Old English Literature: A Short Introduction
By: Daniel Donoghue
3.83
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
This innovative and intriguing introduction to Old English literature is structured around what the…
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1. To the Lighthouse
By: Virginia Woolf
3.80
Format: 209 pages, Paperback
The serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children and assor… read more
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"I have had my vision."-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
"[...] there was only the sound of the sea."-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
"Well, we must wait for the future to show."-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
"The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare."-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
2. Troilus and Criseyde
By: Geoffrey Chaucer , Nevill Coghill
3.76
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Considered one of Chaucer’s finest poems, second only to The Canterbury Tales in richness and depth… read more
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"And after winter folweth grene May."-Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde
"The very eyeballs in your skull look dead."-Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde
"Not knowing, in his misery, for the nonce, What he was doing, he rushed away at once"-Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde
"Thus in this heaven he took his delight And smothered her with kisses upon kisses Till gradually he came to know where bliss is."-Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde
3. Mrs. Dalloway
By: Virginia Woolf , Maureen Howard
3.79
Format: 194 pages, Hardcover
Heralded as Virginia Woolf's greatest novel, this is a vivid portrait of a single day in a woman's … read more
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"Life stand still here."-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
"What a lark! What a plunge!"-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
"To love makes one solitary."-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
"What does the brain matter compared with the heart?"-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
4. The Waves
By: Virginia Woolf
4.15
Format: 297 pages, Paperback
Set on the coast of England against the vivid background of the sea, The Waves introduces six chara… read more
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"Death is woven in with the violets,"-Virginia Woolf, The Waves
"Up here my eyes are green leaves, unseeing."-Virginia Woolf, The Waves
"I am not one and simple, but complex and many."-Virginia Woolf, The Waves
"But I pine in Solitude. Solitude is my undoing."-Virginia Woolf, The Waves
5. The New Atlantis
By: Francis Bacon
3.09
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
In New Atlantis, Bacon portrayed a vision of the future of human discovery and knowledge, expressin… read more
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"We gave ourselves for lost men, and prepared for death. Yet we did lift up our hearts and voices to God above, who "showeth His wonders in the deep"; beseeching Him of His mercy, that as in the begin…"-Francis Bacon, The New Atlantis
6. The Parliament of Birds
By: Geoffrey Chaucer , Steve Ellis , None
3.87
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
In this collection of poems, among his very best, Chaucer showcases his lyrical skills to perfectio… read more
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- literature
- poetry
7. The Faerie Queene
By: Edmund Spenser , None , C. Patrick O'Donnell , Thomas P. Roche Jr.
3.77
Format: 52 pages, Paperback
The Faerie Queenewas the first epic in English and one of the most influential poems in the languag… read more
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8. The Importance of Being Earnest
By: Oscar Wilde
2.50
Format: None pages,
Oscar Wilde's madcap farce about mistaken identities, secret engagements, and lovers entanglements … read more
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10. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
By: Frederick Douglass
4.11
Format: 158 pages, Paperback
Born a slave circa 1818 (slaves weren't told when they were born) on a plantation in Maryland, Doug… read more
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"For my part, I should prefer death to hopeless bondage."-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
"You will be free as soon as you are twenty-one, but I am a slave for life! Have not I as good a right to be free as you have?"-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
"I say , this picture sometimes appalled us, and made us rather bear those ills we had. Than fly to others, that we knew not of."-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
"They attend with Pharisaical strictness to the outward forms of religion, and at the same time neglect the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith."-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
11. Beowulf
By: Unknown , Seamus Heaney
3.49
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures… read more
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"Fate goes ever as fate must."-Unknown, Beowulf
"Fate will unwind as it must!"-Unknown, Beowulf
"Let whoever can win glory before death."-Unknown, Beowulf
"We all know a boy can't daddy until his daddy's dead."-Unknown, Beowulf
12. An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory
By: Nicholas Royle , Andrew Bennett
4.16
Format: 422 pages, Paperback
Lively, original and highly readable, "An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory "is the … read more
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14. The Anglo-Saxon Age: A Very Short Introduction
By: John Blair
4.31
Format: 1056 pages, Paperback
John Blair's Very Short Introduction to the Anglo-Saxon Age covers the emergence of the earliest En… read more
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15. Outline
By: Rachel Cusk
4.20
Format: 488 pages, Hardcover
A woman writer goes to Athens in the height of summer to teach a writing course. Though her own cir… read more
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16. A Defence of Poetry
By: Philip Sidney , None
3.71
Format: 234 pages, Paperback
Often seen as a key to understanding Elizabethan poetry, Sidney's persuasive treatise follows the r… read more
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17. The Turn of the Screw
By: Henry James
3.39
Format: 121 pages, Paperback
The Turn of the Screw is an 1898 horror novella by Henry James that first appeared in serial format… read more
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"When I'm bad I am bad !"-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
"He fairly glittered in the gloom."-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
"I was ready to know the very worst that was to be known."-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
"There was something between them." "There was everything."-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
18. Giovanni’s Room
By: James Baldwin
4.33
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Set in the contemporary Paris of American expatraites, liasons, and violence, a young man finds h… read more
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"Nobody can stay in the Garden of Eden."-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
"Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition."-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
"...for nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom."-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
"I loved her as much as ever and I still did not know how much that was."-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
19. Scenes of Clerical Life
By: George Eliot , None
3.75
Format: None pages, Paperback
My only merit must lie in the faithfulness with which I represent to you the humble experience of a… read more
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20. Sidney's The Defence of Poesy and Selected Renaissance Literary Criticism
By: Various , Philip Sidney , None
4.08
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Out of the intellectual ferment of the English Renaissance came a number of outstanding critical wo… read more
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21. Heart of Darkness
By: Joseph Conrad
3.99
Format: 284 pages, Paperback
Marlow, a seaman and wanderer, recounts his physical and psychological journey in search of the inf… read more
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22. The Glass Menagerie
By: Tennessee Williams
4.90
Format: None pages, Paperback
The story of a mother, her son and daughter, and her daughter's suitor that brings to life human be… read more
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23. The Dream of the Rood
By: Michael James Swanton , Cynewulf
3.85
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
The Dream of the Rood is a poem that has entranced generations of scholars. It is one of the greate… read more
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24. Notes from Underground
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Norman Dietz , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky , Boris de Schlœzer , Emanuela Guercetti , None , Donald Fanger , None , None , None
4.17
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
Dostoevsky’s most revolutionary novel, Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between ninet… read more
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"l'homme de la nature et de la verite"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground
"I'll go this minute!' Of course, I remained."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground
"إذ ما العذاب والألم ... سوى المحرك الوحيد للوعي."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground
"To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground
25. Middlemarch
By: Michel Faber , George Eliot
4.02
Format: 912 pages, Mass Market Paperback
"People are almost always better than their neighbours think they are" George Eliot’s most ambit… read more
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"After all, the true seeing is within."-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
"I protest against any absolute conclusion."-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
"I shall do everything it becomes me to do."-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
"What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?"-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
26. Night Sky with Exit Wounds
By: Ocean Vuong
4.00
Format: 258 pages, Paperback
Ocean Vuong's first full-length collection aims straight for the perennial "big"--and very human--s… read more
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27. An Ideal Husband
By: Oscar Wilde
4.33
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Although Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) created a wide range of poetry, essays, and fairy tales (and one n… read more
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28. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
By: Lewis Carroll
4.00
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Chris Riddell's brilliant new full-colour illustrated Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland in a sumptuo… read more
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"it's only a dream"-Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
"How long is forever? Sometimes just one second"-Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
"Sometimes, I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."-Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
"what is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?"-Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
29. The Shepherd's Calendar: Twelve Aeglogues Proportionable To The Twelve Months (1898)
By: Edmund Spenser
3.59
Format: 148 pages, Paperback
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain… read more
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"Ah for pittie, wil ranke Winters rage, These bitter blasts neuer ginne tasswage? The keene cold blowes throug my beaten hyde, All as I were through the body gryde. My ragged rontes all shiver and sha…"-Edmund Spenser, The Shepherd's Calendar: Twelve Aeglogues Proportionable To The Twelve Months (1898)
30. Old English Literature: A Short Introduction
By: Daniel Donoghue
3.83
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
This innovative and intriguing introduction to Old English literature is structured around what the… read more
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31. The Aeneid
By: Virgil
3.87
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
The founding epic of Rome, rendered in a fluid, metrical translation that sings Virgil’s stately ve… read more
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"Death's brother, sleep."-Virgil, The Aeneid
"No help or hope of help existed."-Virgil, The Aeneid
"Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit."-Virgil, The Aeneid
"Non ignora mali, miseris succurrere disco."-Virgil, The Aeneid
