The Loved One
By: Evelyn Waugh
3.76
Format: 127 pages, Paperback
Following the death of a friend, British poet and pets' mortician Dennis Barlow finds himself enter…
Want to Read $ 11.99"Who asked you to the funeral anyway? Were you acquainted with the late parrot?"-Evelyn Waugh, The Loved One
"Who asked you to the funeral anyway? Were you acquainted with the late parrot?"-Evelyn Waugh, The Loved One
"Her heart was broken perhaps, but it was a small inexpensive organ of local manufacture. In a wider and grander way she felt things had been simplified."-Evelyn Waugh, The Loved One
"Her heart was broken perhaps, but it was a small inexpensive organ of local manufacture. In a wider and grander way she felt things had been simplified."-Evelyn Waugh, The Loved One
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1. The Brendan Voyage: A Leather Boat Tracks the Discovery of America by the Irish Sailor Saints
By: Tim Severin , Trondur Pattursson
4.25
Format: 292 pages, Hardcover
Recounts the harrowing voyage of Timothy Severin and his crew from Dingle, Ireland across the North… read more
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2. A Far Cry from Kensington
By: Muriel Spark
3.83
Format: 189 pages, Paperback
Set on the crazier fringes of 1950s literary London, A Far Cry from Kensington is a delight, hilari… read more
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- literary fiction
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- humor
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"I offer this advice without fee; it is included in the price of this book."-Muriel Spark, A Far Cry from Kensington
"It is not because we are rats that we tend to abandon people who are down, it is because we are embarrassed."-Muriel Spark, A Far Cry from Kensington
"You can lie awake at night and think; the quality of insomnia depends entirely on what you decide to think of. Can you decide to think? - Yes, you can."-Muriel Spark, A Far Cry from Kensington
"Milly's narrative skill was considerable... she brought a scene to life by a chance descriptive detail in the right place and by that graphic and right placing of words which most of the Irish excel …"-Muriel Spark, A Far Cry from Kensington
3. The Hothouse by the East River
By: Muriel Spark
3.46
Format: 139 pages, Mass Market Paperback
He is standing in the middle of the room. She is sitting by the window, staring out over the East R… read more
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- 20th century
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"This deadly body of mine can dance, too."-Muriel Spark, The Hothouse by the East River
"Being dead's a drug', he says, 'you'll get hooked on it."-Muriel Spark, The Hothouse by the East River
"Back in 1944 when people were normal and there was a world war on,' says Paul to his son, 'it was a serious thing to be a spy."-Muriel Spark, The Hothouse by the East River
4. The Driver's Seat
By: John Lanchester , Muriel Spark
3.61
Format: 103 pages, Paperback
Alternative cover edition of ISBN 0141188340 Lise is thin, neither good-looking nor bad-looking.… read more
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"Sonra bu kumaş leke de tutmaz "diyor tezgahtar kız."-John Lanchester, The Driver's Seat
"It's a whydunnit in q-sharp major and it has a message: never talk to the sort of girls that you wouldn't leave lying about in your drawing-room for the servants to pick up."-John Lanchester, The Driver's Seat
5. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
By: Muriel Spark
3.70
Format: 150 pages, Paperback
A teacher at a girl's school in Edinburgh during the 1930s comes into conflict with school authorit… read more
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"It's only possible to betray where loyalty is due"-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
"[...] there were other people's Edinburghs quite different from hers [...]"-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
"... flattening their scorn underneath the chariot wheels of her superiority."-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
"To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul."-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
6. The Actual : A Novella
By: Saul Bellow
3.26
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
The Nobel Prize and National Book Award-winning novelist introduces Harry Trellman, an aging busine… read more
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7. The American Way of Death Revisited
By: Jessica Mitford
3.96
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
Only the scathing wit and searching intelligence of Jessica Mitford could turn an exposé of the Ame… read more
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- death
8. Maigret Goes to School
By: Georges Simenon , Daphne Woodward
4.42
Format: 718 pages, Paperback
Maigret procedeva con estrema cautela e aveva l'impressione di camminare sulle sabbie mobili. Non p… read more
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9. Myron
By: Gore Vidal
3.38
Format: 214 pages, Mass Market Paperback
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10. A Summer Bird-Cage
By: Margaret Drabble
4.36
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Sarah had come home from Paris to be a bridesmaid for her sister Louise. When a child, Sarah had ad… read more
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11. Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
By: Bruno Schulz , Celina Wieniewska
3.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
This is the second and final work of Bruno Schulz, the acclaimed Polish writer killed by the Nazis … read more
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- classics
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12. The Power and the Glory
By: John Updike , Graham Greene
3.13
Format: 192 pages,
How does goodspoil, and how can badbe redeemed? In his penetrating novel The Power and the Glory, G… read more
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13. The Loved One
By: Evelyn Waugh
3.76
Format: 127 pages, Paperback
Following the death of a friend, British poet and pets' mortician Dennis Barlow finds himself enter… read more
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- classics
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"Who asked you to the funeral anyway? Were you acquainted with the late parrot?"-Evelyn Waugh, The Loved One
"Her heart was broken perhaps, but it was a small inexpensive organ of local manufacture. In a wider and grander way she felt things had been simplified."-Evelyn Waugh, The Loved One
"Dennis hesitated with his fingers on the handle and was aware of communication with another hand beyond the panels. Thus in a hundred novels had loves stood."-Evelyn Waugh, The Loved One
"What is a "canty day", Dennis?' 'I've never troubled to ask. Something like hogmanay, I expect.' 'What is that?' 'People being sick on the pavement in Glasgow.' 'Oh."-Evelyn Waugh, The Loved One
14. Myra Breckinridge
By: Gore Vidal
3.57
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
Determined to reinvent himself and explore new territory in his work, Gore Vidal published a provoc… read more
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- literature
- humor
- 20th century
- fiction
- novels
"That my plans have lately gone somewhat awry is the sort of risk one must take if life is to be superb."-Gore Vidal, Myra Breckinridge
"Not only are the male students drawn to violence (at second hand), they are also quite totalitarian-minded, even for Americans, and I am convinced that any attractive television personality who wante…"-Gore Vidal, Myra Breckinridge
"I am Myra Breckinridge whom no man will ever possess. Clad only in garter belt and one dress shield, I held off the entire elite of the Trobriand Islanders, a race who possess no words for "why" or "…"-Gore Vidal, Myra Breckinridge
15. 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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- 20th century
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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
16. The History of Mr. Polly
By: H.G. Wells , John Sutherland , Simon James , None
4.50
Format: 191 pages, Paperback
Mr. Polly is an ordinary middle-aged man who is tired of his wife's nagging and his dreary job as t… read more
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17. 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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18. Free Fall in Crimson (Travis McGee #19)
By: John D. MacDonald , Carl Hiaasen
3.96
Format: 289 pages, Paperback
McGee tracks killers who brutally murder an ailing millionaire. He renews unfinished adventure with… read more
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19. 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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20. Henderson the Rain King
By: Saul Bellow , Luciano Bianciardi
4.34
Format: 640 pages, Paperback
Henderson has come to Africa on a spiritual safari, a quest for the truth. His feats of strength, h… read more
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21. The Singularity (New York Review Classics)
By: Dino Buzzati
3.53
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
In this prophetic allegory about artificial intelligence by a renowned figure of twentieth-century … read more
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