Pages From a Scullion's Diary
By: George Orwell
4.00
Format: 54 pages, Paperback
)EXTRACT FROM DOWN AND OUT IN PARIS)
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1. Village Christmas (Fairacre, #6)
By: Miss Read
4.19
Format: 46 pages, Hardcover
A family new to Fairacre is viewed with suspicion by its elderly neighbors, the Waters sisters, unt… read more
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2. The Wind in the Willows
By: Kenneth Grahame , Gillian Avery
4.02
Format: 197 pages, Paperback
“All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he… read more
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"...Absorbed in the new scents, the sounds, and the sunlight..."-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
"Badger hates Society, and invitations, and dinner, and all that sort of thing."-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
"There’s nothing––absolutely nothing––half so much worth doing as messing about in boats."-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
"After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working."-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
3. Lamb to the Slaughter and Other Stories
By: Roald Dahl
4.20
Format: 87 pages, Paperback
These five short stories offer a selection of Dahl's adult writing. Parson's Pleasure is a country … read more
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4. The Snatching of Bookie Bob and Other Stories
By: Damon Runyon
3.80
Format: 89 pages, Paperback
The Snatching of Bookie Bob - bk340; Penguin Books; Damon Runyon; pocket_book; 1995 read more
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5. The Night Before Christmas
By: Clement Clarke Moore , Jan Brett
4.39
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
This poem first appeared in a newspaper in Troy, New York, USA, on December 23, 1823, as "A Visit F… read more
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"Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse."-Clement Clarke Moore, The Night Before Christmas
"Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be t…"-Clement Clarke Moore, The Night Before Christmas
6. Scale
By: Will Self
3.95
Format: 768 pages,
'Some people lose their sense of proportion; I've lost my sense of scale.' The short story 'Scale' … read more
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7. A Taste of Life and Other Stories
By: Sara Paretsky
4.32
Format: 285 pages, Paperback
This is a collection of three short stories. The title story "A Taste of Life" tells the gruesome t… read more
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8. God's Dice
By: Martin Amis
2.57
Format: 210 pages, Paperback
Two sombre stories from "Einstein's Monsters". One is about a middle-aged Pole living in Ladbroke G… read more
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9. The Plague
By: Albert Camus , Stuart Gilbert
4.02
Format: 308 pages, Paperback
The Plague is a novel by Albert Camus, published in 1947. It tells the story from the point of … read more
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"Who taught you all this, doctor?" The reply came promptly: "Suffering."-Albert Camus, The Plague
"The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits."-Albert Camus, The Plague
"They knew now that if there is one thing one can always yearn for, and sometimes attain, it is human love."-Albert Camus, The Plague
"I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold."-Albert Camus, The Plague
10. If Beale Street Could Talk
By: James Baldwin
3.38
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this honest and stunning novel, James Baldwin has given America a moving story of love in the fa… read more
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11. The Lottery
By: Shirley Jackson
4.05
Format: 30 pages, Paperback
In a small American town, the local residents are abuzz with excitement and nervousness when they w… read more
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"It's not the way it used to be... people ain't the way they used to be."-Shirley Jackson, The Lottery
"It isn't fair, it isn't right," Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her."-Shirley Jackson, The Lottery
"The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green."-Shirley Jackson, The Lottery
12. Bartleby the Scrivener
By: Herman Melville
3.93
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Academics hail it as the beginning of modernism, but to readers around the world—even those daunted… read more
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"I would prefer not to."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
"To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
"Bartleby in a singularly mild, firm voice, replied, “I would prefer not to."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
"At present I would prefer not to be a little reasonable,' was his mildly cadaverous reply."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
13. The Train Was on Time
By: Heinrich Böll , Leila Vennewitz
3.88
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
Heinrich Boll's taut and haunting first novel tells the story of twenty-four-year-old Private Andre… read more
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14. 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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"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
15. On Anarchism
By: Noam Chomsky , Barry Pateman
4.42
Format: 718 pages, Paperback
We all know what Noam Chomsky is against. His scathing analysis of everything that's wrong with our… read more
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16. Silas Marner
By: George Eliot
3.68
Format: 262 pages, Paperback
Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe is the third novel by George Eliot, published in 1861. An outwa… read more
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"Love once, love always"-George Eliot, Silas Marner
"Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand."-George Eliot, Silas Marner
"Hurt, he'll never be hurt--he's made to hurt other people."-George Eliot, Silas Marner
"Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings."-George Eliot, Silas Marner
17. Julius Caesar
By: William Shakespeare , Roma Gill
3.70
Format: 175 pages, Paperback
The Oxford School Shakespeare has become the preferred introduction to the literary legacy of the g… read more
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"Et tu, Brute?"-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
"Beware the ides of March."-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
"Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!"-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
"Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come"-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
18. Coming of Age
By: Dirk Bogarde
4.15
Format: None pages, Paperback
Based on personal letters, notebooks and diaries, 'Blackcloth' explores the patterns of happiness a… read more
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19. Matilda's England
By: William Trevor
3.70
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
These three short stories add up to a whole. Set before, during and after World War II, they form a… read more
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20. Meditations
By: Marcus Aurelius , Martin Hammond , Diskin Clay
3.75
Format: 148 pages,
Written in Greek, without any intention of publication, by the only Roman emperor who was also a ph… read more
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23. Goldfish
By: Raymond Chandler
3.53
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Leander pearls were stolen nineteen years ago. The thief was caught, but the pearls were never … read more
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24. The Portobello Road and Other Stories
By: Muriel Spark
3.58
Format: 376 pages,
Four stories that illustrate Muriel Spark's unique wit and wisdom: 'The Portobello Road', 'Bang-ban… read more
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25. Dubliners
By: James Joyce , Jeri Johnson
3.44
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
This work of art reflects life in Ireland at the turn of the last century, and by rejecting euphemi… read more
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26. Moby-Dick or, The Whale
By: Herman Melville , Tom Quirk , Andrew Delbanco
3.55
Format: 720 pages, Paperback
"It is the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships' cables and hawsers. A Polar … read more
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"Call me Ishmael."-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
"Ignorance is the parent of fear"-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
"Ignorance is the parent of fear."-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
"Speak, thou vast and venerable head,"-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
27. Rumpole and the younger generation
By: John Mortimer
4.06
Format: 55 pages, Paperback
The first-ever Rumpole story, introducing many of the characters and setting the scene for the whol… read more
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28. Sex and Violence, or Nature and Art
By: Camille Paglia
3.80
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
Camille Paglia is Professor of Humanities at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. With her b… read more
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"Male urination is a form of commentary."-Camille Paglia, Sex and Violence, or Nature and Art
29. Pages From a Scullion's Diary
By: George Orwell
4.00
Format: 54 pages, Paperback
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30. Friends from Philadelphia and Other Stories
By: John Updike
3.31
Format: 85 pages, Paperback
These John Updike short stories include "Friends from Philadelphia", "Sunday Teasing", "The Persist… read more
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