The End of the Tether and Other Stories
By: Joseph Conrad
4.17
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
This selection of four tales by Conrad is about radical insecurity: lone human beings involuntarily…
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1. Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)
By: Raymond Chandler
4.10
Format: 292 pages, Paperback
Marlowe's about to give up on a completely routine case when he finds himself in the wrong place at… read more
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"She was a cute as a washtub."-Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)
"It was a nice walk, if you liked grunting."-Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)
"She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket."-Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)
"The coffee shop smell was strong enough to build a garage on."-Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)
2. The Varieties of Religious Experience
By: William James
3.56
Format: 304 pages,
Being the Gifford Lectures on Natural Religion Delivered in Edinburgh 1901/2 "I am neither a theolo… read more
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- classics
3. The Maltese Falcon
By: Dashiell Hammett
3.93
Format: None pages, Paperback
Sam Spade is hired by the fragrant Miss Wonderley to track down her sister, who has eloped with a l… read more
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4. Poetics
By: Aristotle , Malcolm Heath
3.59
Format: None pages, Paperback
'The plot is the source and the soul of tragedy' In his near-contemporary account of Greek tragedy,… read more
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- classics
5. The Moonstone
By: Wilkie Collins , Carolyn G. Heilbrun
3.38
Format: None pages, Paperback
"The Moonstone is a page-turner," writes Carolyn Heilbrun. "It catches one up and unfolds its amazi… read more
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- classics
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6. Possession
By: A.S. Byatt , None
3.89
Format: 555 pages, Paperback
Winner of England's Booker Prize and the literary sensation of the year, Possession is an exhilarat… read more
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"To a dusty shelf we aspire."-A.S. Byatt, Possession
"I wanted to be a Poet and a Poem."-A.S. Byatt, Possession
"Randolph Henry Ash: “What is it? My dear?"-A.S. Byatt, Possession
"Outside our small safe place flies mystery."-A.S. Byatt, Possession
7. The Problems of Philosophy
By: Bertrand Russell
4.50
Format: 87 pages,
A lively and still one of the best introductions to philosophy, this book pays off both a closer re… read more
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- 20th century
8. Hard Times
By: Charles Dickens , Gage McWeeny
4.33
Format: 308 pages, Paperback
Longman's new Cultural Editions Series, Hard Times, by Charles Dickens, edited by Jeff Nunokawa, in… read more
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- classics
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9. The Postman Always Rings Twice
By: James M. Cain
3.72
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Cain's first novel - the subject of an obscenity trial in Boston and the inspiration for Camus's Th… read more
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10. In Watermelon Sugar
By: Richard Brautigan
4.51
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
iDEATH is a place where the sun shines a different colour every day and where people travel to the … read more
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- literary fiction
- classics
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11. Complete Shorter Fiction
By: Oscar Wilde , Isobel Murray
3.85
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
For the first time in one volume, this complete collection of all the short fiction Oscar Wilde pub… read more
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12. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
By: Mary Wollstonecraft , Miriam Brody , Bebi Fernández
3.50
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Writing in an age when the call for the rights of man had brought revolution to America and France,… read more
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13. The Trial
By: Franz Kafka , Max Brod , Edwin Muir , Willa Muir
3.95
Format: 255 pages, Paperback
Written in 1914 but not published until 1925, a year after Kafka’s death, The Trial is the terrifyi… read more
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"But I’m not guilty,"-Franz Kafka, The Trial
"Asking questions were the most important thing."-Franz Kafka, The Trial
"It was very learned, but it didn't actually say anything."-Franz Kafka, The Trial
"The way she sits on my lap as if it were her proper place!"-Franz Kafka, The Trial
14. Light in August
By: William Faulkner
3.89
Format: 704 pages,
Light in August, a novel that contrasts stark tragedy with hopeful perseverance in the face of mort… read more
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15. The Joke
By: Milan Kundera
3.93
Format: 40 pages, Paperback
All too often, this brilliant novel of thwarted love and revenge miscarried has been read for its p… read more
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16. The Mill on the Floss
By: George Eliot , A.S. Byatt
3.83
Format: 579 pages, Paperback
'If life had no love in it, what else was there for Maggie?' Brought up at Dorlcote Mill, Maggie… read more
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- classic literature
- classics
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"Don't judge a book by its cover"-George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
"Don't judge a book by its cover."-George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
"Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure."-George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
"I desire no future that will break the ties of the past."-George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
17. Exile and the Kingdom
By: Albert Camus , Justin O'Brien
3.46
Format: 32 pages,
These six stories, written at the height of Camus' artistic powers, all depict people at decisive, … read more
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18. Hunger
By: Knut Hamsun , George Egerton
4.05
Format: 134 pages, Paperback
One of the most important and controversial writers of the 20th century, Knut Hamsun made literary … read more
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- literature
- literary fiction
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- fiction
"Yoksul aydın, zengin aydından çok daha kuvvetli görür.(s.128)"-Knut Hamsun, Hunger
"It was not my intention to collapse; no, I would die standing."-Knut Hamsun, Hunger
"God be praised, I had raised myself in my own estimation again!"-Knut Hamsun, Hunger
"Truth is neither ojectivity nor the balanced view; truth is a selfless subjectivity."-Knut Hamsun, Hunger
19. A Hero of Our Time
By: Mikhail Lermontov , Paul Foote
3.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
In its adventurous happenings, its abductions, duels, and sexual intrigues, A Hero of Our Timelooks… read more
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20. The Monk
By: None
4.71
Format: None pages, Paperback
Set in the sinister monastery of the Capuchins in Madrid, this is a violent tale of ambition, murde… read more
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21. The Sea Wolf
By: Jack London
4.07
Format: None pages, Paperback
The novel begins when Van Weyden is swept overboard into San Francisco Bay, and plucked from the se… read more
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22. Dracula's Guest
By: Bram Stoker
4.36
Format: 39 pages,
A passage from the manuscript of Dracula. read more
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23. H.P. Lovecraft's the Dunwich Horror
By: Joe R. Lansdale , Peter Bergting , Robert Weinberg , Shawn Lee
2.86
Format: 442 pages, Paperback
H.P. Lovecraft is known as one of the key founders of modern horror, cited as a major influence by … read more
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24. The Jungle Book
By: Rudyard Kipling
3.90
Format: 277 pages, Paperback
'There is no harm in a man's cub.' Best known for the 'Mowgli' stories, Rudyard Kipling's The Ju… read more
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"Mark my trail..."-Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book
"Each dog barks in its own yard."-Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book
"It is better to lie quiet in the mud than to be disturbed on good bedding."-Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book
"Go, and peace go with thee. Only, another time do not meddle with my game."-Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book
25. Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
By: Edwin A. Abbott , Banesh Hoffmann
3.89
Format: None pages, Paperback
This masterpiece of science (and mathematical) fiction is a delightfully unique and highly entertai… read more
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26. This Side of Paradise
By: F. Scott Fitzgerald
3.64
Format: 275 pages, Paperback
This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald's romantic and witty first novel, was written when the a… read more
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- 20th century
"A squalid phantasmagoria of breath"-F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
"Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh."-F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
"Amory: I love you. Rosalind: I love you- now."-F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
"Good luck to you and bad luck to your theories."-F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
27. Dubliners
By: James Joyce , Jeri Johnson
3.44
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
This work of art reflects life in Ireland at the turn of the last century, and by rejecting euphemi… read more
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28. A Confederate General from Big Sur
By: Richard Brautigan
3.62
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
This is the story of Lee Mellon, whose great-grandfather was (or perhaps was not) a Confederate Gen… read more
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29. The Road to Wigan Pier
By: George Orwell , Richard Hoggart
3.92
Format: 215 pages, Paperback
In the 1930s, commissioned by a left-wing book club, Orwell went to the industrial areas of norther… read more
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"I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
"...there is always a temptation to think that industrialism is harmless so long as it is clean and orderly."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
"According to Chesterton, tea-drinking’ is ‘pagan’, while beer-drinking is ‘Christian’, and coffee is ‘the puritan’s opium’."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
"It is only when you meet someone of a different culture from yourself that you begin to realise what your own beliefs really are."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
30. Silverview
By: John Le Carré
3.66
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In Silverview, John le Carré turns his focus to the world that occupied his writing for the past s… read more
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"Sometimes the whole of marriage was a cover story."-John Le Carré, Silverview
"Een radicaal is een radicaal. Het maakt niet uit of het een ex-communist is of een ex-wat dan ook. Het is en blijft dezelfde man. Je manier van denken verandert niet omdat die tot een andere conclusi…"-John Le Carré, Silverview
31. The End of the Tether and Other Stories
By: Joseph Conrad
4.17
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
This selection of four tales by Conrad is about radical insecurity: lone human beings involuntarily… read more
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