The Battle of Maldon
By: Anonymous
3.72
Format: 89 pages, Paperback
Text and translation of the Anglo-Saxon poem.
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1. 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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"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
2. The Yellow Wall-Paper
By: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
4.07
Format: 54 pages, Paperback
'The color is hideous enough, and unreliable enough, and infuriating enough, but the pattern is tor… read more
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"I am a doctor, dear, and I know. You are gaining flesh and color, your appetite is better. I feel really much easier about you." "I don't weigh a bit more," said I, "nor as much; and my appetite may …"-Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper
3. 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
- school
- british literature
"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
4. Top Girls
By: Caryl Churchill
3.58
Format: 87 pages, Paperback
Set in the early Thatcher years, Top Girls is a seminal play of the modern theatre, revealing a wor… read more
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- classics
- school
- read for school
5. Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table
By: Robert Graves , Thomas Malory , Keith Baines
3.92
Format: 512 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Presents the story of King Arthur, his knights of the Round Table, the sword Excalibur, and his tra… read more
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- poetry
- medieval
- classics
"Ah Gawaine, Gawaine, ye have betrayed me; for never shall my court be amended by you, but ye will never be sorry for me as I am for you"-Robert Graves, Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table
"Yet some men say in many parts of England that King Arthur is not dead, but had by the will of our Lord Jesu into another place; and men say that he shall come again, and he shall win the holy cross."-Robert Graves, Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table
"Yet some men say in many parts of England that King Arthur is not dead, but had by the will of our Lord Jesu into another place. And men say that he shall come again, and he shall win the the Holy Cr…"-Robert Graves, Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table
"...and then the threw the sword as far into the water as he might; and there came an arm and a hand above the water and met it, and caught it, and so shook it thrice and brandished, and then vanished…"-Robert Graves, Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table
6. Völuspá
By: Unknown
4.12
Format: 30 pages,
The first and best-known poem of the Poetic Edda. read more
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- poetry
- medieval
- classics
7. The Song of Roland
By: Unknown , Dorothy L. Sayers
3.51
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
On 15 August 778, Charlemagne’s army was returning from a successful expedition against Saracen Spa… read more
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- classics
- school
8. Waiting for Godot
By: Samuel Beckett
3.63
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Cuando en 1953 se estreno en Paris Esperando a Godot, casi nadie sabia quien era Samuel Beckett, sa… read more
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- school
9. Rip Van Winkle
By: Washington Irving
3.81
Format: 343 pages, Paperback
What would you do if you met the Strange Men in the mountains? Would you dare to pass the haunted t… read more
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10. 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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11. Beowulf
By: Unknown , Seamus Heaney
3.49
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures… read more
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"Fate goes ever as fate must."-Unknown, Beowulf
"Fate will unwind as it must!"-Unknown, Beowulf
"Let whoever can win glory before death."-Unknown, Beowulf
"We all know a boy can't daddy until his daddy's dead."-Unknown, Beowulf
12. The Franklin's Prologue and Tale
By: Geoffrey Chaucer
3.24
Format: 202 pages, Paperback
This well-established series is now being updated with scholarly introductions and attractive new c… read more
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13. Desiree's Baby
By: Kate Chopin , None
3.56
Format: 256 pages, Audiobook
Kate Chopin was an American author of short stories and novels, mostly with a Louisiana Creole back… read more
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15. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
By: Unknown , None , Burton Raffel
4.50
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
Written by an anonymous 14th-century poet, this epic poem is recognized as an equal of Chaucer's ma… read more
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16. Tree and Leaf: Includes Mythopoeia and The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth
By: J.R.R. Tolkien
2.65
Format: 34 pages, Paperback
This volume is a provocative and entertaining collection of works which reveals the diversity of J.… read more
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17. 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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18. The Dream of the Rood
By: Michael James Swanton , Cynewulf
3.85
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
The Dream of the Rood is a poem that has entranced generations of scholars. It is one of the greate… read more
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19. The Wife's Lament
By: Richard Hamer
3.49
Format: 4 pages, Paperback
The Wife's Lament is an Old English poem of 53 lines found in the Exeter Book and generally treated… read more
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20. The Battle of Maldon
By: Anonymous
3.72
Format: 89 pages, Paperback
Text and translation of the Anglo-Saxon poem. read more
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21. The Wanderer: A Poem (Classic Reprint)
By: Lewis S. Hough
3.26
Format: 70 pages, Paperback
Excerpt from The Wanderer: A Poem And dreary too, as is old ocean's wave. Friends, home and countr… read more
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