Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
By: James Boswell
3.44
Format: 272 pages,
Travel journal first published in 1785. In 1773, Boswell enticed his famous English friend Samuel J…
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1. The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
By: Raymond Chandler
3.95
Format: 231 pages, Paperback
When a dying millionaire hires Philip Marlowe to handle the blackmailer of one of his two troubleso… read more
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"Parecía más muerto que muchos cadáveres"-Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
"Dead men are heavier than broken hearts."-Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
"I was as empty of life as a scarecrow's pockets."-Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
"Just keep your nose clean and everything will be jake."-Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
2. Robinson Crusoe
By: Virginia Woolf , Daniel Defoe , Gerald McCann
3.68
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Daniel Defoe relates the tale of an English sailor marooned on a desert island for nearly three dec… read more
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"For sudden Joys, like Griefs, confound at first. "-Virginia Woolf, Robinson Crusoe
"On a horse? I was married on a horse? Gillian looked like she could kill the groom"-Virginia Woolf, Robinson Crusoe
"All evils are to be considered with the good that is in them, and with what worse attends them."-Virginia Woolf, Robinson Crusoe
"for me to think of such a voyage was the most preposterous thing that ever man in such circumstances could be guilty of."-Virginia Woolf, Robinson Crusoe
3. London Under: The Secret History Beneath the Streets
By: Peter Ackroyd
3.46
Format: 205 pages, Hardcover
London Under is a wonderful, atmospheric, historical, imaginative, oozing little study of everythin… read more
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4. Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland AD 1803
By: Dorothy Wordsworth
3.52
Format: 316 pages, Hardcover
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with stra… read more
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5. Kim
By: Rudyard Kipling , None
2.86
Format: 358 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Kim is set in an imperialistic world; a world strikingly masculine, dominated by travel, trade and … read more
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6. Pale Fire
By: Vladimir Nabokov
3.98
Format: 574 pages,
The urbane authority that Vladimir Nabokov brought to every word he ever wrote, and the ironic amus… read more
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7. The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
By: Albert Camus , Justin O'Brien
4.22
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
One of the most influential works of this century, this is a crucial exposition of existentialist t… read more
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"Créer, c'est vivre deux fois."-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
"Existence is illusory and it is eternal."-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
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"Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable."-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
8. The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
By: Robert Fagles , Aeschylus , William Bedell Stanford
4.01
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Alternate covers of this ISBN here, here, here, here. Most recent cover is here. In the Oresteia… read more
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"I cannot not grieve."-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
"Learning comes through pain."-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
"Do I not live? Badly, I know, but I live."-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
"Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know Except pain"-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
9. The Divine Comedy
By: Dante Alighieri , Eugenio Montale , Allen Mandelbaum
4.29
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
The Divine Comedy, translated by Allen Mandelbaum, begins in a shadowed forest on Good Friday in th… read more
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10. Beowulf
By: Unknown , Seamus Heaney
3.49
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures… read more
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"Fate goes ever as fate must."-Unknown, Beowulf
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"Let whoever can win glory before death."-Unknown, Beowulf
"We all know a boy can't daddy until his daddy's dead."-Unknown, Beowulf
11. Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
By: James Boswell
3.44
Format: 272 pages,
Travel journal first published in 1785. In 1773, Boswell enticed his famous English friend Samuel J… read more
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12. A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
By: Samuel Johnson , James Boswell , Peter Levi
3.48
Format: 93 pages, Paperback
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13. Mansfield Park
By: Jane Austen
3.87
Format: 488 pages, Paperback
Taken from the poverty of her parents' home in Portsmouth, Fanny Price is brought up with her rich … read more
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"I was quiet, but I was not blind."-Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
14. Rob Roy
By: Walter Scott
3.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
Scott's tour de forceof family intrigue has two heroes. Francis Osbaldistone, dispatched in disgrac… read more
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15. Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland
By: Samuel Johnson
3.57
Format: 160 pages,
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16. The Lady With the Little Dog and Other Stories, 1896-1904
By: Anton Chekhov , Ronald Wilks , None
3.91
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
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17. Trouble Is My Business
By: Raymond Chandler
4.26
Format: 91 pages, Paperback
In the four long stories in this collection, Marlowe is hired to protect a rich old guy from a gold… read more
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18. Death in the Afternoon
By: Ernest Hemingway
3.22
Format: 402 pages,
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19. The Tartar Steppe
By: Dino Buzzati , Stuart Hood
3.80
Format: 25 pages,
Often likened to Kafka's The Castle, The Tartar Steppe is both a scathing critique of military life… read more
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20. The Grasmere Journals
By: Dorothy Wordsworth
3.17
Format: 55 pages, Paperback
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21. Behind the Scenes at the Museum
By: Kate Atkinson
3.00
Format: None pages,
Ruby Lennox begins narrating her life at the moment of conception, and from there takes us on a whi… read more
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22. The Dain Curse
By: Dashiell Hammett
4.12
Format: 652 pages, Paperback
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23. Old St. Paul's
By: William Harrison Ainsworth
3.97
Format: 179 pages, Paperback
April 1665 - when the cry of 'Bring out your dead' sent a chill through every household ... With a … read more
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24. The Vanishing Velázquez: A 19th Century Bookseller’s Obsession with a Lost Masterpiece
By: Laura Cumming
3.71
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
From one of the world's most expert art critics, the incredible true story--part art history and pa… read more
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25. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
By: Arthur Conan Doyle
4.21
Format: 539 pages, Hardcover
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes are overshadowed by the event with which they close - the meeting of… read more
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26. 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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"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
27. Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir
By: Werner Herzog
4.25
Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition
Legendary filmmaker and celebrated author Werner Herzog tells in his inimitable voice the story of … read more
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28. Cold Enough for Snow
By: Jessica Au
3.73
Format: 99 pages, Paperback
A mother and daughter travel from abroad to meet in Tokyo: they walk along the canals through the a… read more
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"She had kept, I knew, all the tickets, brochures and guides we had been given to take home, as if she would take them out later to read as one reads a novel."-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow
"The best we could do in this life was to pass through it, like smoke through the branches, suffering, until we either reached the state of nothingness, or else suffered elsewhere."-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow
"Nowadays, she said, people were hungry to know everything, thinking that they could understand it all, as if enlightenment were just around the corner. But, she said, in fact there was no control, an…"-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow
"Then she reached for her bag and took out a small book. She explained she had found it at a store near her home, and that it described the nature of your character based on the date of your birth. (.…"-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow
29. The Anglo-Saxons A History of the Beginnings of England: 400–1066
By: Marc Morris
4.34
Format: 508 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping and original history of the Anglo-Saxons by national bestselling author Marc Morris. … read more
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30. Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self
By: Andrea Wulf
4.18
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
From the best-selling author of The Invention of Nature comes an exhilarating story about a remarka… read more
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31. The Drop (Slough House, #5.5)
By: Mick Herron
3.92
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
Old spooks carry the memory of tradecraft in their bones, and when Solomon Dortmund sees an envelop… read more
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