What the Shepherd Saw
By: Thomas Hardy
3.70
Format: None pages, ebook
It might have been about eleven o'clock when he awoke. He was so surprised at awaking without, appa…
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1. Et In Sempiternum Pereant
By: Charles Williams
3.53
Format: 7 pages, ebook
First published in 1986, "Et in Sempiternum Pereant" is a short story by British writer Charles W. … read more
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- short stories
2. Gooseberries and other stories
By: Anton Chekhov , Constance Garnett
3.76
Format: None pages, ebook
"Oh, good God," he kept saying with great relish. "Good God..." 'Gooseberries' is accompanied h… read more
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- classics
- short stories
"The Lie which elates us is dearer than a thousand sober truths"-Anton Chekhov, Gooseberries and other stories
"The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths."-Anton Chekhov, Gooseberries and other stories
"Человеку нужно не три аршина земли, не усадьба, а весь земной шар, вся природа, где на просторе он мог бы проявить все свойства и особенности своего свободного духа."-Anton Chekhov, Gooseberries and other stories
"Country life has its advantages,' he used to say. 'You sit on the veranda drinking tea and your ducklings swim on the pond, and everything smells good. . . and there are gooseberries."-Anton Chekhov, Gooseberries and other stories
3. The Beauties
By: Anton Chekhov
3.52
Format: 8 pages,
Chekhov's genius lies in the way he manages to convey with such apparent effortlessness a profound … read more
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- classics
- short stories
"He read like a man afloat on the sea, surrounded by the wreckage of his ship, trying to save his life by desperately clutching first to one fragment and then another."-Anton Chekhov, The Beauties
4. Remembering
By: Wendell Berry
4.02
Format: 134 pages, Paperback
Remembering takes place in a single day in 1976. Andy Catlett, at the bottom of a deep dark depress… read more
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- classics
"They were not going to live again in a time like that."-Wendell Berry, Remembering
"There comes . . . a longing never to travel again except on foot."-Wendell Berry, Remembering
"It was a country . . . that he and his people had known how to use and abuse, but not how to preserve."-Wendell Berry, Remembering
"We stood and looked and knowed it was all the time we had and from now on we must remember. We must look now forever."-Wendell Berry, Remembering
5. The Signalman
By: Charles Dickens , Scott Cohn
3.66
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
Presents the tale of a young man who, after listening to an eccentric railroad signalman's predicti… read more
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- classics
- short stories
"Hallow! Below there!"-Charles Dickens, The Signalman
6. Rabbit at Rest (Rabbit Angstrom #4)
By: John Updike
4.26
Format: 331 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. In John Updike's fourth and final novel about ex-bas… read more
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- classics
7. The Dark Horse
By: Rumer Godden
4.22
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Dark Invader is a beautifully bred racehorse, but after a disappointing first season he is sold in … read more
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8. Harrison Bergeron
By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
3.93
Format: None pages, ebook
It is the year 2081. Because of Amendments 211, 212, and 213 to the Constitution, every American is… read more
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- classics
- short stories
9. A Hunger Artist
By: Franz Kafka , Kevin Blahut , None , Helen Vlcnovska
3.74
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The last book published during Kafka's lifetime, A Hunger Artist(1924) explores many of the themes … read more
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- classics
- short stories
10. Wants (Electric Literature's Recommended Reading Book 126)
By: Grace Paley , None
3.17
Format: None pages,
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- short stories
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- short stories
12. Miss Mole
By: E.H. Young
3.99
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Miss Mole is set between the wars and is the story of Hannah Mole, a fortyish spinster who ekes out… read more
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- classics
"Without actually making that confession, her mind went on to imagine what a real love might have been. But such loves do not come in the way of the Miss Moles of this world, and now she was nearly fo…"-E.H. Young, Miss Mole
13. The Garden of Forking Paths
By: George Guidall , Jorge Luis Borges
3.31
Format: None pages, Audiobook
"The Garden of Forking Paths" (original Spanish title: "El jardin de senderos que se bifurcan") is … read more
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- short stories
14. The Chosen
By: Chaim Potok
3.89
Format: 384 pages,
Few stories offer more warmth, wisdom or generosity than this tale of two boys, their fathers, thei… read more
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15. The Man Who Forgot Ray Bradbury
By: Neil Gaiman
3.99
Format: 32 pages, Audiobook
Neil Gaiman, has posted an audio recording of him reading his story "The Man Who Forgot Ray Bradbur… read more
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16. The Gentle Spirit
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky
3.89
Format: 86 pages, Paperback
In this compelling study of despair, based on a real-life incident, a pawnbroker mourns the loss of… read more
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- classics
- short stories
"I'm a master of speaking silently—all my life I've spoken silently and I've lived through entire tragedies in silence."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gentle Spirit
"Oh, I have always been proud, I always wanted all or nothing! You see it was just because I am not one who will accept half a happiness, but always wanted all"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gentle Spirit
"I worked it through with pride,I almost spoke without words, and i'm masterly at speaking without words.All my life I have spoken without words, and I have passed through whole tragedies on my own ac…"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gentle Spirit
"Listen! This is where it began but I keep getting muddled... The fact of the matter is that I now want to recall everything, every trifle, every little detail. I still want to collect my thoughts and…"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gentle Spirit
17. The Bottle Imp
By: Robert Louis Stevenson
2.75
Format: None pages, Paperback
Offering an engrossing spin on a time-honored theme--the risky business of making a pact with the d… read more
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18. The Door in the Wall
By: H.G. Wells
4.06
Format: 368 pages,
The Door in the Wall, considered by both readers and critics, to be Wells's finest tale, examines a… read more
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19. The Eyes
By: Edith Wharton
3.40
Format: None pages,
Phil, my dear boy, really -- what's the matter? Why don't you answer? Have you seen the eyes?' Fren… read more
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20. Comment Wang Fô Fut Sauvé
By: Marguerite Yourcenar
4.20
Format: 172 pages, Paperback
Voici l'histoire d'un vieux peintre chinois tres pauvre du nom de Wang-Fo. Il a un pouvoir magique … read more
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21. Behind a Mask, Or, a Woman's Power
By: Louisa May Alcott , A.M. Barnard
3.49
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Originally published in 1866 under the pseudonym "A. M. Barnard." Louisa May Alcott's novel of roma… read more
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22. Ivanhoe
By: Walter Scott
3.55
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Ivanhoe(1819) was the first of Scott's novels to adopt a purely English subject and was also his fi… read more
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23. Cat's Eye
By: Margaret Atwood
4.09
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
"Cat's Eye" is the story of Elaine Risley, a controversial painter who returns to Toronto, the city… read more
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24. Big Two-Hearted River
By: Ernest Hemingway
1.75
Format: 134 pages, Audio CD
Big two-hearted river -- A way you'll never be -- In another country. read more
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26. The King Must Die (Theseus, #1)
By: Mary Renault
3.98
Format: 354 pages, Kindle Edition
“Mary Renault is a shining light to both historical novelists and their readers. She does not prete… read more
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- classics
"Men would be as gods, if they had foreknowledge."-Mary Renault, The King Must Die (Theseus, #1)
"It is not the bloodletting that calls down power. It is the consenting."-Mary Renault, The King Must Die (Theseus, #1)
"Always, in the Bull Court, our most precious trophies were the gifts of the dead."-Mary Renault, The King Must Die (Theseus, #1)
"A man is at his youngest when he thinks he is a man, not yet realizing that his actions must show it."-Mary Renault, The King Must Die (Theseus, #1)
27. Is She His Wife? Or, Something Singular, a Comic Burletta
By: Charles Dickens
3.37
Format: 86 pages, Hardcover
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge… read more
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29. Mr. Nightingale's Diary: A Farce In One Act
By: Charles Dickens
3.08
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain… read more
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30. What the Shepherd Saw
By: Thomas Hardy
3.68
Format: 30 pages, Paperback
It might have been about eleven o'clock when he awoke. He was so surprised at awaking without, appa… read more
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31. Antaeus
By: Borden Deal
3.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A farm boy from Alabama moves to a northern city during wartime and convinces the neighborhood boys… read more
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