6 must-read classics books like The Letters of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson

Cover of The Letters of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson

The Letters of Emily Dickinson

By: Emily Dickinson

4.41

Format: 976 pages, Hardcover

The definitive edition of Emily Dickinson’s correspondence, expanded and revised for the first time…

"The only Commandment I ever obeyed — 'Consider the Lilies."

-Emily Dickinson, The Letters of Emily Dickinson

"The only Commandment I ever obeyed — 'Consider the Lilies."

-Emily Dickinson, The Letters of Emily Dickinson

If you liked the classics plot in The Letters of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson , here is a list of 6 books like this:

Cover of The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6) by Marcel Proust, None, Terence Kilmartin, D.J. Enright

1. The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

By: Marcel Proust , None , Terence Kilmartin , D.J. Enright

4.39

Format: 957 pages, Paperback

The Modern Library’s fifth volume of In Search of Lost Time contains both The Captive (1923) and Th… read more

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  • classics
"...every social class has its own pathology..."

-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

"Love is space and time made perceptible to the heart."

-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

"Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination."

-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

"There are optical errors in time as there are in space."

-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

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2. Un homme qui dort

By: Georges Perec

4.05

Format: 160 pages, Mass Market Paperback

" Tu as vingt-cinq ans et vingt-neuf dents, trois chemises et huit chaussettes, quelques livres que… read more

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  • classics
"Ne kimseyi görme, ne konuşma, düşünme, dışarı çıkma, yerinden kımıldama isteği duyuyorsun."

-Georges Perec, Un homme qui dort

"Önceden düşünülmüş bir hareket değil bu, bir hareket de değil zaten, bir hareket yokluğu, yapmadığın bir hareket,yapmaktan kaçındığın hareketler."

-Georges Perec, Un homme qui dort

"Ils t'identifient, ils te reconnaissent. Ils ne savent pas que ces simples saluts, ces seuls sourire, ces signes de tête indifférents sont tous ce qui chaque jour te sauve."

-Georges Perec, Un homme qui dort

"Time, which sees to everything, has provided the solution, despite yourself. Time, that knows the answer, has continued to flow. It is on a day like this one, a little later, a little earlier, that e…"

-Georges Perec, Un homme qui dort

Cover of Lysistrata by Aristophanes, Sarah Ruden

3. Lysistrata

By: Aristophanes , Sarah Ruden

3.87

Format: 132 pages, Paperback

Aristophanes' comic masterpiece of war and sex remains one of the greatest plays ever written. Led … read more

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  • classics
"Sənət çörək arxasınca qaçarsa, alçalar"

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

"Lysistrata: To seize the treasury; no more money, no more war."

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

"Queste donne micidiali, non si può vivere nè con loro nè senza di loro."

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

"Chorus of old men: How true the saying: 'Tis impossible to live with the baggages, impossible to live without 'em."

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

Cover of Henry IV, Part 2 (Wars of the Roses, #3) by William Shakespeare

4. Henry IV, Part 2 (Wars of the Roses, #3)

By: William Shakespeare

3.57

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

The stirring continuation of the themes begun in Henry IV, Part Oneagain pits a rebellion within th… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics

5. Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Major Works

By: Gerard Manley Hopkins , None

3.90

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

This authoritative edition brings together all of Hopkins's poetry and a generous selection of his … read more

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Cover of Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1) by Aeschylus, Patricia E. Easterling, John Harrison, Judith Affleck, None

6. Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

By: Aeschylus , Patricia E. Easterling , John Harrison , Judith Affleck , None

3.83

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Treating ancient plays as living drama. Classical Greek drama is brought vividly to life in this se… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
"Every medicine is vain."

-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

"A curse burns bright on crime."

-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

"There is no avoidance in delay."

-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

"In war, the first casualty is truth."

-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

7. Still Life

By: A.S. Byatt

3.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

From the author of The New York Times bestseller Possession, comes a highly acclaimed novel which c… read more

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8. Absalom, Absalom!

By: William Faulkner

3.51

Format: None pages, Paperback

Published in 1936, Absalom, Absalom! is considered by many to be William Faulkner's masterpiece. Al… read more

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9. King Henry VI, Part 3

By: William Shakespeare , Eric Rasmussen , John D. Cox

4.11

Format: 500 pages, Paperback

In their lively and engaging edition of this sometimes neglected early play, Cox and Rasmussen make… read more

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10. The Periodic Table

By: Primo Levi , Raymond Rosenthal

4.18

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

The Periodic Table is largely a memoir of the years before and after Primo Levi's transportation fr… read more

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11. Love and Freindship: And Other Youthful Writings

By: Jane Austen

3.14

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

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12. Walden & Civil Disobedience

By: Henry David Thoreau , W.S. Merwin

3.23

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

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13. The Red Badge of Courage

By: Stephen Crane

3.68

Format: 330 pages, Paperback

During an unnamed battle, 18-year-old private Henry Fleming survives what he considers to be a lost… read more

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14. King Henry IV, Part 1 (Wars of the Roses, #2)

By: William Shakespeare , David Scott Kastan

3.87

Format: None pages, Paperback

David Scott Kastan lucidly explores the remarkable richness and the ambitious design of King Henry … read more

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15. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens

By: J.M. Barrie , Arthur Rackham

4.25

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

Before he flew away to Neverland, the little boy who wouldn't grow up dwelt in the heart of London,… read more

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16. Twenty Years After (The D'Artagnan Romances, #2)

By: Alexandre Dumas , David Coward , Auguste Maquet

4.34

Format: 592 pages, Paperback

'At this game, whoever does not kill is killed.' Twenty Years After(1845), the sequel to The Three … read more

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17. Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

By: Mosab Abu Toha

4.74

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2022 Palestine Book Awards Creative Award Finalist for the National Book Critics Cir… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • memoir
"Borders are those invented lines drawn with ash on maps and sewn into the ground by bullets."

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

"A country that exists only in my mind. Its flag has no room to fly freely, but there is space on the coffins of my countrymen."

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

"In Gaza, some of us cannot completely die. Every time a bomb falls, every time shrapnel hits our graves, every time the rubble piles up on our heads, we are awakened from our temporary death."

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

"PALESTINE A–Z A An apple that fell from the table on a dark evening when man-made lightning flashed through the kitchen, the streets, and the sky, rattling the cupboards and breaking the dishes. “Am"

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

Cover of Taylor Swift: A Little Golden Book Biography by Wendy Loggia

18. Taylor Swift: A Little Golden Book Biography

By: Wendy Loggia

4.68

Format: 24 pages, Hardcover

Help your little one dream big with a Little Golden Book biography about Taylor Swift, the Grammy A… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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19. Bitter Water Opera

By: Nicolette Polek

4.03

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

An electrifying debut novel about art, solitude, family, and faith in a world without it In 1967, … read more

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20. The Young H.G. Wells: Changing The World

By: Claire Tomalin

3.58

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From acclaimed literary biographer Claire Tomalin, a complex and fascinating exploration of the ear… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • biography memoir
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21. The Letters of Emily Dickinson

By: Emily Dickinson

4.41

Format: 976 pages, Hardcover

The definitive edition of Emily Dickinson’s correspondence, expanded and revised for the first time… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • american
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
"The only Commandment I ever obeyed — 'Consider the Lilies."

-Emily Dickinson, The Letters of Emily Dickinson

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