You Were Perfectly Fine
By: Dorothy Parker
3.34
Format: 3 pages, None
A young man and a young woman both have attended the same dinner in a hotel restaraunt the night be…
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1. Blow-Up and Other Stories
By: Julio Cortázar , Paul Blackburn
4.21
Format: 277 pages, Paperback
A young girl spends her summer vacation in a country house where a tiger roams . . . A man reading … read more
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- short stories
- fiction
"She smells fresh, like the shadow under trees."-Julio Cortázar, Blow-Up and Other Stories
"...no sé si has visto cómo el paisaje se va rompiendo cuando lo miras alejarse..."-Julio Cortázar, Blow-Up and Other Stories
"...como un gato que mira fijo pero se ve que está por completo en otra cosa; que es otra cosa."-Julio Cortázar, Blow-Up and Other Stories
"Habits, Andrea, are concrete forms of rhythm, are that portion of rhythm which helps to keep us alive."-Julio Cortázar, Blow-Up and Other Stories
2. The City of Dreaming Books (Zamonia, #4)
By: J. Maxwell Brownjohn , Walter Moers
4.39
Format: 461 pages, Paperback
The author of 13 1⁄2 Lives of Captain Bluebear transports us to a magical world. Optimus Yarnspinne… read more
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- fiction
"Reading is an intelligent way of not having to think."-J. Maxwell Brownjohn, The City of Dreaming Books (Zamonia, #4)
"Со звезд мы пришли, на звезды вернемся. Жизнь - лишь путешествие в неведомое"."-J. Maxwell Brownjohn, The City of Dreaming Books (Zamonia, #4)
"Ist es nicht absurd, dass einem die Erinnerung an gute Zeiten viel eher die Tränen in die Augen treibt als die an schlechte?"-J. Maxwell Brownjohn, The City of Dreaming Books (Zamonia, #4)
"Es kommt nicht darauf an, wie eine Geschichte anfängt. Auch nicht darauf, wie sie aufhört. Sondern auf das, was dazwischen passiert."-J. Maxwell Brownjohn, The City of Dreaming Books (Zamonia, #4)
3. A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
By: David Foster Wallace
4.15
Format: 353 pages, Paperback
In this exuberantly praised book — a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television… read more
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"What I know about auto racing could be inscribed with a dry Magic Marker on the lip of a Coke bottle."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
"If Realism called it like it saw it, Metafiction simply called it as it saw itself seeing itself see it."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
"Quentin Tarantino is interested in watching somebody's ear getting cut off; David Lynch is interested in the ear."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
"American human beings are a slippery and protean bunch in real life, hard as hell to get any kind of universal handle on."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
4. The Canterville Ghost
By: Oscar Wilde , Inga Moore
3.88
Format: 126 pages, Hardcover
This is Oscar Wilde's tale of the American family moved into a British mansion, Canterville Chase, … read more
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- fiction
"Love is stronger than death is"-Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost
"Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!"-Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost
"You can have your secret as long as I have your heart[.]"-Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost
"To his alert mind and ears, every experience was education."-Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost
5. The Happy Prince
By: Oscar Wilde , Jane Ray
4.20
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
When he was alive, the Happy Prince lived in the Palace of Sans Souci, where sorrow was not allowed… read more
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- fiction
"There is no Mystery so great as Misery."-Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince
"Bring me the two most precious things in the city,"-Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince
"Sono così intelligente che a volte non capisco una sola parola di quel che sto dicendo."-Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince
"Dear Prince, I must leave you, but I will never forget you, and next spring I will bring you back two beautiful jewels in place of those you have given away. The ruby shall be redder than a red rose,…"-Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince
6. The Importance of Being Earnest
By: Oscar Wilde
2.50
Format: None pages,
Oscar Wilde's madcap farce about mistaken identities, secret engagements, and lovers entanglements … read more
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- fiction
7. The Scarlet Letter
By: Nathaniel Hawthorne , Nina Baym , Thomas E. Connolly
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
Set in the harsh Puritan community of seventeenth-century Boston, this tale of an adulterous entang… read more
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- fiction
8. A Pair of Silk Stockings
By: Kate Chopin
3.64
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
Désirée's baby -- Miss McEnders -- The story of an hour -- Nég Créol -- A pair of silk stocking… read more
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9. The Lottery
By: Shirley Jackson
4.05
Format: 30 pages, Paperback
In a small American town, the local residents are abuzz with excitement and nervousness when they w… read more
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- fiction
"It's not the way it used to be... people ain't the way they used to be."-Shirley Jackson, The Lottery
"It isn't fair, it isn't right," Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her."-Shirley Jackson, The Lottery
"The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green."-Shirley Jackson, The Lottery
10. Bartleby the Scrivener
By: Herman Melville
3.93
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Academics hail it as the beginning of modernism, but to readers around the world—even those daunted… read more
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- fiction
"I would prefer not to."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
"To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
"Bartleby in a singularly mild, firm voice, replied, “I would prefer not to."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
"At present I would prefer not to be a little reasonable,' was his mildly cadaverous reply."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
11. Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast
By: Oscar Wilde
4.30
Format: None pages,
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12. The Second Sex
By: Simone de Beauvoir , Deirdre Bair , H.M. Parshley
3.60
Format: 253 pages, Paperback
Newly translated and unabridged in English for the first time, Simone de Beauvoir's masterwork is a… read more
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13. Untenrum frei
By: Margarete Stokowski
4.10
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
War es das jetzt mit der sexuellen Revolution? Sind wir unendlich liberal, weil mit nackten Brusten… read more
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14. At the Mountains of Madness
By: H.P. Lovecraft , China Miéville , S.T. Joshi
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Long acknowledged as a master of nightmarish vision, H.P. Lovecraft established the genuineness and… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
15. Olalla
By: Robert Louis Stevenson
3.98
Format: 296 pages,
'Is it me you love, friend? or the race that made me?' Stevenson's chilling Victorian gothic novell… read more
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16. Boys And Girls
By: Alice Munro
3.87
Format: 291 pages, ebook
Short story by Alice Munro. My father was a fox farmer. That is, he raised silver foxes, in pens; a… read more
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17. Riven Rock
By: T. Coraghessan Boyle
3.72
Format: 134 pages, Paperback
T. C. Boyle'sseventh novel transforms two characters straight out of history into rich mythic figur… read more
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18. Babylon Revisited
By: F. Scott Fitzgerald
3.33
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
F. Scott Fitzgerald's stories defined the 1920s 'Jazz Age' generation, with their glittering dreams… read more
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19. The Turn of the Screw
By: Henry James
3.39
Format: 121 pages, Paperback
The Turn of the Screw is an 1898 horror novella by Henry James that first appeared in serial format… read more
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"When I'm bad I am bad !"-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
"He fairly glittered in the gloom."-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
"I was ready to know the very worst that was to be known."-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
"There was something between them." "There was everything."-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
20. 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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21. Leaves of Grass
By: Walt Whitman
3.50
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
A collection of quintessentially American poems, the seminal work of one of the most influential wr… read more
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22. Letter from the Birmingham Jail
By: Martin Luther King Jr.
2.96
Format: 7 pages, Hardcover
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23. The Most Dangerous Game
By: Richard Connell
3.94
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
The Most Dangerous Game features a big-game hunter from New York who becomes shipwrecked on an isol… read more
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- fiction
"But you can’t mean—"-Richard Connell, The Most Dangerous Game
"The world is made up of two classes - the hunters and the huntees."-Richard Connell, The Most Dangerous Game
"Sometimes I think evil is a tangible thing - with wave lengths, just as sound and light have."-Richard Connell, The Most Dangerous Game
24. The Veldt
By: Ray Bradbury , Gary Kelley
5.00
Format: 32 pages,
The advanced technology of a house first pleases then increasingly terrifies its occupants. read more
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25. 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
26. Sweet Thursday (Cannery Row, #2)
By: John Steinbeck , Robert DeMott
4.11
Format: 249 pages, Paperback
In Monterey, on the California coast, Sweet Thursday is what they call the day after Lousy Wednesda… read more
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"Und keine Frau lässt sich gern vom Mittelpunkt der Bühne verdrängen, schon gar nicht durch einen Tintenfisch."-John Steinbeck, Sweet Thursday (Cannery Row, #2)
"It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it."-John Steinbeck, Sweet Thursday (Cannery Row, #2)
"The doctrine of our time is that man can't get along without a whole hell of a lot of stuff. You may not be preaching it, but you're living treason."-John Steinbeck, Sweet Thursday (Cannery Row, #2)
"Auf dem Kopf hatte er einen Strohhut mit zwei Löchern in der Krempe, die vermuten ließen, dass der Hut ehemals die Kopfbedeckung eines Pferes gewesen war."-John Steinbeck, Sweet Thursday (Cannery Row, #2)
27. The Nightingale and the Rose
By: Oscar Wilde
2.80
Format: None pages,
An allegorical fable of love, sacrifice and selfishness. As with all of Wilde's short stories it em… read more
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28. The Necklace
By: Guy de Maupassant , Gary Kelley
3.35
Format: None pages, Hardcover
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29. Identitti
By: Mithu M. Sanyal
3.82
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Was für ein Skandal: Prof. Dr. Saraswati ist WEISS! Schlimmer geht es nicht. Denn die Professorin f… read more
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30. Allein
By: Daniel Schreiber
3.87
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Zu keiner Zeit haben so viele Menschen allein gelebt, und nie war elementarer zu spüren, wie brutal… read more
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"Doch der springende Punkt all dieser Serien, das, worauf sie immer zusteuern, wird leicht übersehen: Sie enden damit, dass ausnahmslos alle ihrer Protagonistinnen und Protagonisten Partnerinnen und P…"-Daniel Schreiber, Allein
"Ich glaube, dass Schriftstellerinnen und Schriftsteller so gerne wandern gehen, weil es ein gutes Mittel gegen die dunklen Zustände ist, die einen, ob man es will oder nicht, bei der einsamen Arbeit …"-Daniel Schreiber, Allein
"Das Glück der Freundschaft besteht gerade nicht in ihrem Ideal. Es stellt sich nicht ein, wenn lediglich die eigenen Bedürfnisse nach der Aufmerksamkeit anderer Menschen erfüllt werden, wenn wir sie …"-Daniel Schreiber, Allein
"Bei Durchblättern von Büchern, die ich immer wieder zur Hand nehme, stoße ich auf Unterstreichungen wie diese: »Heute, so scheint es ihm, schreibt er mehr aus einer freien Position heraus. … Er sagt …"-Daniel Schreiber, Allein
31. You Were Perfectly Fine
By: Dorothy Parker
3.34
Format: 3 pages, None
A young man and a young woman both have attended the same dinner in a hotel restaraunt the night be… read more
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