The Shadow (Hans Christian Andersen's Stories)
By: Hans Christian Andersen
3.43
Format: 20 pages, Kindle Edition
A scholar from a cold country lived in a hot country, but he found it difficult to adapt to the cli…
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1. Rage
By: Stephen King , Richard Bachman
3.73
Format: 131 pages, Mass Market Paperback
A disturbed high-school student with authority problems kills one of his teachers and takes the res… read more
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"Be'…"-Stephen King, Rage
"You’re on, Ted,"-Stephen King, Rage
"That was Dad's life, and I was the birdshit on his windshield."-Stephen King, Rage
"If I knew what was making me do it, I probably wouldn't have to."-Stephen King, Rage
2. The Golden House
By: Salman Rushdie
3.67
Format: 380 pages, Hardcover
On the day of Barack Obama’s inauguration, an enigmatic billionaire from foreign shores takes up re… read more
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"But great tragedy is universal"-Salman Rushdie, The Golden House
"the age of information, my dear,"-Salman Rushdie, The Golden House
"I don’t want to be elite. Am I elite?"-Salman Rushdie, The Golden House
"The alphabet is where all our secrets begin."-Salman Rushdie, The Golden House
3. The Red Shoes
By: Hans Christian Andersen , Barbara Bazilian
3.53
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
Have you ever wished for something so hard that you could think of nothing else? When Karen becomes… read more
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4. A Rose for Emily
By: William Faulkner
3.83
Format: 36 pages, Paperback
Emily is a member of a family in the antebellum Southern aristocracy; after the Civil War, the fami… read more
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"So the next day we all said, “She will kill herself"-William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily
"She died in one of the downstairs rooms, in a heavy walnut bed with a curtain, her gray head propped on a pillow yellow and moldy with age and lack of sunlight."-William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily
"When the Negro opened the blinds of one window, they could see that the leather was cracked; and when they sat down, a faint dust rose sluggishly about their thighs, spinning with slow motes in the s…"-William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily
"We did not say she was crazy then. We believed she had to do that. We remembered all the young men her father had driven away, and we knew that with nothing left, she would have to cling to that whic…"-William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily
5. The Masque of the Red Death
By: Edgar Allan Poe
4.06
Format: 9 pages, Paperback
The story follows Prince Prospero's attempts to avoid a dangerous plague known as the Red Death by … read more
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"Existem cordas, nos corações dos mais indiferentes, que não podem ser tocadas sem emoção."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death
"Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death
"There was much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death
"And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death
6. The Overcoat
By: Nikolai Gogol
4.15
Format: 57 pages, Paperback
The Overcoat which is generally acknowledged as the finest of Gogol's memorable Saint Petersburg st… read more
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"In the department of...but it would be better not to say in which department."-Nikolai Gogol, The Overcoat
"وخلت بطرسبرغ من أكاكيڤيتش وكأنما لم يكن موجودًا فيها أبدًا، اختفى وغاب ذلك المخلوق الذي لم يكن له من يحميه، والذي لم يكن عزيزًا على أحد ولا شيقًا بالنسبة لأحد."-Nikolai Gogol, The Overcoat
"Moreover, he had a peculiar knack, as he walked along the street, of arriving beneath a window just as all sorts of rubbish were being flung out of it: hence he always bore about on his hat scraps of…"-Nikolai Gogol, The Overcoat
"Así desapareció un ser humano a quien nadie defendió, a quien nadie había querido, por quien nadie se interesó… Fue un ser que soportó humildemente las burlas de sus colegas y que bajó a la tumba sin…"-Nikolai Gogol, The Overcoat
7. The Black Cat
By: Edgar Allan Poe
3.40
Format: 300 pages,
"The Black Cat" is one of Edgar Allan Poe's most memorable stories. The tale centers around a black… read more
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8. The Story of an Hour
By: Kate Chopin
4.07
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
In these four stories, Kate Chopin subtly captures the intricate interior lives of a generation of … read more
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"Spring days, and summer days, and all sorts of days that would be her own. She breathed a quick prayer that life might be long. It was only yesterday she had thought with a shudder that life might be…"-Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour
"there would be no powerful will binding hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow creature…And yet she had loved him- so…"-Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour
9. Walden
By: Henry David Thoreau
2.57
Format: 210 pages, Paperback
Walden, or, Life in the Woods, is an American book written by noted transcendentalist Henry David T… read more
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10. The Nose
By: Nikolai Gogol , Ronald Wilks
4.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
'Strangely enough, I mistook it for a gentleman at first. Fortunately I had my spectacles with me s… read more
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11. The Castle
By: Franz Kafka , Mark Harman , Regaip Minareci , None
3.90
Format: 49 pages, Paperback
Translated and with a preface by Mark Harman Left unfinished by Kafka in 1922 and not published unt… read more
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14. The Swimmer
By: John Cheever
3.56
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Neddy Merrill decides to swim home from a friend's pool party, traveling from fashionable swimming … read more
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15. The Marvelous Land of Oz (Oz, #2)
By: L. Frank Baum , David McKee
4.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
Tip builds a pumpkinheaded man as a joke. But the joke's on Tip when a mean old witch brings Jack P… read more
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16. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
By: Raymond Carver
3.87
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Alternate-cover edition can be found In his second collection, Carver establishes his reputation … read more
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17. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
By: Ambrose Bierce
3.50
Format: 262 pages, ebook
The condemned man stands on a bridge, his hands bound behind his back. A noose is tied around his n… read more
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18. The Marsh King's Daughter
By: Karen Dionne
5.00
Format: 229 pages, Hardcover
I was born two years into my mother's captivity. She was three weeks shy of seventeen. If I had kno… read more
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19. Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
By: Jorge Luis Borges
3.68
Format: 189 pages, Paperback
Here is a handsome edition of one of Borges' "ficciones," in a translation first published in "Laby… read more
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20. Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
By: Haruki Murakami , Alfred Birnbaum
3.58
Format: None pages, Paperback
'A narrative particle accelerator that zooms between Wild Turkey Whiskey and Bob Dylan, unicorn sku… read more
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21. A Country Doctor
By: Franz Kafka , Kevin Blahut , None
3.86
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
Written during the winter of 1916-17 when Kafka was living in one of the tiny houses on Golden Lane… read more
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22. The Library of Babel
By: Jorge Luis Borges , Andrew Hurley , Erik Desmazieres
4.35
Format: 36 pages, Hardcover
Jorge Luis Borges's famous 1941 meditation on language, alphabets, and the library that contains al… read more
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"O Time thy pyramids."-Jorge Luis Borges, The Library of Babel
"The Library is a sphere whose exact centre is any one of its hexagons and whose circumference is inaccessible."-Jorge Luis Borges, The Library of Babel
"If honor and wisdom and happiness are not for me, let them be for others. Let heaven exist, though my place be in hell."-Jorge Luis Borges, The Library of Babel
"The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite, perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries."-Jorge Luis Borges, The Library of Babel
23. Making It So
By: Patrick Stewart
4.33
Format: 469 pages, Hardcover
The long-awaited memoir from iconic, beloved actor and living legend Sir Patrick Stewart! From h… read more
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24. The Last Heir to Blackwood Library
By: Hester Fox
3.36
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
World War I England, a young woman inherits a mysterious library and must untangle its powerful sec… read more
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25. Capote's Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era
By: Laurence Leamer
3.83
Format: 356 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Laurence Leamer reveals the complex web of relationships and scan… read more
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26. Arch-Conspirator
By: Veronica Roth
3.43
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
Outside the last city on Earth, the planet is a wasteland. Without the Archive, where the genes of … read more
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27. Night Will Find You
By: Julia Heaberlin
3.97
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A scientist with a special gift riles a wasp's nest of conspiracy theories while investigating a co… read more
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28. Hills Like White Elephants
By: Ernest Hemingway
3.85
Format: 6 pages, Kindle Edition
A conversation in a Spanish cafe between a man and a woman that is not as simple as it seems. Hi… read more
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29. The Blue Hour
By: Paula Hawkins
3.56
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The spellbinding new novel from the internationally bestselling author of The Girl on the Train. … read more
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30. The Shadow (Hans Christian Andersen's Stories)
By: Hans Christian Andersen
3.43
Format: 20 pages, Kindle Edition
A scholar from a cold country lived in a hot country, but he found it difficult to adapt to the cli… read more
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31. Parthenogenesis
By: Stephen Graham Jones
3.78
Format: 23 pages, ebook
When their rental truck breaks down, two friends moving cross-country kill time by telling stories … read more
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