Books like 'Three Novels: Tender is the Night; The Beautiful and Damned; This Side of Paradise'
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Tehlikeli Oyunlar by Oğuz Atay
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsKişinin kendiyle savaşmasını ve yenmesini, kendini dönüştürmesinin hayati bir sorun olarak algılamaya çağıran, çarpıcı ve sarsıca bir roman... -
Golpo Guccho by Rabindranath Tagore
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsGolpo Guccho by Rabindranath Tagore is a popular Bengali book of Rabindranath Tagore. The book is collection of 95 Short Stories which are most popular. Tagore wrote most of the stories from Bengali Year 1298 to 1310. The books was published in Indian Publishing House in 1908 to 1909 by Five Parts... -
On the Night You Were Born by Nancy Tillman
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsOn the night you were born, you brought wonder and magic to the world. The moon stayed up till morning. Polar bears danced.Here is a book that celebrates the one and only ever you! Now available in its entirety in board book format, Nancy Tillman's masterpiece is perfect for acknowledging the special people in our lives that they are loved... -
Shonkhonil Karagar by Humayun Ahmed
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsShonkhonil Karagar is a 1973 novel by Bangladeshi author Humayun Ahmed. It is also a book that was made into a popular movie in Bangladesh. The book was made into the 1992 film with the same title, starring Zafar Iqbal, Champa, Doli Johur, Abul Hayat, Suborna Mustafa and Asaduzzaman Noor. It was filmed in 1992 in Dhaka, Bangladesh... -
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Boynton's Greatest Hits The Big Yellow Box (Boxed Set): The Going to Bed Book; Horns to Toes; Opposites; But Not the Hippopotamus by Sandra Boynton
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThese four favorite board books from beloved and bestselling Sandra Boynton are now available in one hilarious set!The Big Yellow Box is a perfect collection for terrific little kids... -
Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude: Essays (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) by Harold Bloom, Gabriel Welsch
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratings- Presents the most important 20th-century criticism on major works from The Odyssey through modern literature- The critical essays reflect a variety of schools of criticism- Contains critical biographies, notes on the contributing critics, a chronology of the author's life, and an index- Introductory essay by Harold... -
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The Everything in the Whole Wide World Museum (Sesame Street) (Pictureback (R)) by Norman Stiles, Daniel Wilcox
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIllustrations in color. The fuzzy Sesame Street puppet tours The Small Hall, The Carrot Room, and other unusual exhibits in a unique museum... -
Good Night, Little Bear by Patricia M. Scarry
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFirst a story, and then a kiss from Mother Bear, and Father Bear carries Little Bear to bed. And that's when the fun begins. Father Bear gets to Little Bear's room, but Little Bear is missing! Little readers will see him hiding in the MOST obvious place but Father Bear cannot seem to find him... -
Rain Man by Leonore Fleischer, Kieran McGovern
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsCharlie Babbitt thinks he will get a lot of money when his father dies. However the money goes to someone he doesn't know - a man who lives in hospital and is the brother Charlie never knew he had. The two meet and so starts a surprising new life for both of them. A deeply emotional story and also a major film starring Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman... -
Complete Works Ultimate Collection by Algernon Charles Swinburne, Darryl Marks
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsExclusive 10 Unique Painted Illustrations created for this collectionHistorical & Literary Context Notes Incl... -
The Stories of Raymond Carver by Raymond Carver
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWill You Please Be Quiet, Please? What We Talk About When We Talk About Love... -
Collected Poems in English by Joseph Brodsky
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsOne of the greatest and grandest advocates of the literary vocation, Joseph Brodsky truly lived his life as a poet, and for it earned eighteen months of internal exile at hard labor, expulsion from his native country, and the Nobel Prize in Literature... -
Jillian Jiggs by Phoebe Gilman
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsJillian Jiggs-- who spends most of her time making up games and playing dress-up-- is much too busy to clean her... -
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A Season in Hell/Illuminations by Arthur Rimbaud
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWritten by Rimbaud at the age of 18 in the wake of his tempestuous affair with fellow poet Paul Verlaine, "A Season in Hell" has been a touchstone for anguished poets, artists, and lovers for more than a century... -
Cánh Đồng Bất Tận by Nguyễn Ngọc Tư
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsCánh đồng bất tận bao gồm những truyện hay và mới nhất của nhà văn Nguyễn Ngọc Tư. Đây là tác phẩm đang gây xôn xao trong đời sống văn học, bởi ở đó người ta tìm thấy sự dữ dội, khốc liệt của đời sống thôn dã qua cái nhìn của một cô gái. Bi kịch về nỗi mất mát, sự cô đơn được đẩy lên đến tận cùng, khiến người đọc có lúc cảm thấy nhói tim.. -
The Brothers Karamazov (Classic Literature) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA profound novel in which Dostoevsky has searched for the truths about man, life and the existence of God. It presents the story of four brothers, each of them with the motive of murder. a gripping action that entangles its reader throughout the story. This was the authors last novel that will remain alive in the annals of history because of its language and unique literary style... -
The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules by Jodi Picoult
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsChange of HeartOne moment June Nealon was happily looking forward to years full of laughter and adventure with her family, and the next, she was staring into a future that was as empty as her heart. Now her life is a waiting game. Waiting for time to heal her wounds, waiting for justice. In short, waiting for a miracle to happen. For Shay Bourne, life holds no more surprises... -
How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton by Lucille Clifton
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHow to Carry Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton celebrates both familiar and lesser-known works by one of America’s most beloved poets, including 10 newly discovered poems that have never been collected... -
İçimizdeki Şeytan by Sabahattin Ali
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 26 ratings"In this dark novel, Sabahattin Ali (author of Madonna in a Fur Coat) explores the theme of hopelessness as experienced by an individual who cannot realise his talents... -
Poems 1913-1956 by Bertolt Brecht
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFirst Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company... -
Immortal Poems of the English Language by Oscar Williams
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsImmortal Poems Here is the most inclusive anthology of verse ever published at so low a price. It contains not only the best-known works of the British and American masters but also the verse of the most brillant poets of our own day. Oscar Williams, who compiled Immortal Poems, was a distinguished editor and poet in his own right, of whom Robert Lowell wrote in the Sewanee Review: "Mr... -
Tolstoy: Anna Karenina by Anthony Thorlby
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsProfessor ThorIby offers a close reading of this classic novel and explores the subtle psychology in Tolstoy's characterisation. He avoids complex terminology and assumes a readership studying the text in English translation... -
Sifting Through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way by Charles Bukowski
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsfrom neither Shakespeare nor Mickey Spillane young young young, only wanting the Word, going mad in the streets and in the bars, brutal fights, broken glass, crazy women screaming in your cheap room, you a familiar guest at the drunk tank, North Avenue 21, Lincoln Heights sifting through the madness for the Word, the line the way, hoping for a check from somewhere, dreaming of a letter... -
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Chicka Chicka 1, 2, 3 by Bill Martin Jr., Michael Sampson
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 20 ratings1 told 2and 2 told 3,"I'll race you to the topof the apple tree."One hundred and one numbers climb the apple tree in this bright, rollicking, joyous book for young children. As the numerals pile up and bumblebees threaten, what's the number that saves the day? (Hint: It rhymes with "hero.") Read and count and play and laugh to learn the surprising answer... -
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Three: Nebula Winners 1965-1969 by Arthur C. Clarke, Robert Silverberg
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Nebula Award Winners for Best Novella, Best Novelet, and Best Short Story for the years 1965 - 1969 inclusive... -
Hypnos by René Char
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHailed by the poet Paul Eluard as an "absolute masterpiece" upon its first appearance in 1946, René Char’s Hypnos is both a remarkable work of literature and a document of unique significance in the history of the French Resistance... -
Baby Talk by Judith S. Keim
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsReaders of the Hartwell Women Series asked for more. I listened. Baby Talk is Book 4. When Marissa Crawford and her husband Brad decide to start a family, Marissa has serious doubts about her ability to be a good mother--she was raised by one of the worst... -
Troubled Waters by Rosie Harris
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsShe looked after them. But who would look after her? When fourteen-year-old Sara Jenkins rescues her baby sister, Myfanwy, from the fire which kills their mother, little does she realise the burden of responsibility she is taking on. Her father, Ifor, is perceived as strict and moral by everyone in the village... -
Straight Talk by Judith Keim
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsStraight Talk - Book Three in the Hartwell Women Trilogy Samantha Hartwell’s life changes completely when she’s attacked by a client’s boyfriend. She leaves Boston and Straight Talk, her consulting business, and escapes to California wine country to heal and to help her sister and brother-in-law with their vineyard’s growth... -
The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsVanishing Acts Delia Hopkins has led a charmed life. Raised in rural New Hampshire by her widowed father, Andrew, she now has a young daughter, a handsome fiancé, and her own search-and-rescue bloodhound, which she uses to find missing persons. But as Delia plans her wedding, she is plagued by flashbacks of a life she can't recall... -
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The Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated) by Thomas Hardy, Prometheus Classics
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis collection gathers together the works by Thomas Hardy in a single, convenient, high quality, and extremely low priced Kindle volume! This book contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure! Novels Desperate Remedies [1871] Under the Greenwood Tree [1872] A Pair of Blue Eyes [1873] Far from the Madding Crowd [1874] The Hand of Ethelberta [1876] The... -
As Birds Bring Forth the Sun and Other Stories by Alistair MacLeod
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe superbly crafted stories collected in Alistair MacLeod’s As Birds Bring Forth the Sun and Other Stories depict men and women acting out their “own peculiar mortality” against the haunting landscape of Cape Breton Island... -
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Richard Scarry's Best First Book Ever! by Richard Scarry
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIllus. in full color. Favorite Scarry animal characters introduce simple learning concepts and over 700 words... -
Collected Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsKnown today primarily as the author of The Great Gatsby , F. Scott Fitzgerald was famous in the 1920s and 1930s as a short-story writer. The nineteen stories in this volume were so popular that hardcover collections— Flappers and Philosophers and Tales of the Jazz Ag e—came out almost immediately after the stories had appeared in magazines... -
Betting on the Muse: Poems and Stories by Charles Bukowski
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsVirtually everything Black Sparrow publishes is worthwhile, but without Bukowski, whose 40-odd books kept Black Sparrow's bread buttered right up until his death in 1994, none of the rest of it would be possible. Fortunately, "Buk" left plenty of unpublished manuscript behind that, judging from this culling from it, is of a piece with the published stuff... -
Mortimer by Robert Munsch
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWith over half a million copies in print, Mortimer is one of Robert Munsch’s most popular and beloved books. Mortimer is the story “... of a little boy who won’t go to sleep at night and who drives his family crazy with his rowdiness ... [It] reads as though it was written by a parent driven frantic by one of the contemporary but compulsive stages of childrearing .. -
Amelia Bedelia and the Baby by Peggy Parish
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsTaking care of baby Amelia Bedelia has her hands full when she takes care of Mrs. Lane's baby. As usual, the literal-minded housekeeper mixes things up, but she also wins the heart of her newest and youngest fan... -
Where The Winds Dwell by Böðvar Guðmundsson, Bovar Gumundsson
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWritten as a letter from a father to a daughter, Where the Winds Dwell is compassionate and real. Guðmundsson brings together past and present in this tragic story of the historic journey to Nýja Ísland, the world's largest Icelandic community outside of Iceland... -
Russian Stories/Русские Рассказы: A Dual-Language Book by Gleb Struve
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTwelve superb tales by Chekhov, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Pushkin, Bunin, other masters. Excellent word-for-word English translations on facing pages. Also teaching and practice aids, Russian-English vocabulary, biographical/critical introductions to each selection, study questions, more. Especially helpful are the stress accents in the Russian text, usually found only in primers... -
McKellan's Run by Nicole Hurley-Moore
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsYears ago, Violet Beckett made the mistake of falling for the wrong McKellan brother and both she and her younger sister, Lily, paid the price. Now eight years later, fate has brought Violet and her daughter, Holly, back to the house Violet grew up in. As soon as Violet runs into James 'Mac' McKellan, she wonders if she should run all the way back to the city... -
James Joyce: The Complete Collection by James Joyce
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis ebook contains James Joyce's complete works.This edition has been professionally formatted and contains several tables of contents. The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume... -
Breaking Into Japanese Literature: Seven Modern Classics in Parallel Text - Revised Edition by Giles Murray
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA collection of seven great works of Japanese literature in the original language, along with the English translation and a newly-revised custom dictionary - plus downloadable audio.Breaking into Japanese Literature lets readers enjoy seven classic stories in the original Japanese... -
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The Selected Poems of Wang Wei by Wang Wei
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDavid Hinton, whose much-acclaimed translations of Li Po and Tu Fu have become classics, now completes the triumvirate of China's greatest poets with The Selected Poems of Wang Wei . Wang Wei (701-761 C.E.) is often spoken of, with his contemporaries Li Po and Tu Fu, as one of the three greatest poets in China's 3,000-year poetic tradition... -
A White Bird Flying by Bess Streeter Aldrich
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAbbie Deal, the matriarch of a pioneer Nebraska family, has died at the beginning of A White Bird Flying, leaving her china and heavy furniture to others and to her granddaughter Laura the secret of her dream of finer things...Categorized as:
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Lady with Lapdog and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov, David Magarshack
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis collection contains the following eleven stories:Grief AgafyaMisfortune A Boring Story (From an Old Man's Notebook)The GrasshopperWard No. 6Ariadne The House with an AtticIonychThe DarlingThe Lady with the LapdogAnton Pavlovich Chekhov may be likened to his contemporaries, the "pointilliste" painters... -
Storybook Treasury of Dick and Jane and Friends by William S. Gray
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIncludes: "We Look and See; We Come and Go"; and "The New We Work and Play... -
Shelley: Poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsPercy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), perhaps the most intellectually adventurous of the great Romantic poets, personified the richly various- and contradictory- energies of his time. A classicist, a headlong visionary, a social radical, and a poet of serene artistry with a lyric touch second to none, Shelley gave voice to English romanticism's deepest aspirations... -
Reeds and Mud by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSet in Valencia, a poverty stricken city on the coast of Spain, this novel portrays the struggle of the common man against his environment. Based on the author's first hand experience in this area, the story centres around three generations of a poor Valencian family (circa 1900) who are as divided in their views on how to get along in this hostile world as any three individuals can be...
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