The Recruit
By: Honoré de Balzac
3.28
Format: 26 pages, Paperback
An 1831 short story, Le Réquisitionnaire takes place in November 1793 and features Madame de Dey, a…
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1. The New Dress
By: Virginia Woolf
3.67
Format: 11 pages, ebook
The New Dress was written in 1924 while Virginia Woolf was writing Mrs. Dalloway (which was publish… read more
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2. Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey, #2)
By: Dorothy L. Sayers
3.98
Format: 288 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Rustic old Riddlesdale Lodge was a Wimsey family retreat filled with country pleasures and the thri… read more
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"Fou!"-Dorothy L. Sayers, Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey, #2)
"Boil my brains!"-Dorothy L. Sayers, Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey, #2)
"I am abso-bally-lutely positive"-Dorothy L. Sayers, Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey, #2)
"The departure of the church-going element had induced a more humanitarian atmosphere."-Dorothy L. Sayers, Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey, #2)
3. Madame Bovary
By: Gustave Flaubert , Margaret Mauldon , Malcolm Bowie , Mark Overstall
3.70
Format: 329 pages, Paperback
Madame Bovary is the debut novel of French writer Gustave Flaubert, published in 1856. The characte… read more
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- literature
- france
- french literature
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Every notary carries about inside him the debris of a poet."-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
"Speech is a rolling-mill that always thins out the sentiment."-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
"How oft the warmth of the sun above Makes a pretty young girl dream of love."-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
"For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat."-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
4. The Signalman
By: Charles Dickens , Scott Cohn
3.66
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
Presents the tale of a young man who, after listening to an eccentric railroad signalman's predicti… read more
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"Hallow! Below there!"-Charles Dickens, The Signalman
5. The Oval Portrait
By: Edgar Allan Poe
3.94
Format: None pages,
In this story of artistic obsession, a wounded man finds shelter in an abandoned chteau in the Appe… read more
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6. The Return of Sherlock Holmes
By: Arthur Conan Doyle
3.41
Format: 94 pages, Hardcover
The Return of Sherlock Holmesis a collection of 13 Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in… read more
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7. The Cone
By: H.G. Wells
5.00
Format: None pages,
The Cone is a short story by H. G. Wells, first published in 1895 in Unicorn. It was intended to be… read more
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8. The Aleph and Other Stories
By: Jorge Luis Borges , Andrew Hurley
4.33
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
Full of philosophical puzzles and supernatural surprises, these stories contain some of Borges's mo… read more
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9. Kew Gardens
By: Virginia Woolf
3.51
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In 1927, at The Hogarth Press, Virginia Woolf produced and published a limited edition of what was … read more
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10. Germinal (Les Rougon-Macquart, #13)
By: Émile Zola , Roger Pearson
3.70
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
The thirteenth novel in Emile Zola's great Rougon-Macquart sequence, Germinal expresses outrage at … read more
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11. The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
By: Arthur Conan Doyle
3.71
Format: 234 pages, Hardcover
Known and loved by generation after generation, this shrewd amateur detective, with faithful Dr Wat… read more
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12. Moon Palace
By: Paul Auster
3.90
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Marco Stanley Fogg is an orphan, a child of the sixties, a quester tirelessly seeking the key to hi… read more
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13. L'Argent
By: Émile Zola
4.11
Format: 70 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Dix-huitieme volume des Rougon-Macquart, L'Argentest le premier grand western financier des temps m… read more
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14. On the Genealogy of Morals
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Douglas Smith
4.13
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) is a book about the history of ethics and about interpretation. N… read more
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"We are noble, good, beautiful, and happy!"-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
"There is so much in man that is horrifying!.. The world has been a madhouse for too long!..."-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
"Somebody said: "About two persons I have never reflected very thoroughly: that is the testimony of my love for them."-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
"All concepts in which an entire process is semiotically concentrated elude definition; only that which has no history is definable."-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
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16. The Sandman: Overture
By: None , Neil Gaiman , J.H. Williams III , Todd Klein
4.04
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Twenty-five years since 's legendary series is back in a deluxe hardcover edition! The Sandman: Ov… read more
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17. The Nightingale and the Rose
By: Oscar Wilde
2.80
Format: None pages,
An allegorical fable of love, sacrifice and selfishness. As with all of Wilde's short stories it em… read more
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18. The District Doctor
By: Ivan Turgenev
5.00
Format: 228 pages,
ONE day, in autumn, on my way home from the distant fields, I caught cold, and was taken ill. Fortu… read more
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20. La Ficelle
By: Guy de Maupassant
3.36
Format: None pages, Audio Cassette
"The Piece of String" is a short story by Guy de Maupassant. Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant (5… read more
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- literature
- short stories
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21. Moon Witch, Spider King (The Dark Star Trilogy #2)
By: Marlon James
4.18
Format: 626 pages, ebook
From Marlon James, author of the bestselling National Book Award finalist Black Leopard, Red Wolf, … read more
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"No thought is wise just because you have it, girl."-Marlon James, Moon Witch, Spider King (The Dark Star Trilogy #2)
"The world is fickle about witches.' 'The wold is fickle about women."-Marlon James, Moon Witch, Spider King (The Dark Star Trilogy #2)
"Third-eye magic? Only man need a third eye. Woman fine with two, sometimes one."-Marlon James, Moon Witch, Spider King (The Dark Star Trilogy #2)
"Word is divine wish, they say. Word is invisible to all but the gods. So when woman or man write words, they dare to look at the divine."-Marlon James, Moon Witch, Spider King (The Dark Star Trilogy #2)
22. Marriage a la Mode
By: Katherine Mansfield
3.53
Format: None pages, None
Om livet ändå kunde vara lika enkelt som förut! Innan allt förändrades. Innan Isabel förändrades. … read more
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"It was her peculiar curse to never really be unknown."-Katherine Mansfield, Marriage a la Mode
"Do you think there will be Mondays in heaven?' (...) 'Heaven will be one long Monday'."-Katherine Mansfield, Marriage a la Mode
"The late afternoon sun shone on women in cotton frocks and little sunburnt, barefoot children. It blazed on a silky yellow flower with coarse leaves which sprawled over a bank of rock. The air ruffli…"-Katherine Mansfield, Marriage a la Mode
23. Tarquin of Cheapside
By: F. Scott Fitzgerald
2.51
Format: None pages, None
Tarquin of Cheapside by Francis Scott Fitzgerald This short story was first published in the "Smart… read more
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24. In a Far-Off World
By: Olive Schreiner
2.38
Format: None pages, None
Short story. read more
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25. The Cook's Wedding
By: Anton Chekhov
3.28
Format: 286 pages, Paperback
GRISHA, a fat, solemn little person of seven, was standing by the kitchen door listening and peepin… read more
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26. The Recruit
By: Honoré de Balzac
3.28
Format: 26 pages, Paperback
An 1831 short story, Le Réquisitionnaire takes place in November 1793 and features Madame de Dey, a… read more
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27. A Country Cottage and Short Stories (Classics To Go)
By: Anton Chekhov
3.50
Format: 62 pages, Kindle Edition
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian physician and author who is considered to be among the greate… read more
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28. Aunt Hetty on Matrimony
By: Fanny Fern
3.76
Format: None pages, None
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29. Happiness (Annotated)
By: Guy de Maupassant
3.91
Format: 39 pages, Kindle Edition
Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) is regarded as a master of short story writing. First published in 1… read more
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30. Love
By: Guy de Maupassant
3.36
Format: None pages, None
A collection of 12 short stories from Guy de Maupassant: "Love (Three Pages from a Sportsman's Log)… read more
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