Collected Short Stories
By: E.M. Forster
3.74
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Written at various dates before World War I, these 12 stories contain themes that were to re-emerge…
Want to Read"He never did his dumb-bells or played in his school fifteen. But the muscles came. He thinks they came while he was reading Pindar."-E.M. Forster, Collected Short Stories
"He never did his dumb-bells or played in his school fifteen. But the muscles came. He thinks they came while he was reading Pindar."-E.M. Forster, Collected Short Stories
"All the poetry is going from Nature,' he cried, 'her lakes and marshes are drained, her seas banked up, her forests cut down. Everywhere we see the vulgarity of desolation spreading."-E.M. Forster, Collected Short Stories
"All the poetry is going from Nature,' he cried, 'her lakes and marshes are drained, her seas banked up, her forests cut down. Everywhere we see the vulgarity of desolation spreading."-E.M. Forster, Collected Short Stories
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1. 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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"To say goodbye is to die a little."-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'm a native son, born in Santa Rosa."-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)
2. Flappers and Philosophers
By: F. Scott Fitzgerald
3.96
Format: 269 pages, Hardcover
By the Irish American Jazz Age novelist and short story writer regarded as one of the greatest Amer… read more
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- literary fiction
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- 20th century
"we both fitted. If our corners were not rubbed off they were at least pulled in. But deep in us both was something that made us require more for happiness. I didn't know what I wanted"-F. Scott Fitzgerald, Flappers and Philosophers
"This unlikely story begins on a sea that was a blue dream, as colorful as blue-silk stockings, and beneath a sky as blue as the irises of children's eyes. From the western half of the sky the sun was…"-F. Scott Fitzgerald, Flappers and Philosophers
3. Histoire de la violence
By: Édouard Louis
3.77
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
J’ai rencontré Reda un soir de Noël. Je rentrais chez moi après un repas avec des amis, vers quatre… read more
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- fiction
"I’m sorry, monsieur, but now this is a criminal proceeding. It’s out of your hands."-Édouard Louis, Histoire de la violence
"I’ve been trying to construct a memory that would let me undo the past, that would amplify it and destroy it, so that the more I remember and the more I lose myself in the images that remain, the les…"-Édouard Louis, Histoire de la violence
"I know from experience that the isolation of those who try to forget the past is as terrible as the isolation of those for whom the past is an obsession; I’ve learned that the question is never wheth…"-Édouard Louis, Histoire de la violence
"I was sure that if I kept acting like a trauma victim, that’s what I’d become the effects would be even worse and would last longer. Meanwhile my body knew exactly what was going on. I told Clara: th…"-Édouard Louis, Histoire de la violence
4. On the Marble Cliffs
By: Stuart Hood , George Steiner , Ernst Jünger
3.80
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
The peaceful and traditional people, located on the shores of a large bay, are surrounded by the ro… read more
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- classics
- 20th century
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- fantasy
"The downfall of order brings good to none."-Stuart Hood, On the Marble Cliffs
"Such are the cellars over which the proud castles of tyranny rise and above which the aromas of their feast swirl: putrid caves of a gruesome kind in which the depraved rabble regales itself with the…"-Stuart Hood, On the Marble Cliffs
"We cannot count on seeing our work completed here below, and happy is the man whose will is not too painfully invested in his efforts. No house is built, no plan created, in which ruin is not the cor…"-Stuart Hood, On the Marble Cliffs
"I had often doubted; now I was convinced: there were still noble beings among us in whose hearts knowledge of the higher order was preserved and perpetuated. A lofty example enjoins us to follow, and…"-Stuart Hood, On the Marble Cliffs
5. At Swim-Two-Birds
By: Flann O'Brien , William H. Gass
4.04
Format: None pages, Paperback
A wildly comic send-up of Irish literature and culture, At Swim-Two-Birdsis the story of a young, l… read more
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- classics
- fiction
6. 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
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- british literature
7. Clock Without Hands
By: Carson McCullers
3.93
Format: 233 pages, Paperback
Set in Georgia on the eve of court-ordered integration, Clock Without Hands contains McCullers's mo… read more
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- literary fiction
- classics
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8. The Private Lives of Trees
By: Alejandro Zambra , Megan McDowell
3.66
Format: 259 pages,
The Private Lives of Trees tells the story of a single night: a young professor of literature named… read more
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9. Nine Stories
By: J.D. Salinger
3.67
Format: 346 pages, Paperback
"A Perfect Day for Bananafish" (1948) "Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut" (1948) "Just Before the War wi… read more
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- 20th century
10. Queer
By: William S. Burroughs
3.84
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
Originally written in 1952 but not published till 1985, "Queer" is an enigma - both an unflinching … read more
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11. The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton
By: Edith Wharton , Laszlo Kubinyi
4.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
These 11 spine-tingling tales of the supernatural bring to light the author's interest in the tradi… read more
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12. What Maisie Knew
By: Henry James , Paul Theroux , Patricia Crick
4.07
Format: 248 pages,
After her parents' bitter divorce, young Maisie Farange finds herself turned into a 'little feather… read more
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13. The Hearing Trumpet
By: Leonora Carrington , Pablo Weisz Carrington
4.14
Format: None pages, Paperback
Leonora Carrington, the distinguished British-born Surrealist painter is also a writer of extraordi… read more
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14. The Good Soldier
By: Ford Madox Ford , None , Kenneth Womack
4.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
"A Tale of Passion," as its subtitle declares, The Good Soldierrelates the complex social and sexua… read more
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15. Love on the Dole
By: Walter Greenwood
3.71
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
In Hanky Park, near Salford, Harry and Sally Hardcastle grow up in a society preoccupied with grind… read more
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16. 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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17. Triste tigre
By: Neige Sinno
4.23
Format: 283 pages, Paperback
J'ai voulu y croire, j'ai voulu rêver que le royaume de la littérature m'accueillerait comme n'impo… read more
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"C'est vrai qu'aucun [...] n'avait vu ce que nous pouvions voir nous, les enfants et ma mère, au sein du foyer, où il se comportait comme un tyran. Et c'est quand même ça qui ressort avant tout de cet…"-Neige Sinno, Triste tigre
18. Diddly Squat: ‘Til The Cows Come Home
By: Jeremy Clarkson
4.15
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Welcome back to Clarkson's farm. At the end of Jeremy's first year, Diddly Squat farm rewarded him … read more
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19. The Mystery of Three Quarters (New Hercule Poirot Mysteries, #3)
By: Sophie Hannah
3.69
Format: 345 pages, Hardcover
The world's most beloved detective, Hercule Poirot, the legendary star of Agatha Christie's Murder … read more
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"When justice is deliberately distorted and denied harm is done."-Sophie Hannah, The Mystery of Three Quarters (New Hercule Poirot Mysteries, #3)
"I've had no practice at talking to famous detectives in my own kitchen."-Sophie Hannah, The Mystery of Three Quarters (New Hercule Poirot Mysteries, #3)
"How sorry he was if anything he'd done had created the impression that he might be a killer."-Sophie Hannah, The Mystery of Three Quarters (New Hercule Poirot Mysteries, #3)
"I am innocent. I have not killed anybody. I am the least violently inclined person I have ever met."-Sophie Hannah, The Mystery of Three Quarters (New Hercule Poirot Mysteries, #3)
20. About Ed
By: Robert Glück
3.73
Format: 254 pages, Kindle Edition
A moving story about love, AIDS, grief, and memory by one of the most adventurous writers to come o… read more
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21. Collected Short Stories
By: E.M. Forster
3.74
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Written at various dates before World War I, these 12 stories contain themes that were to re-emerge… read more
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- literary fiction
- classics
- british literature
- collections
- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- 20th century
- science fiction
- fantasy
"He never did his dumb-bells or played in his school fifteen. But the muscles came. He thinks they came while he was reading Pindar."-E.M. Forster, Collected Short Stories
"All the poetry is going from Nature,' he cried, 'her lakes and marshes are drained, her seas banked up, her forests cut down. Everywhere we see the vulgarity of desolation spreading."-E.M. Forster, Collected Short Stories
