Aurora Leigh and Other Poems
By: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
3.74
Format: 544 pages, Paperback
Aurora Leigh (1856), Elizabeth Barrett Browning's epic novel in blank verse, tells the story of the…
Want to Read $ 12.49"O Life, How oft we throw it off and think, — 'Enough, Enough of life in so much! — here's a cause For rupture; — herein we must break with Life, Or be ourselves unworthy; here we are wronged, Maimed, spoiled for aspiration: farewell Life!' — And so, as froward babes, we hide our eyes And think all ended. — Then, Life calls to us In some transformed, apocryphal, new voice, Above us, or below us, or around . . Perhaps we name it Nature's voice, or Love's, Tricking ourselves, because we are more ashamed To own our compensations than our griefs: Still, Life's voice! — still, we make our peace with Life."-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh and Other Poems
"O Life, How oft we throw it off and think, — 'Enough, Enough of life in so much! — here's a cause For rupture; — herein we must break with Life, Or be ourselves unworthy; here we are wronged, Maimed, spoiled for aspiration: farewell Life!' — And so, as froward babes, we hide our eyes And think all ended. — Then, Life calls to us In some transformed, apocryphal, new voice, Above us, or below us, or around . . Perhaps we name it Nature's voice, or Love's, Tricking ourselves, because we are more ashamed To own our compensations than our griefs: Still, Life's voice! — still, we make our peace with Life."-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh and Other Poems
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1. Gooseberries and other stories
By: Anton Chekhov , Constance Garnett
3.76
Format: None pages, ebook
"Oh, good God," he kept saying with great relish. "Good God..." 'Gooseberries' is accompanied h… read more
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- 19th century
- fiction
- classics
- school
"The Lie which elates us is dearer than a thousand sober truths"-Anton Chekhov, Gooseberries and other stories
"The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths."-Anton Chekhov, Gooseberries and other stories
"Человеку нужно не три аршина земли, не усадьба, а весь земной шар, вся природа, где на просторе он мог бы проявить все свойства и особенности своего свободного духа."-Anton Chekhov, Gooseberries and other stories
"Happiness does not exist, nor should it, and if there is any meaning or purpose in life, they are not in our peddling little happiness, but in something reasonable and grand. Do good!"-Anton Chekhov, Gooseberries and other stories
2. A Rose for Emily
By: William Faulkner
3.83
Format: 36 pages, Paperback
Emily is a member of a family in the antebellum Southern aristocracy; after the Civil War, the fami… read more
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- fiction
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"So the next day we all said, “She will kill herself"-William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily
"She died in one of the downstairs rooms, in a heavy walnut bed with a curtain, her gray head propped on a pillow yellow and moldy with age and lack of sunlight."-William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily
"When the Negro opened the blinds of one window, they could see that the leather was cracked; and when they sat down, a faint dust rose sluggishly about their thighs, spinning with slow motes in the s…"-William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily
"We did not say she was crazy then. We believed she had to do that. We remembered all the young men her father had driven away, and we knew that with nothing left, she would have to cling to that whic…"-William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily
3. Our Mutual Friend
By: Charles Dickens
4.09
Format: 801 pages, Paperback
A satiric masterpiece about the allure and peril of money, Our Mutual Friend revolves around the in… read more
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- classics
- british literature
- 19th century
- victorian
- fiction
"I really am a little afraid, my dear,"-Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend
"Eugene, Eugene, Eugene, this is a bad business!"-Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend
"Ah me!" said he, "what might have been is not what is!"-Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend
"Demon—with the highest respect for you—behold your work!"-Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend
4. Orientalism
By: None , Edward W. Said
4.12
Format: 424 pages, Paperback
More than three decades after its first publication, Edward Said's groundbreaking critique of the W… read more
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- classics
"Toda época y toda sociedad recrea sus «otros»."-None, Orientalism
"الإستشرق في جوهره مذهب سياسي فُرِضَ فَرْضاً على الشرق لأن الشرق كان أضعف من الغرب، وإنه تجاهل اختلاف الشرق الراجع إلى ضعفه."-None, Orientalism
"It seems a common human failing to prefer the schematic authority of a text to the disorientations of direct encounters with the human."-None, Orientalism
"إن مناقشات الشرق كانت تتسم بالغياب الكامل للشرق، لكن المرء يحس بأن المستشرق ومايقوله حاضران، ومع ذلك فيجب ألا ننسى أن الذي يمكِّن المستشرق من الحضور هو الغياب الفعلي للشرق."-None, Orientalism
5. Jacob's Room
By: Virginia Woolf
3.53
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Virginia Woolf's first original and distinguished work, Jacob's Room is the story of a sensitive yo… read more
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- classics
- fiction
- british literature
"One must love everything."-Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room
"Marvelous are the innocent. "-Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room
"But language is wine upon his lips"-Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room
"It is no use trying to sum people up."-Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room
6. Lysistrata
By: Aristophanes , Sarah Ruden
3.87
Format: 132 pages, Paperback
Aristophanes' comic masterpiece of war and sex remains one of the greatest plays ever written. Led … read more
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- fiction
- classics
- school
"Sənət çörək arxasınca qaçarsa, alçalar"-Aristophanes, Lysistrata
"Lysistrata: To seize the treasury; no more money, no more war."-Aristophanes, Lysistrata
"Queste donne micidiali, non si può vivere nè con loro nè senza di loro."-Aristophanes, Lysistrata
"Chorus of old men: How true the saying: 'Tis impossible to live with the baggages, impossible to live without 'em."-Aristophanes, Lysistrata
7. Goblin Market
By: Joyce Carol Oates , William Morris , Laurence Housman , Christina Rossetti , Dante Gabriel Rossetti
3.82
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
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- poetry
- classics
- 19th century
- victorian
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8. Poems and Ballads Atalanta in Calydon
By: Algernon Charles Swinburne , Kenneth Haynes
4.53
Format: 302 pages, Paperback
This volume brings together Swinburne's major poetic works, ATALANTA IN CALYDON (1865) and POEMS AN… read more
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- classics
- british literature
- 19th century
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9. Paris Spleen
By: Charles Baudelaire , Louise Varèse
3.89
Format: 221 pages, Paperback
Set in a modern, urban Paris, the prose pieces in this volume constitute a further exploration of t… read more
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- 19th century
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10. Selected Poems
By: William Blake , Thomas Crofts , David V. Erdman , None , None
4.05
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
An alternate cover edition of this ISBN can be found . Features 104 of Blake's poems: "A Song of L… read more
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- poetry
- classics
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- british literature
11. Villette
By: Charlotte Brontë , A.S. Byatt , Μαρία Λαϊνά , Ignes Sodre
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Villette! Villette! Have you read it?" exclaimed George Eliot when Charlotte Bronte's final novel … read more
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- romance
- classics
- 19th century
- victorian
- fiction
12. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
By: Anne Brontë , Stevie Davies
3.52
Format: None pages, Paperback
Note: Editions of The Tenant that start with: "You must go back with me..." are incomplete. Actual … read more
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- 19th century
13. 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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- classics
- school
- british literature
- 19th century
- victorian
- fiction
"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
14. Selected Poems
By: John Clare , Geoffrey Summerfield
4.20
Format: 406 pages, Paperback
Clare's highly personal evocations of landscape and place are some of the most poignant lyrics in E… read more
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- 19th century
- poetry
- classics
- british literature
15. Selected Poems
By: Robert Browning , Daniel Karlin
3.43
Format: 42 pages, Paperback
Robert Browning was one of the greatest of English poets, whose intense and original imagination en… read more
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16. The Bostonians
By: Henry James
4.32
Format: 318 pages, Paperback
This brilliant satire of the women's rights movement in America is the story of the ravishing inspi… read more
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17. In Memoriam
By: Alfred Tennyson
4.07
Format: None pages,
In Memoriam is Tennyson's tribute to his friend Arthur Henry Hallam who died at the age of 22, writ… read more
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18. Lyrical Ballads
By: William Wordsworth , Samuel Taylor Coleridge , None
4.08
Format: None pages, Paperback
The majority of the following poems are to be considered as experiments. They were written chiefly … read more
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19. Songs of Innocence and of Experience
By: William Blake
4.09
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
Songs of Innocence and of Experience is an collection of poems by William Blake. Note: For a com… read more
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- poetry
- classics
- school
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- fiction
"Cruelty has a human heart, And Jealousy a human face;"-William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience
"Then cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door."-William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience
"And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires."-William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience
"Can I see anothers woe, And not be in sorrow too. Can I see anothers grief, And not seek for kind relief. - On Anothers Sorrow "-William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience
20. All Passion Spent
By: Vita Sackville-West , Victoria Glendinning
3.76
Format: 180 pages, Paperback
In 1860, as a young girl of 17, Lady Slane nurtures a secret, burning ambition--to become an artist… read more
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21. Washington Square
By: Henry James , Michael Cunningham
3.89
Format: 440 pages, Paperback
The plot of Washington Squarehas the simplicity of old-fashioned melodrama: a plain-looking, good-h… read more
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22. L'Argent
By: Émile Zola
4.11
Format: 70 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Dix-huitieme volume des Rougon-Macquart, L'Argentest le premier grand western financier des temps m… read more
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23. Cry, the Beloved Country
By: Alan Paton
3.71
Format: 435 pages, Hardcover
Cry, the Beloved Country, the most famous and important novel in South Africa's history, was an imm… read more
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24. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
By: Harriet Ann Jacobs
3.85
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
The true story of an individual's struggle for self-identity, self-preservation, and freedom, Incid… read more
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25. The Complete Poems
By: Emily Brontë , Irene Taylor , None
3.62
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In 1846 a small book entitled Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell appeared on the British litera… read more
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26. Salomé
By: Oscar Wilde , Aubrey Beardsley , Robert Baldwin Ross , Alfred Bruce Douglas
4.10
Format: 338 pages, Paperback
Outraged by the sexual perversity of this one-act tragedy, Great Britain's Lord Chamberlain banned … read more
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27. And Still I Rise
By: Maya Angelou
4.16
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this inspiring poem, Maya Angelou celebrates the courage of the human spirit over the harshest o… read more
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28. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
By: William Blake
3.72
Format: 294 pages, Paperback
Once regarded as a brilliant eccentric whose works skirted the outer fringes of English art and lit… read more
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29. The Mists of Avalon (Avalon, #1)
By: Marion Zimmer Bradley
4.13
Format: 1009 pages, Kindle Edition
Here is the magical legend of King Arthur, vividly retold through the eyes and lives of the women w… read more
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- romance
- classics
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"All gods are one god."-Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon (Avalon, #1)
"Love is the only prayer I know."-Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon (Avalon, #1)
"They have not forgotten the Mysteries,"-Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon (Avalon, #1)
"And as men believe, so their world goes." - Merlin"-Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon (Avalon, #1)
30. Japanese Ghost Stories
By: Lafcadio Hearn
3.70
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
In this collection of classic ghost stories from Japan, beautiful princesses turn out to be frogs, … read more
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- fiction
"Whoever pretends not to believe in ghosts of any sort, lies to his own heart. Every man is haunted by ghosts... thought most of us (poets excepted) are unwilling to confess the acquaintance."-Lafcadio Hearn, Japanese Ghost Stories
31. Aurora Leigh and Other Poems
By: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
3.74
Format: 544 pages, Paperback
Aurora Leigh (1856), Elizabeth Barrett Browning's epic novel in blank verse, tells the story of the… read more
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- 19th century
- victorian
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"O Life, How oft we throw it off and think, — 'Enough, Enough of life in so much! — here's a cause For rupture; — herein we must break with Life, Or be ourselves unworthy; here we are wronged, Maimed,…"-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh and Other Poems
