The Closed Cabinet
By: Anonymous
3.35
Format: 58 pages, Hardcover
In the hall I was met by the housekeeper, who informed me that, owing to a misunderstanding about d…
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1. The Jolly Corner
By: Henry James
3.13
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
The Jolly Corner was first published in 1908 in The English Review. Henry James describes the adven… read more
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"...he felt the whole vision turn to darkness and his very feet give way. His head went round; he was going; he had gone."-Henry James, The Jolly Corner
"He was a dim secondary social success -- and all with people who had truly not an idea of him. It was all mere surface sound, this murmur of their welcome, this popping of their corks -- just as his …"-Henry James, The Jolly Corner
"The image of the "presence," whatever it was, waiting there for him to go--this image had not yet been so concrete for his nerves as when he stopped short of the point at which certainty would have c…"-Henry James, The Jolly Corner
"I know at least what I am,' he simply went on; 'the other side of the medal's clear enough. I've not been edifying--I believe I'm thought in a hundred quarters to have been barely decent. I've follow…"-Henry James, The Jolly Corner
2. A Wagner Matinee
By: Willa Cather
3.64
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
Willa Cather is considered to be one of the best chroniclers of pioneer life in the 20th century. S… read more
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3. The Offshore Pirate
By: F. Scott Fitzgerald
3.95
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
From time to time there was the bright flare of a match as one of them lighted a cigarette, but exc… read more
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". . . confirmed libertines don't reform until they're tired . . ."-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Offshore Pirate
"You see, this is the beauty I want. Beauty has got to be astonishing, astounding--it's got to burst in on you like a dream, like the exquisite eyes of a girl."-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Offshore Pirate
"And courage to me meant ploughing through that dull gray mist that comes down on life--not only overriding people and circumstances but overriding the bleakness of living."-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Offshore Pirate
"The idea of a slow approach to the luxury of leisure drove him wild. He was, of course, progressing toward it, but, like a child eating his ice cream so slowly that he couldn't taste it at all."-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Offshore Pirate
4. The Revolt of "Mother" and Other Stories
By: Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
3.66
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Eight poignant tales vividly portray patient, self-reliant heroines living in small New England vil… read more
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5. King Arthur and His Knights: Selected Tales
By: Eugène Vinaver , Thomas Malory
4.02
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Thomas Malory, knight, adventurer, and soldier, was born in the early years of the fifteenth centur… read more
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6. Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey, #2)
By: Dorothy L. Sayers
3.98
Format: 288 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Rustic old Riddlesdale Lodge was a Wimsey family retreat filled with country pleasures and the thri… read more
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"Fou!"-Dorothy L. Sayers, Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey, #2)
"Boil my brains!"-Dorothy L. Sayers, Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey, #2)
"I am abso-bally-lutely positive"-Dorothy L. Sayers, Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey, #2)
"The departure of the church-going element had induced a more humanitarian atmosphere."-Dorothy L. Sayers, Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey, #2)
7. The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)
By: Arthur Machen
3.69
Format: 82 pages, Paperback
"I will not read it; I should never sleep again" A doctor performs an experiment on a young wom… read more
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- horror
"There was something about Herbert which shocked him inexpressibly; not his poor rags nor the marks which poverty had set upon his face, but rather a indefinite terror which hung about him like a mist."-Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)
"Villiers, that woman, if I can call her a woman, corrupted my soul. The night of the wedding I found myself sitting in her bedroom in the hotel, listening to her talk. She was sitting up in bed, and …"-Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)
"Clarke, in the deep folds of dream, was conscious that the path from his father’s house had led him into an undiscovered country, and he was wondering at the strangeness of it all, when suddenly, in …"-Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)
"We know what happened to those who chanced to meet the Great God Pan, and those who are wise know that all symbols are symbols of something, not of nothing. It was, indeed, an exquisite symbol beneat…"-Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)
8. A Gentleman of Leisure
By: P.G. Wodehouse
3.57
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
'A Gentleman of Leisure' concerns a young man, his love life & a burglary. Familiar Wodehouse chara… read more
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9. Nutcracker
By: E.T.A. Hoffmann , Ralph Manheim , Maurice Sendak
3.93
Format: 245 pages, Hardcover
The tale of Nutcracker, written by E.T.A. Hoffmann in 1816, has fascinated and inspired artists, co… read more
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10. La casa y el cerebro
By: Edward Bulwer-Lytton , Arturo Agüero Herranz
4.48
Format: 252 pages, Paperback
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- horror
11. The Machine Stops
By: E.M. Forster
3.57
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
"The Machine Stops" is a science fiction short story (12,300 words) by E. M. Forster. After initial… read more
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12. The Ambitious Guest
By: Nathaniel Hawthorne , B.J. Harrison
4.26
Format: 112 pages, Audiobook
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13. The Wind in the Rosebush and Other Stories of the Supernatural
By: Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
3.80
Format: None pages, Paperback
Freeman began writing stories and verse for children while still a teenager to help support her fam… read more
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14. Green Tea
By: J. Sheridan Le Fanu
1.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Based on the psychological complexities of human mind, the work is pervaded by a mysterious aura. A… read more
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15. The Man Who Would Be King
By: Rudyard Kipling
3.95
Format: 145 pages, Paperback
"My gord, Carnehan," says Daniel, "This is a tremenjus business, and we've got the whole country as… read more
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16. The Eyes
By: Edith Wharton
3.40
Format: None pages,
Phil, my dear boy, really -- what's the matter? Why don't you answer? Have you seen the eyes?' Fren… read more
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17. The Treasure in the Forest:
By: H.G. Wells
4.00
Format: 268 pages, Paperback
The canoe was now approaching the land. The bay opened out, and a gap in the white surf of the reef… read more
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18. 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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19. The Most Dangerous Game
By: Richard Connell
3.94
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
The Most Dangerous Game features a big-game hunter from New York who becomes shipwrecked on an isol… read more
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- horror
"But you can’t mean—"-Richard Connell, The Most Dangerous Game
"The world is made up of two classes - the hunters and the huntees."-Richard Connell, The Most Dangerous Game
"Sometimes I think evil is a tangible thing - with wave lengths, just as sound and light have."-Richard Connell, The Most Dangerous Game
20. Christmas at Red Butte
By: L.M. Montgomery , Joanne Panettieri
3.92
Format: None pages,
A delightful tale of a Christmas sacrifice by renouned storyteller Lucy Maud Montgomery, author of … read more
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21. The Magic Shop
By: H.G. Wells , François Roca
4.00
Format: 302 pages, Hardcover
Out for a walk in London one day, Gip and his father happen upon a magic shop. At Gip's urging, the… read more
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22. Rappaccini's Daughter
By: Nathaniel Hawthorne
4.01
Format: 532 pages,
Part fairy tale, part Gothic horror story, "Rappaccini's Daughter" is an inspired tale of creation … read more
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23. The Hollow Needle: Further Adventures of Arsène Lupin
By: Maurice Leblanc
3.80
Format: 207 pages, Paperback
The Hollow Needle is one of Maurice Leblanc’s best-known novels. In it the famous gentleman-burglar… read more
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24. Referent
By: Ray Bradbury
3.23
Format: 1 pages, Audiobook
The life of a child genius was no fun, by Roby couldn't escape it...until a falling star taught him… read more
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25. The Wrong Shape (A Father Brown Story)
By: G.K. Chesterton
3.09
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
Certain of the great roads going north out of London continue far into the country a sort of attenu… read more
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26. Barbara of the House of Grebe
By: Thomas Hardy
3.63
Format: None pages, Audio Cassette
Desiderio femminile, pazzia, ruoli sociali. Un lungo racconto magistrale, narrato con maestria e co… read more
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27. The Captain of the Pole-Star
By: Arthur Conan Doyle
3.58
Format: 50 pages, Kindle Edition
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of detective Sherlock Holmes, is the father of crime fiction. H… read more
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28. The Closed Cabinet
By: Anonymous
3.35
Format: 58 pages, Hardcover
In the hall I was met by the housekeeper, who informed me that, owing to a misunderstanding about d… read more
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29. The Lost Phoebe
By: Theodore Dreiser
3.71
Format: None pages, None
Tormented to distraction by the death of his true love, an old man embarks on a quixotic quest to f… read more
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30. The One Hundred Dollar Bill
By: Booth Tarkington
2.73
Format: None pages, None
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31. England to America
By: Margaret Prescott Montague
3.82
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain… read more
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