Eine Strumpfbandnatter
By: Donna Tartt
3.96
Format: None pages, Audio CD
A short story first appearing in GQ Magazine, May 1995.
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1. The Masque of the Red Death
By: Edgar Allan Poe
4.06
Format: 9 pages, Paperback
The story follows Prince Prospero's attempts to avoid a dangerous plague known as the Red Death by … read more
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"Existem cordas, nos corações dos mais indiferentes, que não podem ser tocadas sem emoção."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death
"Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death
"There was much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death
"And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death
2. Confessions of an English Opium Eater
By: Thomas de Quincey , Barry Milligan
4.00
Format: 50 pages, Paperback
A masterpiece of autobiography, and perhaps the first literary memoir of an addict, the Penguin Cla… read more
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3. The Feminine Mystique
By: Anna Quindlen , Betty Friedan , Gail Collins
3.10
Format: 271 pages, Paperback
Landmark, groundbreaking, classic--these adjectives barely do justice to the pioneering vision and … read more
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4. The Myth of Sisyphus
By: Albert Camus , Justin O'Brien , James Wood , Justin Obrien
4.18
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselv… read more
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"A fate is not a punishment."-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
"there are truths but no truth"-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
"To will is to stir up paradoxes"-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
"Le suicide est une solution à l'absurde."-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
5. American Psycho
By: Bret Easton Ellis
4.16
Format: 76 pages, Paperback
Patrick Bateman is twenty-six and he works on Wall Street, he is handsome, sophisticated, charming … read more
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- fiction
6. The Island of the Fay
By: Edgar Allan Poe
3.84
Format: 352 pages,
Edgar Allan Poe's short story about an unnamed narrator who wanders in solitude and comes across an… read more
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- fiction
7. 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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- fiction
8. The Malady of Death
By: Marguerite Duras , Barbara Bray
4.25
Format: 159 pages, Paperback
A man hires a woman to spend several weeks with him by the sea. The woman is no one in particular, … read more
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9. Beowulf
By: Unknown , Seamus Heaney
3.49
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures… read more
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"Fate will unwind as it must!"-Unknown, Beowulf
"Fate goes ever as fate must."-Unknown, Beowulf
"Let whoever can win glory before death."-Unknown, Beowulf
"We all know a boy can't daddy until his daddy's dead."-Unknown, Beowulf
10. Der Sandmann
By: E.T.A. Hoffmann
4.10
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
Unter Hoffmanns Werken hat Der Sandmann das weitaus grosste Interesse gefunden. Sein Grundproblem i… read more
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11. Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops
By: Jen Campbell
3.60
Format: 212 pages, Hardcover
This Sunday Times bestseller is a miscellany of hilarious and peculiar bookshop moments: 'Can books… read more
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12. The Birds
By: Daphne du Maurier
3.89
Format: 75 pages, Paperback
"The birds kept coming at him from the air, silent save for the beating wings. The terrible, flutte… read more
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- fiction
13. Harry Potter: The Prequel (Harry Potter, #0.5)
By: J.K. Rowling
4.21
Format: None pages, ebook
The Harry Potter Prequel is an 800-word story written by J. K. Rowling, and was published online on… read more
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14. The Lottery and Other Stories
By: Shirley Jackson
4.32
Format: 480 pages,
The Lottery, one of the most terrifying stories written in this century, created a sensation when i… read more
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15. The Cask of Amontillado
By: Edgar Allan Poe
4.08
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
"The Cask of Amontillado" (sometimes spelled "The Casque ..") is a short story written by Edgar All… read more
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"For the love of God, Montresor!"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado
"He did not perceive that my smile now was at the thought of his immolation."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado
"The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado
"The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could; but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado
16. The Summer Hikaru Died, Vol. 1
By: Mokumokuren
4.33
Format: 180 pages, Paperback
It has Hikaru’s face. It has Hikaru’s voice. It even has Hikaru’s memories. But whatever came down … read more
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17. Study for Obedience
By: Sarah Bernstein
3.05
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A haunting, compressed masterwork from an extraordinary new voice in Canadian fiction. A young w… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
"I try always to be good."-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
"How, I wondered, might a person, a people, take root, roots and rootlessness, the preservation of what little remains of the past, such were thoughts that blew through me on any given morning, standi…"-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
"In taking a side, I thought uneasily, perhaps I ought to take the long view, the survival of the species as a whole. That was my problem, I thought, I was always thinking at the level of the individu…"-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
"I had hoped that here in the country I would experience the turn of the seasons differently, with less apprehension, I might come to see the form and plan of the world. Not to frame it within systems…"-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
18. The White Book
By: Han Kang
3.81
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Shortlisted for the 2018 Man Booker International Prize From Booker Prize-winner and literary p… read more
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"Now and then, the passage of time seems acutely apparent. Physical pain always sharpens the awareness."-Han Kang, The White Book
"This life needed only one of us to live it. If you had lived beyond those first few hours, I would not be living now. My life means yours is impossible."-Han Kang, The White Book
"And she frequently forgot, That her body (all our bodies) is a house of sand. That it shattered and is shattering still. Slipping stubbornly through fingers."-Han Kang, The White Book
"There is none of us whom life regards with any partiality. Sleet falls as she walks these streets, holding this knowledge inside her. Sleet that leaves cheeks and eyebrows heavy with moisture. Everyt…"-Han Kang, The White Book
19. Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom
By: Sylvia Plath
3.98
Format: 40 pages, Paperback
Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at… read more
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"«Pero ¿qué es el noveno reino?», le pregunta a una mujer de ojos azules y piel arrugada. «Es el reino de la negación, de la voluntad congelada -responde-. No hay retorno posible.»"-Sylvia Plath, Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom
20. The Missing Girl
By: Shirley Jackson
3.55
Format: 55 pages, Paperback
' "Of course, no one would want to say anything about a girl like this that's missing..." ' Mali… read more
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21. Eine Strumpfbandnatter
By: Donna Tartt
3.96
Format: None pages, Audio CD
A short story first appearing in GQ Magazine, May 1995. read more
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