Radical Wordsworth: The Poet Who Changed the World
By: Jonathan Bate
4.09
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
On the 250th anniversary of Wordsworth’s birth comes a highly imaginative and vivid portrait of a r…
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1. The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals
By: Dorothy Wordsworth , Pamela Woof
3.75
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Dorothy Wordsworth's journals are a unique record of her life with her brother William, at the time… read more
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2. The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
By: Simon Winchester
2.67
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
With riveting insight and detail, Simon Winchester crafts a fascinating glimpse into one man's tort… read more
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3. The Sea, the Sea
By: Iris Murdoch , Mary Kinzie
3.66
Format: 341 pages, Paperback
Charles Arrowby, leading light of England's theatrical set, retires from glittering London to an is… read more
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4. Silas Marner
By: George Eliot
3.68
Format: 262 pages, Paperback
Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe is the third novel by George Eliot, published in 1861. An outwa… read more
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"Love once, love always"-George Eliot, Silas Marner
"Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand."-George Eliot, Silas Marner
"Hurt, he'll never be hurt--he's made to hurt other people."-George Eliot, Silas Marner
"Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings."-George Eliot, Silas Marner
5. The Stars My Destination
By: Neil Gaiman , Alfred Bester
4.06
Format: 258 pages, Hardcover
In this pulse-quickening novel, Alfred Bester imagines a future in which people "jaunte" a thousand… read more
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"Millions for defense, but not one cent for survival."-Neil Gaiman, The Stars My Destination
"Don't ask the world to stop moving because you have doubts."-Neil Gaiman, The Stars My Destination
"I've handed life and death back to the people who do the living and the dying."-Neil Gaiman, The Stars My Destination
"If you can have everything at fifty that you wanted when you were fifteen, you're happy."-Neil Gaiman, The Stars My Destination
6. Right Ho, Jeeves (Jeeves, #6)
By: P.G. Wodehouse
3.72
Format: 272 pages,
Follow the adventures of Bertie Wooster and his gentleman's gentleman, Jeeves, in this stunning new… read more
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7. The Claw of the Conciliator (The Book of the New Sun #2)
By: Gene Wolfe
3.78
Format: 416 pages,
Severian is in possession of a gem considered to be "The Claw of the Conciliator", a powerful relic… read more
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8. Lyrical Ballads
By: William Wordsworth , Samuel Taylor Coleridge , None
4.08
Format: None pages, Paperback
The majority of the following poems are to be considered as experiments. They were written chiefly … read more
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9. The Grasmere Journals
By: Dorothy Wordsworth
3.17
Format: 55 pages, Paperback
Dorothy Wordsworth's The Grasmere Journals, begun in May 1800 while at Dove Cottage, and continued … read more
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10. The Prussian Officer
By: D.H. Lawrence
4.00
Format: 268 pages, Paperback
David Herbert Richards Lawrence (11 September 1885 - 2 March 1930) was an English novelist, poet, p… read more
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11. Rather Be the Devil (Inspector Rebus, #21)
By: Ian Rankin
3.55
Format: 320 pages,
Ian Rankin returns with his superb new novel, set in the dark heart of Edinburgh. John Rebus, now a… read more
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12. The Portrait of a Lady
By: Henry James , Patricia Crick
3.79
Format: 797 pages, Paperback
When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy Aunt Touche… read more
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"She has only one fault; too many ideas."-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
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"It's not my fate to give up--I know it can't be."-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
"The finer natures were those that shone at the larger times."-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
13. The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex/Oedipus at Colonus/Antigone (The Theban Plays, #1–3)
By: Sophocles , Robert Fitzgerald , Dudley Fitts , None
5.00
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
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14. Act of Oblivion
By: Robert Harris
4.07
Format: 463 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Fatherland, The Ghostwriter, Munich, and Conclave comes this spellbi… read more
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"He had no idea where they would go, or what they would do, or what dangers lay ahead. But with their love, and their Bible, with their absolute certainty in the power of the Lord and the protection o…"-Robert Harris, Act of Oblivion
15. Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
By: Katherine Rundell
4.18
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From standout scholar Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite presents a sparkling and very modern biogra… read more
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"To adore and to devour and to be devoured is its own kind of focus: a gasp of a different kind of oxygen."-Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
16. August Blue
By: Deborah Levy
3.68
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A new novel from the Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy, the celebrated author of The Man Who Saw E… read more
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"We agreed that whatever happened next in the world, we would still rub conditioner into our hair after we washed it and comb it through to the ends, we would soften our lips with rose-, strawberry-, …"-Deborah Levy, August Blue
17. The Fraud
By: Zadie Smith
3.30
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The extraordinary first historical novel from bestselling author of White Teeth Zadie Smith It i… read more
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"Eliza had long understood her cousin to be beyond the reach of editorial intervention."-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
"What possesses people? Unhappiness, always. Happiness is otherwise occupied. It has an object on which to focus. It has daisies, it has snowdrifts. Unhappiness opens up the void, which then requires …"-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
"I know this country well. Well enough to understand that justice takes time, and that the freedoms of a minority are rarely self-evident to the majority. What is perfectly selfevident to God is – unf…"-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
"God preserve me from novel-writing, thought Mrs Touchet. God preserve me from that tragic indulgence, that useless vanity, that blindness! In a cold dormitory, two hundred miles away, three heartbrok…"-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
18. Mayflies
By: Andrew O'Hagan
3.96
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From the widely renowned author Andrew O'Hagan, a heartbreaking novel of an extraordinary lifelong … read more
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"Go gently with people's pain. It's the same as yours."-Andrew O'Hagan, Mayflies
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"He was a friend to friendship itself and never expected people to be better than they were."-Andrew O'Hagan, Mayflies
"It wasn’t a matter to fight over: some families are made up of strangers and nothing can change it."-Andrew O'Hagan, Mayflies
19. Radical Wordsworth: The Poet Who Changed the World
By: Jonathan Bate
4.09
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
On the 250th anniversary of Wordsworth’s birth comes a highly imaginative and vivid portrait of a r… read more
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- biography memoir
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- romanticism
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20. The Bible for Grown-Ups
By: Simon Loveday
3.73
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The Bible for Grown-Ups neither requires, nor rejects, belief. It sets out to help intelligent adul… read more
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