Two in Torquay
By: Alan Bennett
4.27
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
A middle-aged man and woman chat politely in a hotel. Neither is quite what they seem to be. In t…
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1. The Third Man
By: Graham Greene
3.79
Format: 157 pages, Paperback
Rollo Martins' usual line is the writing of cheap paperback Westerns under the name of Buck Dexter.… read more
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- mystery
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"I loved a man," she said. "I told you—a man doesn't alter because you find out more about him. He's still the same man."-Graham Greene, The Third Man
"Marlowe's devils wore squibs attached to their tails: evil was like Peter Pan—it carried with it the horrifying and horrible gift of eternal youth."-Graham Greene, The Third Man
"For God's sake stop making people in your image. Harry was real. He wasn't just your hero and my lover. He was Harry. He was in a racket. He did bad things. What about it? He was the man we knew."-Graham Greene, The Third Man
"tea. He watched her while she made it, made it, of course, all wrong: the water not on the boil, the teapot unheated, too few leaves. She said, "I never quite understand why English people like teas …"-Graham Greene, The Third Man
2. The Wild Duck
By: David Eldridge , Henrik Ibsen
3.79
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
David Eldridge's new version of Ibsen's classic, published to tie-in with the production at the Don… read more
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"Folk er syke, omtrent alle ihop dessverre."-David Eldridge, The Wild Duck
"He is suffering from an acute attack of integrity."-David Eldridge, The Wild Duck
"...brug ikke det udenlandske ord: Idealer, vi har jo det gode norske Løgne."-David Eldridge, The Wild Duck
"Most people are ennobled by the actual presence of death. But how long do you suppose this nobility will last in him?"-David Eldridge, The Wild Duck
3. Shane
By: Jack Schaefer , Wendell Minor
3.94
Format: 135 pages, Hardcover
A stranger rode out of the heart of the great glowing West, into the small Wyoming valley in the su… read more
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- fiction
"What a man knows isn't important. Its what he is that counts."-Jack Schaefer, Shane
"A gun is just a tool. No better and no worse than any other tool, a shovel - or an axe or a saddle or a stove or anything. Think of it always that way. A gun is as good - and as bad - as the man who …"-Jack Schaefer, Shane
"With us he spoke freely enough. We were, in some subtle way, his folks. Though we had taken him in, you had the feeling that he had adopted us. But with others he was reserved; courteous and soft-spo…"-Jack Schaefer, Shane
"I would think of him most vividly in that single flashing instant when he whirled to shoot Fletcher on the balcony at Grafton’s saloon. I would see again the power and grace of coordinate force beaut…"-Jack Schaefer, Shane
4. Men Without Women
By: Haruki Murakami , None
3.75
Format: 242 pages, Kindle Edition
A dazzling new collection of short stories—the first major new work of fiction from the beloved, in… read more
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"Tobacco’s a killer,"-Haruki Murakami, Men Without Women
"I need to learn not just to forget but to forgive."-Haruki Murakami, Men Without Women
"Crying for someone else is nothing to apologize about,"-Haruki Murakami, Men Without Women
"That's what we all do : endlessly take the long way around."-Haruki Murakami, Men Without Women
5. Written Lives
By: Javier Marías , Margaret Jull Costa
4.27
Format: 637 pages, Paperback
In addition to his own busy career as "one of Europe's most intriguing contemporary writers" (TLS),… read more
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6. The Nose
By: Nikolai Gogol , Ronald Wilks
4.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
'Strangely enough, I mistook it for a gentleman at first. Fortunately I had my spectacles with me s… read more
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7. Rosmersholm
By: Henrik Ibsen
3.73
Format: 123 pages, Paperback
A portrait of idealism and democracy floundering in a society of conservatism and opportunism, cons… read more
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- drama
"Live, work, act. Don’t sit here and brood."-Henrik Ibsen, Rosmersholm
"Your reading has introduced you to a hotch-potch of new ideas and opinions; you have made a certain acquaintance with researches that are going on in various directions— researches that seem to you t…"-Henrik Ibsen, Rosmersholm
8. Electra
By: Sophocles , J. Michael Walton , None
4.33
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
The Drama Classic edition of Sophocles' version of the Electra myth. read more
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9. Ethan Frome
By: Edith Wharton
2.00
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Ethan Frome works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a bearable existence with his dif… read more
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10. Via Dolorosa & When Shall We Live?
By: David Hare
3.69
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
In 1997, after many invitations, David Hare, a fifty-year-old British playwright, finally visited t… read more
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11. Peer Gynt
By: Henrik Ibsen , William Archer , Charles Archer
3.15
Format: None pages, Paperback
Among the masterpieces of world literature, this early verse drama by the celebrated Norwegian play… read more
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13. Other People's Worlds
By: William Trevor
3.86
Format: None pages, Paperback
Other People's Worlds by William Trevor - a classic early novel by one of the world's greatest writ… read more
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14. Dark Lady of the Sonnets
By: George Bernard Shaw
3.79
Format: None pages, Paperback
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15. Fathers and Sons
By: Ivan Turgenev , None , None
3.99
Format: 244 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Bazarov—a gifted, impatient, and caustic young man—has journeyed from school to the home of his fri… read more
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"He has no faith in principles, only in frogs."-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons
"Death's an old story, but new for each person."-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons
"I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze."-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons
"However, I know myself as a very unhappy person."-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons
16. Look Back in Anger
By: John Osborne
3.80
Format: 25 pages, Paperback
The text of the play, first performed in London in 1956, depicts the despair of post-war youth. read more
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17. An Enemy of the People
By: Henrik Ibsen
3.84
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
An Enemy of the people (original Norwegian title: En folkefiende) is an 1882 play by Norwegian play… read more
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18. The Aspern Papers
By: Henry James
4.22
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this classic 1888 novella, an anonymous narrator relates his obsessive quest to acquire some let… read more
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19. The Seagull
By: Anton Chekhov , Michael Frayn
4.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
A Methuen Student Edition of Chekhov's classic play in Michael Frayn's acclaimed translation. When … read more
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20. Oleanna
By: David Mamet
3.75
Format: 289 pages, Paperback
In David Mamet's latest play, a male college instructor and his female student sit down to discuss … read more
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21. The Lady from the Sea
By: Henrik Ibsen
3.85
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Doktor Wangel ist Arzt in einer Kleinstadt an der Westküste Norwegens. Er lebt zusammen mit seinen … read more
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"Å, forstår du da ikke, at forvandlingen kom, - at forvandlingen måtte komme - da jeg fik vælge i frihed."-Henrik Ibsen, The Lady from the Sea
22. Ghosts
By: Henrik Ibsen
3.88
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
"Ghosts" is the story of Helen Alving, a widow who is haunted by the many mistresses of her decease… read more
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23. 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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24. Dubliners
By: James Joyce , Jeri Johnson
3.44
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
This work of art reflects life in Ireland at the turn of the last century, and by rejecting euphemi… read more
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25. Pnin
By: Vladimir Nabokov , David Lodge
4.00
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
One of the best-loved of Nabokov's novels, Pninfeatures his funniest and most heart-rending charact… read more
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26. The Magician
By: Colm Tóibín
4.02
Format: 498 pages, Hardcover
Colm Tóibín’s new novel opens in a provincial German city at the turn of the twentieth century, whe… read more
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"...it is a grubby business writing novels. Composers can think about God and the ineffable. We have to imagine the buttons on a coat. [Thomas Mann, to Alma Mahler Werfel]"-Colm Tóibín, The Magician
"The Nazis, he realized, were not like the poets of the Munich Revolution. They were street fighters who had taken power without losing their sway over the streets. They managed to be both government …"-Colm Tóibín, The Magician
"He [Thomas Mann] remembered this Beethoven quartet [his op. 132] as being sad, sometimes mournful. What was surprising now was that, while the undertone was melancholy, the way the instruments stoppe…"-Colm Tóibín, The Magician
27. Lessons
By: Ian McEwan
4.00
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
When the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has closed, … read more
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"Books are difficult to tidy. Hard to chuck out. They resist."-Ian McEwan, Lessons
"Only the backward look, the well-researched history could tell peaks and troughs from portals."-Ian McEwan, Lessons
"What must it be, to burst out of deep infant sleep into the shocking singular fact of existence."-Ian McEwan, Lessons
"The years slid over old deaths like a heavy lid. Nearly everything that happens to you in life you forget. Should have kept a journal."-Ian McEwan, Lessons
28. Treacle Walker
By: Alan Garner
3.13
Format: 152 pages, Hardcover
Treacle Walker is a stunning fusion of myth and folklore and an exploration of the fluidity of time… read more
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29. Leopoldstadt
By: Tom Stoppard
4.36
Format: None pages, Hardcover
At the beginning of the 20th Century, Leopoldstadt was the old, crowded Jewish quarter of Vienna. B… read more
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30. Picture of the Lonely Diner
By: Lee Child
3.23
Format: None pages, None
Hartje New York, een warme zomeravond. Jack Reacher komt terecht in ontruimd gebied en wil doorlope… read more
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31. Two in Torquay
By: Alan Bennett
4.27
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
A middle-aged man and woman chat politely in a hotel. Neither is quite what they seem to be. In t… read more
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