Ennui
By: Maria Edgeworth
3.36
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
The shiftless Lord Glenthorn has money and a title but suffers from ennui—from boredom. When it is …
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1. Cathleen ni Houlihan
By: W.B. Yeats
3.57
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
THIS 20 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Representative British Dramas Victorian and Moder… read more
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2. The Colleen Bawn; or, The brides of Garryowen. A domestic drama in three acts
By: Dion Boucicault , Gerald Griffin
3.16
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections… read more
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3. The Secret Agent
By: Joseph Conrad
3.59
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Mr Verloc, the secret agent, keeps a shop in London's Soho where he lives with his wife Winnie, her… read more
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"Bad world for poor people."-Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent
"To the destruction of what is."-Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent
"As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement."-Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent
"A certain simplicity of thought is common to serene souls at both ends of the social scale."-Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent
4. A Lost Lady
By: Willa Cather , A.S. Byatt
3.72
Format: 167 pages, Paperback
Marian Forrester is the symbolic flower of the Old American West. She draws her strength from that … read more
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"Tears flashed into her eyes. "That's very dear of you. It's sweet to be remembered when one is away." In her voice there was the heart-breaking sweetness one sometimes hears in lovely, gentle old son…"-Willa Cather, A Lost Lady
"Under the bluffs that overhung the marsh he came upon thickets of wild roses, with flaming buds, just beginning to open. Where they had opened, their petals were stained with that burning rose-colour…"-Willa Cather, A Lost Lady
"He had seen the end of an era, the sunset of the pioneer. He had come upon it when already its glory was nearly spent. So in the buffalo times a traveller used to come upon the embers of a hunter's f…"-Willa Cather, A Lost Lady
5. Dr. Faustus
By: Christopher Marlowe
3.80
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, commonly referred to simply as Doctor… read more
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"Hell is just a frame of mind."-Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus
"Be silent then, for danger is in words."-Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus
"Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris."-Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus
"He that loves pleasure must for pleasure fall."-Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus
6. Lanark
By: Alasdair Gray , Janice Galloway
4.10
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
This work, originally published in 1981, has been hailed as the most influential Scottish novel of … read more
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- british literature
"Glasgow is a magnificent city,"-Alasdair Gray, Lanark
"The body of the last Flealouse contained the flesh of everything that had ever lived. It was content."-Alasdair Gray, Lanark
"Glasgow is still full of churches built in the last century. Half of them have been turned into warehouses."-Alasdair Gray, Lanark
"You suffer from the oldest delusion in politics. You think you can change the world by talking to a leader. Leaders are the effects, not the causes of changes."-Alasdair Gray, Lanark
7. Cane
By: Jean Toomer , Darwin Turner
3.83
Format: 116 pages, Paperback
A literary masterpiece of the Harlem Renaissance, Cane is a powerful work of innovative fiction evo… read more
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"Call them from their houses, and teach them to dream."-Jean Toomer, Cane
"Her own glowing is too rich a thing to let her feel the slimness of his diluted passion."-Jean Toomer, Cane
"There is no such thing as happiness. Life bends joy and pain, beauty and ugliness, in such a way that no one may isolate them."-Jean Toomer, Cane
"I like to feel that something deep in me responded to the trees, the young trees that whinnied like colts impatient to be let free…"-Jean Toomer, Cane
8. The Return of the Soldier
By: Rebecca West , Verlyn Klinkenborg , None , Michelle Dean
3.70
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Writing her first novel during World War I, West examines the relationship between three women and … read more
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"L'indifferenza significa che gli occhi non hanno più bisogno di cercarsi, le mani di protendersi; né le labbra di unirsi, perché è un'unione in cui non ci si accorge più della separazione dei corpi."-Rebecca West, The Return of the Soldier
"Perché mai la vita moderna ha generato orrori al cui confronto le vecchie tragedie sembrano spettacoli per bambini? Forse perché l'umanità in cerca di avventura ha cambiato troppo il mondo esterno ch…"-Rebecca West, The Return of the Soldier
"So I went out alone into a soft day, with the dispelled winter lurking above in high dark clouds under which there ran quick fresh currents of air, and broken shafts of insistent sunshine that spread…"-Rebecca West, The Return of the Soldier
"Indeed, grief is not the clear melancholy the young believe it. It is like a siege in a tropical city. The skin dries and the throat parches as though one were living in the heat of the desert; water…"-Rebecca West, The Return of the Soldier
9. The Maltese Falcon
By: Dashiell Hammett
3.93
Format: None pages, Paperback
Sam Spade is hired by the fragrant Miss Wonderley to track down her sister, who has eloped with a l… read more
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10. If He Hollers Let Him Go
By: Chester Himes , Hilton Als
3.70
Format: None pages, Paperback
This story of a man living every day in fear of his life for simply being black is as powerful toda… read more
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11. Juno and the Paycock
By: Seán O'Casey
3.23
Format: 403 pages,
The most famous play by this remarkable Irish dramatist. Juno and the Paycock has been produced thr… read more
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12. The Chimes
By: Charles Dickens
3.54
Format: 230 pages,
"The Chimes" is Charles Dickens 1844 novella that concerns the disillusionment of Toby "Trotty" Vec… read more
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13. The Playboy of the Western World
By: J.M. Synge
4.33
Format: None pages,
Riots greeted the first performance of The Playboy of the Western World at Dublin's Abbey Theatre o… read more
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14. Lady Susan, The Watsons, Sanditon
By: Jane Austen , Margaret Drabble
3.15
Format: None pages,
[] 'She has poured forth her tender tale of love in vain, and exposed herself forever to the conte… read more
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- 19th century
- classics
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15. The Burning Maze (The Trials of Apollo, #3)
By: Rick Riordan
3.90
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
The formerly glorious god Apollo, cast down to earth in punishment by Zeus, is now an awkward morta… read more
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16. The Tragedy of Mariam
By: Elizabeth Cary
4.08
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Stephanie Hodgson-Wright's excellent edition of this important work is the most user-friendly avai… read more
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17. Lolly Willowes
By: Sylvia Townsend Warner , Alison Lurie
3.50
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
In Lolly Willowes, an ageing spinster rebels against her role as the universal aunt, at everybody's… read more
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18. Lady Susan
By: Jane Austen , Robert William Chapman
3.65
Format: 180 pages, Paperback
Beautiful, flirtatious, and recently widowed, Lady Susan Vernon seeks an advantageous second marria… read more
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"I have not yet tranquillised myself enough to see Frederica."-Jane Austen, Lady Susan
"I shall ever despise the man who can be gratified by the passion which he never wished to inspire, nor solicited the avowal of."-Jane Austen, Lady Susan
"How little the general report of any one ought to be credited, since no character, however upright, can escape the malevolence of slander."-Jane Austen, Lady Susan
"...though I always imagined from her increasing friendship for us since her husband's death that we should, at some future period, be obliged to receive her."-Jane Austen, Lady Susan
19. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
By: James Joyce , Seamus Deane
3.64
Format: 329 pages, Paperback
The portrayal of Stephen Dedalus's Dublin childhood and youth, his quest for identity through art a… read more
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"My heart is quite calm now. I will go back."-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
"God spoke to you by so many voices but you would not hear."-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
"Are you not weary of ardent ways? Tell no more of enchanted days."-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
"He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place."-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
20. Evelina
By: None , Edward A. Bloom
3.88
Format: None pages, Paperback
Frances Burney's first and most enduringly popular novel is a vivid, satirical, and seductive accou… read more
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21. Native Son
By: Richard Wright
3.46
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or pet… read more
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22. The Rising of the Moon
By: Lady Gregory , William-Alan Landes
3.60
Format: None pages,
The Rising of the Moon is a play by Augusta, Lady Gregory. It is a political play which examines An… read more
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23. The Tempest
By: William Shakespeare
4.27
Format: 127 pages,
In The Tempest, long considered one of Shakespeare's most lyrical plays, Prospero--a magician on an… read more
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24. North
By: Seamus Heaney
4.00
Format: 204 pages, Paperback
In NorthSeamus Heaney found a myth which allowed him to articulate a vision of Ireland - its people… read more
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25. In a Lonely Place
By: Paula Rabinowitz , Dorothy B. Hughes
3.64
Format: None pages, Paperback
Postwar Los Angeles is a lonely place where the American Dream is showing its seamy underside--and … read more
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26. Close to Home
By: Michael Magee
4.06
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
While growing up in West Belfast, Sean does everything he's supposed to do. He works hard, he stud… read more
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27. The Tower of Nero (The Trials of Apollo, #5)
By: Rick Riordan
4.50
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
At last, the breathtaking, action-packed finale of the #1 bestselling Trials of Apollo series is he… read more
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"The sun always comes back."-Rick Riordan, The Tower of Nero (The Trials of Apollo, #5)
"No story ever ends, does it? It just leads into others."-Rick Riordan, The Tower of Nero (The Trials of Apollo, #5)
"Ladies and Gentlemen, meet my glow-in-the-dark boyfriend."-Rick Riordan, The Tower of Nero (The Trials of Apollo, #5)
"No, you can't just eat a new camper. They get two warnings first!"-Rick Riordan, The Tower of Nero (The Trials of Apollo, #5)
28. The Tyrant’s Tomb (The Trials of Apollo, #4)
By: Rick Riordan
4.33
Format: 439 pages, ebook
In his penultimate adventure, a devastated but determined Apollo travels to Camp Jupiter, where he … read more
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"So,"-Rick Riordan, The Tyrant’s Tomb (The Trials of Apollo, #4)
"This young woman,"-Rick Riordan, The Tyrant’s Tomb (The Trials of Apollo, #4)
"Why do I have to like a guy with a death wish?"-Rick Riordan, The Tyrant’s Tomb (The Trials of Apollo, #4)
"The only difference between a satyr and a faun,"-Rick Riordan, The Tyrant’s Tomb (The Trials of Apollo, #4)
29. The Sun is Open
By: Gail McConnell
4.23
Format: 126 pages, Paperback
The Sun is Open sifts through a boxed archive of public and private materials related to the life a… read more
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30. Ennui
By: Maria Edgeworth
3.36
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
The shiftless Lord Glenthorn has money and a title but suffers from ennui—from boredom. When it is … read more
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31. The Shaughraun [An Original Drama in Three Acts]
By: Dion Boucicault
3.34
Format: 58 pages, Paperback
Publisher: London J. Dicks Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing te… read more
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