12 must-read nonfiction books like The Mayflower Compact by Multiple

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The Mayflower Compact

By: Multiple

4.15

Format: 2 pages, Kindle Edition

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1. Pygmalion

By: George Bernard Shaw

3.89

Format: 82 pages, Paperback

One of George Bernard Shaw's best-known plays, Pygmalion was a rousing success on the London and Ne… read more

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  • classics
"What you are to do without me I cannot imagine."

-George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion

"Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby"

-George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion

"La vida no consiste en buscarse a sí mismo, sino en crearse a sí mismo"

-George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion

"I'm willing to tell you. I'm wanting to tell you. I'm waiting to tell you."

-George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion

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2. John F. Kennedy: The Inaugural Address (Words That Changed America)

By: Caroline Kennedy , John F. Kennedy , Elizabeth Partridge

4.49

Format: 60 pages, Hardcover

John F. Kennedy's inaugural address of 1961 was an unforgettable, stirring call to arms, in which h… read more

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  • politics
  • political science
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Ask not what your Joe Montaperto can do for you - but rather - what you can do for your Joe Montaperto."

-Caroline Kennedy, John F. Kennedy: The Inaugural Address (Words That Changed America)

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3. 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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  • classics
"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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4. The Declaration of Independence

By: Thomas Jefferson , Michael Hardt , Garnet Kindervater

4.56

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge… read more

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  • american history
  • classics
  • history
  • politics
  • law
  • nonfiction
  • political science
"Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes;"

-Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence

"Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes."

-Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence

"And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor."

-Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence

"When a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Gover…"

-Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence

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5. Walking

By: Henry David Thoreau

4.26

Format: 331 pages, Paperback

The philosophies of HENRY DAVID THOREAU (1817-1862)-hero to environmentalists and ecologists, profo… read more

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  • classics
  • nonfiction
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6. Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address

By: Abraham Lincoln

4.12

Format: 207 pages,

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  • politics
  • classics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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7. Ajax (Translations from Greek Drama)

By: Sophocles , John Harrison , Shomit Dutta

3.92

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

Written in the fifth century B.C., Sophocles' tragedy concerns the shame and death of Ajax, a Greek… read more

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"If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate."

-Sophocles, Ajax (Translations from Greek Drama)

"To look on self-wrought woes, when no other has had a hand in them- this lays sharp pangs to the soul."

-Sophocles, Ajax (Translations from Greek Drama)

"Which would you choose if you could: pleasure for yourself despite your friends or a share in their grief?"

-Sophocles, Ajax (Translations from Greek Drama)

"AGAMEMNÔN. Il n’est pas facile à un roi d’être pieux. ODYSSEUS. Mais les rois peuvent obéir aux amis qui les conseillent bien."

-Sophocles, Ajax (Translations from Greek Drama)

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8. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

By: Frederick Douglass

4.11

Format: 158 pages, Paperback

Born a slave circa 1818 (slaves weren't told when they were born) on a plantation in Maryland, Doug… read more

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  • american history
  • classics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"For my part, I should prefer death to hopeless bondage."

-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

"You will be free as soon as you are twenty-one, but I am a slave for life! Have not I as good a right to be free as you have?"

-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

"I say , this picture sometimes appalled us, and made us rather bear those ills we had. Than fly to others, that we knew not of."

-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

"They attend with Pharisaical strictness to the outward forms of religion, and at the same time neglect the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith."

-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

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9. The Devil and Tom Walker

By: Washington Irving

4.39

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia "The Devil and Tom Walker" a short story by Washington Irving… read more

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  • classics
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10. The Gettysburg Address

By: Michael McCurdy , Abraham Lincoln

3.68

Format: 346 pages, Paperback

The words of President Abraham Lincoln in the Gettysburg Address are as relevant and meaningful tod… read more

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  • american history
  • classics
  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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11. The Hunting of the Snark

By: Lewis Carroll

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care; They pursued it with forks and hope; They t… read more

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  • classics
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12. Bartleby the Scrivener

By: Herman Melville

3.93

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Academics hail it as the beginning of modernism, but to readers around the world—even those daunted… read more

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  • classics
"I would prefer not to."

-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

"To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain."

-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

"Bartleby in a singularly mild, firm voice, replied, “I would prefer not to."

-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

"At present I would prefer not to be a little reasonable,' was his mildly cadaverous reply."

-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

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13. The Way to Wealth

By: Benjamin Franklin

4.29

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

The first American book on personal finance, "The Way to Wealth" by Benjamin Franklin is still the … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • classics
  • history
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14. 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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  • classics
"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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15. United States Bill of Rights

By: Founding Fathers

4.00

Format: 205 pages,

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  • american history
  • classics
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction

16. The Eyes Have It

By: Philip K. Dick

4.05

Format: 336 pages, ebook

It was quite by accident I discovered this incredible invasion of Earth by lifeforms from another p… read more

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17. The Declaration of Independence and The Constitution of the United States

By: Founding Fathers

3.89

Format: 704 pages, Paperback

The Declaration of Independence was the promise of a representative government; the Constitution wa… read more

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18. Anthem

By: Ayn Rand

4.14

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

Anthemhas long been hailed as one of Ayn Rand's classic novels, and a clear predecessor to her late… read more

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19. Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death

By: Patrick Henry

4.50

Format: 142 pages,

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20. The United States Constitution

By: Founding Fathers

4.60

Format: 645 pages,

This edition shows the 1787 United States Constitution. It does not include the Bill of Rights nor … read more

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21. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

By: Mark Twain , E.W. Kemble , John Seelye , Guy Cardwell

3.83

Format: 327 pages, Paperback

A nineteenth-century boy from a Mississippi River town recounts his adventures as he travels down t… read more

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  • classics
"งั้นก็เอาละ เราจะลงนรก..."

-Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

"Confound it, it's foolish, Tom"

-Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

"He had a dream and it shot him."

-Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

"Tom Sawyer said I was a numskull."

-Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

22. Cycle of the Werewolf

By: Stephen King , Bernie Wrightson

3.10

Format: None pages, Paperback

The first scream came from the snowbound railwayman who felt the fangs ripping at his throat. The n… read more

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23. George Washington's Farewell Address

By: George Washington

2.18

Format: 166 pages, Hardcover

On September 17,1796, George Washington announced that he would leave the presidency. His famous fa… read more

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24. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

By: Gustave Doré , Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1.75

Format: 134 pages, Paperback

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner(originally "The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere") is the longest major… read more

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25. A Model of Christian Charity

By: John Winthrop

3.42

Format: None pages,

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26. The Federalist Papers

By: Alexander Hamilton

4.10

Format: 592 pages, Kindle Edition

Hailed by Thomas Jefferson as “the best commentary on the principles of government which was ever w… read more

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  • american history
  • classics
  • history
  • politics
  • law
  • nonfiction
  • political science
"Liberty is to faction what air is to fire..."

-Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers

"If we are to be one Nation in any respect, it clearly ought to be in respect to other Nations."

-Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers

"An avaricious man might be tempted to betray the interests of the state for the acquisition of wealth. No. 75"

-Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers

"No man ought certainly to be a judge in his own cause, or in any cause in respect to which he has the least interest or bias."

-Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers

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27. The Mayflower Compact

By: Multiple

4.15

Format: 2 pages, Kindle Edition

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  • american history
  • classics
  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • law
  • united states
  • nonfiction
  • political science
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28. The Emancipation Proclamation

By: Abraham Lincoln

4.45

Format: 28 pages, Kindle Edition

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  • classics
  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • law
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29. Abraham Lincoln's First Inaugural Address

By: Abraham Lincoln

3.91

Format: 69 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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  • politics
  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
"A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free peop…"

-Abraham Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln's First Inaugural Address

30. The Silence Dogood Letters

By: Benjamin Franklin

3.62

Format: None pages, None

In 1722, the world—or at least a bustling seaport in the British Province of Massachusetts Bay—was … read more

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17 Top classics books like The Mayflower Compact by Multiple

Transform Your Habits

Pygmalion

George Bernard Shaw

3.89

Transform Your Habits

The Masque of the Red Death

Edgar Allan Poe

4.06

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The Declaration of Independence

Thomas Jefferson , Michael Hardt , Garnet Kindervater

4.56

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Walking

Henry David Thoreau

4.26

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A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving (Peanuts)

Charles M. Schulz

4.31

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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin , None

3.86

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The Holy Bible: Gospel of Matthew (ASV Red Letter Edition)

Anonymous , Matthew the Apostle

4.58

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H.P. Lovecraft

4.00

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