11 Top classics books like 1914, and Other Poems by Rupert Brooke

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1914, and Other Poems

By: Rupert Brooke

4.39

Format: None pages,

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Cover of A Shropshire Lad by A.E. Housman

1. A Shropshire Lad

By: A.E. Housman

4.02

Format: 51 pages, Paperback

Few volumes of poetry in the English language have enjoyed as much success with both literary conno… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • british literature
  • war
  • fiction
"The tree of man was never quiet: Then 'twas the Roman, now 'tis I."

-A.E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad

"Tis the old wind in the old anger, But then it threshed another wood."

-A.E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad

"Ale, man, Ale's the stuff to drink, for fellows whom it hurts to think."

-A.E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad

"By brooks too broad for leaping The lightfoot boys are laid; The rose-lipt girls are sleeping In fields where roses fade."

-A.E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad

Cover of The War Poets: An Anthology by Various, Siegfried Sassoon

2. The War Poets: An Anthology

By: Various , Siegfried Sassoon

4.43

Format: 78 pages, Hardcover

A collection of poems written by notable poets of the twentieth century, many of whom saw front lin… read more

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  • poetry
  • world war i
Cover of رباعيات خيام by محمدعلی فروغی, Omar Khayyám, None

3. رباعيات خيام

By: محمدعلی فروغی , Omar Khayyám , None

4.17

Format: 184 pages, Hardcover

Philosopher, astronomer and mathematician, Khayyam as a poet possesses a singular originality. His … read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • fiction
"فعاشر الناس على ريبة .. منهم ولا تكثر منَ الأصدقاء"

-محمدعلی فروغی, رباعيات خيام

"Now the New Year reviving old Desires, The thoughtful Soul to Solitude retires."

-محمدعلی فروغی, رباعيات خيام

"Ah, my Belovéd, fill the cup that clears To-day of past Regret and future Fears."

-محمدعلی فروغی, رباعيات خيام

"The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop, The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one."

-محمدعلی فروغی, رباعيات خيام

Cover of The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien (Maigret #4) by Georges Simenon, Linda Coverdale

4. The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien (Maigret #4)

By: Georges Simenon , Linda Coverdale

3.83

Format: 138 pages, Paperback

 A new translation of a haunting tale about the lengths to which people will go to escape from guil… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"Oh, by the way, while I was having a glass of your delicious gueuze beer, I spotted a crook…"

-Georges Simenon, The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien (Maigret #4)

Cover of Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda, W.S. Merwin, Cristina García

5. Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

By: Pablo Neruda , W.S. Merwin , Cristina García

4.21

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

When it appeared in 1924, this work launched into the international spotlight a young and unknown p… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • fiction
"Tonight I Can Write"

-Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

"I remembered you with my soul clenched"

-Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

"I want to fill my mouth with your name."

-Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

"Every day you play with the light of the universe."

-Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

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6. The Black Cat

By: Edgar Allan Poe

3.40

Format: 300 pages,

"The Black Cat" is one of Edgar Allan Poe's most memorable stories. The tale centers around a black… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
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7. 1914, and Other Poems

By: Rupert Brooke

4.39

Format: None pages,

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  • poetry
  • world war i
  • classics
  • british literature
  • war
  • fiction
Cover of English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs

8. English Fairy Tales

By: Joseph Jacobs

3.82

Format: None pages,

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  • fiction
Cover of Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St.Agnes and Other Poems by John Keats

9. Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St.Agnes and Other Poems

By: John Keats

4.06

Format: 285 pages,

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • fiction
  • british literature
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10. The Man Who Planted Trees

By: Jean Giono

3.85

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

Simply written, but powerful and unforgettable, The Man Who Planted Trees is a parable for modern t… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
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11. Hamlet

By: William Shakespeare , Richard Andrews , Rex Gibson

4.02

Format: 289 pages, Paperback

Among Shakespeare's plays, "Hamlet" is considered by many his masterpiece. Among actors, the role o… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • fiction
"Therein lies the rub."

-William Shakespeare, Hamlet

"Brevity is the soul of wit."

-William Shakespeare, Hamlet

"Conscience doth make cowards of us all."

-William Shakespeare, Hamlet

"A knavish speech sleeps in a fool's ear."

-William Shakespeare, Hamlet

12. The Art of the English Murder: From Jack the Ripper and Sherlock Holmes to Agatha Christie and Alfred Hitchcock

By: Lucy Worsley

3.73

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

Murder -- a dark, shameful deed, the last resort of the desperate or a vile tool of the greedy. And… read more

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13. The Greek Myths

By: Robert Graves

4.57

Format: 270 pages,

Combines in a single volume the complete text of the definitive two-volume classic, citing all the … read more

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14. The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

By: Angela Carter

3.92

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

From familiar fairy tales and legends - Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss in Boots, Beauty and the B… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"Her hair falls down like tears"

-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

"ordered me a sky from a florist"

-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

"My spite was sharp as broken glass"

-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

"My father lost me to the Beast at cards"

-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

15. Selected Poems

By: T.S. Eliot

3.66

Format: None pages, Paperback

Chosen by Eliot himself, the poems in this volume represent the poet's most important work before F… read more

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16. Travelling Light

By: Ali Smith , Tove Jansson , Silvester Mazzarella

4.14

Format: None pages, Paperback

This newly translated collection of stories brilliantly evokes the shifting scenes and restlessness… read more

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17. The Tower

By: W.B. Yeats , Richard J. Finneran

3.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

The first edition of W. B. Yeats's The Towerappeared in bookstores in London on Valentine's Day, 19… read more

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18. Sonnets from the Portuguese

By: Elizabeth Barrett Browning

3.88

Format: None pages,

Excerpt from Sonnets From the Portuguese But only three in all God's universe Have heard this word … read more

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19. Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

By: David Mitchell

4.16

Format: 433 pages, ebook

A rollicking history of England's earliest kings and queens, a story of narcissists, excessive behe… read more

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  • british literature
"The defeat of the Armada in 1588 was Elizabeth's high point. Things went downhill after that. Militarily the triumph against Spain was rather undermined the following year when Elizabeth sent her own…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"There were a couple of positives: in 1554, the Queen Regent's Prerogative Act was passed which made explicit, for the first time, that when a woman inherited the throne - became the sovereign, queen …"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"Standing jaggedly on Senlac Hill, where Harold Godwinson died, possibly as a result of having taken an arrow to the eye - though possibly more boringly than that, some historians have felt constraine…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"Queen Mary was known as Bloody Mary because of the large number of people she killed. And also because of misogyny. She was the first properly crowned woman to rule as queen regnant, not just queen c…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

Cover of Murder Before Evensong (Canon Clement, #1) by Richard  Coles

20. Murder Before Evensong (Canon Clement, #1)

By: Richard Coles

3.32

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

Canon Daniel Clement is Rector of Champton. He has been there for eight years, living at the Rector… read more

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  • fiction
  • british literature
Cover of C+nto and Othered Poems by Joelle Taylor

21. C+nto and Othered Poems

By: Joelle Taylor

4.25

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize 2021. The female body is a political space. C+nto enters the priv… read more

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12 must-read fiction books like 1914, and Other Poems by Rupert Brooke

Transform Your Habits

A Shropshire Lad

A.E. Housman

4.02

Transform Your Habits

رباعيات خيام

محمدعلی فروغی , Omar Khayyám , None

4.17

Transform Your Habits

The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien (Maigret #4)

Georges Simenon , Linda Coverdale

3.83

Transform Your Habits

Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

Pablo Neruda , W.S. Merwin , Cristina García

4.21

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12 Best fiction books like English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs

Transform Your Habits

The Arabian Nights

Anonymous , Richard Francis Burton , A.S. Byatt

4.03

Transform Your Habits

Selected Poems (William Carlos Williams)

William Carlos Williams , Charles Tomlinson

4.16

Transform Your Habits

East o' the Sun and West o' the Moon

P.J. Lynch , Peter Christen Asbjørnsen , George Webbe Dasent , Jørgen Moe , None

4.20

Transform Your Habits

Yvain, or, The Knight with the Lion

Chrétien de Troyes , Ruth Harwood Cline

3.56

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