The Works of M. R. James
By: M.R. James
4.23
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
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1. The Histories
By: Herodotus , Aubrey de Sélincourt , John M. Marincola
4.01
Format: 716 pages, Paperback
David Grene, one of the best known translators of the Greek classics, splendidly captures the pecul… read more
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"Hippocleides doesn't care."-Herodotus, The Histories
"So much, then, for the fish."-Herodotus, The Histories
"La muerte es para el hombre el más deseado refugio."-Herodotus, The Histories
"Muchos hombres opulentos son desdichados, y muchos que tienen hacienda moderada son dichosos."-Herodotus, The Histories
2. Complete Works of Arthur Conan Doyle
By: Arthur Conan Doyle
4.48
Format: 11112 pages, Kindle Edition
This collection was designed for optimal navigation on Kindle and other electronic devices. It is i… read more
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"I told him that I could not tell how far he spoke the truth, but that I would judge him by his actions."-Arthur Conan Doyle, Complete Works of Arthur Conan Doyle
3. The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories
By: Henry James , None
3.65
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
A young, inexperienced governess is charged with the care of Miles and Flora, two small children ab… read more
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4. Descent into Hell
By: Charles Williams , Charles Williams
3.93
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
The key to Williams' mystically oriented theological thought, Descent into Hell (arguably Williams'… read more
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"It may be a movement towards becoming like little children to admit that we are generally nothing else."-Charles Williams, Descent into Hell
", Stanhope delayed a moment behind Miss Fox to add: "The substantive, of course, governs the adjective; not the other way round." "The substantive?" Pauline asked blankly. "Good. It contains terror, …"-Charles Williams, Descent into Hell
". Nature's so terribly good. Don't you think so, Mr. Stanhope?" Stanhope was standing by, silent, while Mrs. Parry communed with her soul and with one or two of her neighbours on the possibilities of…"-Charles Williams, Descent into Hell
5. The Complete Sherlock Holmes
By: Arthur Conan Doyle
4.50
Format: 1796 pages, Paperback
A study in scarlet -- The sign of four -- Adventures of Sherlock Holmes : A scandal in Bohemi… read more
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"Oh how I've missed you, Holmes."-Arthur Conan Doyle, The Complete Sherlock Holmes
"It is easy to be wise after the event."-Arthur Conan Doyle, The Complete Sherlock Holmes
"You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive."-Arthur Conan Doyle, The Complete Sherlock Holmes
"Excellent!" I cried. "Elementary," said he."-Arthur Conan Doyle, The Complete Sherlock Holmes
6. The Egyptian Book of the Dead
By: Anonymous , E.A. Wallis Budge
3.86
Format: 445 pages, Hardcover
s/t: The Papyrus of Ani in the British Museum; the Egyptian Text with Interlinear Transliteration &… read more
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7. Count Magnus and Other Ghost Stories
By: S.T. Joshi , M.R. James
4.02
Format: None pages, Paperback
The only annotated edition of M. R. James's writings currently available, Count Magnus and Other Gh… read more
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8. A Man Lay Dead (Roderick Alleyn, #1)
By: Ngaio Marsh
3.80
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
At Sir Hubert Handesley's country house party, five guests have gathered for the uproarious parlor … read more
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9. Death in Venice
By: Thomas Mann , Michael Cunningham , Michael Henry Heim
3.74
Format: 142 pages, Paperback
The world-famous masterpiece by Nobel laureate Thomas Mann -- here in a new translation by Michael … read more
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"Nothing gladdens a writer more than a thought that can become pure feeling and a feeling that can become pure thought."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
"Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
"Denn der Mensch liebt und ehrt den Menschen , solange er ihn nicht zu beurteilen vermag, und die Sehnsucht ist ein Erzeunis mangelhafter Erkenntnis."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
"Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
10. The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales
By: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm , Joseph Campbell , James Stern , Padraic Colum , Josef Scharl , Margaret Raine Hunt
3.67
Format: 244 pages, Paperback
For almost two centuries, the stories of magic and myth gathered by the Brothers Grimm have been pa… read more
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11. The Civil War
By: Gaius Julius Caesar , Jane F. Gardner
3.36
Format: None pages, Paperback
A military leader of legendary genius, Caesar was also a great writer, recording the events of his … read more
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12. Ararat
By: Christopher Golden
3.31
Format: 180 pages,
When a newly engaged couple climbs Mount Ararat in Turkey, an avalanche forces them to seek shelter… read more
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13. Tree and Leaf: Includes Mythopoeia and The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth
By: J.R.R. Tolkien
2.65
Format: 34 pages, Paperback
This volume is a provocative and entertaining collection of works which reveals the diversity of J.… read more
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14. The Complete Stories and Poems
By: Edgar Allan Poe
3.72
Format: 294 pages,
The life of American writer Edgar Allan Poe was characterized by a dramatic series of successes and… read more
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15. Queen Macbeth
By: Val McDermid
3.77
Format: 122 pages, Kindle Edition
Shakespeare fed us the myth of the Macbeths as murderous conspirators. But now Val McDermid drags t… read more
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16. Hex
By: Jenni Fagan
3.85
Format: 104 pages, Hardcover
IT'S THE 4TH OF DECEMBER 1591. On this, the last night of her life, in a prison cell several floor… read more
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"A witch-pricker's finger can be pointed at any one of us. It chose me."-Jenni Fagan, Hex
"I’ve got the voice of a siren – it’s not a voice to launch a thousand ships, it’s a voice to sink them."-Jenni Fagan, Hex
"- You know what really brings the storms, Geillis? - What? - A storm arrives at the exact second when a girl learns she'll never be free"-Jenni Fagan, Hex
"I have memories to give away before I meet God — so you can have them, Iris from the ether. Are you listening? Nobody else will write them down."-Jenni Fagan, Hex
17. The Classified Dossier: Sherlock Holmes and Count Dracula
By: Christian Klaver
3.71
Format: 425 pages, Hardcover
The first in a stylish new series, in which the worlds of Sherlock and the uncanny collide. Sher… read more
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18. The Puzzle Wood
By: Rosie Andrews
3.37
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Deep in the woods, something is stirring. When Miss Catherine Symonds arrives to take up a posit… read more
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19. War in Heaven
By: Charles Williams
3.83
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
An alternate cover for this ISBN can be found: here A battle over the most sacred object in Chri… read more
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"The telephone bell was ringing wildly, but without result, since there was no-one in the room but the corpse."-Charles Williams, War in Heaven
"[...] the war between good and evil existed no longer, for the thing beneath the Graal was not fighting but vomiting."-Charles Williams, War in Heaven
"An hour's conversation on literature between two ardent minds with a common devotion to a neglected poet is a miraculous road to intimacy."-Charles Williams, War in Heaven
"There is no possible idea," Kenneth thought as he came onto the terrace, "to which the mind of man can't supply some damned alternative or other. Yet one must act."-Charles Williams, War in Heaven
20. Charles Williams Omnibus
By: Charles Williams
4.33
Format: 1068 pages, Hardcover
This book is an omnibus edition containing the seven novels that Charles Williams wrote as well as … read more
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21. James Joyce: The Complete Collection
By: James Joyce
4.23
Format: 5992 pages, Kindle Edition
This ebook contains James Joyce's complete works.This edition has been professionally formatted and… read more
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