The Virgin of the Seven Daggers: And Other Stories
By: Vernon Lee
4.38
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
I entered the church...It struck me suddenly that all this crowd of men and women standing all roun…
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1. Tess of the D’Urbervilles
By: Thomas Hardy , Tim Dolin , Margaret R. Higonnet
3.83
Format: 518 pages, Paperback
Alternate covers can be found here and here. When Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty t… read more
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"Bless thy simplicity, Tess"-Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles
"One thing he certainly was— sincere."-Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles
"The roof was a gymnasium for the winds"-Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles
"Tess was carried along the wings of the hours"-Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles
2. Armadale
By: John Sutherland , Wilkie Collins
3.94
Format: 721 pages, Paperback
When the elderly Allan Armadale makes a terrible confession on his death-bed, he has little idea of… read more
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"A judge, replied the Empress, is easy to be had, but to get an impartial judge, is a thing so difficult."-John Sutherland, Armadale
"The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!"-John Sutherland, Armadale
"...that much gold, and great store of riches makes them mad, insomuch as they endeavour to destroy each other..."-John Sutherland, Armadale
"Allan found his place for the second time, and fell headlong into the bottomless abyss of the English Law. “Page 280,"-John Sutherland, Armadale
3. The Female Man
By: Joanna Russ
3.59
Format: None pages, Paperback
Cover Artist: Louise Sullivan It's influenced William Gibson and been listed as one of the ten esse… read more
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4. Hedda Gabler
By: Henrik Ibsen , William Archer
3.93
Format: None pages, Paperback
Hedda Gabler, the daughter of a deceased General, marries dull George Tesman and foresees a life of… read more
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5. The Three Coffins (Dr. Gideon Fell, #6)
By: John Dickson Carr
4.04
Format: 202 pages, Paperback
Professor Charles Grimaud was explaining to some friends the natural causes behind an ancient super… read more
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6. The Summer Book
By: Tove Jansson , Esther Freud , Thomas Teal , Sophia Jansson
2.50
Format: 62 pages, Paperback
An elderly artist and her six-year-old granddaughter while away a summer together on a tiny island … read more
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- fiction
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- short stories
7. V for Vendetta
By: Alan Moore , David Lloyd
3.50
Format: 92 pages, Hardcover
"Remember, remember the fifth of November..." A frightening and powerful tale of the loss of freedo… read more
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- fiction
8. After London: or, Wild England
By: Richard Jefferies
3.71
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
The meadows were green, and so was the rising wheat which had been sown, but which neither had nor … read more
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9. A Month in the Country
By: J.L. Carr , Michael Holroyd
3.76
Format: None pages,
In J. L. Carr's deeply charged poetic novel, Tom Birkin, a veteran of the Great War and a broken ma… read more
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11. Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
By: Aeschylus , Patricia E. Easterling , John Harrison , Judith Affleck , None
3.83
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Treating ancient plays as living drama. Classical Greek drama is brought vividly to life in this se… read more
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"Every medicine is vain."-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
"A curse burns bright on crime."-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
"There is no avoidance in delay."-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
"In war, the first casualty is truth."-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
12. The Complete Fairy Tales
By: Oscar Wilde
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde includes the two definitive story collections The Happy Pri… read more
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13. The Red Badge of Courage
By: Stephen Crane
3.68
Format: 330 pages, Paperback
During an unnamed battle, 18-year-old private Henry Fleming survives what he considers to be a lost… read more
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14. The Sense of an Ending
By: Julian Barnes
4.05
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single sitting, with stunning psychological and … read more
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15. Eugene Onegin
By: Alexander Pushkin , James E. Falen
4.10
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Eugene Onegin is the master work of the poet whom Russians regard as the fountainhead of their lite… read more
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- fiction
"He's happy now, he's almost sane."-Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin
"Habit is heaven's gift to us: a substitute for happiness."-Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin
"My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you..."-Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin
"I'm only writing this to show That I stopped sinning long ago."-Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin
16. The Bird's Nest
By: Shirley Jackson
4.40
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Elizabeth is a demure twenty-three-year-old wiling her life away at a dull museum job, living with … read more
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17. The Secret Hours
By: Mick Herron
4.29
Format: 384 pages, ebook
Two years ago, a hostile Prime Minister launched the Monochrome inquiry, investigating "historical … read more
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"We’re the Secret Service. We’re not here to be liked."-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours
"And you can shut your damn mouth too." "Now now. Casual profanity’s the sign of a small fucking mind."-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours
"Come on. You can buy me breakfast." "I've already had breakfast." "So have I. What's that got to do with it?"-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours
"First Desk enjoyed coincidences the way she liked happy endings: outside of fiction, they were as trustworthy as a Tinder Profile."-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours
18. A Shining
By: Jon Fosse
3.49
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
A man starts driving without knowing where he is going. He alternates between turning right and lef… read more
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- fiction
"but you can’t just touch a whiteness like that. because if you did you’d probably get it dirty. and imagine getting something so white dirty"-Jon Fosse, A Shining
"Es ist auch nicht zu begreifen, es ist etwas anderes, vielleicht etwas, das man nur erlebt und das nicht wirklich geschieht. Aber geht es an, dass man so etwas einfach erlebt. Alles, was man erlebt, …"-Jon Fosse, A Shining
19. Wandering Stars
By: Tommy Orange
3.89
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tommy Orange’s breakout best seller There … read more
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"And in the year 1924 Indian citizenship will have been granted, even though they will mean to dissolve tribes by giving citizenship, dissolve being another word for disappearance, a kind of chemical …"-Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars
20. Dhalgren
By: Samuel R. Delany
3.77
Format: 836 pages, Kindle Edition
A mysterious disaster has stricken the midwestern American city of Bellona, and its aftereffects ar… read more
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"What?"-Samuel R. Delany, Dhalgren
"He wanted to talk and had nothing to say."-Samuel R. Delany, Dhalgren
"An artist simply cannot trust any public emblem of merit."-Samuel R. Delany, Dhalgren
"I heard Bellona was where it was at. It must be, now. I’m here."-Samuel R. Delany, Dhalgren
21. The Virgin of the Seven Daggers: And Other Stories
By: Vernon Lee
4.38
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
I entered the church...It struck me suddenly that all this crowd of men and women standing all roun… read more
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