Coningsby, or, The New Generation
By: Benjamin Disraeli
3.40
Format: 573 pages, Paperback
This Elibron Classics book is a reprint of a 1903 edition by the Century Co., New York.
Want to Read $ 0.99"So you see, my dear Coningsby, that the world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes."-Benjamin Disraeli, Coningsby, or, The New Generation
"So you see, my dear Coningsby, that the world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes."-Benjamin Disraeli, Coningsby, or, The New Generation
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1. New Grub Street
By: George Gissing
3.78
Format: 560 pages, Paperback
In New Grub Street George Gissing re-created a microcosm of London's literary society as he had exp… read more
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- classics
- british literature
- literature
- 19th century
- victorian
- fiction
- english literature
- novels
"Walker's a fool and Quarmby's an ass,' remarked her father."-George Gissing, New Grub Street
"Well, Maud made a mistake, let us say. Dolomore is a clown, and now she knows it."-George Gissing, New Grub Street
"Confound it! It's just because nobody does anything that things have come to this pass!"-George Gissing, New Grub Street
"The sum of their faults was their inability to earn money; but, indeed, that inability does not call for unmingled disdain."-George Gissing, New Grub Street
2. The Secret Agent
By: Joseph Conrad
3.59
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Mr Verloc, the secret agent, keeps a shop in London's Soho where he lives with his wife Winnie, her… read more
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- classics
- british literature
- literature
- fiction
- novels
"Bad world for poor people."-Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent
"To the destruction of what is."-Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent
"As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement."-Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent
"A certain simplicity of thought is common to serene souls at both ends of the social scale."-Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent
3. 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
- literature
- 19th century
- victorian
- 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
4. Vanity Fair
By: William Makepeace Thackeray , John Carey
4.28
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Edited by John Carey. Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero is a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray… read more
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- classics
- british literature
- literature
- 19th century
- fiction
5. Confessions of an English Opium Eater
By: Thomas de Quincey , Barry Milligan
4.00
Format: 50 pages, Paperback
A masterpiece of autobiography, and perhaps the first literary memoir of an addict, the Penguin Cla… read more
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- literature
- 19th century
- classics
6. Letters to a Young Poet
By: Rainer Maria Rilke , Franz Xaver Kappus , Reginald Snell
4.29
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
In 1903, a student at a military academy sent some of his verses to a well-known Austrian poet, req… read more
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- literature
- classics
"Everything is gestation and then birthing."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
"Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. ...live in the question."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
"A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
"Perhaps all dragons in our lives are really princesses just waiting to see us just once being beautiful and courageous."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
7. Cranford
By: Elizabeth Gaskell
3.81
Format: 4 pages, Paperback
'It is very pleasant dining with a bachelor...I only hope it is not improper; so many pleasant thin… read more
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- classics
- british literature
- 19th century
- victorian
- fiction
8. The Mysteries of Udolpho
By: Ann Radcliffe , Jacqueline Howard
4.18
Format: 213 pages, Paperback
With The Mysteries of Udolpho, Ann Radcliffe raised the Gothic romance to a new level and inspired … read more
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- classics
- fiction
9. Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
By: T.S. Eliot , Edward Gorey
4.29
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
T. S. Eliot's playful cat poems have delighted readers and cat lovers around the world ever since t… read more
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- classics
- fiction
10. The Age of Innocence
By: Edith Wharton , Maureen Howard
2.64
Format: 110 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, The Age of Innocenceis Edith Wharton's masterful portrait of des… read more
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- literature
- classics
- fiction
11. 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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12. The Sound and the Fury
By: William Faulkner
3.86
Format: 366 pages, Paperback
The tragedy of the Compson family features some of the most memorable characters in literature: bea… read more
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- literature
- novels
- classics
- fiction
"I say money has no value; it's just the way you spend it."-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
"with that sort of gigantic delicacy of an elephant picking up a peanut."-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
"Caddy put her arms around me, and her shining veil, and I couldn't smell trees anymore and I began to cry."-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
"A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune"-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
13. Ulysses
By: James Joyce
3.75
Format: 925 pages, Paperback
Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It was first serialized in parts in the A… read more
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- literature
- novels
- classics
- fiction
"Shite and onions!"-James Joyce, Ulysses
"Let my country die for me."-James Joyce, Ulysses
"Be just before you are generous."-James Joyce, Ulysses
"no more pain. wake no more. nobody owns"-James Joyce, Ulysses
14. 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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- classics
- british literature
- literature
- 19th century
- victorian
- fiction
- english literature
- novels
"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
15. The Light That Failed
By: Rudyard Kipling
3.46
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
In 1/1878 Kipling was admitted to the United Services College, at Westward Ho!, Devon, a school fou… read more
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16. 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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- 19th century
- british literature
"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
17. Middlemarch
By: Michel Faber , George Eliot
4.02
Format: 912 pages, Mass Market Paperback
"People are almost always better than their neighbours think they are" George Eliot’s most ambit… read more
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- classics
- british literature
- literature
- 19th century
- victorian
- fiction
- novels
"After all, the true seeing is within."-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
"I shall do everything it becomes me to do."-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
"I protest against any absolute conclusion."-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
"What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?"-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
18. Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
By: Evelyn Waugh
4.00
Format: 452 pages, Paperback
An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found here. The most nostalgic and reflective of Evely… read more
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- classics
- british literature
- literature
- fiction
- novels
"Here my last love had died."-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
"No one is ever holy without suffering."-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
"I had been there before; I knew all about it."-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
"So through a world of piety I made my way to Sebastian."-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
19. The Iliad
By: Homer
3.91
Format: 848 pages, Hardcover
One of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer's Iliad tells the story of the darkes… read more
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- literature
- classics
- fiction
"I say no wealth is worth my life."-Homer, The Iliad
"These were the colloquies in heaven."-Homer, The Iliad
"The sort of words a man says is the sort he hears in return."-Homer, The Iliad
"Antilochus! You're the most appalling driver in the world! Go to hell!"-Homer, The Iliad
20. Nightbitch
By: Rachel Yoder
3.54
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
One day, the mother was a mother but then, one night, she was quite suddenly something else... A… read more
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- fiction
"In such moments, she could almost touch her loneliness, as if it were her second child."-Rachel Yoder, Nightbitch
"Her secrets were the only things these days that were purely hers, things apart from mother and wife and middle-aged woman."-Rachel Yoder, Nightbitch
"Yes, certainly, her emerging rage was in part a by-product of physiological processes, but how could you not be pissed after having a baby?"-Rachel Yoder, Nightbitch
"It had been so long since she had remembered all this, so long since she'd even thought of it, for there had been a great forgetting when she left home--a purposeful forgetting, because to forget her…"-Rachel Yoder, Nightbitch
21. Coningsby, or, The New Generation
By: Benjamin Disraeli
3.40
Format: 573 pages, Paperback
This Elibron Classics book is a reprint of a 1903 edition by the Century Co., New York. read more
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- literature
- 19th century
- politics
- victorian
- fiction
- english literature
- novels
"So you see, my dear Coningsby, that the world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes."-Benjamin Disraeli, Coningsby, or, The New Generation
