The Lost Phoebe
By: Theodore Dreiser
3.71
Format: None pages, None
Tormented to distraction by the death of his true love, an old man embarks on a quixotic quest to f…
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1. The Jolly Corner
By: Henry James
3.13
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
The Jolly Corner was first published in 1908 in The English Review. Henry James describes the adven… read more
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"...he felt the whole vision turn to darkness and his very feet give way. His head went round; he was going; he had gone."-Henry James, The Jolly Corner
"He was a dim secondary social success -- and all with people who had truly not an idea of him. It was all mere surface sound, this murmur of their welcome, this popping of their corks -- just as his …"-Henry James, The Jolly Corner
"The image of the "presence," whatever it was, waiting there for him to go--this image had not yet been so concrete for his nerves as when he stopped short of the point at which certainty would have c…"-Henry James, The Jolly Corner
"I know at least what I am,' he simply went on; 'the other side of the medal's clear enough. I've not been edifying--I believe I'm thought in a hundred quarters to have been barely decent. I've follow…"-Henry James, The Jolly Corner
2. A Wagner Matinee
By: Willa Cather
3.64
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
Willa Cather is considered to be one of the best chroniclers of pioneer life in the 20th century. S… read more
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3. The Offshore Pirate
By: F. Scott Fitzgerald
3.95
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
From time to time there was the bright flare of a match as one of them lighted a cigarette, but exc… read more
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". . . confirmed libertines don't reform until they're tired . . ."-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Offshore Pirate
"You see, this is the beauty I want. Beauty has got to be astonishing, astounding--it's got to burst in on you like a dream, like the exquisite eyes of a girl."-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Offshore Pirate
"And courage to me meant ploughing through that dull gray mist that comes down on life--not only overriding people and circumstances but overriding the bleakness of living."-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Offshore Pirate
"The idea of a slow approach to the luxury of leisure drove him wild. He was, of course, progressing toward it, but, like a child eating his ice cream so slowly that he couldn't taste it at all."-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Offshore Pirate
4. The Revolt of "Mother" and Other Stories
By: Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
3.66
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Eight poignant tales vividly portray patient, self-reliant heroines living in small New England vil… read more
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- short stories
- classics
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- audiobook
5. The Mortal Immortal: The Complete Supernatural Short Fiction of Mary Shelley
By: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley , Jacob Weisman , None
3.73
Format: 58 pages, Paperback
This vibrant collection contains all five of Mary Shelley's supernatural stories, and sheds much ne… read more
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- classics
- fiction
- audiobook
6. The Signalman
By: Charles Dickens , Scott Cohn
3.66
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
Presents the tale of a young man who, after listening to an eccentric railroad signalman's predicti… read more
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- classics
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"Hallow! Below there!"-Charles Dickens, The Signalman
7. A Gentleman of Leisure
By: P.G. Wodehouse
3.57
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
'A Gentleman of Leisure' concerns a young man, his love life & a burglary. Familiar Wodehouse chara… read more
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- fiction
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8. The Pit and the Pendulum
By: Edgar Allan Poe
4.15
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
Get set for true terror in one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous short stories. We enter the mind… read more
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- classics
- fiction
"How at least shall we distinguish its shadows from those of the tomb?"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum
"In the deepest slumber-no! In delirium-no! In a swoon-no! In death-no! even in the grave all is not lost."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum
"In death - no! even in the grave all is not lost. Else there is no immortality for man. Arousing from the most profound slumbers, we break the gossamer web of some dream. Yet in a second afterward, (…"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum
"He who has never swooned, is not he who finds strange palaces and wildly familiar faces in coals that glow; is not he who beholds floating in mid-air the sad visions that the many may not view; is no…"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum
9. La casa y el cerebro
By: Edward Bulwer-Lytton , Arturo Agüero Herranz
4.48
Format: 252 pages, Paperback
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10. The Ambitious Guest
By: Nathaniel Hawthorne , B.J. Harrison
4.26
Format: 112 pages, Audiobook
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11. The Wind in the Rosebush and Other Stories of the Supernatural
By: Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
3.80
Format: None pages, Paperback
Freeman began writing stories and verse for children while still a teenager to help support her fam… read more
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12. The Man Who Would Be King
By: Rudyard Kipling
3.95
Format: 145 pages, Paperback
"My gord, Carnehan," says Daniel, "This is a tremenjus business, and we've got the whole country as… read more
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13. The Eyes
By: Edith Wharton
3.40
Format: None pages,
Phil, my dear boy, really -- what's the matter? Why don't you answer? Have you seen the eyes?' Fren… read more
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14. To Build a Fire
By: Jack London
3.29
Format: None pages, Paperback
To Build a Fire is one of Jack London's most beloved short stories. A heartbreaking tale set in the… read more
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15. The Most Dangerous Game
By: Richard Connell
3.94
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
The Most Dangerous Game features a big-game hunter from New York who becomes shipwrecked on an isol… read more
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- classics
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"But you can’t mean—"-Richard Connell, The Most Dangerous Game
"The world is made up of two classes - the hunters and the huntees."-Richard Connell, The Most Dangerous Game
"Sometimes I think evil is a tangible thing - with wave lengths, just as sound and light have."-Richard Connell, The Most Dangerous Game
16. The Magic Shop
By: H.G. Wells , François Roca
4.00
Format: 302 pages, Hardcover
Out for a walk in London one day, Gip and his father happen upon a magic shop. At Gip's urging, the… read more
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17. The Monkey's Paw
By: W.W. Jacobs
3.84
Format: 32 pages, Library Binding
When the White family comes into the possession of a monkey’s paw that magically grant wishes, they… read more
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"But the days passed, and expectations gave way to resignation—the hopeless resignation of the old, sometimes miscalled apathy."-W.W. Jacobs, The Monkey's Paw
"Without, the night was cold and wet, but in the small parlour of Laburnam Villa the blinds were drawn and the fire burned brightly."-W.W. Jacobs, The Monkey's Paw
18. Rappaccini's Daughter
By: Nathaniel Hawthorne
4.01
Format: 532 pages,
Part fairy tale, part Gothic horror story, "Rappaccini's Daughter" is an inspired tale of creation … read more
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19. Barbara of the House of Grebe
By: Thomas Hardy
3.63
Format: None pages, Audio Cassette
Desiderio femminile, pazzia, ruoli sociali. Un lungo racconto magistrale, narrato con maestria e co… read more
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20. The Closed Cabinet
By: Anonymous
3.35
Format: 58 pages, Hardcover
In the hall I was met by the housekeeper, who informed me that, owing to a misunderstanding about d… read more
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21. The Lost Phoebe
By: Theodore Dreiser
3.71
Format: None pages, None
Tormented to distraction by the death of his true love, an old man embarks on a quixotic quest to f… read more
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