How We Weep and Laugh at the Same Thing
By: Michel de Montaigne
3.50
Format: 55 pages, Paperback
'No one characteristic clasps us purely and universally in its embrace.' A selection of charming…
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1. Circles of Hell
By: Dante Alighieri , Robin Kirkpatrick
4.22
Format: None pages, Paperback
'I truly thought I'd never make it back.' Ten of the most memorable and most terrifying cantos from… read more
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- classics
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2. Gooseberries and other stories
By: Anton Chekhov , Constance Garnett
3.76
Format: None pages, ebook
"Oh, good God," he kept saying with great relish. "Good God..." 'Gooseberries' is accompanied h… read more
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- philosophy
- classics
- short stories
"The Lie which elates us is dearer than a thousand sober truths"-Anton Chekhov, Gooseberries and other stories
"The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths."-Anton Chekhov, Gooseberries and other stories
"Человеку нужно не три аршина земли, не усадьба, а весь земной шар, вся природа, где на просторе он мог бы проявить все свойства и особенности своего свободного духа."-Anton Chekhov, Gooseberries and other stories
"Happiness does not exist, nor should it, and if there is any meaning or purpose in life, they are not in our peddling little happiness, but in something reasonable and grand. Do good!"-Anton Chekhov, Gooseberries and other stories
3. The Terrors of the Night
By: Thomas Nashe
2.28
Format: 54 pages, Paperback
'...dreaming of bears, or fire, or water...' The greatest of Elizabethan pamphleteers, Nashe ha… read more
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- classics
- essays
- short stories
4. How We Weep and Laugh at the Same Thing
By: Michel de Montaigne
3.50
Format: 55 pages, Paperback
'No one characteristic clasps us purely and universally in its embrace.' A selection of charming… read more
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- philosophy
- short stories
- nonfiction
- france
- essays
- french literature
5. A Hippo Banquet
By: Mary H. Kingsley
3.10
Format: 52 pages, Paperback
'While engaged on this hunt I felt the earth quiver under my feet, and heard a soft big soughing so… read more
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6. The Old Nurse's Story
By: Elizabeth Gaskell
3.64
Format: 53 pages, Paperback
Even in the stillness of that dead-cold weather, I had heard no sound of little battering hands upo… read more
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"You know, my dears, that your mother was an orphan, and an only child; and I dare say you have heard that your grandfather was a clergyman up in Westmoreland, where I come from."-Elizabeth Gaskell, The Old Nurse's Story
7. 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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- classics
"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...
8. 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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- classics
- nonfiction
- essays
"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
9. 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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- short stories
"Upon the honey’d middle of the night,"-John Keats, The Eve of St. Agnes
10. Alone on the Beach at Night
By: Walt Whitman
3.22
Format: 55 pages, Paperback
'All nations, colors, barbarisms, civilizations, languages...' A selection taken from Walt Whit… read more
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11. 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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- philosophy
- short stories
- nonfiction
- essays
"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
12. Wailing Ghosts
By: Pu Songling , John Minford
3.25
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
'...revealing great shining fangs more than three inches long.' Some of the most macabre and wo… read more
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"Strange that a man could succeed in hanging himself from a millet stalk. Let this be a warning to libertines and pranksters."-Pu Songling, Wailing Ghosts
13. 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
14. The Maldive Shark
By: Herman Melville
4.81
Format: 539 pages, Paperback
'No voice, no low, no howl is heard; the chief sound of life here is a hiss.' Stories and poems by … read more
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15. The Great Fire of London
By: Samuel Pepys
4.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
'With one's face in the wind you were almost burned with a shower of Firedrops . . .' A selection f… read more
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- nonfiction
16. 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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17. The Wife of Bath
By: Geoffrey Chaucer , Peter G. Beidler
4.23
Format: 343 pages, Paperback
Adopted at more than 1,000 colleges and universities, Bedford/St. Martin's innovative Case Studies … read more
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18. Aphorisms on Love and Hate
By: Friedrich Nietzsche
4.40
Format: None pages, Paperback
'We must learn to love, learn to be kind, and this from our earliest youth ... Likewise, hatred mus… read more
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- philosophy
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19. Olalla
By: Robert Louis Stevenson
3.98
Format: 296 pages,
'Is it me you love, friend? or the race that made me?' Stevenson's chilling Victorian gothic novell… read more
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20. The Beautifull Cassandra
By: Jane Austen
3.62
Format: 320 pages,
'She has many rare and charming qualities, but Sobriety is not one of them.' A selection of Austen'… read more
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21. Well, they are gone, and here must I remain
By: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
3.62
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
'Ye Ice-Falls! Ye that from the mountain's brow Adown enormous ravines slope amain -...' A selectio… read more
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22. 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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23. The Tinderbox
By: Hans Christian Andersen
3.49
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
'There sat the dog with eyes as big as mill wheels' Though criticised for their anarchic immorality… read more
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24. Trimalchio's Feast
By: Petronius
2.82
Format: 3 pages, Paperback
'I blush to say what happened next.' A satirical portrait of a drunken, orgiastic Roman banquet, ho… read more
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25. Of Street Piemen
By: Henry Mayhew
4.04
Format: 431 pages, Paperback
...a good bit of spice to give the critlings a flavour, and plenty of treacle to make the mince-mea… read more
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26. 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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27. The Gate of the Hundred Sorrows
By: Rudyard Kipling
5.00
Format: 30 pages, Paperback
'Mind you, it was a pukka, respectable opium-house, and not one of those stifling, sweltering chand… read more
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29. How a Ghastly Story Was Brought to Light by a Common or Garden Butcher's Dog
By: Johann Peter Hebel
3.86
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
'The devil gave the woman a nudge: "Look at that belt full of money peeping out from under the butc… 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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