12 best-selling classics books like The Cock and Anchor: Being a Chronicle of Old Dublin City by J. Sheridan Le Fanu

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The Cock and Anchor: Being a Chronicle of Old Dublin City

By: J. Sheridan Le Fanu

3.52

Format: 490 pages, Hardcover

First published in 1845, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's The Cock and Anchor is one of the most interesti…

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1. To the Lighthouse

By: Virginia Woolf

3.80

Format: 209 pages, Paperback

The serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children and assor… read more

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  • novels
  • classics
  • fiction
"I have had my vision."

-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

"[...] there was only the sound of the sea."

-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

"Well, we must wait for the future to show."

-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

"The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare."

-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

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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

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3. The Three Musketeers

By: Alexandre Dumas , Richard Pevear , John Lee

4.09

Format: 625 pages, Paperback

First published in 1844, The Three Musketeers is the most famous of Alexandre Dumas' historical nov… read more

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  • novels
  • classics
  • fiction
"All for one and one for all."

-Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

"Love is the most selfish of all the passions."

-Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

"The merit of all things lies in their difficulty."

-Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

"I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death."

-Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

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4. The Importance of Being Earnest

By: Oscar Wilde

2.50

Format: None pages,

Oscar Wilde's madcap farce about mistaken identities, secret engagements, and lovers entanglements … read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
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5. The Return of Sherlock Holmes

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

3.41

Format: 94 pages, Hardcover

The Return of Sherlock Holmesis a collection of 13 Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
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6. King Lear

By: William Shakespeare , William James Rolfe

3.91

Format: 338 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Shakespeare’s King Lear challenges us with the magnitude, intensity, and sheer duration of the pain… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"Fortune love you."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

"She is herself a dowry."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

"All dark and comfortless."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

"Nothing can come of nothing."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

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7. Rain (Blackwater, #6)

By: Michael McDowell

4.16

Format: 190 pages, Paperback

The mysterious saga of the Caskey family concludes in Blackwater VI: Rain. Time heals old wound… read more

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  • gothic
  • fiction
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8. Faust: First Part

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Peter Salm

4.21

Format: None pages, Paperback

Goethe's masterpiece and perhaps the greatest work in German literature, Faust has made the legenda… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
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9. Five Little Pigs (Hercule Poirot, #24)

By: Agatha Christie

5.00

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Amyas Crale, un peintre celebre, a ete assassine, et sa femme, condamnee pour ce meurtre. Seize ans… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
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10. The Turn of the Screw

By: Henry James

3.39

Format: 121 pages, Paperback

The Turn of the Screw is an 1898 horror novella by Henry James that first appeared in serial format… read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • fiction
"When I'm bad I am bad !"

-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw

"He fairly glittered in the gloom."

-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw

"I was ready to know the very worst that was to be known."

-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw

"There was something between them." "There was everything."

-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw

11. A Farewell to Arms

By: Ernest Hemingway , نجف دریابندری

4.12

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war, to the war to end all wars. He volunteered for ambulance serv… read more

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12. The Hollow (Hercule Poirot, #26)

By: Agatha Christie

3.80

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Lady Angkatell, intrigued by the criminal mind, has invited Hercule Poirot to her estate for a week… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"I, Hercule Poirot, am not amused."

-Agatha Christie, The Hollow (Hercule Poirot, #26)

"The past is sometimes a very good place to live"

-Agatha Christie, The Hollow (Hercule Poirot, #26)

"Some people are wise - they never expect to be happy. I did."

-Agatha Christie, The Hollow (Hercule Poirot, #26)

"What does one say to a woman who has just killed her husband?"

-Agatha Christie, The Hollow (Hercule Poirot, #26)

13. Berezina

By: Sylvain Tesson

3.78

Format: None pages, Paperback

En octobre 1812, piege dans Moscou en flammes, Napoleon replie la Grande Armee vers la France. Comm… read more

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14. The Fall of the House of Usher

By: Edgar Allan Poe

3.87

Format: 36 pages, Paperback

Take the plunge. Dive into this classic from the singular mind of Edgar Allan Poe, who is widely re… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"[Son] cœur est un luth suspendu; Sitôt qu'on le touche il résonne. — De Béranger "

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher

"A cadaverousness of complexion; an eye large, liquid and very luminous...finely molded chin, speaking, in its want of prominence, of a want of moral energy."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher

"It was, perhaps, the narrow limits to which he thus confined himself upon the guitar, which gave birth, in great measure, to the fantastic character of his performances."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher

"Er is geen twijfel mogelijk dat mijn bewustzijn van de snelle groei van mijn bijgeloof (want waarom zou ik het niet zo noemen?) de groei alleen maar scheen te versnellen. Dat is, zoals ik al lange ti…"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher

15. Le Comte de Monte-Cristo I

By: Alexandre Dumas , Jean-Yves Tadié , Gilbert Sigaux

4.40

Format: 184 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Tome I de II. << On fit encore quatre ou cinq pas en montant toujours, puis Dantes sentit qu'on le … read more

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16. On ne badine pas avec l'amour

By: Alfred de Musset , None

3.96

Format: 236 pages, Paperback

Camille et Perdican partagent sans doute la meme religion de l'amour ideal, mais melee de vehemence… read more

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17. The Summer that Melted Everything

By: Tiffany McDaniel

4.45

Format: 864 pages,

Fielding Bliss has never forgotten the summer of 1984:the year a heat wave scorched Breathed, Ohio.… read more

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18. 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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19. My Husband

By: Maud Ventura

3.68

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In this suspenseful and darkly funny debut novel, a sophisticated French woman spends her life obse… read more

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  • fiction
"When it comes to love, I’ve learned nothing: I love too intensely and I’m consumed by my own love (analysis, jealousy, doubt)—so much that when I’m in love, I always end up slightly extinguished and …"

-Maud Ventura, My Husband

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20. The Cock and Anchor: Being a Chronicle of Old Dublin City

By: J. Sheridan Le Fanu

3.52

Format: 490 pages, Hardcover

First published in 1845, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's The Cock and Anchor is one of the most interesti… read more

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  • gothic
  • novels
  • classics
  • fiction
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21. La fortuna (Blackwater, #5)

By: Michael McDowell

4.04

Format: 186 pages, Kindle Edition

1946. Come un organismo vivente, la famiglia Caskey si sviluppa e si trasforma. Alcuni affrontano l… read more

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  • fiction

15 must-read fiction books like The Cock and Anchor: Being a Chronicle of Old Dublin City by J. Sheridan Le Fanu

Transform Your Habits

To the Lighthouse

Virginia Woolf

3.80

Transform Your Habits

Dr. Faustus

Christopher Marlowe

3.80

Transform Your Habits

The Three Musketeers

Alexandre Dumas , Richard Pevear , John Lee

4.09

Transform Your Habits

The Importance of Being Earnest

Oscar Wilde

2.50

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14 must-read fiction books like The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

Transform Your Habits

Pygmalion

George Bernard Shaw

3.89

Transform Your Habits

A Streetcar Named Desire

Tennessee Williams

3.98

Transform Your Habits

The Yellow Wall-Paper

Charlotte Perkins Gilman , Elaine R. Hedges , Elaine Hedges

4.08

Transform Your Habits

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine , Catherine Belsey

3.95

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