The Maldive Shark
By: Herman Melville
4.81
Format: 539 pages, Paperback
'No voice, no low, no howl is heard; the chief sound of life here is a hiss.' Stories and poems by …
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1. The Terrors of the Night
By: Thomas Nashe
2.28
Format: 54 pages, Paperback
'...dreaming of bears, or fire, or water...' The greatest of Elizabethan pamphleteers, Nashe ha… read more
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2. How We Weep and Laugh at the Same Thing
By: Michel de Montaigne
3.50
Format: 55 pages, Paperback
'No one characteristic clasps us purely and universally in its embrace.' A selection of charming… read more
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- classics
- nonfiction
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3. The Steel Flea
By: Nikolai Leskov
3.63
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
He gave orders that they were not to get any hot glum pudding in flames, for fear the spirits in th… read more
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4. The Yellow Wall-Paper
By: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
4.07
Format: 54 pages, Paperback
'The color is hideous enough, and unreliable enough, and infuriating enough, but the pattern is tor… read more
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"I am a doctor, dear, and I know. You are gaining flesh and color, your appetite is better. I feel really much easier about you." "I don't weigh a bit more," said I, "nor as much; and my appetite may …"-Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper
5. A Hippo Banquet
By: Mary H. Kingsley
3.10
Format: 52 pages, Paperback
'While engaged on this hunt I felt the earth quiver under my feet, and heard a soft big soughing so… read more
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- travel
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6. The Old Nurse's Story
By: Elizabeth Gaskell
3.64
Format: 53 pages, Paperback
Even in the stillness of that dead-cold weather, I had heard no sound of little battering hands upo… read more
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"You know, my dears, that your mother was an orphan, and an only child; and I dare say you have heard that your grandfather was a clergyman up in Westmoreland, where I come from."-Elizabeth Gaskell, The Old Nurse's Story
7. Remember, Body...
By: Constantinos P. Cavafy
3.66
Format: 54 pages, Paperback
'All those excessive, useless regrets...' A collection of nostalgic, erotic poetry from one of … read more
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"You’ve been wholly transformed into feeling, for me."-Constantinos P. Cavafy, Remember, Body...
"I have gazed so much on beauty that my eyes overflow with it."-Constantinos P. Cavafy, Remember, Body...
"I have fashioned you in joy and in sorrow, / through so many happenings, out of so many things."-Constantinos P. Cavafy, Remember, Body...
"Memory, keep those eyes just as they were. / And memory, whatever you can salvage of that passion of mine, / whatever you can, bring back to me tonight."-Constantinos P. Cavafy, Remember, Body...
8. Femme Fatale
By: Guy de Maupassant
3.56
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
A selection of Maupassant's brilliant, glittering stories set in the Parisian beau monde and Norman… read more
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9. The Maldive Shark
By: Herman Melville
4.81
Format: 539 pages, Paperback
'No voice, no low, no howl is heard; the chief sound of life here is a hiss.' Stories and poems by … read more
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- poetry
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- american
- literature
- travel
- short stories
- nonfiction
10. The Reckoning
By: Edith Wharton
4.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
'If marriage was the slow life-long acquittal of a debt contracted in ignorance, then marriage was … read more
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- short stories
- american
11. My Dearest Father
By: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
4.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
'They wanted me to give a concert; I wanted them to beg me. And so they did. I gave a concert.' A s… read more
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- nonfiction
12. The Great Fire of London
By: Samuel Pepys
4.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
'With one's face in the wind you were almost burned with a shower of Firedrops . . .' A selection f… read more
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13. The Nose
By: Nikolai Gogol , Ronald Wilks
4.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
'Strangely enough, I mistook it for a gentleman at first. Fortunately I had my spectacles with me s… read more
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14. To-morrow
By: Joseph Conrad
5.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
'It was as if the sea, breaking down the wall protecting all the homes of the town, had sent a wave… read more
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15. The Atheist’s Mass
By: Honoré de Balzac
4.19
Format: 144 pages,
THIS 26 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Country Doctor; Quest of the Absolute and Other N… read more
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- classics
- short stories
16. Olalla
By: Robert Louis Stevenson
3.98
Format: 296 pages,
'Is it me you love, friend? or the race that made me?' Stevenson's chilling Victorian gothic novell… read more
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17. Lord Arthur Savile's Crime
By: Oscar Wilde
3.85
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
'He was not blind to the fact that murder, like the religions of the Pagan world, requires a victim… read more
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18. The Beautifull Cassandra
By: Jane Austen
3.62
Format: 320 pages,
'She has many rare and charming qualities, but Sobriety is not one of them.' A selection of Austen'… read more
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19. Well, they are gone, and here must I remain
By: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
3.62
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
'Ye Ice-Falls! Ye that from the mountain's brow Adown enormous ravines slope amain -...' A selectio… read more
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20. Sketchy, Doubtful, Incomplete Jottings
By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
3.62
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
'I can promise to be candid, not, however, to be impartial.' A selection of the most insightful max… read more
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21. The Great Winglebury Duel
By: Charles Dickens
3.62
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
'Desperate-minded villain!' Two of Dickens' hilarious early stories from Sketches by Boz: 'The Grea… read more
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22. Kasyan from the Beautiful Lands
By: Ivan Turgenev
3.85
Format: 370 pages, Paperback
"No, no, I've got your word for it, I've got to die ... you promised me ... you told me ..." Turgen… read more
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23. Anthem for Doomed Youth
By: Wilfred Owen
3.37
Format: 297 pages, Paperback
'Tonight he noticed how the women's eyes Passed from him to the strong men that were whole.' The tr… read more
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24. Trimalchio's Feast
By: Petronius
2.82
Format: 3 pages, Paperback
'I blush to say what happened next.' A satirical portrait of a drunken, orgiastic Roman banquet, ho… read more
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25. Of Street Piemen
By: Henry Mayhew
4.04
Format: 431 pages, Paperback
...a good bit of spice to give the critlings a flavour, and plenty of treacle to make the mince-mea… read more
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26. The Nightingales are Drunk
By: Hafez , Dick Davis
3.57
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
'Drunk or sober, king or soldier, none will be excluded' Sensual, profound, delighted, wise, Hafez'… read more
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27. The Gate of the Hundred Sorrows
By: Rudyard Kipling
5.00
Format: 30 pages, Paperback
'Mind you, it was a pukka, respectable opium-house, and not one of those stifling, sweltering chand… read more
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29. How a Ghastly Story Was Brought to Light by a Common or Garden Butcher's Dog
By: Johann Peter Hebel
3.86
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
'The devil gave the woman a nudge: "Look at that belt full of money peeping out from under the butc… read more
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30. The Night is Darkening Round Me
By: Emily Brontë
3.81
Format: None pages, Paperback
'... ever-present, phantom thing; My slave, my comrade, and my king' Some of Emily Bronte's most ex… read more
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31. The Figure in the Carpet
By: Henry James
4.17
Format: 267 pages, Paperback
Short story by the prolific American-born author and literary critic of the late 19th and early 20t… read more
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