5 Best nonfiction books like An Introduction to Virgil's Aeneid by W.A. Camps

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An Introduction to Virgil's Aeneid

By: W.A. Camps

4.16

Format: 174 pages, Paperback

This book is geared primarily to students approaching the Aeneid for the first time. It attempts, t…

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1. The Histories

By: Herodotus , Aubrey de Sélincourt , John M. Marincola

4.01

Format: 716 pages, Paperback

David Grene, one of the best known translators of the Greek classics, splendidly captures the pecul… read more

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  • classics
  • nonfiction
"Hippocleides doesn't care."

-Herodotus, The Histories

"So much, then, for the fish."

-Herodotus, The Histories

"La muerte es para el hombre el más deseado refugio."

-Herodotus, The Histories

"Muchos hombres opulentos son desdichados, y muchos que tienen hacienda moderada son dichosos."

-Herodotus, The Histories

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2. Toro! Toro!

By: Michael Morpurgo , Michael Foreman

3.00

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Best-selling author Michael Morpurgo turns his storytelling skills to the drama and tragedy of the … read more

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3. Go Tell It on the Mountain

By: James Baldwin

4.35

Format: None pages, Paperback

Go Tell It On The Mountain, first published in 1953, is Baldwin's first major work, a semi-autobiog… read more

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  • classics
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4. Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)

By: Sophocles , J.E. Thomas , Elizabeth Osborne

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

"...what man wins more happiness than just its shape and the ruin when that shape collapses?" Sopho… read more

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  • classics
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5. 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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  • classics
"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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6. Eurydice

By: Sarah Ruhl

4.10

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

Sarah Ruhl re-imagines the classic myth of Orpheus through the eyes of its heroine. Dying too young… read more

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7. Confessions

By: Augustine of Hippo , Henry Chadwick , Albert Cook Outler

3.41

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Augustine's Confessions is one of the most influential and most innovative works of Latin literatur… read more

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  • classics
  • nonfiction
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8. The Lais of Marie de France

By: Marie de France , Glyn S. Burgess , Keith Busby

3.67

Format: None pages, Paperback

This is a prose translation of the lais or poems attributed to Marie de France. Little is known of … read more

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  • classics
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9. Running Wild

By: Michael Morpurgo

3.98

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

An epic and heart-rending jungle adventure from the bestselling author of Kaspar and Born to Run. F… read more

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10. 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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"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)

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11. The Butterfly Lion

By: Michael Morpurgo

4.09

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

A British boy and a white lion cub form a bond in turn-of-the-century South Africa, and when years … read more

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12. Classics: A Very Short Introduction

By: Mary Beard , John Henderson

4.08

Format: None pages, Paperback

We are allclassicists--we come into touch with the classics on a daily basis: in our culture, polit… read more

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13. 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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14. The Epic of Gilgamesh

By: Anonymous , N.K. Sandars

3.74

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

Miraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as much as four thousand years, the poem of Gilg… read more

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  • classics
"As for man, his days are numbered, whatever he might do, it is but wind."

-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh

"Now let the gate of sorrow be closed behind me, and let it be sealed with tar and pitch."

-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh

"Gilgamesh was called a god and a man; Enkidu was an animal and a man. It is the story of their becoming human together."

-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh

"When all the illusions of personal immortality are stripped away, there is only the act to maintain the freedom to act."

-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh

15. 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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16. Memorial: An Excavation of the Iliad

By: Alice Oswald

3.97

Format: 68 pages, Hardcover

To retrieve the Iliad's' energy, Alice Oswald has stripped away its story and her account focuses b… read more

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17. Farm Boy (War Horse, #2)

By: Michael Morpurgo

3.66

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

This touching story of the close relationship between grandson and grandfather, and the special sec… read more

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18. 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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  • nonfiction
"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

19. Othello

By: William Shakespeare

4.48

Format: None pages,

In Othello, Shakespeare creates a powerful drama of a marriage that begins with fascination (betwee… read more

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20. The Roman Empire: A Very Short Introduction

By: Christopher Kelly

3.69

Format: 121 pages, Paperback

The Roman Empire was a remarkable achievement. It had a population of sixty million people spread a… read more

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21. The Odyssey

By: Homer , Robert Fagles , Bernard Knox , E.V. Rieu , None

3.53

Format: 349 pages, Paperback

Literature's grandest evocation of life's journey, at once an ageless human story and an individual… read more

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22. Galatea

By: Madeline Miller

4.09

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

In Ancient Greece, a skilled marble sculptor has been blessed by a goddess who has given his master… read more

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23. The Agricola and The Germania

By: Tacitus , S.A. Handford , Harold Mattingly

3.94

Format: 229 pages,

The portrait of Tacitus' father-in-law, Agricola, is a eulogistic description of the career of the … read more

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24. 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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25. The Road to Wigan Pier

By: George Orwell , Richard Hoggart

3.92

Format: 215 pages, Paperback

In the 1930s, commissioned by a left-wing book club, Orwell went to the industrial areas of norther… read more

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  • nonfiction
"I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt."

-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier

"...there is always a temptation to think that industrialism is harmless so long as it is clean and orderly."

-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier

"According to Chesterton, tea-drinking’ is ‘pagan’, while beer-drinking is ‘Christian’, and coffee is ‘the puritan’s opium’."

-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier

"It is only when you meet someone of a different culture from yourself that you begin to realize what your own beliefs really are."

-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier

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26. Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

By: Evelyn Waugh

4.00

Format: 452 pages, Paperback

An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found here. The most nostalgic and reflective of Evely… read more

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  • classics
"Here my last love had died."

-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

"No one is ever holy without suffering."

-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

"I had been there before; I knew all about it."

-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

"So through a world of piety I made my way to Sebastian."

-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

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27. The Iliad

By: Homer

3.91

Format: 848 pages, Hardcover

One of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer's Iliad tells the story of the darkes… read more

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"I say no wealth is worth my life."

-Homer, The Iliad

"These were the colloquies in heaven."

-Homer, The Iliad

"The sort of words a man says is the sort he hears in return."

-Homer, The Iliad

"Antilochus! You're the most appalling driver in the world! Go to hell!"

-Homer, The Iliad

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28. Elektra

By: Jennifer Saint

3.68

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

The House of Atreus is cursed. A bloodline tainted by a generational cycle of violence and vengeanc… read more

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"I had not dreamed I would bring my children into a world that could drain their blood in the light of dawn before they’d had a chance to live at all."

-Jennifer Saint, Elektra

"Nothing brought them more joy than the fall of a lovely woman. They picked over her reputation like vultures, scavenging for every scrap of flesh they could devour."

-Jennifer Saint, Elektra

"The wine tasted like dirt to me. I could shriek out my warnings, claw at my flesh, hurl my goblet right into Paris' face, but they would still carry on as though I did not exist."

-Jennifer Saint, Elektra

"Let him come back so that I can see his eyes as the light drains from them. Let him come back and die at the hands of his bitterest enemy. Let him come back so that I can watch him suffer. And let me…"

-Jennifer Saint, Elektra

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29. Atalanta

By: Jennifer Saint

3.78

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved, bestselling author of Elektra and Ariadne , a reimagining of the myth of Atalanta… read more

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"I made a bargain with him: if he let me have the mountains and my girls, then I'd keep out of Hera's way. But the main thing I wanted was to live untouched by men. I wasn't going to find myself in my…"

-Jennifer Saint, Atalanta

"I missed the spread of the sky above me. Sometimes as I lay awake, I yearned so powerfully for freedom; for the dark silhouette of the Argo, blotting out the stars behind it; the promise of another j…"

-Jennifer Saint, Atalanta

"Standing in the shadows, gathering my resolve. I'd been among too many people, living according to their rules for too long. It was clouding my vision, gnawing away at my confidence and certainty, ma…"

-Jennifer Saint, Atalanta

"I despised my father, of course I did. The thought of presenting myself to him, of him thinking that my deeds could reflect on him was repulsive, that he thought what I would do would be a substitute…"

-Jennifer Saint, Atalanta

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30. The Wolf Den (Wolf Den Trilogy, #1)

By: Elodie Harper

4.05

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Sold by her mother. Enslaved in Pompeii's brothel. Determined to survive. Her name is Amara. Welcom… read more

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"Amara looks at Dido, at the joy on her face, and realises there is nobody she loves more. Warmth spreads through her. She has never had a friend like Dido. She is the light in the darkness of her lif…"

-Elodie Harper, The Wolf Den (Wolf Den Trilogy, #1)

"Amara thinks of her time as a slave in Chremes' household. It does not cheer her up to see parallels between her past and that of the destitute old woman beside her. "You didn't start life as a slave…"

-Elodie Harper, The Wolf Den (Wolf Den Trilogy, #1)

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31. An Introduction to Virgil's Aeneid

By: W.A. Camps

4.16

Format: 174 pages, Paperback

This book is geared primarily to students approaching the Aeneid for the first time. It attempts, t… read more

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13 Top classics books like An Introduction to Virgil's Aeneid by W.A. Camps

Transform Your Habits

The Histories

Herodotus , Aubrey de Sélincourt , John M. Marincola

4.01

Transform Your Habits

Go Tell It on the Mountain

James Baldwin

4.35

Transform Your Habits

Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)

Sophocles , J.E. Thomas , Elizabeth Osborne

4.00

Transform Your Habits

The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

Robert Fagles , Aeschylus , William Bedell Stanford

4.01

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11 best-selling fiction books like The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides by Robert Fagles, Aeschylus, William Bedell Stanford

Transform Your Habits

Hippolytos

Euripides , Robert Bagg

3.81

Transform Your Habits

Electra

Euripides , Janet Lempke

2.86

Transform Your Habits

Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)

Sophocles , J.E. Thomas , Elizabeth Osborne

4.00

Transform Your Habits

The Bacchae

Euripides , Kenneth McLeish , None

3.92

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