Chronicle of the Abbey of Bury St. Edmunds
By: Jocelin of Brakelond
3.76
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
This narrative of events between the years 1173 and 1202--as recorded by Jocelin of Brakelond, a mo…
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1. The Letters of Abélard and Héloïse
By: M.T. Clanchy , Héloïse d'Argenteuil , Pierre Abélard , Betty Radice
3.69
Format: 383 pages, Paperback
The story of the relationship between Abélard and Héloïse is one of the world’s most celebrated and… read more
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"It is sometimes dangerous to have too much merit."-M.T. Clanchy, The Letters of Abélard and Héloïse
"Jealousy can easily believe the most terrible things."-M.T. Clanchy, The Letters of Abélard and Héloïse
"How fatal sometimes are the consequences of curiosity!"-M.T. Clanchy, The Letters of Abélard and Héloïse
"Tis a thousand times more easy to renounce the world than love."-M.T. Clanchy, The Letters of Abélard and Héloïse
2. The Sanctuary Sparrow (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #7)
By: Ellis Peters
4.08
Format: 271 pages, Paperback
Medieval monk Brother Cadfael races to save a young man he believes is falsely accused of robbery—i… read more
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3. One Corpse Too Many (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #2)
By: Ellis Peters
4.08
Format: 214 pages, Mass Market Paperback
In the summer of 1138, war between King Stephen and the Empress Maud takes Brother Cadfael from the… read more
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"Perhaps thought really is prayer."-Ellis Peters, One Corpse Too Many (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #2)
"All the things of the wild have their proper uses. Only misuse makes them evil."-Ellis Peters, One Corpse Too Many (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #2)
"So, wonder! I also wonder about you," said Cadfael mildly. "Do you know any human creatures who are not strangers, one to another?"-Ellis Peters, One Corpse Too Many (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #2)
"The trouble with me, he thought unhappily, is that I have been about the world long enough to know that God's plans for us, however infallibly good, may not take the form we expect and demand."-Ellis Peters, One Corpse Too Many (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #2)
4. North and South
By: Elizabeth Gaskell , Alan Shelston
4.15
Format: 521 pages, Paperback
When her father leaves the Church in a crisis of conscience, Margaret Hale is uprooted from her com… read more
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"No one loves me, - no one cares for me, but you, mother."-Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
"One may be clogged with honey and unable to rise and fly."-Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
"But the future must be met, however stern and iron it be. "-Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
"He is my first olive: let me make a face while I swallow it."-Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
5. The Song of Roland
By: Unknown , Dorothy L. Sayers
3.51
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
On 15 August 778, Charlemagne’s army was returning from a successful expedition against Saracen Spa… read more
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6. The Social Contract & Other Later Political Writings
By: Jean-Jacques Rousseau , Victor Gourevitch , Raymond Geuss
5.00
Format: 362 pages, Paperback
The work of Jean-Jacques Rousseau is presented in two volumes, together forming the most comprehens… read more
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7. The Prince
By: Niccolò Machiavelli , Adolph Caso , Rufus Goodwin , Benjamin Martinez
3.84
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Machiavelli needs to be looked at as he really was. Hence: Can Machiavelli, who makes the following… read more
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"Is it better to be loved or feared?"-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
"He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command"-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
"Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception."-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
"It is a common fault of men not to reckon on storms in fair weather."-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
8. The Divine Comedy
By: Dante Alighieri , Eugenio Montale , Allen Mandelbaum
4.29
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
The Divine Comedy, translated by Allen Mandelbaum, begins in a shadowed forest on Good Friday in th… read more
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9. The Inimitable Jeeves (Jeeves, #2)
By: P.G. Wodehouse
4.20
Format: 225 pages, Paperback
When Bingo Little falls in love at a Camberwell subscription dance and Bertie Wooster drops into th… read more
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"Warm-hearted! I should think he has to wear asbestos vests!"-P.G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves (Jeeves, #2)
"The kid is a pest, a wart, and a pot of poison, and should be strangled!"-P.G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves (Jeeves, #2)
"My God, man!" I gargled. "The cravat! The gent's neckwear! Why? For what reason?"-P.G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves (Jeeves, #2)
"I thought Eustace *was* a horrible accident, and Claude about the same, but I didn't say so."-P.G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves (Jeeves, #2)
10. The Devil's Novice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #8)
By: Ellis Peters
3.82
Format: None pages, Paperback
In the autumn of 1140 the Benedictine monastery at Shrewsbury finds its new novice Meriet Aspley a … read more
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11. The Woodlanders
By: Thomas Hardy , Patricia Ingham
2.84
Format: 306 pages, Paperback
In this classically simple tale of the disastrous impact of outside life on a secluded community in… read more
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12. The Annals of Imperial Rome
By: Michael Grant , Tacitus
4.33
Format: 25 pages, Mass Market Paperback
In "The Annals of Imperial Rome", his last and greatest work, Tacitus (AD c.55-c.117) covers the pe… read more
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13. Netochka Nezvanova
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Jane Kentish
3.91
Format: 163 pages, Paperback
Netochka Nezvanova - a 'Nameless Nobody' - tells the story of a childhood dominated by her stepfath… read more
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14. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo
By: J.R.R. Tolkien , Unknown , Christopher Tolkien
3.76
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Sir Gawain and the Green Knightand Pearlare two poems by an unknown author written in about 1400. S… read more
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15. Carry On, Jeeves (Jeeves, #3)
By: P.G. Wodehouse
4.25
Format: 273 pages, Hardcover
The titles of the first story in this collection—'Jeeves Takes Charge'— and the last—'Bertie Change… read more
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"Employers are like horses — they require management."-P.G. Wodehouse, Carry On, Jeeves (Jeeves, #3)
"You would not enjoy Nietzsche, sir. He is fundamentally unsound."-P.G. Wodehouse, Carry On, Jeeves (Jeeves, #3)
"Well, you know, there are limits to the sacred claims of friendship."-P.G. Wodehouse, Carry On, Jeeves (Jeeves, #3)
"What's the use of a great city having temptations if fellows don't yield to them?"-P.G. Wodehouse, Carry On, Jeeves (Jeeves, #3)
16. 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
17. Two Treatises of Government
By: John Locke , Peter Laslett , Raymond Geuss
2.96
Format: None pages, Paperback
This presentation discusses the life of John Locke, the evolution of his ideas, and the political c… read more
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18. The Vocation Lectures: Science as a Vocation/Politics as a Vocation
By: Max Weber , Tracy B. Strong , Rodney Livingstone , None
4.14
Format: None pages, Paperback
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19. A Morbid Taste for Bones (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #1)
By: Ellis Peters
4.39
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
Ellis Peters' introduction to the murderous medieval world of Brother Cadfael... A Morbid Taste for… read more
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20. The Discourses & Other Early Political Writings
By: Jean-Jacques Rousseau , Victor Gourevitch , Raymond Geuss
4.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
The work of Jean-Jacques Rousseau is presented in two volumes, together forming the most comprehens… read more
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21. Very Good, Jeeves! (Jeeves, #4)
By: P.G. Wodehouse
4.30
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Whatever the cause of Bertie Wooster's consternation — Bobbie Wickham gives away fierce Aunt Agatha… read more
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"Red hair, sir, in my opinion, is dangerous."-P.G. Wodehouse, Very Good, Jeeves! (Jeeves, #4)
"The voice of Love seemed to call to me, but it was a wrong number."-P.G. Wodehouse, Very Good, Jeeves! (Jeeves, #4)
"Unseen in the background, Fate was quietly slipping lead into the boxing-glove."-P.G. Wodehouse, Very Good, Jeeves! (Jeeves, #4)
"As Shakespeare says, if you're going to do a thing you might as well pop right at it and get it over."-P.G. Wodehouse, Very Good, Jeeves! (Jeeves, #4)
22. The Pilgrim of Hate (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #10)
By: Ellis Peters
3.64
Format: 211 pages, Paperback
The fourth anniversary of the transfer of Saint Winifred's bones to the Abbey at Shrewsbury is a ti… read more
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23. The Souls of Black Folk
By: W.E.B. Du Bois , None , None
3.62
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963) is the greatest of African American intellectuals--a s… read more
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24. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017
By: Rashid Khalidi
4.50
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more
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25. The Virgin in the Ice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #6)
By: Ellis Peters
4.17
Format: 225 pages, Kindle Edition
The winter of 1139 will disrupt Brother Cadfael’s tranquil life in Shrewsbury with the most disturb… read more
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"Love shared is no sin."-Ellis Peters, The Virgin in the Ice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #6)
"There never was, for all I could ever learn, a time when living was easy and peaceful."-Ellis Peters, The Virgin in the Ice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #6)
26. Saint Peter's Fair (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #4)
By: Ellis Peters
4.11
Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition
In the twelfth century, merchants gather at a summertime fair—but when one of them is found dead in… read more
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- medieval
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"Child, [death] is with us always,"-Ellis Peters, Saint Peter's Fair (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #4)
"There has many a man gone through that gate without a safe-conduct, who will reach heaven ahead of some who were escorted through with absolution and ceremony, and had their affairs in order. Kings a…"-Ellis Peters, Saint Peter's Fair (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #4)
27. The Leper of Saint Giles (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #5)
By: Ellis Peters
4.16
Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition
October 1139. A savage murder interrupts an ill-fated marriage set to take place at Brother Cadfael… read more
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- medieval
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"Oh, sometimes I like to put the sand of doubt into the oyster of my faith." (Br. Cadfael)"-Ellis Peters, The Leper of Saint Giles (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #5)
"I have always known that the best of the Saracens could out-Christian many of us Christians."-Ellis Peters, The Leper of Saint Giles (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #5)
28. An Excellent Mystery (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #11)
By: Ellis Peters
4.17
Format: 253 pages, Kindle Edition
In 1141, two monks have arrived in Shrewsbury from Winchester, where their abbey was destroyed. Now… read more
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"Well, God’s vision is clearer than mine, he may both see a way out of this tangle and open my eyes to it when the time is ripe. There’s a path through every forest, and a safe passage somewhere throu…"-Ellis Peters, An Excellent Mystery (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #11)
29. The Life of Christina of Markyate
By: Anonymous
3.28
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
'I wish to remain single, for I have made a vow of virginity.' This is the remarkable story of t… read more
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30. Chronicle of the Abbey of Bury St. Edmunds
By: Jocelin of Brakelond
3.76
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
This narrative of events between the years 1173 and 1202--as recorded by Jocelin of Brakelond, a mo… read more
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