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…
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1. How We Weep and Laugh at the Same Thing
By: Michel de Montaigne
3.50
Format: 55 pages, Paperback
'No one characteristic clasps us purely and universally in its embrace.' A selection of charming… read more
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2. 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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3. 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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4. 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
5. 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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"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...
6. Wailing Ghosts
By: Pu Songling , John Minford
3.25
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
'...revealing great shining fangs more than three inches long.' Some of the most macabre and wo… read more
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"Strange that a man could succeed in hanging himself from a millet stalk. Let this be a warning to libertines and pranksters."-Pu Songling, Wailing Ghosts
7. 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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8. 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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9. 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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10. 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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11. 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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12. 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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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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14. 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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15. The Atheist’s Mass
By: Honoré de Balzac
4.19
Format: 144 pages,
THIS 26 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Country Doctor; Quest of the Absolute and Other N… read more
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16. Caligula
By: Suetonius
4.00
Format: 10 pages, Paperback
'Because of his baldness and hairiness, he announced it was a capital offence for anyone either to … read more
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17. As Kingfishers Catch Fire
By: Gerard Manley Hopkins
4.25
Format: None pages, Paperback
'O let them be left, wildness and wet' As Kingfishers Catch Fire is a selection of Gerard Manley Ho… read more
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18. 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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19. 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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20. 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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21. Well, they are gone, and here must I remain
By: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
3.62
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
'Ye Ice-Falls! Ye that from the mountain's brow Adown enormous ravines slope amain -...' A selectio… read more
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22. 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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23. 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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24. O Cruel Alexis
By: Virgil
3.85
Format: 370 pages, Paperback
'But I, while vineyards ring with the cicadas' scream, Retrace your steps, alone, beneath the burni… read more
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25. The Madness of Cambyses
By: Herodotus
3.85
Format: 370 pages, Paperback
'Do you see your son, standing over there, in the antechamber? Well, I am going to shoot him.' The … read more
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26. 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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27. The Saga of Gunnlaug Serpent-tongue
By: Anonymous
4.03
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
'In two I'll slice the hair-seat / of Helga's kiss-gulper' In this epic tale from the Viking Age th… read more
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28. 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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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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