Popular Mechanics
By: Raymond Carver
3.52
Format: None pages, None
"Early that day the weather turned and the snow was melting into dirty water. Streaks of it ran dow…
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1. The Dead
By: James Joyce
3.99
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
Often cited as the best work of short fiction ever written, Joyce's story details a New Year's Eve … read more
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"Like distant music these words that he had written years before were borne towards him from the past."-James Joyce, The Dead
"Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?"-James Joyce, The Dead
"In one letter that he had written to her then he had said: 'Why is it that words like these seem to me so dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?"-James Joyce, The Dead
"Escuchando esta noche los nombres de esos grandes cantantes del pasado me pareció, debo confesarlo, que vivimos en época menos espaciosa. Aquéllos se pueden llamar, sin exageración, días espaciosos:…"-James Joyce, The Dead
2. The Story of an Hour
By: Kate Chopin
4.07
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
In these four stories, Kate Chopin subtly captures the intricate interior lives of a generation of … read more
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"Spring days, and summer days, and all sorts of days that would be her own. She breathed a quick prayer that life might be long. It was only yesterday she had thought with a shudder that life might be…"-Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour
"there would be no powerful will binding hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow creature…And yet she had loved him- so…"-Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour
3. A Passion In The Desert
By: Honoré de Balzac
3.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Do your students enjoy a good laugh? Do they like to be scared? Or do they just like a book with a … read more
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4. The School
By: Donald Barthelme , Steven Polansky
3.79
Format: 128 pages,
When I knew him, Barthelme was in his early forties. He died in 1989, at the age of 58. "The School… read more
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5. Bartleby the Scrivener
By: Herman Melville
3.93
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Academics hail it as the beginning of modernism, but to readers around the world—even those daunted… read more
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"I would prefer not to."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
"To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
"Bartleby in a singularly mild, firm voice, replied, “I would prefer not to."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
"At present I would prefer not to be a little reasonable,' was his mildly cadaverous reply."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
6. Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?: Selected Early Stories
By: Joyce Carol Oates
3.69
Format: 88 pages, Hardcover
The sixties and seventies witnessed the emergence of Joyce Carol Oates as one of America's foremost… read more
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7. The Tell-Tale Heart
By: Edgar Allan Poe , Byron Glaser , None
4.24
Format: 31 pages, Library Binding
A man confronts himself and an unknown listener with his desire to murder an old man. In this cl… read more
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"would a madman have been so wise as this?"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart
"And have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the sense?"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart
"If you still think me mad, you will think so no longer when I describe the wise precautions I took for the concealment of the body."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart
"Basta ya de fingir, malvados! -aullé-. ¡Confieso que lo maté! ¡Levanten esos tablones! ¡Ahí… ahí! ¡Donde está latiendo su horrible corazón!"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart
8. Continuidad de los parques
By: Julio Cortázar
4.31
Format: None pages, ebook
Cuento "Continuidad de los parques" de Julio Cortázar, renombrado ejemplo de metaficción literaria.… read more
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9. The Selfish Giant
By: Oscar Wilde , S. Saelig Gallagher
3.54
Format: None pages, Hardcover
This magnificent new edition of Oscar Wilde's beloved tale tells the story of the selfish giant who… read more
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10. Sweetness
By: Toni Morrison
3.73
Format: 192 pages, ebook
It's not my fault. So you can't blame me. I didn't do it and have no idea how it happened. It didn'… read more
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11. Girl
By: Jamaica Kincaid
3.97
Format: 480 pages,
Girlwas originally published in the June 26, 1978 issue of The New Yorkerand subsequently included … read more
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12. The Use of Force
By: William Carlos Williams
4.00
Format: 231 pages,
The Use of Force" is a short story by the American author William Carlos Williams first published 1… read more
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13. In Our Time
By: Ernest Hemingway
3.74
Format: 156 pages, Paperback
First published in 1925, earning Hemingway praise as a promising American writer. Contains several … read more
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"Isn't love any fun? Marjorie said. "No," Nick said."-Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
"I'm going to stay with you. If you go to jail, we might as well both go."-Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
"All right, said Nick. Let's get drunk. All right, Bill said. Let's get really drunk."-Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
"In the early morning on the lake sitting in the stern of the boat with his father rowing, he felt quite sure that he would never die."-Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
14. 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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16. That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Human (Mead Mishaps, #3)
By: Kimberly Lemming
4.17
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
When I was a little girl, my Ma used to read me stories every night. Some were epic adventures with… read more
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17. Dead Men's Path
By: Chinua Achebe
3.58
Format: 4 pages, None
Dead Men's Path is a short story by the Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe, first published in 1953. The… read more
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18. Hills Like White Elephants
By: Ernest Hemingway
3.85
Format: 6 pages, Kindle Edition
A conversation in a Spanish cafe between a man and a woman that is not as simple as it seems. Hi… read more
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19. One Of These Days
By: Gabriel García Márquez
3.34
Format: 4 pages, ebook
او در سال ۱۹۴۱ اولين نوشتههايش را در روزنامهای به نام Juventude که مخصوص شاگردان دبيرستانی بود من… read more
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20. Popular Mechanics
By: Raymond Carver
3.52
Format: None pages, None
"Early that day the weather turned and the snow was melting into dirty water. Streaks of it ran dow… read more
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