23 must-read classics books like We Wear the Mask by Paul Laurence Dunbar

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We Wear the Mask

By: Paul Laurence Dunbar

4.08

Format: 1 pages, Kindle Edition

"We Wear the Mask" is an 1895 poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar. It is generally considered one of his m…

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1. William Wilson

By: Edgar Allan Poe

3.79

Format: 26 pages, ebook

"William Wilson" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1839, with a setting inspi… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"Let me call myself, for the present, Willam Wilson"

-Edgar Allan Poe, William Wilson

"You have conquered, and I yield. Yet henceforward art thou also dead - dead to the world and its hopes. In me didst thou exist - and, in my death, see by this image, which is thine own, how utterly t…"

-Edgar Allan Poe, William Wilson

"Upon mankind at large the events of very early existence rarely leave in mature age any definite impression. All is gray shadow -- a weak and irregular remembrance -- and indistinct regathering of fe…"

-Edgar Allan Poe, William Wilson

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2. Ozymandias

By: Percy Bysshe Shelley , Theo Gayer-Anderson

4.29

Format: 36 pages, Paperback

A picture book edition of the classic, Ozymandias, was composed in 1817 by P.B. Shelley. "I met … read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • fiction
"And on the pedestal these words appear: 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!' Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and…"

-Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ozymandias

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3. Daisy Miller

By: Henry James

3.37

Format: 164 pages, Paperback

It was in Rome during the autumn of 1877; a friend then living there but settled now in a South les… read more

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  • fiction
"I have never allowed a gentleman to dictate to me, or to interfere with anything I do."

-Henry James, Daisy Miller

"In such hours as this what have we to do with pain? That is not the deepest thing; there is something deeper."

-Henry James, Daisy Miller

"The news that Daisy Miller was surrounded by half a dozen wonderful mustaches checked Winterbourne's impulse to go straightway to see her."

-Henry James, Daisy Miller

"The historic atmosphere was there, certainly; but the historic atmosphere, scientifically considered, was no better than a villainous miasma"

-Henry James, Daisy Miller

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4. Annabel Lee

By: Edgar Allan Poe , Gilles Tibo

4.32

Format: 24 pages,

"Annabel Lee" is the last complete poem composed by American author Edgar Allan Poe. Like many of P… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • fiction
"I was a child and she was a child, In this kingdom by the sea, But we loved with a love that was more than love— I and my Annabel Lee—"

-Edgar Allan Poe, Annabel Lee

"For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And the stars never rise but i feel the bright eyes Of the beautiful Annabel Lee."

-Edgar Allan Poe, Annabel Lee

"But our love it was stronger by far than the love Of those who were older than we— Of many far wiser than we— And neither the angels in Heaven above Nor the demons down under the sea Can ever disseve…"

-Edgar Allan Poe, Annabel Lee

"But our love was stronger by far than the love Of those who were older than we Of many far wiser than we And neither the angels in heaven above, Nor the demons down under the sea, Can ever dissever m…"

-Edgar Allan Poe, Annabel Lee

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5. The Premature Burial

By: Edgar Allan Poe

3.76

Format: 32 pages,

The Premature Burial is a horror classic written by Edgar Allan Poe. This is a horror short story o… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Premature Burial

"There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Premature Burial

"I looked; and the unseen figure, which still grasped me by the wrist, bad caused to be thrown open the graves of all mankind; and from each issued the faint phosphoric radiance of decay; so that I co…"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Premature Burial

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6. Some Words With a Mummy

By: Edgar Allan Poe

3.39

Format: 34 pages,

Some Words with a Mummy is a satirical short story by Edgar Allan Poe. Doctor Ponnonner invites… read more

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  • fiction
"As for Progress it was at one time quite a nuisance, but it never progressed."

-Edgar Allan Poe, Some Words With a Mummy

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7. The Dead

By: James Joyce

3.99

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Often cited as the best work of short fiction ever written, Joyce's story details a New Year's Eve … read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"Like distant music these words that he had written years before were borne towards him from the past."

-James Joyce, The Dead

"Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?"

-James Joyce, The Dead

"In one letter that he had written to her then he had said: 'Why is it that words like these seem to me so dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?"

-James Joyce, The Dead

"Escuchando esta noche los nombres de esos grandes cantantes del pasado me pa­reció, debo confesarlo, que vivimos en época menos espaciosa. Aquéllos se pueden llamar, sin exageración, días espaciosos:…"

-James Joyce, The Dead

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8. The Raven

By: Edgar Allan Poe , Gustave Doré

4.29

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

In Gustave Doré, one of the most prolific and successful book illustrators of the late 19h century,… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • fiction
"Quoth the raven nevermore."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven

"Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven

"La ciencia no nos a enseñado aun si la locura es o no lo mas sublime de la inteligencia"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven

"And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor Shall be lifted Nevermore"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven

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9. The Masque of the Red Death

By: Edgar Allan Poe

4.06

Format: 9 pages, Paperback

The story follows Prince Prospero's attempts to avoid a dangerous plague known as the Red Death by … read more

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  • fiction
"Existem cordas, nos corações dos mais indiferentes, que não podem ser tocadas sem emoção."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death

"Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death

"There was much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death

"And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death

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10. Berenice

By: Edgar Allan Poe

3.00

Format: 12 pages, Paperback

Bereniceis a horror short story by Edgar Allan Poe. The tale is centered on the death of a young gi… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
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11. 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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12. The Story of an Hour

By: Kate Chopin

4.07

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

In these four stories, Kate Chopin subtly captures the intricate interior lives of a generation of … read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"Spring days, and summer days, and all sorts of days that would be her own. She breathed a quick prayer that life might be long. It was only yesterday she had thought with a shudder that life might be…"

-Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour

"there would be no powerful will binding hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow creature…And yet she had loved him- so…"

-Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour

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13. The City in the Sea

By: Edgar Allan Poe

4.03

Format: 480 pages,

The poem tells the story of a city ruled by Death using common elements from Gothic fiction. read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
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14. The Waste Land

By: T.S. Eliot , Michael North

3.80

Format: 245 pages, Paperback

The text of Eliot's 1922 masterpiece is accompanied by thorough explanatory annotations as well as … read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • fiction
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15. Spirits of the Dead: Tales and Other Poems

By: Edgar Allan Poe

3.91

Format: 20 pages, Paperback

This is a unique one volume collection of all Poe's best tales and poems. Full of variety, the entr… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • fiction
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16. The Pit and the Pendulum

By: Edgar Allan Poe

4.15

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Get set for true terror in one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous short stories. We enter the mind… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • fiction
"How at least shall we distinguish its shadows from those of the tomb?"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum

"In the deepest slumber-no! In delirium-no! In a swoon-no! In death-no! even in the grave all is not lost."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum

"In death - no! even in the grave all is not lost. Else there is no immortality for man. Arousing from the most profound slumbers, we break the gossamer web of some dream. Yet in a second afterward, (…"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum

"He who has never swooned, is not he who finds strange palaces and wildly familiar faces in coals that glow; is not he who beholds floating in mid-air the sad visions that the many may not view; is no…"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum

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17. The Tell-Tale Heart

By: Edgar Allan Poe , Byron Glaser , None

4.24

Format: 31 pages, Library Binding

A man confronts himself and an unknown listener with his desire to murder an old man. In this cl… read more

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"would a madman have been so wise as this?"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart

"And have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the sense?"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart

"If you still think me mad, you will think so no longer when I describe the wise precautions I took for the concealment of the body."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart

"Basta ya de fingir, malvados! -aullé-. ¡Confieso que lo maté! ¡Levanten esos tablones! ¡Ahí… ahí! ¡Donde está latiendo su horrible corazón!"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart

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18. A Dream Within a Dream

By: Edgar Allan Poe

3.89

Format: 197 pages,

A Dream Within a Dreamis a poem written by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1849. The poem quest… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • fiction

19. Ligeia

By: Edgar Allan Poe

3.51

Format: 235 pages,

Suspense, fear and the supernatural provide the center for this tale by the master prose writer. read more

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20. Ulysses

By: Alfred Tennyson

4.50

Format: 142 pages,

Facing old age, mythical hero Ulysses describes his discontent and restlessness upon returning to h… read more

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21. The Pilgrim's Progress

By: John Bunyan

4.06

Format: 324 pages, Paperback

This famous story of man's progress through life in search of salvation remains one of the most ent… read more

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  • fiction
"Follow your heart"

-John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

"Dark clouds bring waters, when the bright bring none."

-John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

"They are my fears of him, too. But who can hinder that which will be?"

-John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

"Now, Mr. Great-heart was a strong man, so he was not afraid of a lion."

-John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

22. The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

By: Mark Twain

4.75

Format: 140 pages, Hardcover

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" is a wild yarn involving a case of mistaken identi… read more

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23. The Fall of the House of Usher

By: Edgar Allan Poe

3.87

Format: 36 pages, Paperback

Take the plunge. Dive into this classic from the singular mind of Edgar Allan Poe, who is widely re… read more

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  • fiction
"[Son] cœur est un luth suspendu; Sitôt qu'on le touche il résonne. — De Béranger "

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher

"A cadaverousness of complexion; an eye large, liquid and very luminous...finely molded chin, speaking, in its want of prominence, of a want of moral energy."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher

"It was, perhaps, the narrow limits to which he thus confined himself upon the guitar, which gave birth, in great measure, to the fantastic character of his performances."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher

"Er is geen twijfel mogelijk dat mijn bewustzijn van de snelle groei van mijn bijgeloof (want waarom zou ik het niet zo noemen?) de groei alleen maar scheen te versnellen. Dat is, zoals ik al lange ti…"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher

24. El escarabajo de oro

By: Edgar Allan Poe

2.35

Format: 62 pages, Paperback

El escarabajo de oro (titulo original en ingles: The Gold Bug) es uno de los cuentos mas conocidos … read more

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25. I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!

By: Dr. Seuss

4.14

Format: None pages, Paperback

"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more you learn, the more places you'll … read more

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26. Never Bet the Devil Your Head

By: Edgar Allan Poe

3.97

Format: 649 pages, ebook

The narrator, presented as the author himself, is dismayed by literary critics saying that he has n… read more

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27. The Cask of Amontillado

By: Edgar Allan Poe

4.08

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

"The Cask of Amontillado" (sometimes spelled "The Casque ..") is a short story written by Edgar All… read more

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  • fiction
"For the love of God, Montresor!"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado

"He did not perceive that my smile now was at the thought of his immolation."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado

"The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado

"The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could; but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado

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28. The Murders in the Rue Morgue (C. Auguste Dupin, #1)

By: Edgar Allan Poe

3.82

Format: 38 pages, Paperback

".. Rue Morgue" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe first published in "Graham's Magazine" in 1841.… read more

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  • fiction
"The mental features discoursed of as the analytical, are, in themselves, but little susceptible of analysis."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue (C. Auguste Dupin, #1)

"I was deeply interested in the little family history which he detailed to me with all that candor which a Frenchman indulges whenever mere self is the theme."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue (C. Auguste Dupin, #1)

"There are very few persons who have not, at some period of their lives, amused themselves in retracing the steps by which particular conclusions of their own minds have been attained."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue (C. Auguste Dupin, #1)

"You will say, no doubt, using the language of the law, that 'to make out my case,' I should rather undervalue, than insist upon a full estimation of the activity required in this matter. This may be …"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue (C. Auguste Dupin, #1)

29. Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (Scary Stories, #1)

By: Stephen Gammell , Alvin Schwartz

4.28

Format: None pages,

This spooky addition to Alvin Schwartz's popular books on American folklore is filled with tales of… read more

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30. Chickamauga

By: Ambrose Bierce

3.73

Format: 216 pages,

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31. We Wear the Mask

By: Paul Laurence Dunbar

4.08

Format: 1 pages, Kindle Edition

"We Wear the Mask" is an 1895 poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar. It is generally considered one of his m… read more

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22 best-selling fiction books like We Wear the Mask by Paul Laurence Dunbar

Transform Your Habits

William Wilson

Edgar Allan Poe

3.79

Transform Your Habits

Ozymandias

Percy Bysshe Shelley , Theo Gayer-Anderson

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Daisy Miller

Henry James

3.37

Transform Your Habits

Annabel Lee

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4.32

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3.50

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