The Odyssey
By: Derek Walcott
3.81
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
With its inspired counterpointing of Homeric and Caribbean themes, Derek Walcott's play The Odyssey…
Want to Read $ 9.99"What are men? Children who doubt."-Derek Walcott, The Odyssey
"What are men? Children who doubt."-Derek Walcott, The Odyssey
"I too saw the wooden horse blocking the stars."-Derek Walcott, The Odyssey
"I too saw the wooden horse blocking the stars."-Derek Walcott, The Odyssey
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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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- classics
- fiction
"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. Jim Henson: The Biography
By: Brian Jay Jones
4.01
Format: 585 pages, Hardcover
For the first time ever-a comprehensive biography of one of the twentieth-century's most innovative… read more
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"Please watch out for each other and love and forgive everybody. It's a good life, enjoy it.' - Jim"-Brian Jay Jones, Jim Henson: The Biography
"It is our responsibility to keep telling these tales--to tell them in a way that they teach and entertain and give meaning to our lives,' he [Jim] said later. 'This is not merely an obligation, it's …"-Brian Jay Jones, Jim Henson: The Biography
"Indeed, [Jimmy] Dean believed in Rowlf so completely that he would sometimes genuinely break up when Rowlf delivered one-liners, laughing so hard that he was unable to sing. "I treated Rowlf like he …"-Brian Jay Jones, Jim Henson: The Biography
"One viewer - a Mr. Dionne from California... fired off an angry, rambling letter, complaining haughtily that "the most disciplined attention I could give [The Cube] was a belch from the grave of Marc…"-Brian Jay Jones, Jim Henson: The Biography
3. Cane
By: Jean Toomer , Darwin Turner
3.83
Format: 116 pages, Paperback
A literary masterpiece of the Harlem Renaissance, Cane is a powerful work of innovative fiction evo… read more
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- poetry
- classics
- school
- fiction
"Call them from their houses, and teach them to dream."-Jean Toomer, Cane
"Her own glowing is too rich a thing to let her feel the slimness of his diluted passion."-Jean Toomer, Cane
"There is no such thing as happiness. Life bends joy and pain, beauty and ugliness, in such a way that no one may isolate them."-Jean Toomer, Cane
"I like to feel that something deep in me responded to the trees, the young trees that whinnied like colts impatient to be let free…"-Jean Toomer, Cane
4. The Penelopiad
By: Margaret Atwood
3.72
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
Now that all the others have run out of air, it's my turn to do a little story-making. In Homer'… read more
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- retellings
- classics
- fiction
- fantasy
- mythology
"the gods often mumble"-Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad
"Boys with their first beards can be a thorough pain in the neck."-Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad
"Happy endings are best achieved by keeping the right doors locked"-Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad
"Even an obvious fabrication is some comfort when you have few others."-Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad
5. 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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- classics
- fiction
"No one loves me, - no one cares for me, but you, mother."-Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
"One may be clogged with honey and unable to rise and fly."-Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
"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
6. Our Town
By: Thornton Wilder , Donald Margulies , Tappan Wilder
4.35
Format: 26 pages, Paperback
Our Townwas first produced and published in 1938 to wide acclaim. This Pulitzer Prize-winning drama… read more
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- classics
- school
- theatre
- fiction
- plays
- drama
7. Poetics
By: Aristotle , Malcolm Heath
3.59
Format: None pages, Paperback
'The plot is the source and the soul of tragedy' In his near-contemporary account of Greek tragedy,… read more
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- poetry
- classics
8. Die Räuber
By: Friedrich Schiller
4.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
Mit seinem 1781 erschienenen leidenschaftlichen Drama der Selbtstzerstorung einer Familie machte Sc… read more
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- classics
- school
- fiction
- plays
- drama
9. The Umbrella Academy, Vol. 1: The Apocalypse Suite
By: None , Gabriel Bá , Gerard Way , Nate Piekos , None
5.00
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
In an inexplicable worldwide event, forty-seven extraordinary children were spontaneously born to w… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
10. The Thief (The Queen's Thief, #1)
By: Megan Whalen Turner
2.00
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
The king's scholar, the magus, believes he knows the site of an ancient treasure. To attain it for … read more
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- mythology
- fantasy
- fiction
11. Crush
By: Richard Siken
3.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
Richard Siken's Crush, selected as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, is a powerful c… read more
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- poetry
- fiction
12. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror
By: Robert Louis Stevenson , Robert Mighall
3.92
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
'He put the glass to his lips and drank at one gulp... his face became suddenly black and the featu… read more
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- fiction
- classics
- fantasy
- school
"I was still cursed with my duality of purpose."-Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror
"Don't you know Poole, you and I are about to place ourselves in a position of some peril?"-Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror
"I saw what I saw, I heard what I heard, and my soul sickened at it; and yet now when that sight has faded from my eyes, I ask myself if I believe it, and I cannot answer."-Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror
"Instantly the spirit of hell awoke in me and raged. With a transport of glee, I mauled the unresisting body, tasting delight from every blow; and it was not till weariness had begun to succeed, that …"-Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror
13. Mansfield Park
By: Jane Austen
3.87
Format: 488 pages, Paperback
Taken from the poverty of her parents' home in Portsmouth, Fanny Price is brought up with her rich … read more
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- classics
- fiction
"I was quiet, but I was not blind."-Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
14. The Painted Veil
By: W. Somerset Maugham
3.44
Format: 336 pages,
Set in England and Hong Kong in the 1920s, The Painted Veilis the story of the beautiful, but love-… read more
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- classics
- fiction
15. The Double
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky
3.68
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
While his literary reputation rests mainly on such celebrated novels as Crime and Punishment, The B… read more
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- classics
- fiction
"Tulburarea sa echivala cu agonia."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Double
"La inocencia es la fuerza de la inocencia"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Double
"Totul, până și destinul, se înarma împotriva sa."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Double
"Așa e firea mea. Vreau întotdeauna să merg mai iute decât evenimentele."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Double
16. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
By: Italo Calvino , William Weaver
3.90
Format: 216 pages,
If on a Winter's Night a Traveleris a marvel of ingenuity, an experimental text that looks longingl… read more
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17. Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3)
By: Sophocles , J.E. Thomas
4.06
Format: None pages, Paperback
The curse placed on Oedipus lingers and haunts a younger generation in this new and brilliant trans… read more
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18. The Invention of Morel
By: Jorge Luis Borges , Suzanne Jill Levine , Adolfo Bioy Casares , Norah Borges de Torre , Ruth L.C. Simms
4.00
Format: 103 pages, Paperback
Jorge Luis Borges declared The Invention of Morel a masterpiece of plotting, comparable to The Turn… read more
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- classics
- fantasy
- fiction
"So I was dead! The thought delighted me."-Jorge Luis Borges, The Invention of Morel
"The sea is endless when you are in a rowboat."-Jorge Luis Borges, The Invention of Morel
"To be sure, nothing created by man is perfect."-Jorge Luis Borges, The Invention of Morel
"...when one is alone it is impossible to be dead."-Jorge Luis Borges, The Invention of Morel
19. The Tempest
By: William Shakespeare
4.27
Format: 127 pages,
In The Tempest, long considered one of Shakespeare's most lyrical plays, Prospero--a magician on an… read more
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20. Othello
By: William Shakespeare
4.48
Format: None pages,
In Othello, Shakespeare creates a powerful drama of a marriage that begins with fascination (betwee… read more
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21. 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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22. The Odyssey
By: Homer , Robert Fagles , Bernard Knox , E.V. Rieu , None
3.53
Format: 349 pages, Paperback
Literature's grandest evocation of life's journey, at once an ageless human story and an individual… read more
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23. Ironweed
By: William Kennedy
3.68
Format: 336 pages,
Francis Phelan, ex-ballplayer, part-time gravedigger, full-time drunk, has hit bottom. Years ago he… read more
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24. Salvage the Bones
By: Jesmyn Ward
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2011 National Book Award for FictionA hurricane is building over the Gulf of Mexico, … read more
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25. The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex/Oedipus at Colonus/Antigone (The Theban Plays, #1–3)
By: Sophocles , Robert Fitzgerald , Dudley Fitts , None
5.00
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
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26. Passing
By: Nella Larsen
3.93
Format: 141 pages, Paperback
Nella Larsen's fascinating exploration of race and identity--the inspiration for the upcoming Netfl… read more
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- classics
- fiction
"Well, what of it? If sex isn’t a joke, what is it"-Nella Larsen, Passing
"I think that being a mother is the cruellest thing in the world."-Nella Larsen, Passing
"Everything can't be explained by some general biological phrase."-Nella Larsen, Passing
"It hurt. It hurt like hell. But it didn’t matter, if no one knew."-Nella Larsen, Passing
27. Invisible Monsters
By: Chuck Palahniuk
4.00
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
She's a catwalk model who has everything: a boyfriend, a career, a loyal best friend. But when a su… read more
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- fiction
"Sorry, mom. Sorry, God."-Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
"Make me into anything, but just love me."-Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
"The future is just wasted on some people."-Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
"At this rate, we'll never get to the future."-Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
28. Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
By: Zora Neale Hurston
4.04
Format: 193 pages, Paperback
In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview eighty-six-… read more
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"The present was too urgent to let the past intrude."-Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
"You see de rattlesnake in de woods?' Dey say, 'Yeah.' I say 'If you bother wid him, he bite you. If you know de snake killee you, why you bother wid him?' (Oluale Kossula)"-Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
"So den we gittee married by de license, but I doan love my wife no mo' wid de license than I love her befo' de license. She a good woman and I love her all de time. (Oluale Kossula)"-Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
"Whole nations are transported, exterminated, their name to be forgotten, except in the annual festival of their conquerors, when sycophants call the names of the vanquished countries to the remembran…"-Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
29. Nobody
By: Alice Oswald
4.14
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
A partnership between two art forms, Nobody is a unique crossover work - both a book and an exhibit… read more
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- poetry
- retellings
- classics
- fiction
- mythology
30. The Women of Troy (Women of Troy, #2)
By: Pat Barker
3.83
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
A daring and timely feminist retelling of The Iliad from the perspective of the women of Troy who e… read more
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- retellings
- fiction
- fantasy
- mythology
"Achilles' story never ends: wherever men fight and die, you'll find Achilles."-Pat Barker, The Women of Troy (Women of Troy, #2)
"Crows are ferociously intelligent birds. I used to watch them gather as the men set off for another day of war. Drums, pipes, trumpets, the rhythmical pounding of swords on shields—to the fighters, t…"-Pat Barker, The Women of Troy (Women of Troy, #2)
"It was one of those moments that I think everybody experiences - and they don't have to be dramatic - when things begin to change; and you know there's no point ruminating about it, because thinking …"-Pat Barker, The Women of Troy (Women of Troy, #2)
31. The Odyssey
By: Derek Walcott
3.81
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
With its inspired counterpointing of Homeric and Caribbean themes, Derek Walcott's play The Odyssey… read more
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- poetry
- retellings
- classics
- school
- theatre
- fiction
- plays
- fantasy
- mythology
- drama
"What are men? Children who doubt."-Derek Walcott, The Odyssey
"I too saw the wooden horse blocking the stars."-Derek Walcott, The Odyssey
"The future happens. No matter how much we scream."-Derek Walcott, The Odyssey
