The Complete Short Fiction
By: Oscar Wilde
3.96
Format: None pages, ebook
Fairy tales, ghost stories, detective fiction and comedies of manners - the stories collected in th…
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1. The Little Friend
By: Donna Tartt
3.47
Format: 624 pages, Paperback
Bestselling author Donna Tartt returns with a grandly ambitious and utterly riveting novel of child… read more
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"But how can you stand to stay asleep so much?"-Donna Tartt, The Little Friend
"Birds can sing and fish can swim and I can do this."-Donna Tartt, The Little Friend
"For the truth of the situation was that he would do whatever she asked of him, whatever it was, and they both knew it."-Donna Tartt, The Little Friend
"He was talking in a voice which didn't sound at all like James Bond, but which Harriet recognized as his James Bond voice."-Donna Tartt, The Little Friend
2. The Woman in White
By: Wilkie Collins , Matthew Sweet
4.01
Format: 672 pages, Paperback
Librarian note: Alternate covers can be found here and here. 'In one moment, every drop of blood… read more
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- classics
"I am a bundle of nerves dressed up to look like a man!"-Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
"... our endurance must end, and our resistance begin, to-day."-Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
"You don’t have to speak at all— I know what you’d say… - Laura"-Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
"My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody."-Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
3. The Phantom of the Opera
By: Gaston Leroux , Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
3.96
Format: 360 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published in French as a serial in 1909, The Phantom of the Opera is a riveting story that re… read more
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- classics
- fiction
"He laid at my feet his immense, tragic love."-Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera
"All I wanted was to be loved for myself." (Erik)"-Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera
"My lies were as hideous as the monster that had inspired them"-Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera
"I sing only for you! Tonight I gave you my soul, and I'm dead!"-Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera
4. When We Were Orphans
By: Kazuo Ishiguro
3.54
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
The maze of human memory--the ways in which we accommodate and alter it, deceive and deliver oursel… read more
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"أعرف أنه احيانًا يكون صعبًا وكأن العالم كله قد انهار من حولك"-Kazuo Ishiguro, When We Were Orphans
"I was upset. But I'm not any more. You have to look forward in life."-Kazuo Ishiguro, When We Were Orphans
"إن المجرم الحديث قد أصبح أكثر مهارة ، أكثر طموحا ، وأكثر جرأة ، والعلم قد وضع نظاما كاملا من الأدوات المعقدة تحت تصرفه"-Kazuo Ishiguro, When We Were Orphans
"It's all right. I'm not upset. After all, they were just things . When you've lost your mother and your father, you can't care so much about things , can you?"-Kazuo Ishiguro, When We Were Orphans
5. The Penelopiad
By: Margaret Atwood
3.72
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
Now that all the others have run out of air, it's my turn to do a little story-making. In Homer'… read more
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- classics
- fiction
"the gods often mumble"-Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad
"Boys with their first beards can be a thorough pain in the neck."-Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad
"Happy endings are best achieved by keeping the right doors locked"-Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad
"Which of us can resist the temptation of being thought indispensable?"-Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad
6. Vanity Fair
By: William Makepeace Thackeray , John Carey
4.28
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Edited by John Carey. Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero is a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray… read more
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- classics
- fiction
7. The Pillowman
By: Martin McDonagh
4.30
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
A writer in a totalitarian state is interrogated about the gruesome content of his short stories an… read more
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"It isn't about being or not being dead, it's about what you leave behind"-Martin McDonagh, The Pillowman
"Oh, I almost forgot to mention...I'm the good cop, he's the bad cop." - Tupolski"-Martin McDonagh, The Pillowman
"Oh, I almost forgot to mention... I'm the good cop, he's the bad cop! - Tupolski"-Martin McDonagh, The Pillowman
8. A Single Man
By: Christopher Isherwood
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
When A Single Man was originally published, it shocked many by its frank, sympathetic, and moving p… read more
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- classics
- fiction
9. 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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10. The Piano Teacher
By: Joachim Neugroschel , Elfriede Jelinek
2.00
Format: 238 pages, Hardcover
The Piano Teacher,the most famous novel of Elfriede Jelinek, who was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize i… read more
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- classics
- fiction
11. The Collector
By: John Fowles
3.77
Format: 134 pages, Paperback
Withdrawn, uneducated and unloved, Frederick collects butterflies and takes photographs. He is obse… read more
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- classics
- fiction
12. Story of the Eye
By: Georges Bataille , Joachim Neugroschel , Dovid Bergelson
3.66
Format: 103 pages, Paperback
Only Georges Bataille could write, of an eyeball removed from a corpse, that "the caress of the eye… read more
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- fiction
"We pedaled rapidly, without laughing or speaking, peculiarly satisfied with our mutual presence, akin to one another in the common isolation of lewdness, weariness, and absurdity."-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye
"Simone was tall and lovely. She was usually very natural; there was nothing heartbreaking in her eyes or her voice. But on a sensual level, she so bluntly craved any upheaval that the faintest call f…"-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye
"I remember that one day, when we were in a car tooling along at top speed,we crashed into a cyclist, an apparently very young and very pretty girl. Her head was almost totally ripped off by the wheel…"-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye
"As for the fact that Simone dared to piss on the corpse, whether in boredom or, at worst, in irritation: it mainly goes to prove how impossible it was for us to understand what was happening, and of …"-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye
13. In the Miso Soup
By: Ryū Murakami , Ralph McCarthy
3.83
Format: 95 pages, Paperback
It is just before New Year's. Frank, an overweight American tourist, has hired Kenji to take him on… read more
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- fiction
14. 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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- short stories
- classics
- fiction
15. Maggie Cassidy
By: Jack Kerouac
4.00
Format: 412 pages, Paperback
"When someone asks 'Where does [Kerouac] get that stuff?' say: 'From you!' He lay awake all night l… read more
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- classics
- fiction
16. Cancer Ward
By: None , David Burg , Nicholas Bethell
3.09
Format: None pages, Paperback
One of the great allegorical masterpieces of world literature, Cancer Wardis both a deeply compassi… read more
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- classics
- fiction
17. The Thirteen Problems (Miss Marple, #2)
By: Agatha Christie
3.68
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Tuesday Night Club is a venue where locals challenge Miss Marple to solve recent crimes...One T… read more
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- short stories
- classics
- fiction
18. Boy: Tales of Childhood
By: Roald Dahl , Quentin Blake
3.45
Format: 105 pages, Paperback
In Boy, Roald Dahl recounts his days as a child growing up in England. From his years as a prankste… read more
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19. Junky
By: William S. Burroughs , Allen Ginsberg , Oliver Harris
3.84
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
Before his 1959 breakthrough, Naked Lunch, an unknown William S. Burroughs wrote Junky, his first n… read more
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20. Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas
By: Machado de Assis
4.25
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
A publicação de 'Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas' não só inaugura o Realismo no Brasil, como inicia… read more
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- fiction
"Quem escapa do perigo vive a vida com outra intensidade."-Machado de Assis, Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas
"Em verdade vos digo que toda a sabedoria humana não vale um par de botas curtas."-Machado de Assis, Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas
"Diz que o homem tem “uma grande vantagem sobre o resto do universo: sabe que morre, ao passo que o universo ignora-o absolutamente"-Machado de Assis, Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas
"هر دوره زندگی چاپ جدیدی است که چاپ قبلی را تصحیح میکند و خودش هم در چاپ بعدی تصحیح میشود، تا برسد به چاپ متن نهایی که ناشر به کرم ها تقدیم میکندش."-Machado de Assis, Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas
21. Middlemarch
By: Michel Faber , George Eliot
4.02
Format: 912 pages, Mass Market Paperback
"People are almost always better than their neighbours think they are" George Eliot’s most ambit… read more
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"After all, the true seeing is within."-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
"I shall do everything it becomes me to do."-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
"I protest against any absolute conclusion."-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
"What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?"-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
22. Medea
By: Euripides , Rex Warner
3.42
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
One of the most powerful and enduring of Greek tragedies, Medeacenters on the myth of Jason, leader… read more
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23. Thinner
By: Stephen King , Richard Bachman
3.77
Format: 320 pages, Mass Market Paperback
After an old gypsy woman is killed by his car, lawyer Billy Halleck is stricken with a flesh-wastin… read more
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"Purpurfargade ansiktet"-Stephen King, Thinner
"It's the people who aren't scared who die young."-Stephen King, Thinner
"Things hurt more when you were alone, that was all."-Stephen King, Thinner
"The definition of an asshole is a guy who doesn't believe what he's seeing."-Stephen King, Thinner
24. Blue Horses
By: Mary Oliver
4.24
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
In this stunning collection of new poems, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has defined her l… read more
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25. Moby-Dick or, The Whale
By: Herman Melville , Tom Quirk , Andrew Delbanco
3.55
Format: 720 pages, Paperback
"It is the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships' cables and hawsers. A Polar … read more
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- fiction
"Call me Ishmael."-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
"Ignorance is the parent of fear"-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
"Ignorance is the parent of fear."-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
"Speak, thou vast and venerable head,"-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
26. The House of Mirth
By: Edith Wharton , Nina Bawden
4.05
Format: 12 pages, Paperback
First published in 1905, THE HOUSE OF MIRTH shocked the New York society it so deftly chronicles, p… read more
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27. List of the Lost
By: Morrissey
2.83
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Beware the novelist . . . intimate and indiscreet . . . pompous, prophetic airs . . . here is the f… read more
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28. Autobiography
By: Morrissey
3.96
Format: 286 pages, Paperback
Steven Patrick Morrissey was born in Manchester on May 22nd 1959. Singer-songwriter and co-founder … read more
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29. The Premonition
By: Banana Yoshimoto
3.43
Format: 133 pages, Hardcover
The internationally beloved author of Kitchen and Dead-End Memories returns with a beautiful and he… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
"I'd never known a love before that could blot out the world around like this."-Banana Yoshimoto, The Premonition
"Later, for the first time in a very long time, I heard my aunt play the piano. Its tone was soft, and just like I remembered it. At the kitchen window one overcast afternoon, I watched its beautiful …"-Banana Yoshimoto, The Premonition
30. Troy (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #3)
By: Stephen Fry
4.35
Format: 414 pages, Hardcover
The story of Troy speaks to all of us - the kidnapping of Helen, a queen celebrated for her beauty,… read more
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- classics
"His reward is the eternal fame that is both priceless and worthless"-Stephen Fry, Troy (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #3)
"Bij onze geboorte ligt ons lot al vast, en niemand heeft ooit het zijne kunnen ontlopen (Hektor)"-Stephen Fry, Troy (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #3)
"Forget him. What is treasure? Or Briseis, or honor, or anything? Next to the life of the one I loved best and dearest? My beloved, my only Patroclus."-Stephen Fry, Troy (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #3)
"Zelfs de onsterfelijke goden waren niet bij machte zich te verhouden tot, mee te leven met, nakomelingen te verwekken bij en het lot te bepalen van zo'n aanzwellende schare eerzuchtige, vernuftige en…"-Stephen Fry, Troy (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #3)
31. The Complete Short Fiction
By: Oscar Wilde
3.96
Format: None pages, ebook
Fairy tales, ghost stories, detective fiction and comedies of manners - the stories collected in th… read more
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