Bright Star, Green Light: The Beautiful Works and Damned Lives of John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald
By: Jonathan Bate
3.94
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling biography of two interwoven, tragic lives: John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald. ‘For a…
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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. The Woman in White
By: Wilkie Collins , Matthew Sweet
4.01
Format: 672 pages, Paperback
Librarian note: Alternate covers can be found here and here. 'In one moment, every drop of blood… read more
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"I am a bundle of nerves dressed up to look like a man!"-Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
"... our endurance must end, and our resistance begin, to-day."-Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
"You don’t have to speak at all— I know what you’d say… - Laura"-Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
"My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody."-Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
3. Die, My Love
By: Ariana Harwicz , Sarah Moses , Carolina Orloff
3.49
Format: 123 pages, Paperback
In a forgotten patch of French countryside, a woman is battling her demons embracing exclusion yet … read more
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4. Wide Sargasso Sea
By: Jean Rhys
3.59
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Wide Sargasso Sea, a masterpiece of modern fiction, was Jean Rhys’s return to the literary center s… read more
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"When trouble comes, close ranks"-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
"I thought I'd try to write her a life"-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
"Have all beautiful things sad destinies?"-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
"I thought if I told no one it might not be true."-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
5. How to Build a Girl
By: Caitlin Moran
4.20
Format: None pages, ebook
The New York Timesbestselling author hailed as "the UK's answer to Tina Fey, Chelsea Handler, and L… read more
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- audiobook
6. The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
By: Oscar Wilde , Richard Allen Cave
2.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Importance of Being Earnest, Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, Salome, An Ideal … read more
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7. Demons
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky
4.30
Format: 733 pages, Paperback
Alternate Cover Edition ISBN 0679734511. (ISBN13: 9780679734512) Inspired by the true story of a… read more
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"God is the pain of the fear of death"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons
"Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. It's only that."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons
"Marriage is the moral death of every proud soul, of all independence."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons
"...and in fact I've noticed that faith always seems to be less in the daytime"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons
8. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
By: Anne Brontë , Stevie Davies
3.52
Format: None pages, Paperback
Note: Editions of The Tenant that start with: "You must go back with me..." are incomplete. Actual … read more
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9. The Beautiful and Damned
By: F. Scott Fitzgerald , Monty
3.82
Format: None pages, Paperback
First published in 1922, The Beautiful and the Damnedfollowed Fitzgerald's impeccable debut, This S… read more
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10. Save Me the Waltz
By: Zelda Fitzgerald , Harry T. Moore
4.19
Format: 234 pages, Paperback
One of the great literary curios of the 20th century, Save Me the Waltzis the first and only novel … read more
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11. The Magus
By: John Fowles
4.37
Format: None pages, Paperback
This daring literary thriller, rich with eroticism and suspense, is one of John Fowles's best-loved… read more
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12. The Brontës
By: Juliet Barker
3.93
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
The Brontes is an engrossing and intimate chronicle of an astonishingly creative family. "Anyone fa… read more
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13. The Rainbow
By: D.H. Lawrence , Daphne Merkin
4.42
Format: None pages, Paperback
A controversial classic from D.H. Lawrence, the author of Lady Chatterley's Lover. Lush with religi… read more
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14. O Pioneers!
By: Willa Cather
3.90
Format: 159 pages, Paperback
O Pioneers! (1913) was Willa Cather's first great novel, and to many it remains her unchallenged ma… read more
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"Things away from home often look better than they are."-Willa Cather, O Pioneers!
"There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before."-Willa Cather, O Pioneers!
"Neither Oscar nor Lou has changed much; they have simply, as Alexandra said of them long ago, grown to be more and more like themselves."-Willa Cather, O Pioneers!
"We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it -- for a little while."-Willa Cather, O Pioneers!
15. The Mill on the Floss
By: George Eliot , A.S. Byatt
3.83
Format: 579 pages, Paperback
'If life had no love in it, what else was there for Maggie?' Brought up at Dorlcote Mill, Maggie… read more
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"Don't judge a book by its cover"-George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
"Don't judge a book by its cover."-George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
"Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure."-George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
"I desire no future that will break the ties of the past."-George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
16. A Room with a View
By: E.M. Forster
5.00
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
'"But you do," he went on, not waiting for contradiction. "You love the boy body and soul, plainly,… read more
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17. The Rings of Saturn
By: Michael Hulse , W.G. Sebald
3.94
Format: 128 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The Rings of Saturn- with its curious archive of photographs - records a walking tour of the east c… read more
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18. John Keats: A New Life
By: Nicholas Roe
3.71
Format: None pages, Hardcover
This landmark biography of celebrated Romantic poet John Keats explodes entrenched conceptions of h… read more
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19. The Portrait of a Lady
By: Henry James , Patricia Crick
3.79
Format: 797 pages, Paperback
When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy Aunt Touche… read more
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"She has only one fault; too many ideas."-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
"If one is strong, one loves the more strongly."-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
"It's not my fate to give up--I know it can't be."-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
"The finer natures were those that shone at the larger times."-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
20. The Razor's Edge
By: W. Somerset Maugham
4.43
Format: 269 pages, Paperback
Intimate acquaintances but less than friends, they meet and part in postwar London and Paris: Ellio… read more
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21. How to Be Both
By: Ali Smith
4.10
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
Passionate, compassionate, vitally inventive and scrupulously playful, Ali Smith's novels are like … read more
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22. Howards End
By: E.M. Forster
3.96
Format: 318 pages, Paperback
A már életében klasszikusnak számító angol írónak ez volt a negyedik, a kritikusok szerint a legjob… read more
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- audiobook
"So never give in,"-E.M. Forster, Howards End
"Tulips were a tray of jewels."-E.M. Forster, Howards End
"Love and Truth, their warfare seems eternal."-E.M. Forster, Howards End
"Death destroys a man: the idea of Death saves him."-E.M. Forster, Howards End
23. Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
By: Katherine Rundell
4.18
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From standout scholar Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite presents a sparkling and very modern biogra… read more
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- audiobook
- history
- biography
- nonfiction
- literary criticism
"To adore and to devour and to be devoured is its own kind of focus: a gasp of a different kind of oxygen."-Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
24. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
By: Salman Rushdie
4.10
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply pers… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- audiobook
"Waiting is thinking, and to think deeply is, very often, to change one’s mind."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"I don’t usually think of my books as prophecies. I’ve had some trouble with prophets in my life, and I’m not applying for the job."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"To have a room of one’s own, one must have money. (I don’t think Virginia Woolf ever went to India, but her dictum stands, even there, even for men.)"-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"An intimacy of strangers. That's a phrase I've sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
25. Steeple Chasing: Around Britain by Church
By: Peter Ross
4.37
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
*Featuring a brand new chapter!* Churches are all around us. Their steeples remain landmarks in … read more
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- history
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26. Stalking Shakespeare
By: Lee Durkee
3.61
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A darkly humorous and spellbinding detective story that chronicles one Mississippi man’s relentless… read more
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- biography
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- audiobook
27. Keats: A Brief Life in Nine Poems and One Epitaph
By: Lucasta Miller
4.11
Format: 252 pages, Hardcover
*A BOOK TO LOOK FORWARD TO IN 2021 IN THE TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, DAILY MAIL, SUNDAY TIMES AND GUAR… read more
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- audiobook
- history
- biography
- nonfiction
- literary criticism
28. Walking the Invisible
By: Michael Stewart
3.90
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Michael Stewart has been captivated by the Brontes since he was a child, and has travelled all over… read more
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- history
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29. Heretic: The Many Lives and Deaths of Jesus Christ
By: Catherine Nixey
4.11
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From a celebrated classicist and author of The Darkening Age (“[a] ballista-bolt of a book”— New Yo… read more
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- history
- audiobook
30. Bright Star, Green Light: The Beautiful Works and Damned Lives of John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald
By: Jonathan Bate
3.94
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling biography of two interwoven, tragic lives: John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald. ‘For a… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
- literary criticism
31. Coleridge Walks the Fells: A Lakeland Journey Retraced
By: alan-hankinson
4.25
Format: None pages, Hardcover
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