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Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 1,146,006 ratings — published 1866
A Certain Hunger (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.69 — 72,819 ratings — published 2019
Bunny (Bunny, #1)
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avg rating 3.44 — 365,577 ratings — published 2019
Prometheus Rising (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.25 — 7,657 ratings — published 1983
Uzumaki: Spiral into Horror, Vol. 1 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.44 — 44,701 ratings — published 1998
Ficciones (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.39 — 83,004 ratings — published 1944
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とんがり帽子のアトリエ 10 [Tongari Bōshi no Atelier 10] (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.56 — 8,908 ratings — published 2022
Earthflown (The Anatomy of Water, #1)
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avg rating 3.92 — 1,245 ratings — published 2024
Seaside Stranger: Umibe No Etranger (Seaside Stranger, #0.5)
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avg rating 3.92 — 6,659 ratings — published 2014
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 4,778,833 ratings — published 1945
The 120 Days of Sodom: A Classic of Extreme French Literature (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.05 — 15,540 ratings — published 1785
The Prince (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.84 — 398,369 ratings — published 1513
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.07 — 182,749 ratings — published 1883
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.90 — 315,355 ratings — published 1962
FantasticLand (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.83 — 58,681 ratings — published 2016
Tender Is the Flesh (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.77 — 464,774 ratings — published 2017
The Pisces (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.30 — 41,322 ratings — published 2018
Thomas the Obscure (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 1,530 ratings — published 1941
El escarabajo de oro (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.57 — 6,483 ratings — published 1843
The Obscene Bird of Night (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 5,158 ratings — published 1970
American Psycho (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.80 — 379,358 ratings — published 1991
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.71 — 5,599 ratings — published 1845
Von Kempelen and His Discovery
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avg rating 2.48 — 523 ratings — published 1849
The Oblong Box (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.56 — 2,019 ratings — published 1844
The Mystery of Marie Rogêt (C. Auguste Dupin, #2)
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avg rating 2.93 — 4,237 ratings — published 1842
The Balloon Hoax - an Edgar Allan Poe Short Story
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avg rating 2.44 — 906 ratings — published 1844
Hop Frog (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.68 — 3,644 ratings — published 1849
Eleonora (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.52 — 3,011 ratings — published 1842
The Imp of the Perverse (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.65 — 2,801 ratings — published 1845
A Descent into the Maelstrom (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.47 — 4,148 ratings — published 1841
Berenice (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.76 — 8,228 ratings — published 1835
The Book of Disquiet (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.39 — 39,743 ratings — published 1982
The Yellow Wall-Paper (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 383,542 ratings — published 1892
The Fall (Vintage International)
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avg rating 4.02 — 144,371 ratings — published 1956
The Trial (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 418,021 ratings — published 1925
Against Nature (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.79 — 15,815 ratings — published 1884
Thespis: Ritual Myth & Drama in the Ancient Near East
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avg rating 3.73 — 26 ratings — published 1961
The masque of the Edwards of England: Being a coronation pageant to celebrate the crowning of the King (Unknown Binding)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Everyman and Other Miracle and Morality Plays (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.29 — 856 ratings — published
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鉄コン筋クリート 3 [Tekkon Kinkreet 3] (鉄コン筋クリート, #3)
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avg rating 4.27 — 148 ratings — published 1994
The fallen prince: A sermon delivered at Bethel Church, Lincoln county, Tenn., December 6th, 1874, commemorative of the life and labors of Rev. H. Bryson, D.D., (Unknown Binding)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
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鉄コン筋クリート 1 [Tekkon Kinkreet 1] (鉄コン筋クリート, #1)
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avg rating 4.21 — 411 ratings — published 1994
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鉄コン筋クリート 2 [Tekkon Kinkreet 2] (鉄コン筋クリート, #2)
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avg rating 4.23 — 146 ratings — published 1994
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おやすみプンプン 7 [Oyasumi Punpun 7] (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 3,012 ratings — published 2010
Editing Jesus: Confronting the Distorted Faith of the American Church (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 31 ratings — published
Working The Roots: Over 400 Years of Traditional African American Healing (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.81 — 152 ratings — published
“When shrouded meanings and grim intentions are nicely polished up and pokerfaced personae are generously palming off their fantasy constructs, caution is the watchword, since rimpling water on the well of truth swiftly obscures our vision and perception. ("Trompe le pied.")”
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“The conventional use of words and of narrative structure is deliberately subverted in decadent fiction; language deviates from the established norms in an attempt to reproduce pathology on a textual level. With its emphasis on aberration and artifice, the decadents' approach to the language of fiction frequently leans towards the baroque and the obscure.”
― The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-de-Siècle France
― The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-de-Siècle France