The Dilettante
By: Edith Wharton
3.29
Format: None pages, ebook
The "as usual" was his own qualification of the act; a convenient way of bridging the interval-in d…
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1. They Do It With Mirrors (Miss Marple, #6)
By: Agatha Christie
3.78
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
A man is shot at in a juvenile reform home – but someone else dies… Miss Marple senses danger wh… read more
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- classics
- fiction
"His eyes now were bright and beady with pleasurable anticipation."-Agatha Christie, They Do It With Mirrors (Miss Marple, #6)
"Into the Gothic gloom of the library, Gina brought an exotic glow."-Agatha Christie, They Do It With Mirrors (Miss Marple, #6)
"Her eyes were shining, and her long thin mouth was curved in a triumphant smile."-Agatha Christie, They Do It With Mirrors (Miss Marple, #6)
"Toată lumea se așteaptă ca educația să fie un drept fundamental și nu pun mare preț pe ea când o primesc!"-Agatha Christie, They Do It With Mirrors (Miss Marple, #6)
2. The New Dress
By: Virginia Woolf
3.67
Format: 11 pages, ebook
The New Dress was written in 1924 while Virginia Woolf was writing Mrs. Dalloway (which was publish… read more
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- fiction
- classics
- short stories
3. The Masque of the Red Death
By: Edgar Allan Poe
4.06
Format: 9 pages, Paperback
The story follows Prince Prospero's attempts to avoid a dangerous plague known as the Red Death by … read more
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- fiction
- classics
- short stories
"Existem cordas, nos corações dos mais indiferentes, que não podem ser tocadas sem emoção."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death
"Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death
"There was much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death
"And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death
4. The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)
By: Arthur Machen
3.69
Format: 82 pages, Paperback
"I will not read it; I should never sleep again" A doctor performs an experiment on a young wom… read more
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- short stories
"There was something about Herbert which shocked him inexpressibly; not his poor rags nor the marks which poverty had set upon his face, but rather a indefinite terror which hung about him like a mist."-Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)
"Villiers, that woman, if I can call her a woman, corrupted my soul. The night of the wedding I found myself sitting in her bedroom in the hotel, listening to her talk. She was sitting up in bed, and …"-Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)
"Clarke, in the deep folds of dream, was conscious that the path from his father’s house had led him into an undiscovered country, and he was wondering at the strangeness of it all, when suddenly, in …"-Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)
"We know what happened to those who chanced to meet the Great God Pan, and those who are wise know that all symbols are symbols of something, not of nothing. It was, indeed, an exquisite symbol beneat…"-Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)
5. The Signalman
By: Charles Dickens , Scott Cohn
3.66
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
Presents the tale of a young man who, after listening to an eccentric railroad signalman's predicti… read more
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- short stories
"Hallow! Below there!"-Charles Dickens, The Signalman
6. The Story of an Hour
By: Kate Chopin
4.07
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
In these four stories, Kate Chopin subtly captures the intricate interior lives of a generation of … read more
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- classics
- short stories
"Spring days, and summer days, and all sorts of days that would be her own. She breathed a quick prayer that life might be long. It was only yesterday she had thought with a shudder that life might be…"-Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour
"there would be no powerful will binding hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow creature…And yet she had loved him- so…"-Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour
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8. The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side (Miss Marple, #9)
By: Agatha Christie
4.01
Format: 560 pages, Paperback
One minute, silly Heather Badcock had been gabbling on at her movie idol, the glamorous Marina Greg… read more
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- classics
- fiction
9. The Cone
By: H.G. Wells
5.00
Format: None pages,
The Cone is a short story by H. G. Wells, first published in 1895 in Unicorn. It was intended to be… read more
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10. A Pocket Full of Rye (Miss Marple, #7)
By: Agatha Christie
3.72
Format: 395 pages, Paperback
A handful of grain is found in the pocket of a murdered businessman! Rex Fortescue, king of a finan… read more
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11. Nemesis (Miss Marple, #11)
By: Agatha Christie
3.86
Format: 213 pages, Paperback
In utter disbelief, Jane Marple read the letter addressed to her from the recently deceased Mr Rafi… read more
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- fiction
"Well, if you do sense evil, tell me. I shall be glad to know."-Agatha Christie, Nemesis (Miss Marple, #11)
"The only thing I shall want for a rainy day will be my umbrella."-Agatha Christie, Nemesis (Miss Marple, #11)
"Ah, I see you are an actress, Miss Marple, as well as an avenger."-Agatha Christie, Nemesis (Miss Marple, #11)
"One does not like to make definite assertions unless one has a little more definite knowledge."-Agatha Christie, Nemesis (Miss Marple, #11)
12. Kew Gardens
By: Virginia Woolf
3.51
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In 1927, at The Hogarth Press, Virginia Woolf produced and published a limited edition of what was … read more
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- fiction
- classics
- short stories
13. Miss Marple's Final Cases
By: Agatha Christie
3.00
Format: None pages,
A collection of Miss Marple mysteries, plus some bonus short stories...First, the mystery man in th… read more
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- classics
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15. 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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16. The Invention of Morel
By: Jorge Luis Borges , Suzanne Jill Levine , Adolfo Bioy Casares , Norah Borges de Torre , Ruth L.C. Simms
4.00
Format: 103 pages, Paperback
Jorge Luis Borges declared The Invention of Morel a masterpiece of plotting, comparable to The Turn… read more
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- fiction
"So I was dead! The thought delighted me."-Jorge Luis Borges, The Invention of Morel
"The sea is endless when you are in a rowboat."-Jorge Luis Borges, The Invention of Morel
"To be sure, nothing created by man is perfect."-Jorge Luis Borges, The Invention of Morel
"...when one is alone it is impossible to be dead."-Jorge Luis Borges, The Invention of Morel
17. Washington Square
By: Henry James , Michael Cunningham
3.89
Format: 440 pages, Paperback
The plot of Washington Squarehas the simplicity of old-fashioned melodrama: a plain-looking, good-h… read more
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18. The Moving Finger (Miss Marple, #4)
By: Agatha Christie
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
The placid village of Lymstock seems the perfect place for Jerry Burton to recuperate from his acci… read more
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19. The Big Four (Hercule Poirot, #5)
By: Agatha Christie
3.68
Format: 113 pages, Paperback
Framed in the doorway of Poirot's bedroom stood an uninvited guest, coated from head to foot in dus… read more
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20. The Kiss
By: Kate Chopin
4.22
Format: 160 pages,
A short story by Kate Chopin. read more
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21. 4:50 from Paddington (Miss Marple, #7)
By: Agatha Christie
3.96
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
For an instant the two trains ran together, going in the same direction side by side. In that froze… read more
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- fiction
"Don’t go,"-Agatha Christie, 4:50 from Paddington (Miss Marple, #7)
"I think, my dear, we won't talk any more about murder during tea. Such an unpleasant subject."-Agatha Christie, 4:50 from Paddington (Miss Marple, #7)
"Everybody in St. Mary Mead knew Miss Marple; fluffy and dithery in appearance, but inwardly as sharp and as shrewd as they make them."-Agatha Christie, 4:50 from Paddington (Miss Marple, #7)
22. Sleeping Murder (Miss Marple, #13)
By: Agatha Christie
4.02
Format: 424 pages, Hardcover
Soon after Gwenda moved into her new home, odd things started to happen. Despite her best efforts t… read more
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24. Marriage a la Mode
By: Katherine Mansfield
3.53
Format: None pages, None
Om livet ändå kunde vara lika enkelt som förut! Innan allt förändrades. Innan Isabel förändrades. … read more
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- short stories
- classics
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"It was her peculiar curse to never really be unknown."-Katherine Mansfield, Marriage a la Mode
"Do you think there will be Mondays in heaven?' (...) 'Heaven will be one long Monday'."-Katherine Mansfield, Marriage a la Mode
"The late afternoon sun shone on women in cotton frocks and little sunburnt, barefoot children. It blazed on a silky yellow flower with coarse leaves which sprawled over a bank of rock. The air ruffli…"-Katherine Mansfield, Marriage a la Mode
25. Tarquin of Cheapside
By: F. Scott Fitzgerald
2.51
Format: None pages, None
Tarquin of Cheapside by Francis Scott Fitzgerald This short story was first published in the "Smart… read more
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26. In a Far-Off World
By: Olive Schreiner
2.38
Format: None pages, None
Short story. read more
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27. The Recruit
By: Honoré de Balzac
3.28
Format: 26 pages, Paperback
An 1831 short story, Le Réquisitionnaire takes place in November 1793 and features Madame de Dey, a… read more
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28. Aunt Hetty on Matrimony
By: Fanny Fern
3.76
Format: None pages, None
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29. The Dilettante
By: Edith Wharton
3.29
Format: None pages, ebook
The "as usual" was his own qualification of the act; a convenient way of bridging the interval-in d… read more
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30. Love
By: Guy de Maupassant
3.36
Format: None pages, None
A collection of 12 short stories from Guy de Maupassant: "Love (Three Pages from a Sportsman's Log)… read more
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