"September 1, 1939"
By: W.H. Auden
4.04
Format: None pages, None
"September 1, 1939" is a poem by W. H. Auden written on the occasion of the outbreak of World War I…
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1. Nausea
By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Lloyd Alexander , Hayden Carruth
3.94
Format: 178 pages, Hardcover
Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In… read more
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"It was true, I had always realized it—I hadn’t any “right"-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
"Then time started flowing again and the emptiness grew larger."-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
"I see the insipid flesh blossoming and palpitating with abandon."-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
"My existence began to worry me seriously. Was I not a simple spectre?"-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
2. Why Orwell Matters
By: Christopher Hitchens
3.96
Format: 211 pages, Paperback
In this widely acclaimed biographical essay, Christopher Hitchens assesses the life, the achievemen… read more
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"Very often, people embarking on such guesswork make the vulgar assumption that the lower the motives, the more likely they are to be authentic."-Christopher Hitchens, Why Orwell Matters
"But what [Orwell] illustrates, by his commitment to language as the partner of truth, is that 'views' do not really count; that it matters not what you think, but how you think; and that politics are…"-Christopher Hitchens, Why Orwell Matters
3. A Streetcar Named Desire
By: Tennessee Williams
3.98
Format: 107 pages, Paperback
The Pulitzer Prize and Drama Critics Circle Award winning play—reissued with an introduction by Art… read more
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"Never inside, I didn't lie in my heart..."-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
"And funerals are pretty compared to deaths."-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
"I think you have a great capacity for devotion,"-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
"I want to rest. I want to breathe quietly again."-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
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 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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6. 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
7. The Colour Out of Space
By: H.P. Lovecraft
4.03
Format: 78 pages, Mass Market Paperback
'It was a monstrous constellation of unnatural light, like a glutted swarm of corpse-fed fireflies … read more
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"It was nothing of this earth, but a piece of the great outside; and as such dowered with outside properties and obedient to outside laws."-H.P. Lovecraft, The Colour Out of Space
"West of Arkham the hills rise wild and there are valleys with deep woods that no ax has ever cut. There are dark, narrow glens where the trees slope fantastically, where thin brooklets trickle withou…"-H.P. Lovecraft, The Colour Out of Space
8. The Waste Land
By: T.S. Eliot , Michael North
3.80
Format: 245 pages, Paperback
The text of Eliot's 1922 masterpiece is accompanied by thorough explanatory annotations as well as … read more
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9. 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
10. 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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11. Tropic of Cancer
By: Henry Miller
0.00
Format: None pages,
Now hailed as an American classic, Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller's masterpiece, was banned as obsc… read more
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12. Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
By: Dylan Thomas
4.08
Format: None pages,
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Nightis a villanelle considered to be among the finest works by Wel… read more
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13. The Shadow Over Innsmouth
By: H.P. Lovecraft
4.11
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
"The Shadow Over Innsmouth" is a short novel about a weird hybrid race of humans and creatures rese… read more
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14. For Whom the Bell Tolls
By: Ernest Hemingway
3.76
Format: 180 pages, Paperback
Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Sp… read more
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15. Burmese Days
By: George Orwell
3.97
Format: 68 pages, Hardcover
Set in the days of the Empire, with the British ruling in Burma, this book describes corruption and… read more
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16. A Doll's House
By: Henrik Ibsen , Michael Meyer
3.76
Format: 122 pages, Paperback
A Doll's House (1879), is a masterpiece of theatrical craft which, for the first time portrayed the… read more
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"Laughter's all the damned thing's fit for."-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House
"I must make up my mind which is right – society or I."-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House
"لن تفقدوني طويلاً، فالراحلون سرعان ما ينطوون في زوايا النسيان."-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House
"أنا ارى الناس صنفين .. صنف تعشقه المرأة، وصنف تحب أن تتجاذب معه أطراف الحديث."-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House
17. Invitation to a Beheading
By: Vladimir Nabokov
4.89
Format: 78 pages, Paperback
An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found Like Kafka's The Castle, Invitation to a … read more
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18. The Fall of the House of Usher
By: Edgar Allan Poe
3.87
Format: 36 pages, Paperback
Take the plunge. Dive into this classic from the singular mind of Edgar Allan Poe, who is widely re… read more
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"[Son] cœur est un luth suspendu; Sitôt qu'on le touche il résonne. — De Béranger "-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher
"A cadaverousness of complexion; an eye large, liquid and very luminous...finely molded chin, speaking, in its want of prominence, of a want of moral energy."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher
"It was, perhaps, the narrow limits to which he thus confined himself upon the guitar, which gave birth, in great measure, to the fantastic character of his performances."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher
"Er is geen twijfel mogelijk dat mijn bewustzijn van de snelle groei van mijn bijgeloof (want waarom zou ik het niet zo noemen?) de groei alleen maar scheen te versnellen. Dat is, zoals ik al lange ti…"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher
19. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
By: James Joyce , Seamus Deane
3.64
Format: 329 pages, Paperback
The portrayal of Stephen Dedalus's Dublin childhood and youth, his quest for identity through art a… read more
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"My heart is quite calm now. I will go back."-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
"God spoke to you by so many voices but you would not hear."-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
"Are you not weary of ardent ways? Tell no more of enchanted days."-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
"He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place."-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
20. Coming Up for Air
By: George Orwell
4.00
Format: 268 pages, Paperback
George Bowling, the hero of this comic novel, is a middle-aged insurance salesman who lives in an a… read more
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21. A Good Man Is Hard To Find
By: Flannery O'Connor , Frederick Asals
3.96
Format: 433 pages, Paperback
A Good Man Is Hard to Findis Flannery O'Connor's most famous and most discussed story. O'Connor her… read more
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23. The Gift of the Magi
By: O. Henry , Lisbeth Zwerger
4.11
Format: 26 pages, Hardcover
O. Henry's classic tale of the wisest gifts of Christmas is itself a gift to share and treasure. … read more
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"Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating."-O. Henry, The Gift of the Magi
"There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl."-O. Henry, The Gift of the Magi
"There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl. So Della did it. Which instigates the moral reflection that life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with snif…"-O. Henry, The Gift of the Magi
"Единственное, что тут можно было сделать, это хлопнуться на старенькую кушетку и зареветь. Именно так Делла и поступила. Откуда напрашивается философский вывод, что жизнь состоит из слез, вздохов и у…"-O. Henry, The Gift of the Magi
24. The Lady of Shalott
By: Alfred Tennyson , Charles Keeping
3.59
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
The Lady of Shalott is the third book in Visions in Poetry, an award-winning series of classic poem… read more
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25. Keep the Aspidistra Flying
By: George Orwell
4.00
Format: 592 pages, Paperback
London, 1936. Gordon Comstock has declared war on the money god; and Gordon is losing the war. Near… read more
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26. Homage to Catalonia
By: George Orwell , Lionel Trilling
4.00
Format: 592 pages, Paperback
In 1936 Orwell went to Spain to report on the Civil War and instead joined the fight against the Fa… read more
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27. A Clergyman's Daughter
By: George Orwell
4.24
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Intimidated by her father, the rector of Knype Hill, Dorothy performs her submissive roles of dutif… read more
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28. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Other Poems
By: T.S. Eliot
4.18
Format: 411 pages, Hardcover
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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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- classics
"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 realize what your own beliefs really are."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
30. Frost at Midnight
By: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
3.72
Format: 14 pages, Paperback
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was a British poet, literary critic, philosopher and theologian who, with h… read more
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"Still flutters there, the sole unquiet thing. Methinks, its motion in this hush of nature Gives it dim sympathies with me who live, Making it a companionable form, Whose puny flaps and freaks the idl…"-Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Frost at Midnight
"Whose bells, the poor man's only music, rang From morn to evening, all the hot Fair-day, So sweetly, that they stirred and haunted me With a wild pleasure, falling on mine ear Most like articulate so…"-Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Frost at Midnight
31. "September 1, 1939"
By: W.H. Auden
4.04
Format: None pages, None
"September 1, 1939" is a poem by W. H. Auden written on the occasion of the outbreak of World War I… read more
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