The Hyacinth Girl: T.S. Eliot's Hidden Muse
By: Lyndall Gordon
4.09
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, T.S. Eliot was considered the greatest English-language po…
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1. Jude the Obscure
By: Thomas Hardy
3.83
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
Jude Fawley's hopes of a university education are lost when he is trapped into marrying the earthy … read more
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"Always wanting another man than your own."-Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
"But no one came. Because no one ever does."-Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
"Love has its own dark morality when rivalry enters in."-Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
"We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more."-Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
2. The Family Reunion
By: T.S. Eliot
3.59
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A modern verse play dealing with the problem of man's guilt and his need for expiation through his … read more
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- poetry
3. Gravity and Grace
By: Simone Weil , Emma Crawford
4.03
Format: 246 pages, Paperback
Gravity and Gracewas the first ever publication by the remarkable thinker and activist, Simone Weil… read more
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- religion
- nonfiction
4. Between the Acts
By: Virginia Woolf
4.06
Format: None pages, Paperback
In Woolf's last novel, the action takes place on one summer's day at a country house in the heart o… read more
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5. Unnatural Death (Lord Peter Wimsey, #3)
By: Dorothy L. Sayers
4.07
Format: 264 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The wealthy Agatha Dawson is dead--a trifle sooner than expected--but there are no apparent signs o… read more
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"It doesn't do for people, especially doctors, to go about 'thinking' things. They may get into frightful trouble."-Dorothy L. Sayers, Unnatural Death (Lord Peter Wimsey, #3)
"…After all, it isn't really difficult to write books. Especially if you either write a rotten story in good English or a good story in rotten English, which is as far as most people seem to get nowad…"-Dorothy L. Sayers, Unnatural Death (Lord Peter Wimsey, #3)
"I sleuth, you know. For a hobby. Harmless outlet for natural inquisitiveness, don't you see, which might otherwise strike inward and produce introspection an' suicide. Very natural, healthy pursuit -…"-Dorothy L. Sayers, Unnatural Death (Lord Peter Wimsey, #3)
"Miss Climpson," said Lord Peter, "is a manifestation of the wasteful way in which this country is run. Look at electricity, Look at water-power. Look at the tides. Look at the sun. Millions of power …"-Dorothy L. Sayers, Unnatural Death (Lord Peter Wimsey, #3)
6. Giving Up the Ghost
By: Hilary Mantel
3.89
Format: 197 pages, Paperback
In postwar rural England, Hilary Mantel grew up convinced that the most improbable of accomplishmen… read more
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- biography memoir
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- nonfiction
7. The Glass Pearls
By: Emeric Pressburger
3.66
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Karl Braun is a slight, grey-haired man who lodges in West London and works as a tuner for a firm o… read more
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8. The Testament of Mary
By: Colm Tóibín
3.73
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
Provocative, haunting, and indelible, Colm Toibin's portrait of Mary presents her as a solitary old… read more
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9. All Passion Spent
By: Vita Sackville-West , Victoria Glendinning
3.76
Format: 180 pages, Paperback
In 1860, as a young girl of 17, Lady Slane nurtures a secret, burning ambition--to become an artist… read more
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10. The Longest Journey
By: E.M. Forster , Gilbert Adair , None
3.66
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Rickie Elliot, a sensitive and intelligent young man with an intense imagination and a certain amou… read more
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12. Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
By: Audre Lorde
3.88
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
ZAMI is a fast-moving chronicle. From the author's vivid childhood memories in Harlem to her coming… read more
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13. The Good Soldier
By: Ford Madox Ford , None , Kenneth Womack
4.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
"A Tale of Passion," as its subtitle declares, The Good Soldierrelates the complex social and sexua… read more
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14. Nightwood
By: T.S. Eliot , Jeanette Winterson , Djuna Barnes
4.07
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Nightwood, Djuna Barnes' strange and sinuous tour de force, "belongs to that small class of books t… read more
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15. Crooked Seeds
By: Karen Jennings
3.53
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A woman in post-apartheid South Africa confronts her family's troubling past in this taut and darin… read more
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16. Heart Berries
By: Terese Marie Mailhot
3.84
Format: 143 pages, Hardcover
Heart Berries is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman's coming of age on the Seabird Island Indian … read more
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"Pain expanded my heart."-Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries
"You are such a home to me."-Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries
"Romanticism requires bravery and risk."-Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries
"Sometimes suicidality doesn’t seem dark; it seems fair."-Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries
17. The New Life
By: Tom Crewe
3.77
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
Two Victorian marriages, two dangerous love affairs, one extraordinary partnership . . .London, 189… read more
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"Science requires a rational audience."-Tom Crewe, The New Life
"True development does not respect comfort."-Tom Crewe, The New Life
"We British are used to being ruthless, of course, but only the men. The women aren't. We don't grab. We shouldn't . But we have to, to make some room for ourselves."-Tom Crewe, The New Life
"...John wondered if she would ever be so unthinkingly imperious again; whether her childish powers of command would survive the dislocation from home, the knowledge of her smallness in the greater wo…"-Tom Crewe, The New Life
18. Held
By: Anne Michaels
3.66
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A breathtaking and mysterious new novel from the beloved Anne Michaels, internationally bestselling… read more
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"Who can say what happens when we are remembered?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"Do we really need our own misery to teach us to be kind?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"We know life is finite. Why should we believe death lasts forever?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"Would he know the moment of his death or would it be like night falling."-Anne Michaels, Held
19. Love and Fury: A Memoir
By: Margie Orford
4.57
Format: 342 pages, Kindle Edition
Love and Fury traces a woman's fierce love and righteous rage, unravelling entanglements that are a… read more
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20. Eliot After "The Waste Land"
By: Robert Crawford
4.25
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
Young From St. Louis to "The Waste Land" was hailed as “exceptional” and “assiduous” ( The New Yor… read more
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21. The Hyacinth Girl: T.S. Eliot's Hidden Muse
By: Lyndall Gordon
4.09
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, T.S. Eliot was considered the greatest English-language po… read more
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- biography memoir
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
