On Being Told That Her Second Husband Has Taken His First Lover, and Other Stories
By: Tess Slesinger
4.26
Format: 406 pages, Paperback
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1. Agnes Grey
By: Anne Brontë , Angeline Goreau
3.71
Format: 226 pages, Paperback
An alternate cover edition can be found here. Drawing heavily from personal experience, Anne Bro… read more
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"Dakle,"-Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey
"No one cares for the exterior."-Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey
"But, God knows best, I concluded."-Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey
"If you require perfection, you never will"-Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey
2. Rhapsody (Library of Wales)
By: Dorothy Edwards , Christopher Meredith
3.84
Format: 268 pages, Paperback
This edition contains the original (1927) collection of ten short stories plus three previously unc… read more
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"Are you very fond of music?' I asked. 'Oh yes,' said Antonia. 'My father played the violin in an orchestra. He played very well, but he was without ambition.' 'And you are not without ambition?' I re…"-Dorothy Edwards, Rhapsody (Library of Wales)
3. An Old-Fashioned Girl
By: Louisa May Alcott
4.09
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
It was first serialised in the Merry's Museum magazine between July and August in 1869 and consiste… read more
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"There can't be too much charity!"-Louisa May Alcott, An Old-Fashioned Girl
"A real gentleman is as polite to a little girl as to a woman."-Louisa May Alcott, An Old-Fashioned Girl
"When you feel out of sorts, try to make some one else happy, and you will soon be so yourself."-Louisa May Alcott, An Old-Fashioned Girl
"We can't any of us do all we would like, but we can do our best for every case that comes to us, and that helps amazingly."-Louisa May Alcott, An Old-Fashioned Girl
4. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
By: Oliver Sacks
3.75
Format: 271 pages, Paperback
In his most extraordinary book, "one of the great clinical writers of the twentieth century" (The N… read more
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6. El baile
By: Irène Némirovsky , Gemma Moral Bartolomé
3.67
Format: 94 pages, Paperback
Autora de la recién descubierta Suite francesa, publicada póstumamente y aclamada por la crítica y … read more
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7. Spoon River Anthology
By: Edgar Lee Masters
4.05
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful sca… read more
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"Act well your part, there all the honor lies."-Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology
"Remember the acorn; It does not devour other acorns."-Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology
"the much-sought prize of eternal youth Is just arrested growth."-Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology
"The tongue may be an unruly member-- But silence poisons the soul."-Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology
8. Rain (Blackwater, #6)
By: Michael McDowell
4.16
Format: 190 pages, Paperback
The mysterious saga of the Caskey family concludes in Blackwater VI: Rain. Time heals old wound… read more
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9. The Blue Castle
By: L.M. Montgomery
3.94
Format: 255 pages,
Valancy lives a drab life with her overbearing mother and prying aunt. Then a shocking diagnosis fr… read more
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10. Dream Story
By: Frederic Raphael , Arthur Schnitzler , J.M.Q. Davies
3.76
Format: 117 pages, Paperback
Like his Viennese contemporary Sigmund Freud, the doctor and dramatist Arthur Schnitzler (1862-1931… read more
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"El imperativo urgente del momento era huir, al menos por un tiempo, al sueño y al olvido."-Frederic Raphael, Dream Story
"متأكدة بقدر حدسي أن حقيقة ليلة، بل حتى حقيقة حياة إنسان بأكملها، لا تعني في الوقت ذاته حقيقته الداخلية."-Frederic Raphael, Dream Story
"بدا له أنه لو وقف وحده سافِر الوجه بين كل هؤلاء المقنَّعين، فسيكون الأمر أسوأ آلاف المرات من أن يقف فجأة عاريًا بين اللابسين"-Frederic Raphael, Dream Story
"Am I sure? Only as sure as I am that the reality of one night, let alone that of a whole lifetime, can ever be the whole truth."-Frederic Raphael, Dream Story
11. In Seven Stages: A Flying Trip Around the World
By: Elizabeth Bisland
4.10
Format: None pages, Paperback
Elizabeth Bisland (1861-1929) was an American author. She was an assistant editor at Cosmopolitan m… read more
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12. The Jewel of Seven Stars
By: Bram Stoker
3.55
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
An Egyptologist, attempting to raise from the dead the mummy of Tera, an ancient Egyptian queen, fi… read more
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13. The Tutu: Morals of the Fin de Siecle
By: None
4.50
Format: 142 pages, Hardcover
The nineteenth-century French writer and publisher Leon Genonceaux (1856--?) is as much of an enigm… read more
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14. Around the World in 72 Days
By: Nellie Bly
4.40
Format: None pages, Unknown Binding
Originally published in 1890 in book form, the text was based on Nellie Bly's newspaper articles fo… read more
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15. 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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16. Anne's House of Dreams (Anne of Green Gables, #5)
By: L.M. Montgomery
4.17
Format: 227 pages, Mass Market Paperback
This is an alternate cover edition for ISBN 9780553213188 Anne's own true love, Gilbert Blythe, … read more
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"…but youth yearned to youth."-L.M. Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams (Anne of Green Gables, #5)
"We belong to the race that knows Joseph"-L.M. Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams (Anne of Green Gables, #5)
"Death grows friendlier as we grow older."-L.M. Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams (Anne of Green Gables, #5)
"It takes all kinds of people to make a world."-L.M. Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams (Anne of Green Gables, #5)
17. Out
By: Natsuo Kirino , Stephen Snyder
3.95
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Natsuo Kirino's novel tells a story of random violence in the staid Tokyo suburbs, as a young mothe… read more
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"...I'm willing to march into hell if I'm following you."-Natsuo Kirino, Out
"And I'm willing to march into hell if I'm following you."-Natsuo Kirino, Out
"I'm desperate for money'. She said. And I'm willing to march into hell if I'm following you."-Natsuo Kirino, Out
"I'm desperate for money'. She said. 'And I'm willing to march into hell if I'm following you'. (Yoshie Azuma)"-Natsuo Kirino, Out
18. La guerra (Blackwater, #4)
By: Michael McDowell
4.05
Format: 184 pages, Kindle Edition
1938. È l’alba di una nuova èra per il clan Caskey e nulla sarà mai più come prima. La determinazio… read more
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"Southerners are an easygoing race when it comes to aberrations of conduct. They will react with anger if something out of the ordinary is presented as a possible future occurrence; but if an unusual …"-Michael McDowell, La guerra (Blackwater, #4)
19. La casa (Blackwater, #3)
By: Michael McDowell
4.19
Format: 245 pages, Kindle Edition
1928, Perdido. Il clan Caskey è dilaniato dalla spietata lotta tra Mary-Love ed Elinor. Ma all'oriz… read more
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20. Julia
By: Sandra Newman
3.78
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
London, chief city of Airstrip One, the third most populous province of Oceana. It's 1984 and Julia… read more
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"У цьому весь жах. Ти не маєш вибору, а все ж мусиш діяти точно так, ніби маєш."-Sandra Newman, Julia
21. Storia di una donna bella
By: Elsa De' Giorgi
3.86
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Elsa Giorgi Alberti, in arte Elsa de' Giorgi, nasce nel 1914 a Pesaro in una famiglia di antichissi… read more
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22. Per la brughiera (Italian Edition)
By: Martina Tozzi
4.63
Format: 566 pages, Kindle Edition
1821A Haworth, un remoto paesino dello Yorkshire, immerso nell’impervia brughiera, un giovane rever… read more
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23. Il nido segreto
By: Martina Tozzi
4.57
Format: 490 pages, Kindle Edition
Le giovani Mary, Fanny e Jane trascorrono l’infanzia e la giovinezza nella casa del padre, il filos… read more
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24. La fortuna (Blackwater, #5)
By: Michael McDowell
4.04
Format: 186 pages, Kindle Edition
1946. Come un organismo vivente, la famiglia Caskey si sviluppa e si trasforma. Alcuni affrontano l… read more
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25. La maledizione
By: Mrs. Henry Wood
3.46
Format: 178 pages, Paperback
Pubblicato postumo nel 1890 a Londra, La maledizione appartiene alla produzione matura di Ellen Woo… read more
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26. On Being Told That Her Second Husband Has Taken His First Lover, and Other Stories
By: Tess Slesinger
4.26
Format: 406 pages, Paperback
One need only read the first lines of Tess Slesinger's title story-or indeed any of her stories-to … read more
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27. Personcine (La memoria) (Italian Edition)
By: Maria Messina
3.57
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
«Maria era in quell'epoca, come la rivedo nei miei ricordi e come la ritrovo nelle fotografie dell'… read more
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28. Les étranges noces de Rouletabille
By: Gaston Leroux
3.36
Format: 284 pages, Paperback
Si Rouletabille s'est jeté avec ses amis dans la gueule du loup, autrement dit le repaire du terrib… read more
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29. Il sogno semplice di un amore (Italian Edition)
By: Martina Tozzi
4.38
Format: 439 pages, Kindle Edition
Inghilterra, XIX secolo. Lizzie ha vent’anni, vive a Londra e conduce una vita non è ricca, e per … read more
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30. La tomba senza nome: e altri racconti inediti
By: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
3.59
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
Amori impossibili, vite prematuramente spezzate, affascinanti fuorilegge, fanciulle disperate, sogn… read more
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