The Wives Excuse, Or, Cuckolds Make Themselves
By: Thomas Southerne
2.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
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1. Crossing The River
By: Caryl Phillips
3.72
Format: 237 pages, Paperback
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2. To the Lighthouse
By: Virginia Woolf
3.80
Format: 209 pages, Paperback
The serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children and assor… read more
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"I have had my vision."-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
"[...] there was only the sound of the sea."-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
"Well, we must wait for the future to show."-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
"The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare."-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
3. The Castle of Otranto
By: Horace Walpole
3.18
Format: 125 pages, Paperback
First published pseudonymously in 1764, The Castle of Otranto purported to be a translation of an I… read more
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"My soul abhors a falsehood"-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
"This life is but a pilgrimage."-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
"Heaven mocks the short-sighted views of man."-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
"I fear no bad angel, and have offended no good one."-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
4. 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
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"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
5. A Midsummer Night’s Dream
By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine , Catherine Belsey
3.95
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Shakespeare's intertwined love polygons begin to get complicated from the start--Demetrius and Lysa… read more
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"My soul is in the sky."-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
"Farewell, sweet playfellow."-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
"Lord, what fools these mortals be!"-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
"How now, spirit! Whither wander you?"-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
6. Twelfth Night
By: William Shakespeare , Folger Shakespeare Library
3.95
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Named for the twelfth night after Christmas, the end of the Christmas season, Twelfth Night plays w… read more
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"a raven's heart within a dove."-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
"I pity you That's a degree to love"-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
"Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit."-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
"Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage."-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
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By: Oscar Wilde
2.50
Format: None pages,
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8. Villette
By: Charlotte Brontë , A.S. Byatt , Μαρία Λαϊνά , Ignes Sodre
3.50
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By: Willa Cather
4.07
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10. King Lear
By: William Shakespeare , William James Rolfe
3.91
Format: 338 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Shakespeare’s King Lear challenges us with the magnitude, intensity, and sheer duration of the pain… read more
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"Fortune love you."-William Shakespeare, King Lear
"She is herself a dowry."-William Shakespeare, King Lear
"All dark and comfortless."-William Shakespeare, King Lear
"Nothing can come of nothing."-William Shakespeare, King Lear
11. 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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12. Richard III
By: William Shakespeare , John Jowett
3.37
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13. All's Well That Ends Well
By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine
3.99
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14. Voyage in the Dark
By: Jean Rhys , Carole Angier
3.78
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
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"Something came out from my heart into my throat and then into my eyes."-Jean Rhys, Voyage in the Dark
"It's funny, he said, have you ever thought that a girl's clothes cost more than the girl inside them?"-Jean Rhys, Voyage in the Dark
"I was thinking it was funny I could giggle like that because in my heart I was always sad, with the same sort of hurt that the cold gave me in my chest."-Jean Rhys, Voyage in the Dark
"But in the daytime it was all right. And when you'd had a drink you knew it was the best way to live in the world because anything might happen. I don't know how people live when they know exactly wh…"-Jean Rhys, Voyage in the Dark
15. Gulliver’s Travels
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3.58
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"Anlamadığınız bir insanı "delidir" diye nitelemek o kadar kolaydır ki!"-Louis Rhead, Gulliver’s Travels
"we neither of us are able to deliver our conceptions in a manner intelligible to the other."-Louis Rhead, Gulliver’s Travels
"معظم ابناء جلدتك هم أخبث سلالة من الحشرات المؤذية البغيضة التي سمحت لها الطبيعة بالزحف على وجخ الأرض"-Louis Rhead, Gulliver’s Travels
"... a wife should be always a reasonable and agreeable companion, because she cannot always be young."-Louis Rhead, Gulliver’s Travels
16. Evelina
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3.88
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Frances Burney's first and most enduringly popular novel is a vivid, satirical, and seductive accou… read more
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17. Home Fire
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4.09
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18. Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded
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3.97
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19. Perceval, or, The Story of the Grail
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3.00
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20. Heart of Darkness
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21. The Good Soldier
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4.50
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22. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
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3.85
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The true story of an individual's struggle for self-identity, self-preservation, and freedom, Incid… read more
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23. Beloved
By: Toni Morrison
4.24
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24. Richard II
By: William Shakespeare , Roma Gill , None
3.91
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25. Macbeth
By: William Shakespeare
3.89
Format: None pages, Paperback
What he hears will change everything. Egged on by his wife, he decides to kill in order to gain the… read more
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"What, you egg?"-William Shakespeare, Macbeth
"What's done, is done"-William Shakespeare, Macbeth
"What's done cannot be undone."-William Shakespeare, Macbeth
"What, you egg? / [He stabs him.]"-William Shakespeare, Macbeth
26. Boy Parts
By: Eliza Clark
3.77
Format: 304 pages, ebook
Irina obsessively takes explicit photographs of the average-looking men she persuades to model for … read more
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"Was it my idea to have him hurt me, or did he just let me think it was?"-Eliza Clark, Boy Parts
"My mam always used to tell me that you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar. And Eddie from Tesco is a fly, but he's got a taste for vinegar. It's like vinegar is all he's ever had from peop…"-Eliza Clark, Boy Parts
"You want to think you're not like other women, but you are, you know. You're still... that's still how the rest of the world, how men are going to see you. Like, I know you hate labels, but you like.…"-Eliza Clark, Boy Parts
"Do you like it rough? I think so. I think I must. Men are rough, aren't they? Have I always had a taste for rough stuff, or did I acquire that? In the back of Lesley's car, on the floor of a friend's…"-Eliza Clark, Boy Parts
27. Everything I Know About Love
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4.00
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"Nearly everything I know about love, I've learnt from my long-term friendships with women."-Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love
"No matter how uncertain and unpredictable life gets, some people really do walk next to you for ever."-Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love
"She knows where to find everything in me and I know where all her stuff is too. She is, in short, my best friend."-Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love
"I don't need any words or looks or comments from a man to believe I'm visible; to believe I'm here. don't need to run away from discomfort and into a male eyeliner. That's not where I come alive."-Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love
28. Saltwater
By: Jessica Andrews
3.79
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Lucy is lost. Growing up in the north east she wanted more. When others were thinking about the Nis… read more
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"I want it and I do not want it. I want to be visible and I want to be invisible, or perhaps I want to be visible to some people and not to others. It seems unfair that I can't choose."-Jessica Andrews, Saltwater
"I would like to have something to believe in, but it is difficult. Everything my generation was promised got blown away like clouds of smoke curling from the ends of cigarettes in the mouths of polit…"-Jessica Andrews, Saltwater
29. The Provok'd Wife: A Comedy
By: John Vanbrugh
3.43
Format: 422 pages, Paperback
Excerpt from The Provok'd Wife: A Comedy Sir 7. If women were to have their wills, the world wou… read more
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"Shield me, kind heaven, what an inundation of impertinence is here coming upon us!"-John Vanbrugh, The Provok'd Wife: A Comedy
"How I should despise such a thing if I were a man. What a nose she has! what a chin! what a neck! Then her eyes--and the worst kissing lips in the universe."-John Vanbrugh, The Provok'd Wife: A Comedy
30. The Wives Excuse, Or, Cuckolds Make Themselves
By: Thomas Southerne
2.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
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31. Song of the Broken String: After the /Xam Bushmen―Poems from a Lost Oral Tradition
By: Stephen Watson
4.14
Format: 102 pages, Paperback
The /Xam Bushmen, hunters, gatherers, some poets among them, were a stone age people who survived n… read more
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