18 Top classics books like Hannibal by Livy

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Hannibal

By: Livy

3.57

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

'We have nothing left in the world but what we can win with our swords.' The remarkable account …

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1. Gooseberries and other stories

By: Anton Chekhov , Constance Garnett

3.76

Format: None pages, ebook

"Oh, good God," he kept saying with great relish. "Good God..." 'Gooseberries' is accompanied h… read more

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  • classics
"The Lie which elates us is dearer than a thousand sober truths"

-Anton Chekhov, Gooseberries and other stories

"The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths."

-Anton Chekhov, Gooseberries and other stories

"Человеку нужно не три аршина земли, не усадьба, а весь земной шар, вся природа, где на просторе он мог бы проявить все свойства и особенности своего свободного духа."

-Anton Chekhov, Gooseberries and other stories

"Happiness does not exist, nor should it, and if there is any meaning or purpose in life, they are not in our peddling little happiness, but in something reasonable and grand. Do good!"

-Anton Chekhov, Gooseberries and other stories

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2. A Storm of Swords: Steel and Snow (A Song of Ice and Fire, #3.1)

By: George R.R. Martin

4.50

Format: 663 pages, Paperback

Winter approaches Westeros like an angry beast. The Seven Kingdoms are divided by revolt and blo… read more

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"Light your flame among us, R’hllor,"

-George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords: Steel and Snow (A Song of Ice and Fire, #3.1)

"The Others never come when the sun is up."

-George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords: Steel and Snow (A Song of Ice and Fire, #3.1)

"Never believe anything you hear in a song."

-George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords: Steel and Snow (A Song of Ice and Fire, #3.1)

"A good threat is often more telling than a blow."

-George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords: Steel and Snow (A Song of Ice and Fire, #3.1)

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3. South and West: From a Notebook

By: Joan Didion

3.69

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

From the best-selling author of the National Book Award-winning The Year of Magical Thinking two ex… read more

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  • nonfiction
"I've never been any place I wanted to go."

-Joan Didion, South and West: From a Notebook

"It was the kind of Sunday to make one ache for Monday morning."

-Joan Didion, South and West: From a Notebook

"The devastation along the Gulf had an inevitability about it: the coast was reverting to its natural state."

-Joan Didion, South and West: From a Notebook

"The time warp: the Civil War was yesterday, but 1960 is spoken of as if it were about three hundred years ago."

-Joan Didion, South and West: From a Notebook

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4. Journey's End

By: R.C. Sherriff

3.86

Format: 114 pages, Hardcover

The "Heinemann Plays" series offers contemporary drama and classic plays in durable classroom editi… read more

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  • classics
"You must always think of it like that if you can. Think of it all as - as romantic. It helps."

-R.C. Sherriff, Journey's End

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5. SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

By: Mary Beard

3.59

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

New York TimesBestseller * National Book Critics Circle Finalist * Wall Street JournalBest Books of… read more

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  • italy
  • classics
  • history
  • ancient history
  • nonfiction
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6. The World is Full of Foolish Men

By: Jean de la Fontaine

3.32

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

'The pleasure is twice as sweet When you cheat a cheat.' An illustrated collection of fables from o… read more

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  • classics
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7. The Sea Raiders

By: H.G. Wells

4.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

'... slowly uncoiling their tentacles... and making a soft purring sound to each other' A disgustin… read more

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  • classics
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8. Love that Moves the Sun and Other Stars

By: Dante Alighieri

3.75

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

'Happiness beyond all words! A life of peace and love, entire and whole!' A collection of cantos fr… read more

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  • classics
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9. 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
"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

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10. The Robber Bridegroom

By: Jacob Grimm , None , William Karl Grimm

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

'Then she began to run, and she ran over the sharp stones and through the thorns, and the wild anim… read more

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  • classics
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11. My Life Had Stood a Loaded Gun

By: Emily Dickinson

3.41

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

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  • classics
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12. The Tyger

By: Neil Waldman , William Blake

2.96

Format: 63 pages, Hardcover

Almost 200 years after it first appeared in Songs of Innocence and of Experience, one of the world'… read more

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  • classics
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13. How To Be a Medieval Woman

By: Margery Kempe , Barry Windeatt

3.35

Format: 520 pages,

And then he, completely astonished at her words, left off his lewdness, saying to her as many a man… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • classics
  • history
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14. The Pit and the Pendulum

By: Edgar Allan Poe

4.15

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Get set for true terror in one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous short stories. We enter the mind… read more

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  • classics
"How at least shall we distinguish its shadows from those of the tomb?"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum

"In the deepest slumber-no! In delirium-no! In a swoon-no! In death-no! even in the grave all is not lost."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum

"In death - no! even in the grave all is not lost. Else there is no immortality for man. Arousing from the most profound slumbers, we break the gossamer web of some dream. Yet in a second afterward, (…"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum

"He who has never swooned, is not he who finds strange palaces and wildly familiar faces in coals that glow; is not he who beholds floating in mid-air the sad visions that the many may not view; is no…"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum

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15. Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast

By: Oscar Wilde

4.30

Format: None pages,

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  • classics
  • nonfiction
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16. I, Claudius (Claudius, #1)

By: Robert Graves

3.44

Format: 347 pages, Paperback

From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, Born 10 B.C., Murdered and Deified A.D. 54. Set in the… read more

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  • italy
  • classics
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17. To Be Read at Dusk

By: Charles Dickens

4.35

Format: None pages, Paperback

'The monstrous thought came into my mind as I perused the fixed eyes and the saturnine face, that t… read more

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  • classics

18. The Stolen White Elephant

By: Mark Twain

4.14

Format: 222 pages,

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19. Green Tea

By: J. Sheridan Le Fanu

1.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Based on the psychological complexities of human mind, the work is pervaded by a mysterious aura. A… read more

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20. Come Close

By: Sappho

3.85

Format: 370 pages, Paperback

'Yes, we did many things, then - all Beautiful ...' Lyrical, powerful poems about love, sexuality, … read more

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21. 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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22. The Fall of Icarus

By: Ovid , Mary M. Innes

4.18

Format: 342 pages, Paperback

'Drawn on by his eagerness for the open sky, he left his guide and soared upwards . . .' Enduring m… read more

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23. Lady Susan

By: Jane Austen , Robert William Chapman

3.65

Format: 180 pages, Paperback

Beautiful, flirtatious, and recently widowed, Lady Susan Vernon seeks an advantageous second marria… read more

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  • classics
"I have not yet tranquillised myself enough to see Frederica."

-Jane Austen, Lady Susan

"I shall ever despise the man who can be gratified by the passion which he never wished to inspire, nor solicited the avowal of."

-Jane Austen, Lady Susan

"How little the general report of any one ought to be credited, since no character, however upright, can escape the malevolence of slander."

-Jane Austen, Lady Susan

"...though I always imagined from her increasing friendship for us since her husband's death that we should, at some future period, be obliged to receive her."

-Jane Austen, Lady Susan

24. The Body Politic

By: Jean-Jacques Rousseau

2.65

Format: 34 pages, Paperback

'No true Democracy has ever existed, nor ever will exist.' In this selection from The Social Contra… read more

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25. The Night Before Christmas

By: Nikolai Gogol , Anna Summers , None , None , None

4.07

Format: None pages,

Gogol's classic, uproarious folktale, presented in a beautiful hardcover edition perfect for giving… read more

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26. The Suffragettes

By: Various

3.84

Format: None pages, Paperback

'Once they are aroused, once they are determined, nothing on earth and nothing in heaven will make … read more

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27. The Book of Tea

By: Kakuzō Okakura

2.00

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

Now available in a gorgeous hardcover slipcase edition, this "object d'art" will be sure to add gra… read more

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28. Jason and Medea

By: Apollonius of Rhodes

5.00

Format: 30 pages, Paperback

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29. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

4.21

Format: 539 pages, Hardcover

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes are overshadowed by the event with which they close - the meeting of… read more

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30. Chapterhouse: Dune (Dune #6)

By: Frank Herbert

3.89

Format: 609 pages, Paperback

Frank Herbert's Final Novel in the Magnificent Dune Chronicles--the Bestselling Science Fiction Adv… read more

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  • classics
"What does a mirror look at?"

-Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune (Dune #6)

"I am not the river I am the net."

-Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune (Dune #6)

"Face your fears or they will climb over your back."

-Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune (Dune #6)

"Revenge is for children and the emotionally retarded."

-Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune (Dune #6)

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31. Hannibal

By: Livy

3.57

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

'We have nothing left in the world but what we can win with our swords.' The remarkable account … read more

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  • italy
  • roman
  • history
  • classics
  • ancient history
  • nonfiction

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Transform Your Habits

South and West: From a Notebook

Joan Didion

3.69

Transform Your Habits

SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

Mary Beard

3.59

Transform Your Habits

How To Be a Medieval Woman

Margery Kempe , Barry Windeatt

3.35

Transform Your Habits

Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast

Oscar Wilde

4.30

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The Reckoning

Edith Wharton

4.62

Transform Your Habits

The Robber Bridegroom

Jacob Grimm , None , William Karl Grimm

5.00

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To-morrow

Joseph Conrad

5.00

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Kate Chopin

3.64

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