Great Short Works
By: Stephen Crane
3.81
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
The collected short work of an American master, including The Red Badge of Courage and A Girl of t…
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1. Soldiers' Pay
By: William Faulkner
3.41
Format: 265 pages, Paperback
A group of soldiers travel by train across the United States in the aftermath of the First World Wa… read more
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- classics
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"Who gathers the withered rose?"-William Faulkner, Soldiers' Pay
"Sex and death: the front door and the back door of the world."-William Faulkner, Soldiers' Pay
"Wanton stars galloped neighing like unicorns in blue meadows."-William Faulkner, Soldiers' Pay
"Freedom comes with the decision: it does not wait for the act."-William Faulkner, Soldiers' Pay
2. Invisible Man
By: Ralph Ellison
3.91
Format: 581 pages, Paperback
First published in 1952 and immediately hailed as a masterpiece, Invisible Man is one of those rare… read more
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- classics
- american
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"When I discover who I am, I’ll be free."-Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
"You're very insistent, but I'm very busy."-Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
"They could laugh at him but they couldn't ignore him"-Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
"I could hardly get to sleep for dreaming of revenge."-Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
3. Les Fleurs du Mal
By: Charles Baudelaire , Richard Howard
4.20
Format: 365 pages, Paperback
Charles Baudelaire's 1857 masterwork was scandalous in its day for its portrayals of sex, same-sex … read more
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- classics
- literature
- classic literature
- 19th century
- fiction
"L'orage rajeunit les fleurs"-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
"I am the vampire at my own veins."-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
"Beauty, you walk on corpses, mocking them;"-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
"My heart is lost; the beasts have eaten it."-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
4. The American
By: Henry James , Lee Clark Mitchell
3.33
Format: 288 pages, Mass Market Paperback
In this classic collision of the New World with Old Europe, James weaves a fable of thwarted desire… read more
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- classics
- american
- literature
- 19th century
- fiction
5. The House of the Seven Gables
By: Nathaniel Hawthorne , Robert S. Levine
4.33
Format: 277 pages, Paperback
In a sleepy little New England village stands a dark, weather-beaten, many-gabled house. This brood… read more
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- literature
- classics
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- american
6. Looking Backward: 2000-1887
By: Edward Bellamy , Walter James Miller
3.99
Format: 380 pages, Paperback
Edward Bellamy's classic look at the future has been translated into over twenty languages and is t… read more
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- literature
- classics
- fiction
7. The Enormous Room
By: E.E. Cummings
4.22
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
In 1917 young Edward Estlin Cummings went to France as a volunteer with a Red Cross ambulance unit … read more
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- classics
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- american
8. The Rise of Silas Lapham
By: William Dean Howells , Kermit Vanderbilt
3.80
Format: None pages, Paperback
William Dean Howells' richly humorous characterization of a self-made millionaire in Boston society… read more
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9. A Farewell to Arms
By: Ernest Hemingway , نجف دریابندری
4.12
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war, to the war to end all wars. He volunteered for ambulance serv… read more
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10. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
By: James Joyce , Seamus Deane
3.64
Format: 329 pages, Paperback
The portrayal of Stephen Dedalus's Dublin childhood and youth, his quest for identity through art a… read more
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- literature
- literary fiction
- classics
- fiction
"My heart is quite calm now. I will go back."-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
"God spoke to you by so many voices but you would not hear."-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
"Are you not weary of ardent ways? Tell no more of enchanted days."-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
"He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place."-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
11. Dubliners
By: James Joyce , Jeri Johnson
3.44
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
This work of art reflects life in Ireland at the turn of the last century, and by rejecting euphemi… read more
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12. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
By: Mark Twain
2.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP A nineteenth-century American travels back… read more
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13. The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)
By: Ernest Hemingway
3.79
Format: 189 pages, Paperback
The quintessential novel of the Lost Generation, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta) is one of Ernest Hemin… read more
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- classics
- american
- literature
- fiction
"Never be daunted"-Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)
"I am always in love."-Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)
"You'll lose it, if you talk about it"-Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)
"Oh, darling, I've been so miserable."-Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)
14. The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.58
Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition
1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of… read more
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- literature
- literary fiction
- american
- fiction
"All of history [is] a rehearsal for its own extinction."-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"...do you think if you died drunk you’d sober up before you met Jesus?"-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"The evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure"-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"She asked the girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said dead."-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
15. Paradise Rot
By: Jenny Hval
3.55
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A lyrical debut novel from a musician and artist renowned for her sharp sexual and political imager… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
"I took a bite of a Bloody Ploughman. Even the flesh was red. 'Bloody,' Carral said. 'Nice colour,' I answered. 'It looks sinful. I bet that was the apple Eve ate, you know, in the Bible, the forbidde…"-Jenny Hval, Paradise Rot
"I'll tell you the fairy tale of the apple. Eve ate the apple, and then Adam came and did so too. Afterwards the apple was forgotten, and it was assumed that it rolled away in the grass while Adam and…"-Jenny Hval, Paradise Rot
16. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
By: David Graeber
4.20
Format: 692 pages, Hardcover
A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions abo… read more
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"Humans - from this other perspective, which is just as extreme in its own way - are at best an arbitrary constellation of cultural elements, perhaps assembled according to some prevailing spirit, cod…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"One might ask, how could that most basic element of all human freedoms, the freedom to make promises and commitments and thus build relationships, be turned into its very opposite: into peonage, serf…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"There is an obvious objection to evolutionary models which assume that our strongest social ties are based on close biological kinship: many humans just don’t like their families very much. And this …"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"In the Middle Ages, most people in other parts of the world who actually knew anything about northern Europe at all considered it an obscure and uninviting backwater full of religious fanatics who, a…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
17. Poverty, by America
By: Matthew Desmond
4.27
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in Ameri… read more
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"To live and strive in modern America is to participate in a series of morally fraught systems. If a family’s entire financial livelihood depends on the value of its home, it’s not hard to understand …"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"The rest of us, on the ·other hand-we members of the protected classes-have grown increasingly· dependent on our welfare programs. In 2020 the federal government spent more than $193 billion on homeo…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"In her book The Government-Citizen Disconnect, the political scientist Suzanne Mettler reports that 96 percent of American adults have relied on a major government program at some point in their live…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
18. The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History
By: Ned Blackhawk
4.18
Format: 596 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping and overdue retelling of U.S. history that recognizes that Native Americans are essentia… read more
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19. Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
By: Barbara Demick
4.45
Format: 338 pages, Kindle Edition
Nothing to Envy follows the lives of six North Koreans over fifteen years—a chaotic period that saw… read more
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"...the strength of the regime came from its ability to isolate its own citizens completely."-Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
"In North Korea, you don’t own your own home; you are merely awarded the right to live there."-Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
"He would wait hours for her, maybe two or three. It didn’t matter. The cadence of life is slower in North Korea. Nobody owned a watch."-Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
"Even in parts of the showcase capital of Pyongyang, you can stroll down the middle of a main street at night without being able to see the buildings on either side."-Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
20. On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service
By: Anthony Fauci
4.59
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The memoir by the doctor who became a beacon of hope for millions through the COVID pandemic, and w… read more
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21. Great Short Works
By: Stephen Crane
3.81
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
The collected short work of an American master, including The Red Badge of Courage and A Girl of t… read more
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