7 Top classics books like Mr Fortune's Maggot by Sylvia Townsend Warner

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Mr Fortune's Maggot

By: Sylvia Townsend Warner

3.51

Format: 178 pages, Paperback

Alternative cover editions for this ISBN can be found  The Reverend Timothy Fortune, ex-bank clerk…

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1. Mr Fortune's Maggot

By: Sylvia Townsend Warner

3.51

Format: 178 pages, Paperback

Alternative cover editions for this ISBN can be found  The Reverend Timothy Fortune, ex-bank clerk… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • british literature
  • religion
  • fiction
  • novels
Cover of Miss Pym Disposes by Josephine Tey

2. Miss Pym Disposes

By: Josephine Tey

4.36

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

To Lucy Pym, author of a best-seller on Psychology, the atmosphere at the college where she is lect… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • british literature
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3. Mr Norris Changes Trains

By: Christopher Isherwood

4.16

Format: 331 pages, Paperback

After a chance encounter on a train the English teacher William Bradshaw starts a close friendship … read more

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  • novels
  • classics
  • fiction
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4. Riddley Walker

By: Russell Hoban

4.17

Format: None pages,

In the far distant future, the country laid waste by nuclear holocaust, twelve-year-old Riddley Wal… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction

5. The Hotel

By: Elizabeth Bowen

3.47

Format: None pages, Paperback

These were the balmy days of the 1920s. The Hotel was a comfortable hotel on the Italian Riviera, r… read more

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  • novels
  • classics
  • fiction
  • british literature
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6. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

By: David Mitchell

3.50

Format: 185 pages, Hardcover

In 1799, Jacob de Zoet disembarks on the tiny island of Dejima, the Dutch East India Company's remo… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
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7. Orient Express

By: Christopher Hitchens , Graham Greene

3.13

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

As the Orient Express hurtles across Europe on its three-day journey from Ostend to Constantinople,… read more

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  • novels
  • classics
  • fiction
  • british literature

8. Hangover Square

By: Patrick Hamilton

3.89

Format: 704 pages, Paperback

Hamilton (1904-1962) captures the edgy, obsessive and eventually murderous mindset of a romanticall… read more

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9. Crome Yellow

By: Aldous Huxley

3.71

Format: 498 pages, Paperback

Denis Stone, a naive young poet, is invited to stay at Crome, a country house renowned for its gath… read more

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10. All Passion Spent

By: Vita Sackville-West , Victoria Glendinning

3.76

Format: 180 pages, Paperback

In 1860, as a young girl of 17, Lady Slane nurtures a secret, burning ambition--to become an artist… read more

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11. Near to the Wild Heart

By: Clarice Lispector , Giovanni Pontiero

4.04

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Near to the Wild Heart is Clarice Lispector's first novel, written from March to November 1942 and … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • fiction
  • novels
"What does it feel like to have a girl?"

-Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart

"Words are pebbles rolling in the river"

-Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart

"She felt the phrase “demand her rights"

-Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart

"She expected nothing. She was in herself, the end itself."

-Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart

12. Vacant Possession

By: Hilary Mantel

4.80

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

Lock your doors, barricade your windows: Muriel Axon is back in town. It's been ten years since she… read more

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13. Japanese Death Poems: Written by Zen Monks and Haiku Poets on the Verge of Death

By: Yoel Hoffmann , None

4.48

Format: None pages, Paperback

"A wonderful introduction the Japanese tradition of jisei, this volume is crammed with exquisite, s… read more

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14. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

By: Michael Chabon

3.95

Format: None pages,

Joe Kavalier, a young Jewish artist who has also been trained in the art of Houdini-esque escape, h… read more

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15. Diary of a Provincial Lady

By: E.M. Delafield

3.91

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

When Diary of a Provincial Ladywas first published in 1933, critics on both sides of the Atlantic g… read more

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16. Love in a Cold Climate

By: Nancy Mitford

4.40

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found  One of Nancy Mitford's most beloved nov… read more

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17. Goodbye to All That

By: Robert Graves

3.73

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

An autobiographical work that describes firsthand the great tectonic shifts in English society foll… read more

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18. Living

By: Henry Green

5.00

Format: 30 pages, Hardcover

LIVING, as an early novel, marks the beginning of Henry Green's career as a writer who made his nam… read more

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19. Monica

By: Daniel Clowes

3.95

Format: 106 pages, Hardcover

Monica is a series of interconnected narratives that collectively tell the life story — actually, s… read more

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  • fiction
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20. O Caledonia

By: Elspeth Barker

3.98

Format: 188 pages, Paperback

In the tradition of Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle, a darkly humorous modern … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • fiction

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3.96

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