Flesh and the mirror
By: Angela Carter
3.31
Format: 7 pages, None
A woman wandering Tokyo in tears sees herself stripped of social constructions.
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1. Bliss
By: Katherine Mansfield
3.72
Format: 70 pages, Mass Market Paperback
But in her bosom there was still that bright glowing place—that shower of little sparks coming from… read more
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"But the pear tree was as lovely as ever and as full of flower and as still."-Katherine Mansfield, Bliss
"¿Es que no puede haber una forma de manifestarlo sin parecer “beodo o trastornado"-Katherine Mansfield, Bliss
"I am so glad you like them', said he, staring at his feet. 'They seem to have got so much whiter since the moon rose.' And he turned his lean sorrowful long face to Bertha. 'There is a moon, you know…"-Katherine Mansfield, Bliss
2. Dancing at Lughnasa
By: Brian Friel
3.71
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
It is 1936 and harvest time in County Donegal. In a house just outside the village of Ballybeg live… read more
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"Dancing as if language had surrendered to movement - as if this ritual, this wordless ceremony, was now the way to speak, to whisper private and sacred things, to be in touch with some otherness. Dan…"-Brian Friel, Dancing at Lughnasa
3. A Rose for Emily
By: William Faulkner
3.83
Format: 36 pages, Paperback
Emily is a member of a family in the antebellum Southern aristocracy; after the Civil War, the fami… read more
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"So the next day we all said, “She will kill herself"-William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily
"She died in one of the downstairs rooms, in a heavy walnut bed with a curtain, her gray head propped on a pillow yellow and moldy with age and lack of sunlight."-William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily
"When the Negro opened the blinds of one window, they could see that the leather was cracked; and when they sat down, a faint dust rose sluggishly about their thighs, spinning with slow motes in the s…"-William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily
"We did not say she was crazy then. We believed she had to do that. We remembered all the young men her father had driven away, and we knew that with nothing left, she would have to cling to that whic…"-William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily
4. Brokeback Mountain
By: Annie Proulx
4.00
Format: 55 pages, Paperback
Annie Proulx has written some of the most original and brilliant short stories in contemporary lite… read more
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"I wish I knew how to quit you."-Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain
"You know, friend, this is a goddamn bitch of a unsatisfactory situation."-Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain
"There was some open space between what he knew and what he tried to believe, but nothing could be done about it, and if you can't fix it you've got to stand it."-Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain
"Again the ranch is on the market and they’ve shipped out the last of the horses, paid everybody off the day before, the owner saying, ‘Give them to the real estate shark, I’m out a here,"-Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain
5. 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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6. Psychopolis et autres nouvelles
By: Ian McEwan
4.29
Format: 480 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Ian McEwan nous raconte des histoires scabreuses dont les heros pourraient faire l'objet d'articles… read more
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7. The Background
By: Saki
3.54
Format: 256 pages, ebook
Online fiction. When Henri Deplis becomes the canvas for the final masterpiece of the great tatoo a… read more
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8. The Monk
By: None
4.71
Format: None pages, Paperback
Set in the sinister monastery of the Capuchins in Madrid, this is a violent tale of ambition, murde… read more
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9. Gorgias
By: Plato , Walter Hamilton , Chris Emlyn-Jones
4.23
Format: None pages, Paperback
Taking the form of a dialogue between Socrates, Gorgias, Polus and Callicles, GORGIAS debates peren… read more
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10. 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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11. The Kugelmass Episode
By: Woody Allen
3.66
Format: 180 pages, Paperback
A fictional short story read more
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12. Lapvona
By: Ottessa Moshfegh
3.53
Format: 313 pages, Kindle Edition
In a village in a medieval fiefdom buffeted by natural disasters, a motherless shepherd boy finds h… read more
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"But such was death - it had nothing to say."-Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona
"Blood was the wine of the spirit, was it not?"-Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona
"What scared her were other people and their immovable selfishness"-Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona
"But Jude's piety was a kind of violent urge and not the love and peace it ought to be"-Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona
13. The Lost Sisters (The Folk of the Air, #1.5)
By: Holly Black
3.37
Format: 50 pages, ebook
Sometimes the difference between a love story and a horror story is where the ending comes... Wh… read more
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"Love is greedy,"-Holly Black, The Lost Sisters (The Folk of the Air, #1.5)
"How does it feel?"-Holly Black, The Lost Sisters (The Folk of the Air, #1.5)
"I know what you did,"-Holly Black, The Lost Sisters (The Folk of the Air, #1.5)
"Envy. Fear. Anger. Jealousy. They’re all spices."-Holly Black, The Lost Sisters (The Folk of the Air, #1.5)
14. Hills Like White Elephants
By: Ernest Hemingway
3.85
Format: 6 pages, Kindle Edition
A conversation in a Spanish cafe between a man and a woman that is not as simple as it seems. Hi… read more
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15. Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie
By: Beryl Bainbridge
3.00
Format: 7 pages, None
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16. Sun (The Short Stories of D H Lawrence)
By: D.H. Lawrence
3.45
Format: 41 pages, Kindle Edition
Again a morning when the sun lifted himself molten and sparkling, naked over the sea's rim. The hou… read more
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19. Flesh and the mirror
By: Angela Carter
3.31
Format: 7 pages, None
A woman wandering Tokyo in tears sees herself stripped of social constructions. read more
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