Five Letters from an Eastern Empire
By: Alasdair Gray
4.22
Format: 54 pages, Paperback
Describing etiquette, government, irrigation, education, clogs, kites, rumour, poetry, justice, mas…
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1. Baa Baa, Black Sheep and The Gardener
By: Rudyard Kipling
3.50
Format: 54 pages, Paperback
These stories reflect Kipling's own experiences in life. Kipling was born in India in 1865 but in 1… read more
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"And burdened Gentile o’er the main, Must bear the weight of Israel’s hate Because he is not brought again In triumph to Jerusalem."-Rudyard Kipling, Baa Baa, Black Sheep and The Gardener
2. Village Christmas (Fairacre, #6)
By: Miss Read
4.19
Format: 46 pages, Hardcover
A family new to Fairacre is viewed with suspicion by its elderly neighbors, the Waters sisters, unt… read more
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3. Four Essays
By: Michel de Montaigne , M.A. Screech
3.89
Format: 82 pages, Paperback
Four essays from Michel de Montaigne's "The Complete Essays." read more
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4. A Far Cry from Kensington
By: Muriel Spark
3.83
Format: 189 pages, Paperback
Set on the crazier fringes of 1950s literary London, A Far Cry from Kensington is a delight, hilari… read more
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"I offer this advice without fee; it is included in the price of this book."-Muriel Spark, A Far Cry from Kensington
"It is not because we are rats that we tend to abandon people who are down, it is because we are embarrassed."-Muriel Spark, A Far Cry from Kensington
"You can lie awake at night and think; the quality of insomnia depends entirely on what you decide to think of. Can you decide to think? - Yes, you can."-Muriel Spark, A Far Cry from Kensington
"Milly's narrative skill was considerable... she brought a scene to life by a chance descriptive detail in the right place and by that graphic and right placing of words which most of the Irish excel …"-Muriel Spark, A Far Cry from Kensington
5. The Genius and Other Stories
By: Frank O'Connor
3.86
Format: 89 pages, Paperback
A collection of four of O'Connor's short stories, often written from the point of view of a child o… read more
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6. The Driver's Seat
By: John Lanchester , Muriel Spark
3.61
Format: 103 pages, Paperback
Alternative cover edition of ISBN 0141188340 Lise is thin, neither good-looking nor bad-looking.… read more
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"Sonra bu kumaş leke de tutmaz "diyor tezgahtar kız."-John Lanchester, The Driver's Seat
"It's a whydunnit in q-sharp major and it has a message: never talk to the sort of girls that you wouldn't leave lying about in your drawing-room for the servants to pick up."-John Lanchester, The Driver's Seat
7. A Taste of Life and Other Stories
By: Sara Paretsky
4.32
Format: 285 pages, Paperback
This is a collection of three short stories. The title story "A Taste of Life" tells the gruesome t… read more
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8. Bartleby the Scrivener
By: Herman Melville
3.93
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Academics hail it as the beginning of modernism, but to readers around the world—even those daunted… read more
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"I would prefer not to."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
"To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
"Bartleby in a singularly mild, firm voice, replied, “I would prefer not to."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
"At present I would prefer not to be a little reasonable,' was his mildly cadaverous reply."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
9. Mansfield Park
By: Jane Austen
3.87
Format: 488 pages, Paperback
Taken from the poverty of her parents' home in Portsmouth, Fanny Price is brought up with her rich … read more
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"I was quiet, but I was not blind."-Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
10. The Europeans
By: Henry James , Tony Tanner , Patricia Crick
4.21
Format: None pages, Paperback
Eugenia, the daughter of American expatriates, is the morganatic wife of a German prince, who is be… read more
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11. Little Tales of Misogyny
By: Patricia Highsmith
3.54
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Nowhere is Patricia Highsmith more edgy than in these mordantly hilarious sketches that make up Lit… read more
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12. Matilda's England
By: William Trevor
3.70
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
These three short stories add up to a whole. Set before, during and after World War II, they form a… read more
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13. Seven Yorkshire tales
By: James Herriot
3.81
Format: 225 pages, Paperback
This illustrated book contains ten stories taken from the books of the world-famous vet who lived a… read more
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14. A Model and Other Stories
By: Anaïs Nin
4.20
Format: 406 pages, Paperback
Seven erotic tales of sensuous sexual fantasy. read more
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15. The Angel and Other Stories
By: Patrick McGrath
4.10
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
Contains The Angel, The Black Hand of the Raj, The Arnold Crombeck Story and The E(rot)ic Potato, a… read more
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16. Five Lectures on Psycho-Analysis
By: Sigmund Freud , James Strachey , Peter Gay
3.70
Format: 339 pages, Paperback
Freud approved the overall editorial plan, specific renderings of key words and phrases, and the ad… read more
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17. Under the Garden
By: Graham Greene
4.57
Format: 270 pages, Paperback
Strange characters and mysterious threats will keep readers enraptured in this tale of a man who re… read more
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18. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
By: Italo Calvino , William Weaver
3.90
Format: 216 pages,
If on a Winter's Night a Traveleris a marvel of ingenuity, an experimental text that looks longingl… read more
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19. The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories
By: Ernest Hemingway
3.22
Format: 402 pages, Hardcover
The ideal introduction to the genius of Ernest Hemingway, "The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stori… read more
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20. Bon voyage Mr. President and other stories
By: Gabriel García Márquez
4.32
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
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21. The Red Badge of Courage
By: Stephen Crane
3.68
Format: 330 pages, Paperback
During an unnamed battle, 18-year-old private Henry Fleming survives what he considers to be a lost… read more
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22. Adam's Navel
By: Stephen Jay Gould
3.43
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Four eloquent and thought-provoking essays on natural history. Stephen Jay Gould is one of the fore… read more
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23. The Escape and Other Stories
By: Katherine Mansfield
2.83
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
Collection of five exquisite, evocative stories of human behaviour which capture brief but signific… read more
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24. Study for Obedience
By: Sarah Bernstein
3.05
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A haunting, compressed masterwork from an extraordinary new voice in Canadian fiction. A young w… read more
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"I try always to be good."-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
"How, I wondered, might a person, a people, take root, roots and rootlessness, the preservation of what little remains of the past, such were thoughts that blew through me on any given morning, standi…"-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
"In taking a side, I thought uneasily, perhaps I ought to take the long view, the survival of the species as a whole. That was my problem, I thought, I was always thinking at the level of the individu…"-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
"I had hoped that here in the country I would experience the turn of the seasons differently, with less apprehension, I might come to see the form and plan of the world. Not to frame it within systems…"-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
25. A Long Night at Abu Simbel
By: Penelope Lively
3.65
Format: 58 pages, Paperback
Three short stories, the first of which focuses on a group of people trapped in an Egyptian airport… read more
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26. Five Letters from an Eastern Empire
By: Alasdair Gray
4.22
Format: 54 pages, Paperback
Describing etiquette, government, irrigation, education, clogs, kites, rumour, poetry, justice, mas… read more
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27. Rumpole and the younger generation
By: John Mortimer
4.06
Format: 55 pages, Paperback
The first-ever Rumpole story, introducing many of the characters and setting the scene for the whol… read more
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28. The Death of Francis Bacon
By: Max Porter
3.14
Format: 80 pages, Hardcover
Madrid. Unfinished. Man dying. A great painter lies on his deathbed, synapses firing, writhing a… read more
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29. Friends from Philadelphia and Other Stories
By: John Updike
3.31
Format: 85 pages, Paperback
These John Updike short stories include "Friends from Philadelphia", "Sunday Teasing", "The Persist… read more
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30. Der Prophet / Der Narr / Der Wanderer
By: Kahlil Gibran
3.88
Format: 255 pages, Hardcover
This is an abridged version of Gibran's most famous work, "The Prophet", plus selections from "The … read more
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31. Ram Chander's Story
By: Mark Tully
3.47
Format: 59 pages, Paperback
Excerpt from 'No Full Stops in India', 1992. read more
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