The Unicorn
By: Iris Murdoch
3.64
Format: 270 pages, Paperback
When Marian Taylor takes a post as governess at Gaze Castle, a remote house on a desolate coast, sh…
Want to Read $ 8.99"Everyone here seems to have some weird secret or other."-Iris Murdoch, The Unicorn
"It was odd, the life one lived in other people's dreams."-Iris Murdoch, The Unicorn
"We are all mad sometimes, but it passes." "The consequences do not pass."-Iris Murdoch, The Unicorn
". . . enjoying literature as those alone enjoy it who have little else to enjoy."-Iris Murdoch, The Unicorn
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1. The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
By: Marcel Proust , None , Terence Kilmartin , D.J. Enright
4.39
Format: 957 pages, Paperback
The Modern Library’s fifth volume of In Search of Lost Time contains both The Captive (1923) and Th… read more
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- literary fiction
- classics
- literature
- 20th century
- fiction
- novels
"...every social class has its own pathology..."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
"Love is space and time made perceptible to the heart."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
"Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
"There are optical errors in time as there are in space."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
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
- classics
- british literature
- literature
- fiction
- novels
"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. Typhoon
By: Joseph Conrad
3.64
Format: 142 pages, Paperback
Captain MacWhirr cannot fathom anything outside the facts of his own life. His first mate, Mr. Juke… read more
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- classics
- british literature
- literature
- 20th century
- fiction
- novels
"Fu qualcosa di formidabile e di subitaneo, come l'improvviso rompersi di un vaso colmo d'ira."-Joseph Conrad, Typhoon
"The only secret of her life was her abject terror of the time when her husband would come home to stay for good."-Joseph Conrad, Typhoon
"He was a corpulent man, with a gift for sly chaffing, which to the end of his life he exercised in his intercourse with his son, a little pityingly, as if upon a half-witted person."-Joseph Conrad, Typhoon
"Tale è la potenza disgregatrice di un uragano: essa isola l’individuo dai suoi simili. Un terremoto, una frana, una valanga soverchiano l’uomo incidentalmente, per così dire senza passione. La furia …"-Joseph Conrad, Typhoon
4. 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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- literary fiction
- classics
- british literature
- literature
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- 20th century
- novels
"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
5. Naked Lunch
By: William S. Burroughs , Barry Miles , James Grauerholz
3.46
Format: 289 pages, Paperback
The book is structured as a series of loosely connected vignettes. Burroughs stated that the chapte… read more
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- classics
- literature
- 20th century
- fiction
- novels
"Exterminate all rational thought"-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch
"O death where is thy sting? The man is never on time..."-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch
"When he smiled the fear flew away in little pieces of light..."-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch
"And all that I was before is out there in the darkness looking for me."-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch
6. Jane and Prudence
By: Barbara Pym
3.70
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
If Jane Cleveland and Prudence Bates seem an unlikely pair to be walking together at an Oxford reun… read more
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- literary fiction
- classics
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Similar categories in Graham Greene's A Sense of Reality: And Other Stories book and Iris Murdoch's The Unicorn
- literature
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8. The Ballroom
By: Anna Hope
4.07
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
Where love is your only escape .... 1911: Inside an asylum at the edge of the Yorkshire moors, wher… read more
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- fiction
- british literature
9. Woodcutters
By: Thomas Bernhard , David McLintock
3.34
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
This controversial portrayal of Viennese artistic circles begins as the writer-narrator arrives at … read more
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- literary fiction
- classics
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- 20th century
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- novels
10. The Robber Bride
By: Margaret Atwood
2.74
Format: None pages, Paperback
Margaret Atwood's The Robber Brideis inspired by "The Robber Bridegroom," a wonderfully grisly tale… read more
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- literature
- literary fiction
- fiction
- novels
11. The Woodlanders
By: Thomas Hardy , Patricia Ingham
2.84
Format: 306 pages, Paperback
In this classically simple tale of the disastrous impact of outside life on a secluded community in… read more
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- literature
- classics
- fiction
- british literature
12. The Millstone
By: Margaret Drabble
3.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
Margaret Drabble's affecting novel, set in London during the 1960s, about a casual love affair, an … read more
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- classics
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13. The Parasites
By: Daphne du Maurier
3.16
Format: 315 pages, ebook
"Wickedly readable... Daphne du Maurier has instinct, with the result that every woman instinctivel… read more
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- gothic
- classics
- literature
- fiction
- mystery
14. King of the Wind: The Story of the Godolphin Arabian
By: Marguerite Henry , Wesley Dennis
3.50
Format: 24 pages, Hardcover
He was named "Sham" for the sun, this golden red stallion born in the Sultan of Morocco's stone sta… read more
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15. Tropic of Capricorn
By: Henry Miller
4.00
Format: 16 pages,
Banned in America for almost 30 years because of its explicit sexual content, this companion volume… read more
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16. Loitering with Intent
By: Muriel Spark
3.17
Format: 319 pages, Paperback
"How wonderful to be an artist and a woman in the twentieth century," Fleur Talbot rejoices. Happil… read more
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17. The Prussian Officer
By: D.H. Lawrence
4.00
Format: 268 pages, Paperback
David Herbert Richards Lawrence (11 September 1885 - 2 March 1930) was an English novelist, poet, p… read more
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18. The Sea
By: John Banville
4.00
Format: 258 pages, Paperback
In this luminous new novel about love, loss, and the unpredictable power of memory, John Banville i… read more
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19. The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild
By: Mathias Énard
3.59
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
To research his thesis on contemporary agrarian life, anthropology student David Mazon moves from P… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- novels
20. The Unicorn
By: Iris Murdoch
3.64
Format: 270 pages, Paperback
When Marian Taylor takes a post as governess at Gaze Castle, a remote house on a desolate coast, sh… read more
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- gothic
- literary fiction
- classics
- british literature
- literature
- fiction
- 20th century
- mystery
- novels
- ireland
"Everyone here seems to have some weird secret or other."-Iris Murdoch, The Unicorn
"It was odd, the life one lived in other people's dreams."-Iris Murdoch, The Unicorn
"We are all mad sometimes, but it passes." "The consequences do not pass."-Iris Murdoch, The Unicorn
". . . enjoying literature as those alone enjoy it who have little else to enjoy."-Iris Murdoch, The Unicorn
21. The Possible World
By: Liese O'Halloran Schwarz
4.02
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing, deeply moving novel about the converging lives of a young boy who witnesses a bruta… read more
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- mystery
- literary fiction
- fiction
