12 must-read classics books like A Cross Line by George Egerton

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A Cross Line

By: George Egerton

3.50

Format: 30 pages, None

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Cover of Bliss by Katherine Mansfield

1. Bliss

By: Katherine Mansfield

3.72

Format: 70 pages, Mass Market Paperback

But in her bosom there was still that bright glowing place—that shower of little sparks coming from… read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
"But the pear tree was as lovely as ever and as full of flower and as still."

-Katherine Mansfield, Bliss

"¿Es que no puede haber una forma de manifestarlo sin parecer “beodo o trastornado"

-Katherine Mansfield, Bliss

"I am so glad you like them', said he, staring at his feet. 'They seem to have got so much whiter since the moon rose.' And he turned his lean sorrowful long face to Bertha. 'There is a moon, you know…"

-Katherine Mansfield, Bliss

Cover of Cane by Jean Toomer, Darwin Turner

2. Cane

By: Jean Toomer , Darwin Turner

3.83

Format: 116 pages, Paperback

A literary masterpiece of the Harlem Renaissance, Cane is a powerful work of innovative fiction evo… read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
"Call them from their houses, and teach them to dream."

-Jean Toomer, Cane

"Her own glowing is too rich a thing to let her feel the slimness of his diluted passion."

-Jean Toomer, Cane

"There is no such thing as happiness. Life bends joy and pain, beauty and ugliness, in such a way that no one may isolate them."

-Jean Toomer, Cane

"I like to feel that something deep in me responded to the trees, the young trees that whinnied like colts impatient to be let free…"

-Jean Toomer, Cane

Cover of Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, Maureen Howard

3. Mrs. Dalloway

By: Virginia Woolf , Maureen Howard

3.79

Format: 194 pages, Hardcover

Heralded as Virginia Woolf's greatest novel, this is a vivid portrait of a single day in a woman's … read more

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  • classics
"Life stand still here."

-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

"What a lark! What a plunge!"

-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

"To love makes one solitary."

-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

"What does the brain matter compared with the heart?"

-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

Cover of The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

4. The Importance of Being Earnest

By: Oscar Wilde

2.50

Format: None pages,

Oscar Wilde's madcap farce about mistaken identities, secret engagements, and lovers entanglements … read more

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  • classics
Cover of Sultana's Dream by Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, Durga Bai

5. Sultana's Dream

By: Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain , Durga Bai

3.72

Format: 78 pages, Hardcover

The female narrator of Sultana's Dreamwanders into a dream city that shuns war and violence. In thi… read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
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6. 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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  • classics
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7. 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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  • classics
"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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8. The Argonauts

By: Maggie Nelson

3.91

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family Ma… read more

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9. Henry V

By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine

4.00

Format: 126 pages, Paperback

Henry Vis Shakespeare's most famous "war play"; it includes the storied English victory over the Fr… read more

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  • classics

10. The Egyptian Cigarette

By: Kate Chopin

4.26

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

Ce recueil, dont le titre reprend celui d'une des nouvelles, libere les forces innovatrices des oeu… read more

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11. The Taming of the Shrew

By: William Shakespeare

3.78

Format: 438 pages,

Renowned as Shakespeare's most boisterous comedy, The Taming of the Shrew is the tale of two young … read more

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12. The Rape of Lucrece

By: William Shakespeare

4.00

Format: 186 pages, Paperback

The Rape of Lucrece is a 1594 narrative poem. In 509 BC Lucretia was raped by the son of Tarquin th… read more

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13. A Tempest

By: Aimé Césaire , Richard Miller

3.87

Format: 309 pages, Paperback

Cesaire's rich and insightful adaptation of The Tempestdraws on contemporary Caribbean society, the… read more

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14. The Awakening

By: Kate Chopin

3.68

Format: 195 pages, Paperback

When first published in 1899, The Awakening shocked readers with its honest treatment of female mar… read more

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  • 19th century
  • classics
"The morning was full of sunlight and hope."

-Kate Chopin, The Awakening

"She had resolved to never take another step backward."

-Kate Chopin, The Awakening

"She wanted to destroy something. The crash and clatter were what she wanted to hear."

-Kate Chopin, The Awakening

"She felt that her speech was voicing the incoherency her thoughts, and stopped abruptly."

-Kate Chopin, The Awakening

Cover of Recitatif by Toni Morrison

15. Recitatif

By: Toni Morrison

4.31

Format: 19 pages, Audiobook

A beautiful, arresting short story by Toni Morrison—the only one she ever wrote—about race and the … read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
"Difficult to “move on"

-Toni Morrison, Recitatif

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16. Three Dreams in a Desert

By: Olive Schreiner

3.23

Format: 12 pages, ebook

“Might I not rise?” Three Dreams in a Desert is an allegorical tale written by Olive Schreiner. … read more

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  • short stories
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17. Dante and the Lobster

By: Samuel Beckett

3.32

Format: None pages, None

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at… read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
Cover of Sexual Anarchy: Gender and Culture at the Fin de Siecle by Elaine Showalter

18. Sexual Anarchy: Gender and Culture at the Fin de Siecle

By: Elaine Showalter

4.14

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

An exploration of the paralells between the ends of the 19th and 20th centuries and their represent… read more

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  • 19th century
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19. A Cross Line

By: George Egerton

3.50

Format: 30 pages, None

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  • 19th century
  • classics
  • short stories

20. A White Night

By: Charlotte Mew

3.34

Format: None pages, None

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  • short stories

21. The Undefinable

By: Sarah Grand

3.57

Format: None pages, None

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8 must-read short stories books like A Cross Line by George Egerton

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Bliss

Katherine Mansfield

3.72

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Cane

Jean Toomer , Darwin Turner

3.83

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Sultana's Dream

Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain , Durga Bai

3.72

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Recitatif

Toni Morrison

4.31

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Pygmalion

George Bernard Shaw

3.89

Transform Your Habits

A Streetcar Named Desire

Tennessee Williams

3.98

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The Yellow Wall-Paper

Charlotte Perkins Gilman , Elaine R. Hedges , Elaine Hedges

4.08

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream

William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine , Catherine Belsey

3.95

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