15 must-read classics books like In the Orchard by Virginia Woolf

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In the Orchard

By: Virginia Woolf

3.80

Format: 7 pages, ebook

This is an e-publication of just one short story. The free download link is below.

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Cover of Antigone by Jean Anouilh, Lewis Galantibre

1. Antigone

By: Jean Anouilh , Lewis Galantibre

3.78

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

Antigone was originally produced in Paris in 1942, when France was occupied and part of Hitler's Eu… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"My part is not a heroic one, but I shall play my part."

-Jean Anouilh, Antigone

"It bothered me that whatever was waiting wasn't waiting for me"

-Jean Anouilh, Antigone

"Antigone — Et serre moi. Plus fort que tu ne m'as jamais serrée. Que toute ta force s'imprime dans moi. Hémon — Là. De toute ma force."

-Jean Anouilh, Antigone

"ANTIGONE: Tell me the truth! I beg you to tell me the truth! When you think about me, when it strikes you suddenly that I am going to belong to you―do you have the feeling that―that a great empty spa…"

-Jean Anouilh, Antigone

Cover of Dr. Faustus by Christopher Marlowe

2. Dr. Faustus

By: Christopher Marlowe

3.80

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, commonly referred to simply as Doctor… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"Hell is just a frame of mind."

-Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus

"Be silent then, for danger is in words."

-Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus

"Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris."

-Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus

"He that loves pleasure must for pleasure fall."

-Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus

Cover of Demian by Hermann Hesse

3. Demian

By: Hermann Hesse

4.14

Format: 193 pages, Paperback

Wie alle Hauptwerke Hermann Hesses hat auch der Demian, den der damals 40jährige Autor mitten im Er… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"Fate and character are different names for the same idea."

-Hermann Hesse, Demian

"En estos momentos tuve una certeza fulminante: cada uno tenía una “misión"

-Hermann Hesse, Demian

"You've never lived what you are thinking, and that isn't good. Only the ideas we actually live are of any value."

-Hermann Hesse, Demian

"I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult?"

-Hermann Hesse, Demian

Cover of Letters to Milena by Franz Kafka, Aarno Peromies, Philip Boehm, Milena Jesenská

4. Letters to Milena

By: Franz Kafka , Aarno Peromies , Philip Boehm , Milena Jesenská

3.89

Format: 298 pages, Paperback

In no other work does Kafka reveal himself as in the Letters to Milena, which begin essentially as … read more

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  • classics
"I can't hold enough of you in my hands."

-Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

"Il sogno è l'ultima notizia che possiedo di te."

-Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

"وهذه هي النهاية في الحقيقة, فلقد مضيت عني بعيدا."

-Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

"I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it."

-Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

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

5. 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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  • short stories
  • classics
  • fiction
"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

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6. The Signalman

By: Charles Dickens , Scott Cohn

3.66

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

Presents the tale of a young man who, after listening to an eccentric railroad signalman's predicti… read more

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  • short stories
  • classics
  • fiction
"Hallow! Below there!"

-Charles Dickens, The Signalman

Cover of A Clean Well Lighted Place by Ernest Hemingway

7. A Clean Well Lighted Place

By: Ernest Hemingway

3.72

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" is a short story by American author Ernest Hemingway, first published… read more

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  • short stories
  • classics
  • fiction
Cover of Roxana by Daniel Defoe, John Mullan

8. Roxana

By: Daniel Defoe , John Mullan

4.09

Format: None pages, Paperback

Roxana (1724), Defoe's last and darkest novel, is the autobiography of a woman who has traded her v… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
Cover of The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath, Karen V. Kukil

9. The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

By: Sylvia Plath , Karen V. Kukil

3.31

Format: 267 pages, Paperback

First U.S. Publication A major literary event--the complete, uncensored journals of Sylvia Plath, p… read more

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  • classics
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10. 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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  • classics
  • fiction
"Fate will unwind as it must!"

-Unknown, Beowulf

"Fate goes ever as fate 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

Cover of The Man of the Crowd by Edgar Allan Poe, Ralph Cosham

11. The Man of the Crowd

By: Edgar Allan Poe , Ralph Cosham

3.32

Format: 256 pages, Audio Cassette

Commuter's Library brings listeners Poe with a twist--unabridged readings of lesser-known (and ofte… read more

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  • short stories
  • classics
  • fiction

12. A Small Place

By: Jamaica Kincaid

4.02

Format: None pages,

Lyrical, sardonic, and forthright, A Small Placemagnifies our vision of one small place with Swifti… read more

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  • classics

13. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: Written by Himself

By: Olaudah Equiano , Robert J. Allison

3.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

Widely admired for its vivid accounts of the slave trade, Olaudah Equiano's autobiography -- the fi… read more

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14. The Sea Around Us

By: Rachel Carson , Ann H. Zwinger

3.79

Format: 704 pages,

The Sea Around Usis one of the most remarkably successful books ever written about the natural worl… read more

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15. The Man Who Forgot Ray Bradbury

By: Neil Gaiman

3.99

Format: 32 pages, Audiobook

Neil Gaiman, has posted an audio recording of him reading his story "The Man Who Forgot Ray Bradbur… read more

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16. The School for Scandal

By: Richard Brinsley Sheridan

2.92

Format: None pages, Paperback

"The School for Scandal" is Richard Brinsley Sheridan's classic comedy that pokes fun at London upp… read more

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17. Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3)

By: Sophocles , J.E. Thomas

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

The curse placed on Oedipus lingers and haunts a younger generation in this new and brilliant trans… read more

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18. A Raisin in the Sun

By: Lorraine Hansberry

4.20

Format: 24 pages, Hardcover

"Never before, in the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of black peo… read more

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19. 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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20. Anthills of the Savannah

By: Chinua Achebe

3.48

Format: None pages, Paperback

Chris, Ikem and Beatrice are like-minded friends working under the military regime of His Excellenc… read more

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21. Girl

By: Jamaica Kincaid

3.97

Format: 480 pages,

Girlwas originally published in the June 26, 1978 issue of The New Yorkerand subsequently included … read more

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22. Disgrace

By: J.M. Coetzee

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Set in post-apartheid South Africa, J. M. Coetzee's searing novel tells the story of David Lurie, a… read more

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23. Metamorphoses

By: Ovid , David Raeburn , Denis Feeney

3.99

Format: 240 pages,

Metamorphoses (from Greek meta meta and morphe morphe, meaning "changes of shape"), is a Latin narr… read more

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24. The Young Man

By: Annie Ernaux

3.61

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Annie Ernaux's most recent book, dazzling and breat… read more

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  • short stories
Cover of Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History by Lea Ypi

25. Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History

By: Lea Ypi

4.28

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

For precocious 11-year-old Lea Ypi, Albania’s Soviet-style socialism held the promise of a preordai… read more

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"In March, they said we were all victims. They accepted us. In August, they looked at us as if we were some kinds of menace, like we were about to eat their children."

-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History

"Todavía hoy asocio todos nuestros esfuerzos por enterarnos de lo que pasaba en el mundo exterior al nombre de Dajti, la apartada cordillera que rodeaba nuestra capital y dominaba su paisaje como si l…"

-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History

"In the past, one would have been arrested for wanting to leave. Now that nobody was stopping us from emigrating, we were no longer welcome on the other side. The only thing that had changed was the c…"

-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History

"[...]Many of those friends were self-declared socialists - Wester socialists, that is. They spoke about Rosa Luxemburg, Leon Trotsky, Salvador Allende or Ernesto 'Che' Guevara as secular saints. It o…"

-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History

Cover of So Late in the Day by Claire Keegan

26. So Late in the Day

By: Claire Keegan

4.00

Format: 47 pages, Hardcover

After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the b… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk

27. Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

By: Olga Tokarczuk

3.95

Format: 12 pages, Audible Audio

In a remote Polish village, Janina devotes the dark winter days to studying astrology, translating … read more

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  • fiction
"To wielka tajemnica, że każde wyzwanie uruchamia w nas prawdziwie żywotne siły"

-Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

"A man's free to do what he wants with his life, until he falls foul of the banks."

-Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

"There are some things we may not understand, but we can sense them perfectly well."

-Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

"The best conversations are with yourself. At least there's no risk of a misunderstanding."

-Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

Cover of The Countess Cathleen by W.B. Yeats

28. The Countess Cathleen

By: W.B. Yeats

3.18

Format: 60 pages, Paperback

"The Countess Cathleen" is a poetic play written by William Butler Yeats, one of the most celebrate… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
Cover of Rain by W. Somerset Maugham

29. Rain

By: W. Somerset Maugham

3.96

Format: 62 pages, Paperback

While stranded waiting for their ship to be released from quarantine, Dr. and Mrs. Macphail must sh… read more

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  • short stories
  • classics
  • fiction
Cover of The Circle by Vladimir Nabokov

30. The Circle

By: Vladimir Nabokov

3.93

Format: 11 pages, None

None read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of In the Orchard by Virginia Woolf

31. In the Orchard

By: Virginia Woolf

3.80

Format: 7 pages, ebook

This is an e-publication of just one short story. The free download link is below. read more

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  • classics
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Jean Anouilh , Lewis Galantibre

3.78

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Christopher Marlowe

3.80

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Hermann Hesse

4.14

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3.78

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3.80

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