Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland
By: Samuel Johnson
3.57
Format: 160 pages,
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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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"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. Twelve Types: A Collection of Mini-Biographies
By: G.K. Chesterton , Malcolm Brennan
3.95
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
G. K. Chesterton's biographical essays provide unique portraits of 12 of Europe's most defining fig… read more
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"Savonarola addressed himself to the hardest of all earthly tasks, that of making men turn back and wonder at the simplicities they had learnt to ignore. It is strange that the most unpopular of all d…"-G.K. Chesterton, Twelve Types: A Collection of Mini-Biographies
"For most people there is a fascinating inconsistency in the position of St. Francis. He expressed in loftier and bolder language than any earthly thinker the conception that laughter is as divine as …"-G.K. Chesterton, Twelve Types: A Collection of Mini-Biographies
3. Robinson Crusoe
By: Virginia Woolf , Daniel Defoe , Gerald McCann
3.68
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Daniel Defoe relates the tale of an English sailor marooned on a desert island for nearly three dec… read more
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"For sudden Joys, like Griefs, confound at first. "-Virginia Woolf, Robinson Crusoe
"On a horse? I was married on a horse? Gillian looked like she could kill the groom"-Virginia Woolf, Robinson Crusoe
"All evils are to be considered with the good that is in them, and with what worse attends them."-Virginia Woolf, Robinson Crusoe
"for me to think of such a voyage was the most preposterous thing that ever man in such circumstances could be guilty of."-Virginia Woolf, Robinson Crusoe
4. Something Fresh (Blandings Castle, #1)
By: P.G. Wodehouse
4.11
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
One thing that constantly disrupts the peace of life at Blandings is the constant incursion of impo… read more
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"... обнадеждена безнадеждност..."-P.G. Wodehouse, Something Fresh (Blandings Castle, #1)
"Всяко нещо струва толкова, за колкото може да се купи."-P.G. Wodehouse, Something Fresh (Blandings Castle, #1)
"... да се прокрадва крадешком и да се мотае мотешком..."-P.G. Wodehouse, Something Fresh (Blandings Castle, #1)
"Госпожица Уилоуби не обичаше провинцията. Намираше я за провинциална."-P.G. Wodehouse, Something Fresh (Blandings Castle, #1)
5. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
By: Tobias Smollett
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Offers a picture of eighteenth-century society. This story describes Squire Bramble's tour of the B… read more
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6. The Moonstone
By: Wilkie Collins , Carolyn G. Heilbrun
3.38
Format: None pages, Paperback
"The Moonstone is a page-turner," writes Carolyn Heilbrun. "It catches one up and unfolds its amazi… read more
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7. The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
By: Robert Fagles , Aeschylus , William Bedell Stanford
4.01
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Alternate covers of this ISBN here, here, here, here. Most recent cover is here. In the Oresteia… read more
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"I cannot not grieve."-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
"Learning comes through pain."-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
"Do I not live? Badly, I know, but I live."-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
"Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know Except pain"-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
8. The Inimitable Jeeves (Jeeves, #2)
By: P.G. Wodehouse
4.20
Format: 225 pages, Paperback
When Bingo Little falls in love at a Camberwell subscription dance and Bertie Wooster drops into th… read more
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"Warm-hearted! I should think he has to wear asbestos vests!"-P.G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves (Jeeves, #2)
"The kid is a pest, a wart, and a pot of poison, and should be strangled!"-P.G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves (Jeeves, #2)
"My God, man!" I gargled. "The cravat! The gent's neckwear! Why? For what reason?"-P.G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves (Jeeves, #2)
"I thought Eustace *was* a horrible accident, and Claude about the same, but I didn't say so."-P.G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves (Jeeves, #2)
9. Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
By: James Boswell
3.44
Format: 272 pages,
Travel journal first published in 1785. In 1773, Boswell enticed his famous English friend Samuel J… read more
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10. David Copperfield
By: Charles Dickens , Jeremy Tambling
4.03
Format: 882 pages, Paperback
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"Trifles make the sum of life. "-Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
"the sight of me is good for sore eyes"-Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
"Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him."-Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
"My advice is, never do to-morrow what you can do to-day"-Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
11. Murder in the Mews (Hercule Poirot, #18)
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5.00
Format: 176 pages, Audio CD
Three novellas comprise this collection of cases presented to the great Belgian detective: Murder i… read more
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12. Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland
By: Samuel Johnson
3.57
Format: 160 pages,
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13. Joy in the Morning (Jeeves, #8)
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3.33
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Follow the adventures of Bertie Wooster and his gentleman's gentleman, Jeeves, in this stunning new… read more
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14. Laughing Gas
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Format: 241 pages, Hardcover
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15. By Night in Chile
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3.89
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During the course of a single night, Father Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix, a Chilean priest, who is a m… read more
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16. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
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3.88
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
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17. The Age of Revolution (A History of the English Speaking Peoples, #3)
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3.00
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18. Behind the Scenes at the Museum
By: Kate Atkinson
3.00
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Ruby Lennox begins narrating her life at the moment of conception, and from there takes us on a whi… read more
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19. The Dain Curse
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4.12
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20. The Code of the Woosters (Jeeves, #7)
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4.27
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21. Taken at the Flood (Hercule Poirot, #27)
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3.00
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Shortly after marrying a young widow, Gordon Cloade is killed in the London blitz and the former Mr… read more
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22. The Lady in the Lake (Philip Marlowe, #4)
By: Raymond Chandler
3.36
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A couple of missing wives--one a rich man's and one a poor man's--become the objects of Marlowe's i… read more
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23. The Rape of the Lock
By: Alexander Pope
4.00
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24. Don Juan
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4.22
Format: 128 pages, Mass Market Paperback
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"I've got the baby here," Imogene barked at the Wise Men. "Don touch him! I named him Jesus."-Barbara Robinson, The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (The Herdmans, #1)
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4.75
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27. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
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28. The Last Joy
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4.20
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Published in Norway in 1912, The Last Joy (Den Siste Glaede) appears at an important transition poi… read more
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29. Cheaper by the Dozen (Cheaper by the Dozen, #1)
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"Some simpleton with pimples in his voice wants to speak to Ernestine," he grumbled to Mother when he answered the phone."-Frank B. Gilbreth Jr., Cheaper by the Dozen (Cheaper by the Dozen, #1)
"Ernestine used to remark, in a tone tinged with envy, that Lill was probably New Jersey's youngest gold digger, and that few adult gold diggers ever had received more, in return for less."-Frank B. Gilbreth Jr., Cheaper by the Dozen (Cheaper by the Dozen, #1)
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"To have a room of one’s own, one must have money. (I don’t think Virginia Woolf ever went to India, but her dictum stands, even there, even for men.)"-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"An intimacy of strangers. That's a phrase I've sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
31. Fearfully and Wonderfully: The Marvel of Bearing God's Image
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4.61
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
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