Collected Short Stories: Volume 2
By: W. Somerset Maugham
4.38
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
Somerset Maugham's irony and cool detachment made him an acknowledged master of the short story. Th…
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1. The Honourable Schoolboy (George Smiley, #6; Karla Trilogy, #2)
By: John Le Carré
3.99
Format: 589 pages, Paperback
John le Carré's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of inter… read more
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"Let's die of it before we're too old."-John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy (George Smiley, #6; Karla Trilogy, #2)
"Home's where you go when you run out of homes."-John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy (George Smiley, #6; Karla Trilogy, #2)
"A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world."-John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy (George Smiley, #6; Karla Trilogy, #2)
"Yet it's not for want of future that I'm here, he thought. It's for want of a present."-John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy (George Smiley, #6; Karla Trilogy, #2)
2. Towards Zero (Superintendent Battle, #5)
By: Agatha Christie
3.94
Format: 301 pages, Paperback
An elderly widow is murdered at a clifftop seaside house...What is the connection between a failed … read more
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"Slike ting blir sendt oss for å prøve oss. I hvert fall tror jeg det. Jeg skjønner ikke hvorfor de ellers blir sendt oss."-Agatha Christie, Towards Zero (Superintendent Battle, #5)
"I suppose, like most young people nowadays, boredom is what you dread most in the world, and yet, I can assure you, there are worse things."-Agatha Christie, Towards Zero (Superintendent Battle, #5)
"Whether he acted rightly or not, I have never been sure. It was the future of a child that was at stake. A child, he felt, ought to be given the benefit of a doubt."-Agatha Christie, Towards Zero (Superintendent Battle, #5)
"It has been my experience, that women possess little or no pride where love affairs are concerned. Pride is a quality often on their lips, but not apparent in their actions."-Agatha Christie, Towards Zero (Superintendent Battle, #5)
3. From Russia with Love (James Bond, #5)
By: Ian Fleming
3.91
Format: 259 pages, Paperback
Ian Fleming’s fifth James Bond novel. James Bond is marked for death by the Soviet counterintell… read more
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"Hope makes a good breakfast. Eat plenty of it."-Ian Fleming, From Russia with Love (James Bond, #5)
"Danger, like a third man, was standing in the room."-Ian Fleming, From Russia with Love (James Bond, #5)
"The naked man who lay splayed out on his face beside the swimming pool might have been dead."-Ian Fleming, From Russia with Love (James Bond, #5)
"Follow your fate, and be satisfied with it, and be glad not to be a second-hand motor salesman, or a yellow-press journalist, pickled in gin and nicotine, or a cripple - or dead."-Ian Fleming, From Russia with Love (James Bond, #5)
4. The Boy Who Followed Ripley (Ripley, #4)
By: Patricia Highsmith
5.00
Format: 362 pages, Paperback
The Boy Who Followed Ripley, the fourth novel in the Ripley series, is one of Patricia Highsmith's … read more
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5. Brighton Rock
By: J.M. Coetzee , Graham Greene
3.73
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has kill… read more
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6. The Holy Terrors
By: Jean Cocteau , Rosamond Lehmann
4.11
Format: 528 pages, Paperback
Les Enfants Terribles holds an undisputed place among the classics of modern fiction. Written in a … read more
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7. A Murder of Quality
By: John Le Carré
3.64
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
John le Carre's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of inter… read more
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8. Purity
By: Jonathan Franzen , Lucie Mikolajková
4.61
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A magnum opus for our morally complex times from the author of Freedom Young Pip Tyler doesn't know… read more
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9. Finding George Orwell in Burma
By: Emma Larkin
4.26
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
A fascinating political travelogue that traces the life and work of George Orwell in Southeast Asia… read more
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10. Thud! (Discworld, #34; City Watch #7)
By: Terry Pratchett
3.87
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Koom Valley? That was where the trolls ambushed the dwarfs, or the dwarfs ambushed the trolls. It w… read more
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11. The Lady With the Little Dog and Other Stories, 1896-1904
By: Anton Chekhov , Ronald Wilks , None
3.91
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
This collection contains the following thirteen stories: The House with the Mezzanine Peasants Man … read more
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12. Unseen Academicals (Discworld, #37; Rincewind #8)
By: Terry Pratchett
3.29
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Discworld lives on in Unseen Academicals, the latest novel from Terry Pratchett. Delivering the tra… read more
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13. The Loved One
By: Evelyn Waugh
3.76
Format: 127 pages, Paperback
Following the death of a friend, British poet and pets' mortician Dennis Barlow finds himself enter… read more
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"Who asked you to the funeral anyway? Were you acquainted with the late parrot?"-Evelyn Waugh, The Loved One
"Her heart was broken perhaps, but it was a small inexpensive organ of local manufacture. In a wider and grander way she felt things had been simplified."-Evelyn Waugh, The Loved One
"Dennis hesitated with his fingers on the handle and was aware of communication with another hand beyond the panels. Thus in a hundred novels had loves stood."-Evelyn Waugh, The Loved One
"What is a "canty day", Dennis?' 'I've never troubled to ask. Something like hogmanay, I expect.' 'What is that?' 'People being sick on the pavement in Glasgow.' 'Oh."-Evelyn Waugh, The Loved One
14. Those Who Walk Away
By: Patricia Highsmith
4.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
The honeymoon is over, as they say, the bride dead by her own hand. Ray Garrett, the grieving husba… read more
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15. Women in Love (Brangwen Family, #2)
By: D.H. Lawrence
3.34
Format: None pages, Paperback
"An analytical study of sexual depravity" and "an epic of vice" were two of the critical expression… read more
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16. The Schopenhauer Cure
By: Irvin D. Yalom
4.14
Format: None pages, Paperback
Suddenly confronted with his own mortality after a routine checkup, eminent psychotherapist Julius … read more
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17. How to Be Both
By: Ali Smith
4.10
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
Passionate, compassionate, vitally inventive and scrupulously playful, Ali Smith's novels are like … read more
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18. Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
By: Evelyn Waugh
4.00
Format: 452 pages, Paperback
An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found here. The most nostalgic and reflective of Evely… read more
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"Here my last love had died."-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
"No one is ever holy without suffering."-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
"I had been there before; I knew all about it."-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
"My father greeted me with his usual air of mild regret."-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
19. The Philosophy of Modern Song
By: Bob Dylan
3.80
Format: 339 pages, Hardcover
The Philosophy of Modern Song is Bob Dylan’s first book of new writing since 2004’s Chronicles: Vol… read more
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"The thing about being misunderstood is that it diminishes your enjoyment of life"-Bob Dylan, The Philosophy of Modern Song
20. Dead-End Memories: Stories
By: Banana Yoshimoto
3.90
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Japan's internationally celebrated master storyteller returns with five stories of women on their w… read more
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"There was a candor about him I noticed in people whose parents had given them something unconditional and absolute growing up."-Banana Yoshimoto, Dead-End Memories: Stories
"Time simply floated open and started to expand. Time held the two of us in light, inside a space so vast it might have reached the heavens, and turned eternal."-Banana Yoshimoto, Dead-End Memories: Stories
"Anyone seeing us would have thought we were newlyweds, or a nice cohabiting couple. But we were only two people, a little regretful, and soon to part. We were having so much fun. It made me sad."-Banana Yoshimoto, Dead-End Memories: Stories
"The words I read in books seemed to strike me more deeply, and with my senses sharpened by grief, I noticed the glittering transition of the seasons as clearly as if I held the grief in the palm of m…"-Banana Yoshimoto, Dead-End Memories: Stories
21. Collected Short Stories: Volume 2
By: W. Somerset Maugham
4.38
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
Somerset Maugham's irony and cool detachment made him an acknowledged master of the short story. Th… read more
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