13 must-read classics books like The Woman of Colour by Lyndon J. Dominique

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The Woman of Colour

By: Lyndon J. Dominique

4.18

Format: None pages, Paperback

In The Woman of Colour, Olivia Fairfield, the biracial heroine and orphaned daughter of an English …

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Cover of Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft

1. Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman

By: Mary Wollstonecraft

3.44

Format: 138 pages, Paperback

In Maria , Wollstonecraft pursues in fictional form themes set forth in 'A Vindication of the Right… read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • school
  • read for school
"Was not the world a vast prison, and women born slaves?"

-Mary Wollstonecraft, Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman

"She would stand and behold the waves rolling, and think of the voice that could still the tumultuous deep."

-Mary Wollstonecraft, Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman

"Men who are inferior to their fellow men, are always most anxious to establish their superiority over women."

-Mary Wollstonecraft, Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman

"...or like the flash which divides the threatening clouds of angry heaven only to display the horror which darkness shrouded"

-Mary Wollstonecraft, Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman

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2. The Castle of Otranto

By: Horace Walpole

3.18

Format: 125 pages, Paperback

First published pseudonymously in 1764, The Castle of Otranto purported to be a translation of an I… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"My soul abhors a falsehood"

-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto

"This life is but a pilgrimage."

-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto

"Heaven mocks the short-sighted views of man."

-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto

"I fear no bad angel, and have offended no good one."

-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto

Cover of Belinda by Maria Edgeworth, Kathryn J. Kirkpatrick

3. Belinda

By: Maria Edgeworth , Kathryn J. Kirkpatrick

3.66

Format: 544 pages, Paperback

The lively comedy of this novel in which a young woman comes of age amid the distractions and tempt… read more

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  • 19th century
  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"I wish," said the old lady, "for her own sake, for the sake of her family, and for the sake of her reputation, that my lady Delacour had fewer admirers, and more friends." "Women, who have met with s…"

-Maria Edgeworth, Belinda

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4. A Sicilian Romance

By: Ann Radcliffe

3.39

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

In A Sicilian Romance (1790) Ann Radcliffe began to forge the unique mixture of the psychology of t… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Wisdom or accident, at length, recall us from our error, and offers to us some object capable of producing a pleasing, yet lasting effect, which effect, therefore, we call happiness. Happiness has th…"

-Ann Radcliffe, A Sicilian Romance

"As I walked over the loose fragments of stone, which lay scattered and surveyed the sublimity and grandeur of the ruins, I recurred, by a natural association of ideas, to the times when these walls s…"

-Ann Radcliffe, A Sicilian Romance

Cover of The Female Quixote by Charlotte Lennox, Margaret Anne Doody, Margaret Dalziel, Duncan Isles

5. The Female Quixote

By: Charlotte Lennox , Margaret Anne Doody , Margaret Dalziel , Duncan Isles

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Female Quixote, a vivacious and ironical novel parodying the style of Cervantes, portrays Arabe… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Fantomina; or, Love in a Maze by Eliza Fowler Haywood

6. Fantomina; or, Love in a Maze

By: Eliza Fowler Haywood

3.86

Format: 568 pages, Paperback

Eliza Haywood (1693-1756) (born Elizabeth Fowler) was an English writer, actress and publisher. Sin… read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • school
  • read for school
Cover of Obi; Or, the History of Three-Fingered Jack by William Earle, Srinivas Aravamudan

7. Obi; Or, the History of Three-Fingered Jack

By: William Earle , Srinivas Aravamudan

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

A compelling fictional account of an eighteenth-century Jamaican slave rebellion, this previously u… read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • school
  • read for school
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8. The Woman of Colour

By: Lyndon J. Dominique

4.18

Format: None pages, Paperback

In The Woman of Colour, Olivia Fairfield, the biracial heroine and orphaned daughter of an English … read more

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  • classics
  • school
  • 19th century
  • read for school
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
Cover of The Romance of the Forest by Ann Radcliffe

9. The Romance of the Forest

By: Ann Radcliffe

4.18

Format: 213 pages,

Set in a Roman Catholic Europe of violent passions and extreme oppression, the novel follows the fa… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
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10. Mansfield Park

By: Jane Austen

3.87

Format: 488 pages, Paperback

Taken from the poverty of her parents' home in Portsmouth, Fanny Price is brought up with her rich … read more

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  • 19th century
  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"I was quiet, but I was not blind."

-Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

Cover of Of One Blood: Or, the Hidden Self: The Givens Collection by Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins

11. Of One Blood: Or, the Hidden Self: The Givens Collection

By: Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins

4.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

Of One Bloodis the last of four novels written by Pauline Hopkins. She is considered by some to be … read more

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  • classics
  • fiction

12. Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands

By: Mary Seacole

3.20

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Mary Seacole was born a free black woman in Jamaica of the early 19th century. In her long and vari… read more

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  • 19th century
  • classics

13. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

By: Laurence Sterne , Melvyn New

3.90

Format: 256 pages,

Laurence Sterne's great masterpiece of bawdy humour and rich satire defies any attempt to categoriz… read more

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14. 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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15. Northanger Abbey

By: Jane Austen , Alfred J. MacAdam

3.85

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

A wonderfully entertaining coming-of-age story, Northanger Abbey is often referred to as Jane Auste… read more

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  • 19th century
  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"I have no talent for certainty."

-Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

"Every moment has its pleasures and its hope."

-Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

"But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea."

-Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

"I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible."

-Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

16. Fanny Hill, or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure

By: John Cleland

2.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

Fanny Hill, also known as Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, has been a notorious novel since it first… read more

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17. The History of Mary Prince: A West Indian Slave Narrative

By: Mary Prince

4.11

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Born in Bermuda to a house slave in 1788, Mary Prince suffered the first of many soul-shattering ex… read more

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18. Oroonoko

By: Aphra Behn , Janet Todd

3.78

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

When Prince Oroonoko's passion for the virtuous Imoinda arouses the jealousy of his grandfather, th… read more

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19. Evelina

By: None , Edward A. Bloom

3.88

Format: None pages, Paperback

Frances Burney's first and most enduringly popular novel is a vivid, satirical, and seductive accou… read more

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20. Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded

By: Samuel Richardson , Thomas Keymer , Alice Wakely

3.97

Format: 12 pages, Paperback

One of the most spectacular successes of the flourishing literary marketplace of eighteenth-century… read more

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21. A Simple Story

By: Elizabeth Inchbald

2.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

When Miss Milner announces her passion for her guardian, a Catholic priest, she breaks through the … read more

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