Poseidon
By: Franz Kafka
3.83
Format: 15 pages, None
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1. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (Creative Short Stories)
By: James Thurber
3.67
Format: 32 pages, Library Binding
A henpecked husband copes with the frustrations of his dull life by imagining he is a fearless airp… read more
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"Live life by the abc's...adventure, bravery and creativity."-James Thurber, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (Creative Short Stories)
"To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, draw closer, to find each other and to feel. That is the purpose of life."-James Thurber, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (Creative Short Stories)
2. The Masque of the Red Death
By: Edgar Allan Poe
4.06
Format: 9 pages, Paperback
The story follows Prince Prospero's attempts to avoid a dangerous plague known as the Red Death by … read more
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"Existem cordas, nos corações dos mais indiferentes, que não podem ser tocadas sem emoção."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death
"Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death
"There was much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death
"And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death
3. The Black Cat
By: Edgar Allan Poe
3.40
Format: 300 pages,
"The Black Cat" is one of Edgar Allan Poe's most memorable stories. The tale centers around a black… read more
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5. In a Grove
By: Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
4.04
Format: 192 pages,
"In a Grove" (Sou noZhong , Yabu no Naka?) is a short story by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, first appearing… read more
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6. I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream
By: Harlan Ellison
5.00
Format: 398 pages, ebook
"I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" is a post-apocalyptic sci-fi short story by Harlan Ellison. It… read more
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7. The Annals of Imperial Rome
By: Michael Grant , Tacitus
4.33
Format: 25 pages, Mass Market Paperback
In "The Annals of Imperial Rome", his last and greatest work, Tacitus (AD c.55-c.117) covers the pe… read more
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8. The World's Wife
By: Carol Ann Duffy
4.42
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Be terrified. It's you I love, perfect man, Greek God, my own; but I know you'll go, betray me,… read more
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9. Aphorisms on Love and Hate
By: Friedrich Nietzsche
4.40
Format: None pages, Paperback
'We must learn to love, learn to be kind, and this from our earliest youth ... Likewise, hatred mus… read more
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10. The Canterbury Tales
By: Geoffrey Chaucer , Nevill Coghill
3.72
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
The procession that crosses Chaucer's pages is as full of life and as richly textured as a medieval… read more
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11. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
By: Ambrose Bierce
3.50
Format: 262 pages, ebook
The condemned man stands on a bridge, his hands bound behind his back. A noose is tied around his n… read more
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12. Bobok
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky
3.48
Format: 22 pages, Paperback
"Bobok" (Russian: Бобок, Bobok) is a short story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky that first appeared in 1873.… read more
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"Acho que o mais inteligente é quem ao menos uma vez por mês chama a si mesmo de imbecil — capacidade de que hoje não se ouve falar!"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Bobok
"I don't like it when people with only a general education rush to solve problems best left to specialists; and that happens all of the time among us."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Bobok
13. Ficciones
By: Jorge Luis Borges , Anthony Bonner , Anthony Kerrigan
3.53
Format: 320 pages,
The seventeen pieces in Ficcionesdemonstrate the whirlwind of Borges's genius and mirror the precis… read more
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14. Metamorphoses
By: Ovid , David Raeburn , Denis Feeney
3.99
Format: 240 pages,
Metamorphoses (from Greek meta meta and morphe morphe, meaning "changes of shape"), is a Latin narr… read more
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15. History of the Peloponnesian War
By: Thucydides , Moses I. Finley , Rex Warner
3.94
Format: 648 pages, Paperback
Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the lo… read more
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"Friendship or enmity is everywhere an affair of time and circumstance"-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
"Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and self-respect is the chief element in courage."-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
"Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear."-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
"Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must."-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
16. The Cask of Amontillado
By: Edgar Allan Poe
4.08
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
"The Cask of Amontillado" (sometimes spelled "The Casque ..") is a short story written by Edgar All… read more
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"For the love of God, Montresor!"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado
"He did not perceive that my smile now was at the thought of his immolation."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado
"The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado
"The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could; but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado
17. Shakespeare's Sonnets
By: William Shakespeare , Katherine Duncan-Jones
4.45
Format: 122 pages, Paperback
T.S. Eliot once wrote that, "Shakespeare gives the greatest width of human passion," and it is this… read more
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18. The Library of Babel
By: Jorge Luis Borges , Andrew Hurley , Erik Desmazieres
4.35
Format: 36 pages, Hardcover
Jorge Luis Borges's famous 1941 meditation on language, alphabets, and the library that contains al… read more
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"O Time thy pyramids."-Jorge Luis Borges, The Library of Babel
"The Library is a sphere whose exact centre is any one of its hexagons and whose circumference is inaccessible."-Jorge Luis Borges, The Library of Babel
"If honor and wisdom and happiness are not for me, let them be for others. Let heaven exist, though my place be in hell."-Jorge Luis Borges, The Library of Babel
"The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite, perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries."-Jorge Luis Borges, The Library of Babel
19. The Jaunt
By: Stephen King
4.18
Format: 25 pages, None
"The Jaunt" is a horror short story by Stephen King first published in The Twilight Zone Magazine i… read more
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20. 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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21. Poseidon
By: Franz Kafka
3.83
Format: 15 pages, None
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