The Reckoning
By: Edith Wharton
4.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
'If marriage was the slow life-long acquittal of a debt contracted in ignorance, then marriage was …
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1. The Steel Flea
By: Nikolai Leskov
3.63
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
He gave orders that they were not to get any hot glum pudding in flames, for fear the spirits in th… read more
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2. A Hippo Banquet
By: Mary H. Kingsley
3.10
Format: 52 pages, Paperback
'While engaged on this hunt I felt the earth quiver under my feet, and heard a soft big soughing so… read more
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- classics
- short stories
3. The Old Nurse's Story
By: Elizabeth Gaskell
3.64
Format: 53 pages, Paperback
Even in the stillness of that dead-cold weather, I had heard no sound of little battering hands upo… read more
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"You know, my dears, that your mother was an orphan, and an only child; and I dare say you have heard that your grandfather was a clergyman up in Westmoreland, where I come from."-Elizabeth Gaskell, The Old Nurse's Story
4. Remember, Body...
By: Constantinos P. Cavafy
3.66
Format: 54 pages, Paperback
'All those excessive, useless regrets...' A collection of nostalgic, erotic poetry from one of … read more
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- classics
- fiction
"You’ve been wholly transformed into feeling, for me."-Constantinos P. Cavafy, Remember, Body...
"I have gazed so much on beauty that my eyes overflow with it."-Constantinos P. Cavafy, Remember, Body...
"I have fashioned you in joy and in sorrow, / through so many happenings, out of so many things."-Constantinos P. Cavafy, Remember, Body...
"Memory, keep those eyes just as they were. / And memory, whatever you can salvage of that passion of mine, / whatever you can, bring back to me tonight."-Constantinos P. Cavafy, Remember, Body...
5. Femme Fatale
By: Guy de Maupassant
3.56
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
A selection of Maupassant's brilliant, glittering stories set in the Parisian beau monde and Norman… read more
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6. Goblin Market
By: Joyce Carol Oates , William Morris , Laurence Housman , Christina Rossetti , Dante Gabriel Rossetti
3.82
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
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7. The Maldive Shark
By: Herman Melville
4.81
Format: 539 pages, Paperback
'No voice, no low, no howl is heard; the chief sound of life here is a hiss.' Stories and poems by … read more
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- classics
- short stories
- american
8. The Reckoning
By: Edith Wharton
4.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
'If marriage was the slow life-long acquittal of a debt contracted in ignorance, then marriage was … read more
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- the united states of america
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- 20th century
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9. My Dearest Father
By: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
4.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
'They wanted me to give a concert; I wanted them to beg me. And so they did. I gave a concert.' A s… read more
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- classics
10. The Great Fire of London
By: Samuel Pepys
4.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
'With one's face in the wind you were almost burned with a shower of Firedrops . . .' A selection f… read more
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11. The Nose
By: Nikolai Gogol , Ronald Wilks
4.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
'Strangely enough, I mistook it for a gentleman at first. Fortunately I had my spectacles with me s… read more
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12. The Robber Bridegroom
By: Jacob Grimm , None , William Karl Grimm
5.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
'Then she began to run, and she ran over the sharp stones and through the thorns, and the wild anim… read more
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13. To-morrow
By: Joseph Conrad
5.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
'It was as if the sea, breaking down the wall protecting all the homes of the town, had sent a wave… read more
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- short stories
14. A Pair of Silk Stockings
By: Kate Chopin
3.64
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
Désirée's baby -- Miss McEnders -- The story of an hour -- Nég Créol -- A pair of silk stocking… read more
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- american
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15. Miss Brill
By: Katherine Mansfield , Ursula Grawe
3.63
Format: 224 pages,
The story is about Miss Brill, a middle-aged English teacher in an unnamed French vacation town. It… read more
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- 20th century
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16. Leonardo da Vinci
By: Giorgio Vasari
3.85
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
'In this painting of Leonardo's there was a smile so pleasing that it seemed divine rather than hum… read more
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17. The Old Man of the Moon
By: Shěn Fù
3.85
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
'Our passion was so great. Will the Old Man understand and help us once again?' The Old Man of the … read more
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18. Sindbad the Sailor
By: Unknown
3.85
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
'The valley was full of snakes and serpents as big as palm trees, so huge that they could have swal… read more
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19. The Beautifull Cassandra
By: Jane Austen
3.62
Format: 320 pages,
'She has many rare and charming qualities, but Sobriety is not one of them.' A selection of Austen'… read more
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20. Sketchy, Doubtful, Incomplete Jottings
By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
3.62
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
'I can promise to be candid, not, however, to be impartial.' A selection of the most insightful max… read more
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21. The Great Winglebury Duel
By: Charles Dickens
3.62
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
'Desperate-minded villain!' Two of Dickens' hilarious early stories from Sketches by Boz: 'The Grea… read more
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22. Il Duro
By: D.H. Lawrence
3.85
Format: 370 pages, Paperback
'But I ran up the broken stairway, and came out suddenly, as if by a miracle, clean on the platform… read more
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23. Kasyan from the Beautiful Lands
By: Ivan Turgenev
3.85
Format: 370 pages, Paperback
"No, no, I've got your word for it, I've got to die ... you promised me ... you told me ..." Turgen… read more
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24. A Slip under the Microscope
By: H.G. Wells
3.85
Format: 370 pages, Paperback
'I will go in, out of this dust and heat, out of this dry glitter of vanity, out of these toilsome … read more
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25. The Fall of Icarus
By: Ovid , Mary M. Innes
4.18
Format: 342 pages, Paperback
'Drawn on by his eagerness for the open sky, he left his guide and soared upwards . . .' Enduring m… read more
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26. Anthem for Doomed Youth
By: Wilfred Owen
3.37
Format: 297 pages, Paperback
'Tonight he noticed how the women's eyes Passed from him to the strong men that were whole.' The tr… read more
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27. The Gate of the Hundred Sorrows
By: Rudyard Kipling
5.00
Format: 30 pages, Paperback
'Mind you, it was a pukka, respectable opium-house, and not one of those stifling, sweltering chand… read more
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29. The Night is Darkening Round Me
By: Emily Brontë
3.81
Format: None pages, Paperback
'... ever-present, phantom thing; My slave, my comrade, and my king' Some of Emily Bronte's most ex… read more
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30. Lips Too Chilled
By: Matsuo Bashō , Lucien Stryk
3.81
Format: None pages, Paperback
'Nothing more lonely -' A selection of Basho's most magical haiku Introducing Little Black Classics… read more
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31. The Figure in the Carpet
By: Henry James
4.17
Format: 267 pages, Paperback
Short story by the prolific American-born author and literary critic of the late 19th and early 20t… read more
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