I Came a Stranger: The Story of a Hull-House Girl (Women in American History)
By: Hilda Polacheck
3.88
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Hilda Satt Polacheck's family emigrated from Poland to Chicago in 1892, bringing their old-world Je…
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1. The Phantom of the Opera
By: Gaston Leroux , Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
3.96
Format: 360 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published in French as a serial in 1909, The Phantom of the Opera is a riveting story that re… read more
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"He laid at my feet his immense, tragic love."-Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera
"All I wanted was to be loved for myself." (Erik)"-Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera
"My lies were as hideous as the monster that had inspired them"-Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera
"I sing only for you! Tonight I gave you my soul, and I'm dead!"-Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera
2. The Bluest Eye
By: Toni Morrison
4.12
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
The Bluest Eye is Toni Morrison's first novel, a book heralded for its richness of language and bol… read more
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"Lonely was much better than alone."-Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
"Maybe that was love. Choking sounds and silence."-Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
"She missed -- without knowing what she missed-- paints and crayons"-Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
"Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do."-Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
3. 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
4. The Importance of Being Earnest
By: Oscar Wilde
2.50
Format: None pages,
Oscar Wilde's madcap farce about mistaken identities, secret engagements, and lovers entanglements … read more
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5. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
By: Frederick Douglass
4.11
Format: 158 pages, Paperback
Born a slave circa 1818 (slaves weren't told when they were born) on a plantation in Maryland, Doug… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
- memoir
"For my part, I should prefer death to hopeless bondage."-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
"You will be free as soon as you are twenty-one, but I am a slave for life! Have not I as good a right to be free as you have?"-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
"I say , this picture sometimes appalled us, and made us rather bear those ills we had. Than fly to others, that we knew not of."-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
"They attend with Pharisaical strictness to the outward forms of religion, and at the same time neglect the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith."-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
6. Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England
By: William Cronon , John Putnam Demos , Tere LoPrete
3.66
Format: 296 pages,
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- history
- nonfiction
7. Don Quixote
By: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra , Roberto González Echevarría , John Rutherford
3.66
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading chivalric romances, that he determines to become a k… read more
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8. 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
9. David Copperfield
By: Charles Dickens , Jeremy Tambling
4.03
Format: 882 pages, Paperback
David Copperfield is the story of a young man's adventures on his journey from an unhappy and impov… read more
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"Trifles make the sum of life. "-Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
"the sight of me is good for sore eyes"-Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
"Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him."-Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
"My advice is, never do to-morrow what you can do to-day"-Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
10. Ethan Frome
By: Edith Wharton
2.00
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Ethan Frome works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a bearable existence with his dif… read more
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11. The Tell-Tale Heart
By: Edgar Allan Poe , Byron Glaser , None
4.24
Format: 31 pages, Library Binding
A man confronts himself and an unknown listener with his desire to murder an old man. In this cl… read more
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"would a madman have been so wise as this?"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart
"And have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the sense?"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart
"If you still think me mad, you will think so no longer when I describe the wise precautions I took for the concealment of the body."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart
"Basta ya de fingir, malvados! -aullé-. ¡Confieso que lo maté! ¡Levanten esos tablones! ¡Ahí… ahí! ¡Donde está latiendo su horrible corazón!"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart
12. Coming of Age in Mississippi: The Classic Autobiography of a Young Black Girl in the Rural South
By: Anne Moody
4.11
Format: 188 pages, Paperback
Born to a poor couple who were tenant farmers on a plantation in Mississippi, Anne Moody lived thro… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
- memoir
13. Hamlet
By: William Shakespeare , Richard Andrews , Rex Gibson
4.02
Format: 289 pages, Paperback
Among Shakespeare's plays, "Hamlet" is considered by many his masterpiece. Among actors, the role o… read more
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"Therein lies the rub."-William Shakespeare, Hamlet
"Brevity is the soul of wit."-William Shakespeare, Hamlet
"Conscience doth make cowards of us all."-William Shakespeare, Hamlet
"A knavish speech sleeps in a fool's ear."-William Shakespeare, Hamlet
14. 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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15. 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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16. The Taming of the Shrew
By: William Shakespeare
3.78
Format: 438 pages,
Renowned as Shakespeare's most boisterous comedy, The Taming of the Shrew is the tale of two young … read more
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17. The Crucible
By: Arthur Miller , Christopher Bigsby
3.60
Format: 137 pages, Paperback
"I believe that the reader will discover here the essential nature of one of the strangest and most… read more
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18. The Wedding Date
By: Jasmine Guillory
3.70
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
A groomsman and his last-minute guest are about to discover if a fake date can go the distance in a… read more
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19. The Gift of the Magi
By: O. Henry , Lisbeth Zwerger
4.11
Format: 26 pages, Hardcover
O. Henry's classic tale of the wisest gifts of Christmas is itself a gift to share and treasure. … read more
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"Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating."-O. Henry, The Gift of the Magi
"There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl."-O. Henry, The Gift of the Magi
"There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl. So Della did it. Which instigates the moral reflection that life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with snif…"-O. Henry, The Gift of the Magi
"Единственное, что тут можно было сделать, это хлопнуться на старенькую кушетку и зареветь. Именно так Делла и поступила. Откуда напрашивается философский вывод, что жизнь состоит из слез, вздохов и у…"-O. Henry, The Gift of the Magi
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21. Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
By: Patrick Radden Keefe
4.46
Format: 441 pages, Hardcover
In December 1972, Jean McConville, a thirty-eight-year-old mother of ten, was dragged from her Belf… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"Like the revolution's going to wait until I finish my education."-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
"Who should be held accountable for a shared history of violence? It was a question that was dogging Northern Ireland as a whole."-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
"There was a discomfiting sense in Belfast that there was no place where you were truly secure: you would run inside to get away from a gun battle, only to run outside again for fear of a bomb."-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
"His job, he felt, was to speak for the victims - to represent the next person who might be killed in the conflict. He had no particular party; his only allegiance was to those who had been (and would…"-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
22. I Came a Stranger: The Story of a Hull-House Girl (Women in American History)
By: Hilda Polacheck
3.88
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Hilda Satt Polacheck's family emigrated from Poland to Chicago in 1892, bringing their old-world Je… read more
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- biography
- nonfiction
- memoir
