/lit/ - Literature

Confessions of an English Opium Eater - Thomas De Quincey
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2040

Earth and ashes - Atiq Rahimi
>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 Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
>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 within 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.
http://www.mediafire.com/?5rrrc5tmbge9w2b

i dont think anyone wants to contribute to your thread op

Sure!

>Rituals by Cees Nooteboom

"A man of independent means oddly suited to survival amid the chaos of modern life, Inni Wintrop is a committed dabbler, content to casually wander the streets of Amsterdam, follow the dips and rises of the stock exchange and commodities market, speculate in art and love, and write a newspaper horoscope column. But his inconsistencies are interrupted when he meets two men who are the epitome of order and regulation."

>http://www.mediafire.com/?b6239xys7qg3s0g

>The Assault by Harry Mulisch

"It is the winter of 1945, the last dark days of the ware in occupied Holland. A Nazi collaborator, infamous for his cruelty, is assassinated as he rides on his bicycle. The Germans retaliate by slaughtering an innocent family: only the youngest son, twelve-year-old Anton, survives.

The Assault traces the complex repercussions of this nightmarish event on Anton's life. Determined not to forget, he opts for a carefully normal existence—a prudent marriage, a successful career, and colorless passivity. But the past keeps breaking through, in relentless memories and in chance encounters with the other actors in the drama, until Anton finally learns what really happened that night in 1945, and why."

>http://www.mediafire.com/?ot83d3ccgkj8imd

>>3037517
Im sure that's not true anon
Pereira Maintains - Antonio Tabucchi
>Dr. Peirera, an editor at a second-rate Lisbon newspaper, wants nothing to do with European politics. He's happy to translate 19th-century French stories. His closest confidante is a photograph of his late wife. All this changes when he meets Francesco Monteiro Rossi, an oddly charismatic young man. Pereira gives Rossi work, and continues to pay him, even after discovering that he is using the money to recruit for the anti-Franco International Brigade.
http://www.mediafire.com/?6jr5bfbnkiyyxnf

>On the Road to Babadag: Travels in Other Europe by Andrzej Stasiuk

"Andrzej Stasiuk is a restless and indefatigable traveler. His journeys take him from his native Poland to Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Slovenia, Albania, Moldova, and Ukraine. By car, train, bus, ferry. To small towns and villages with unfamiliar-sounding yet strangely evocative names. “The heart of my Europe,” Stasiuk tells us, “beats in Sokolow, Podlaski, and in Husi, not in Vienna.”

Where did Moldova end and Transylvania begin, he wonders as he is being driven at breakneck speed in an ancient Audi—loose wires hanging from the dashboard—by a driver in shorts and bare feet, a cross swinging on his chest. In Comrat, a funeral procession moves slowly down the main street, the open coffin on a pickup truck, an old woman dressed in black brushing away the flies above the face of the deceased. On to Soroca, a baroque-Byzantine-Tatar-Turkish encampment, to meet Gypsies. And all the way to Babadag, between the Baltic Coast and the Black Sea, where Stasiuk sees his first minaret, “simple and severe, a pencil pointed at the sky.”"

>http://www.mediafire.com/?da7zxedy93im9rz

>>3037532
Not that it's not appreciated, but to make a thread and only includes links to books from the previous sharethreads is a bit useless. Since people can just go to the earlier sharethreads themselves, using the archive.

https://fuuka.warosu.org/lit/thread/S2823199
https://fuuka.warosu.org/lit/thread/S2894238

I do enjoyed the first 2 threads, so if anyone has anything new to share, that's be greatly appreciated.

>>3037537
But perhaps people haven't been on /lit/ that long?
Perhaps people missed that thread?
I apologise, but considering there aren't many people contributing I thought I'd put a couple that had already been shared up anyway
Thank you though

>Wizard of the Crow by Ngugi wa Thiong'o

"In exile now for more than twenty years, Kenyan novelist, playwright, poet and critic Ngugi wa Thiong’o has become one of the most widely read African writers. Commencing in “our times” and set in the fictional “Free Republic of Aburiria,” Wizard of the Crow dramatizes with corrosive humor and keenness of observation a battle for control of the souls of the Aburirian people. Fashioning the stories of the powerful and the ordinary into a dazzling mosaic, this magnificent novel reveals humanity in all its endlessly surprising complexity."

>http://www.mediafire.com/?4hystfozmx2ktpn

>>3037541
>>3037537
I renounce my initial argument, I hadn't realised there'd already been quite a few threads like this already
I apologise again

>>3037541
They might have, but a nicer thread starter would have been linking the other two in the OP, then contributing with works you've bought/found/scanned yourself.

>Sea of Ink by Richard Weihe

"In 1626, Bada Shanren is born into the Chinese royal family. When the old Ming Dynasty crumbles, he becomes an artist, committed to capturing the essence of nature with a single brushstroke. Then the rulers of the new Qing Dynasty discover his identity and Bada must feign madness to escape."

>http://www.mediafire.com/?v3izhctfk3voq32

>Farewell, Gyulsary! by Chingiz Aitmatov

"An old man was riding along on an old wagon. His pacer, Gyulsary, a golden chestnut horse, was old too. Very old.

The road winding up to the plateau was tediously long. In winter, the ground wind swirled incessantly among the bleak grey hills; in summer, it was scorching hot."

>http://www.mediafire.com/view/?q68i88anaj4axi8

Here was another fairly populated sharethread too:

https://fuuka.warosu.org/lit/thread/S2939546

Any new ravencore?

>An Ermine in Czernopol by Gregor Von Rezzori

"Set just after World War I, An Ermine in Czernopol centers on the tragicomic fate of Tildy, an erstwhile officer in the army of the now-defunct Austro-Hungarian Empire, determined to defend the virtue of his cheating sister-in-law at any cost. Rezzori surrounds Tildy with a host of fantastic characters, engaging us in a kaleidoscopic experience of a city where nothing is as it appears—a city of discordant voices, of wild ugliness and heartbreaking disappointment, in which, however, “laughter was everywhere, part of the air we breathed, a crackling tension in the atmosphere, always ready to erupt in showers of sparks or discharge itself in thunderous peals.”"

>http://www.mediafire.com/?u85gc45pfv23uyc

>Mawrdew Czgowchwz by James McCourt

"Diva Mawrdew Czgowchwz (pronounced “Mardu Gorgeous”) bursts like the most brilliant of comets onto the international opera scene, only to confront the deadly malice and black magic of her rivals. Outrageous and uproarious, flamboyant and serious as only the most perfect frivolity can be, James McCourt’s entrancing send-up of the world of opera has been a cult classic for more than a quarter-century. This comic tribute to the love of art is a triumph of art and love by a contemporary American master."

>http://www.mediafire.com/?0j217utyp26l219

>The Star Rover by Jack London
(also sometimes called The Jacket)

"The Star Rover is the story of San Quentin death-row inmate Darrell Standing, who escapes the horror of prison life—and long stretches in a straitjacket—by withdrawing into vivid dreams of past lives, including incarnations as a French nobleman and an Englishman in medieval Korea. Based on the life and imprisonment of Jack London’s friend Ed Morrell, this is one of the author’s most complex and original works.

>http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1162
I know it's only a Gutenberg share, but still, highly recommended.

> good taste general

Where do you hear about these books? Link me to a few websites?

>>3037683
goodreads.com is pretty useful, you have to rate 20 books before it suggests books to you

Probaby been posted before, but call a cop, I don't give a fuck:

Hav - Jan Morris

http://www.mediafire.com/?c05y4kfjc9irm3r

>Located on the Eastern Mediterranean seaboard, the city-state of Hav has been, at least till recently, all too little known to most Americans. A kind of Levantine crossroads thronged with multiple cultures and religions, Hav traces its origins to the heroic Achilles and his followers, the Myrmidons. Over the centuries, it has been a center of the salt trade with Asia, an outpost of the crusaders, a secret meeting place for the heretical Cathars, a playground for imperial Russia, and, since 1985, a wealthy and rather vulgar destination for tourists and a hub for international commerce.

>Jan Morris — one of the most celebrated travel writers of our time — first visited Hav more than 25 years ago, when the city still maintained most of its ancient traditions and much of its faded elegance. In her new book, “Hav,” she brings together her early writings on the city, “Last Letters From Hav,” and the more recent “Hav of the Myrmidons.” From the opening pages of “Last Letters From Hav,” Morris depicts an almost other-worldly realm: “On the left, bathed in golden sunshine against a cobalt sea, was the city of Hav, with elaborately hatted ladies and marvelously patrician beaux sauntering, a little disjointedly where the tiles met, along a palm-shaded corniche.”

Tom Wolfe - The Electric KoolAid-Acid Test
http://www.mediafire.com/?4yqufxqqwwwd007

>THAT'S GOOD THINKING THERE, COOL BREEZE, COOL BREEZE is a kid with three or four days'
beard sitting next to me on the stamped metal bottom of the open back part of a
pickup truck. Bouncing along. Dipping and rising and rolling on these rotten springs
like a boat. Out the back of the truck the city of San Francisco is bouncing down the
hill, all those endless staggers of bay windows, slums with a view, bouncing and
streaming down the hill. One after another, electric signs with neon martini glasses lit
up on them, the San Francisco symbol of "bar"—thousands of neon-magenta martini
glasses bouncing and streaming down the hill, and beneath them hundreds, thousands
of people wheeling around to look at this freaking crazed truck we're in, their white
faces erupting from their lapels like marshmallows—streaming and bouncing down
the hill—and God knows they've got plenty to look at.

Kenji Miyazawa
Night on the Milky Way Train
The Earthgod and the Fox
The Restaurant of Many Orders
http://www.mediafire.com/?ik32ic4yxa8wnyq

>Kenji Miyazawa (宮沢 賢治 Miyazawa Kenji?, 27 August 1896 - 21 September 1933) was a Japanese poet and author of children's literature in the early Shōwa period of Japan. He was also known as a devout Buddhist, vegetarian [1] and social activist.

>>3037564
Who the fuck posted this, fucking thanks!!! Chingiz is my bro and so are you. Shall try and post something new into this thread.

>tfw Dogra Magra will never be translated into english

I guess the only thing to do now is get better at French.

Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
>http://www.mediafire.com/?8tutmovbw3ma2o0

Across a blue tile patio, in through a door to the kitchen. Routine: plug in
American blending machine won from Yank last summer, some poker game,
table stakes, B.O.Q. somewhere in the north, never remember now. . . . Chop
several bananas into pieces. Make coffee in urn. Get can of milk from cooler.
Puree ‘nanas in milk. Lovely. I would coat all the booze-corroded stomachs of
England. . . . Bit of marge, still smells all right, melt in skillet. Peel more bananas,
slice lengthwise. Marge sizzling, in go long slices. Light oven whoomp blow us all
up someday oh, ha, ha, yes. Peeled whole bananas to go on broiler grill soon as
it heats. Find marshmallows. . . .
In staggers Teddy Bloat with Pirate’s blanket over his head, slips on a banana
peel and falls on his ass. “Kill myself,” he mumbles.

Michael Ende - The Neverending story
>http://www.mediafire.com/?zmmkywdwmum

The book centers on a boy, Bastian Balthazar Bux, who is neglected by his father (who has sunken into despair after his wife's death) and is bullied by his schoolmates. Whilst running from some of them, Bastian bursts into the antique book store of Carl Conrad Coreander. Bastian steals a book from the store called The Neverending Story which Coreander has been reading; he hides in his school's attic, where he proceeds to read the story through the rest of the day and the night, not realizing that he has effectively become a part of it. After a while of reading he is magically transfixed and is brought into the book.

>>3038329
Am I me?

>>3038421
You may be, but you may be me.

Contributors in this thread certainly have Nobel intentions

>Jamilia - Chingiz Aitmatov

The Second World War is raging, and Jamilia’s husband is off fighting at the front. Accompanied by Daniyar, a sullen newcomer who was wounded on the battlefield, Jamilia spends her days hauling sacks of grain from the threshing floor to the train station in their village in the Caucasus.

Spurning men’s advances and wincing at the dispassionate letters she receives from her husband, Jamilia falls helplessly in love with the mysterious Daniyar in this heartbreakingly beautiful tale.

http://www.mediafire.com/?gvfcotqee74amr9

are piratebay links fine to share?

>White Teeth - Zadie Smith

On New Year's morning, 1975, Archie Jones sits in his car on a London road and waits for the exhaust fumes to fill his Cavalier Musketeer station wagon. Archie—working-class, ordinary, a failed marriage under his belt—is calling it quits, the deciding factor being the flip of a 20-pence coin. When the owner of a nearby halal butcher shop (annoyed that Archie's car is blocking his delivery area) comes out and bangs on the window, he gives Archie another chance at life and sets in motion this richly imagined, uproariously funny novel.

http://www.mediafire.com/?dpznz0wtjwx4c8h

alot of these books sound boring

Please, someone post a link for Oblivion.

>>3038608
http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/5367007/Books___David_Foster_Wallace_-_Oblivion_-_Short_Stories

>>3038642
>third world country

>>3038642
>niggers can't even keep their hands off of dead white women

polite sage

>>3038667

Polite anti-sage.

>>3038669
>>3038642
Are you the same gorespammer who spams gore in the /mu/ sharethreads?

>>3038683

Thanks for removing the pictures.

bumpan

>>3038581
no taste, uninteresting fart

>>3038683
>going on /mu/
>2012

>>3038581

They do, but it's hard to tell till you pick one up.
Same could be said about a lot of the books that you'd figure are filled with action, but in fact aren't.

>>3039451
Don't get your feelings hurt just because you read boring books

>>3039480
Very true, it's just the descriptions are hardly selling the books for me, not that book descriptions have really worked ever for me, but still.

Many of my favourite books have dull sounding summaries, maybe just pick one up and go for it. The main thing behind these threads are that people share things they really enjoy.

I don't know if this would be suited for a electronic reader, maybe better on the computer.

Shaun Tan - The Arrival
>http://www.mediafire.com/?gnygzg2ymqk

A shockingly imaginative graphic novel that captures the sense of adventure and wonder that surrounds a new arrival on the shores of a shining new city. Wordless, but with perfect narrative flow, Tan gives us a story filled with cityscapes worthy of Winsor McCay

Dino Buzzati - The Tar Tar Steppe
>http://www.mediafire.com/?ozrlrkssvdnmqaz

Drogo is posted to the remote outpost overlooking a desolate Tartar desert; he spends his career waiting for the barbarian horde rumored to live beyond the desert.

>>3041686
here yekesson

>>3041686

So many feels.
One of those books that most won't appreciate until the message no longer serves them.

Ryūnosuke Akutagawa - Hell Screen
>http://www.mediafire.com/?szmzh431uxadv4b

Hell Screen is narrated by an uninvolved servant who witnesses or hears of the events. The story of Hell Screen centers around the artist Yoshihide. Yoshihide is considered “the greatest painter in the land”, and is often commissioned to create works for the Lord of Horikawa, who also employs Yoshihide’s daughter in his mansion. When Yoshihide is instructed to create a screen depicting the Buddhist hell, he proceeds to inflict tortures upon his apprentices, for he cannot effectively paint anything he has not seen.

Yukio Mishima - Patriotism
http://www.mediafire.com/?id5axn04iydelau
MUST READ.
I don't really want to put the plot, just read it!

>>3041686
Wow, this looks really intersting, thanks. Is it just me, but Italian writers seem to be quite intrested in that period?

>>3041721
No worries and I don't know bro, I'm tired as hell from work, my mind is only able to post shares right now haha

Aldous Huxley - The Doors of Perception
>http://www.mediafire.com/?up6c965nrcaw9wk

After a brief overview of research into mescaline, Huxley recounts that he was given 4/10 of a gram at 11:00 am one day in May 1953. Huxley writes that he hoped to gain insight into extraordinary states of mind and expected to see brightly colored visionary landscapes. When he only sees lights and shapes, he puts this down to being a bad visualiser, however, he experiences a great change in his perception of the external world.

oh fuck yeah, best thread to wake up to
thanks OP you made my morning
<3 /lit/

>>3041686
Thank you so much for this share! Been looking for that one forever.

Thomas Pynchon - Annotated Against the Day
http://www.mediafire.com/?p8phxstk9o3t8k3

Pynchon's synopsis states that the novel's action takes place "between the 1893 Chicago World's Fair and the years just after World War I". "With a worldwide disaster looming just a few years ahead, it is a time of unrestrained corporate greed, false religiosity, moronic fecklessness, and evil intent in high places. No reference to the present day is intended or should be inferred." Pynchon promises "cameo appearances by Nikola Tesla, Bela Lugosi and Groucho Marx", as well as "stupid songs" and "strange sexual practices".

>>3041730
My pleasure anon, giving back to you guys because some gave so much in the other share threads.

Roberto Bolano
>http://www.mediafire.com/?5hwurilkz4rocr5
2666
Amulet
Antwerp
The Savage Detectives

Good to see /lit/'s in a sharing mood!

Banksy
Exitstencilism
>http://www.mediafire.com/?umknm98igaq28sq
Cut It Out
>http://www.mediafire.com/?mkqmdodmz2y
Banging your head against a brick wall
>http://www.mediafire.com/?zd5myhozzhz

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/51722-once-upon-a-time-there-was-a-king-who-ruled

Alan Watts - The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
>http://www.mediafire.com/?dzzdy032mmd

A witty attack on the illusion that the self is a separate ego that confronts a universe of alien physical objects.

No one happens to have any other Japanese stuff not already in the folder?

>>3041807
Any author in particular?

>>3041812
Soseki, Mishima, Kawabata etc

Lesser known authors are fine too. I check every now and then on #bookz, not much luck

>>3041815
I'm re-downloading the Japanese Lit folder to see what's in it and then I'll go searching and post if I come up with anything of interest.

>>3041815
Firstly.
A couple Kenji Miyazawa stories and it has Japanese audio recordings.
http://www.mediafire.com/?hngx3on8ybdhxne

As a teacher, his students viewed him as passionate but rather eccentric, as he insisted that learning came through actual, firsthand experience of things. He often took his students out of the classroom, not only for training, but just for enjoyable walks in the hills and fields. He also had them put on plays they wrote themselves.

>>3041830
Seems like a swell guy

>>3041820
Any luck?

>>3041830
Haruki Murakami - Pinball, 1973
>http://www.mediafire.com/?m5zw2jcwygy

The plot centers on the narrator's brief but intense obsession with pinball, his life as a freelance translator, and his later efforts to reunite with the old pinball machine that he used to play.

>>3041852
Cheers.

If anything else comes up, please continue

>>3041846
He does, sounded like he was a awesome teacher.

Trying to find stuff that is before the 50's for you Caps.

I don't think I've got too much stuff that isn't available in the obvious places but if any one is curious what I've got by these authors and I've got the time (and e/lit/es can get past all the genre stuff in this folder) I'll try to upload some stuff later.

>>3041856
I'm willing to go to early 70's for Jap

>>3041858
What's in your Kenji Miyazawa? always looking for his stuff, it's rare as fuck.

>>3041860

Only "Night on the Galactic Railroad," alas, which I know is the most common.

Got these other volumes by him, which I really like, but, yeah, nothing else electronic unfortunately.

>>3041869
You found anything we do not have in the jap lit folder bro?

>>3041869
They are beautiful. If you were willing to scan the middle one(I don't think it's out there, just some stories) we/I would really appreciate it.

I'm getting his poetry book soon so I should be able to scan it.

>>3041870
Nah I havn't.

>>3041869
I didn't read "and other stories" on the right and left books, I'm thinking some of those stories arn't available either.

J.D Salinger - Franny and Zooey
>http://www.mediafire.com/?913p9399g2i986x

Franny and Zooey is a book by American author J. D. Salinger which comprises his short story "Franny" and novella Zooey. The two works were published together as a book in 1961; the two stories originally appeared in The New Yorker in 1955 and 1957, respectively. Franny and Zooey, a sister and brother both in their twenties, are the two youngest members of the Glass family, which was a frequent focus of Salinger's writings.

>>3041874

Here's a run down of what's in these volumes.

Night Train to the Stars and Other Stories
- Night Train
- The Dahlias and the Crane
- The Earthgod and the Fox
- General Son Ba-yu and the Three Physicians (which seems to be split into several sections)

The Restaurant of Many Orders
- The Bears of Mt. Nametoko
- The Spider, The Slug, And The Racoon
- The Restaurant of Many Orders
- The Ungrateful Rat
- The Nighthawk Star
- Tokkobe Torako
- The Man of the Hills
- The Police Chief

The Tales of Miyazawa Kenji (omitting ones in the volumes above)
- Wildcat and the Acorns
- Ozbel and the Elephant
- The First Deer Dance
- Night of the Festival
- Gorsch the Cellist

>>3041904
Shit man, I need to buy them.

needs a bump

>>3043059
indeed, bumpity bump bump bump

I'm all out for a while. Might try post some more stuff after work.

Don't be shy guys, post away

>>3043935
fair enough if you choose to pirate ebooks but do you really need to encourage other people to engage in recreational copyright infringement? die in a fire.

>>3043968
Who is to say that you cannot participate by sharing public domain you fucking fuck?

Thanks for the bump

>>3043968
It's good for the author. Also lot's of the authors in this thread have passed away.

Sharing a link, people read it, some like it, decide to read more, may buy some or spread the word to friends etc and they may buy some.

Pirating is in the best interest of the author. I'd rather have my name get more out there than not.

I don't suppose anyone has any wuxia novels?

Anyone happen to have anything from North Africa?

>>3044347
The Wedding of Zein by Tayeb Salih
>http://www.mediafire.com/?gzy96kt68389cz2
The Jokers by Albert Cossery
>http://www.mediafire.com/?b648nqf39w5emss
The Day the Leader Was Killed by Naguib Mahfouz
>http://www.mediafire.com/view/?lthb61vjk9gfft0

You could probably find some additional Mahfouz on #bookz too.

>>3044357
Mon dieu I have these, maybe we are I. I shall procure more North African lit for future generations...of sharethreads.

>>3041858
Have you got any Kerouac, apart from Big Sur, On The Road and Dharma Bums? I can only find these...

>>3043968

bump. I just went through 7 pages and hid every single thread but this one. Holy shit what has happened to lit.

>>3046927
*sigh* I know that feel, I wish we could get a mod. Will post some French and Czech stuff ive recently procured tomorrow evening.

How To Read A Book
>A classic
http://www.scribd.com/doc/10087023/How-to-Read-a-Book-Adler

>>3046951
we have a newmod who is deleting shitposts by the bucketload. the problem that no one (including you and me) is making any good posts still persists, though. so my advice to you is: either learn to deal with bad posts, or start making some good posts. either way, complaining is pointless.

>>3037492

I downloaded and read The Maimed by Hermann Ungar from one of the previous threads. Fantastic book, one of my favourites of the year.

THanks for the download.

http://www.mediafire.com/view/?vnl1pbn1as95s1b

On Revolution, Hannah Arendt.


>Tracing the gradual evolution of revolutions since the American and French examples, Arendt predicts the changing relationship between war and revolution and the crucial role such combustive movements will play in the future of international relations.

And does anyone happen to have The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You by Frank Stanford? Preferably as a mobi or pdf.

Suppose a bump won't hurt

>>3041686
wonderful someone finally found a copy. at least a handful of us have been looking for this one for a while.

HHhH - Laurent Binet

"We are in Prague, in 1942. Two men have been enlisted to kill the head of the Gestapo. This is Operation Anthropoid: two Czechoslovakian parachutists sent by London plan to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich—head of the Nazi secret services, 'the hangman of Prague', 'the blond beast', 'the most dangerous man in the Third Reich'.

HHhH is a panorama of the Third Reich told through the life of one outstandingly brutal man, a story of unbearable heroism and loyalty, revenge and betrayal. It is improbably entertaining and electrifyingly modern. It is a moving, tense, and shattering work of fiction."

http://www.mediafire.com/?67wera5xp4iaux4

>>3048561
Got any other war literature to share/recommend?

Sorry.

Journey to the End of the Night - Celine

"Louis-Ferdinand Celine's revulsion and anger at what he considered the idiocy and hypocrisy of society explodes from nearly every page of this novel. Filled with slang and obscenities and written in raw, colloquial language, Journey to the End of the Night is a literary symphony of violence, cruelty and obscene nihilism. This book shocked most critics when it was first published in France in 1932, but quickly became a success with the reading public in Europe, and later in America where it was first published by New Directions in 1952. The story of the improbable yet convincingly described travels of the petit-bourgeois (and largely autobiographical) antihero, Bardamu, from the trenches of World War I, to the African jungle, to New York and Detroit, and finally to life as a failed doctor in Paris, takes the readers by the scruff and hurtles them toward the novel's inevitable, sad conclusion."

http://www.mediafire.com/?ktnfev33nrriqdc

Under Fire - Henri Barbusse

Based on his own experience of the Great War, Henri Barbusse's novel is a powerful account of one of the greatest horrors mankind has inflicted on itself. For the group of ordinary men in the French Sixth Battalion, thrown together from all over France and longing for home, war is simply a matter of survival, lightened only by the arrival of their rations or a glimpse of a pretty girl or a brief reprieve in the hospital. Reminiscent of classics like Hemingway?s A Farewell to Arms and Remarque?s All Quiet on the Western Front, Under Fire (originally published in French as La Feu) vividly evokes life in the trenches?the mud, stench, and monotony of waiting while constantly fearing for one?s life in an infernal and seemingly eternal battlefield.

http://www.mediafire.com/?cir8xb2l18e824h

Does anyone have any Andre Gide?

Does anyone have Man's Fate by Malraux? Plenty of literature written during the time of the Russian revolution, but not that of the Chinese

"As explosive and immediate today as when it was originally published in 1933, 'Man's Fate' ('La Condition Humaine'), an account of a crucial episode in the early days of the Chinese Revolution, foreshadows the contemporary world and brings to life the profound meaning of the revolutionary impulse for the individuals involved.

As a study of conspiracy and conspirators, of men caught in the desperate clash of ideologies, betrayal, expediency, and free will, Andre Malraux's novel remains unequaled."

>>3048592
Thanks heaps! Keep 'em coming if you got them.

The Good Soldier Švejk - Jaroslav Hašek

"In The Good Soldier Švejk, celebrated Czech writer and anarchist Jaroslav Hašek combined dazzling wordplay and piercing satire in a hilariously subversive depiction of the futility of war.

Good-natured and garrulous, Švejk becomes the Austrian army's most loyal Czech soldier when he is called up on the outbreak of World War I -- although his bumbling attempts to get to the front serve only to prevent him from reaching it. Playing cards and getting drunk, he uses all his cunning and genial subterfuge to deal with the police, clergy, and officers who chivy him toward battle.

Cecil Parrott's vibrant translation conveys the brilliant irreverence of this classic about a hapless Everyman caught in a vast bureaucratic machine."

http://www.mediafire.com/?mv0a3qcajhl4rmk

This Earth of Mankind - Pramoedya Ananta Toer

"Minke is a young Javanese student of great intelligence and ambition. Living equally among the colonists and colonized of 19th-century Java, he battles against the confines of colonial strictures. It is his love for Annelies that enables him to find the strength to embrace his world."

http://www.mediafire.com/view/?di6wbczkimzic5r

Augustus - John Edward Williams

"A brilliant and beautifully written novel in the tradition of Robert Graves’ I, Claudius, Augustus is a sweeping narrative that brings vividly to life a compelling cast of historical figures through their letters, dispatches, and memoirs.

A mere eighteen years of age when his uncle, Julius Caesar, is murdered, Octavius Caesar prematurely inherits rule of the Roman Republic. Surrounded by men who are jockeying for power–Cicero, Brutus, Cassius, and Mark Antony–young Octavius must work against the powerful Roman political machinations to claim his destiny as first Roman emperor. Sprung from meticulous research and the pen of a true poet, Augustus tells the story of one man’s dream to liberate a corrupt Rome from the fancy of the capriciously crooked and the wildly wealthy."

http://www.mediafire.com/?sbep1q16lcopd0t

>>3048561
The best thing about this book is that you can 'bate to Hardy talking about it later on

>>3048486
I found it on filestube.

Patti Smith - Just Kids
>http://www.mediafire.com/?x0vdeb24qugqwf8

Just Kids is a memoir by Patti Smith, published on January 19, 2010. In the book, Smith documents her relationship with artist Robert Mapplethorpe

Does anyone have an link to Lucking Out by James Wolcott?

>>3048987
I guess stuff just pops up eventually.

I bet Sun and Steel by Mishima will one day finally be uploaded.

>>3037492
bumping epic