18 books like Curiosities of literature

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How to Fail in Literature (Reprint) Andrew Lang · 1890 · ★ 4.0 · 31p · ≈ 1h · Challenging Shares Anecdotes, Humor, Literature with this book.
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Curiosities of literature Isaac Disraeli · 1791 · 580p · ≈ 19h · Challenging Shares Anecdotes, History and criticism, Humor, English literature with this book.
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Shi shuo xin yu Liu, Yiqing · 1615 · ★ 3.5 · 232p · ≈ 7h · Challenging Shares Anecdotes, Humor with this book.
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Gentle craft Deloney, Thomas · 1627 · 63p · ≈ 2h · Challenging Shares Anecdotes, Humor with this book.
A continuation of the exercises, in Scurrility Hall
A continuation of the exercises, in Scurrility Hall Isaac Hunt · 1765 Shares Anecdotes, Humor with this book.
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The theory & practice of gamesmanship Stephen Potter · 1940 · 128p · ≈ 4h · Moderate Shares Anecdotes, Humor with this book.
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The book of snobs William Makepeace Thackeray · 1848 · ★ 3.7 · 248p · ≈ 8h · Challenging Thackeray contributed regularly to Fraser's Magazine, Morning Chronicle, New Monthly Magazine and The Times. His writings attracted first attention in Punch, where he satirized English snobbery. These sketches reappeared in 1848 as The Book of Snobs, stating in it that "he who meanly admires mean things is a Snob." Shares Anecdotes, Humor
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Anecdotes médicales; bons mots, pensées et maximes, chansons, épigrammes, etc Gustave Joseph Witkowski · 1880 · 300p · ≈ 10h · Challenging Shares Anecdotes, Humor with this book.
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Sketches of Lavender, Blue, and Green Jerome Klapka Jérôme · 1897 · 138p · ≈ 4h · Challenging Shares Humor, English literature with this book.
The Last Mrs. Summers
The Last Mrs. Summers Rhys Bowen · 2020 · 389p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Lady Georgiana Rannoch is just back from her honeymoon with dashing Darcy O’Mara when a friend in need pulls her into a twisted Gothic tale of betrayal, deception and, most definitely, murder. . . .I am a bit at loose ends at the moment. My cook, Queenie, is making my new role as mistress of Eynsleigh something akin to constant torture as Darcy is off on another one of his top secret jaunts. And… Shares English literature
The Hunter
The Hunter Tana French · 2024 · ★ 4.5 · 448p · ≈ 14h · Moderate It’s a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is coming home. Both of them are coming to get rich. One of them is coming to die. Cal Hooper took early retirement from Chicago PD and moved to rural Ireland looking for peace. He’s found it, more or less: he’s built a relationship with a local woman, Lena, and he’s gradually turning Trey Reddy… Shares English literature
The House Next Door
The House Next Door Darcy Coates · 2020 · 256p · ≈ 8h · Moderate I live next to a haunted house. I began to suspect something was wrong with the gothic building when its family fled in the middle of the night, the children screaming, the mother crying. They never came back to pack up their furniture. No family stays long. Animals avoid the place. Once, I thought I saw a woman’s silhouette pacing through the upstairs room… but that seems impossible; no… Shares English literature
In Plain Sight
In Plain Sight Marion Todd · 2020 · 384p · ≈ 12h · Moderate A child's life is at stake. Which of the residents of St Andrews is hiding something and why? When a baby girl is snatched from the crowd of spectators at a fun run, the local police have a major investigation on their hands. DI Clare Mackay and her team are in a race against the clock when they learn that the child has a potentially fatal medical condition. As Clare investigates she realises… Shares English literature
Fortress of Fury
Fortress of Fury Matthew Harffy · 2020 · 432p · ≈ 14h · Moderate AVAILABLE TO PREORDER NOW: BANE OF BERNICIA, THE UNMISSABLE NEW BERNICIA CHRONICLES ADVENTURE FROM MATTHEW HARFFY! Warlord Beobrand finds himself besieged in a mighty fortress in this action-packed Dark Ages adventure set in Anglo-Saxon Britain. AD 647. War hangs heavy in the hot summer air as Penda of Mercia marches into the northern kingdom of Bernicia. Caught unawares, the Bernician forces… Shares English literature
The Room in the Attic
The Room in the Attic Louise Douglas · 2021 THE #2 BESTSELLERDiscover the latest chilling, unputdownable novel, from the Richard and Judy bestseller.A child who does not know her name…In 1903 fishermen find a wrecked boat containing a woman, who has been badly beaten, and a young girl. An ambulance is sent for, and the two survivors are taken to All Hallows, the imposing asylum, hidden deep on Dartmoor. The woman remains in a coma, but the… Shares English literature
The House of the Witch
The House of the Witch Clare Marchant · 2024 ‘Totally gripping and atmospheric. This hypnotic timeslip about witches is compulsive reading. Breathtaking and beautifully written… Will stay with the reader long after the last page.’ Bestselling author of The Witch’s Tree, Elena CollinsNow: When Adrianna arrives at the small, run-down cottage, near the sea in rural Norfolk, she can’t help but breathe a sigh of relief. Here she can forget her… Shares English literature
The Pursuit of William Abbey
The Pursuit of William Abbey Claire North · 2019 · ★ 3.8 · 432p · ≈ 14h · Moderate A hauntingly powerful novel about how the choices we make can stay with us forever, by the award-winning author of The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August and 84K."Gripping, bloody, and haunting." —Kirkus Reviews South Africa in the 1880s. A young and naive English doctor by the name of William Abbey witnesses the lynching of a local boy by the white colonists. As the child dies, his mother… Shares English literature
The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot
The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot Marianne Cronin · 2021 · ★ 4.3 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Moderate An extraordinary friendship. A lifetime of stories. Seventeen-year-old Lenni Pettersson lives on the Terminal Ward at the Glasgow Princess Royal Hospital. Though the teenager has been told she’s dying, she still has plenty of living to do. Joining the hospital’s arts and crafts class, she meets the magnificent Margot, an 83-year-old, purple-pajama-wearing, fruitcake-eating rebel, who… Shares English literature

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