Professions for Women
By: Virginia Woolf
4.40
Format: 4 pages, None
An essay by Virginia Woolf
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1. Odour of Chrysanthemums
By: D.H. Lawrence
3.65
Format: None pages, ebook
'Was this what it all meant - utter, intact separateness, obscured by heat of living?' D. H. Lawren… read more
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"She looked at his face, and she turned her own face to the wall. For his look was other than hers, his way was not her way. She had denied him what he was—she saw it now. She had refused him as himse…"-D.H. Lawrence, Odour of Chrysanthemums
"There had been nothing between them, and yet they had come together, exchanging their nakedness repeatedly.... She had never seen him, he had never seen her, they had met in the dark and had fought i…"-D.H. Lawrence, Odour of Chrysanthemums
2. 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
3. Araby
By: James Joyce
3.65
Format: 25 pages, Kindle Edition
A short story from James Joyce's Dubliners. The unnamed protagonist in "Araby" is a boy who is just… read more
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"My body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires."-James Joyce, Araby
"What innumerable follies laid waste my waking and sleeping thoughts after that evening! I wished to annihilate the tedious intervening days. I chafed against the work of school. At night in my bedroo…"-James Joyce, Araby
4. The Story of an Hour
By: Kate Chopin
4.07
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
In these four stories, Kate Chopin subtly captures the intricate interior lives of a generation of … read more
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"Spring days, and summer days, and all sorts of days that would be her own. She breathed a quick prayer that life might be long. It was only yesterday she had thought with a shudder that life might be…"-Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour
"there would be no powerful will binding hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow creature…And yet she had loved him- so…"-Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour
5. The Horse Dealer's Daughter
By: D.H. Lawrence
4.18
Format: None pages, Paperback
D.H. Lawrence's 'The Horse Dealer's Daughter' could be described as a story in which boy meets girl… read more
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6. Oedipus at Colonus (The Theban Plays, #2)
By: Sophocles , Eamon Grennan , Rachel Kitzinger
3.53
Format: 39 pages, Paperback
The latest title to join the acclaimed Greek Tragedy in New Translations series, Sophocles' Oedipus… read more
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7. Politics and the English Language
By: George Orwell
3.17
Format: None pages, ebook
"Politics and the English Language" (1946) is an essay by George Orwell that criticises the "ugly a… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
8. Hiroshima Mon Amour
By: Marguerite Duras , Caridad Martínez
4.16
Format: None pages, Paperback
El presente volumen contiene la totalidad del material literario de Marguerite Duras para la pelicu… read more
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- classics
9. A Small Place
By: Jamaica Kincaid
4.02
Format: None pages,
Lyrical, sardonic, and forthright, A Small Placemagnifies our vision of one small place with Swifti… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
10. On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense
By: Friedrich Nietzsche
3.86
Format: None pages,
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11. The Shawl
By: Cynthia Ozick
3.90
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Depicting both the horrors of the Holocaust and the lifetime of emptiness that pursues a survivor, … read more
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12. Boys And Girls
By: Alice Munro
3.87
Format: 291 pages, ebook
Short story by Alice Munro. My father was a fox farmer. That is, he raised silver foxes, in pens; a… read more
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14. Desiree's Baby
By: Kate Chopin , None
3.56
Format: 256 pages, Audiobook
Kate Chopin was an American author of short stories and novels, mostly with a Louisiana Creole back… read more
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15. Diving Into the Wreck
By: Adrienne Rich
3.76
Format: 180 pages, Paperback
"I came to explore the wreck. / The words are purposes. / The words are maps. / I came to see the d… read more
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16. Young Goodman Brown
By: Nathaniel Hawthorne
3.17
Format: 319 pages, Paperback
Hawthorne's classic tale of a young Puritan's meeting with the Devil. read more
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18. The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
By: Angela Carter
3.92
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
From familiar fairy tales and legends - Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss in Boots, Beauty and the B… read more
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"Her hair falls down like tears"-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
"ordered me a sky from a florist"-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
"My spite was sharp as broken glass"-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
"My father lost me to the Beast at cards"-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
19. I Stand Here Ironing
By: Tillie Olsen
3.75
Format: 40 pages,
Published in Tillie Olsen's short story collection "Tell Me a Riddle" in 1961. read more
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20. Letter from the Birmingham Jail
By: Martin Luther King Jr.
2.96
Format: 7 pages, Hardcover
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22. Girl
By: Jamaica Kincaid
3.97
Format: 480 pages,
Girlwas originally published in the June 26, 1978 issue of The New Yorkerand subsequently included … read more
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23. Two Kinds
By: Amy Tan
3.20
Format: None pages,
"Two kinds" is a short story from the book The Joy Luck Clubby Amy Tan. It was first published in 1… read more
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24. The Awakening
By: Kate Chopin
3.68
Format: 195 pages, Paperback
When first published in 1899, The Awakening shocked readers with its honest treatment of female mar… read more
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"The morning was full of sunlight and hope."-Kate Chopin, The Awakening
"She had resolved to never take another step backward."-Kate Chopin, The Awakening
"She wanted to destroy something. The crash and clatter were what she wanted to hear."-Kate Chopin, The Awakening
"She felt that her speech was voicing the incoherency her thoughts, and stopped abruptly."-Kate Chopin, The Awakening
25. Perrault's Fairy Tales
By: Charles Perrault , Gustave Doré
3.49
Format: None pages, Paperback
Here are the original eight stories from the 1697 volume Contes de temps passeby the great Charles … read more
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26. In the Next Room, or the vibrator play
By: Sarah Ruhl
4.41
Format: 333 pages, Paperback
In the Next Room or the vibrator playis a comedy about marriage, intimacy, and electricity. Set in … read more
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27. Chivalry
By: Neil Gaiman
4.21
Format: 72 pages, Hardcover
Another delightfully humorous and sweet fantasy graphic novel adaptation of a Neil Gaiman short sto… read more
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"Mrs. Whitaker found the Holy Grail; it was under a fur coat."-Neil Gaiman, Chivalry
28. Recitatif
By: Toni Morrison
4.31
Format: 19 pages, Audiobook
A beautiful, arresting short story by Toni Morrison—the only one she ever wrote—about race and the … read more
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"Difficult to “move on"-Toni Morrison, Recitatif
29. Professions for Women
By: Virginia Woolf
4.40
Format: 4 pages, None
An essay by Virginia Woolf read more
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30. Fleur
By: Louise Erdrich
3.82
Format: None pages, Unknown Binding
Short story. Chapter from the novel, Tracks. Published independently in Esquire. read more
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31. "Venus Transiens"
By: Amy Lowell
3.50
Format: 2 pages, Paperback
A poem from The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Vol. 2: 1865 to the Present, Shorter 8th E… read more
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