Don Fernando
By: W. Somerset Maugham
3.04
Format: 178 pages, Paperback
A paean to Spain's golden age of enormous creative energy, Don Fernando begins with the vivid tale …
Want to Read $ 4.99"And if I am not mistaken here is the secret of the greatness that was Spain. In Spain it is men that are the poems, the pictures and the buildings. Men are its philosophies. They lived, these Spaniards of the Golden Age; they felt and did; they did not think. Life was what they sought and found, life in its turmoil, its fervour and its variety. Passion was the seed that brought them forth and passion was the flower they bore. But passion alone cannot give rise to a great art. In the arts the Spaniards invented nothing. They did little in any of those they practised, but give a local colour to a virtuosity they borrowed from abroad. Their literature, as I have ventured to remark, was not of the highest rank; they were taught to paint by foreign masters, but, inapt pupils, gave birth to one painter only of the very first class; they owed their architecture to the Moors, the French and the Italians, and the works themselves produced were best when they departed least from their patterns. Their preeminence was great, but it lay in another direction: it was a preeminence of character. In this I think they have been surpassed by none and equalled only by the ancient Romans. It looks as though all the energy, all the originality, of this vigorous race had been disposed to one end and one end only, the creation of man. It is not in art that they excelled, they excelled in what is greater than art--in man. But it is thought that has the last word."-W. Somerset Maugham, Don Fernando
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1. Slouching Towards Bethlehem
By: Joan Didion
4.19
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
The first nonfiction work by one of the most distinctive prose stylists of our era, Joan Didion's S… read more
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"Happiness is,' after all, a consumption ethic."-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
"There is a common superstition that “self-respect"-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
"The ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language."-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
"The future always looks good in the golden land, because no one remembers the past."-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
2. Good-Bye, Mr. Chips
By: James Hilton , Edward Weeks , Henry Matthew Brock , Santiago Munevar
3.97
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Mr. Hilton's classic story of an English schoolmaster. Mr. Chipping, the classics master at Broo… read more
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- literature
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"All things are forgotten in the end"-James Hilton, Good-Bye, Mr. Chips
"He was forty-eight — an age at which permanence of habits begins to be predictable."-James Hilton, Good-Bye, Mr. Chips
"For Chips, like some old sea captain, still measured time by the signals of the past. . . ."-James Hilton, Good-Bye, Mr. Chips
"His guests found it fun to watch him make tea -- mixing careful spoonfuls from different caddies."-James Hilton, Good-Bye, Mr. Chips
3. Bleak House
By: Charles Dickens , Hablot Knight Browne , Nicola Bradbury
4.02
Format: 1017 pages, Paperback
The complex story of a notorious law-suit in which love and inheritance are set against the classic… read more
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"You can be nothing better than yourself; be that [...]"-Charles Dickens, Bleak House
"I find the nights long, for I sleep but little, and think much."-Charles Dickens, Bleak House
"I am not at all respectable, and I don't want to be. Odd perhaps, but so it is!"-Charles Dickens, Bleak House
"if the world go wrong, it was, in some off-hand manner, never meant to go right."-Charles Dickens, Bleak House
4. The Three Musketeers
By: Alexandre Dumas , Richard Pevear , John Lee
4.09
Format: 625 pages, Paperback
First published in 1844, The Three Musketeers is the most famous of Alexandre Dumas' historical nov… read more
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- literature
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"All for one and one for all."-Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers
"Love is the most selfish of all the passions."-Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers
"The merit of all things lies in their difficulty."-Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers
"I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death."-Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers
5. Diary of a Madman and Other Stories
By: Nikolai Gogol
4.35
Format: 26 pages, Paperback
Hailed by Nabokov as "the greatest artist that Russia has yet produced," Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852) … read more
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6. Frenchman's Creek
By: Daphne du Maurier , Julie Myerson
3.98
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
Bored and restless in London's Restoration Court, Lady Dona escapes into the British countryside wi… read more
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"You have no hobby then?" "Moths interest me, my lady."-Daphne du Maurier, Frenchman's Creek
"I am notorious," said Dona, "for making unfortunate remarks."-Daphne du Maurier, Frenchman's Creek
"—in reality it was escape she wanted, escape from her own self—"-Daphne du Maurier, Frenchman's Creek
"I had become like a prisoner in chains, and the dungeon was deep."-Daphne du Maurier, Frenchman's Creek
7. Historia de la vida del Buscón
By: Francisco de Quevedo
3.00
Format: 76 pages,
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8. The Heart's Invisible Furies
By: John Boyne
3.85
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Cyril Avery is not a realAvery -- or at least, that's what his adoptive parents tell him. And he ne… read more
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9. My Ántonia
By: Willa Cather
4.07
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
Through Jim Burden's endearing, smitten voice, we revisit the remarkable vicissitudes of immigrant … read more
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10. Ethan Frome
By: Edith Wharton
2.00
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Ethan Frome works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a bearable existence with his dif… read more
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11. Faust: First Part
By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Peter Salm
4.21
Format: None pages, Paperback
Goethe's masterpiece and perhaps the greatest work in German literature, Faust has made the legenda… read more
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12. Le Colonel Chabert
By: Honoré de Balzac
3.59
Format: 208 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Le Colonel Chabert est supposé avoir été tué sur le champ d'honneur dans l'une des batailles de Nap… read more
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"Morālās ciešanas, kas pārspēj fiziskās, allaž izraisa mazāku žēlumu, jo cilvēka acij nav saskatāmas."-Honoré de Balzac, Le Colonel Chabert
13. Answered Prayers - The Unfinished Novel
By: Truman Capote
4.31
Format: 517 pages, Paperback
Although Truman Capote's last novel was unfinished at the time of his death, its surviving portions… read more
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14. The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham: A Biography
By: Selina Shirley Hastings
3.75
Format: None pages, Hardcover
He was a brilliant teller of tales, one of the most widely read authors of the twentieth century, a… read more
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15. The Thing Around Your Neck
By: None
3.85
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
Searing and profound, suffused with beauty, sorrow, and longing, the stories in The Thing Around Yo… read more
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16. Death Comes for the Archbishop
By: Willa Cather
3.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
There is something epic--and almost mythic--about this sparsely beautiful novel by Willa Cather, al… read more
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17. The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.58
Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition
1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of… read more
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"All of history [is] a rehearsal for its own extinction."-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"...do you think if you died drunk you’d sober up before you met Jesus?"-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"The evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure"-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"She asked the girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said dead."-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
18. The Offing
By: Benjamin Myers
4.25
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
After all, there are only a few things truly worth fighting for: freedom, of course, and all that i… read more
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"I was neither old enough to have made myself a heron young enough to have escaped the newsreel images or the long dark shadows that the returning soldiers dragged behind them like empty coffins. For …"-Benjamin Myers, The Offing
"At times like this, or when hoeing soil or sanding wood, or just sitting on a bench with my face turned to the sun, I appeared to slip out of the moment so entirely - or, conversely, perhaps was so d…"-Benjamin Myers, The Offing
19. The House of Doors
By: Tan Twan Eng
4.14
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A spellbinding novel about love and betrayal, colonialism and revolution, storytelling and redempti… read more
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"Money's the sixth sense. If you don't have it, you can't make … the most of the other five."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
"I feel that when I travel I can change myself a little, and I return from a journey not quite the same self I was."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
"That night, side by side, we drifted among the galaxies of sea-stars, while far, far above us the asterisks of light marked out the footnotes on the page of eternity."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
"All of us will be forgotten eventually. Like a wave on the ocean, leaving no trace that it had once existed.' He shook his head. 'We will be remembered through our stories."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
20. Small Pleasures
By: Clare Chambers
3.77
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
1957, south-east suburbs of London. Jean Swinney is a feature writer on a local paper, disappointe… read more
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"The new and threatening would become the old and familiar in due course."-Clare Chambers, Small Pleasures
"The journey into love was so effortless and graceful; the journey out such a long and laboured climb"-Clare Chambers, Small Pleasures
"Previous experience taught her that the pain would not be unending - but neither would it subside smoothly, incrementally, but rather in a series of crashing waves, some of which might still knock he…"-Clare Chambers, Small Pleasures
21. Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey
By: James Rebanks
4.43
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
As a boy, James Rebanks's grandfather taught him to work the land the old way. Their family farm in… read more
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"There were profoundly important questions about the potential effects of each new technology that it was nobody's job to ask or answer. There was no mechanism for farmers or ecologists to judge wheth…"-James Rebanks, Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey
"There is something about planting trees that feels good. If you have done it well, it will outlast you and leave the world a little richer and more beautiful because of your efforts. Planting a tree …"-James Rebanks, Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey
"Agricultural education is still overwhelmingly about change and innovation, and "disruption," not what is sustainable and what will work in the long run. From the modernizing perspective, the student…"-James Rebanks, Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey
22. Don Fernando
By: W. Somerset Maugham
3.04
Format: 178 pages, Paperback
A paean to Spain's golden age of enormous creative energy, Don Fernando begins with the vivid tale … read more
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- literature
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"And if I am not mistaken here is the secret of the greatness that was Spain. In Spain it is men that are the poems, the pictures and the buildings. Men are its philosophies. They lived, these Spaniar…"-W. Somerset Maugham, Don Fernando
