The Devil (Short Stories Series)
By: Guy de Maupassant
3.42
Format: 31 pages, Library Binding
Mother Rapet, the greedy nurse to a dying old woman, finds a way to make a bigger profit from the j…
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1. The Crying of Lot 49
By: Thomas Pynchon
3.69
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
Suffused with rich satire, chaotic brilliance, verbal turbulence and wild humor, The Crying of Lot … read more
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- classics
- fiction
"As if the dead really do persist, even in a bottle of wine."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
"Death glided by, shadowless, among the empties on the grass."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
"I am having a hallucination now, I don't need drugs for that."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
"the casting had been typically Hollywood: they didn't look or act a bit alike."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
2. Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)
By: John Steinbeck
4.06
Format: 181 pages, Paperback
Cannery Row is a book without much of a plot. Rather, it is an attempt to capture the feeling and p… read more
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- classics
- fiction
"He's got a can up there,' Richard said."-John Steinbeck, Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)
"Men all do about the same thing when they wake up."-John Steinbeck, Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)
"If a man ordered a beer milkshake he'd better do it in a town where he wasn't known."-John Steinbeck, Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)
"Then the sun came up and shook the night chill out of the air the way you'd shake a rug."-John Steinbeck, Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)
3. 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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- fiction
- classics
- short stories
- horror
4. The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
By: Jonathan Lethem , G.K. Chesterton
2.67
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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- classics
- fiction
5. A Haunted House and Other Short Stories
By: Virginia Woolf , Leonard Woolf
3.64
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
The stories found in A Haunted Housereflect Virginia Woolf's experimental writing style and act as … read more
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7. The Lottery
By: Shirley Jackson
4.05
Format: 30 pages, Paperback
In a small American town, the local residents are abuzz with excitement and nervousness when they w… read more
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- classics
- short stories
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"It's not the way it used to be... people ain't the way they used to be."-Shirley Jackson, The Lottery
"It isn't fair, it isn't right," Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her."-Shirley Jackson, The Lottery
"The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green."-Shirley Jackson, The Lottery
8. Little Lord Fauntleroy
By: Frances Hodgson Burnett , Reginald Birch
4.23
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Little Lord Fauntleroy (1885, 1886) by Frances Hodgson Burnett is a beloved children's novel that m… read more
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9. A Day in the Country
By: Anton Chekhov
3.88
Format: 0 pages, Hardcover
Do your students enjoy a good laugh? Do they like to be scared? Or do they just like a book with a … read more
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- classics
- short stories
10. 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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11. The Pit and the Pendulum
By: Edgar Allan Poe
4.15
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
Get set for true terror in one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous short stories. We enter the mind… read more
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- classics
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- horror
"How at least shall we distinguish its shadows from those of the tomb?"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum
"In the deepest slumber-no! In delirium-no! In a swoon-no! In death-no! even in the grave all is not lost."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum
"In death - no! even in the grave all is not lost. Else there is no immortality for man. Arousing from the most profound slumbers, we break the gossamer web of some dream. Yet in a second afterward, (…"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum
"He who has never swooned, is not he who finds strange palaces and wildly familiar faces in coals that glow; is not he who beholds floating in mid-air the sad visions that the many may not view; is no…"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum
12. Kiss Me Again, Stranger: A Collection of Eight Stories, Long and Short
By: Daphne du Maurier
3.63
Format: None pages,
Includes the title story plus: The Birds ~ The Little Photographer ~ Monte Verita ~ The Apple Tree … read more
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13. The Baron in the Trees
By: Italo Calvino , Archibald Colquhoun , Ana Goldstein
4.02
Format: 217 pages, Paperback
A landmark new translation of a Calvino classic, a whimsical, spirited novel that imagines a life l… read more
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- classics
- fiction
"Why d’you make me suffer?" “Because I love you."-Italo Calvino, The Baron in the Trees
"Mais je fais une chose tout à fait bonne: je vis dans les arbres"-Italo Calvino, The Baron in the Trees
"No puede haber amor si no se es uno mismo con todas sus fuerzas."-Italo Calvino, The Baron in the Trees
"Chi vuole guardare bene la terra deve tenersi alla distanza necessaria."-Italo Calvino, The Baron in the Trees
14. Invisible Cities
By: Italo Calvino , William Weaver
4.11
Format: 15 pages, Paperback
"Kublai Khan does not necessarily believe everything Marco Polo says when he describes the cities v… read more
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- fiction
15. Tobermory
By: Saki
3.50
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Tobermoryis one of Saki's (H. H. Munro) best known short stories. Toby is a cat that learns to spea… read more
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16. The Interlopers (Tale Blazers)
By: Saki
3.63
Format: 6 pages, Paperback
Two men, Ulrich von Gradwitz and Georg Znaeym, are both in a forested area on the Carpathian Mounta… read more
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17. The Birds
By: Daphne du Maurier
3.89
Format: 75 pages, Paperback
"The birds kept coming at him from the air, silent save for the beating wings. The terrible, flutte… read more
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- classics
- short stories
- horror
18. The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax
By: Arthur Conan Doyle
4.04
Format: 176 pages,
The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax is a book written by Arthur Conan Doyle. It is widely cons… read more
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19. The Periodic Table
By: Primo Levi , Raymond Rosenthal
4.18
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
The Periodic Table is largely a memoir of the years before and after Primo Levi's transportation fr… read more
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20. The Mark of the Beast
By: Rudyard Kipling , B.J. Harrison
3.76
Format: 234 pages, Audible Audio
When a carousing Englishman disgraces the consecrated effigy of Hanuman, a leprous "Silver Man" mar… read more
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21. The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky
4.02
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
A short story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky written in 1877. It begins with a man walking St. Petersburg's … read more
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- classics
- short stories
"I want to suffer so that I may love."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
"How anxiously I yearned for those I had forsake"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
"how anxiously I yearned for those I had forsaken."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
"أصبحت فجأة لا أغضب من الناس، بل ما عدت ألاحظ وجودهم."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
22. Gravity's Rainbow
By: Thomas Pynchon , Andrés Ibáñez , None
3.97
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, Gravity's Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustiv… read more
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23. The Veldt
By: Ray Bradbury , Gary Kelley
5.00
Format: 32 pages,
The advanced technology of a house first pleases then increasingly terrifies its occupants. read more
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24. Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
By: Edwin A. Abbott , Banesh Hoffmann
3.89
Format: None pages, Paperback
This masterpiece of science (and mathematical) fiction is a delightfully unique and highly entertai… read more
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25. The Snow Storm
By: Alexander Pushkin , Mary GrandPré
0.00
Format: 152 pages, Hardcover
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26. The Cherry Orchard
By: Anton Chekhov , Tom Murphy
4.29
Format: 156 pages, Paperback
Published to tie in with the world premiere at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin In Chekhov's tragi-comedy … read more
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27. Snow, Glass, Apples
By: Neil Gaiman
4.07
Format: 64 pages, Hardcover
A chilling fantasy retelling of the Snow White fairy tale by bestselling creators Neil Gaiman and C… read more
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- horror
"I will not scream. I will not give them that satisfaction. They will have my body, but my soul and my story are my own, and will die with me."-Neil Gaiman, Snow, Glass, Apples
"Lies and half-truths fall like snow, covering the things that I remember, the things I saw. A landscape, unrecognizable after a snowfall; that is what she has made of my life."-Neil Gaiman, Snow, Glass, Apples
28. The Adventure of the Devil's Foot
By: Arthur Conan Doyle
3.89
Format: 28 pages, Kindle Edition
Sherlock Holmes'un yazari Arthur Conan Doyle bu eserinde yaniltici ipuclariyla dolu uc hikyeyi okuy… read more
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"I fear that if the matter is beyond humanity, it is certainly beyond me."-Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Devil's Foot
"I followed you.' I saw no one.' That is what you may expect to see when I follow you."-Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Devil's Foot
"To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces."-Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Devil's Foot
29. The Adventure of the Retired Colourman
By: Arthur Conan Doyle
3.45
Format: None pages, None
Sherlock Holmes is hired by a retired art supply dealer from Lewisham, Josiah Amberley, to look int… read more
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30. The Thing in the Cellar
By: David H. Keller
3.72
Format: 32 pages, paperback
• The Thing in the Cellar • (1932) • shortstory by David H. Keller, M.D. • The Psychology of Fear… read more
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31. The Devil (Short Stories Series)
By: Guy de Maupassant
3.42
Format: 31 pages, Library Binding
Mother Rapet, the greedy nurse to a dying old woman, finds a way to make a bigger profit from the j… read more
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