16 must-read classics books like The Poems of Sir Walter Raleigh: Collected and Authenticated with Those of Sir Henry Wotton and Other Courtly Poets from 1540 To 1650 by Walter Raleigh

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The Poems of Sir Walter Raleigh: Collected and Authenticated with Those of Sir Henry Wotton and Other Courtly Poets from 1540 To 1650

By: Walter Raleigh

3.77

Format: 298 pages, Paperback

A collection of poetry by Sir Walter Raleigh. Edited and authenticated by J. Hannah. Also included …

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1. Hippolytos

By: Euripides , Robert Bagg

3.81

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

In most versions of the Hippolytos myth, Phaidra is depicted as an utterly debauched character, a w… read more

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"There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course; a quiet conscience."

-Euripides, Hippolytos

"I have pondered on the causes of a life's shipwreck. I think that our lives are worse than the mind's quality would warrant. There are many who know virtue. We know the good, we apprehend it clearly.…"

-Euripides, Hippolytos

"О Зевс! Зачем ты создавал жену? И это зло с его фальшивым блеском Лучам небес позволил обливать? Иль для того, чтоб род людской продолжить, Ты обойтись без женщины не мог? Иль из своих за медь и злат…"

-Euripides, Hippolytos

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2. The Way Things Are

By: Rolfe Humphries , Lucretius

3.97

Format: 265 pages, Paperback

..". [captures] the relentless urgency of Lucretius' didacticism, his passionate conviction and pro… read more

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"There can be no centre in infinity."

-Rolfe Humphries, The Way Things Are

"Nothing exists but amalgams of matter and space."

-Rolfe Humphries, The Way Things Are

"Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated."

-Rolfe Humphries, The Way Things Are

"For whatever changes and leaves its natural bounds is instant death of that which was before."

-Rolfe Humphries, The Way Things Are

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3. Madame Bovary

By: Gustave Flaubert , Margaret Mauldon , Malcolm Bowie , Mark Overstall

3.70

Format: 329 pages, Paperback

Madame Bovary is the debut novel of French writer Gustave Flaubert, published in 1856. The characte… read more

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"Every notary carries about inside him the debris of a poet."

-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

"Speech is a rolling-mill that always thins out the sentiment."

-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

"How oft the warmth of the sun above Makes a pretty young girl dream of love."

-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

"For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat."

-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

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4. Diary of a Madman and Other Stories

By: Nikolai Gogol

4.35

Format: 26 pages, Paperback

Hailed by Nabokov as "the greatest artist that Russia has yet produced," Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852) … read more

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5. Black Boy

By: Richard Wright , Jerry W. Ward Jr.

3.91

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

Black Boyis a classic of American autobiography, a subtly crafted narrative of Richard Wright's jou… read more

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6. The Bacchae

By: Euripides , Kenneth McLeish , None

3.92

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Euripides' classic drama about the often mortifying consequences of the unbridled--and frequently h… read more

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"Cleverness is not wisdom."

-Euripides, The Bacchae

"He who believes needs no explanation."

-Euripides, The Bacchae

"Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish."

-Euripides, The Bacchae

"Prepare yourselves for the roaring voice of the God of Joy!"

-Euripides, The Bacchae

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7. The Princesse de Clèves

By: Madame de La Fayette

3.00

Format: 508 pages, Paperback

This new translation of The Princesse de Clevesalso includes two shorter works also attributed to M… read more

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8. The Prince

By: Niccolò Machiavelli , Adolph Caso , Rufus Goodwin , Benjamin Martinez

3.84

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Machiavelli needs to be looked at as he really was. Hence: Can Machiavelli, who makes the following… read more

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"Is it better to be loved or feared?"

-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

"He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command"

-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

"Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception."

-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

"It is a common fault of men not to reckon on storms in fair weather."

-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

9. Woodcutters

By: Thomas Bernhard , David McLintock

3.34

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

This controversial portrayal of Viennese artistic circles begins as the writer-narrator arrives at … read more

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10. Utopia

By: Paul Turner , Thomas More

3.55

Format: 113 pages, Paperback

In his most famous and controversial book, Utopia, Thomas More imagines a perfect island nation whe… read more

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"The change of the word does not alter the matter"

-Paul Turner, Utopia

"Isn't this conception of absolute justice absolutely unjust?"

-Paul Turner, Utopia

"Dünyada kaygısız, rahat yürekle, sevinçle yaşamaktan daha büyük zenginlik olabilir mi?"

-Paul Turner, Utopia

"Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all."

-Paul Turner, Utopia

11. The Man in the Iron Mask (The D'Artagnan Romances, #3.3)

By: Alexandre Dumas , Francine du Plessix Gray , Joachim Neugroschel

4.11

Format: None pages, Paperback

A swashbuckling novel of political intrigue. In the concluding installment of Alexandre Dumas's cel… read more

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12. 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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13. Gulliver’s Travels

By: Louis Rhead , Jonathan Swift , William Dean Howells , Robert DeMaria Jr.

3.58

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

A wickedly clever satire uses comic inversions to offer telling insights into the nature of man and… read more

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"Anlamadığınız bir insanı "delidir" diye nitelemek o kadar kolaydır ki!"

-Louis Rhead, Gulliver’s Travels

"we neither of us are able to deliver our conceptions in a manner intelligible to the other."

-Louis Rhead, Gulliver’s Travels

"معظم ابناء جلدتك هم أخبث سلالة من الحشرات المؤذية البغيضة التي سمحت لها الطبيعة بالزحف على وجخ الأرض"

-Louis Rhead, Gulliver’s Travels

"... a wife should be always a reasonable and agreeable companion, because she cannot always be young."

-Louis Rhead, Gulliver’s Travels

14. 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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15. The Odes

By: Pindar

4.36

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

'What Pindar catches is the joy beyond ordinary emotions as it transcends and transforms them' --C.… read more

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16. The Temple: The Poetry of George Herbert

By: George Herbert , Henry L. Carrigan Jr.

3.65

Format: None pages, Paperback

George Herbert, a priest at Salisbury Cathedral in seventeenth-century England, is known as the aut… read more

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17. The Mill on the Floss

By: George Eliot , A.S. Byatt

3.83

Format: 579 pages, Paperback

'If life had no love in it, what else was there for Maggie?' Brought up at Dorlcote Mill, Maggie… read more

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"Don't judge a book by its cover"

-George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

"Don't judge a book by its cover."

-George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

"Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure."

-George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

"I desire no future that will break the ties of the past."

-George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

18. Leaves of Grass

By: Walt Whitman

3.50

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

A collection of quintessentially American poems, the seminal work of one of the most influential wr… read more

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19. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

By: James Joyce , Seamus Deane

3.64

Format: 329 pages, Paperback

The portrayal of Stephen Dedalus's Dublin childhood and youth, his quest for identity through art a… read more

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"My heart is quite calm now. I will go back."

-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

"God spoke to you by so many voices but you would not hear."

-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

"Are you not weary of ardent ways? Tell no more of enchanted days."

-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

"He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place."

-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

20. Theogony/Works and Days

By: Hesiod , None

4.30

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Hesiod, one of the oldest known Greek poets, stands out as the first personality in European litera… read more

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21. Lord Jim

By: Joseph Conrad

5.00

Format: 30 pages, Paperback

Haunted by the memory of a moment of lost nerve during a disastrous voyage, Jim submits to condemna… read more

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22. The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

By: Emily Dickinson , Thomas H. Johnson

3.85

Format: None pages, Paperback

THE ONLY ONE-VOLUME EDITION CONTAINING ALL 1,775 OF EMILY DICKINSON'S POEMS Only eleven of Emily Di… read more

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23. Bonjour tristesse

By: Françoise Sagan

3.72

Format: 154 pages, Mass Market Paperback

(English follows French) La villa est magnifique, l'été brûlant, la Méditerranée toute proche. C… read more

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"Je serais intelligente, cultivée, un peu détachée, comme Anne."

-Françoise Sagan, Bonjour tristesse

"Il est très vaniteux ou très peu sûr de lui, comme vous voulez."

-Françoise Sagan, Bonjour tristesse

"Bet juk taip malonu paklusti savo impulsams, o paskui gailėtis..."

-Françoise Sagan, Bonjour tristesse

"Et de plus, Cyril m'aimait ... cette pensée suffisait à mon euphorie."

-Françoise Sagan, Bonjour tristesse

24. The Plays of Oscar Wilde

By: Oscar Wilde

3.91

Format: 318 pages, Paperback

Oscar Wilde took London by storm with his first comedy, Lady Windermere's Fan. The combination of d… read more

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25. La mare au diable

By: George Sand

4.43

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

Un jeune veuf, Germain, vit avec ses beaux parents et ses trois enfants. Son beau-pere le pousse a … read more

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26. Dubliners

By: James Joyce , Jeri Johnson

3.44

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

This work of art reflects life in Ireland at the turn of the last century, and by rejecting euphemi… read more

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27. Erewhon (Erewhon , #1)

By: Samuel Butler

4.34

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

In this novel, Butler satirically describes a utopian society, using the civilization of 'Erewhon' … read more

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28. 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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29. Joseph Andrews

By: Henry Fielding

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Joseph Andrews refuses Lady Booby's advances, she discharges him, and Joseph and his old tutor, Par… read more

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30. The Poems of Sir Walter Raleigh: Collected and Authenticated with Those of Sir Henry Wotton and Other Courtly Poets from 1540 To 1650

By: Walter Raleigh

3.77

Format: 298 pages, Paperback

A collection of poetry by Sir Walter Raleigh. Edited and authenticated by J. Hannah. Also included … read more

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31. La Fin de Satan

By: Victor Hugo

3.89

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

"Antres noirs du passé, porches de la durée Sans dates, sans rayons, sombre et démesurée, Cycles an… read more

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