Lavengro
By: George Borrow
3.68
Format: None pages, Paperback
Falling somewhere between the genres of memoir and novel, Lavengro has long been considered a class…
Want to Read"Translation is at best an echo."-George Borrow, Lavengro
"Translation is at best an echo."-George Borrow, Lavengro
"Translation is at best an echo."-George Borrow, Lavengro
"[M]ischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness."-George Borrow, Lavengro
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1. So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #4)
By: Douglas Adams
4.09
Format: 225 pages, Kindle Edition
Back on Earth with nothing more to show for his long, strange trip through time and space than a ra… read more
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"Shit!"-Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #4)
"Non tout baigne, tout ce qui est susceptible de biagner, baigne."-Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #4)
"Non è un vero scienziato chi ha timore che la gente lo ritenga pazzo."-Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #4)
"God's Final Message to His Creation: 'We apologize for the inconvenience."-Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #4)
2. The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)
By: Raymond Chandler
4.19
Format: 379 pages, Paperback
Down-and-out drunk Terry Lennox has a problem: his millionaire wife is dead and he needs to get out… read more
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- novels
- classics
- fiction
"To say goodbye is to die a little."-Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)
"I'm a native son, born in Santa Rosa."-Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)
"I'm killing time and it's dying hard."-Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)
"I was as hollow and empty as the spaces between stars."-Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)
3. The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1)
By: Edward Abbey
4.08
Format: 421 pages, Paperback
Ed Abbey called The Monkey Wrench Gang, his 1975 novel, a "comic extravaganza." Some readers have r… read more
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- classics
- fiction
"The night. The stars. The river."-Edward Abbey, The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1)
"I piss on you from a considerable height."-Edward Abbey, The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1)
"Poor Hayduke: won all his arguments but lost his immortal soul."-Edward Abbey, The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1)
"There are some places so beautiful they can make a grown man break down and weep."-Edward Abbey, The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1)
4. Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe
By: François-René de Chateaubriand
3.96
Format: 1504 pages, Paperback
The only available edition in English of the greatest of all French autobiographies By the time … read more
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- 19th century
- classics
"It is a long way from these strict parents to the child-spoilers of today."-François-René de Chateaubriand, Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe
"Purgatory surpasses heaven and hell in poetry, because it represents a future and the others do not."-François-René de Chateaubriand, Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe
"There are only two true things: intelligent religion and youthful love, which is to say the future and the present. The rest is not worth the trouble"-François-René de Chateaubriand, Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe
"Life is spent hovering round our tomb. Our various sicknesses are but the winds which carry us more or less near to the haven. … Death is our friend, nevertheless we do not recognise it as such, beca…"-François-René de Chateaubriand, Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe
5. Là-Bas
By: Joris-Karl Huysmans , None
3.73
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
At the novel's center is Durtal, a writer obsessed with the life of one of the blackest figures in … read more
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- classics
- fiction
6. The Vicar of Wakefield
By: Robert L. Mack , Oliver Goldsmith , Arthur Friedman
3.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
Oliver Goldsmith's hugely successful novel of 1766 remained for generations one of the most highly … read more
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- classics
- british literature
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
7. Cause for Alarm
By: Eric Ambler
3.54
Format: 337 pages, Paperback
Nicky Marlow needs a job. He's engaged to be married and the employment market is pretty slim in Br… read more
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- fiction
8. Brighton Rock
By: J.M. Coetzee , Graham Greene
3.73
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has kill… read more
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- classics
- fiction
- british literature
9. The Watcher and Other Stories
By: Italo Calvino , William Weaver , Archibald Colquhoun
3.71
Format: 656 pages, Paperback
Alternate cover edition can be found . In "The Watcher," a member of the Communist Party is assig… read more
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- fiction
10. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
By: Anne Brontë , Stevie Davies
3.52
Format: None pages, Paperback
Note: Editions of The Tenant that start with: "You must go back with me..." are incomplete. Actual … read more
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- 19th century
- historical fiction
11. The Comedians
By: Paul Theroux , Graham Greene
3.00
Format: 50 pages, Paperback
Three men meet on a ship bound for Haiti, a world in the grip of the corrupt "Papa Doc" and the Ton… read more
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- british literature
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
12. Two Years Before the Mast: A Sailor's Life at Sea
By: Richard Henry Dana Jr.
3.38
Format: None pages,
Two Years Before the Mastis a book by the American author Richard Henry Dana, Jr. written after a t… read more
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- classics
13. Mansfield Park
By: Jane Austen
3.87
Format: 488 pages, Paperback
Taken from the poverty of her parents' home in Portsmouth, Fanny Price is brought up with her rich … read more
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- british literature
- 19th century
- fiction
- historical fiction
"I was quiet, but I was not blind."-Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
14. Martin Chuzzlewit
By: Charles Dickens , Hablot Knight Browne , Patricia Ingham
3.64
Format: 221 pages, Paperback
Set partly in the United States, this novel includes a searing satire on mid-nineteenth-century Ame… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
15. The Wapshot Chronicle
By: John Cheever , Rick Moody
4.16
Format: None pages,
Meet the Wapshots of St Botolphs. There is Captain Leander Wapshot, venerable sea-dog and would-be … read more
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- classics
- fiction
16. Last Exit to Brooklyn
By: Gilbert Sorrentino , Hubert Selby Jr.
3.43
Format: 42 pages, Paperback
Last Exit to Brooklynis a raw depiction of life amongst New York's junkies, hustlers, drag queens a… read more
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17. Watership Down (Watership Down, #1)
By: Richard Adams
3.91
Format: 144 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Set in England's Downs, a once idyllic rural landscape, this stirring tale of adventure, courage an… read more
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18. The Tartar Steppe
By: Dino Buzzati , Stuart Hood
3.80
Format: 25 pages,
Often likened to Kafka's The Castle, The Tartar Steppe is both a scathing critique of military life… read more
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19. The Pilgrim's Progress
By: John Bunyan
4.06
Format: 324 pages, Paperback
This famous story of man's progress through life in search of salvation remains one of the most ent… read more
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- classics
- fiction
"Follow your heart"-John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress
"Dark clouds bring waters, when the bright bring none."-John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress
"They are my fears of him, too. But who can hinder that which will be?"-John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress
"Now, Mr. Great-heart was a strong man, so he was not afraid of a lion."-John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress
20. James Joyce
By: Richard Ellmann
4.00
Format: 64 pages,
Although several biographers have thrown themselves into the breach since this magisterial book fir… read more
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21. Berlin Alexanderplatz
By: Alfred Döblin
4.10
Format: None pages,
Biberkopf hat geschworen, er will anstandig sein, und ihr habt gesehen, wie er wochenlang anstandig… read more
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22. The Decameron
By: Giovanni Boccaccio , G.H. McWilliam
4.35
Format: 255 pages, Paperback
The Decameron (c.1351) is an entertaining series of one hundred stories written in the wake of the … read more
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23. Under the Volcano
By: Malcolm Lowry
3.77
Format: 423 pages, Paperback
Geoffrey Firmin, a former British consul, has come to Quauhnahuac, Mexico. His debilitating malaise… read more
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- british literature
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- historical fiction
- novels
"Even almost bad poetry is better than life"-Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano
"My lover. Oh come to me again as once in May."-Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano
"What is man but a little soul holding up a corpse?"-Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano
"The dead. Do they sleep? Why should they, when we cannot?"-Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano
24. Winesburg, Ohio
By: Sherwood Anderson
2.96
Format: 7 pages, Paperback
Winesburg, Ohio (1919) is Sherwood Anderson's masterpiece, a cycle of short stories concerning life… read more
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25. 84, Charing Cross Road
By: Helene Hanff
3.57
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
This charming classic love story, first published in 1970, brings together twenty years of correspo… read more
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26. The Rings of Saturn
By: Michael Hulse , W.G. Sebald
3.94
Format: 128 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The Rings of Saturn- with its curious archive of photographs - records a walking tour of the east c… read more
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27. Bel-Ami
By: Guy de Maupassant , Douglas Parmée
3.85
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Guy de Maupassant's scandalous tale of an opportunistic young man corrupted by the allure of power,… read more
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- 19th century
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
"In fact living is dying."-Guy de Maupassant, Bel-Ami
"Vivre enfin, c'est mourir!"-Guy de Maupassant, Bel-Ami
"The only certainty is death."-Guy de Maupassant, Bel-Ami
"In the kingdom of the blind the one-eyed man is king."-Guy de Maupassant, Bel-Ami
28. Dubliners
By: James Joyce , Jeri Johnson
3.44
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
This work of art reflects life in Ireland at the turn of the last century, and by rejecting euphemi… read more
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29. The Mayor of Casterbridge
By: Thomas Hardy , Keith Wilson
4.71
Format: None pages, Paperback
'I've not always been what I am now' In a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and… read more
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30. Lavengro
By: George Borrow
3.68
Format: None pages, Paperback
Falling somewhere between the genres of memoir and novel, Lavengro has long been considered a class… read more
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- historical fiction
- novels
"Translation is at best an echo."-George Borrow, Lavengro
"[M]ischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness."-George Borrow, Lavengro
"There’s the wind on the heath, brother; if I could only feel that, I would gladly live for ever."-George Borrow, Lavengro
"There's night and day, brother, both sweet things; sun, moon, and stars, brother, all sweet things; there's likewise a wind on the heath. Life is very sweet, brother; who would wish to die?"-George Borrow, Lavengro
31. The Aesthetics of Degradation
By: Adrian Nathan West
3.52
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Pornography keeps getting more extreme. Manufacturers, defenders and consumers of porn rely on a mi… read more
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