Oysters
By: Anton Chekhov
3.59
Format: 6 pages, None
This story is in the voice of a young boy whose father is unemployed and reduced to begging. Father…
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1. The Happy Prince
By: Oscar Wilde , Jane Ray
4.20
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
When he was alive, the Happy Prince lived in the Palace of Sans Souci, where sorrow was not allowed… read more
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- 19th century
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"There is no Mystery so great as Misery."-Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince
"Bring me the two most precious things in the city,"-Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince
"Sono così intelligente che a volte non capisco una sola parola di quel che sto dicendo."-Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince
"Dear Prince, I must leave you, but I will never forget you, and next spring I will bring you back two beautiful jewels in place of those you have given away. The ruby shall be redder than a red rose,…"-Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince
2. The Raven
By: Edgar Allan Poe , Gustave Doré
4.29
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
In Gustave Doré, one of the most prolific and successful book illustrators of the late 19h century,… read more
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"Quoth the raven nevermore."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven
"Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven
"La ciencia no nos a enseñado aun si la locura es o no lo mas sublime de la inteligencia"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven
"And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor Shall be lifted Nevermore"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven
3. Women
By: Charles Bukowski
3.81
Format: 291 pages, Paperback
Low-life writer and unrepentant alcoholic Henry Chinaski was born to survive. After decades of slac… read more
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"Are you anti-black? I'm anti-everything."-Charles Bukowski, Women
"My cock was hard, but my spirit wasn't in it."-Charles Bukowski, Women
"You're the most unknown famous man I ever met"-Charles Bukowski, Women
"You're the most unknown famous man I ever met."-Charles Bukowski, Women
4. The Overcoat
By: Nikolai Gogol
4.15
Format: 57 pages, Paperback
The Overcoat which is generally acknowledged as the finest of Gogol's memorable Saint Petersburg st… read more
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"In the department of...but it would be better not to say in which department."-Nikolai Gogol, The Overcoat
"وخلت بطرسبرغ من أكاكيڤيتش وكأنما لم يكن موجودًا فيها أبدًا، اختفى وغاب ذلك المخلوق الذي لم يكن له من يحميه، والذي لم يكن عزيزًا على أحد ولا شيقًا بالنسبة لأحد."-Nikolai Gogol, The Overcoat
"Moreover, he had a peculiar knack, as he walked along the street, of arriving beneath a window just as all sorts of rubbish were being flung out of it: hence he always bore about on his hat scraps of…"-Nikolai Gogol, The Overcoat
"Así desapareció un ser humano a quien nadie defendió, a quien nadie había querido, por quien nadie se interesó… Fue un ser que soportó humildemente las burlas de sus colegas y que bajó a la tumba sin…"-Nikolai Gogol, The Overcoat
5. A Clean Well Lighted Place
By: Ernest Hemingway
3.72
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" is a short story by American author Ernest Hemingway, first published… read more
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- literature
- fiction
- classics
- short stories
6. The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
By: Sylvia Plath , Karen V. Kukil
3.31
Format: 267 pages, Paperback
First U.S. Publication A major literary event--the complete, uncensored journals of Sylvia Plath, p… read more
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- classics
7. 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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"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
8. How Much Land Does a Man Need?
By: Leo Tolstoy , Boris Dralyuk
4.11
Format: 66 pages, Kindle Edition
The story of a greedy peasant named Pakhom. Although Pakhom enjoys health and family happiness, he … read more
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"I understood that men only think that they live by caring only about themselves: in reality they live by love alone."-Leo Tolstoy, How Much Land Does a Man Need?
"Next morning, when Semyon woke up, the children were still asleep and his wife had gone over to the neighbour's to borrow some bread. Only the stranger was sitting on the bench, wearing the old trous…"-Leo Tolstoy, How Much Land Does a Man Need?
"An elder sister came from the town to visit her younger sister in the country. This elder sister was married to a merchant and the younger to a peasant in the village. The two sisters sat down for a …"-Leo Tolstoy, How Much Land Does a Man Need?
9. Amok Koşucusu
By: Stefan Zweig , Nafer Ermiş
3.99
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
Amok Koşucusu doktor olarak yardıma ihtiyaç duyan bir insana el uzatmanın vicdani yükümlülüğüyle ke… read more
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- short stories
10. A Moveable Feast
By: Ernest Hemingway
5.00
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
Begun in the autumn of 1957 and published posthumously in 1964, Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast… read more
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- classics
11. David Copperfield
By: Charles Dickens , Jeremy Tambling
4.03
Format: 882 pages, Paperback
David Copperfield is the story of a young man's adventures on his journey from an unhappy and impov… read more
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- 19th century
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"Trifles make the sum of life. "-Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
"the sight of me is good for sore eyes"-Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
"Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him."-Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
"My advice is, never do to-morrow what you can do to-day"-Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
12. A Hunger Artist
By: Franz Kafka , Kevin Blahut , None , Helen Vlcnovska
3.74
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The last book published during Kafka's lifetime, A Hunger Artist(1924) explores many of the themes … read more
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13. The Tell-Tale Heart
By: Edgar Allan Poe , Byron Glaser , None
4.24
Format: 31 pages, Library Binding
A man confronts himself and an unknown listener with his desire to murder an old man. In this cl… read more
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"would a madman have been so wise as this?"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart
"And have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the sense?"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart
"If you still think me mad, you will think so no longer when I describe the wise precautions I took for the concealment of the body."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart
"Basta ya de fingir, malvados! -aullé-. ¡Confieso que lo maté! ¡Levanten esos tablones! ¡Ahí… ahí! ¡Donde está latiendo su horrible corazón!"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart
14. The Death of Ivan Ilych
By: Leo Tolstoy , Aylmer Maude
4.13
Format: 86 pages, Paperback
Hailed as one of the world's supreme masterpieces on the subject of death and dying, The Death of I… read more
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"If you look for the working classes in fiction, and especially English fiction, all you find is a hole."-Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych
"And the further he departed from childhood and the nearer he came to the present the more worthless and doubtful were the joys."-Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych
"In the depths of his heart he knew that he was dying but, so far from growing used to the idea, he simply did not and could not grasp it."-Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych
"It can't be that life is so senseless and horrible. But if it really has been so horrible and senseless, why must I die and die in agony? There is something wrong!"-Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych
15. Pulp
By: Charles Bukowski
4.25
Format: 151 pages, Paperback
Opening with the exotic Lady Death entering the gumshoe-writer's seedy office in pursuit of a write… read more
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16. Ham on Rye
By: Charles Bukowski
3.40
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
In what is widely hailed as the best of his many novels, Charles Bukowski details the long, lonely … read more
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17. The Gentle Spirit
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky
3.89
Format: 86 pages, Paperback
In this compelling study of despair, based on a real-life incident, a pawnbroker mourns the loss of… read more
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"I'm a master of speaking silently—all my life I've spoken silently and I've lived through entire tragedies in silence."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gentle Spirit
"Oh, I have always been proud, I always wanted all or nothing! You see it was just because I am not one who will accept half a happiness, but always wanted all"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gentle Spirit
"I worked it through with pride,I almost spoke without words, and i'm masterly at speaking without words.All my life I have spoken without words, and I have passed through whole tragedies on my own ac…"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gentle Spirit
"Listen! This is where it began but I keep getting muddled... The fact of the matter is that I now want to recall everything, every trifle, every little detail. I still want to collect my thoughts and…"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gentle Spirit
18. The Gambler
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Constance Garnett , Gary Saul Morson
3.91
Format: 188 pages, Paperback
In this dark and compelling short novel, Dostoevsky tells the story of Alexey Ivanovitch, a young t… read more
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"Quien teme al lobo no se mete en el bosque."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler
"يجب ان يظل المال دون الأستقراطي، حتى لكأن الأستقراطي لا يكاد يحفل به أو يقلق له"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler
"En toda situación es posible comportarse con dignidad. Si hay lucha, que sea noble y no humillante."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler
"People really do like seeing their best friends humiliated; a large part of the friendship is based on humiliation; and that is an old truth,well known to all intelligent people."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler
19. A Fraction of the Whole
By: Steve Toltz
4.17
Format: None pages, Hardcover
An irreverent comic adventure, spanning three continents, about a father and son against each other… read more
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20. The Ice Dragon
By: George R.R. Martin , None
4.57
Format: 272 pages,
The ice dragon was a creature of legend and fear, for no man had ever tamed one. When it flew overh… read more
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22. The Pearl
By: John Steinbeck
3.54
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Like his father and grandfather before him, Kino is a poor diver, gathering pearls from the gulf be… read more
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"What have I to fear but starvation?" Kino asked."-John Steinbeck, The Pearl
"In the surface of the great pearl he could see dream forms."-John Steinbeck, The Pearl
"It was a morning like other mornings and yet perfect among mornings."-John Steinbeck, The Pearl
"We do know that we are cheated from birth to the overcharge on our coffins."-John Steinbeck, The Pearl
23. In the Penal Colony
By: Sadegh Hedayat , Franz Kafka , Hasan Ghaemian
3.92
Format: 381 pages, Paperback
"In the Penal Colony" is a short story by Franz Kafka written in German in October 1914, and first … read more
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24. The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky
4.02
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
A short story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky written in 1877. It begins with a man walking St. Petersburg's … read more
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"I want to suffer so that I may love."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
"How anxiously I yearned for those I had forsake"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
"how anxiously I yearned for those I had forsaken."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
"أصبحت فجأة لا أغضب من الناس، بل ما عدت ألاحظ وجودهم."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
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26. The Last Question
By: Isaac Asimov , Bob E. Flick , None
3.78
Format: None pages, Audio CD
The last question was asked for the first time, half in jest, on May 21, 2061, at a time when human… read more
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27. Chess Story
By: Stefan Zweig , Joel Rotenberg , Peter Gay , None , None , None , None , None
3.00
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
Chess Story, also known as The Royal Game, is the Austrian master Stefan Zweig's final achievement,… read more
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28. Post Office
By: Charles Bukowski
3.94
Format: 162 pages, Kindle Edition
"It began as a mistake." By middle age, Henry Chinaski has lost more than twelve years of his life … read more
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"It began as a mistake."-Charles Bukowski, Post Office
"من يراهن كثيراً يخسر حصانه ص 154"-Charles Bukowski, Post Office
"المحترف يذهب إلى السباقات بمفرده ص 81"-Charles Bukowski, Post Office
"لا تحب المرأة أن تكون في المرتبة الثانية ص 161"-Charles Bukowski, Post Office
29. The Daemon Lover
By: Shirley Jackson
3.54
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A short story about a woman searching for her fiancé. read more
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30. Children on a Country Road (Short Stories)
By: Franz Kafka
3.30
Format: None pages, None
Mit dem Werkbeitrag aus Kindlers Literatur Lexikon. Mit dem Autorenporträt aus dem Metzler Lexikon … read more
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31. Oysters
By: Anton Chekhov
3.59
Format: 6 pages, None
This story is in the voice of a young boy whose father is unemployed and reduced to begging. Father… read more
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