The Dolphins, the Whales and the Gudgeon
By: Aesop , Robert Temple
5.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
'An ass, clothed in the skin of a lion...' Aesop's animal fables are some of the earliest stories e…
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1. The Yellow Wall-Paper
By: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
4.07
Format: 54 pages, Paperback
'The color is hideous enough, and unreliable enough, and infuriating enough, but the pattern is tor… read more
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"I am a doctor, dear, and I know. You are gaining flesh and color, your appetite is better. I feel really much easier about you." "I don't weigh a bit more," said I, "nor as much; and my appetite may …"-Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper
2. Remember, Body...
By: Constantinos P. Cavafy
3.66
Format: 54 pages, Paperback
'All those excessive, useless regrets...' A collection of nostalgic, erotic poetry from one of … read more
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"You’ve been wholly transformed into feeling, for me."-Constantinos P. Cavafy, Remember, Body...
"I have gazed so much on beauty that my eyes overflow with it."-Constantinos P. Cavafy, Remember, Body...
"I have fashioned you in joy and in sorrow, / through so many happenings, out of so many things."-Constantinos P. Cavafy, Remember, Body...
"Memory, keep those eyes just as they were. / And memory, whatever you can salvage of that passion of mine, / whatever you can, bring back to me tonight."-Constantinos P. Cavafy, Remember, Body...
3. How to Use Your Enemies
By: Baltasar Gracián , Gracián Baltasar
3.64
Format: 54 pages, Paperback
'Better mad with the crowd than sane all alone' In these witty, Machiavellian aphorisms, unlike… read more
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"Deal with people from whom you can learn"-Baltasar Gracián, How to Use Your Enemies
"Cautious silence is the refuge of good sense"-Baltasar Gracián, How to Use Your Enemies
"What passion rushes to flatter, time is slow to disillusion us about."-Baltasar Gracián, How to Use Your Enemies
"Not all truths can be spoken: some because they are important to me, others to someone else."-Baltasar Gracián, How to Use Your Enemies
4. The Eve of St. Agnes
By: John Keats
3.68
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
'Hoodwink'd in faery fancy...' This volume contains a selection of Keats's greatest verse - inc… read more
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"Upon the honey’d middle of the night,"-John Keats, The Eve of St. Agnes
5. A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees
By: Yoshida Kenkō , Meredith McKinney
3.74
Format: 51 pages, Paperback
'It is a most wonderful comfort to sit alone beneath a lamp, book spread before you, and commune wi… read more
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"It is the ephemeral nature of things that makes them wonderful."-Yoshida Kenkō, A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees
"After all, things thought but left unsaid only fester inside you."-Yoshida Kenkō, A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees
"Knowledge leads to deception; talent and ability only serve to increase earthly desires."-Yoshida Kenkō, A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees
"I have relinquished all that ties me to the world, but the one thing that still haunts me is the beauty of the sky"-Yoshida Kenkō, A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees
6. Three Tang Dynasty Poets
By: Wang Wei , Du Fu , Li Bai
3.35
Format: 64 pages, Mass Market Paperback
'Can I bear to leave these blue hills?' A generous selection from three of the greatest and mos… read more
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- literature
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- fiction
7. Woman Much Missed
By: Thomas Hardy
3.59
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
'Woman much missed, how you call to me, call to me...' After the death of his wife Emma, a grief… read more
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"Soon will be growing Green blades from her mound, And daisies be showing Like stars on the ground, Till she form part of them - Ay - the sweet heart of them, Loved beyond measure With a child's pleas…"-Thomas Hardy, Woman Much Missed
8. Goblin Market
By: Joyce Carol Oates , William Morris , Laurence Housman , Christina Rossetti , Dante Gabriel Rossetti
3.82
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
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- fantasy
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9. The Robber Bridegroom
By: Jacob Grimm , None , William Karl Grimm
5.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
'Then she began to run, and she ran over the sharp stones and through the thorns, and the wild anim… read more
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- fairy tales
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10. The Dolphins, the Whales and the Gudgeon
By: Aesop , Robert Temple
5.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
'An ass, clothed in the skin of a lion...' Aesop's animal fables are some of the earliest stories e… read more
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- fairy tales
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- fantasy
- mythology
11. To-morrow
By: Joseph Conrad
5.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
'It was as if the sea, breaking down the wall protecting all the homes of the town, had sent a wave… read more
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12. A Pair of Silk Stockings
By: Kate Chopin
3.64
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
Désirée's baby -- Miss McEnders -- The story of an hour -- Nég Créol -- A pair of silk stocking… read more
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13. I Hate and I Love
By: Catullus
3.06
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
Dazzling modern lyrical poems from Catullus - by turns smutty, abusive, romantic and deeply moving.… read more
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- classics
14. Miss Brill
By: Katherine Mansfield , Ursula Grawe
3.63
Format: 224 pages,
The story is about Miss Brill, a middle-aged English teacher in an unnamed French vacation town. It… read more
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15. Mrs Rosie and the Priest
By: Giovanni Boccaccio
3.85
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Four hilarious and provocative stories from Boccaccio's Decameron, featuring cuckolded husbands, cr… read more
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16. Leonardo da Vinci
By: Giorgio Vasari
3.85
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
'In this painting of Leonardo's there was a smile so pleasing that it seemed divine rather than hum… read more
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17. Lord Arthur Savile's Crime
By: Oscar Wilde
3.85
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
'He was not blind to the fact that murder, like the religions of the Pagan world, requires a victim… read more
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18. The Old Man of the Moon
By: Shěn Fù
3.85
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
'Our passion was so great. Will the Old Man understand and help us once again?' The Old Man of the … read more
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19. Sindbad the Sailor
By: Unknown
3.85
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
'The valley was full of snakes and serpents as big as palm trees, so huge that they could have swal… read more
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20. Sketchy, Doubtful, Incomplete Jottings
By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
3.62
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
'I can promise to be candid, not, however, to be impartial.' A selection of the most insightful max… read more
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21. Come Close
By: Sappho
3.85
Format: 370 pages, Paperback
'Yes, we did many things, then - all Beautiful ...' Lyrical, powerful poems about love, sexuality, … read more
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22. Kasyan from the Beautiful Lands
By: Ivan Turgenev
3.85
Format: 370 pages, Paperback
"No, no, I've got your word for it, I've got to die ... you promised me ... you told me ..." Turgen… read more
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23. O Cruel Alexis
By: Virgil
3.85
Format: 370 pages, Paperback
'But I, while vineyards ring with the cicadas' scream, Retrace your steps, alone, beneath the burni… read more
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24. Speaking of Siva
By: A.K. Ramanujan , None , None , None , None
3.85
Format: 370 pages, Paperback
'To the utterly at-one with Siva there's no dawn.' Meditative, deeply personal poems to the god Siv… read more
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25. Circe and the Cyclops
By: Homer
4.18
Format: 342 pages, Paperback
'You must be Odysseus, man of twists and turns...' The tales of Odysseus's struggle with a man-eati… read more
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26. The Fall of Icarus
By: Ovid , Mary M. Innes
4.18
Format: 342 pages, Paperback
'Drawn on by his eagerness for the open sky, he left his guide and soared upwards . . .' Enduring m… read more
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27. Anthem for Doomed Youth
By: Wilfred Owen
3.37
Format: 297 pages, Paperback
'Tonight he noticed how the women's eyes Passed from him to the strong men that were whole.' The tr… read more
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28. The Nightingales are Drunk
By: Hafez , Dick Davis
3.57
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
'Drunk or sober, king or soldier, none will be excluded' Sensual, profound, delighted, wise, Hafez'… read more
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30. The Night is Darkening Round Me
By: Emily Brontë
3.81
Format: None pages, Paperback
'... ever-present, phantom thing; My slave, my comrade, and my king' Some of Emily Bronte's most ex… read more
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31. Lips Too Chilled
By: Matsuo Bashō , Lucien Stryk
3.81
Format: None pages, Paperback
'Nothing more lonely -' A selection of Basho's most magical haiku Introducing Little Black Classics… read more
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