Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works
By: Kālidāsa
3.57
Format: 247 pages, Paperback
Work based around Hindu mythology and philosophy from the famous Sanskrit poet and dramatist also k…
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1. The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)
By: Arthur Machen
3.69
Format: 82 pages, Paperback
"I will not read it; I should never sleep again" A doctor performs an experiment on a young wom… read more
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"There was something about Herbert which shocked him inexpressibly; not his poor rags nor the marks which poverty had set upon his face, but rather a indefinite terror which hung about him like a mist."-Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)
"Villiers, that woman, if I can call her a woman, corrupted my soul. The night of the wedding I found myself sitting in her bedroom in the hotel, listening to her talk. She was sitting up in bed, and …"-Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)
"Clarke, in the deep folds of dream, was conscious that the path from his father’s house had led him into an undiscovered country, and he was wondering at the strangeness of it all, when suddenly, in …"-Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)
"We know what happened to those who chanced to meet the Great God Pan, and those who are wise know that all symbols are symbols of something, not of nothing. It was, indeed, an exquisite symbol beneat…"-Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)
2. A Midsummer Night’s Dream
By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine , Catherine Belsey
3.95
Format: 298 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Shakespeare's intertwined love polygons begin to get complicated from the start--Demetrius and Lysa… read more
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"My soul is in the sky."-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
"Farewell, sweet playfellow."-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
"Lord, what fools these mortals be!"-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
"How now, spirit! Whither wander you?"-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
3. Goblin Market
By: Joyce Carol Oates , William Morris , Laurence Housman , Christina Rossetti , Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
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4. Dead Souls
By: Nikolai Gogol , Robert A. Maguire
3.98
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in a provincial town and visits a succession of landowner… read more
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"Keep not money, but keep good people's company."-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls
"Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young."-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls
"A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe."-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls
"A Russian peasant scratching the back of his head means many different things."-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls
5. Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
By: Sophocles , J.E. Thomas , Elizabeth Osborne
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
"...what man wins more happiness than just its shape and the ruin when that shape collapses?" Sopho… read more
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6. Electra
By: Sophocles , J. Michael Walton , None
4.33
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
The Drama Classic edition of Sophocles' version of the Electra myth. read more
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7. The Castle
By: Franz Kafka , Mark Harman , Regaip Minareci , None
3.90
Format: 49 pages, Paperback
Translated and with a preface by Mark Harman Left unfinished by Kafka in 1922 and not published unt… read more
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8. The Complete Essays
By: Michel de Montaigne , M.A. Screech
4.23
Format: 1344 pages, Paperback
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"The thing I fear most is fear."-Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
"We should tend our freedom wisely."-Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
"Why do people respect the package rather than the man?"-Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
"To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it."-Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
9. Venus in Furs
By: Leopold von Sacher-Masoch , Joachim Neugroschel , Larry Wolff
3.59
Format: 370 pages, Paperback
'Venus in Furs' describes the obsessions of Severin von Kusiemski, a European nobleman who desires … read more
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10. The Canterbury Tales
By: Geoffrey Chaucer , Nevill Coghill
3.72
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
The procession that crosses Chaucer's pages is as full of life and as richly textured as a medieval… read more
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11. The Epic of Gilgamesh
By: Anonymous , N.K. Sandars
3.74
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
Miraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as much as four thousand years, the poem of Gilg… read more
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"As for man, his days are numbered, whatever he might do, it is but wind."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"Now let the gate of sorrow be closed behind me, and let it be sealed with tar and pitch."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"Gilgamesh was called a god and a man; Enkidu was an animal and a man. It is the story of their becoming human together."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"When all the illusions of personal immortality are stripped away, there is only the act to maintain the freedom to act."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
12. Complete Works
By: Arthur Rimbaud , Paul Schmidt
3.49
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
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13. The Aeneid
By: Virgil , Robert Fitzgerald
4.50
Format: 228 pages, Paperback
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14. A Doll's House
By: Henrik Ibsen , Michael Meyer
3.76
Format: 122 pages, Paperback
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"Laughter's all the damned thing's fit for."-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House
"I must make up my mind which is right – society or I."-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House
"لن تفقدوني طويلاً، فالراحلون سرعان ما ينطوون في زوايا النسيان."-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House
"أنا ارى الناس صنفين .. صنف تعشقه المرأة، وصنف تحب أن تتجاذب معه أطراف الحديث."-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House
15. The Mill on the Floss
By: George Eliot , A.S. Byatt
3.83
Format: 579 pages, Paperback
'If life had no love in it, what else was there for Maggie?' Brought up at Dorlcote Mill, Maggie… read more
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"Don't judge a book by its cover"-George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
"Don't judge a book by its cover."-George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
"Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure."-George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
"I desire no future that will break the ties of the past."-George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
16. Leaves of Grass
By: Walt Whitman
3.50
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
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17. Journey to the End of the Night
By: Louis-Ferdinand Céline , Ralph Manheim , William T. Vollmann
4.19
Format: 453 pages, Paperback
Louis-Ferdinand Celine's revulsion and anger at what he considered the idiocy and hypocrisy of soci… read more
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"If you aren't rich you should always look useful."-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night
"When you write, you should put your skin on the table."-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night
"Sonuçta savaş dediğiniz şey, anlamadığınız ne varsa odur"-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night
"Nearly all a poor bastard's desires are punishable by jail."-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night
18. Ficciones
By: Jorge Luis Borges , Anthony Bonner , Anthony Kerrigan
3.53
Format: 320 pages,
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19. Sentimental Education
By: Gustave Flaubert , Geoffrey Wall , Robert Baldick
3.81
Format: 460 pages, Paperback
Based on Flaubert’s own youthful passion for an older woman, Sentimental Education was described by… read more
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"Cheer up,' said the captain's son. 'Life is long, and we are young."-Gustave Flaubert, Sentimental Education
"A man so habituated to corruption that he would happily pay for the pleasure of selling himself."-Gustave Flaubert, Sentimental Education
"...I'm going to write a little novel entitled 'The History of the Idea of Justice' and won't it be funny!"-Gustave Flaubert, Sentimental Education
"It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find."-Gustave Flaubert, Sentimental Education
20. Nervous Conditions
By: Tsitsi Dangarembga
4.54
Format: 253 pages,
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21. Othello
By: William Shakespeare
4.48
Format: None pages,
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22. Great Expectations
By: Charles Dickens
3.79
Format: 544 pages, Paperback
Great Expectations charts the progress of Pip from childhood through often painful experiences to a… read more
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"We need never be ashamed of our tears."-Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
"You are in every line I have ever read."-Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
"It is the most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home."-Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
"Take the pencil and write under my name, 'I forgive her."-Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
23. Middlemarch
By: Michel Faber , George Eliot
4.02
Format: 912 pages, Mass Market Paperback
"People are almost always better than their neighbours think they are" George Eliot’s most ambit… read more
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"After all, the true seeing is within."-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
"I shall do everything it becomes me to do."-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
"I protest against any absolute conclusion."-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
"What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?"-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
24. Dubliners
By: James Joyce , Jeri Johnson
3.44
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
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25. Medea
By: Euripides , Rex Warner
3.42
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
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26. The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
By: Peter Frankopan
3.77
Format: None pages,
From the rise and fall of empires in China, Persia, and Rome itself to the spread of Buddhism and a… read more
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27. The Complete Stories and Poems
By: Edgar Allan Poe
3.72
Format: 294 pages,
The life of American writer Edgar Allan Poe was characterized by a dramatic series of successes and… read more
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28. Pride and Prejudice and Pittsburgh
By: Rachael Lippincott
3.98
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
What if you found a once-in-a-lifetime love…just not in your lifetime? Audrey Cameron has lost h… read more
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29. Comme tu me veux
By: Luigi Pirandello
3.81
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Comme tu me veux SOLITAIRES INT read more
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30. The Complete Tales of Nikolai Gogol (Volume 1)
By: Nikolai Gogol
4.30
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Nikolai Gogol was an artist who, like Rabelais, Cervantes, Swift, and Sterne, "knew how to walk ups… read more
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31. Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works
By: Kālidāsa
3.57
Format: 247 pages, Paperback
Work based around Hindu mythology and philosophy from the famous Sanskrit poet and dramatist also k… read more
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