Proxopera
By: Benedict Kiely
3.87
Format: 92 pages, Paperback
Three IRA Provos take over a farmstead in the North and hold a family hostage until a bomb in a cre…
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1. My Man Jeeves (Jeeves, #1)
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4.06
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Who can forget our beloved gentleman's personal gentleman, Jeeves, who ever comes to the rescue whe… read more
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"Come on," he said. "Bring the poker." I brought the tongs as well. I felt like it."-P.G. Wodehouse, My Man Jeeves (Jeeves, #1)
"What a queer thing Life is! So unlike anything else, don't you know, if you see what I mean."-P.G. Wodehouse, My Man Jeeves (Jeeves, #1)
"I had one of those ideas I do sometimes get, though admittedly a chump of the premier class."-P.G. Wodehouse, My Man Jeeves (Jeeves, #1)
"It was one of those jolly, peaceful mornings that make a chappie wish he'd got a soul or something"-P.G. Wodehouse, My Man Jeeves (Jeeves, #1)
2. Factotum
By: Charles Bukowski
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Format: 205 pages, Paperback
One of Bukowski's best, this beer-soaked, deliciously degenerate novel follows the wanderings of as… read more
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"عشق به درد آدمهای واقعی میخورد."-Charles Bukowski, Factotum
"You bitch," I whispered, "I love you." Then I came."-Charles Bukowski, Factotum
"A woman is a full time job. You have to choose your profession."-Charles Bukowski, Factotum
"Моята пияна от бира душа е по-тъжна от всички мъртви коледни елхи по света"-Charles Bukowski, Factotum
3. Orlando
By: Virginia Woolf , Sandra M Gilbert
3.87
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Virginia Woolf's Orlando 'The longest and most charming love letter in literature', playfully const… read more
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"Life and a lover"-Virginia Woolf, Orlando
"Thoughts are divine."-Virginia Woolf, Orlando
"All extremes of feeling are allied with madness."-Virginia Woolf, Orlando
"Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence."-Virginia Woolf, Orlando
4. Both Flesh and Not: Essays
By: David Foster Wallace
2.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Brilliant, dazzling, never-before-collected nonfiction writings by "one of America's most daring an… read more
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5. The Power
By: Naomi Alderman
2.50
Format: 52 pages, Hardcover
In The Powerthe world is a recognisable place: there's a rich Nigerian kid who larks around the fam… read more
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6. The Canterbury Tales
By: Geoffrey Chaucer , Nevill Coghill
3.72
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
The procession that crosses Chaucer's pages is as full of life and as richly textured as a medieval… read more
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7. Aunts Aren't Gentlemen (Jeeves, #15)
By: P.G. Wodehouse
4.60
Format: None pages,
A tome of well-mannered high comedy, from the "unrivaled master of the comedy of manners" - Enterta… read more
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8. Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves (Jeeves, #13)
By: P.G. Wodehouse
3.43
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
Bertie Wooster vows that nothing will induce him to return to Totleigh Towers, lair of former magis… read more
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9. On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
By: Stephen King
3.96
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
On Writing begins with King's childhood and his uncannily early focus on writing to tell a story. K… read more
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10. The Book of Imaginary Beings
By: Jorge Luis Borges , Peter Sís , Andrew Hurley , Margarita Guerrero
0.00
Format: 400 pages,
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11. The Uncommon Reader
By: Alan Bennett
3.74
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
Led by her yapping corgis to the Westminster traveling library outside Buckingham Palace, the Queen… read more
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"Книгите подпалват въображението."-Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader
"At eighty, things do not occur; they recur."-Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader
"Archbishop. Why do I never read the lesson?"-Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader
"A book is a device to ignite the imagination."-Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader
12. The Waste Land and Other Poems
By: T.S. Eliot
3.62
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Few readers need any introduction to the work of the most influential poet of the twentieth century… read more
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13. Reading in the Dark
By: Seamus Deane
4.34
Format: 168 pages,
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14. Mothering Sunday
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4.25
Format: 179 pages, Hardcover
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15. The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
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3.92
Format: 386 pages, Hardcover
Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida—war photographer, gambler, and closet queen—has woken up dead in what … read more
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"Even suicide requires perseverance."-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
"Why should a Creator watch over you? Wasn't creating you enough?"-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
"You were simply a handsome man who enjoyed beautiful boys. Nothing more, nothing less and no one's business."-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
"Despair always begins as a snack that you nibble on when bored and then becomes a meal that you have thrice a day."-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
16. Close to Home
By: Michael Magee
4.06
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
While growing up in West Belfast, Sean does everything he's supposed to do. He works hard, he stud… read more
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17. The Netanyahus
By: Joshua Cohen
3.80
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
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18. Civilizations
By: Laurent Binet
3.67
Format: 384 pages, ebook
Vers l’an mille : la fille d’Erik le Rouge met cap au sud.1492 : Colomb ne découvre pas l’Amériqu… read more
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19. Proxopera
By: Benedict Kiely
3.87
Format: 92 pages, Paperback
Three IRA Provos take over a farmstead in the North and hold a family hostage until a bomb in a cre… read more
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- fiction
- 20th century
- historical fiction
- ireland
- irish literature
