Under Two Flags: A Story of the Household and the Desert (Oxford Popular Fiction)
By: Ouida
3.78
Format: 550 pages, Paperback
Under Two Flags is the first and the best of the Foreign Legion romances which have consistently en…
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1. The Demon in the House (Barsetshire, #3)
By: Angela Thirkell
3.68
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
In her third Barsetshire novel, Thirkell continues the saga of the irrepressible Tony Morland. Whet… read more
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"There is something about school stories peculiarly repellent to the adult intellect. I hold no brief for my own books, far from it, but they are at least not characterized by paucity of invention, im…"-Angela Thirkell, The Demon in the House (Barsetshire, #3)
"That admirable woman thought so humbly of her own potboiling that to hear it stigmatised by a critic of Stoker’s mental powers as rubbishy stuff didn’t depress her in the least. If she could have mad…"-Angela Thirkell, The Demon in the House (Barsetshire, #3)
"Tony went upstairs with an expressionless face, undressed, folded his clothes neatly, washed his face and hands, and got into bed. He was full of resentment against the world. People made one dive wh…"-Angela Thirkell, The Demon in the House (Barsetshire, #3)
2. The Prince and the Pauper
By: Mark Twain , None , Everett Emerson
0.00
Format: 194 pages, Paperback
This treasured historical satire, played out in two very different socioeconomic worlds of 16th-cen… read more
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- historical fiction
"Loose and forbear!"-Mark Twain, The Prince and the Pauper
"A fully belly is little worth where the mind is starved."-Mark Twain, The Prince and the Pauper
"A full belly is of little worth where the mind is starved, and the heart."-Mark Twain, The Prince and the Pauper
"Yes, King Edward VI lived only a few years, poor boy, but he lived them worthily."-Mark Twain, The Prince and the Pauper
3. The Chouans
By: Honoré de Balzac
4.50
Format: 231 pages, Paperback
Les Chouans (French pronunciation: [le Swa], The Chouans) is an 1829 novel by French novelist and p… read more
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- historical fiction
4. Doctor Thorne (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #3)
By: Anthony Trollope , Ruth Rendell
4.14
Format: 557 pages, Paperback
A recent cover reprint for this ISBN can be found here and an older one here. Son of a bankrupt … read more
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"Conduct! Is conduct everything? One may conduct oneself excellently, and yet break one's heart."-Anthony Trollope, Doctor Thorne (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #3)
"Mary, it must be remembered, was very nearly of the same age as Frank; but, as I and others have so often said before, 'Women grow on the sunny side of the wall."-Anthony Trollope, Doctor Thorne (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #3)
"Buying and selling is good and necessary; it is very necessary, and may, possibly, be very good; but it cannot be the noblest work of man; and let us hope that it may not in our time be esteemed the …"-Anthony Trollope, Doctor Thorne (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #3)
"Oh! do look at Miss Oriel's bonnet the next time you see her. I cannot understand why it should be so, but I am sure of this—no English fingers could put together such a bonnet as that; and I am near…"-Anthony Trollope, Doctor Thorne (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #3)
5. Julius Caesar
By: William Shakespeare , Roma Gill
3.70
Format: 175 pages, Paperback
The Oxford School Shakespeare has become the preferred introduction to the literary legacy of the g… read more
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"Et tu, Brute?"-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
"Beware the ides of March."-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
"Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!"-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
"Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come"-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
6. The Man in the Wooden Hat (Old Filth, #2)
By: Jane Gardam
4.10
Format: 233 pages, Paperback
The New York Times called Sir Edward Feathers one of the most memorable characters in modern litera… read more
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- novels
- fiction
- british literature
7. The Man in the Iron Mask (The D'Artagnan Romances, #3.3)
By: Alexandre Dumas , Francine du Plessix Gray , Joachim Neugroschel
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
A swashbuckling novel of political intrigue. In the concluding installment of Alexandre Dumas's cel… read more
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8. The Seven Dials Mystery (Superintendent Battle #2)
By: Agatha Christie
3.80
Format: 375 pages, Paperback
A practical joke goes chillingly, murderously wrong in Queen of Mystery Agatha Christie’s classic d… read more
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- fiction
- british literature
"It's a rotten job, but somebody's got to do it."-Agatha Christie, The Seven Dials Mystery (Superintendent Battle #2)
"To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness."-Agatha Christie, The Seven Dials Mystery (Superintendent Battle #2)
"You've brought out your best butter." [you're laying on the flattery thickly]"-Agatha Christie, The Seven Dials Mystery (Superintendent Battle #2)
"What I think is a different matter. Maybe I think some rather curious things—but until thinking's got you somewhere it's no use talking about it."-Agatha Christie, The Seven Dials Mystery (Superintendent Battle #2)
9. 2666
By: Roberto Bolaño
4.21
Format: 1128 pages, Paperback
A cuatro profesores de literatura, Pelletier, Morini, Espinoza y Norton, los une su fascinación por… read more
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"Nothing is ever behind us."-Roberto Bolaño, 2666
"Reading is never a waste of time."-Roberto Bolaño, 2666
"Every hundred feet the world changes"-Roberto Bolaño, 2666
"The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower."-Roberto Bolaño, 2666
10. Lolly Willowes
By: Sylvia Townsend Warner , Alison Lurie
3.50
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
In Lolly Willowes, an ageing spinster rebels against her role as the universal aunt, at everybody's… read more
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11. Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
By: Marcel Proust , Simon Vance , Lydia Davis
4.15
Format: 710 pages, Mass Market Paperback
«Et tout d'un coup le souvenir m'est apparu. Ce goût, c'était celui du petit morceau de madeleine q… read more
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"Longtemps, je me suis couché de bonne heure."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"the comfort of reclusion, the poetry of hibernation"-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"Now are the woods all black, But still the sky is blue."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"Fall in love with a dog's bum, And thou'll think it pretty as a plum."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
12. The Adventures of Roderick Random
By: Tobias Smollett , David Blewett
3.60
Format: 137 pages, Paperback
Roderick is combative, often violent, but capable of great affection and generosity. His father had… read more
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13. Sahara (Dirk Pitt, #11)
By: Clive Cussler
4.04
Format: 431 pages, Paperback
1996, Egypt. Searching for a treasure on the Nile, DIRK PITT thwarts the attempted assassination of… read more
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14. Phineas Finn (Palliser, #2)
By: Anthony Trollope , John Sutherland
2.83
Format: None pages, Paperback
The second of Trollope's "Palliser" novels introduces its title character, Phineas Finn, a talented… read more
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15. Gaudy Night (Lord Peter Wimsey, #12)
By: Dorothy L. Sayers
4.00
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
"Gaudy Nightstands out even among Miss Sayers's novels. And Miss Sayers has long stood in a class b… read more
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16. The Kindly Ones (A Dance to the Music of Time, #6)
By: Anthony Powell
4.23
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A Dance to the Music of Time – his brilliant 12-novel sequence, which chronicles the lives of over … read more
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- historical fiction
- novels
17. Homage to Catalonia
By: George Orwell , Lionel Trilling
4.00
Format: 592 pages, Paperback
In 1936 Orwell went to Spain to report on the Civil War and instead joined the fight against the Fa… read more
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18. Brat Farrar
By: Josephine Tey , Robert Barnard
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Listening Length: 7 hours and 55 minutes Brat Farrar has been carefully coached to assume the ident… read more
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19. The Trail of the Serpent
By: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
4.60
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1837-1915), Victorian England's bestselling woman writer, blends Dickensian… read more
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20. The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)
By: Anthony Trollope , David Skilton
3.75
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
The Warden centers on Mr. Harding, a clergyman of great personal integrity who is nevertheless in p… read more
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"It is much less difficult for the sufferer to be generous than for the oppressor."-Anthony Trollope, The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)
"... In what I do I may appear to be interfering with you, and I hope you will forgive me for doing so."-Anthony Trollope, The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)
"He never quarreled with his wife, but he never talked to her;--he never had time to talk, he was so taken up with speaking."-Anthony Trollope, The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)
"They say that faint heart never won fair lady. It is amazing to me how fair ladies are won, so faint are often men's hearts!"-Anthony Trollope, The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)
21. Home of the Gentry
By: Ivan Turgenev , Richard Freeborn
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Home of the Gentry" is a novel by Ivan Turgenev published in the January 1859 issue of "Sovremenni… read more
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22. Act of Oblivion
By: Robert Harris
4.07
Format: 463 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Fatherland, The Ghostwriter, Munich, and Conclave comes this spellbi… read more
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"He had no idea where they would go, or what they would do, or what dangers lay ahead. But with their love, and their Bible, with their absolute certainty in the power of the Lord and the protection o…"-Robert Harris, Act of Oblivion
23. Damascus Station (Damascus Station #1)
By: David McCloskey
4.21
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
CIA case officer Sam Joseph is dispatched to Paris to recruit Syrian Palace official Mariam Haddad.… read more
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24. The House of Doors
By: Tan Twan Eng
4.14
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A spellbinding novel about love and betrayal, colonialism and revolution, storytelling and redempti… read more
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"Money's the sixth sense. If you don't have it, you can't make … the most of the other five."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
"I feel that when I travel I can change myself a little, and I return from a journey not quite the same self I was."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
"That night, side by side, we drifted among the galaxies of sea-stars, while far, far above us the asterisks of light marked out the footnotes on the page of eternity."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
"All of us will be forgotten eventually. Like a wave on the ocean, leaving no trace that it had once existed.' He shook his head. 'We will be remembered through our stories."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
25. Moscow X (Damascus Station #2)
By: David McCloskey
4.30
Format: 454 pages, Hardcover
A daring CIA operation threatens chaos in the Kremlin. But can Langley trust the Russian at its cen… read more
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26. The Lifeline
By: Phyllis Bottome
3.40
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Mark Chalmers, 36, dark haired, athletic, keen on skiing and winter sports, speaks fluent French an… read more
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27. The Wood at Midwinter
By: Susanna Clarke
3.73
Format: 64 pages, Hardcover
From the internationally bestselling and prize-winning author of Piranesi and Jonathan Strange & Mr… read more
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28. The Rose Arbor
By: Rhys Bowen
4.30
Format: 349 pages, Kindle Edition
An investigation into a girl’s disappearance uncovers a mystery dating back to World War II in a ha… read more
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29. Under Two Flags: A Story of the Household and the Desert (Oxford Popular Fiction)
By: Ouida
3.78
Format: 550 pages, Paperback
Under Two Flags is the first and the best of the Foreign Legion romances which have consistently en… read more
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