The Classical Greeks
By: Michael Grant
3.69
Format: 337 pages, Paperback
The Golden Age of ancient Greek city-state civilization lasted from 490 to 336 B.C., the period bet…
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1. The Histories
By: Herodotus , Aubrey de Sélincourt , John M. Marincola
4.01
Format: 716 pages, Paperback
David Grene, one of the best known translators of the Greek classics, splendidly captures the pecul… read more
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"Hippocleides doesn't care."-Herodotus, The Histories
"So much, then, for the fish."-Herodotus, The Histories
"La muerte es para el hombre el más deseado refugio."-Herodotus, The Histories
"Muchos hombres opulentos son desdichados, y muchos que tienen hacienda moderada son dichosos."-Herodotus, The Histories
2. The Demolished Man
By: Alfred Bester
3.97
Format: 250 pages, Paperback
In a world in which the police have telepathic powers, how do you get away with murder? Ben Reic… read more
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"The mind is the reality. You are what you think."-Alfred Bester, The Demolished Man
"İnsana fazla güç verip bunları kullanmasına engel olan işlevini kaybetmiş kusurlarını ortadan kaldırmayan, aman bilmez evrim gücüne öfkelenmişti."-Alfred Bester, The Demolished Man
"It was not exasperation.... It was anger for the relentless force of evolution that insisted on endowing man with increased powers without removing the vestigial vices that prevented him from using t…"-Alfred Bester, The Demolished Man
"Here were the somatic messages that fed the cauldron; cell reactions by the incredible billion, organic cries, the muted drone of muscletone, sensory sub-currents, blood-flow, the wavering superheter…"-Alfred Bester, The Demolished Man
3. The Executioner's Song
By: Norman Mailer
4.06
Format: 1056 pages, Paperback
In what is arguably his greatest work, America's most heroically ambitious writer follows the short… read more
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- nonfiction
- classics
- history
4. The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
By: Raymond Chandler
3.95
Format: 231 pages, Paperback
When a dying millionaire hires Philip Marlowe to handle the blackmailer of one of his two troubleso… read more
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"Parecía más muerto que muchos cadáveres"-Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
"Dead men are heavier than broken hearts."-Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
"I was as empty of life as a scarecrow's pockets."-Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
"Just keep your nose clean and everything will be jake."-Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
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. The Caves of Steel (Robot, #1)
By: Isaac Asimov
4.19
Format: 206 pages, Mass Market Paperback
A millennium into the future two advancements have altered the course of human history: the coloni… read more
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"The troubles of modern life come from being divorced from nature."-Isaac Asimov, The Caves of Steel (Robot, #1)
"It symbolizes neither one nor the other, but a mixture of the two without priority"-Isaac Asimov, The Caves of Steel (Robot, #1)
"The first problem of living is to minimize friction with the crowds that surround you on all sides."-Isaac Asimov, The Caves of Steel (Robot, #1)
"Estamos constantemente al borde de lo incognoscible, e intentando entender lo que no puede ser entendido. Eso es lo que nos hambre hombres."-Isaac Asimov, The Caves of Steel (Robot, #1)
7. It Can't Happen Here
By: Sinclair Lewis , Christopher Hurt , Michael R. Meyer
3.78
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
The only one of Sinclair Lewis's later novels to match the power of Main Street, Babbitt, and Arrow… read more
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"NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged."-Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here
"So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting."-Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here
"Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on."-Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here
"It isn't what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class."-Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here
8. Mystic River
By: Dennis Lehane
4.17
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
When they were children, Sean Devine, Jimmy Marcus, and Dave Boyle were friends. But then a strange… read more
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"We all die alone...... I could have helped her with the dying."-Dennis Lehane, Mystic River
"She was his wife, mother, best friend, sister, lover, and priest."-Dennis Lehane, Mystic River
"Men. If you give them half a chance, they'll fuck you over just to prove they can."-Dennis Lehane, Mystic River
"I’m just saying there are threads, okay? Threads in our lives. You pull one, and everything else gets affected."-Dennis Lehane, Mystic River
9. The Rise and Fall of Athens
By: Plutarch , Ian Scott-Kilvert
3.75
Format: 320 pages,
Plutarch's Greek Livescan be seen as a summing up of the classical Greek age and its great writers.… read more
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10. The Twelve Caesars
By: Robert Graves , Michael Grant , Suetonius
4.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
As private secretary to the Emperor Hadrian, Suetonius gained access to the imperial archives and u… read more
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- history
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11. Walden
By: Henry David Thoreau
2.57
Format: 210 pages, Paperback
Walden, or, Life in the Woods, is an American book written by noted transcendentalist Henry David T… read more
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- nonfiction
12. The Persian Expedition
By: Xenophon , Rex Warner , None , George Cawkwell
4.18
Format: None pages,
In The Persian Expedition, Xenophon, a young Athenian noble who sought his destiny abroad, provides… read more
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13. King Lear
By: William Shakespeare , William James Rolfe
3.91
Format: 338 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Shakespeare’s King Lear challenges us with the magnitude, intensity, and sheer duration of the pain… read more
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"Fortune love you."-William Shakespeare, King Lear
"She is herself a dowry."-William Shakespeare, King Lear
"All dark and comfortless."-William Shakespeare, King Lear
"Nothing can come of nothing."-William Shakespeare, King Lear
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15. Little Dorrit
By: Charles Dickens , Helen Small , Stephen Wall
4.00
Format: 1021 pages, Paperback
A novel of serendipity, of fortunes won and lost, and of the spectre of imprisonment that hangs ove… read more
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"One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it’s left behind."-Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit
"We must have humbug, we all like humbug, we couldn't get on without humbug."-Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit
"[...] this particular, as in many others, blustering assertion goes for proof, half over the world."-Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit
"[Credit is a system whereby] a person who can't pay, gets another person who can't pay, to guarantee that he can pay."-Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit
16. The Naked Sun (Robot #2)
By: Isaac Asimov
3.69
Format: 88 pages, Mass Market Paperback
A millennium into the future, two advancements have altered the course of human history: the coloni… read more
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17. The Closing of the Western Mind: The Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reason
By: Charles Freeman
4.15
Format: 399 pages, Paperback
A radical and powerful reappraisal of the impact of Constantine's adoption of Christianity on the l… read more
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- history
18. The Hours
By: None , Michael Cunningham
4.16
Format: None pages, Paperback
Passionate, profound, and deeply moving, "The Hours" is the story of three women: Clarissa Vaughan,… read more
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19. Body and Soul
By: Frank Conroy
3.33
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
In the dim light of a basement apartment, six-year-old Claude Rawlings sits at an old white piano, … read more
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20. Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3)
By: Sophocles , J.E. Thomas
4.06
Format: None pages, Paperback
The curse placed on Oedipus lingers and haunts a younger generation in this new and brilliant trans… read more
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21. The Merchant of Venice
By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine , None
3.78
Format: 247 pages, Mass Market Paperback
In this lively comedy of love and money in sixteenth-century Venice, Bassanio wants to impress the … read more
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"He will fence with his own shadow."-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
"You speak an infinite deal of nothing."-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
"The fiend gives the more friendly counsel."-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
"i buy a thousand pound a year! i buy a rope!"-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
22. Selected Works
By: Marcus Tullius Cicero , Michael Grant
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
* Introduction by Michael Grant * Against Verres, I * twenty-three letters * The Second Philippic A… read more
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23. Plutarch's Lives, Vol 1
By: John Dryden , Plutarch , Arthur Hugh Clough , James Atlas
3.69
Format: 384 pages,
Plutarch s Lives, written at the beginning of the second century A.D., is a social history of the a… read more
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24. How to Listen to and Understand Great Music (Great Courses, #700)
By: Robert Greenberg
3.59
Format: None pages, Audio CD
Great music is a language unto its own, a means of communication of unmatched beauty and genius. An… read more
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25. Much Ado About Nothing
By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine , Gail Kern Paster , None
3.92
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
The action is set in Sicily, where Don Pedro, Prince of Aragon, has recently defeated his half-brot… read more
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26. The Innocence of Father Brown (Father Brown, #1)
By: G.K. Chesterton
0.00
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Chesterton portrays Father Brown as a short, stumpy Roman Catholic priest, with shapeless clothes a… read more
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27. Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
By: Erik Larson
3.84
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the enthrall… read more
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28. The Guns of August
By: Barbara W. Tuchman
4.18
Format: 658 pages, Kindle Edition
The Proud Tower, the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Guns of August, and The Zimmerman Telegram comprise… read more
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"Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general."-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August
"Now according to German logic, a declaration of war was found to be unnecessary because of imaginary bombings"-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August
"Human beings, like plans, prove fallible in the presence of those ingredients that are missing in maneuvers - danger, death, and live ammunition."-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August
"To think meant to give room for freedom of initiative, for the imponderable to win over the material, for will to demonstrate its power over circumstance."-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August
29. Close to Death (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #5)
By: Anthony Horowitz
4.18
Format: 419 pages, Hardcover
In New York Times–bestselling author Anthony Horowitz’s ingenious fifth literary whodunit in the Ha… read more
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30. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
By: Erik Larson
4.24
Format: 565 pages, Hardcover
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal fi… read more
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- history
"A house divided against itself cannot stand."-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"Lincoln on a sofa was like a ship's mast on a barstool, poised in an uneasy equilibrium between relaxation and structural collapse."-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"They were convinced that Britain, once confronted with the loss of Southern cotton, would ally itself with the Confederacy—the “cotton is king"-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"South Carolina is too small for a Republic, and too big for an insane asylum. [James L. Petigru (1789-1863), following the state's vote to secede from the Union in 1860]"-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
31. The Classical Greeks
By: Michael Grant
3.69
Format: 337 pages, Paperback
The Golden Age of ancient Greek city-state civilization lasted from 490 to 336 B.C., the period bet… read more
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