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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The passion according to G.H	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, …	OL1002138W
Selected Tang Dynasty Stories (English-Chinese)	Shen Jiji	227 pages ; 21 cm	OL10164509W
Trojan Women	Euripides	"The Trojan Women" is a play by the 5th century B.C. Greek dramatist Euripides. The story takes place at the end of the Trojan war and is focused on the Greeks' division of the spoils, who happen to…	OL10306670W
Fire and other images	Paritosha Sena	Translations of author's selected writings in Bengali.	OL1038460W
The best of Satyajit Ray	Ray, Satyajit	Selection of short stories.	OL1041269W
Five great short stories (Дама с собачкой / Дом с мезонином / Крыжовник / Мужики / Чёрный монах)	Антон Павлович Чехов	Contains; Дама с собачкой Дом с мезонином Крыжовник Мужики Чёрный монах	OL10425679W
The Eight Strokes of the Clock	Maurice Leblanc	<p>Trying to escape from her boring life, Hortense Daniel meets the mysterious Prince Rénine (or should we say <a href="https://standardebooks.org/collections/arsene-lupin">Arsène Lupin</a>?) who enl…	OL1064268W
Le coup de grâce	Marguerite Yourcenar	Set in the Baltic provinces in the aftermath of World War I, Coup de Grâce tells the story of an intimacy that grows between three young people hemmed in by civil war: Erick, a Prussian fighting wi…	OL106854W
Ficciones	Jorge Luis Borges	A collection of his short stories in which Borges often uses the labyrinth as a literary device to expound his ideas on all aspects of human life and endeavor. ---------- Contains: [Tlön, Uqba…	OL110971W
L'Heptaméron	Marguerite Queen, consort of Henry II, King of Navarre	Le premier jour de septembre, que les baings des montz Pirenees commencent entrer en leur vertu, se trouverent a ceulx de Cauderes plusieurs personnes tant de France que d'Espaigne; les ungs pour y b…	OL1147931W
De bello Gallico	Gaius Julius Caesar	Gaius Julius Caesar schreef zijn kijk op Gallië in zijn bekende oorlog’s verslagen Commentarii de bello Gallico. Een werk waarin het hoofdzakelijk gaat over de veldtochten en intriges die plaats vond…	OL1150559W
Nobody, son of nobody	Shaikh Abu-Saeed Abil-Kheir,Vraje Abramian,Abū Saʻīd ibn Abī al-Khayr	"Referring to himself as "Nobody, Son of Nobody," Shaikh Abu-Saeed Abil-Kheir expressed the reality that his life had disappeared in the heart of God. This renowned, but lesser-known Sufi mystic of t…	OL11881205W
The new book of days	Eleanor Farjeon	An anthology of rhymes, proverbial tales, traditions, short essays, biographical sketches and miscellaneous information--one piece for each day of the year.	OL119043W
Aspects of Islamic civilization as depicted in the original texts	Arthur John Arberry	408 p. ; 23 cm	OL1191208W
Six plays of Chekhov (Вишнёвый сад / Дядя Ваня / Иванов / Леший / Три сестры / Чайка)	Антон Павлович Чехов	Вишнёвый сад Дядя Ваня Иванов Леший Три сестры Чайка	OL12129722W
Naoki Urasawa's Monster, Vol. 10	Naoki Urasawa	"Cedok Bridge, the three frogs...the mother of the twins is in Pargue." A cryptic message from wealthy financier Schuwald sends Tenma to the city of a hundred spires. There, he meets Grimmer, an inve…	OL12234119W
L’étranger	Albert Camus	L'Étranger est le premier roman publié d’Albert Camus, paru en 1942. Il prend place dans la tétralogie que Camus nommera « cycle de l’absurde » qui décrit les fondements de la philosophie camusienn…	OL1230613W
The fourth Simenon omnibus	Georges Simenon	Contains: "M and the Headless Corpse", "The Man with the Little Dog", and "The Little Saint".	OL1241951W
La Pipe de Maigret	Georges Simenon	From amazon.com: "Prewar Paris - where buses still sported outside platforms and every neighborhood its own bistro, policemen took time for human problems, and car fumes hadn't yet smothered the smel…	OL1242834W
Frühlings Erwachen	Frank Wedekind	A tragi-comedy of teenage sex. Its fourteen-year-old heroine, Wendla, is killed by abortion pills. The young Moritz, terrorized by the world around him, and especially by his teachers, shoots himself…	OL1327807W