The Biter Bit
By: Wilkie Collins
3.43
Format: None pages, Audiobook
"The Biter Bit" is a humorous short story by British writer Wilkie Collins. Originally published as…
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1. Agnes Grey
By: Anne Brontë , Angeline Goreau
3.71
Format: 226 pages, Paperback
An alternate cover edition can be found here. Drawing heavily from personal experience, Anne Bro… read more
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"Dakle,"-Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey
"No one cares for the exterior."-Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey
"But, God knows best, I concluded."-Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey
"If you require perfection, you never will"-Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey
2. The Minister's Black Veil
By: Nathaniel Hawthorne
3.73
Format: 37 pages, Paperback
The sexton stood in the porch of Milford meeting-house, pulling busily at the bell-rope. The old pe… read more
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"The grass of many years has sprung up and withered on that grave, the burial-stone is mossgrown, and good Mr. Hooper’s face is dust; but awful is still the thought that it mouldered beneath the black…"-Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minister's Black Veil
"Mr. Hooper spent a long life, irreproachable in outward act, yet shrouded in dismal suspicions; kind and loving, though unloved, and dimly feared; a man apart from men, shunned in their health and jo…"-Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minister's Black Veil
3. The House on the Strand
By: Daphne du Maurier
3.83
Format: 352 pages, ebook
Dick Young is lent a house in Cornwall by his friend Professor Magnus Lane. During his stay he agre… read more
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"The world of today asleep, and my world not awakened, or not as yet, until the drug possessed me."-Daphne du Maurier, The House on the Strand
4. The Canterville Ghost
By: Oscar Wilde , Inga Moore
3.88
Format: 126 pages, Hardcover
This is Oscar Wilde's tale of the American family moved into a British mansion, Canterville Chase, … read more
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"Love is stronger than death is"-Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost
"Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!"-Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost
"You can have your secret as long as I have your heart[.]"-Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost
"To his alert mind and ears, every experience was education."-Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost
5. The Wind in the Willows
By: Kenneth Grahame , Gillian Avery
4.02
Format: 197 pages, Paperback
“All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he… read more
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"...Absorbed in the new scents, the sounds, and the sunlight..."-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
"Badger hates Society, and invitations, and dinner, and all that sort of thing."-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
"There’s nothing––absolutely nothing––half so much worth doing as messing about in boats."-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
"After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working."-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
6. Belinda
By: Maria Edgeworth , Kathryn J. Kirkpatrick
3.66
Format: 544 pages, Paperback
The lively comedy of this novel in which a young woman comes of age amid the distractions and tempt… read more
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"I wish," said the old lady, "for her own sake, for the sake of her family, and for the sake of her reputation, that my lady Delacour had fewer admirers, and more friends." "Women, who have met with s…"-Maria Edgeworth, Belinda
7. North and South
By: Elizabeth Gaskell , Alan Shelston
4.15
Format: 521 pages, Paperback
When her father leaves the Church in a crisis of conscience, Margaret Hale is uprooted from her com… read more
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"No one loves me, - no one cares for me, but you, mother."-Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
"One may be clogged with honey and unable to rise and fly."-Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
"But the future must be met, however stern and iron it be. "-Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
"He is my first olive: let me make a face while I swallow it."-Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
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9. Villette
By: Charlotte Brontë , A.S. Byatt , Μαρία Λαϊνά , Ignes Sodre
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Villette! Villette! Have you read it?" exclaimed George Eliot when Charlotte Bronte's final novel … read more
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10. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
By: Anne Brontë , Stevie Davies
3.52
Format: None pages, Paperback
Note: Editions of The Tenant that start with: "You must go back with me..." are incomplete. Actual … read more
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11. The Body Snatcher
By: Robert Louis Stevenson
4.53
Format: 122 pages, Paperback
A young man studying medicine in Edinburgh is asked by his professor to be responsible for receivin… read more
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12. The Pit and the Pendulum
By: Edgar Allan Poe
4.15
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
Get set for true terror in one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous short stories. We enter the mind… read more
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"How at least shall we distinguish its shadows from those of the tomb?"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum
"In the deepest slumber-no! In delirium-no! In a swoon-no! In death-no! even in the grave all is not lost."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum
"In death - no! even in the grave all is not lost. Else there is no immortality for man. Arousing from the most profound slumbers, we break the gossamer web of some dream. Yet in a second afterward, (…"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum
"He who has never swooned, is not he who finds strange palaces and wildly familiar faces in coals that glow; is not he who beholds floating in mid-air the sad visions that the many may not view; is no…"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum
13. The Vampyre; A Tale
By: John William Polidori
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Vampyreis a short story by John William Polidori. It is based on a fragment written by Lord Byr… read more
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14. The Haunted Dolls' House
By: M.R. James
3.66
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
A macabre human drama is re-enated in a Gothic doll's house; a whistle awakens a force of unspeakab… read more
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15. The Garden Party
By: Katherine Mansfield
3.62
Format: None pages, ebook
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge… read more
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16. The Cloister and the Hearth
By: Charles Reade
3.97
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Cloister and the Hearth (1861) is a historical novel by the English author Charles Reade. Set i… read more
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17. Ligeia
By: Edgar Allan Poe
3.51
Format: 235 pages,
Suspense, fear and the supernatural provide the center for this tale by the master prose writer. read more
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19. The Man in Lower Ten
By: Mary Roberts Rinehart
3.67
Format: 117 pages, Paperback
Lawrence Blakely, attorney-at-law, sets off by train to deliver valuable documents in a criminal ca… read more
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20. Lady Audley's Secret
By: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
4.10
Format: None pages, Paperback
This Victorian bestseller, along with Braddon's other famous novel, Aurora Floyd, established her a… read more
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21. The Mezzotint
By: M.R. James
5.00
Format: 646 pages,
This short story of the supernatural was originally published in 1904. It concerns a university don… read more
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22. The Rats in the Walls
By: H.P. Lovecraft
3.55
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
"The Rats in the Walls" is a short story by H.P. Lovecraft. Written in August-September 1923, it wa… read more
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23. The Haunter of the Dark: The H.P. Lovecraft Omnibus, #3
By: H.P. Lovecraft , August Derleth
3.95
Format: 544 pages, Paperback
WARNING! YOU ARE ABOUT TO ENTER A NEW DIMENSION OF UTMOST TERROR When you open this book you wil… read more
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"Into his mind floated pictures of alien orbs with great stone towers, and other orbs with titan mountains and no mark of life, and still remoter spaces where only a stirring in vague blackness told o…"-H.P. Lovecraft, The Haunter of the Dark: The H.P. Lovecraft Omnibus, #3
"And beyond all else he glimpsed an infinite gulf of sheer darkness, where solid and semi-solid forms were known only by their windy stirrings, and cloudy patterns of force seemed to superimpose order…"-H.P. Lovecraft, The Haunter of the Dark: The H.P. Lovecraft Omnibus, #3
24. The Gift of the Magi
By: O. Henry , Lisbeth Zwerger
4.11
Format: 26 pages, Hardcover
O. Henry's classic tale of the wisest gifts of Christmas is itself a gift to share and treasure. … read more
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"Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating."-O. Henry, The Gift of the Magi
"There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl."-O. Henry, The Gift of the Magi
"There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl. So Della did it. Which instigates the moral reflection that life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with snif…"-O. Henry, The Gift of the Magi
"Единственное, что тут можно было сделать, это хлопнуться на старенькую кушетку и зареветь. Именно так Делла и поступила. Откуда напрашивается философский вывод, что жизнь состоит из слез, вздохов и у…"-O. Henry, The Gift of the Magi
25. Middlemarch
By: Michel Faber , George Eliot
4.02
Format: 912 pages, Mass Market Paperback
"People are almost always better than their neighbours think they are" George Eliot’s most ambit… read more
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"After all, the true seeing is within."-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
"I protest against any absolute conclusion."-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
"I shall do everything it becomes me to do."-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
"What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?"-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
26. The Ash-Tree
By: M.R. James
3.94
Format: 229 pages, ebook
Montague Rhodes James OM, MA, FBA (1 August 1862 - 12 June 1936), who used the publication name M. … read more
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27. The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)
By: Anthony Trollope , David Skilton
3.75
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
The Warden centers on Mr. Harding, a clergyman of great personal integrity who is nevertheless in p… read more
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"It is much less difficult for the sufferer to be generous than for the oppressor."-Anthony Trollope, The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)
"... In what I do I may appear to be interfering with you, and I hope you will forgive me for doing so."-Anthony Trollope, The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)
"He never quarreled with his wife, but he never talked to her;--he never had time to talk, he was so taken up with speaking."-Anthony Trollope, The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)
"They say that faint heart never won fair lady. It is amazing to me how fair ladies are won, so faint are often men's hearts!"-Anthony Trollope, The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)
28. The Murder on the Links (Hercule Poirot, #2)
By: Agatha Christie
3.87
Format: 199 pages, Paperback
When Hercule Poirot and his associate Arthur Hastings arrive in the French village of Merlinville-s… read more
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"Two people rarely see the same thing."-Agatha Christie, The Murder on the Links (Hercule Poirot, #2)
"Again you have the sentiment and not the logic!"-Agatha Christie, The Murder on the Links (Hercule Poirot, #2)
"[...] She is not for you, that one! Take it from Papa Poirot!"-Agatha Christie, The Murder on the Links (Hercule Poirot, #2)
"Mon ami, двоє людей рідко можуть похвалитись, що бачать однакові речі"-Agatha Christie, The Murder on the Links (Hercule Poirot, #2)
29. Hunted Down
By: Charles Dickens
3.45
Format: 44 pages, Paperback
Hunted Down is a fascinating selection of Charles Dickens’ detective stories. This classic antholog… read more
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"A very little key will open a very heavy door."-Charles Dickens, Hunted Down
30. The Biter Bit
By: Wilkie Collins
3.43
Format: None pages, Audiobook
"The Biter Bit" is a humorous short story by British writer Wilkie Collins. Originally published as… read more
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