The Nether World
By: George Gissing
3.96
Format: 425 pages, Paperback
The Nether World(1889), generally regarded as the finest of Gissing's early novels, is a highly dra…
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1. Tess of the D’Urbervilles
By: Thomas Hardy , Tim Dolin , Margaret R. Higonnet
3.83
Format: 518 pages, Paperback
Alternate covers can be found here and here. When Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty t… read more
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"Bless thy simplicity, Tess"-Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles
"One thing he certainly was— sincere."-Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles
"The roof was a gymnasium for the winds"-Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles
"Tess was carried along the wings of the hours"-Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles
2. 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
3. Jude the Obscure
By: Thomas Hardy
3.83
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
Jude Fawley's hopes of a university education are lost when he is trapped into marrying the earthy … read more
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"Always wanting another man than your own."-Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
"But no one came. Because no one ever does."-Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
"Love has its own dark morality when rivalry enters in."-Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
"We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more."-Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
4. The Swimming-Pool Library
By: Alan Hollinghurst
3.16
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A literary sensation and bestseller both in England and America, The Swimming-Pool Library is an en… read more
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5. Basil
By: Wilkie Collins
4.40
Format: 82 pages, Paperback
In Basil's secret and unconsummated marriage to the linen-draper's sexually precocious daughter, an… read more
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6. The Passion
By: Jeanette Winterson
2.43
Format: None pages, Paperback
Jeanette Winterson's novels have established her as one of the most important young writers in worl… read more
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7. The Nether World
By: George Gissing
3.96
Format: 425 pages, Paperback
The Nether World(1889), generally regarded as the finest of Gissing's early novels, is a highly dra… read more
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8. The Atrocity Exhibition
By: William S. Burroughs , J.G. Ballard , V. Vale , Phoebe Gloeckner , Andrea Juno , Ana Barrado
4.11
Format: 188 pages, Paperback
Easily one of the 20th century's most visionary writers, J. G. Ballard still lives far ahead of his… read more
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9. The Charterhouse of Parma
By: Robert Andrew Parker , Richard Howard , Stendhal , Arthur Schurig
3.79
Format: 532 pages, Paperback
Richard Howard's exuberant and definitive rendition of Stendhal's stirring tale has brought about t… read more
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"Mutluluğu uzaklarda aramaya kalkmanın ne anlamı var, işte burada, elimin altında!"-Robert Andrew Parker, The Charterhouse of Parma
"Hay que confesar que había días en que la condesa no dirigía la palabra a nadie; era vista paseando bajo los altos castaños, hundida en sombríos ensueños; era demasiado inteligente para no sentir a v…"-Robert Andrew Parker, The Charterhouse of Parma
"Men siden året 1635, da Milano-provinsen ble underlagt spanjolene, disse tause, mistenksomme, hovmodige herrer som alltid fryktet opprør, hadde livsgleden vært borte. Folk tok etter herskernes livsfo…"-Robert Andrew Parker, The Charterhouse of Parma
"El lejano sonido de la campana de un pueblecito escondido bajo los árboles conmueve nuestra imaginación. Estos sones que las aguas transportan dulcificándolos adquieren un tinte de dulce melancolía y…"-Robert Andrew Parker, The Charterhouse of Parma
10. Money
By: Martin Amis
3.69
Format: 394 pages, Paperback
Time Magazine included the book in its list of the 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 20… read more
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"Points of a journey do not matter when the journey has no destination, only an end."-Martin Amis, Money
"Making lots of money--it's not that hard, you know. It's overestimated. Making lots of money is a breeze. You watch."-Martin Amis, Money
"Suffering doesn’t concern itself with the scale of other sufferings. It has no community sense. It isn’t relative, is it."-Martin Amis, Money
"Making lots of money--it's not that hard, you know. It's overestimated. Making lots of money is a breeze. You watch. ch. 1, p. 23 in Penguin paperback"-Martin Amis, Money
11. The Mill on the Floss
By: George Eliot , A.S. Byatt
3.83
Format: 579 pages, Paperback
'If life had no love in it, what else was there for Maggie?' Brought up at Dorlcote Mill, Maggie… read more
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"Don't judge a book by its cover"-George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
"Don't judge a book by its cover."-George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
"Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure."-George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
"I desire no future that will break the ties of the past."-George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
12. Two on a Tower
By: Thomas Hardy
3.50
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
Lady Constantine breaks all the rules of social decorum when she falls in love with the beautiful y… read more
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13. Union Street
By: Pat Barker
4.35
Format: 255 pages, Paperback
An alternate cover of this ISBN can be found . Vivid, bawdy and bitter' (The Times), Pat Barker's … read more
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14. The Black Album
By: Hanif Kureishi
3.48
Format: None pages, Paperback
The second novel from one of the most celebrated voices in British fiction and film, The Black Albu… read more
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15. Mary
By: Vladimir Nabokov , Michael Glenny
3.71
Format: 114 pages, Paperback
Mary is a gripping tale of youth, first love, and nostalgia--Nabokov's first novel. In a Berlin ro… read more
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"La gente que se afeita se rejuvenece un día todas las mañanas."-Vladimir Nabokov, Mary
"Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring."-Vladimir Nabokov, Mary
"El delicioso hecho íntimo ocurrido anoche había sido la causa de que todo el caleidoscopio de su vida variara, y había evocado el pasado de un modo avasallador."-Vladimir Nabokov, Mary
"The day, like the previous days, dragged sluggishly by in a kind of insipid idleness, devoid even of that dreamy expectancy which can make idleness so enchanting."-Vladimir Nabokov, Mary
16. The Passion of New Eve
By: Angela Carter
4.54
Format: 608 pages, Paperback
I know nothing. I am a tabula rasa, a blank sheet of paper, an unhatched egg. I have not yet become… read more
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17. Middlemarch
By: Michel Faber , George Eliot
4.02
Format: 912 pages, Mass Market Paperback
"People are almost always better than their neighbours think they are" George Eliot’s most ambit… read more
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"After all, the true seeing is within."-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
"I shall do everything it becomes me to do."-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
"I protest against any absolute conclusion."-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
"What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?"-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
18. Dombey and Son
By: Jonathan Lethem , Charles Dickens
4.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
Dombey and Son, Charles Dickens's story of a powerful man whose callous neglect of his family trigg… read more
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19. The Mayor of Casterbridge
By: Thomas Hardy , Keith Wilson
4.71
Format: None pages, Paperback
'I've not always been what I am now' In a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and… read more
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20. Alien Clay
By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
4.06
Format: 396 pages, Kindle Edition
They travelled into the unknown and left themselves behind . . . On the distant world of Kiln li… read more
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21. Nothing But the Night
By: John Williams
3.22
Format: 123 pages, Paperback
First published in 1948, Nothing but the Night marked the auspicious beginning of John Williams' ca… read more
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