16 must-read classics books like The Complete Euripides, Volume II: Iphigenia in Tauris and Other Plays by Euripides

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The Complete Euripides, Volume II: Iphigenia in Tauris and Other Plays

By: Euripides

4.43

Format: 393 pages, Paperback

Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can best re-create the ce…

If you liked the classics plot in The Complete Euripides, Volume II: Iphigenia in Tauris and Other Plays by Euripides , here is a list of 16 books like this:

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1. The Castle of Otranto

By: Horace Walpole

3.18

Format: 125 pages, Paperback

First published pseudonymously in 1764, The Castle of Otranto purported to be a translation of an I… read more

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"My soul abhors a falsehood"

-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto

"This life is but a pilgrimage."

-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto

"Heaven mocks the short-sighted views of man."

-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto

"I fear no bad angel, and have offended no good one."

-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto

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2. The Erotic Poems

By: Ovid , Peter Green

4.07

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

This collection of Ovid’s poems deals with the whole spectrum of sexual desire, ranging from deeply… read more

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"Brass shines with constant usage, a beautiful dress needs wearing, Leave a house empty, it rots."

-Ovid, The Erotic Poems

"Love is a child and naked; he has years that know no meanness, and he has no clothes, so that he is open in his ways."

-Ovid, The Erotic Poems

"All right, boy, skewer me. I've dropped my defenses, I'm an easy victim. Why, by now Your arrows practically know their own way to the target And feel less at home in their quiver than in me."

-Ovid, The Erotic Poems

"I got nervous at bulls and eagles, Trying to figure what shape Zeus might take for sex When it could be your turn next. But now I don't care any longer, I've come to my senses, your profile leaves me…"

-Ovid, The Erotic Poems

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3. The Complete Euripides, Volume V: Medea and Other Plays

By: Euripides , Alan Shapiro , Peter K. Burian , Peter H. Burian

4.41

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create th… read more

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4. Early Socratic Dialogues

By: Plato , Robin Waterfield , Trevor J. Saunders , None , None , Chris Emlyn-Jones

4.08

Format: 399 pages, Paperback

Ion/Laches/Lysis/Charmides/Hippia Major/Hippias Minor/Euthydemus 'I am humble enough to learn, s… read more

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5. The Crocodile

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Samuel D. Cioran

3.18

Format: 183 pages,

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6. The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

By: Robert Fagles , Aeschylus , William Bedell Stanford

4.01

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Alternate covers of this ISBN here, here, here, here. Most recent cover is here. In the Oresteia… read more

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"I cannot not grieve."

-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

"Learning comes through pain."

-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

"Do I not live? Badly, I know, but I live."

-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

"Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know Except pain"

-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

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7. Aesop's Fables

By: Aesop , Laura Harris , Laura Gibbs

2.50

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

The fables of Aesop have become one of the most enduring traditions of European culture, ever since… read more

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8. King Lear

By: William Shakespeare , William James Rolfe

3.91

Format: 338 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Shakespeare’s King Lear challenges us with the magnitude, intensity, and sheer duration of the pain… read more

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"Fortune love you."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

"She is herself a dowry."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

"All dark and comfortless."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

"Nothing can come of nothing."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

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9. 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

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10. Frogs

By: Aristophanes , Arthur Sidgwick

3.58

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

The Frogs (Ancient Greek: Batrakhoi, Batrachoi) is a comedy written by the Greek playwright Aristop… read more

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11. The Trial and Death of Socrates

By: Plato , G.M.A. Grube , John M. Cooper

3.63

Format: 224 pages,

The third edition of The Trial and Death of Socratespresents G. M. A. Grube's distinguished transla… read more

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12. Something Wicked This Way Comes

By: Ray Bradbury

None

Format: None pages, None

One of Ray Bradbury’s best-known and most popular novels, Something Wicked This Way Comes, now feat… read more

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13. Prometheus Bound and Other Plays

By: Aeschylus , Philip Vellacott

4.14

Format: 222 pages, Paperback

The first of the great Greek Tragedians, Aeschylus wrote a large number of plays, of which seven su… read more

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14. The Golden Ass

By: Apuleius , Jack Lindsay , None

4.30

Format: 324 pages, Paperback

The Golden Assby Apuleius is a unique, entertaining, and thoroughly readable Latin novel - the only… read more

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15. A Farewell to Arms

By: Ernest Hemingway , نجف دریابندری

4.12

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war, to the war to end all wars. He volunteered for ambulance serv… read more

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16. The Aeneid

By: Virgil , Robert Fitzgerald

4.50

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

The Aeneid (play /@'ni:Id/; Latin: Aeneis [aj'ne:is]--the title is Greek in form: genitive case Aen… read more

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17. The Call of the Wild

By: Jack London

3.91

Format: 172 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published in 1903, The Call of the Wild is regarded as Jack London's masterpiece. Based on Lo… read more

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"The dominant primordial beast was strong in Buck"

-Jack London, The Call of the Wild

"…and from that moment Buck hated him with a bitter and deathless hatred."

-Jack London, The Call of the Wild

"There is a patience of the wild – dogged, tireless, persistent as life itself."

-Jack London, The Call of the Wild

"A man with a club [bat] is a law-maker, a man to be obeyed, but not necessarily conciliated."

-Jack London, The Call of the Wild

18. The Monk

By: None

4.71

Format: None pages, Paperback

Set in the sinister monastery of the Capuchins in Madrid, this is a violent tale of ambition, murde… read more

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19. The Tempest

By: William Shakespeare

4.27

Format: 127 pages,

In The Tempest, long considered one of Shakespeare's most lyrical plays, Prospero--a magician on an… read more

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20. Sophocles II: Ajax/Women of Trachis/Electra/Philoctetes (Complete Greek Tragedies 4)

By: Richmond Lattimore , Sophocles , John Moore , David Grene , None

4.10

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Sophocles' innovative plays transformed Greek myths into dramas featuring complex human characters,… read more

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21. Homeric Hymns

By: Homer , Jules Cashford , None

4.44

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Composed for recitation at festivals, these 33 songs were written in honour of the gods and goddess… read more

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22. The Symposium

By: Plato , Christopher Gill

4.09

Format: 90 pages, Paperback

A fascinating discussion on sex, gender, and human instincts, as relevant today as ever. In the … read more

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"The truth about eros is terrifying."

-Plato, The Symposium

"At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet"

-Plato, The Symposium

"Ali,srecnice moj,mozda sam ja nista,a ti to ne primecujes."

-Plato, The Symposium

"καὶ οὗτος ἄρα καὶ ἄλλος πᾶς ὁ ἐπιθυμῶν τοῦ μὴ ἐτοίμου ἐπιθυμεῖ"

-Plato, The Symposium

23. Poems and Fragments

By: Sappho , Stanley Lombardo , Pamela Gordon

3.98

Format: None pages, Paperback

Little remains today of the writings of the archaic Greek poet Sappho (fl. late 7th and early 6th c… read more

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24. The Portrait of a Lady

By: Henry James , Patricia Crick

3.79

Format: 797 pages, Paperback

When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy Aunt Touche… read more

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"She has only one fault; too many ideas."

-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

"If one is strong, one loves the more strongly."

-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

"It's not my fate to give up--I know it can't be."

-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

"The finer natures were those that shone at the larger times."

-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

25. Frogs and Other Plays

By: Aristophanes , David B. Barrett , Shomit Dutta

3.53

Format: 349 pages, Paperback

Marrying deft social commentary to a rich, earthy comedy, the three comedies collected in Aristopha… read more

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26. The Island of Dr. Moreau

By: H.G. Wells

4.67

Format: 46 pages, Paperback

Ranked among the classic novels of the English language and the inspiration for several unforgettab… read more

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27. The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex/Oedipus at Colonus/Antigone (The Theban Plays, #1–3)

By: Sophocles , Robert Fitzgerald , Dudley Fitts , None

5.00

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

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28. The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.58

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of… read more

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"All of history [is] a rehearsal for its own extinction."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"...do you think if you died drunk you’d sober up before you met Jesus?"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"The evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"She asked the girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said dead."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

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29. Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.87

Format: 190 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER. The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road returns with the second v… read more

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"I would like to belong but I dont."

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

"The notion of nothing is an inconceivable notion"

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

"Love is quite possibly a mental disorder itself."

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

"Rage is only for what you believe can be fixed. All the rest is grief."

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

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30. Cuentos de navidad

By: Charles Dickens

3.80

Format: 214 pages, Paperback

Junto a la célebre Canción de Navidad, este volumen reúne otros tres cuentos de Charles Dickens (18… read more

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"Best and happiest of all, the Time before him was his own, to make amends in!"

-Charles Dickens, Cuentos de navidad

"A la hermosa vida de un plácido crepúsculo otoñal, a la vida tranquila una habitación silenciosa, con un enorme ventanal abierto; más allá, una terraza donde se movían las hojas y las flores perfumab…"

-Charles Dickens, Cuentos de navidad

"She was very pretty: exceedingly pretty. With a dimpled, surprised-looking, capital face; a ripe little mouth, that seemed made to be kissed — as no doubt it was; all kinds of good little dots about …"

-Charles Dickens, Cuentos de navidad

"The Grocers'! oh the Grocers'! nearly closed, with perhaps two shutters down, or one; but through those gaps such glimpses! It was not alone that the scales descending on the counter made a merry sou…"

-Charles Dickens, Cuentos de navidad

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31. The Complete Euripides, Volume II: Iphigenia in Tauris and Other Plays

By: Euripides

4.43

Format: 393 pages, Paperback

Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can best re-create the ce… read more

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