Collected Short Stories: Volume 4
By: W. Somerset Maugham
4.37
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
These thirty short stories show an acknowledged master of the genre at the peak of his power. Most …
Want to Read $ 8.73"...He had few illusions, for here are some of the things that life had taught him: "Men hate those whom they have injured; men love those whom they have benefited; men naturally avoid their benefactors; men are universally actuated by self-interest; gratitude is a lovely sense of expected benefits; promises are never forgotten by those to whom they are made, usually by those who make them."-W. Somerset Maugham, Collected Short Stories: Volume 4
"...He had few illusions, for here are some of the things that life had taught him: "Men hate those whom they have injured; men love those whom they have benefited; men naturally avoid their benefactors; men are universally actuated by self-interest; gratitude is a lovely sense of expected benefits; promises are never forgotten by those to whom they are made, usually by those who make them."-W. Somerset Maugham, Collected Short Stories: Volume 4
"...He had few illusions, for here are some of the things that life had taught him: "Men hate those whom they have injured; men love those whom they have benefited; men naturally avoid their benefactors; men are universally actuated by self-interest; gratitude is a lovely sense of expected benefits; promises are never forgotten by those to whom they are made, usually by those who make them."-W. Somerset Maugham, Collected Short Stories: Volume 4
"Most of these stories are on the tragic side. But the reader must not suppose that the incidents I have narrated were of common occurrence. The vast majority of these people, government servants, planters, and traders, who spent their working lives in Malaya were ordinary people ordinarily satisfied with their station in life. They did the jobs they were paid to do more or less competently,. They were as happy with their wives as are most married couples. They led humdrum lives and did very much the same things every day. Sometimes by way of a change they got a little shooting; but at a rule, after they had done their day's work, they played tennis if there were people to play with, went to the club at sundown if there was a club in the vicinity, drank in moderation, and played bridge. They had their little tiffs, their little jealousies, their little flirtations, their little celebrations. They were good, decent, normal people. I respect, and even admire, such people, but they are not the sort of people I can write stories about. I write stories about people who have some singularity of character which suggests to me that they may be capable of behaving in such a way as to give me an idea that I can make use of, or about people who by some accident or another, accident of temperament, accident of environment, have been involved in unusual contingencies. But, I repeat, they are the exception."-W. Somerset Maugham, Collected Short Stories: Volume 4
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1. The Winter of Our Discontent
By: John Steinbeck , Susan Shillinglaw
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Format: 291 pages, Paperback
Ethan Allen Hawley, the protagonist of Steinbeck’s last novel, works as a clerk in a grocery store … read more
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"Can you honestly love a dishonest thing?"-John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
"If you want to keep a friend, never test him."-John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
"Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms."-John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
"A little hope, even hopeless hope, never hurt anybody."-John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
2. The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
By: Jonathan Lethem , G.K. Chesterton
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Format: 166 pages,
G.K. Chesterton's 1908 masterpiece, The Man Who Was Thursday, is a metaphysical thriller, and a det… read more
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3. Appointment with Death (Hercule Poirot, #19)
By: Agatha Christie
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4. The Singapore Grip
By: J.G. Farrell , Derek Mahon
4.12
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Singapore, 1939: life on the eve of World War II just isn't what it used to be for Walter Blackett,… read more
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5. Orlando
By: Virginia Woolf , Sandra M Gilbert
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Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Virginia Woolf's Orlando 'The longest and most charming love letter in literature', playfully const… read more
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"Life and a lover"-Virginia Woolf, Orlando
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"Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence."-Virginia Woolf, Orlando
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6. A Moveable Feast
By: Ernest Hemingway
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Begun in the autumn of 1957 and published posthumously in 1964, Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast… read more
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7. Amerika
By: Franz Kafka
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Kafka's first and funniest novel, Amerika tells the story of the young immigrant Karl Rossmann who,… read more
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8. A Coffin for Dimitrios
By: Eric Ambler
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Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A chance encounter with a Turkish colonel with a penchant for British crime novels leads mystery wr… read more
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9. Dandelion Wine
By: Ray Bradbury
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Format: 239 pages, Paperback
The summer of '28 was a vintage season for a growing boy. A summer of green apple trees, mowed lawn… read more
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"No,"-Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine
"and sleeping put an end to summer, 1928,"-Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine
"And the sea moved her back down the shore."-Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine
"Those women like to see their tongues dance."-Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine
10. In Between the Sheets
By: Ian McEwan
3.79
Format: 249 pages, Paperback
Call them transcripts of dreams or deadly accurate maps of the tremor zones of the psyche, the seve… read more
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11. The Citadel
By: A.J. Cronin
4.20
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
"Cronin's distinguished achievement....No one could have written as fine, honest, and moving a stud… read more
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12. Three Men in a Boat (Three Men, #1)
By: Jerome K. Jerome
4.60
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
Martyrs to hypochondria and general seediness, J. and his friends George and Harris decide that a j… read more
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13. The Longest Journey
By: E.M. Forster , Gilbert Adair , None
3.66
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Rickie Elliot, a sensitive and intelligent young man with an intense imagination and a certain amou… read more
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14. The Way of Zen
By: Alan W. Watts
4.17
Format: 236 pages, Paperback
The Way of Zen begins as a succinct guide through the histories of Buddhism and Taoism leading up t… read more
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"I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware."-Alan W. Watts, The Way of Zen
"For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere."-Alan W. Watts, The Way of Zen
"[T]he joy of travel is not nearly so much in getting where one wants to go as in the unsought surprises which occur on the journey."-Alan W. Watts, The Way of Zen
"A te elibera de convenție nu înseamnă a o refuza cu dispreț, ci a nu fi amăgit de ea. Înseamnă a fi capabil să o folosești ca pe un instrument, nu a fi folosit de ea."-Alan W. Watts, The Way of Zen
15. Heart of Darkness
By: Joseph Conrad
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Marlow, a seaman and wanderer, recounts his physical and psychological journey in search of the inf… read more
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16. Lord Edgware Dies (Hercule Poirot, #9)
By: Agatha Christie
4.20
Format: None pages, Paperback
Poirot had been present when Jane bragged of her plan to 'get rid of' her estranged husband. Now th… read more
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17. The House of Doors
By: Tan Twan Eng
4.14
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A spellbinding novel about love and betrayal, colonialism and revolution, storytelling and redempti… read more
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"Money's the sixth sense. If you don't have it, you can't make … the most of the other five."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
"I feel that when I travel I can change myself a little, and I return from a journey not quite the same self I was."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
"That night, side by side, we drifted among the galaxies of sea-stars, while far, far above us the asterisks of light marked out the footnotes on the page of eternity."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
"All of us will be forgotten eventually. Like a wave on the ocean, leaving no trace that it had once existed.' He shook his head. 'We will be remembered through our stories."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
18. Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
By: Evelyn Waugh
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Format: 452 pages, Paperback
An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found here. The most nostalgic and reflective of Evely… read more
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"Here my last love had died."-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
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"I had been there before; I knew all about it."-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
"My father greeted me with his usual air of mild regret."-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
19. Dead-End Memories: Stories
By: Banana Yoshimoto
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Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Japan's internationally celebrated master storyteller returns with five stories of women on their w… read more
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"There was a candor about him I noticed in people whose parents had given them something unconditional and absolute growing up."-Banana Yoshimoto, Dead-End Memories: Stories
"Time simply floated open and started to expand. Time held the two of us in light, inside a space so vast it might have reached the heavens, and turned eternal."-Banana Yoshimoto, Dead-End Memories: Stories
"Anyone seeing us would have thought we were newlyweds, or a nice cohabiting couple. But we were only two people, a little regretful, and soon to part. We were having so much fun. It made me sad."-Banana Yoshimoto, Dead-End Memories: Stories
"The words I read in books seemed to strike me more deeply, and with my senses sharpened by grief, I noticed the glittering transition of the seasons as clearly as if I held the grief in the palm of m…"-Banana Yoshimoto, Dead-End Memories: Stories
20. Guys and Dolls and Other Writings
By: Damon Runyon
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Format: 654 pages, Kindle Edition
From Dave the Dude to Al a defining collection from the world of Damon Runyon Damon Runyon grew up… read more
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21. Collected Short Stories: Volume 4
By: W. Somerset Maugham
4.37
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
These thirty short stories show an acknowledged master of the genre at the peak of his power. Most … read more
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- english literature
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"...He had few illusions, for here are some of the things that life had taught him: "Men hate those whom they have injured; men love those whom they have benefited; men naturally avoid their benefacto…"-W. Somerset Maugham, Collected Short Stories: Volume 4
"Most of these stories are on the tragic side. But the reader must not suppose that the incidents I have narrated were of common occurrence. The vast majority of these people, government servants, pla…"-W. Somerset Maugham, Collected Short Stories: Volume 4
"Some people read for instruction, which is praiseworthy, and some for pleasure, which is innocent, but not a few read from habit, and I suppose that is neither innocent nor praiseworthy. Of that lame…"-W. Somerset Maugham, Collected Short Stories: Volume 4
