9 must-read music books like The Tales of Hoffmann Les contes d'Hoffmann by Jacques Offenbach

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The Tales of Hoffmann Les contes d'Hoffmann

By: Jacques Offenbach

3.90

Format: 187 pages, Kindle Edition

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1. Il Trovatore

By: Giuseppe Verdi

4.03

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

The Black Dog Opera Library is the most popular, informative, and budget-friendly way to enjoy all … read more

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  • music
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2. The Crow Road

By: Iain Banks

4.08

Format: 501 pages, Paperback

This is an alternative cover edition for ISBN 9780349103235 'It was the day my grandmother explo… read more

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  • fiction
"I mean, nobody tells you sex is going to be so _noisy_, do they? ..."

-Iain Banks, The Crow Road

"Och, stop being so sensitive, Prentice; it isn't much fun getting old. One of the few pleasures that do come your way is to speak your mind... Certainly annoying your relatives is enjoyable too, but …"

-Iain Banks, The Crow Road

"The flames had passed over those flattened blades and consumed their heather neighbours on either side while they themselves had remained, made proof against the blaze and guaranteed their stark surv…"

-Iain Banks, The Crow Road

"People can be teachers and idiots; they can be philosophers and idiots; they can be politicians and idiots... in fact I think they have to be... a genius can be an idiot. The world is largely run for…"

-Iain Banks, The Crow Road

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3. The Comedy of Errors

By: William Shakespeare

3.72

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Excerpt from Die Kom�die der Irrungen Geste Grayorum or the History of the High and mighty Princ… read more

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  • fiction
"Why should their liberty than ours be more?"

-William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors

"Mi corazón ora por él, aunque mi lengua lo maldiga."

-William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors

"El tiempo es insolvente y debe más de lo que tiene."

-William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors

"¡A cuántos tontos enamorados esclaviza la locura de los celos!"

-William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors

Cover of Puccini's La Boheme (the Dover Opera Libretto Series) by Giacomo Puccini, Giuseppe Giacosa, Luigi Illica, Ellen H. Bleiler

4. Puccini's La Boheme (the Dover Opera Libretto Series)

By: Giacomo Puccini , Giuseppe Giacosa , Luigi Illica , Ellen H. Bleiler

3.98

Format: 392 pages, Paperback

Next to Verdi's Aida,Giacomo Puccini's La Bohemeis the most popular opera ever written. Performance… read more

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  • music
Cover of The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen, Anthea Bell, Lisbeth Zwerger

5. The Little Mermaid

By: Hans Christian Andersen , Anthea Bell , Lisbeth Zwerger

3.98

Format: 48 pages, Hardcover

From Book Synopsis: Andersen's fairy tales, which have been translated into more than 125 language… read more

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  • fiction
"But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more."

-Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid

"...and she put a wreath of white lilies round her hair, but every petal of the flowers was half a pearl;"

-Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid

"Never had she danced so beautifully; the sharp knives cut her feet, but she did not feel it, for the pain in her heart was far greater."

-Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid

"At first she was overjoyed that he would be with her, but then she recalled that human people could not live under the water, and he could only visit her father's palace as a dead man."

-Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid

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6. Carmen

By: Prosper Mérimée

2.50

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Carmen is a novella by Prosper Merimee, written & 1st published in 1845. It has been adapted into a… read more

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  • music
  • fiction
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7. The Divine Comedy

By: Dante Alighieri , Eugenio Montale , Allen Mandelbaum

4.29

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

The Divine Comedy, translated by Allen Mandelbaum, begins in a shadowed forest on Good Friday in th… read more

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  • fiction
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8. The Tale of Peter Rabbit (World of Beatrix Potter, #1)

By: Beatrix Potter

4.22

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

"Now, my dears," said old Mrs Rabbit one morning, "you may go into the fields or down the lane, but… read more

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  • fiction
"I am aware these little books don't last long even if they are a success."

-Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Peter Rabbit (World of Beatrix Potter, #1)

"Peter was not very well during the evening. His mother put him to bed, and made some chamomile tea: "One table-spoonful to be taken at bedtime."

-Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Peter Rabbit (World of Beatrix Potter, #1)

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9. 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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  • 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

Cover of Nutcracker by E.T.A. Hoffmann, Ralph Manheim, Maurice Sendak

10. 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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  • fiction
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11. Don Giovanni in Full Score

By: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Opera and Choral Scores

3.81

Format: 225 pages, Paperback

This is the complete orchestral and vocal score of Mozart's Don Giovanni, considered by many to be … read more

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  • music
Cover of Henry V by William Shakespeare, Barbara A. Mowat, Paul Werstine

12. Henry V

By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine

4.00

Format: 126 pages, Paperback

Henry Vis Shakespeare's most famous "war play"; it includes the storied English victory over the Fr… read more

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  • fiction

13. La casa de Bernarda Alba

By: Federico García Lorca , None , None

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Focus Student Editions are designed for Spanish language courses in literature and culture. Pre… read more

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14. Dido And Aeneas

By: Henry Purcell

3.19

Format: 292 pages, Paperback

Expertly arranged Vocal Score by Henry Purcell from the Kalmus Edition series. This is from the Bar… read more

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15. Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

By: Marcel Proust , Simon Vance , Lydia Davis

4.15

Format: 710 pages, Mass Market Paperback

«Et tout d'un coup le souvenir m'est apparu. Ce goût, c'était celui du petit morceau de madeleine q… read more

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"Longtemps, je me suis couché de bonne heure."

-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

"the comfort of reclusion, the poetry of hibernation"

-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

"Now are the woods all black, But still the sky is blue."

-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

"Fall in love with a dog's bum, And thou'll think it pretty as a plum."

-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

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16. A Doll's House

By: Henrik Ibsen , Michael Meyer

3.76

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

A Doll's House (1879), is a masterpiece of theatrical craft which, for the first time portrayed the… read more

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  • fiction
"Laughter's all the damned thing's fit for."

-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

"I must make up my mind which is right – society or I."

-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

"لن تفقدوني طويلاً، فالراحلون سرعان ما ينطوون في زوايا النسيان."

-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

"أنا ارى الناس صنفين .. صنف تعشقه المرأة، وصنف تحب أن تتجاذب معه أطراف الحديث."

-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

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17. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

By: Tennessee Williams

4.06

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof first heated up Broadway in 1955 with its gothic American story of brothers v… read more

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  • fiction
"BRICK [to the moon]: I envy you--you cool son of a bitch."

-Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

"We mustn't scream at each other, the walls in this house have ears..."

-Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

"Maggie, we're through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door."

-Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

"A drinking man's someone who wants to forget he isn't still young and believing"

-Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

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18. Tales from the Perilous Realm

By: J.R.R. Tolkien

4.03

Format: 178 pages, Paperback

'Four classic tales from the author of The Hobbit The fat and unheroic Farmer Giles of Ham is calle… read more

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  • fiction
"God is the Lord, of angels, and of men... and of elves. Legend and History have met and fused"

-J.R.R. Tolkien, Tales from the Perilous Realm

"Bet visą tą laiką Makaliukas Klajūnas laukė pasirodant paštininkės Klyksnės su naujienomis iš žemės (net maži šuniukai žino, kad tai dažniausiai žmogžudystės ir futbolo rungtynių rezultatai, bet kart…"

-J.R.R. Tolkien, Tales from the Perilous Realm

"He was kindhearted, in a way. You know the sort of kind heart: it made him uncomfortable more often than it made him do anything; and even when he did anything, it did not prevent him from grumbling,…"

-J.R.R. Tolkien, Tales from the Perilous Realm

"Fantasy is a natural human activity. It certainly does not destroy or even insult Reason; and it does not either blunt the appetite for, nor obscure the perception of, scientific veracity. On the con…"

-J.R.R. Tolkien, Tales from the Perilous Realm

19. Pippi Longstocking

By: Astrid Lindgren , Louis S. Glanzman , Florence Lamborn

4.41

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

The beloved story of a spunky young girl and her hilarious escapades. Tommy and his sister Annika h… read more

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20. The Queen of Spades

By: Alexander Pushkin , None

2.18

Format: 166 pages, Paperback

The Queen of Spades(Russian: Pikovaya dama) is an acclaimed short story by Alexander Pushkin about … read more

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21. Much Ado About Nothing

By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine , Gail Kern Paster , None

3.92

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

The action is set in Sicily, where Don Pedro, Prince of Aragon, has recently defeated his half-brot… read more

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22. The Magic Flute (Die Zauberflote) in Full Score

By: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

3.53

Format: None pages, Paperback

"...it is the evident quietapprobation which best pleases me! It is apparent that this opera is ris… read more

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23. The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches

By: Matsuo Bashō , None

4.29

Format: None pages, Paperback

In later life Basho turned to Zen Buddhism, and the travel sketched in this volume relfect his atte… read more

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24. Bodas de sangre

By: Federico García Lorca , Juan Caballero , Allen Josephs

3.95

Format: None pages, Paperback

El tema de esta obra surgio a raiz de una noticia aparecida en prensa: dos amantes se fugan en la v… read more

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Cover of Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders by Neil Gaiman

25. Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

By: Neil Gaiman

3.96

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

This is an alternate cover edition for ISBN 0060515236 (ISBN13: 9780060515232). Fragile Things is … read more

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  • fiction
"Words can wound, and wounds can heal."

-Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

"We save our lives in such unlikely ways."

-Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

"On the whole, stories don't write themselves."

-Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

"I was not so old that I would deny my own senses."

-Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

Cover of The Tales of Hoffmann Les contes d'Hoffmann by Jacques Offenbach

26. The Tales of Hoffmann Les contes d'Hoffmann

By: Jacques Offenbach

3.90

Format: 187 pages, Kindle Edition

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteer… read more

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Cover of Pagliacci in Full Score (Dover Opera Scores) by Ruggero Leoncavallo

27. Pagliacci in Full Score (Dover Opera Scores)

By: Ruggero Leoncavallo

4.05

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

One of the most enduringly popular of all operas, Pagliacci is a classic of the verismo, or realist… read more

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28. La Traviata (Overture Opera Guides)

By: Giuseppe Verdi

4.15

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

A complete guide to Giuseppe Verdi's 18th opera, showing him at the height of his middle-period pow… read more

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Cover of Tosca (Black Dog Opera Library) by Daniel S. Brink

29. Tosca (Black Dog Opera Library)

By: Daniel S. Brink

4.10

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

The Black Dog Opera Library is the most popular, informative, and budget-friendly way to enjoy the … read more

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  • music
  • fiction
Cover of Norma: Libretto (G. Schirmer's Collection of Opera Librettos) by Vincenzo Bellini

30. Norma: Libretto (G. Schirmer's Collection of Opera Librettos)

By: Vincenzo Bellini

4.22

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

(Opera). Italian/English. read more

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Cover of Falstaff: English National Opera Guide 10 (English National Opera Guides) by Giuseppe Verdi

31. Falstaff: English National Opera Guide 10 (English National Opera Guides)

By: Giuseppe Verdi

4.32

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

The English National Opera Guides were originally conceived in partnership with the English Nationa… read more

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15 must-read fiction books like The Tales of Hoffmann Les contes d'Hoffmann by Jacques Offenbach

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The Crow Road

Iain Banks

4.08

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The Comedy of Errors

William Shakespeare

3.72

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The Little Mermaid

Hans Christian Andersen , Anthea Bell , Lisbeth Zwerger

3.98

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Prosper Mérimée

2.50

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The Beauty and the Beast (MinaLima Edition)

Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve , MinaLima , James Robinson Planché

3.72

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The Night Before Christmas

Clement Clarke Moore , Jan Brett

4.39

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L. Frank Baum

3.81

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Mary De Morgan , Sylvie Monti

3.64

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