The Major Works
By: Percy Bysshe Shelley
4.20
Format: 880 pages, Paperback
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was a Romantic poet of radical imaginings, living in an age of cha…
Want to Read"tomes / Of reasoned wrong, glozed on by ignorance"-Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Major Works
"tomes / Of reasoned wrong, glozed on by ignorance"-Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Major Works
"tomes / Of reasoned wrong, glozed on by ignorance"-Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Major Works
"Confound the subtlety of lawyers with the subtlety of the law."-Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Major Works
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1. The Recognitions
By: William H. Gass , William Gaddis
4.20
Format: 976 pages, Paperback
The book Jonathan Franzen dubbed the "ur-text of postwar fiction" and the "first great cultural cri… read more
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- classics
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"Women get desperate, but they don't understand despair."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
"That fever had passed; but for the rest of his life it never left his eyes."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
"Reading Proust isn't just reading a book, it's an experience and you can't reject an experience."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
"Most people are clever because they don't know how to be honest." William Gaddis, The Recognitions."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
2. The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
By: Robert Fagles , Aeschylus , William Bedell Stanford
4.01
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Alternate covers of this ISBN here, here, here, here. Most recent cover is here. In the Oresteia… read more
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- poetry
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"I cannot not grieve."-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
"Learning comes through pain."-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
"Do I not live? Badly, I know, but I live."-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
"Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know Except pain"-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
3. Electra
By: Sophocles , J. Michael Walton , None
4.33
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
The Drama Classic edition of Sophocles' version of the Electra myth. read more
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- literature
- poetry
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4. A Tale of Two Cities
By: Charles Dickens , Hablot Knight Browne , Richard Maxwell
3.87
Format: 489 pages, Paperback
A Tale of Two Cities is Charles Dickens’s great historical novel, set against the violent upheaval … read more
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- classics
- british literature
- literature
- 19th century
- fiction
"We'll start to forget a place once we left it"-Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
"Tell the Wind and the Fire where to stop; not me."-Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
"A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self."-Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."-Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
5. Confessions
By: Augustine of Hippo , Henry Chadwick , Albert Cook Outler
3.41
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Augustine's Confessions is one of the most influential and most innovative works of Latin literatur… read more
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- classics
6. If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
By: Sappho , Anne Carson
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
From poet and classicist Anne Carson comes this translation of the work of Sappho, together with th… read more
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- classics
- fiction
7. Julius Caesar
By: William Shakespeare , Roma Gill
3.70
Format: 175 pages, Paperback
The Oxford School Shakespeare has become the preferred introduction to the literary legacy of the g… read more
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"Et tu, Brute?"-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
"Beware the ides of March."-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
"Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!"-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
"Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come"-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
8. 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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- fiction
"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
9. The Canterbury Tales
By: Geoffrey Chaucer , Nevill Coghill
3.72
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
The procession that crosses Chaucer's pages is as full of life and as richly textured as a medieval… read more
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10. Lyrical Ballads
By: William Wordsworth , Samuel Taylor Coleridge , None
4.08
Format: None pages, Paperback
The majority of the following poems are to be considered as experiments. They were written chiefly … read more
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11. Ulysses
By: James Joyce
3.75
Format: 925 pages, Paperback
Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It was first serialized in parts in the A… read more
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- fiction
- classics
- unfinished
"Shite and onions!"-James Joyce, Ulysses
"Let my country die for me."-James Joyce, Ulysses
"Be just before you are generous."-James Joyce, Ulysses
"no more pain. wake no more. nobody owns"-James Joyce, Ulysses
12. The Merchant of Venice
By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine , None
3.78
Format: 247 pages, Mass Market Paperback
In this lively comedy of love and money in sixteenth-century Venice, Bassanio wants to impress the … read more
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"He will fence with his own shadow."-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
"You speak an infinite deal of nothing."-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
"The fiend gives the more friendly counsel."-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
"i buy a thousand pound a year! i buy a rope!"-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
13. 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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14. Lord Byron: The Major Works
By: Lord Byron , Jerome J. McGann
5.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Byron is regarded today as the ultimate Romantic, whose name has entered the language to describe a… read more
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15. In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
By: Gabor Maté
4.49
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
He would probably dispute it, but Gabor Maté is something of a compassion machine. Diligently treat… read more
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"Passion creates, addiction consumes."-Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
"Compassionate curiosity directed toward the self leads to the truth of things."-Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
"There is a quality or drive innate in human beings that the Austrian psychiatrist Victor Frankl called our “search for meaning."-Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
"It is impossible to understand addiction without asking what relief the addict finds, or hopes to find, in the drug or the addictive behaviour."-Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
16. Collected Poems and Other Verse
By: Stéphane Mallarmé , A.M. Blackmore , E.H. Blackmore
3.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
Stephane Mallarme was the most radically innovative of nineteenth-century poets, and a key figure i… read more
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17. The Tempest
By: William Shakespeare
4.27
Format: 127 pages,
In The Tempest, long considered one of Shakespeare's most lyrical plays, Prospero--a magician on an… read more
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18. 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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19. Much Ado About Nothing
By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine , Gail Kern Paster , None
3.92
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
The action is set in Sicily, where Don Pedro, Prince of Aragon, has recently defeated his half-brot… read more
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20. The Red and the Black
By: Stendhal , None
3.86
Format: 577 pages, Paperback
Handsome, ambitious Julien Sorel is determined to rise above his humble provincial origins. Soon re… read more
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- 19th century
- classics
- fiction
"A good book is an event in my life."-Stendhal, The Red and the Black
"Toute vraie passion ne songe qu'a elle."-Stendhal, The Red and the Black
"It seems that my destiny is to die dreaming."-Stendhal, The Red and the Black
"A novel is a mirror walking along a main road."-Stendhal, The Red and the Black
21. 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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22. Shakespeare's Sonnets
By: William Shakespeare , Katherine Duncan-Jones
4.45
Format: 122 pages, Paperback
T.S. Eliot once wrote that, "Shakespeare gives the greatest width of human passion," and it is this… read more
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23. Great Expectations
By: Charles Dickens
3.79
Format: 544 pages, Paperback
Great Expectations charts the progress of Pip from childhood through often painful experiences to a… read more
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- british literature
- literature
- 19th century
- fiction
"We need never be ashamed of our tears."-Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
"You are in every line I have ever read."-Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
"It is the most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home."-Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
"Take the pencil and write under my name, 'I forgive her."-Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
24. Night Sky with Exit Wounds
By: Ocean Vuong
4.00
Format: 258 pages, Paperback
Ocean Vuong's first full-length collection aims straight for the perennial "big"--and very human--s… read more
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25. Sonnets from the Portuguese
By: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
3.88
Format: None pages,
Excerpt from Sonnets From the Portuguese But only three in all God's universe Have heard this word … read more
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26. Medea
By: Euripides , Rex Warner
3.42
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
One of the most powerful and enduring of Greek tragedies, Medeacenters on the myth of Jason, leader… read more
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27. Paradise Lost
By: John Milton , John Leonard
3.84
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
John Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. It tells the… read more
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- poetry
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"What hath night to do with sleep?"-John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n."-John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Solitude sometimes is best society."-John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss."-John Milton, Paradise Lost
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28. 呪術廻戦 3 [Jujutsu Kaisen 3]
By: Gege Akutami
4.47
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
伏黒と釘崎の前に現れた呪術高専京都校の東堂葵と禪院真依! 好きな女性のタイプを尋ねる東堂に対し、伏黒の出した答えは。一方、修業中の虎杖は実戦で鍛えるため、呪霊が起こした事件現場へと向かい…!? read more
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"I'm an adult, you are a child. I have the duty to prioritize your life over my own."-Gege Akutami, 呪術廻戦 3 [Jujutsu Kaisen 3]
"Some people cannot be helped. As long as you're in this business, there will come a day when you will also have to kill someone. But today is not that day. Please understand. Being a child is by no m…"-Gege Akutami, 呪術廻戦 3 [Jujutsu Kaisen 3]
"Well, I mean once I kill someone... The choice of 'killing'... Will come into my life, I think. The value of life will become ambiguous... And I'm scared of not knowing anymore... The value of the pe…"-Gege Akutami, 呪術廻戦 3 [Jujutsu Kaisen 3]
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29. 呪術廻戦 2 [Jujutsu Kaisen 2]
By: Gege Akutami
4.48
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
少年院内に、突如呪胎が発生。取り残された人間を救助する為、虎杖ら高専1年が派遣された! だが特級呪霊へ変態した呪胎に襲撃を受け、ピンチに陥る一行。虎杖は宿儺と入れ替わり、呪霊を倒そうと試みるが……!? read more
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"Non sono un eroe. Sono uno stregone."-Gege Akutami, 呪術廻戦 2 [Jujutsu Kaisen 2]
"HAHA DAIJOUBU DESHOU, DATTE KIMI YOWAI MO"-Gege Akutami, 呪術廻戦 2 [Jujutsu Kaisen 2]
"That's why I've never regretted saving you. Not even for a moment."-Gege Akutami, 呪術廻戦 2 [Jujutsu Kaisen 2]
30. Raiders of the Lost Heart
By: Jo Segura
3.44
Format: 357 pages, Paperback
Rival archaeologists must team up on a secret Aztec expedition, or it could leave their careers—and… read more
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31. The Major Works
By: Percy Bysshe Shelley
4.20
Format: 880 pages, Paperback
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was a Romantic poet of radical imaginings, living in an age of cha… read more
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"tomes / Of reasoned wrong, glozed on by ignorance"-Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Major Works
"Confound the subtlety of lawyers with the subtlety of the law."-Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Major Works
"War, waged from whatever motive, extinguishes the sentiment of reason and justice in the mind."-Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Major Works
"War is a kind of superstition, the pageantry of arms and badges corrupts the imagination of men."-Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Major Works
