Across The Plains
By: Robert Louis Stevenson
2.98
Format: None pages, Paperback
LEAVES FROM THE NOTEBOOK OF AN EMIGRANT BETWEEN NEW YORK AND SAN FRANCISCO MONDAY. - It was, if I …
Want to Read $ 4.56"Everyone lives by selling something."-Robert Louis Stevenson, Across The Plains
"Everyone lives by selling something."-Robert Louis Stevenson, Across The Plains
"Everyone lives by selling something."-Robert Louis Stevenson, Across The Plains
"[...] the vast mass of mankind are incapable of doing anything reasonably well, art among the rest. The worthless artist would not improbably have been a quite incompetent baker."-Robert Louis Stevenson, Across The Plains
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1. The Last Unicorn (The Last Unicorn, #1)
By: Peter S. Beagle
4.16
Format: 294 pages, Paperback
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780451450524 She was magical, beautiful beyond belief—and comp… read more
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- classics
- fiction
"I love whom I love."-Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn (The Last Unicorn, #1)
"The last unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and she lived all alone."-Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn (The Last Unicorn, #1)
"You're in the story with the rest of us now, and you must go with it, whether you will or no."-Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn (The Last Unicorn, #1)
"I like being brave well enough, but I will be a lazy coward again if you think that would be better."-Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn (The Last Unicorn, #1)
2. Sea and Sardinia
By: D.H. Lawrence
3.00
Format: 12 pages, Paperback
Written after the First World War when he was living in Sicily, Sea and Sardinia records Lawrence's… read more
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- travel
- classics
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4. 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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- classics
"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
5. My Ántonia
By: Willa Cather
4.07
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
Through Jim Burden's endearing, smitten voice, we revisit the remarkable vicissitudes of immigrant … read more
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- classics
- fiction
6. Silas Marner
By: George Eliot
3.68
Format: 262 pages, Paperback
Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe is the third novel by George Eliot, published in 1861. An outwa… read more
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- classics
- fiction
"Love once, love always"-George Eliot, Silas Marner
"Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand."-George Eliot, Silas Marner
"Hurt, he'll never be hurt--he's made to hurt other people."-George Eliot, Silas Marner
"Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings."-George Eliot, Silas Marner
7. The Enemy (Jack Reacher, #8)
By: Lee Child
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
Jack Reacher. Hero. Loner. Soldier. Soldier's son. An elite military cop, he was one of the army's … read more
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8. Red Harvest
By: Dashiell Hammett
4.12
Format: 652 pages, ebook
The Continental Op first heard Personville called Poisonville by Hickey Dewey. But since Dewey also… read more
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9. A Room with a View
By: E.M. Forster
5.00
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
'"But you do," he went on, not waiting for contradiction. "You love the boy body and soul, plainly,… read more
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10. Stormy Weather
By: Carl Hiaasen
4.83
Format: 266 pages, Paperback
NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER "Hysterically funny...Hiaasen at his satirical best." - USA Today Two hone… read more
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11. The Return of the Native
By: Thomas Hardy , Alexander Theroux
3.57
Format: 307 pages, Paperback
The Return of the Nativeis a work by Thomas Hardy now brought to you in this new edition of the tim… read more
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12. Gray Mountain
By: John Grisham
4.00
Format: 191 pages, Hardcover
John Grisham has a new hero . . . and she's full of surprises The year is 2008 and Samantha Kofer's… read more
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13. The Solace of Open Spaces
By: Gretel Ehrlich
3.21
Format: 192 pages,
"Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are. We are often like rivers: careless a… read more
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14. The Complete Works
By: William Shakespeare
4.28
Format: None pages, Leather Bound
The tempest -- Two gentlemen of Verona -- Merry wives of Windsor -- Twelfth night, or, What you wil… read more
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15. The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)
By: John Buchan
3.60
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
Adventurer Richard Hannay, just returned from South Africa, is thoroughly bored with London life—un… read more
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- classics
- fiction
"By God!' he whispered, drawing his breath in sharply, 'it is all pure Rider Haggard and Conan Doyle."-John Buchan, The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)
"If you’re going to be killed you invent some kind of flag and country to fight for, and if you survive you get to love the thing"-John Buchan, The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)
"I am an ordinary sort of fellow, not braver than other people, but I hate to see a good man downed, and that long knife would not be the end of Scudder if I could play the game in his place."-John Buchan, The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)
"All this was very loose guessing, and I don't pretend it was ingenious or scientific. I wasn't any kind of Sherlock Holmes. But I have always fancied I had a kind of instinct about questions like thi…"-John Buchan, The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)
16. Persian Letters
By: Montesquieu , None
3.92
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
This richly evocative novel-in-letters tells the story of two Persian noblemen who have left their … read more
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17. The Librarianist
By: Patrick deWitt
3.41
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling and award-winning author Patrick deWitt comes the story of Bob Comet, a man who ha… read more
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18. Flights
By: Olga Tokarczuk
3.76
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From the incomparably original Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk, Flights interweaves reflections on tra… read more
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- travel
- fiction
"The truth is terrible: describing is destroying."-Olga Tokarczuk, Flights
"the truest argument was an old one—the earth is round, let us not be too attached, then, to directions."-Olga Tokarczuk, Flights
"Drawing is never reproducing - in order to see, you have to know how to look, and you have to know what you’re looking at."-Olga Tokarczuk, Flights
"I believe, unswervingly, agonizingly, that it is in freaks that Being breaks through to the surface and reveals its true nature."-Olga Tokarczuk, Flights
19. Underland: A Deep Time Journey
By: Robert Macfarlane
4.22
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
In Underland, Robert Macfarlane delivers an epic exploration of the Earth’s underworlds as they exi… read more
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- travel
20. The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
By: Kamala Harris
4.01
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
From one of America's most inspiring political leaders, a book about the core truths that unite us,… read more
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"When you break through a glass ceiling, you're going to get cut, and it's going to hurt."-Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
"One of my mother’s favorite sayings was “Don’t let anybody tell you who you are. You tell them who you are."-Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
"Politics is a realm where the grand pronouncement often takes the place of the painstaking and detail-oriented work of getting meaningful things done."-Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
". . . Being a good person meant standing for something larger than yourself; that success is measured in part by what you help others achieve and accomplish."-Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
21. Across The Plains
By: Robert Louis Stevenson
2.98
Format: None pages, Paperback
LEAVES FROM THE NOTEBOOK OF AN EMIGRANT BETWEEN NEW YORK AND SAN FRANCISCO MONDAY. - It was, if I … read more
Want to Read $ 4.56Similar categories in Robert Louis Stevenson's Across The Plains book and Robert Louis Stevenson's Across The Plains
- travel
- classics
- fiction
"Everyone lives by selling something."-Robert Louis Stevenson, Across The Plains
"[...] the vast mass of mankind are incapable of doing anything reasonably well, art among the rest. The worthless artist would not improbably have been a quite incompetent baker."-Robert Louis Stevenson, Across The Plains
"A Scotchman may tramp the better part of Europe and the United States, and never again receive so vivid an impression of foreign travel and strange lands and manners as on his first excursion into En…"-Robert Louis Stevenson, Across The Plains
"The first duty in this world is for a man to pay his way; when that is quite accomplished, he may plunge into what eccentricity he likes ; but emphatically not till then. Till then, he must pay assid…"-Robert Louis Stevenson, Across The Plains
