American Lit 101: From Nathaniel Hawthorne to Harper Lee and Naturalism to Magical Realism, an Essential Guide to American Writers and Works
By: Brianne Keith
3.96
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From poetry to fiction to essays, American Lit 101 leaves no page unturned! Edgar Allan Poe. Willa…
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1. Daisy Miller
By: Henry James
3.37
Format: 164 pages, Paperback
It was in Rome during the autumn of 1877; a friend then living there but settled now in a South les… read more
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"I have never allowed a gentleman to dictate to me, or to interfere with anything I do."-Henry James, Daisy Miller
"In such hours as this what have we to do with pain? That is not the deepest thing; there is something deeper."-Henry James, Daisy Miller
"The news that Daisy Miller was surrounded by half a dozen wonderful mustaches checked Winterbourne's impulse to go straightway to see her."-Henry James, Daisy Miller
"The historic atmosphere was there, certainly; but the historic atmosphere, scientifically considered, was no better than a villainous miasma"-Henry James, Daisy Miller
2. 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
3. The End (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #13)
By: Lemony Snicket , Brett Helquist
4.04
Format: 353 pages, Hardcover
The last volume of the fabulously popular A Series of Unfortunate Events series, in which the histo… read more
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"This isn’t fair,"-Lemony Snicket, The End (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #13)
"What do your parents know, about surviving? "-Lemony Snicket, The End (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #13)
"Those unable to catalog the past are doomed to repeat it."-Lemony Snicket, The End (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #13)
"..no matter how much one reads, the whole story can never be told."-Lemony Snicket, The End (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #13)
4. The Penultimate Peril (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #12)
By: Lemony Snicket , Brett Helquist
4.08
Format: 353 pages, Hardcover
Dear Reader,If this is the first book you found while searching for a book to read next, then the f… read more
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"Are you who I think you are?"-Lemony Snicket, The Penultimate Peril (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #12)
"Blinded following the Blindfolded"-Lemony Snicket, The Penultimate Peril (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #12)
"Being noble enough is all we can ask for in this world."-Lemony Snicket, The Penultimate Peril (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #12)
"I suppose I'll have to add the force of gravity to my list of enemies."-Lemony Snicket, The Penultimate Peril (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #12)
5. The Grim Grotto (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #11)
By: Lemony Snicket , Brett Helquist
4.02
Format: 323 pages, Hardcover
Dear Reader, Unless you are a slug, a sea anemone, or mildew, you probably prefer not to be dam… read more
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"He who hesitates is lost"-Lemony Snicket, The Grim Grotto (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #11)
"When you think of me," she said quietly "think of a food you love very much."-Lemony Snicket, The Grim Grotto (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #11)
"… and the Baudelaire orphans climbed aboard, turning the tables of their lives and breaking their unfortunate cycle for the very first time."-Lemony Snicket, The Grim Grotto (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #11)
"You should have given up a long time ago, orphans. I triumphed the moment you lost your family." "We didn't lose our family. Only our parents."-Lemony Snicket, The Grim Grotto (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #11)
6. The Hostile Hospital (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #8)
By: Lemony Snicket , Brett Helquist
3.99
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
There is nothing to be found in the pages of these books but misery and despair. You still have tim… read more
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"Velocity!" Sunny shrieked. I know we have to hurry!" Klaus cried."-Lemony Snicket, The Hostile Hospital (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #8)
" Tra la la, Fiddle dee dee, Hope you get well soon. Ho ho ho, hee hee hee, Have a heart-shaped balloon. "-Lemony Snicket, The Hostile Hospital (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #8)
"But sometimes it takes only a photograph and a sentence to make an author cry himself to sleep even years after the photograph was taken."-Lemony Snicket, The Hostile Hospital (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #8)
"Just about everything in this world is easier said than done, with the exception of "systematically assisting Sisyphus's stealthy, cyst-susceptible sister," which is easier done than said."-Lemony Snicket, The Hostile Hospital (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #8)
7. Emily of New Moon (Emily, #1)
By: L.M. Montgomery
4.12
Format: 339 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Emily Starr never knew what it was to be lonely—until her beloved father died. Now Emily's an orpha… read more
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"Never on painter's canvas lives The charm of his fancy's dream."-L.M. Montgomery, Emily of New Moon (Emily, #1)
"The happiest countries, like the happiest women, have no history."-L.M. Montgomery, Emily of New Moon (Emily, #1)
"Good-bye, and may you always see a happy face in your looking-glass!"-L.M. Montgomery, Emily of New Moon (Emily, #1)
"If you've brains it's better than beauty - brains last, beauty doesn't."-L.M. Montgomery, Emily of New Moon (Emily, #1)
8. 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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- literature
"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
9. Diary of a Madman and Other Stories
By: Nikolai Gogol
4.35
Format: 26 pages, Paperback
Hailed by Nabokov as "the greatest artist that Russia has yet produced," Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852) … read more
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- literature
10. The Open Boat
By: Stephen Crane
4.29
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Four men struggle for survival after escaping from a sinking ship and into a small open boat. read more
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- american
11. The Vile Village (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #7)
By: Lemony Snicket , Brett Helquist
3.54
Format: 230 pages, Hardcover
Dear Reader, You have undoubtedly picked up this book by mistake, so please put it down. Nobody in … read more
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12. Eugénie Grandet
By: Honoré de Balzac , Sylvia Raphael , Christopher Prendergast
3.79
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
"Who is going to marry Eugenie Grandet?" This is the question that fills the minds of the inhabi… read more
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"Misery begets equality."-Honoré de Balzac, Eugénie Grandet
"[...] ironia este însușirea fundamentală a providenței"-Honoré de Balzac, Eugénie Grandet
"این نقطه اشتراک زن ها و فرشته هاست. رنج بشریت مال آن هاست."-Honoré de Balzac, Eugénie Grandet
"Bilgisi arttıktan sonra, erdem de günah kadar hesap yapar."-Honoré de Balzac, Eugénie Grandet
13. The Carnivorous Carnival (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #9)
By: Lemony Snicket , Brett Helquist
4.05
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In the continuing, appalling tales of the Baudelaire siblings, the children are on the run having b… read more
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14. Common Sense
By: Thomas Paine , George Vafiadis
3.75
Format: 132 pages, Paperback
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselv… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
15. The Slippery Slope (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #10)
By: Lemony Snicket , Brett Helquist
2.78
Format: 252 pages, Hardcover
Dear Reader, Like handshakes, house pets, or raw carrots, many things are preferable when not slipp… read more
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16. 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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"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
17. The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
By: Bill Bryson
3.42
Format: None pages, Paperback
With dazzling wit and astonishing insight, Bill Bryson--the acclaimed author of The Lost Continent-… read more
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- history
18. A Canticle for Leibowitz
By: Walter M. Miller Jr.
3.39
Format: 414 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 1961 Hugo Award for Best Novel and widely considered one of the most accomplished, po… read more
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19. Herland
By: Charlotte Perkins Gilman , Ann J. Lane
3.68
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
An all-female society is discovered somewhere in the distant reaches of the earth by three male exp… read more
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20. The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
By: Angela Carter
3.92
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
From familiar fairy tales and legends - Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss in Boots, Beauty and the B… read more
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"Her hair falls down like tears"-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
"ordered me a sky from a florist"-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
"My spite was sharp as broken glass"-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
"My father lost me to the Beast at cards"-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
21. The Ersatz Elevator (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #6)
By: Lemony Snicket , Brett Helquist
4.15
Format: 130 pages, Hardcover
Dear Reader, If you have just picked up this book, then it is not too late to put it back down. Lik… read more
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22. Fables, Vol. 3: Storybook Love
By: Mark Buckingham , Bill Willingham , Steve Leialoha , James Jean
3.78
Format: 472 pages, Paperback
In the Fables' world, there isn't a lot of happily-ever-after to go around. As refugees from the la… read more
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23. Peygamberin Son Beş Günü
By: Tahsin Yücel
4.11
Format: 274 pages,
"Peygamber'in Son Bes Gunu", surekli bir bolunmenin oykusu. Devrimci ozan Rahmi Sonmez, takma adiyl… read more
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24. Billy Budd, Sailor
By: Herman Melville
3.76
Format: 85 pages, Paperback
A handsome young sailor is unjustly accused of plotting mutiny in this timeless tale of the sea. read more
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25. The Cockroach
By: Ian McEwan
3.26
Format: 109 pages, Kindle Edition
That morning, Jim Sams, clever but by no means profound, woke from uneasy dreams to find himself tr… read more
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26. The Lady with the Little Dog
By: Anton Chekhov
3.72
Format: 15 pages, Kindle Edition
Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) may have suffered an untimely death, but he squeezed the most out of his … read more
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"Anna Sergeevna e lui si amavano come due esseri molto vicini, affini, come marito e moglie, come se il destino li avesse destinati l'uno all'altra e non capivano perché li aveva fatti sposare con alt…"-Anton Chekhov, The Lady with the Little Dog
27. Catherine House
By: Elisabeth Thomas
3.12
Format: 311 pages, Hardcover
A story about a dangerously curious young undergraduate whose rebelliousness leads her to discover … read more
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"I couldn't be here anymore. I couldn't be in me. But I couldn't be anywhere else, either. I had nowhere else to go."-Elisabeth Thomas, Catherine House
"Tonight, we celebrate the precious quiet of wintertime,' she said. 'And how lovely is this time of silence and work and anticipation and decay?' She looked up. 'Here at Catherine, we know not to fear…"-Elisabeth Thomas, Catherine House
"You are in the house and the house in the woods. The woods are in the house. The stairs are in the house. Down the stairs is the hallway, and at the end of the hallway is the ballroom. You are in the…"-Elisabeth Thomas, Catherine House
28. Widowland
By: C.J. Carey
3.72
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
To control the past, they edited history. To control the future, they edited literature. LOND… read more
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"Rolf Friedel had a face that looked as though God had given up, and his conversation dwelt heavily on radio frequencies and signals technology, but he left Helena largely to her own devices, requirin…"-C.J. Carey, Widowland
29. The Getaway
By: Lamar Giles
3.74
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Welcome to the funnest spot around . . . Jay is living his best life at Karloff Country, one of … read more
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30. The History of Art in 50 Paintings
By: Peter Russell
3.86
Format: 692 pages, Kindle Edition
This stunning eBook is a concise illustrated guide, evaluating the masterpieces that have changed t… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- reference
31. American Lit 101: From Nathaniel Hawthorne to Harper Lee and Naturalism to Magical Realism, an Essential Guide to American Writers and Works
By: Brianne Keith
3.96
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From poetry to fiction to essays, American Lit 101 leaves no page unturned! Edgar Allan Poe. Willa… read more
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