The Executor (The Chronicles of Carlingford, #.5)
By: Mrs. Oliphant
3.51
Format: 21 pages, ebook
In the town of Carlingford John Brown had been Mrs Thompson's attorney, though he had not been empl…
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1. The Moorland Cottage (Hesperus Classics)
By: Elizabeth Gaskell
3.73
Format: 143 pages, Paperback
Maggie Browne, the daughter of a deceased clergyman, is encouraged to give up her own life and pass… read more
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- 19th century
- victorian
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2. Red Pottage
By: Mary Cholmondeley
3.83
Format: 376 pages, Paperback
Mary Cholmondeley wrote at the beginning of the 20th century. She spent most of her life in Englan… read more
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"Every year I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence which will risk nothing, and which, shirking pain, m…"-Mary Cholmondeley, Red Pottage
"People, like Sybell, believe one can only sympathize with what one has experienced. That is why they are always saying, 'as a mother,' or 'as a wife.' If that were true the world would have to get on…"-Mary Cholmondeley, Red Pottage
3. The Return of the Soldier
By: Rebecca West , Verlyn Klinkenborg , None , Michelle Dean
3.70
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Writing her first novel during World War I, West examines the relationship between three women and … read more
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- classics
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"L'indifferenza significa che gli occhi non hanno più bisogno di cercarsi, le mani di protendersi; né le labbra di unirsi, perché è un'unione in cui non ci si accorge più della separazione dei corpi."-Rebecca West, The Return of the Soldier
"Perché mai la vita moderna ha generato orrori al cui confronto le vecchie tragedie sembrano spettacoli per bambini? Forse perché l'umanità in cerca di avventura ha cambiato troppo il mondo esterno ch…"-Rebecca West, The Return of the Soldier
"So I went out alone into a soft day, with the dispelled winter lurking above in high dark clouds under which there ran quick fresh currents of air, and broken shafts of insistent sunshine that spread…"-Rebecca West, The Return of the Soldier
"Indeed, grief is not the clear melancholy the young believe it. It is like a siege in a tropical city. The skin dries and the throat parches as though one were living in the heat of the desert; water…"-Rebecca West, The Return of the Soldier
4. A Sicilian Romance
By: Ann Radcliffe
3.39
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
In A Sicilian Romance (1790) Ann Radcliffe began to forge the unique mixture of the psychology of t… read more
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"Wisdom or accident, at length, recall us from our error, and offers to us some object capable of producing a pleasing, yet lasting effect, which effect, therefore, we call happiness. Happiness has th…"-Ann Radcliffe, A Sicilian Romance
"As I walked over the loose fragments of stone, which lay scattered and surveyed the sublimity and grandeur of the ruins, I recurred, by a natural association of ideas, to the times when these walls s…"-Ann Radcliffe, A Sicilian Romance
5. Vanity Fair
By: William Makepeace Thackeray , John Carey
4.28
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Edited by John Carey. Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero is a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray… read more
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- 19th century
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6. The Female Quixote
By: Charlotte Lennox , Margaret Anne Doody , Margaret Dalziel , Duncan Isles
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Female Quixote, a vivacious and ironical novel parodying the style of Cervantes, portrays Arabe… read more
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- fiction
7. Mexico Set (Bernard Samson, #2)
By: Len Deighton
3.59
Format: 378 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Now on the shadowy East-West battlefield of Mexico City. British intelligence agent Bernard Samson … read more
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8. Address Unknown
By: Kathrine Kressmann Taylor
3.84
Format: 179 pages, Paperback
A rediscovered classic, originally published in 1938 and now an international bestseller.When it fi… read more
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- fiction
- classics
- short stories
9. Basil
By: Wilkie Collins
4.40
Format: 82 pages, Paperback
In Basil's secret and unconsummated marriage to the linen-draper's sexually precocious daughter, an… read more
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- fiction
10. Silas Marner
By: George Eliot
3.68
Format: 262 pages, Paperback
Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe is the third novel by George Eliot, published in 1861. An outwa… read more
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"Love once, love always"-George Eliot, Silas Marner
"Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand."-George Eliot, Silas Marner
"Hurt, he'll never be hurt--he's made to hurt other people."-George Eliot, Silas Marner
"Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings."-George Eliot, Silas Marner
11. The Vampyre; A Tale
By: John William Polidori
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Vampyreis a short story by John William Polidori. It is based on a fragment written by Lord Byr… read more
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- short stories
12. The Daughter of Time (Inspector Alan Grant, #5)
By: Josephine Tey
3.95
Format: None pages,
Scotland Yard Inspector Alan Grant is intrigued by a portrait of Richard III. Could such a sensitiv… read more
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- classics
- fiction
13. The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne
By: Ann Radcliffe
3.70
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Ann Radcliffe's first novel is set in the Middle Ages against the melancholy beauty of mountains an… read more
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- fiction
14. Helen
By: Maria Edgeworth
4.33
Format: 277 pages,
She was the bestselling author of Regency England. Admired by Jane Austen whose fame she eclipsed a… read more
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- classics
- fiction
15. As You Like It
By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine
3.59
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
As You Like Itis a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1599 or … read more
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16. Mary Barton
By: Elizabeth Gaskell , Shirley Foster
3.91
Format: 241 pages, Paperback
This is Elizabeth Gaskell's first novel, a widely acclaimed work based on the actual murder, in 183… read more
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17. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
By: James Hogg , John Carey
3.88
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
James Hogg wrote about the supernatural powerfully and convincingly, especially in his best-known n… read more
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18. Lady Audley's Secret
By: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
4.10
Format: None pages, Paperback
This Victorian bestseller, along with Braddon's other famous novel, Aurora Floyd, established her a… read more
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19. Adam Bede
By: George Eliot , Joanna Trollope , Hugh Osborne
3.82
Format: 624 pages, Paperback
The story of a beautiful country girl's seduction by the local squire and its bitter, tragic sequel… read more
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"She hates everything that is not what she longs for."-George Eliot, Adam Bede
"Timid people always reek their peevishness on the gentle."-George Eliot, Adam Bede
"Our deeds determine us, as long as we determine our deeds"-George Eliot, Adam Bede
"Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds."-George Eliot, Adam Bede
20. Aurora Floyd
By: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
3.54
Format: None pages, Paperback
Like Lady Audley, Aurora is a beautiful young woman bigamously married and threatened with exposure… read more
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21. The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice
By: Wilkie Collins
4.12
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Is there no explanation of the mystery of The Haunted Hotel? Is The Haunted Hotel the tale of a hau… read more
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22. The Making of a Marchioness, Part I and II (Emily Fox-Seton #1-2)
By: Frances Hodgson Burnett
3.56
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
First published in 1901 as The Making of a Marchioness followed by its sequel The Methods of Lady W… read more
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23. Les Liaisons dangereuses
By: Pierre Choderlos de Laclos , Douglas Parmée
4.06
Format: 402 pages, Paperback
The complex moral ambiguities of seduction and revenge make Les Liaisons dangereuses (1782) one of … read more
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- fiction
"J'ai vécu"-Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Les Liaisons dangereuses
"Will you, then, never grow weary of being unjust?"-Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Les Liaisons dangereuses
"I see you are already as timid as a slave: you might as well be in love."-Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Les Liaisons dangereuses
"...it is not for the illusion of a moment to govern the choice of a lifetime."-Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Les Liaisons dangereuses
24. The Portrait of a Lady
By: Henry James , Patricia Crick
3.79
Format: 797 pages, Paperback
When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy Aunt Touche… read more
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- 19th century
"She has only one fault; too many ideas."-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
"If one is strong, one loves the more strongly."-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
"It's not my fate to give up--I know it can't be."-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
"The finer natures were those that shone at the larger times."-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
25. The Heir of Redclyffe
By: Charlotte Mary Yonge , None
3.85
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
First published in 1853, The Heir of Redclyffe was among the most successful novels of the century,… read more
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26. Howards End
By: E.M. Forster
3.96
Format: 318 pages, Paperback
A már életében klasszikusnak számító angol írónak ez volt a negyedik, a kritikusok szerint a legjob… read more
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"So never give in,"-E.M. Forster, Howards End
"Tulips were a tray of jewels."-E.M. Forster, Howards End
"Love and Truth, their warfare seems eternal."-E.M. Forster, Howards End
"Death destroys a man: the idea of Death saves him."-E.M. Forster, Howards End
27. The younger sister
By: Catherine Anne Austen Hubback
3.67
Format: 372 pages, Paperback
Catherine Anne Hubback, niece of Jane Austen, wrote The Younger Sister, a completion of Jane Austen… read more
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28. The Executor (The Chronicles of Carlingford, #.5)
By: Mrs. Oliphant
3.51
Format: 21 pages, ebook
In the town of Carlingford John Brown had been Mrs Thompson's attorney, though he had not been empl… read more
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29. We'll Prescribe You a Cat
By: Syou Ishida
3.95
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A cat a day keeps the doctor away… Discover the award-winning, bestselling Japanese novel that has… read more
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30. Margaret Oliphant: A Critical Biography
By: Merryn Williams
3.57
Format: 217 pages, Hardcover
Oliphant, -- Mrs. -- (Margaret), -- 1828-1897. Novelists, Scottish -- 19th century -- Biography. read more
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