Rosa Alchemica
By: W.B. Yeats
3.70
Format: 40 pages, Paperback
For those who are familiar with Yeats' poetry, particulary his beloved early poems like "The Lake I…
Want to Read"I command you to leave me at once, for your ideas and phantasies are but the illusions that creep like maggots into civilizations when they begin to decline, and into minds when they begin to decay."-W.B. Yeats, Rosa Alchemica
"I command you to leave me at once, for your ideas and phantasies are but the illusions that creep like maggots into civilizations when they begin to decline, and into minds when they begin to decay."-W.B. Yeats, Rosa Alchemica
"I command you to leave me at once, for your ideas and phantasies are but the illusions that creep like maggots into civilizations when they begin to decline, and into minds when they begin to decay."-W.B. Yeats, Rosa Alchemica
"A couple of hours after Sunset Michael Robartes returned and told me that I would have to learn the steps of an exceedingly antique dance, because before my initiation could be perfected I had to join three times in a magical dance, for rhythm was the wheel of Eternity, on which alone the transient and accidental could be broken, and the spirit set free."-W.B. Yeats, Rosa Alchemica
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1. Kybalion: A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece
By: William Walker Atkinson , Three Initiates , Tre Iniziati
4.25
Format: 223 pages, Hardcover
The precepts of Hermetic philosophy remained shrouded in secrecy for more than 2,000 years, clouded… read more
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- alchemy
- classics
"The lips of Wisdom are closed, except to the ears of Understanding."-William Walker Atkinson, Kybalion: A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece
"He who grasps the truth of the Mental Nature of the Universe is well advanced on The Path to Mastery."-William Walker Atkinson, Kybalion: A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece
"Nothing stands still - everything is being born, growing, dying - the very instant a thing reaches its height, it begins to decline - the law of rhythm is in constant operations...."-William Walker Atkinson, Kybalion: A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece
"Everything flows out and in; everything has its tides; all things rise and fall; the pendulum-swing manifests in everything; the measure of the swing to the right, is the measure of the swing to the …"-William Walker Atkinson, Kybalion: A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece
2. Partners in Crime (Tommy & Tuppence Mysteries, #2)
By: Agatha Christie
3.78
Format: 347 pages, Paperback
Tommy and Tuppence Beresford are restless for adventure, so when they are asked to take over Blunt'… read more
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- fiction
- classics
- short stories
"And you do dance so nicely, Tommy dear." "Gently with the butter, Tuppence."-Agatha Christie, Partners in Crime (Tommy & Tuppence Mysteries, #2)
"You do think you know about everything," said her husband. I do," said Tuppence."-Agatha Christie, Partners in Crime (Tommy & Tuppence Mysteries, #2)
"Tommy, why did they put Maldon Surrey on the telegram?" "Because Maldon is in Surrey, idiot."-Agatha Christie, Partners in Crime (Tommy & Tuppence Mysteries, #2)
"As the visitor left the office, Tuppence grabbed the violin and putting it in the cupboard turned the key in the lock. "If you must be Sherlock Holmes," she observed, "I'll get you a nice little syri…"-Agatha Christie, Partners in Crime (Tommy & Tuppence Mysteries, #2)
3. 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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- literature
- classics
- fiction
"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
4. Maurice
By: E.M. Forster
3.65
Format: None pages, Paperback
Set in the elegant Edwardian world of Cambridge undergraduate life, this story by a master novelist… read more
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- classics
- fiction
5. 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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- literature
- classics
- fiction
"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
6. Ripley Under Ground (Ripley, #2)
By: Patricia Highsmith
5.00
Format: 362 pages, Paperback
"Patricia Highsmith is often called a mystery or crime writer, which is a bit like calling Picasso … read more
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- classics
- fiction
7. The Secret of Chimneys (Superintendent Battle, #1)
By: Agatha Christie
3.98
Format: 574 pages, Paperback
A bit of adventure and quick cash is all that good-natured drifter Anthony Cade is looking for when… read more
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- classics
- fiction
8. Survival in Auschwitz
By: Primo Levi , Philip Roth , Stuart J. Woolf
4.33
Format: 187 pages, Paperback
The true and harrowing account of Primo Levi’s experience at the German concentration camp of Ausch… read more
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"... infin che un giorno senso non avrà più dire : domani" (...jusqu'à ce qu'un jour dire "demain" n'ait plus de sens)"-Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz
"…in this place everything is forbidden, not for hidden reasons, but because the camp has been created for that purpose."-Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz
"...for a country is considered the more civilized the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak or a powerful one too powerful."-Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz
"Qualcuno, molto tempo fa, ha scritto che anche i libri, come gli esseri umani, hanno un loro destino, imprevedibile, diverso da quello che per loro si desiderava e si attendeva."-Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz
9. La leggenda del santo bevitore
By: Joseph Roth , Chiara Colli Staude
3.69
Format: 143 pages, Paperback
La leggenda del santo bevitorefu pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1939, pochi mesi dopo la morte d… read more
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- literature
- fiction
- classics
- short stories
10. Ripley's Game (Ripley, #3)
By: Patricia Highsmith
2.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
Living on his posh French estate with his elegant heiress wife, Tom Ripley, on the cusp of middle a… read more
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- classics
- fiction
11. 69
By: Ryū Murakami
3.88
Format: None pages, Paperback
Ryu Murakami, along with Haruki Murakami (no relation), is one of the best-selling writers in Japan… read more
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- literature
- fiction
12. El baile
By: Irène Némirovsky , Gemma Moral Bartolomé
3.67
Format: 94 pages, Paperback
Autora de la recién descubierta Suite francesa, publicada póstumamente y aclamada por la crítica y … read more
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- literature
- fiction
- classics
- short stories
13. Death in Venice
By: Thomas Mann , Michael Cunningham , Michael Henry Heim
3.74
Format: 142 pages, Paperback
The world-famous masterpiece by Nobel laureate Thomas Mann -- here in a new translation by Michael … read more
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- literature
- classics
- fiction
"Nothing gladdens a writer more than a thought that can become pure feeling and a feeling that can become pure thought."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
"Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
"Denn der Mensch liebt und ehrt den Menschen , solange er ihn nicht zu beurteilen vermag, und die Sehnsucht ist ein Erzeunis mangelhafter Erkenntnis."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
"Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
14. Strangers
By: Taichi Yamada , None
5.00
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
Set in the great human maelstrom of Tokyo, Strangersis a thinking man's ghost story. When Harada, a… read more
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15. Long Day's Journey Into Night
By: Eugene O'Neill
3.89
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
Eugene O'Neill's autobiographical play Long Day's Journey into Night is regarded as his finest work… read more
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16. Babbitt
By: Sinclair Lewis
4.19
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was cond… read more
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17. Carmilla
By: J. Sheridan Le Fanu
3.86
Format: 108 pages, Paperback
In an isolated castle deep in the Austrian forest, Laura leads a solitary life with only her ailing… read more
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- classics
- fiction
"Love will have its sacrifices. No sacrifice without blood."-J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla
"You are mine, you shall be mine, you and I are one for ever."-J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla
"If your dear heart is wounded, my wild heart bleeds with yours."-J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla
"Darling, darling. I live in you, and you would die for me. I love you so."-J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla
18. The Book of Sand and Shakespeare's Memory
By: Jorge Luis Borges , Norman Thomas di Giovanni
3.53
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
'One of the most remarkable artists of our age' - Mario Vargas Llosa. The Book of Sandwas the last … read more
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19. Calling a Wolf a Wolf
By: Kaveh Akbar
4.00
Format: 98 pages, Paperback
"The struggle from late youth on, with and without God, agony, narcotics and love is a torment rare… read more
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20. The Book of Imaginary Beings
By: Jorge Luis Borges , Peter Sís , Andrew Hurley , Margarita Guerrero
0.00
Format: 400 pages,
Jorge Luis Borges is generally acknowledged to be not only the greatest living writer in the Spanis… read more
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21. Shakespeare's Sonnets
By: William Shakespeare , Katherine Duncan-Jones
4.45
Format: 122 pages, Paperback
T.S. Eliot once wrote that, "Shakespeare gives the greatest width of human passion," and it is this… read more
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22. This Side of Paradise
By: F. Scott Fitzgerald
3.64
Format: 275 pages, Paperback
This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald's romantic and witty first novel, was written when the a… read more
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- literature
- classics
- fiction
"A squalid phantasmagoria of breath"-F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
"Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh."-F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
"Amory: I love you. Rosalind: I love you- now."-F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
"Good luck to you and bad luck to your theories."-F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
23. A Night Like This (Smythe-Smith Quartet, #2)
By: Julia Quinn
4.24
Format: 128 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Anne Wynter might not be who she says she is... But she's managing quite well as a governess to thr… read more
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24. The Island of Dr. Moreau
By: H.G. Wells
4.67
Format: 46 pages, Paperback
Ranked among the classic novels of the English language and the inspiration for several unforgettab… read more
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25. The Bhagavad Gita
By: Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa , Juan Mascaró , None
4.20
Format: 252 pages, Paperback
The Bhagavad Gitais an intensely spiritual work that forms the cornerstone of the Hindu faith, and … read more
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26. Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples from Destruction
By: Lynne Olson
4.26
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
In the 1960s, the world’s attention was focused on a nail-biting race against the international ca… read more
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"He demonstrated a feminism very unusual for his time by encouraging her in all her undertakings and helping her overcome the obstacles that arose with her projects,"-Lynne Olson, Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples from Destruction
"Above all, she talked about the great debt she owned her parents for encouraging her to do what she wanted and for providing her with unstinting support, not to mention stellar education, that enable…"-Lynne Olson, Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples from Destruction
"My parents were humanists,“ Desroches later told an interviewer. “They taught me humanist values such as respect for one another, for your neighbors, for people in general, respect for civilizations.…"-Lynne Olson, Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples from Destruction
27. La favola di Amore e Psiche
By: Apuleius
3.88
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Comincia come ogni favola il racconto di Amore e Psiche, con un re e una regina e le loro tre figli… read more
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- fiction
- classics
- mythology
- short stories
"Iam nil officiunt mihi nec ipsae nocturnae tenebrae: teneo te, meum lumen."-Apuleius, La favola di Amore e Psiche
"I little esteeme to see your visage and figure, little doe I regard the night and darknesse thereof, for you are my only light."-Apuleius, La favola di Amore e Psiche
"Night fell, and her husband came to bed, and as soon as they had finished kissing and embracing each other, he fell fast asleep. Psyche was not naturally either very strong or very brave, but the cru…"-Apuleius, La favola di Amore e Psiche
28. Il rosmarino non capisce l'inverno
By: Matteo Bussola
3.81
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
«A cosa pensa una donna quando, assordata dalle voci di tutti, capisce all’improvviso di aver soffo… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
"Pensò che era tutto ridicolo e sbagliato e inopportuno. Che aveva scelto Tommaso solo come alibi e adesso invece lui era sduto di fronte a lei. Gli sembrò che lui ci tenesse davvero, che il suo esser…"-Matteo Bussola, Il rosmarino non capisce l'inverno
"Se non sopravvivi a una malattia non significa che non sei stato abbastanza guerriero. Chi ce la fa, a volte, ha avuto solo più fortuna. E bisognerebbe lasciare il sacrosanto diritto, a un malato, di…"-Matteo Bussola, Il rosmarino non capisce l'inverno
"Le dico che non so se siano discorsi che convincono la gente a scendere dai cornicioni, ma che io alla sua età mi sentivo una merda in un corpo sbagliato e oggi invece mi sento un merda nel corpo giu…"-Matteo Bussola, Il rosmarino non capisce l'inverno
"Scrivo questa lettera per dire alla donna che ti ha strappato da me, da noi, che non ce l'ho più con lei. Perchè penso che sia già stata puntia abbastanza. E perchè, sì, l'ho odiata, insultata, immag…"-Matteo Bussola, Il rosmarino non capisce l'inverno
29. No-cosas: Quiebras del mundo de hoy
By: Byung-Chul Han
3.85
Format: 109 pages, Kindle Edition
«Hoy estamos en la transición de la era de las cosas a la era de las no-cosas. No son las cosas, si… read more
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30. Rosa Alchemica
By: W.B. Yeats
3.70
Format: 40 pages, Paperback
For those who are familiar with Yeats' poetry, particulary his beloved early poems like "The Lake I… read more
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- poetry
- classics
- literature
- alchemy
- magic
- short stories
- fiction
- ireland
- irish literature
- mythology
"I command you to leave me at once, for your ideas and phantasies are but the illusions that creep like maggots into civilizations when they begin to decline, and into minds when they begin to decay."-W.B. Yeats, Rosa Alchemica
"A couple of hours after Sunset Michael Robartes returned and told me that I would have to learn the steps of an exceedingly antique dance, because before my initiation could be perfected I had to joi…"-W.B. Yeats, Rosa Alchemica
"As I thought of these things, I drew aside the curtains and looked out into the darkness, and it seemed to my troubled fancy that all those little points of light filling the sky were the furnaces of…"-W.B. Yeats, Rosa Alchemica
"I was dancing with an immortal august woman, who had black lilies in her hair, and her dreamy gesture seemed laden with a wisdom more profound than the darkness that is between star and star, and wit…"-W.B. Yeats, Rosa Alchemica
