A Tale of a Tub
By: Jonathan Swift
3.46
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
'A Tale of a Tub' was the first big work written by Jonathan Swift. It is arguably his most difficu…
Want to Read $ 0.99"La sabiduría es como una gallina, cuyo cacareo debemos saber valorar y considerar, pues es acompañado por un huevo."-Jonathan Swift, A Tale of a Tub
"But as human happiness is of a very short duration, so in those days were human fashions upon which it entirely depends."-Jonathan Swift, A Tale of a Tub
"La sabiduría es como una gallina, que debemos sabe, cuyo cacareo debemos saber valorar y considerar, pues es acompañado por un huevo"-Jonathan Swift, A Tale of a Tub
"For what man in the natural state or course of thinking did ever conceive it in his power to reduce the notions of all mankind exactly to the same length, and breadth, and height of his own? Yet this is the first humble and civil design of all innovators in the empire of reason."-Jonathan Swift, A Tale of a Tub
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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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- english literature
- 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. Antony and Cleopatra
By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine , Cynthia Marshall
3.71
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
A romantic tragedy about the relationship between Mark Antony and the Queen of Egypt, including not… read more
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"Melt Egypt into Nile!"-William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra
"Make death proud to take us."-William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra
"...make death proud to take us."-William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra
"Thou are the armourer of my heart—"-William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra
3. Moll Flanders
By: Daniel Defoe
3.52
Format: 339 pages, Paperback
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781853260735. The Fortunes & Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Fla… read more
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"I saw the Cloud, though I did not foresee the Storm."-Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders
"I had been tricked once by that Cheat called love, but the Game was over..."-Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders
"Thus the Government of our Virtue was broken and I exchang'd the Place of Friend for that unmusical harsh-sounding Title of Whore."-Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders
"He look'd a little disorder'd, when he said this, but I did not apprehend any thing from it at that time, believing as it us'd to be said, that they who do those things never talk of them; or that th…"-Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders
4. A Tale of a Tub
By: Jonathan Swift
3.46
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
'A Tale of a Tub' was the first big work written by Jonathan Swift. It is arguably his most difficu… read more
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- classics
- literature
- humor
- philosophy
- religion
- short stories
- fiction
- english literature
- essays
- 18th century
"La sabiduría es como una gallina, cuyo cacareo debemos saber valorar y considerar, pues es acompañado por un huevo."-Jonathan Swift, A Tale of a Tub
"But as human happiness is of a very short duration, so in those days were human fashions upon which it entirely depends."-Jonathan Swift, A Tale of a Tub
"La sabiduría es como una gallina, que debemos sabe, cuyo cacareo debemos saber valorar y considerar, pues es acompañado por un huevo"-Jonathan Swift, A Tale of a Tub
"For what man in the natural state or course of thinking did ever conceive it in his power to reduce the notions of all mankind exactly to the same length, and breadth, and height of his own? Yet this…"-Jonathan Swift, A Tale of a Tub
5. On Friendship
By: Michel de Montaigne
3.68
Format: 115 pages, Paperback
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselv… read more
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"What hits you affects you and wakes you up more then what pleases you."-Michel de Montaigne, On Friendship
"Yes. But he brought this great matter to a successful conclusion.’ – That means something, but not enough; for we rightly accept the maxim which says that plans must not be judged by results."-Michel de Montaigne, On Friendship
6. The Female Quixote
By: Charlotte Lennox , Margaret Anne Doody , Margaret Dalziel , Duncan Isles
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Female Quixote, a vivacious and ironical novel parodying the style of Cervantes, portrays Arabe… read more
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- 18th century
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7. Hyperion oder Der Eremit in Griechenland
By: Friedrich Hölderlin
4.67
Format: 48 pages, Hardcover
Die schonste Dichtung deutscher Sprache ist Holderlins 'Hyperion' vielfach genannt worden, ein unub… read more
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8. Fantomina; or, Love in a Maze
By: Eliza Fowler Haywood
3.86
Format: 568 pages, Paperback
Eliza Haywood (1693-1756) (born Elizabeth Fowler) was an English writer, actress and publisher. Sin… read more
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9. The Pit and the Pendulum
By: Edgar Allan Poe
4.15
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
Get set for true terror in one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous short stories. We enter the mind… read more
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"How at least shall we distinguish its shadows from those of the tomb?"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum
"In the deepest slumber-no! In delirium-no! In a swoon-no! In death-no! even in the grave all is not lost."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum
"In death - no! even in the grave all is not lost. Else there is no immortality for man. Arousing from the most profound slumbers, we break the gossamer web of some dream. Yet in a second afterward, (…"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum
"He who has never swooned, is not he who finds strange palaces and wildly familiar faces in coals that glow; is not he who beholds floating in mid-air the sad visions that the many may not view; is no…"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum
10. Martin Chuzzlewit
By: Charles Dickens , Hablot Knight Browne , Patricia Ingham
3.64
Format: 221 pages, Paperback
Set partly in the United States, this novel includes a searing satire on mid-nineteenth-century Ame… read more
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11. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
By: Laurence Sterne , Melvyn New
3.90
Format: 256 pages,
Laurence Sterne's great masterpiece of bawdy humour and rich satire defies any attempt to categoriz… read more
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12. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
By: Ambrose Bierce
3.50
Format: 262 pages, ebook
The condemned man stands on a bridge, his hands bound behind his back. A noose is tied around his n… read more
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13. Oroonoko
By: Aphra Behn , Janet Todd
3.78
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
When Prince Oroonoko's passion for the virtuous Imoinda arouses the jealousy of his grandfather, th… read more
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14. The Adventures of Roderick Random
By: Tobias Smollett , David Blewett
3.60
Format: 137 pages, Paperback
Roderick is combative, often violent, but capable of great affection and generosity. His father had… read more
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15. The Rape of the Lock
By: Alexander Pope
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
A satirical poem that intentionally over-dramatizes an incident in which a lock of a woman's hair i… read more
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16. The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
By: Samuel Johnson , None
4.27
Format: 127 pages, Paperback
Rasselas--regarded as Johnson's most creative work--presents the story of the journey of Rasselas a… read more
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17. Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded
By: Samuel Richardson , Thomas Keymer , Alice Wakely
3.97
Format: 12 pages, Paperback
One of the most spectacular successes of the flourishing literary marketplace of eighteenth-century… read more
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18. Birds
By: Aristophanes , None
2.56
Format: 201 pages, Paperback
Birds is generally recognized as one of Aristophanes' masterpieces, for its imaginative plot (it is… read more
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19. The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
By: Tobias Smollett
2.97
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle is a picaresque novel by the Scottish author Tobias Smollett. It… read more
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20. Discourse on Method
By: René Descartes , Donald A. Cress
3.85
Format: None pages, Paperback
By far the most widely used translation in North American college classrooms, Donald A. Cress's tra… read more
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21. Joseph Andrews
By: Henry Fielding
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Joseph Andrews refuses Lady Booby's advances, she discharges him, and Joseph and his old tutor, Par… read more
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