The Go-Between
By: Colm Tóibín , L.P. Hartley
3.99
Format: 326 pages, Paperback
L.P. Hartley's moving exploration of a young boy's loss of innocence The Go-Between is edited with …
Want to Read $ 10.99"You flew too near the sun and you were scorched."-Colm Tóibín, The Go-Between
"To see things as they really were--what an empoverishment!"-Colm Tóibín, The Go-Between
"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."-Colm Tóibín, The Go-Between
"With the opening of the door, and the installation of electric light in the cupboard, the skeletons had crumbled into dust."-Colm Tóibín, The Go-Between
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1. The Post-Office Girl
By: Stefan Zweig , Joel Rotenberg
4.09
Format: 257 pages, Paperback
The post-office girl is Christine, who looks after her ailing mother and toils in a provincial Au… read more
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"There is nothing more vindictive, nothing more underhanded, than a little world that would like to be a big one."-Stefan Zweig, The Post-Office Girl
"Kẻ nào quá sung sướng, kẻ ấy thường mất khả năng quan sát. Những người hạnh phúc là những nhà tâm lý học tồi. Chỉ có sự lo âu mới làm trí óc con người trở nên sắc sảo đến mức tối đa. Chỉ có cảm giác …"-Stefan Zweig, The Post-Office Girl
"For this quiet, unprepossessing, passive man who has no garden in front of his subsidised flat, books are like flowers. He loves to line them up on the shelf in multicoloured rows: he watches over ea…"-Stefan Zweig, The Post-Office Girl
2. Precious Bane
By: Mary Webb
4.23
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
A compelling story of passion, with an enduring air of enchantment throughout, Precious Bane is a n… read more
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"What did I do, I, that knew his smile was my summer?"-Mary Webb, Precious Bane
"Perché io credo che l'anima agisca sul corpo, che lo vivifichi col suo soffio e lo ricopra di un velo che lo fa sembrare più bello di quanto non sia."-Mary Webb, Precious Bane
"There are misfortunes that make you spring up and rush to save yourself, but, there are others that are too bad for this, for they leave nought to do. Then a stillness falls on the soul, like the sti…"-Mary Webb, Precious Bane
"Not only had he looked at me, but he had looked with favour and longing, and though I knew it was only because the truth was hidden from him, yet I was glad of what I had, as a winter bird is, that w…"-Mary Webb, Precious Bane
3. A Handful of Dust
By: Evelyn Waugh
3.76
Format: None pages, Paperback
Laced with cynicism and truth, "A Handful of Dust" satirizes a certain stratum of English life wher… read more
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- classics
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- 20th century
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4. Brighton Rock
By: J.M. Coetzee , Graham Greene
3.73
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has kill… read more
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5. How Many Miles To Babylon?
By: Jennifer Johnston
3.00
Format: 50 pages, Paperback
As a child Alec, heir to the big house and only son of a bitter marriage, formed a close friendship… read more
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- classics
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6. Little Boy Lost
By: Marghanita Laski
3.40
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Hilary Wainwright, poet and intellectual, returns after the war to a blasted and impoverished Franc… read more
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7. A Month in the Country
By: J.L. Carr , Michael Holroyd
3.76
Format: None pages,
In J. L. Carr's deeply charged poetic novel, Tom Birkin, a veteran of the Great War and a broken ma… read more
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- literary fiction
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- british literature
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- historical fiction
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8. Cold Comfort Farm
By: Roz Chast , Lynne Truss , Stella Gibbons
3.69
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 1933 Femina Vie Heureuse Prize, COLD COMFORT FARM is a wickedly funny portrait of Bri… read more
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9. The Go-Between
By: Colm Tóibín , L.P. Hartley
3.99
Format: 326 pages, Paperback
L.P. Hartley's moving exploration of a young boy's loss of innocence The Go-Between is edited with … read more
Want to Read $ 10.99Similar categories in Colm Tóibín's The Go-Between book and Colm Tóibín's The Go-Between
- literary fiction
- classics
- british literature
- literature
- coming of age
- fiction
- historical fiction
- 20th century
- novels
- modern classics
"You flew too near the sun and you were scorched."-Colm Tóibín, The Go-Between
"To see things as they really were--what an empoverishment!"-Colm Tóibín, The Go-Between
"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."-Colm Tóibín, The Go-Between
"With the opening of the door, and the installation of electric light in the cupboard, the skeletons had crumbled into dust."-Colm Tóibín, The Go-Between
10. Invitation to the Waltz
By: Rosamond Lehmann
3.80
Format: 8 pages, Paperback
A diary for her innermost thoughts, a china ornament, a ten-shilling note, and a roll of flame-colo… read more
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11. The End of the Affair
By: Graham Greene , Monica Ali
3.90
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
"A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses a moment of experience from which to look… read more
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"As long as one suffers one lives."-Graham Greene, The End of the Affair
"I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist."-Graham Greene, The End of the Affair
"Why do we have this desire to tease the innocent? Is it envy?"-Graham Greene, The End of the Affair
"I can never think of you as a friend. You can do without a friend."-Graham Greene, The End of the Affair
12. Cheerful Weather for the Wedding
By: Frances Partridge , Julia Strachey
4.42
Format: None pages, Paperback
This short, witty novel was written in 1932 by a niece of Lytton Strachey and first published by Th… read more
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13. The Death of the Heart
By: Elizabeth Bowen
3.00
Format: 81 pages, Paperback
The Death of the Heartis perhaps Elizabeth Bowen's best-known book. As she deftly and delicately ex… read more
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14. A Room with a View
By: E.M. Forster
5.00
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
'"But you do," he went on, not waiting for contradiction. "You love the boy body and soul, plainly,… read more
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15. The Shooting Party
By: Isabel Colegate
4.20
Format: 141 pages, Paperback
It is the autumn of 1913. Sir Randolph Nettleby has assembled a brilliant array of guests at his Ox… read more
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16. The Kindly Ones (A Dance to the Music of Time, #6)
By: Anthony Powell
4.23
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A Dance to the Music of Time – his brilliant 12-novel sequence, which chronicles the lives of over … read more
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17. Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
By: Evelyn Waugh
4.00
Format: 452 pages, Paperback
An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found here. The most nostalgic and reflective of Evely… read more
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- 20th century
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"Here my last love had died."-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
"No one is ever holy without suffering."-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
"I had been there before; I knew all about it."-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
"My father greeted me with his usual air of mild regret."-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
18. Notes on a Scandal by Heller, Zoe ( Author ) ON Dec-06-2008, Paperback
By: Zoë Heller
3.73
Format: None pages, Paperback
Schoolteacher Barbara Covett has led a solitary life until Sheba Hart, the new art teacher at St. G… read more
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- literature
- literary fiction
- fiction
- british literature
"We are bound by the secrets we share."-Zoë Heller, Notes on a Scandal by Heller, Zoe ( Author ) ON Dec-06-2008, Paperback
"Things that are truly innocent don’t need to be labelled as such."-Zoë Heller, Notes on a Scandal by Heller, Zoe ( Author ) ON Dec-06-2008, Paperback
"If this was cynical, then we must allow that all courtship is cynical."-Zoë Heller, Notes on a Scandal by Heller, Zoe ( Author ) ON Dec-06-2008, Paperback
"...what is romance, but a mutual pact of delusion? When the pact ends, there's nothing left."-Zoë Heller, Notes on a Scandal by Heller, Zoe ( Author ) ON Dec-06-2008, Paperback
19. One Afternoon
By: Siân James
4.10
Format: 152 pages, Hardcover
The preface to One Afternoon is by Emma Schofield, the editor of the Welsh Arts Review. She writes … read more
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20. Emma, Disappeared: A gripping, twist-filled thriller where nothing is as it seems
By: Andrew Hughes
3.63
Format: 303 pages, Kindle Edition
'Compelling, unsettling and very creepy' Catherine Kirwan'Atmospheric and filled with twists and tu… read more
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