The Tale (Hesperus Modern Voices)
By: Joseph Conrad
3.56
Format: 107 pages, Paperback
"The Tale brings together in one collection four stories by the celebrated author of Heart of Darkn…
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1. That Evening Sun
By: William Faulkner
3.66
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Quentin Compson narrates the story of his family’s African-American washerwoman, Nancy, who fears t… read more
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- literature
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2. The Minister's Black Veil
By: Nathaniel Hawthorne
3.73
Format: 37 pages, Paperback
The sexton stood in the porch of Milford meeting-house, pulling busily at the bell-rope. The old pe… read more
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"The grass of many years has sprung up and withered on that grave, the burial-stone is mossgrown, and good Mr. Hooper’s face is dust; but awful is still the thought that it mouldered beneath the black…"-Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minister's Black Veil
"Mr. Hooper spent a long life, irreproachable in outward act, yet shrouded in dismal suspicions; kind and loving, though unloved, and dimly feared; a man apart from men, shunned in their health and jo…"-Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minister's Black Veil
3. Diamonds Are Forever (James Bond, #4)
By: Ian Fleming
3.64
Format: 230 pages, Paperback
"Listen, Bond," said Tiffany Case. "It’d take more than Crabmeat Ravigotte to get me into bed with … read more
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- classics
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"Ir ļoti skumji mazgāt veļu, ja tajā nav neviena vīrieša krekla."-Ian Fleming, Diamonds Are Forever (James Bond, #4)
"Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other."-Ian Fleming, Diamonds Are Forever (James Bond, #4)
"Outside the bus the smell of sulphur hit Bond with sickening force. It was a horrible smell, from somewhere down in the stomach of the world."-Ian Fleming, Diamonds Are Forever (James Bond, #4)
"Bond sat for a moment frozen to his chair. Suddenly, there flashed unwanted into his mind that most sinister line in poetry: 'They reckon ill who leave me out. When me they fly, I am the wings."-Ian Fleming, Diamonds Are Forever (James Bond, #4)
4. On Her Majesty's Secret Service (James Bond, #11)
By: Ian Fleming
3.97
Format: 259 pages, Paperback
Description: A Lancia Spyder with its hood down tore past him, cut in cheekily across his bonnet an… read more
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- british literature
- classics
- fiction
- adventure
"The World Is Not Enough"-Ian Fleming, On Her Majesty's Secret Service (James Bond, #11)
"When the odds are hopeless, when all seems to be lost, then is the time to be calm, to make a show of authority – at least of indifference"-Ian Fleming, On Her Majesty's Secret Service (James Bond, #11)
"She explained to me later that she must have been possessed by a subconscious desire to be raped. Well she found me in the mountains and she was raped - by me."-Ian Fleming, On Her Majesty's Secret Service (James Bond, #11)
5. Octopussy and the Living Daylights (James Bond, #14)
By: Ian Fleming
3.57
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Librarian's note #1: this entry is for one of the editions that includes the fourth story, "007 in … read more
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- fiction
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- short stories
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6. The Overcoat
By: Nikolai Gogol
4.15
Format: 57 pages, Paperback
The Overcoat which is generally acknowledged as the finest of Gogol's memorable Saint Petersburg st… read more
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"In the department of...but it would be better not to say in which department."-Nikolai Gogol, The Overcoat
"وخلت بطرسبرغ من أكاكيڤيتش وكأنما لم يكن موجودًا فيها أبدًا، اختفى وغاب ذلك المخلوق الذي لم يكن له من يحميه، والذي لم يكن عزيزًا على أحد ولا شيقًا بالنسبة لأحد."-Nikolai Gogol, The Overcoat
"Así desapareció un ser humano a quien nadie defendió, a quien nadie había querido, por quien nadie se interesó… Fue un ser que soportó humildemente las burlas de sus colegas y que bajó a la tumba sin…"-Nikolai Gogol, The Overcoat
"Moreover, he had a peculiar knack, as he walked along the street, of arriving beneath a window just as all sorts of rubbish were being flung out of it: hence he always bore about on his hat scraps of…"-Nikolai Gogol, The Overcoat
7. The Imitation of Christ
By: Thomas à Kempis , William Benham , Richard Challoner, D.D.
4.32
Format: 632 pages, Paperback
Only the Bible has been more influential as a source of Christian devotional reading than The Imita… read more
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8. Endless Night
By: Agatha Christie
3.98
Format: 574 pages, Paperback
Strapped by a chauffeur's wages, Michael Rogers' want of a better life seems out of reach. Especial… read more
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9. The Illustrated Man
By: Ray Bradbury
4.13
Format: 186 pages, Paperback
That The Illustrated Man has remained in print since being published in 1951 is fair testimony to … read more
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"Oh, death in space was most humorous."-Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man
"I shall remain on Mars and read a book."-Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man
"Did all dying people feel this way, as if they had never lived?"-Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man
"Nothing ever likes to die--not even a room. (p.23 --> The Veldt)"-Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man
10. The Admirable Crichton
By: J.M. Barrie
3.84
Format: None pages, Paperback
The English production of this play in 1902 starred Henry Irving. In 1903, the play was produced on… read more
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- classics
- fiction
- british literature
11. Bartleby the Scrivener
By: Herman Melville
3.93
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Academics hail it as the beginning of modernism, but to readers around the world—even those daunted… read more
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- fiction
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"I would prefer not to."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
"To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
"Bartleby in a singularly mild, firm voice, replied, “I would prefer not to."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
"At present I would prefer not to be a little reasonable,' was his mildly cadaverous reply."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
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14. Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai
By: William Scott Wilson , None
3.59
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Hagakure("In the Shadow of Leaves") is a manual for the samurai classes consisting of a series of s… read more
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- classics
15. To Be Read at Dusk
By: Charles Dickens
4.35
Format: None pages, Paperback
'The monstrous thought came into my mind as I perused the fixed eyes and the saturnine face, that t… read more
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- classics
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16. The Garden Party
By: Katherine Mansfield
3.62
Format: None pages, ebook
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge… read more
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17. Mary Barton
By: Elizabeth Gaskell , Shirley Foster
3.91
Format: 241 pages, Paperback
This is Elizabeth Gaskell's first novel, a widely acclaimed work based on the actual murder, in 183… read more
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18. The Third Man & The Fallen Idol
By: Graham Greene
4.00
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
The Third Man is Greene's brilliant recreation of post-war Vienna, a city of desolate poverty occup… read more
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19. A Gun for Sale
By: Samuel Hynes , Graham Greene
4.50
Format: 34 pages, Paperback
Raven is an ugly man dedicated to ugly deeds. His cold-blooded killing of a European Minister of Wa… read more
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20. The Man Who Could Work Miracles
By: H.G. Wells
4.11
Format: 192 pages,
"The subsequent meditations of Mr. Fotheringay were of a severe but confused description. So far, h… read more
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21. Goldfinger (James Bond, #7)
By: Ian Fleming
3.85
Format: None pages, Paperback
Auric Goldfinger, the most phenomenal criminal Bond has ever faced, is an evil genius who likes his… read more
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22. Moonraker (James Bond, #3)
By: Ian Fleming
3.80
Format: 247 pages, Paperback
‘For several minutes he stood speechless, his eyes dazzled by the terrible beauty of the greatest w… read more
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"Champagne and Benzedrine! Never again."-Ian Fleming, Moonraker (James Bond, #3)
"In angry protest the red telephone splintered the silence."-Ian Fleming, Moonraker (James Bond, #3)
"They want us dead,' said Bond calmly. 'So we have to stay alive."-Ian Fleming, Moonraker (James Bond, #3)
"And people with obsessions, reflected Bond, were blind to danger."-Ian Fleming, Moonraker (James Bond, #3)
23. Doctor No (James Bond, #6)
By: Ian Fleming
3.85
Format: None pages,
James Bond travels to the Caribbean to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a secret service… read more
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25. The Chaser
By: John Collier
3.62
Format: 57 pages,
She will want to know all you do... All that has happened to you during the day. Every word of it. … read more
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26. Terminal Boredom: Stories
By: Izumi Suzuki
3.59
Format: 218 pages, Paperback
Seven punky and pitch-black stories offer English-language readers an overdue introduction to Izumi… read more
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"INSUFFICIENT VEGETABLE OIL,’ quoth the replicator."-Izumi Suzuki, Terminal Boredom: Stories
"And having four kids? Giving birth to them naturally? What is she, an animal?"-Izumi Suzuki, Terminal Boredom: Stories
"When we first met, Reiko still had something of a wrecked beauty. Now, not even those ruins remained."-Izumi Suzuki, Terminal Boredom: Stories
"I’m a sucker for trends. I don’t have much in the way of agency. I always want to try whatever’s popular."-Izumi Suzuki, Terminal Boredom: Stories
27. Forty Reasons I Am a Catholic
By: Peter Kreeft
4.11
Format: 119 pages, Kindle Edition
My title explains itself. But it's misleading. There are more than 40 reasons. In fact, there ar… read more
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28. Main Currents of American Thought
By: Irwin Shaw
3.27
Format: None pages, None
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29. The Foreigner
By: Francis Steegmuller
2.59
Format: 6 pages, Paperback
A foreign student in France gets into trouble with a headstrong taxi driver and winds up in the pol… read more
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30. The Golden Honeymoon
By: Ring Lardner
3.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Golden Honeymoon is a collection of short stories written by Ring W. Lardner. The book features… read more
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31. The Tale (Hesperus Modern Voices)
By: Joseph Conrad
3.56
Format: 107 pages, Paperback
"The Tale brings together in one collection four stories by the celebrated author of Heart of Darkn… read more
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