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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1. A Sentimental Journey
By: Laurence Sterne , Paul Goring
3.31
Format: 170 pages, Paperback
A furiously witty response to Tobias Smollett's curmudgeonly 'Travels through France and Italy', La… read more
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- travel
- classics
- 18th century
"It had ever, as I told the reader, been one of the singular blessings of my life, to be almost every hour of it miserably in love with some one...."-Laurence Sterne, A Sentimental Journey
"Dear sensibility! Source inexhausted of all that's precious in our joys, or costly in our sorrows! Eternal fountain of our feelings! 'tis here I trace thee and this is thy divinity which stirs within…"-Laurence Sterne, A Sentimental Journey
"I could wish to spy the nakedness of their hearts, and through the different disguises of customs, climates, and religion, find out what is good in them, to fashion my own by. It is for this reason t…"-Laurence Sterne, A Sentimental Journey
2. Essays: Moral, Political and Literary
By: David Hume
4.11
Format: 736 pages, Paperback
This edition contains the thirty-nine essays included in Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary tha… read more
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- nonfiction
- classics
- history
"Nothing appears more surprizing to those, who consider human affairs with a philosophical eye, than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few; and the implicit submission, with which m…"-David Hume, Essays: Moral, Political and Literary
"[I]t must be owned, that liberty is the perfection of civil society; but still authority must be acknowledged essential to its very existence: and in those contests, which so often take place between…"-David Hume, Essays: Moral, Political and Literary
3. The Pale King
By: David Foster Wallace , Michael Pietsch
3.98
Format: 574 pages, Hardcover
The agents at the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois, appear ordinary enough to ne… read more
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4. Decline and Fall
By: Evelyn Waugh
4.88
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
Expelled from Oxford for indecent behaviour, Paul Pennyfeather is oddly unsurprised to find himself… read more
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- classics
5. Journey by Moonlight
By: Len Rix , Antal Szerb
4.08
Format: 31 pages, Paperback
A major classic of 1930s literature, Antal Szerb's Journey by Moonlight (Utas es Holdvilag)is the f… read more
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6. 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
Samuel Johnson's A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotlandand James Boswell's The Journal of a T… read more
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- classics
- history
- biography
- travel
- nonfiction
- scotland
- 18th century
7. The Vampyre; A Tale
By: John William Polidori
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Vampyreis a short story by John William Polidori. It is based on a fragment written by Lord Byr… read more
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- classics
8. The Ballad of Peckham Rye
By: Muriel Spark
3.74
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Ballad of Peckham Rye is the wickedly farcical fable of a blue-collar town turned upside down. … read more
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9. Vernon God Little
By: D.B.C. Pierre
4.22
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
Named as one of the 100 Best Things in the World by GQmagazine in 2003, the riotous adventures of V… read more
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10. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: Written by Himself
By: Olaudah Equiano , Robert J. Allison
3.75
Format: None pages, Paperback
Widely admired for its vivid accounts of the slave trade, Olaudah Equiano's autobiography -- the fi… read more
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11. The Satyricon
By: Piero Chiara , Petronius , P.G. Walsh , Federico Roncoroni
3.72
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Satyricon (or Satyrica) is a Latin work of fiction in a mixture of prose & poetry (prosimetrum). It… read more
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12. The Natural History of Selborne
By: Gilbert White , Richard Mabey
3.80
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
More than any other writer, Gilbert White (1720-93) has shaped the relationship between man and nat… read more
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13. The Zone of Interest
By: Martin Amis
3.76
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
From one of England's most renowned authors, an unforgettable new novel that provides a searing por… read more
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14. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
By: James Hogg , John Carey
3.88
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
James Hogg wrote about the supernatural powerfully and convincingly, especially in his best-known n… read more
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15. The Open Society and Its Enemies
By: None
3.72
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Written in political exile in New Zealand during the Second World War and published in two volumes … read more
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16. Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark
By: Mary Wollstonecraft
4.45
Format: 864 pages, Paperback
Originally published in 1796, Mary Wollstonecraft's account of her trip to Denmark, Norway, and Swe… read more
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17. 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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18. Private Rites
By: Julia Armfield
3.94
Format: 327 pages, Kindle Edition
From the bestselling author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a haunting novel of three sisters navigatin… read more
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"To be misunderstood is one thing, but the curious hostility of a sibling's approach lies less in what they miss than in the strange backdated nature of the things they choose to know. A person can be…"-Julia Armfield, Private Rites
19. Bronze Age Mindset
By: Bronze Age Pervert
3.84
Format: 198 pages, Kindle Edition
Some say that this book, found in a safebox in the port area of Kowloon, was dictated, because Bron… read more
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"You idolize peasants. You look up to island savages living “at one with Nature,"-Bronze Age Pervert, Bronze Age Mindset
"Well as rare as beautiful bodies are, the mind in the same condition is even more rare. Let us strive, in our decrepit, cancerous and fetid world, for what is concrete and what we can try to attain. …"-Bronze Age Pervert, Bronze Age Mindset
"Animals walk around in a state of permanent religious intoxication. This is the natural condition of the mind and intellect, the moment-to-moment perception, of man as well. I heard some computer foo…"-Bronze Age Pervert, Bronze Age Mindset
20. How Iceland Changed the World: The Big History of a Small Island
By: Egill Bjarnason
4.10
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
The untold story of how one tiny island in the middle of the Atlantic has shaped the world for cent… read more
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- history
21. The Farmer's Son: Calving Season on a Family Farm
By: John Connell
3.86
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
For fans of The Shepherd’s Life, a poignant memoir—and #1 Irish bestseller—about a wayward son’s re… read more
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"To be a farmer is to be a student forever, for each day brings something new."-John Connell, The Farmer's Son: Calving Season on a Family Farm
"I do this because we have always done this. I do this in a way beyond religion. I do this in a way of culture"-John Connell, The Farmer's Son: Calving Season on a Family Farm
"Senility is best described in the old tongue, duine le Dia, for in that phrase is a kinder, more understanding view of the condition. Its literal meaning is “a person of God,"-John Connell, The Farmer's Son: Calving Season on a Family Farm
