On Horseback Through Asia Minor
By: Peter Hopkirk , Frederick Burnaby
3.99
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
In the savage winter of 1876 Captain Frederick Burnaby rode 1,000 miles eastwards from Constantinop…
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1. A Passage to India
By: E.M. Forster , Pankaj Mishra , Oliver Stallybrass
3.68
Format: 376 pages, Paperback
When Adela Quested and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandrapore, th… read more
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"Adventures do occur, but not punctually."-E.M. Forster, A Passage to India
"There are different ways of evil and I prefer mine to yours."-E.M. Forster, A Passage to India
"A friendliness, as of dwarfs shaking hands, was in the air..."-E.M. Forster, A Passage to India
"I think everyone fails, but there are so many kinds of failure."-E.M. Forster, A Passage to India
2. Red Dusk and the Morrow: Adventures and Investigations in Soviet Russia
By: None , Paul Henry Dukes
4.39
Format: 282 pages, Paperback
An extraordinary true life espionage classic and a fascinating document of the horror and excesses … read more
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3. The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine
By: Robert Conquest
4.23
Format: 510 pages, Paperback
The Harvest of Sorrowis the first full history of one of the most horrendous human tragedies of the… read more
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4. The Three Musketeers
By: Alexandre Dumas , Richard Pevear , John Lee
4.09
Format: 625 pages, Paperback
First published in 1844, The Three Musketeers is the most famous of Alexandre Dumas' historical nov… read more
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"All for one and one for all."-Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers
"Love is the most selfish of all the passions."-Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers
"The merit of all things lies in their difficulty."-Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers
"I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death."-Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers
5. Munich
By: Robert Harris
4.00
Format: None pages, ebook
FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF FATHERLAND, CONCLAVEAND AN OFFICER AND A SPY. September 1938 Hitler … read more
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6. Setting the East Ablaze: Lenin's Dream of an Empire in Asia
By: Peter Hopkirk
3.95
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
A DANGEROUS NEW TWIST IN THE GREAT GAME In this gripping narrative Peter Hopkirk tells how Lenin an… read more
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7. Oblomov
By: Ivan Goncharov , Stephen Pearl , Galya Diment
4.12
Format: 586 pages, Paperback
Even though Ivan Goncharov wrote several books that were widely read and discussed during his lifet… read more
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"Now or never. To be or not to be!"-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov
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"You have a lunatic before you who has been infected by passion."-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov
"The common herd of "burghers", those cattle, complete with horns, who turn millstones with their bare hands."-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov
8. Like Hidden Fire: The Plot to Bring Down the British Empire
By: Peter Hopkirk
3.89
Format: 221 pages, Paperback
A GRIPPING STORY OF IMPERIAL AMBITION, SWASHBUCKLING ADVENTURE, AND THE KAISER'S OWN JIHAD. An accl… read more
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9. Memoirs Of A British Agent: Being An Account Of The Author's Early Life In Many Lands And Of His Official Mission To Moscow In 1918
By: R.H. Bruce Lockhart
3.95
Format: 254 pages,
When it was first published in 1932, "Memoirs of a British Agent" achieved bestseller status both i… read more
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10. The Complete Essays
By: Michel de Montaigne , M.A. Screech
4.23
Format: 1344 pages, Paperback
Michel de Montaigne was one of the most influential figures of the Renaissance, singlehandedly resp… read more
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"The thing I fear most is fear."-Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
"We should tend our freedom wisely."-Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
"Why do people respect the package rather than the man?"-Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
"To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it."-Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
11. Julius Caesar
By: William Shakespeare , Roma Gill
3.70
Format: 175 pages, Paperback
The Oxford School Shakespeare has become the preferred introduction to the literary legacy of the g… read more
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"Et tu, Brute?"-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
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"Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come"-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
12. Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia
By: Janet Wallach
3.80
Format: 425 pages, Paperback
Turning away from the privileged world of the "eminent Victorians," Gertrude Bell (1868—1926) explo… read more
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"Great persons, like great empires, leave their mark on history."-Janet Wallach, Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia
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"No one had asked her to marry him, nor was there someone she wished to wed. Not that she did not enjoy the company of young men; She did. But her sharp tongue sliced through their egos and her intell…"-Janet Wallach, Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia
"But her role had changed; she was now available for marriage and her primary task was to find a mate. As Florence and Hugh Bell's daughter, she was expected to make an excellent match. And if there w…"-Janet Wallach, Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia
13. On Horseback Through Asia Minor
By: Peter Hopkirk , Frederick Burnaby
3.99
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
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14. Zeytindağı
By: Falih Rıfkı Atay
4.16
Format: 165 pages, Paperback
"Büyük Harbi" ve sonuçlarını Falih Rıfkı'nın özgün anlatımı ile yeniden "öğrendim" diyebilirim. Ger… read more
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"Yalnız Kudüs'te dilencinin çerçevesi ihtişamlıdır: Medine, dini mallaştırmış ve maddeleştirmiş bir Asya pazarı idi. Kudüs dini oyunlaştırmış bir Garp tiyatrosudur."-Falih Rıfkı Atay, Zeytindağı
"Osmanlı İmparatorluğu, Trakya'dan Erzurum'a doğru koca gövdesini yatırmış, memelerini sömürge ve milliyetlerin ağzına teslim etmiş, artık sütü kanı ile karışık emilen bir sağmal idi."-Falih Rıfkı Atay, Zeytindağı
"Kudüs kelimesi Hıristiyanlığı hatıra getirir. Fakat ne Kudüs'te, ne de Filistin'de Hıristiyanlık diye bir mesele yoktur. Kudüs'ün Hıristiyanlığı, Ortodoks Petersburg, Protestan Berlin, dinsiz Paris, …"-Falih Rıfkı Atay, Zeytindağı
"Ölüm sabahları, herkes birbiriyle ürkerek ve ürpererek konuşur. Fakat ertesi güne kadar her şey unutulup gitti. Müse'nin mersiyesini ilhanx hatırlar mısınız? Paris'te her şey unutulmak için eğer on b…"-Falih Rıfkı Atay, Zeytindağı
15. Foreign Devils on the Silk Road
By: Peter Hopkirk
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
s/t: The Search for the Lost Cities & Treasures of Chinese Central Asia The Silk Road, which linked… read more
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16. The Idiot
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Constance Garnett , Joseph Frank , Alan Myers , Anna Brailovsky
4.21
Format: 667 pages, Paperback
Returning to Russia from a sanitarium in Switzerland, the Christ-like epileptic Prince Myshkin find… read more
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"I'm drunk but truthful."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot
"Beauty will save the world."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot
"The Russian soul is a dark place."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot
"She is passion embodied, a flower of melodrama in eternal bloom."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot
17. An Officer and a Spy
By: Robert Harris
3.73
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
Robert Harris returns to the thrilling historical fiction he has so brilliantly made his own. This … read more
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18. Esir Şehrin İnsanları (Esir Şehir Üçlemesi, #1)
By: Kemal Tahir
3.00
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
"Esir Sehir Uclemesi" edebiyatimizin guclu ve klasiklesmis ismi Kemal Tahir'in basyapitlarindandir.… read more
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19. Burmese Days
By: George Orwell
3.97
Format: 68 pages, Hardcover
Set in the days of the Empire, with the British ruling in Burma, this book describes corruption and… read more
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20. The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia
By: Peter Hopkirk
3.67
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Hopkirk's spellbinding account of the great imperial struggle for supremacy in Central Asia has bee… read more
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21. The Godfather (The Godfather, #1)
By: Mario Puzo , Peter Bart , Robert Thompson
4.39
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
The Godfather—the epic tale of crime and betrayal that became a global phenomenon. Almost fifty … read more
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"Life is so beautiful"-Mario Puzo, The Godfather (The Godfather, #1)
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"I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse."-Mario Puzo, The Godfather (The Godfather, #1)
"Forgive. Forget. Life is full of misfortunes."-Mario Puzo, The Godfather (The Godfather, #1)
22. The Red and the Black
By: Stendhal , None
3.86
Format: 577 pages, Paperback
Handsome, ambitious Julien Sorel is determined to rise above his humble provincial origins. Soon re… read more
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"A good book is an event in my life."-Stendhal, The Red and the Black
"Toute vraie passion ne songe qu'a elle."-Stendhal, The Red and the Black
"It seems that my destiny is to die dreaming."-Stendhal, The Red and the Black
"A novel is a mirror walking along a main road."-Stendhal, The Red and the Black
23. The Conquest of New Spain
By: Bernal Díaz del Castillo , John Michael Cohen
3.67
Format: 542 pages,
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24. The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
By: Peter Frankopan
3.77
Format: None pages,
From the rise and fall of empires in China, Persia, and Rome itself to the spread of Buddhism and a… read more
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25. Around the World in Eighty Days
By: Jules Verne , Brian W. Aldiss , Michael Glencross
3.96
Format: 252 pages, Paperback
One night in the reform club, Phileas Fogg bets his companions that he can travel across the globe … read more
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"Boy, why are you crying?"-Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days
"Oh, the cleverness of me!"-Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days
"Two is the beginning of the end."-Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days
"Forever is a very long time Peter"-Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days
26. Go Spy the Land
By: George Alexander Hill
4.39
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
The latest in Biteback's best-selling Dialogue Espionage Classics series of rediscovered spy master… read more
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27. The Roads Chosen
By: Ben Carlyle
4.12
Format: 394 pages, Paperback
Inspired by the author’s own unnerving experiences during decades spent in the former Soviet Union.… read more
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28. A Chosen Path
By: Ben Carlyle
4.43
Format: None pages, Paperback
Rebecca’s father, Edward, scoots Sam Mitchell from Bangkok to London. Boris Voikevich, only days… read more
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29. Inside Intelligence
By: Anthony Cavendish
3.74
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
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30. Too Secret Too Long
By: Chapman Pincher
4.01
Format: 623 pages, Kindle Edition
Chapman Pincher, the Cold War and the spy scandals which shocked the nation. Chapman Pincher, the … read more
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31. The Bedbug: Klop Ustinov: Britain's Most Ingenious Spy (Dialogue Espionage Classics)
By: Peter Day
3.51
Format: 309 pages, Kindle Edition
Klop Ustinov was Britain's most ingenious spy - but he was never licensed to kill. Instead, he was … read more
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