The Steel Flea
By: Nikolai Leskov
3.63
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
He gave orders that they were not to get any hot glum pudding in flames, for fear the spirits in th…
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1. 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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"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
"Country life has its advantages,' he used to say. 'You sit on the veranda drinking tea and your ducklings swim on the pond, and everything smells good. . . and there are gooseberries."-Anton Chekhov, Gooseberries and other stories
2. The Steel Flea
By: Nikolai Leskov
3.63
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
He gave orders that they were not to get any hot glum pudding in flames, for fear the spirits in th… read more
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- 19th century
- humor
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3. 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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4. 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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- 19th century
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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
5. 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...
6. 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
7. 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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8. The Reckoning
By: Edith Wharton
4.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
'If marriage was the slow life-long acquittal of a debt contracted in ignorance, then marriage was … read more
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9. The Nose
By: Nikolai Gogol , Ronald Wilks
4.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
'Strangely enough, I mistook it for a gentleman at first. Fortunately I had my spectacles with me s… read more
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10. The Atheist’s Mass
By: Honoré de Balzac
4.19
Format: 144 pages,
THIS 26 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Country Doctor; Quest of the Absolute and Other N… read more
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11. 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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12. 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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13. The Life of a Stupid Man
By: Jay Rubin , Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
3.85
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
'What is the life of a human being - a drop of dew, a flash of lightning? This is so sad, so sad.' … read more
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14. 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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15. 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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16. 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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17. The Great Winglebury Duel
By: Charles Dickens
3.62
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
'Desperate-minded villain!' Two of Dickens' hilarious early stories from Sketches by Boz: 'The Grea… read more
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18. 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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19. 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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21. 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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