The Nightingale and the Rose & The Sphinx Without a Secret
By: Oscar Wilde
3.84
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
In the melancholy story The Nightingale and the Rose, Oscar Wilde turns to the superficiality of so…
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1. Bliss
By: Katherine Mansfield
3.72
Format: 70 pages, Mass Market Paperback
But in her bosom there was still that bright glowing place—that shower of little sparks coming from… read more
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- short stories
- classics
- fiction
"But the pear tree was as lovely as ever and as full of flower and as still."-Katherine Mansfield, Bliss
"¿Es que no puede haber una forma de manifestarlo sin parecer “beodo o trastornado"-Katherine Mansfield, Bliss
"I am so glad you like them', said he, staring at his feet. 'They seem to have got so much whiter since the moon rose.' And he turned his lean sorrowful long face to Bertha. 'There is a moon, you know…"-Katherine Mansfield, Bliss
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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- classics
- fiction
"...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. White Nights
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky
4.06
Format: 82 pages, Paperback
White Nights is a short story by Fyodor Dostoevsky that was published in 1848. Set in St. Petersbur… read more
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- short stories
- classics
- fiction
"E ti chiedi: “Dove sono i tuoi sogni?"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights
"Oh, how unbearable is a happy person sometimes!"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights
"Kalbim içimde konuşurken ben susmayı beceremem."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights
"But how could you live and have no story to tell?"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights
4. Things I Don't Want to Know
By: Deborah Levy
4.09
Format: 109 pages, Hardcover
'Perhaps when Orwell described sheer egoism as a necessary quality for a writer, he was not thinkin… read more
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"Now that we were mothers we were all shadows of our former selves, chased by the women we used to be before we had children."-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know
"When happiness is happening it feels as if nothing else happened before it, it is a sensation that happens only in the present tense."-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know
"The fact that lipstick and mascara and eye shadow were called 'Make Up' thrilled me. Everywhere in the world there were made up people and most of them were women."-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know
"To become a WRITER I had to learn to INTERRUPT, to speak up, to speak a little louder, and then LOUDER, and then to just speak in my own voice which is NOT LOUD AT ALL."-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know
5. Notting Hill
By: Richard Curtis , None , Hugh Grant , Trevor Flynn
3.37
Format: 320 pages,
Who hasn't ever dreamed of meeting a movie star, falling in love, and discovering the feelings are … read more
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- classics
- fiction
6. Letters to a Young Poet
By: Rainer Maria Rilke , Franz Xaver Kappus , Reginald Snell
4.29
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
In 1903, a student at a military academy sent some of his verses to a well-known Austrian poet, req… read more
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- classics
"Everything is gestation and then birthing."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
"Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. ...live in the question."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
"A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
"Perhaps all dragons in our lives are really princesses just waiting to see us just once being beautiful and courageous."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
7. Poor Folk
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky
3.78
Format: 167 pages, Paperback
Poor Folk (Russian: Бедные люди, Bednye lyudi), sometimes translated as Poor People,[note] is the f… read more
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- classics
- fiction
"ويقال إنّ الفتى بوكروفسكي يشبه أمه كما تشبه قطرة من الماء قطرة من الماء."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Poor Folk
"أضرع إليك مرة أخرى: لا تنفق في سبيلي كل هذا الذي تنفقه. أنا أعرف أنك تحبني كثيرًا، ولكنك لست غنيًا."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Poor Folk
"أوهام إنه ليتفق للمرء أن يخطئ تقدير ما يشعر به هو نفسه، وأن يسترسل في ترهات سخيفة. والذنب في ذلك كله انما هو ذنب هذا الطيش في قلبنا المندفع"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Poor Folk
"لماذا تعيش النفوس الطيبة النبيلة في الشقاء والهجران، بينما لا يحتاج غيرها حتى إلى البحث عن السعادة لأن السعادة هي التي تلقي بنفسها بين ذراعيه؟"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Poor Folk
8. The Legacy
By: Virginia Woolf
4.12
Format: 29 pages, ebook
This is an e-publication of one short story. The free download link for this book is below under "d… read more
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- short stories
- classics
- fiction
9. 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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- classics
- fiction
"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
10. The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
By: Rainer Maria Rilke , Mary Dows Herter Norton
3.98
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Briggeis Rilke's major prose work and was one of the earliest public… read more
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- classics
- fiction
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12. The Garden Party
By: Katherine Mansfield
3.62
Format: None pages, ebook
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge… read more
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13. Charmed Life (Chrestomanci, #1)
By: Diana Wynne Jones
4.16
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Cat doesn't mind living in the shadow of his sister, Gwendolen, the most promising young witch ever… read more
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14. The Lost Book of the White (The Eldest Curses #2)
By: Cassandra Clare , Wesley Chu
4.11
Format: 500 pages,
From #1 New York Timesbestseller Cassandra Clare and Wesley Chu comes the first book in a new trilo… read more
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15. Come Close
By: Sappho
3.85
Format: 370 pages, Paperback
'Yes, we did many things, then - all Beautiful ...' Lyrical, powerful poems about love, sexuality, … read more
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16. The Thing Around Your Neck
By: None
3.85
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
Searing and profound, suffused with beauty, sorrow, and longing, the stories in The Thing Around Yo… read more
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17. Why I Write
By: George Orwell
4.00
Format: 592 pages,
Whether puncturing the lies of politicians, wittily dissecting the English character or telling unp… read more
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18. Lappin och Lapinova
By: Virginia Woolf , Alva Dahl
4.25
Format: 131 pages, Paperback
Rosalind och Ernest Thorburn har gift sig i London under pompa och stat. Men Rosalind har svart att… read more
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19. Mothering Sunday
By: Graham Swift
4.25
Format: 179 pages, Hardcover
A luminous, intensely moving tale that begins with a secret lovers' assignation in the spring of 19… read more
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20. Korku
By: Stefan Zweig , İlknur İgan
4.16
Format: None pages, Paperback
Rahat ve korunakli bir yasam suren saygin bir kadin, sekiz yillik evliliginden sikilmis, burjuva du… read more
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21. Flush
By: Virginia Woolf , None
4.10
Format: None pages, Paperback
This story of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's cocker spaniel, Flush, enchants right from the opening p… read more
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22. The Desolations of Devil's Acre (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #6)
By: Ransom Riggs
4.22
Format: 528 pages, Kindle Edition
The fate of peculiardom hangs in the balance in this epic conclusion to the Miss Peregrine's Peculi… read more
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- fiction
"Oh for heaven's sake, you provincial boob, I can speak better English than you can."-Ransom Riggs, The Desolations of Devil's Acre (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #6)
23. Lanny
By: Max Porter
4.06
Format: 210 pages, Hardcover
The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller and Booker Prize Longlisted novel Lanny by the author of Grief … read more
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"Which do you think is more patient, an idea or a hope?"-Max Porter, Lanny
"False things, endings. Sutenance for fools and never what they claim to be."-Max Porter, Lanny
"What or who is supposed to manage and regulate Lanny and his gifts," he asks. "Oh fuck, it's us. Who can have children and not go completely mad?"-Max Porter, Lanny
"Dead Papa Toothwort wakes from his standing nap an acre wide and scrapes off dream dregs of bitumen glistening thick with liquid globs of litter."-Max Porter, Lanny
24. De fenomenala fruntimren på Grand Hôtel
By: Ruth Kvarnström-Jones
4.16
Format: 495 pages, Hardcover
I början av 1900-talet är Stockholm en stad i förändring. Medan rika drömmer om större bostäder med… read more
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- fiction
25. Life for Sale
By: Yukio Mishima
3.72
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
'Life for sale. Use me as you wish. I am a twenty-seven-year-old male. Discretion guaranteed. Will … read more
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- fiction
"It's only the desire to live as long as possible that makes everything seem complicated and mysterious."-Yukio Mishima, Life for Sale
"Když si rozsvítíš v malém pokoji modrou lampu, taky ti všechno zmodrá, ale tím se z toho pokoje ještě moře nestane."-Yukio Mishima, Life for Sale
"A dead body reminds me a bit of a bottle of whisky. If you drop the bottle and it cracks, what’s inside pours out. It’s only natural."-Yukio Mishima, Life for Sale
"To say human life had no meaning was the easy part. But Hanio was struck all over again by the huge amount of energy required to live a life filled with so much meaninglessness."-Yukio Mishima, Life for Sale
26. The Psychology of Totalitarianism
By: Mattias Desmet
4.05
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The world is in the grips of mass formation—a dangerous, collective type of hypnosis—as we bear wit… read more
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"The first thing totalitarian leaders do is make sure their voices are the only ones left."-Mattias Desmet, The Psychology of Totalitarianism
"Totalitarianism and technocracy like to present themselves as the pinnacle of rationality and science."-Mattias Desmet, The Psychology of Totalitarianism
"Dissident speech doesn't have to be primarily tactical or rhetorical in nature, but it should be authentic and honest."-Mattias Desmet, The Psychology of Totalitarianism
"When society as a whole is in the grip of anxiety and the accompanying images of illness and death, those images in themselves become a causal factor."-Mattias Desmet, The Psychology of Totalitarianism
27. En Julgäst
By: Selma Lagerlöf
3.41
Format: None pages, ebook
Publicerades 1894 som del av "Osynliga länkar", en novellsamling. read more
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28. Kärleksprövningen
By: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
3.22
Format: 30 pages, Paperback
De två väninnorna Angeline och Faustina återförenas efter ett par år isär. Mycket har hänt under de… read more
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29. The Nightingale and the Rose & The Sphinx Without a Secret
By: Oscar Wilde
3.84
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
In the melancholy story The Nightingale and the Rose, Oscar Wilde turns to the superficiality of so… read more
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- short stories
- classics
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30. Sanningens droppar
By: ChatGPT-4
1.91
Format: 22 pages, Paperback
Linda visste att hon inte hade mycket tid innan polisen skulle upptäcka att hon var borta. Hon spra… read more
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31. Bohemens väg
By: ChatGPT-4
1.90
Format: 21 pages, Paperback
Arvid kände avundsjukan och besvikelsen gnaga inom honom. Han visste att hans bror och far aldrig s… read more
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