13 Top school books like The runaway slave at Pilgrim's Point, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The runaway slave at Pilgrim's Point,

By: Elizabeth Barrett Browning

3.63

Format: None pages, Unknown Binding

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (March 6, 1806 – June 29, 1861) was one of the most respected poets of t…

If you liked the school plot in The runaway slave at Pilgrim's Point, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning , here is a list of 13 books like this:

Cover of Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley, Theo Gayer-Anderson

1. Ozymandias

By: Percy Bysshe Shelley , Theo Gayer-Anderson

4.29

Format: 36 pages, Paperback

A picture book edition of the classic, Ozymandias, was composed in 1817 by P.B. Shelley. "I met … read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • school
"And on the pedestal these words appear: 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!' Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and…"

-Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ozymandias

Cover of Porphyria's Lover by Robert Browning

2. Porphyria's Lover

By: Robert Browning

4.04

Format: 2 pages, Kindle Edition

This carefully crafted ebook: "Porphyria's Lover (Complete Edition)" is formatted for your eReader … read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • school
Cover of The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin, None

3. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

By: Benjamin Franklin , None

3.86

Format: 143 pages, Paperback

Written initially to guide his son, Benjamin Franklin’s autobiography is a lively, spellbinding acc… read more

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  • classics
"Never confuse Motion with Action."

-Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

"it is hard for an empty sack to stand upright"

-Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

"When the well is dry we know the value of water"

-Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

"...there will be sleeping enough in the grave...."

-Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Cover of Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey by William Wordsworth

4. Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey

By: William Wordsworth

3.96

Format: 24 pages, Leather Bound

Written by William Wordsworth after a walking tour with his sister near the Welsh Borders, Lines Co… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • school
"These hedge-rows, hardly hedge-rows, little lines / Of sportive wood run wild"

-William Wordsworth, Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey

"For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity."

-William Wordsworth, Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey

"...neither evil tongues, / Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, / Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all / The dreary intercourse of daily life, / Shall e'er prevail against us, or dis…"

-William Wordsworth, Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey

"The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion: the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite; a feeling and a love, That had …"

-William Wordsworth, Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey

Cover of The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Elaine R. Hedges, Elaine Hedges

5. The Yellow Wall-Paper

By: Charlotte Perkins Gilman , Elaine R. Hedges , Elaine Hedges

4.08

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Diagnosed by her physician husband with a “temporary nervous depression—a slight hysterical tendenc… read more

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  • 19th century
  • classics
  • school
"Its time we woke up,"

-Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper

"This was not life, this was a nightmare."

-Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper

"John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage."

-Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper

"It is so hard to talk with John about my case, because he is so wise, and because he loves me so."

-Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper

Cover of The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin

6. The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

4.37

Format: 32 pages, Library Binding

Some inhabitants of a peaceful kingdom cannot tolerate the act of cruelty that underlies its happin… read more

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  • classics
  • school
"Would you walk away from Omelas?"

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

"Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

"But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

"Of course I didn’t read James and sit down and say, Now I’ll write a story about that “lost soul."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

Cover of North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell, Alan Shelston

7. North and South

By: Elizabeth Gaskell , Alan Shelston

4.15

Format: 521 pages, Paperback

When her father leaves the Church in a crisis of conscience, Margaret Hale is uprooted from her com… read more

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  • 19th century
  • classics
"No one loves me, - no one cares for me, but you, mother."

-Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South

"One may be clogged with honey and unable to rise and fly."

-Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South

"But the future must be met, however stern and iron it be. "

-Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South

"He is my first olive: let me make a face while I swallow it."

-Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South

Cover of Sonny's Blues by James Baldwin

8. Sonny's Blues

By: James Baldwin

4.30

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Part of the Penguin 60s series, issued to celebrate 60 years of Penguin books. This collects "Sonny… read more

Similar categories in James Baldwin's Sonny's Blues book and Elizabeth Barrett Browning's The runaway slave at Pilgrim's Point,

  • classics
  • school
"It's the only light we've got in all this darkness"

-James Baldwin, Sonny's Blues

"All that hatred down there," he said, "all that hatred and misery and love. It's a wonder it doesn't blow the avenue apart."

-James Baldwin, Sonny's Blues

"You don't know how much I needed to hear from you. I wanted to write you many a time but I dug how much I must have hurt you and so I didn't write. But now I feel like a man who's been trying to clim…"

-James Baldwin, Sonny's Blues

"I had never before thought of how awful the relationship must be between the musician and his instrument. He has to fill it, this instrument, with the breath of life, his own. He has to make it do wh…"

-James Baldwin, Sonny's Blues

Cover of A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare, Barbara A. Mowat, Paul Werstine, Catherine Belsey

9. A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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

3.95

Format: 298 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Shakespeare's intertwined love polygons begin to get complicated from the start--Demetrius and Lysa… read more

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  • poetry
  • school
"My soul is in the sky."

-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

"Farewell, sweet playfellow."

-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

"Lord, what fools these mortals be!"

-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

"How now, spirit! Whither wander you?"

-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Cover of Goblin Market by Joyce Carol Oates, William Morris, Laurence Housman, Christina Rossetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti

10. Goblin Market

By: Joyce Carol Oates , William Morris , Laurence Housman , Christina Rossetti , Dante Gabriel Rossetti

3.82

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

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  • 19th century
  • poetry
  • classics
Cover of The Highland Widow by Walter Scott, Stuart Kelly

11. The Highland Widow

By: Walter Scott , Stuart Kelly

3.31

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A party on the Highland Tour comes upon a miserable hut hidden away among a patch of cliffs. Upon i… read more

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  • classics
Cover of The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

12. 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
  • school
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13. The Story of an Hour

By: Kate Chopin

4.07

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

In these four stories, Kate Chopin subtly captures the intricate interior lives of a generation of … read more

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  • 19th century
  • classics
  • school
"Spring days, and summer days, and all sorts of days that would be her own. She breathed a quick prayer that life might be long. It was only yesterday she had thought with a shudder that life might be…"

-Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour

"there would be no powerful will binding hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow creature…And yet she had loved him- so…"

-Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour

Cover of Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen, William Archer

14. Hedda Gabler

By: Henrik Ibsen , William Archer

3.93

Format: None pages, Paperback

Hedda Gabler, the daughter of a deceased General, marries dull George Tesman and foresees a life of… read more

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  • 19th century
  • classics
  • school

15. Hard Times

By: Charles Dickens , Gage McWeeny

4.33

Format: 308 pages, Paperback

Longman's new Cultural Editions Series, Hard Times, by Charles Dickens, edited by Jeff Nunokawa, in… read more

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  • 19th century
  • classics
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16. The Lottery

By: Shirley Jackson

4.05

Format: 30 pages, Paperback

In a small American town, the local residents are abuzz with excitement and nervousness when they w… read more

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  • classics
  • school
"It's not the way it used to be... people ain't the way they used to be."

-Shirley Jackson, The Lottery

"It isn't fair, it isn't right," Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her."

-Shirley Jackson, The Lottery

"The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green."

-Shirley Jackson, The Lottery

Cover of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft, Miriam Brody, Bebi Fernández

17. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

By: Mary Wollstonecraft , Miriam Brody , Bebi Fernández

3.50

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Writing in an age when the call for the rights of man had brought revolution to America and France,… read more

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  • classics

18. Quicksand

By: Nella Larsen , Thadious M. Davis

4.06

Format: 205 pages, Paperback

Born to a white mother and an absent black father, and despised for her dark skin, Helga Crane has … read more

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19. Songs of Innocence and of Experience

By: William Blake

4.09

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

Songs of Innocence and of Experience is an collection of poems by William Blake. Note: For a com… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • school
"Cruelty has a human heart, And Jealousy a human face;"

-William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience

"Then cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door."

-William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience

"And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires."

-William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience

"Can I see anothers woe, And not be in sorrow too. Can I see anothers grief, And not seek for kind relief. - On Anothers Sorrow "

-William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience

20. 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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21. The Purloined Letter

By: Edgar Allan Poe

3.00

Format: 468 pages, Library Binding

The Purloined Letter" is a short story by American author Edgar Allan Poe. It is the third of his t… read more

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22. The Rape of the Lock

By: Alexander Pope

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

A satirical poem that intentionally over-dramatizes an incident in which a lock of a woman's hair i… read more

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23. Fences (The Century Cycle #6)

By: August Wilson

4.23

Format: 690 pages,

Soon to be a Major Motion Picture directed by Denzel Washington, and starring Denzel Washington and… read more

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24. A Taste of Honey: A Play

By: Shelagh Delaney

3.82

Format: 4 pages, Paperback

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25. Mrs. Warren's Profession

By: George Bernard Shaw

4.23

Format: 528 pages, Paperback

Middle-aged Mrs. Warren is a madam, proprietress of a string of successful brothels. Her daughter, … read more

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26. 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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27. Goblin Market and Other Poems

By: Christina Rossetti , Candace Ward

4.19

Format: 45 pages, Paperback

An important and often-quoted literary figure, the English poet Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) wrot… read more

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28. Middlemarch

By: Michel Faber , George Eliot

4.02

Format: 912 pages, Mass Market Paperback

"People are almost always better than their neighbours think they are" George Eliot’s most ambit… read more

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  • 19th century
  • classics
"After all, the true seeing is within."

-Michel Faber, Middlemarch

"I shall do everything it becomes me to do."

-Michel Faber, Middlemarch

"I protest against any absolute conclusion."

-Michel Faber, Middlemarch

"What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?"

-Michel Faber, Middlemarch

29. The runaway slave at Pilgrim's Point,

By: Elizabeth Barrett Browning

3.63

Format: None pages, Unknown Binding

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (March 6, 1806 – June 29, 1861) was one of the most respected poets of t… read more

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  • 19th century
  • poetry
  • classics
  • school
Cover of Crossing the Bar by Alfred Tennyson

30. Crossing the Bar

By: Alfred Tennyson

3.91

Format: 2 pages, Kindle Edition

The famous poem Crossing the Bar by Lord Alfred Tennyson. read more

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  • poetry
  • classics

20 Top classics books like The runaway slave at Pilgrim's Point, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Transform Your Habits

Ozymandias

Percy Bysshe Shelley , Theo Gayer-Anderson

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Porphyria's Lover

Robert Browning

4.04

Transform Your Habits

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin , None

3.86

Transform Your Habits

Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey

William Wordsworth

3.96

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Transform Your Habits

Pygmalion

George Bernard Shaw

3.89

Transform Your Habits

A Streetcar Named Desire

Tennessee Williams

3.98

Transform Your Habits

The Yellow Wall-Paper

Charlotte Perkins Gilman , Elaine R. Hedges , Elaine Hedges

4.08

Transform Your Habits

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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

3.95

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