonymous No.2907074]

>>2907065
I'LL POST A FEW MORE TO HOPEFULLY KEEP THE BALL ROLLING

THE TEMPTATION OF ST ANTONY - FLAUBERT

A book that deeply influenced the young Freud and was the inspiration for many artists, The Temptation of Saint Anthony was Flaubert's lifelong work, thirty years in the making. Based on the story of the third-century saint who lived on an isolated mountaintop in the Egyptian desert, it is a fantastical rendering of one night during which Anthony is besieged by carnal temptations and philosophical doubt

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25053

WHAT THE FUCK, LAFCADIO HEARN TRANSLATED IT.

[Anonymous No.2907078]

AGAINST NATURE - HUYSMANS

A wildly original fin-de-siècle novel, Against Nature follows its sole character, Des Esseintes, a decadent, ailing aristocrat who retreats to an isolated villa where he indulges his taste for luxury and excess. Veering between nervous excitability and debilitating ennui, he gluts his aesthetic appetites with classical literature and art, exotic jewels (with which he fatally encrusts the shell of his tortoise), rich perfumes, and a kaleidoscope of sensual experiences. The original handbook of decadence, Against Nature exploded like a grenade (in the words of its author) and has enjoyed a cult readership from its publication to the present day

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12341/12341-h/12341-h.htm

[Anonymous No.2907093]

>The Ugly Swans by the Strugatsky brothers
Science fiction, similarly themed as Childhood's End.
>http://www.mediafire.com/?j3azz9h1z6jwap5

[Anonymous No.2907096]

>THE BOOK OF FIVE RINGS - MIYAMOTO

To learn a Japanese martial art is to learn Zen, and although you can't do so simply by reading a book, it sure does help--especially if that book is The Book of Five Rings. One of Japan's great samurai sword masters penned in decisive, unfaltering terms this certain path to victory, and like Sun Tzu's The Art of War it is applicable not only on the battlefield but also in all forms of competition. Always observant, creating confusion, striking at vulnerabilities--these are some of the basic principles. Going deeper, we find suki, the interval of vulnerability, of indecisiveness, of rest, the briefest but most vital moment to strike. In succinct detail, Miyamoto records ideal postures, blows, and psychological tactics to put the enemy off guard and open the way for attack. Most important of all is Miyamoto's concept of rhythm, how all things are in harmony, and that by working with the rhythm of a situation we can turn it to our advantage with little effort. But like Zen, this requires one task above all else, putting the book down and going out to practice.

http://archive.org/details/MiyamotoMusashi-BookOfFiveRingsgoRinNoSho

[Anonymous No.2907097]

>>2907065
>dressing like a ‘Tommie’ (Englishmen)
lel

[Anonymous No.2907099]

>>BUSHIDO: THE SOUL OF JAPAN - NITOBE

A century ago, when Japan was transforming itself from an isolated feudal society into a modern nation, a Japanese educator queried about the ethos of his people composed this seminal work, which with his numerous other writings in English made him the best, known Japanese writer in the West during his lifetime.
He found in Bushido, the Way of the Warrior, the sources of the virtues most admired by his people: rectitude, courage, benevolence, politeness, sincerity, honor, loyalty and self-control. His approach to his task was eclectic and far-reaching. On the one hand, he delved into the indigenous traditions, into Buddhism, Shintoism, Confucianism and the moral guidelines handed down over hundreds of years by Japan's samurai and sages. On the other hand, he sought similarities and contrasts by citing not only Western philosophers and statesmen, but also the shapers of European and American thought and civilization going back to the Romans, the Greeks and Biblical times.

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12096

PERHAPS WE SHOULD ALSO ADD THIS TO THE JAP LIT FOLDER?

[Anonymous No.2907844]

>>2906683
Here is a mirror. I guess it was removed by mediafire luckily I downloaded it before then

http://www.mediafire.com/?91naq19drw2jiwc

[Anonymous No.2908802]

>>2906927
An ereader is the same as a computer screen. I've met many people that don't like reading from screens, me included.

[Anonymous No.2908861]

Can we archive this or something? Or at least make a list of these books. I want to read essentially every book here.

[Anonymous No.2908872]

>>2908861
All threads are automatically archived on /lit/'s archiver, at http://fuuka.warosu.org/lit/

Here's a link to the last thread too, which you might be interested in: http://fuuka.warosu.org/lit/thread/S2823199

[Anonymous No.2908899]

>>2908861
You can also save the thread by right clicking and pressing save page as.

[Anonymous No.2908970]

Bulgakov dump

Master and Margarita - http://www.mediafire.com/?5o66z4hb47nubku
Surely no stranger work exists in the annals of protest literature than The Master and Margarita. Written during the Soviet crackdown of the 1930s, when Mikhail Bulgakov's works were effectively banned, it wraps its anti-Stalinist message in a complex allegory of good and evil. Or would that be the other way around? The book's chief character is Satan, who appears in the guise of a foreigner and self-proclaimed black magician named Woland. Accompanied by a talking black tomcat and a "translator" wearing a jockey's cap and cracked pince-nez, Woland wreaks havoc throughout literary Moscow.

The White Guard - http://www.mediafire.com/?bvy8g3b9b5c8xoa
The White Guard captures the tumult, madness and confusion of revolution Independent Worth reading in any language Library Journal A powerful reverie...the city is so vivid to the eye that it is the real hero of the book. New Statesman One of those few emancipated Soviet writers who firmly believe--and still believe--that to create is to choose

The Heart of a Dog - http://www.mediafire.com/?9oylsrqbnslq59a
A Rich, Successful Moscow Professor Befriends A Stray Dog And Attempts A Scientific First By Transplanting Into It The Testicles And Pituitary Gland Of A Recently Deceased Man. A Distinctly Worryingly Human Animal Is Now On The Loose, And The Professor'S Hitherto Respectable Life Becomes A Nightmare Beyond Endurance. An Absurd And Superbly Comic Story, This Classic Novel Can Also Be Read As A Fierce Parable Of The Russian Revolution.

[Anonymous No.2909359]

>>2908970
Ohh shit thanks for that one.

I think people should make the jump when it comes to e-readers, I was skeptical but did it and am happy. Reading e-ink display is the same as ink on paper

[Anonymous No.2909389]

>In Search of Lost Time (Modern Library Edition)

For this authoritative English-language edition, D. J. Enright has revised the late Terence Kilmartin’s acclaimed reworking of C. K. Scott Moncrieff’s translation...

http://www.mediafire.com/?49b6h5d788zuhts

[Anonymous No.2909412]

>>2908970
Other than these and The Fatal Eggs, is there any more of his stuff available?

[Anonymous No.2909502]

Too Loud a Solitude - Bohumil Hrabal - 1976 - Czech

"Hantá rescues books from the jaws of his compacting press and carries them home. Hrabal, whom Milan Kundera calls “our very best writer today,” celebrates the power and the indestructibility of the written word."

http://www.mediafire.com/?8i11d641wy3f8b5

[Anonymous No.2909571]

I love /lit/

[Anonymous No.2909584]

>>2905658
Anyone have the rest of Tao's works please?

[Anonymous No.2909655]

>>2894238
Selma Lagerlöf - Gösta Berling
Gösta Berling's Saga (Swedish: Gösta Berlings saga) is the debut novel of Swedish author Selma Lagerlöf, published in 1891. The hero, Gösta Berling, is a deposed minister, who has been saved by the Mistress of Ekeby from freezing to death and thereupon becomes one of her pensioners in the manor at Ekeby. As the pensioners finally get power in their own hands, they manage the property as they themselves see fit, and their lives are filled with many wild adventures, Gösta Berling is the leading spirit, the poet, the charming personality among a band of revelers. But before the story ends, Gösta Berling is redeemed, and even the old Mistress of Ekeby is permitted to come to her old home to die. < wikipedia

(German: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/28751))

[Anonymous No.2909677]

>>2909655
How have I never heard of this?