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…
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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
- short stories
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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- 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
"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
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
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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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5. 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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6. 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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- classics
- history
- memoir
- british literature
- adventure
- historical
- 19th century
- travel
- short stories
- nonfiction
7. 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
- classics
- short stories
- british literature
"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
8. 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...
9. 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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- nonfiction
"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
10. Femme Fatale
By: Guy de Maupassant
3.56
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
A selection of Maupassant's brilliant, glittering stories set in the Parisian beau monde and Norman… read more
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11. 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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- classics
12. 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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- classics
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13. 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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14. 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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- short stories
15. 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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- short stories
16. 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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17. 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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18. 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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19. 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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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. 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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22. 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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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. 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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25. 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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26. 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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27. 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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28. 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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30. 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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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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