The Figure of Beatrice: A Study in Dante
By: Charles Williams
4.49
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
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1. Agnes Grey
By: Anne Brontë , Angeline Goreau
3.71
Format: 226 pages, Paperback
An alternate cover edition can be found here. Drawing heavily from personal experience, Anne Bro… read more
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"Dakle,"-Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey
"No one cares for the exterior."-Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey
"But, God knows best, I concluded."-Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey
"If you require perfection, you never will"-Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey
2. Beyond Good and Evil
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , R.J. Hollingdale
4.02
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil is translated from the German by R.J. Hollingdale with a… read more
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"The noble soul reveres itself"-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
"...all that is rare is for the rare."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
"One is punished most for one’s virtues."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
"In music the passions enjoy themselves."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
3. The Allegory of Love: A Study in Medieval Tradition
By: C.S. Lewis
4.05
Format: 378 pages, Paperback
Love is the commonest these of serious imaginative literature and is still generally regarded as an… read more
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"But the detail of the poem shows power akin to genius, and reveals to us that much neglected law of literary history -- that potential genius can never become actual unless it finds or makes the Form…"-C.S. Lewis, The Allegory of Love: A Study in Medieval Tradition
4. The Crying of Lot 49
By: Thomas Pynchon
3.69
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
Suffused with rich satire, chaotic brilliance, verbal turbulence and wild humor, The Crying of Lot … read more
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"As if the dead really do persist, even in a bottle of wine."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
"Death glided by, shadowless, among the empties on the grass."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
"I am having a hallucination now, I don't need drugs for that."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
"the casting had been typically Hollywood: they didn't look or act a bit alike."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
5. A Preface to Paradise Lost
By: C.S. Lewis
4.27
Format: 143 pages, Paperback
Examines the style, content, structure, and themes of Milton's classic within the context of Wester… read more
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"To follow the vocation does not mean happiness: but once it has been heard, there is no happiness for those who do not follow."-C.S. Lewis, A Preface to Paradise Lost
6. The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
By: Jonathan Lethem , G.K. Chesterton
2.67
Format: 166 pages,
G.K. Chesterton's 1908 masterpiece, The Man Who Was Thursday, is a metaphysical thriller, and a det… read more
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7. The Myth of Sisyphus
By: Albert Camus , Justin O'Brien , James Wood , Justin Obrien
4.18
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselv… read more
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"A fate is not a punishment."-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
"there are truths but no truth"-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
"To will is to stir up paradoxes"-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
"Le suicide est une solution à l'absurde."-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
8. Poetics
By: Aristotle , Malcolm Heath
3.59
Format: None pages, Paperback
'The plot is the source and the soul of tragedy' In his near-contemporary account of Greek tragedy,… read more
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9. That Hideous Strength (Space Trilogy, #3)
By: C.S. Lewis
3.81
Format: 4 pages, Paperback
Written during the dark hours immediately before and during the Second World War, C. S. Lewis's Spa… read more
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10. Vita Nuova
By: Dante Alighieri , Mark Musa
3.89
Format: 221 pages, Paperback
Vita Nuova(1292-94) is regarded as one of Dante's most profound creations. The thirty-one poems in … read more
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11. My Ántonia
By: Willa Cather
4.07
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
Through Jim Burden's endearing, smitten voice, we revisit the remarkable vicissitudes of immigrant … read more
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12. The Consolation of Philosophy
By: Boethius , None
4.27
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
Boethius was an eminent public figure under the Gothic emperor Theodoric, and an exceptional Greek … read more
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13. Till We Have Faces
By: C.S. Lewis
4.08
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
In this timeless tale of two mortal princesses- one beautiful and one unattractive- C.S. Lewis rewo… read more
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14. Thus Spoke Zarathustra
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Walter Kaufmann
4.07
Format: 327 pages, Paperback
Thus Spoke Zarathustra is a foundational work of Western literature and is widely considered to be … read more
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"He who obeys, does not listen to himself!"-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
"Something unappeased, unappeasable, is within me."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
"Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
"Blessed are the sleepy ones: for they shall soon nod off."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
15. Purgatorio (The Divine Comedy, #2)
By: Dante Alighieri , Robert M. Durling
3.33
Format: 170 pages, Paperback
In the early 1300s, Dante Alighieri set out to write the three volumes which make the up The Divine… read more
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16. Unnatural Death (Lord Peter Wimsey, #3)
By: Dorothy L. Sayers
4.07
Format: 264 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The wealthy Agatha Dawson is dead--a trifle sooner than expected--but there are no apparent signs o… read more
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"It doesn't do for people, especially doctors, to go about 'thinking' things. They may get into frightful trouble."-Dorothy L. Sayers, Unnatural Death (Lord Peter Wimsey, #3)
"…After all, it isn't really difficult to write books. Especially if you either write a rotten story in good English or a good story in rotten English, which is as far as most people seem to get nowad…"-Dorothy L. Sayers, Unnatural Death (Lord Peter Wimsey, #3)
"I sleuth, you know. For a hobby. Harmless outlet for natural inquisitiveness, don't you see, which might otherwise strike inward and produce introspection an' suicide. Very natural, healthy pursuit -…"-Dorothy L. Sayers, Unnatural Death (Lord Peter Wimsey, #3)
"Miss Climpson," said Lord Peter, "is a manifestation of the wasteful way in which this country is run. Look at electricity, Look at water-power. Look at the tides. Look at the sun. Millions of power …"-Dorothy L. Sayers, Unnatural Death (Lord Peter Wimsey, #3)
17. The Figure of Beatrice: A Study in Dante
By: Charles Williams
4.49
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
One of the most ambitious essays in the interpretation of Dante our time has seen...his interpretat… read more
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18. On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness (The Wingfeather Saga, #1)
By: Andrew Peterson
4.33
Format: 290 pages, Paperback
Once, in a cottage above the cliffs on the Dark Sea of Darkness, there lived three children and the… read more
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"Even if hope is just a low ember at night, in the morning you can still start a fire."-Andrew Peterson, On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness (The Wingfeather Saga, #1)
"Esben Igiby was seeping into Janner’s thoughts, and there was no way to seal the leak."-Andrew Peterson, On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness (The Wingfeather Saga, #1)
"But other than the cruel fangs and the constant threat of death and torture, there wasn't much to fear in Skree."-Andrew Peterson, On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness (The Wingfeather Saga, #1)
"There's just something about the way he sings. It makes me think of when it snows outside, and the fire is warm, and Podo is telling us a story while you're cooking, and there's no place I'd rather b…"-Andrew Peterson, On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness (The Wingfeather Saga, #1)
19. The Silmarillion
By: J.R.R. Tolkien , Christopher Tolkien , Ted Nasmith
4.01
Format: 386 pages, Hardcover
The Silmarillion is an account of the Elder Days, of the First Age of Tolkien’s world. It is the an… read more
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"Nightingales sang about her wherever she went."-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion
"The dawn is brief and the day full often belies its promise."-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion
"All have their worth and each contributes to the worth of the others."-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion
"No ames demasiado la obra de tus manos ni las invenciones de tu corazón."-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion
20. The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
By: Harold Bloom
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
Literary critic Harold Bloom's The Western Canonis more than a required reading list-it is a vision… read more
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21. Inferno (The Divine Comedy #1)
By: Dante Alighieri , Anthony Esolen
3.93
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
Guided by the poet Virgil, Dante plunges to the very depths of Hell and embarks on his arduous jour… read more
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22. Death Comes for the Archbishop
By: Willa Cather
3.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
There is something epic--and almost mythic--about this sparsely beautiful novel by Willa Cather, al… read more
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23. The Tempest
By: William Shakespeare
4.27
Format: 127 pages,
In The Tempest, long considered one of Shakespeare's most lyrical plays, Prospero--a magician on an… read more
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24. On the Genealogy of Morals
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Douglas Smith
4.13
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) is a book about the history of ethics and about interpretation. N… read more
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"We are noble, good, beautiful, and happy!"-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
"There is so much in man that is horrifying!.. The world has been a madhouse for too long!..."-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
"Somebody said: "About two persons I have never reflected very thoroughly: that is the testimony of my love for them."-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
"All concepts in which an entire process is semiotically concentrated elude definition; only that which has no history is definable."-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
25. Paradiso (The Divine Comedy, #3)
By: Dante Alighieri , Dorothy L. Sayers , Barbara Reynolds
3.66
Format: None pages, Paperback
Dorothy L. Sayers's landmark translation follows Dante's terza rimastanza's and brings his poetry v… read more
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26. The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature
By: C.S. Lewis
2.80
Format: None pages, Paperback
Hailed as the final memorial to the work of a great scholar and teacher and a wise and noble mind, … read more
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27. The Violent Bear It Away
By: Flannery O'Connor
4.90
Format: None pages, Paperback
First published in 1960, The Violent Bear It Awayis now a landmark in American literature. It is a … read more
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28. The Republic
By: Plato , Desmond Lee
3.96
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, this classi… read more
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"Appearance tyrannizes over truth."-Plato, The Republic
"The comprehensive mind is always dialectical."-Plato, The Republic
"Those who don't know must learn from those who do."-Plato, The Republic
"The beginning is the most important part of the work."-Plato, The Republic
29. Paradise Lost
By: John Milton , John Leonard
3.84
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
John Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. It tells the… read more
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"What hath night to do with sleep?"-John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Solitude sometimes is best society."-John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n."-John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss."-John Milton, Paradise Lost
30. Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)
By: C.S. Lewis
4.00
Format: 314 pages, Paperback
The second book in C. S. Lewis's acclaimed Space Trilogy, which also includes Out of the Silent Pla… read more
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"Say a child’s prayer if you can’t say a man’s."-C.S. Lewis, Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)
"It is not for nothing that you are named Ransom,"-C.S. Lewis, Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)
"The joy came from finding at last what hatred was made for."-C.S. Lewis, Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)
"About this time tomorrow, you will have done the impossible."-C.S. Lewis, Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)
31. The Four Loves
By: C.S. Lewis
4.17
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
A repackaged edition of the revered author's classic work that examines the four types of human lov… read more
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"All that is not eternal is eternally out of date."-C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
"To know that one is dreaming is to be no longer perfectly asleep."-C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
"El amor empieza a ser un demonio desde el momento en que comienza a ser un dios."-C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
"People who bore one another should meet seldom; people who interest one another, often."-C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
