As Kingfishers Catch Fire
By: Gerard Manley Hopkins
4.25
Format: None pages, Paperback
'O let them be left, wildness and wet' As Kingfishers Catch Fire is a selection of Gerard Manley Ho…
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1. Remember, Body...
By: Constantinos P. Cavafy
3.66
Format: 54 pages, Paperback
'All those excessive, useless regrets...' A collection of nostalgic, erotic poetry from one of … read more
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"You’ve been wholly transformed into feeling, for me."-Constantinos P. Cavafy, Remember, Body...
"I have gazed so much on beauty that my eyes overflow with it."-Constantinos P. Cavafy, Remember, Body...
"I have fashioned you in joy and in sorrow, / through so many happenings, out of so many things."-Constantinos P. Cavafy, Remember, Body...
"Memory, keep those eyes just as they were. / And memory, whatever you can salvage of that passion of mine, / whatever you can, bring back to me tonight."-Constantinos P. Cavafy, Remember, Body...
2. How to Use Your Enemies
By: Baltasar Gracián , Gracián Baltasar
3.64
Format: 54 pages, Paperback
'Better mad with the crowd than sane all alone' In these witty, Machiavellian aphorisms, unlike… read more
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"Deal with people from whom you can learn"-Baltasar Gracián, How to Use Your Enemies
"Cautious silence is the refuge of good sense"-Baltasar Gracián, How to Use Your Enemies
"What passion rushes to flatter, time is slow to disillusion us about."-Baltasar Gracián, How to Use Your Enemies
"Not all truths can be spoken: some because they are important to me, others to someone else."-Baltasar Gracián, How to Use Your Enemies
3. The Eve of St. Agnes
By: John Keats
3.68
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
'Hoodwink'd in faery fancy...' This volume contains a selection of Keats's greatest verse - inc… read more
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"Upon the honey’d middle of the night,"-John Keats, The Eve of St. Agnes
4. Alone on the Beach at Night
By: Walt Whitman
3.22
Format: 55 pages, Paperback
'All nations, colors, barbarisms, civilizations, languages...' A selection taken from Walt Whit… read more
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5. A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees
By: Yoshida Kenkō , Meredith McKinney
3.74
Format: 51 pages, Paperback
'It is a most wonderful comfort to sit alone beneath a lamp, book spread before you, and commune wi… read more
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"It is the ephemeral nature of things that makes them wonderful."-Yoshida Kenkō, A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees
"After all, things thought but left unsaid only fester inside you."-Yoshida Kenkō, A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees
"Knowledge leads to deception; talent and ability only serve to increase earthly desires."-Yoshida Kenkō, A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees
"I have relinquished all that ties me to the world, but the one thing that still haunts me is the beauty of the sky"-Yoshida Kenkō, A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees
6. Three Tang Dynasty Poets
By: Wang Wei , Du Fu , Li Bai
3.35
Format: 64 pages, Mass Market Paperback
'Can I bear to leave these blue hills?' A generous selection from three of the greatest and mos… read more
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7. Wailing Ghosts
By: Pu Songling , John Minford
3.25
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
'...revealing great shining fangs more than three inches long.' Some of the most macabre and wo… read more
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"Strange that a man could succeed in hanging himself from a millet stalk. Let this be a warning to libertines and pranksters."-Pu Songling, Wailing Ghosts
8. Woman Much Missed
By: Thomas Hardy
3.59
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
'Woman much missed, how you call to me, call to me...' After the death of his wife Emma, a grief… read more
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"Soon will be growing Green blades from her mound, And daisies be showing Like stars on the ground, Till she form part of them - Ay - the sweet heart of them, Loved beyond measure With a child's pleas…"-Thomas Hardy, Woman Much Missed
9. Femme Fatale
By: Guy de Maupassant
3.56
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
A selection of Maupassant's brilliant, glittering stories set in the Parisian beau monde and Norman… read more
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10. Travels in the Land of Serpents and Pearls
By: Marco Polo
5.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
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11. As Kingfishers Catch Fire
By: Gerard Manley Hopkins
4.25
Format: None pages, Paperback
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12. Aphorisms on Love and Hate
By: Friedrich Nietzsche
4.40
Format: None pages, Paperback
'We must learn to love, learn to be kind, and this from our earliest youth ... Likewise, hatred mus… read more
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13. Traffic
By: John Ruskin
3.70
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
'You shall have thousands of gold pieces;--thousands of thousands--millions--mountains of gold: whe… read more
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14. A Modest Proposal
By: Jonathan Swift
4.06
Format: 663 pages, Paperback
A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland From Being a Burden to Thei… read more
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15. Murder as a Fine Art (Thomas De Quincey, #1)
By: David Morrell
3.85
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
Gaslit London is brought to its knees in David Morrell's brilliant historical thriller. Thomas De Q… read more
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16. Mrs Rosie and the Priest
By: Giovanni Boccaccio
3.85
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Four hilarious and provocative stories from Boccaccio's Decameron, featuring cuckolded husbands, cr… read more
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17. Sketchy, Doubtful, Incomplete Jottings
By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
3.62
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
'I can promise to be candid, not, however, to be impartial.' A selection of the most insightful max… read more
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18. The Saga of Gunnlaug Serpent-tongue
By: Anonymous
4.03
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
'In two I'll slice the hair-seat / of Helga's kiss-gulper' In this epic tale from the Viking Age th… read more
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19. Anthem for Doomed Youth
By: Wilfred Owen
3.37
Format: 297 pages, Paperback
'Tonight he noticed how the women's eyes Passed from him to the strong men that were whole.' The tr… read more
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20. The Nightingales are Drunk
By: Hafez , Dick Davis
3.57
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
'Drunk or sober, king or soldier, none will be excluded' Sensual, profound, delighted, wise, Hafez'… read more
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21. On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts
By: Thomas de Quincey
3.86
Format: 368 pages,
'People begin to see that something more goes to the composition of a fine murder than two blockhea… read more
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