14 must-read classics books like Amleth Prince Of Denmark by Saxo Grammaticus

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Amleth Prince Of Denmark

By: Saxo Grammaticus

3.48

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

""Amleth Prince of Denmark"" is a medieval Danish legend written by Saxo Grammaticus. The story fol…

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1. The Overcoat

By: Nikolai Gogol

4.15

Format: 57 pages, Paperback

The Overcoat which is generally acknowledged as the finest of Gogol's memorable Saint Petersburg st… read more

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  • classics
"In the department of...but it would be better not to say in which department."

-Nikolai Gogol, The Overcoat

"وخلت بطرسبرغ من أكاكيڤيتش وكأنما لم يكن موجودًا فيها أبدًا، اختفى وغاب ذلك المخلوق الذي لم يكن له من يحميه، والذي لم يكن عزيزًا على أحد ولا شيقًا بالنسبة لأحد."

-Nikolai Gogol, The Overcoat

"Así desapareció un ser humano a quien nadie defendió, a quien nadie había querido, por quien nadie se interesó… Fue un ser que soportó humildemente las burlas de sus colegas y que bajó a la tumba sin…"

-Nikolai Gogol, The Overcoat

"Moreover, he had a peculiar knack, as he walked along the street, of arriving beneath a window just as all sorts of rubbish were being flung out of it: hence he always bore about on his hat scraps of…"

-Nikolai Gogol, The Overcoat

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2. Sarrasine

By: Honoré de Balzac

3.87

Format: 400 pages,

They lowered their voices and walked away in order to talk more at their ease on some retired couch… read more

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  • classics
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3. Tartuffe

By: Martin Sorrell , Molière , Curtis Hidden Page

4.14

Format: None pages, Paperback

Condemned and banned for five years in Moliere's day, Tartuffe is a satire on religious hypocrisy. … read more

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  • classics
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4. Père Goriot

By: Honoré de Balzac

3.85

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Père Goriot is the tragic story of a father whose obsessive love for his two daughters leads to his… read more

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  • classics
"Good befalls us while we sleep, sometimes."

-Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot

"آری ,در این دنیا هیچ چیزی کامل نیست, مگر بدبختی."

-Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot

"Notre coeur est un trésor, videz-le d'un coup, vous êtes ruinés."

-Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot

"If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible."

-Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot

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5. Second Treatise of Government

By: John Locke , Crawford Brough Macpherson , C.B. MacPherson

3.87

Format: 172 pages, Paperback

The Second Treatiseis one of the most important political treatises ever written and one of the mos… read more

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  • classics
  • history
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6. 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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7. Bartleby the Scrivener

By: Herman Melville

3.93

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Academics hail it as the beginning of modernism, but to readers around the world—even those daunted… read more

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  • classics
"I would prefer not to."

-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

"To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain."

-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

"Bartleby in a singularly mild, firm voice, replied, “I would prefer not to."

-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

"At present I would prefer not to be a little reasonable,' was his mildly cadaverous reply."

-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

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8. Diary of a Superfluous Man

By: Ivan Turgenev , David A. Patterson

4.40

Format: None pages, Paperback

When Turgenev published Diary of a Superfluous Manin 1850, he created one of the first literary por… read more

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  • classics
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9. Hamlet

By: William Shakespeare , Richard Andrews , Rex Gibson

4.02

Format: 289 pages, Paperback

Among Shakespeare's plays, "Hamlet" is considered by many his masterpiece. Among actors, the role o… read more

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  • classics
"Therein lies the rub."

-William Shakespeare, Hamlet

"Brevity is the soul of wit."

-William Shakespeare, Hamlet

"Conscience doth make cowards of us all."

-William Shakespeare, Hamlet

"A knavish speech sleeps in a fool's ear."

-William Shakespeare, Hamlet

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10. A Canticle for Leibowitz

By: Walter M. Miller Jr.

3.39

Format: 414 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 1961 Hugo Award for Best Novel and widely considered one of the most accomplished, po… read more

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  • classics
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11. The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

By: Carl Sagan , Ann Druyan

4.29

Format: 459 pages, Paperback

How can we make intelligent decisions about our increasingly technology-driven lives if we don’t un… read more

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  • history
"Gullibility kills."

-Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

"Occasionally, I get a letter from someone who is in “contact"

-Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

"Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality."

-Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

"Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you're in love, you want to tell the world."

-Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

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12. The Turn of the Screw

By: Henry James

3.39

Format: 121 pages, Paperback

The Turn of the Screw is an 1898 horror novella by Henry James that first appeared in serial format… read more

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  • classics
"When I'm bad I am bad !"

-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw

"He fairly glittered in the gloom."

-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw

"I was ready to know the very worst that was to be known."

-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw

"There was something between them." "There was everything."

-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw

13. 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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14. A Doll's House

By: Henrik Ibsen , Michael Meyer

3.76

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

A Doll's House (1879), is a masterpiece of theatrical craft which, for the first time portrayed the… read more

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  • classics
"Laughter's all the damned thing's fit for."

-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

"I must make up my mind which is right – society or I."

-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

"لن تفقدوني طويلاً، فالراحلون سرعان ما ينطوون في زوايا النسيان."

-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

"أنا ارى الناس صنفين .. صنف تعشقه المرأة، وصنف تحب أن تتجاذب معه أطراف الحديث."

-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

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15. Olhos d'Água

By: Conceição Evaristo

4.44

Format: 116 pages, Paperback

Em Olhos d’água Conceição Evaristo ajusta o foco de seu interesse na população afro-brasileira abor… read more

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  • classics
"O amor é um poço misterioso onde se acumulam águas-lágrimas?"

-Conceição Evaristo, Olhos d'Água

"Maria queria tanto dizer ao filho que o pai havia mandado um abraço, um beijo, um carinho."

-Conceição Evaristo, Olhos d'Água

"Lembrou-se então de que era uma mulher e não uma máquina desenfreada, louca, programada para corrercorrer."

-Conceição Evaristo, Olhos d'Água

"E entendeu também qual seria a sua vida. É, ia ficar. Ia entrar-entrando sem saber quando e por que parar."

-Conceição Evaristo, Olhos d'Água

16. Three Tales

By: Gustave Flaubert , Geoffrey Wall , Roger Whitehouse

4.03

Format: 325 pages,

First published in 1877, these three stories are dominated by questions of doubt, love, loneliness,… read more

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17. The Guns of August

By: Barbara W. Tuchman

4.18

Format: 658 pages, Kindle Edition

The Proud Tower, the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Guns of August, and The Zimmerman Telegram comprise… read more

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  • history
"Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general."

-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August

"Now according to German logic, a declaration of war was found to be unnecessary because of imaginary bombings"

-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August

"Human beings, like plans, prove fallible in the presence of those ingredients that are missing in maneuvers - danger, death, and live ammunition."

-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August

"To think meant to give room for freedom of initiative, for the imponderable to win over the material, for will to demonstrate its power over circumstance."

-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August

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18. O Avesso da Pele

By: Jeferson Tenório

4.55

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Um romance sobre identidade e as complexas relações raciais, sobre violência e negritude, O avesso … read more

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"É inventando que consigo ser honesto."

-Jeferson Tenório, O Avesso da Pele

"Compreender as ações dos pais leva anos, às vezes a vida inteira."

-Jeferson Tenório, O Avesso da Pele

"A vida simplesmente acontecia e você simplesmente passava por ela."

-Jeferson Tenório, O Avesso da Pele

"Lembre-se que é ao lado de outra pessoa que aprendemos a nos conhecer."

-Jeferson Tenório, O Avesso da Pele

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19. Amleth Prince Of Denmark

By: Saxo Grammaticus

3.48

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

""Amleth Prince of Denmark"" is a medieval Danish legend written by Saxo Grammaticus. The story fol… read more

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  • medieval
  • classics
  • history
  • mythology
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20. Contos

By: Charles Dickens

3.48

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

Os contos de Dickens também são célebres, densos no conteúdo e rebuscados no estilo. Por isso troux… read more

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