The Poems of Ossian
By: James MacPherson
3.49
Format: 488 pages, Hardcover
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1. A Sentimental Journey
By: Laurence Sterne , Paul Goring
3.31
Format: 170 pages, Paperback
A furiously witty response to Tobias Smollett's curmudgeonly 'Travels through France and Italy', La… read more
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"It had ever, as I told the reader, been one of the singular blessings of my life, to be almost every hour of it miserably in love with some one...."-Laurence Sterne, A Sentimental Journey
"Dear sensibility! Source inexhausted of all that's precious in our joys, or costly in our sorrows! Eternal fountain of our feelings! 'tis here I trace thee and this is thy divinity which stirs within…"-Laurence Sterne, A Sentimental Journey
"I could wish to spy the nakedness of their hearts, and through the different disguises of customs, climates, and religion, find out what is good in them, to fashion my own by. It is for this reason t…"-Laurence Sterne, A Sentimental Journey
2. Lalka
By: Bolesław Prus
3.82
Format: 592 pages, Paperback
Lalka ukazała się pierwotnie w odcinkach na łamach warszawskiego "Kuriera Codziennego", stanowiąc d… read more
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"Toteż mając lat osiemnaście, panna Izabela tyranizowała mężczyzn chłodem."-Bolesław Prus, Lalka
"Przez rok cierpiałem na jakąś chorobę mózgową, a zdawało mi się, że jestem zakochany."-Bolesław Prus, Lalka
"Bo widzisz, najgorszą samotnością nie jest ta, która otacza człowieka, ale ta pustka w nim samym."-Bolesław Prus, Lalka
"Bywają wielkie zbrodnie na świecie, ale chyba największą jest zabić miłość. Tyle lat upłynęło, prawie pół wieku ; wszystko przeszło: majątek, tytuły, młodość, szczęście... Sam tylko żal nie przeszedł…"-Bolesław Prus, Lalka
3. The Sorrows of Young Werther
By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Burton Pike
3.73
Format: None pages, Paperback
Visiting an idyllic German village, Werther, a sensitive and romantic young man, meets and falls in… read more
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4. Walden
By: Henry David Thoreau
2.57
Format: 210 pages, Paperback
Walden, or, Life in the Woods, is an American book written by noted transcendentalist Henry David T… read more
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5. Jacques the Fatalist
By: Denis Diderot
4.22
Format: None pages, Paperback
Jacques the Fatalist is a provocative exploration of the problems of human existence, destiny, and … read more
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6. The Pit and the Pendulum
By: Edgar Allan Poe
4.15
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
Get set for true terror in one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous short stories. We enter the mind… read more
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"How at least shall we distinguish its shadows from those of the tomb?"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum
"In the deepest slumber-no! In delirium-no! In a swoon-no! In death-no! even in the grave all is not lost."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum
"In death - no! even in the grave all is not lost. Else there is no immortality for man. Arousing from the most profound slumbers, we break the gossamer web of some dream. Yet in a second afterward, (…"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum
"He who has never swooned, is not he who finds strange palaces and wildly familiar faces in coals that glow; is not he who beholds floating in mid-air the sad visions that the many may not view; is no…"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum
7. The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
By: Yukio Mishima , Ivan Morris
4.48
Format: 252 pages, Hardcover
In The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, celebrated Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima creates a haunting… read more
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8. Gulliver’s Travels
By: Louis Rhead , Jonathan Swift , William Dean Howells , Robert DeMaria Jr.
3.58
Format: 306 pages, Paperback
A wickedly clever satire uses comic inversions to offer telling insights into the nature of man and… read more
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"Anlamadığınız bir insanı "delidir" diye nitelemek o kadar kolaydır ki!"-Louis Rhead, Gulliver’s Travels
"we neither of us are able to deliver our conceptions in a manner intelligible to the other."-Louis Rhead, Gulliver’s Travels
"معظم ابناء جلدتك هم أخبث سلالة من الحشرات المؤذية البغيضة التي سمحت لها الطبيعة بالزحف على وجخ الأرض"-Louis Rhead, Gulliver’s Travels
"... a wife should be always a reasonable and agreeable companion, because she cannot always be young."-Louis Rhead, Gulliver’s Travels
9. For Whom the Bell Tolls
By: Ernest Hemingway
3.76
Format: 180 pages, Paperback
Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Sp… read more
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10. A Doll's House
By: Henrik Ibsen , Michael Meyer
3.76
Format: 122 pages, Paperback
A Doll's House (1879), is a masterpiece of theatrical craft which, for the first time portrayed the… read more
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"Laughter's all the damned thing's fit for."-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House
"I must make up my mind which is right – society or I."-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House
"لن تفقدوني طويلاً، فالراحلون سرعان ما ينطوون في زوايا النسيان."-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House
"أنا ارى الناس صنفين .. صنف تعشقه المرأة، وصنف تحب أن تتجاذب معه أطراف الحديث."-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House
11. Malwina, czyli domyślność serca
By: None
4.43
Format: 303 pages, Paperback
Utwor uznawany jest za pierwsza w literaturze polskiej powiesc ukazujaca zycie wewnetrzne bohaterki… read more
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12. Phèdre
By: Jean Racine
3.69
Format: 55 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Andromacha Brytanik Berenika Ifigenia Fedra read more
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"Maintenant je me cherche et ne me trouve plus."-Jean Racine, Phèdre
"Mes crimes désormais ont comblé la mesure. Je respire à la fois l'inceste et l'imposture"-Jean Racine, Phèdre
"Présente je vous fuis; absente, je vous trouve; Dans le fond des forêts votre image me suit"-Jean Racine, Phèdre
"Hélas! de vos malheurs innocente ou coupable, / De quoi pour vous sauver n'étais-je point capable?"-Jean Racine, Phèdre
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14. Les Liaisons dangereuses
By: Pierre Choderlos de Laclos , Douglas Parmée
4.06
Format: 402 pages, Paperback
The complex moral ambiguities of seduction and revenge make Les Liaisons dangereuses (1782) one of … read more
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"J'ai vécu"-Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Les Liaisons dangereuses
"Will you, then, never grow weary of being unjust?"-Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Les Liaisons dangereuses
"I see you are already as timid as a slave: you might as well be in love."-Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Les Liaisons dangereuses
"...it is not for the illusion of a moment to govern the choice of a lifetime."-Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Les Liaisons dangereuses
15. Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
By: Neil Price
4.18
Format: 656 pages, Hardcover
The Viking Age - between 750 and 1050 - saw an unprecedented expansion of the Scandinavian peoples.… read more
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"The Viking mind is far away from us today, but occasionally just about tangible."-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
"Free will existed, but exercising it inevitably led to becoming the person you always, really, had been."-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
"History is nothing if not a suppositional discipline, sometimes akin to a sort of speculative fiction of the past."-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
"There is a sense in which this viewpoint is looking through the wrong end of the historical telescope, defining (and often judging) a people solely by the consequences of their actions rather than th…"-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
16. Lilla Weneda
By: Juliusz Słowacki
3.46
Format: 83 pages, ebook
Tragedia podbitego narodu Wenedów przedstawiona jest w utworze w stylistyce bliskiej mitologii celt… read more
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17. Le Mariage de Figaro
By: Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
3.53
Format: 258 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Forcé de parcourir la route où je suis entré sans le savoir, comme j'en sortirai sans le vouloir, j… read more
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18. Cud mniemany, czyli Krakowiacy i Górale
By: Wojciech Bogusławski
3.38
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden Leaf Printing on round Spine (extra customization … read more
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19. Maria
By: Antoni Malczewski
3.37
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
Powieść przedstawia tragiczne dzieje Marii, Wacława, Miecznika i Wojewody, ale jest też opowieścią … read more
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20. The Poems of Ossian
By: James MacPherson
3.49
Format: 488 pages, Hardcover
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge… read more
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