The Meaning of Treason
By: Rebecca West
3.79
Format: 450 pages, Kindle Edition
West’s acclaimed examination of traitors, this gripping profile takes readers inside World War II s…
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1. The Histories
By: Herodotus , Aubrey de Sélincourt , John M. Marincola
4.01
Format: 716 pages, Paperback
David Grene, one of the best known translators of the Greek classics, splendidly captures the pecul… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"Hippocleides doesn't care."-Herodotus, The Histories
"So much, then, for the fish."-Herodotus, The Histories
"La muerte es para el hombre el más deseado refugio."-Herodotus, The Histories
"Muchos hombres opulentos son desdichados, y muchos que tienen hacienda moderada son dichosos."-Herodotus, The Histories
2. Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe
By: François-René de Chateaubriand
3.96
Format: 1504 pages, Paperback
The only available edition in English of the greatest of all French autobiographies By the time … read more
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- history
- biography
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"It is a long way from these strict parents to the child-spoilers of today."-François-René de Chateaubriand, Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe
"Purgatory surpasses heaven and hell in poetry, because it represents a future and the others do not."-François-René de Chateaubriand, Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe
"There are only two true things: intelligent religion and youthful love, which is to say the future and the present. The rest is not worth the trouble"-François-René de Chateaubriand, Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe
"Life is spent hovering round our tomb. Our various sicknesses are but the winds which carry us more or less near to the haven. … Death is our friend, nevertheless we do not recognise it as such, beca…"-François-René de Chateaubriand, Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe
3. Lysistrata
By: Aristophanes , Sarah Ruden
3.87
Format: 132 pages, Paperback
Aristophanes' comic masterpiece of war and sex remains one of the greatest plays ever written. Led … read more
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"Sənət çörək arxasınca qaçarsa, alçalar"-Aristophanes, Lysistrata
"Lysistrata: To seize the treasury; no more money, no more war."-Aristophanes, Lysistrata
"Queste donne micidiali, non si può vivere nè con loro nè senza di loro."-Aristophanes, Lysistrata
"Chorus of old men: How true the saying: 'Tis impossible to live with the baggages, impossible to live without 'em."-Aristophanes, Lysistrata
4. The Kreutzer Sonata
By: Doris Lessing , Leo Tolstoy , Isai Kamen
3.87
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
When Marshal of the Nobility Pozdnyshev suspects his wife of having an affair with her music partne… read more
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"In a large city the unhappy feel their sadness less acutely."-Doris Lessing, The Kreutzer Sonata
"It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness."-Doris Lessing, The Kreutzer Sonata
"Yes, man is much worse than the animal when he does not live like a man."-Doris Lessing, The Kreutzer Sonata
"Удивительное дело, какая полная бывает иллюзия того, что красота есть добро."-Doris Lessing, The Kreutzer Sonata
5. Dog Soldiers
By: Robert Stone
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
In Saigon during the waning days of the Vietnam War, a small-time journalist named John Converse th… read more
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- war
6. The Natural
By: Bernard Malamud , Kevin Baker
4.12
Format: None pages,
The classical novel (and basis for the acclaimed film) now in a new edition Introduction by Kevin B… read more
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7. The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
By: Sylvia Plath , Karen V. Kukil
3.31
Format: 267 pages, Paperback
First U.S. Publication A major literary event--the complete, uncensored journals of Sylvia Plath, p… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
8. Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million
By: Martin Amis
4.04
Format: 202 pages, Paperback
A brilliant weave of personal involvement, vivid biography and political insight, Koba the Dreadis … read more
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- politics
- history
- biography
- nonfiction
9. The Gathering Storm (The Second World War, #1)
By: Winston S. Churchill
3.66
Format: 259 pages, Paperback
Winston Churchill was not only a statesman and leader of historic proportions, he also possessed su… read more
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- history
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- world war ii
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10. The Civil War
By: Gaius Julius Caesar , Jane F. Gardner
3.36
Format: None pages, Paperback
A military leader of legendary genius, Caesar was also a great writer, recording the events of his … read more
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11. The Takeover
By: Muriel Spark
2.82
Format: 3 pages, Paperback
In the cool, historic sanctuary of Nemi rests the spirit of Diana, the Benevolent-Malign Goddess wh… read more
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12. A Man With One of Those Faces (The Dublin Trilogy Book 1)
By: Caimh McDonnell
3.28
Format: 5 pages,
The First time somebody tried to kill him was an accident. The second time was deliberate. Now Paul… read more
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13. Keep the Aspidistra Flying
By: George Orwell
4.00
Format: 592 pages, Paperback
London, 1936. Gordon Comstock has declared war on the money god; and Gordon is losing the war. Near… read more
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14. The Enchanters
By: James Ellroy
3.73
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
James Ellroy—Demon Dog of American Letters—goes straight to the tragic heart of 1962 Hollywood with… read more
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15. The Lock-Up (Quirke, #9)
By: John Banville
3.70
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Booker Prize winner and “Irish master” (The New Yorker) John Banville’s most ambitious crime novel … read more
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16. The Seventh Son
By: Sebastian Faulks
3.60
Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition
A CHILD WILL BE BORN WHO WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING When a young woman named Talissa answers an adve… read more
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17. The Virgin in the Ice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #6)
By: Ellis Peters
4.17
Format: 225 pages, Kindle Edition
The winter of 1139 will disrupt Brother Cadfael’s tranquil life in Shrewsbury with the most disturb… read more
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"Love shared is no sin."-Ellis Peters, The Virgin in the Ice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #6)
"There never was, for all I could ever learn, a time when living was easy and peaceful."-Ellis Peters, The Virgin in the Ice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #6)
18. Greatest Hits
By: Harlan Ellison
4.18
Format: 468 pages, Paperback
How to summarize the psychedelic, witty, helter-skelter mind of Harlan Ellison? A mind that refu… read more
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19. A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
By: Kevin Fedarko
4.36
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
A deeply moving account ever of walking the Grand Canyon, a highly dangerous, life-changing 750-mil… read more
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- biography
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"You were made and set here to give voice to this, your own astonishment. -Annie Dillard"-Kevin Fedarko, A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
20. The Meaning of Treason
By: Rebecca West
3.79
Format: 450 pages, Kindle Edition
West’s acclaimed examination of traitors, this gripping profile takes readers inside World War II s… read more
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- espionage
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- world war ii
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21. Precipice
By: Robert Harris
4.23
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A spellbinding novel of passion, intrigue, and betrayal set in England in the months leading to the… read more
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- war
- british literature
"There were twelve deliveries a day in London in 1914. It would be in his hands by mid-afternoon. Pg5"-Robert Harris, Precipice
"The worst crises in politics always occurred, in his experience, when two unrelated problems struck at once. The difficulties weren’t doubled, or even squared, but cubed. Pg345"-Robert Harris, Precipice
"Major Hankey, secretary of the Committee of Imperial Defence, was brought in by Bongie, and placed in front of him on the table the large red and blue leather-bound volume known as the War Book, he o…"-Robert Harris, Precipice
