Orpheus in the Underworld
By: Ovid
3.91
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Soon after his marriage to Eurydice, Orpheus loses his bride to a serpent's bite. The tale of Orphe…
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1. The Origin of Species
By: Charles Darwin
4.01
Format: 703 pages, Hardcover
Darwin's theory of natural selection issued a profound challenge to orthodox thought and belief: no… read more
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- classics
"Man selects only for his own good; Nature only for that of the being which she tends."-Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species
"...Showing that they descend from common parents, and consequently must be ranked as varieties."-Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species
"I am convinced that natural selection has been the main but not exclusive means of modification."-Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species
"One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die."-Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species
2. First Love
By: Constance Garnett , Ivan Turgenev
3.77
Format: 124 pages, Paperback
Used book in good condition, due to its age it could contain normal signs of use read more
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- classics
- fiction
"Jealous Othello, ready for murder, was suddenly transformed into a schoolboy."-Constance Garnett, First Love
"I did not want to know whether I was loved, and I did not want to acknowledge to myself that I was not loved;"-Constance Garnett, First Love
"I should not wish ever to have it repeated; but I should consider myself unhappy if I had never experienced it."-Constance Garnett, First Love
"Aprovéchate todo lo que puedas, pero no te entregues tú mismo: el sentido de la vida es no pertenecer a nadie más que a si mismo."-Constance Garnett, First Love
3. Dream Work
By: Mary Oliver
4.35
Format: 90 pages, Paperback
Dream Work, a collection of forty-five poems, follows both chronologically and logically Mary Olive… read more
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- poetry
- classics
"I saw what love might have done had we loved in time."-Mary Oliver, Dream Work
"I wanted to live my life but I didn’t want to do what I had to do to go on,"-Mary Oliver, Dream Work
"Mostly, I want to be kind. And nobody, of course, is kind, or mean, for a simple reason."-Mary Oliver, Dream Work
"the black fox that lies down to sleep beneath you, the moon staring with her bone-white eye"-Mary Oliver, Dream Work
4. Goblin Market
By: Joyce Carol Oates , William Morris , Laurence Housman , Christina Rossetti , Dante Gabriel Rossetti
3.82
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
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- poetry
- classics
- fantasy
- fiction
5. Poetics
By: Aristotle , Malcolm Heath
3.59
Format: None pages, Paperback
'The plot is the source and the soul of tragedy' In his near-contemporary account of Greek tragedy,… read more
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- poetry
- classics
6. A Haunted House and Other Short Stories
By: Virginia Woolf , Leonard Woolf
3.64
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
The stories found in A Haunted Housereflect Virginia Woolf's experimental writing style and act as … read more
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- classics
- fiction
7. The Iliad/The Odyssey
By: Homer , Robert Fagles , Bernard Knox
3.88
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
Gripping listeners and readers for more than 2,700 years, 'The Iliad' is the story of the Trojan Wa… read more
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- poetry
- classics
- fiction
- fantasy
- mythology
8. Crito
By: Plato , Chris Emlyn-Jones
5.00
Format: 160 pages, paper
Plato's Socrates, in prison and being urged to flee execution, raises in acute form, and for the fi… read more
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- classics
9. The Miller's Prologue and Tale
By: Geoffrey Chaucer , James Winny
4.16
Format: 354 pages, Paperback
A well-established and respected series. Texts are in the original Middle English, and each has an … read more
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- poetry
- classics
- fiction
10. The Wife of Bath
By: Geoffrey Chaucer , Peter G. Beidler
4.23
Format: 343 pages, Paperback
Adopted at more than 1,000 colleges and universities, Bedford/St. Martin's innovative Case Studies … read more
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- classics
- fiction
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12. The Fog Horn
By: Ray Bradbury
3.32
Format: None pages,
Creative Education's short story collections are ideal introductions to some of the world's best-kn… read more
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- classics
- fantasy
- fiction
13. Le Grand Meaulnes
By: Alain-Fournier , None
4.00
Format: 199 pages, Paperback
In a small village in the Sologne, Fifteen-year-old Francois Seurel narrates the story of his relat… read more
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- classics
- fiction
14. Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
By: Dylan Thomas
4.08
Format: None pages,
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Nightis a villanelle considered to be among the finest works by Wel… read more
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- classics
- fiction
15. The Shadow Over Innsmouth
By: H.P. Lovecraft
4.11
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
"The Shadow Over Innsmouth" is a short novel about a weird hybrid race of humans and creatures rese… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
16. Phaedrus
By: Plato , Paul Woodruff , Alexander Nehamas , Albert A. Anderson
3.50
Format: 270 pages, Paperback
Trajectory presents classics of world literature with 21st century features! Our original-text edit… read more
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- classics
17. The Interpretation of Dreams
By: Sigmund Freud
3.86
Format: 136 pages,
The Interpretation of Dreams 1st appeared in German in 11/1899 as Die Traumdeutung (publisher postd… read more
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- classics
18. Daphnis and Chloe
By: Paul Turner , Longus
3.68
Format: 593 pages, Paperback
A tender novel describing eager and inept young love, Daphnis and Chloe tells the story of a baby b… read more
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- ancient history
- classics
- mythology
- fiction
Similar categories in W.B. Yeats's Leda and the Swan book and Ovid's Orpheus in the Underworld
- poetry
- greek mythology
- classics
- mythology
20. Venus and Adonis
By: William Shakespeare , Christa Jansohn
3.28
Format: 404 pages,
Venus and Adonis is Shakespeare's narrative poem about the love of the goddess Venus for the mortal… read more
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21. The Lady of Shalott
By: Alfred Tennyson , Charles Keeping
3.59
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
The Lady of Shalott is the third book in Visions in Poetry, an award-winning series of classic poem… read more
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22. 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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23. Ion
By: Plato
2.00
Format: 28 pages,
In Plato's Ion Socrates discusses with Ion, a professional rhapsode who also lectures on Homer, the… read more
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24. The Midwich Cuckoos
By: John Wyndham
3.91
Format: 220 pages, Mass Market Paperback
In the sleepy English village of Midwich, a mysterious silver object appears and all the inhabitant… read more
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- classics
- fantasy
- fiction
"…after all, what is a planet but an island in space?"-John Wyndham, The Midwich Cuckoos
"Some quotations," said Zellaby, "are greatly improved by lack of context."-John Wyndham, The Midwich Cuckoos
"Will you agree to be superseded, and start on the way to extinction without a struggle? I do not think you are decadent enough for that."-John Wyndham, The Midwich Cuckoos
"But not she. Her eternity is an article of her faith. Great wars and disasters can ebb and flow, races rise and fall, empires wither with suffering and death, but these are superficialities: she, wom…"-John Wyndham, The Midwich Cuckoos
25. 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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26. A Shining
By: Jon Fosse
3.49
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
A man starts driving without knowing where he is going. He alternates between turning right and lef… read more
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- fiction
"but you can’t just touch a whiteness like that. because if you did you’d probably get it dirty. and imagine getting something so white dirty"-Jon Fosse, A Shining
"Es ist auch nicht zu begreifen, es ist etwas anderes, vielleicht etwas, das man nur erlebt und das nicht wirklich geschieht. Aber geht es an, dass man so etwas einfach erlebt. Alles, was man erlebt, …"-Jon Fosse, A Shining
27. The Iliad
By: Homer
3.91
Format: 848 pages, Hardcover
One of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer's Iliad tells the story of the darkes… read more
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- classics
- greek mythology
- fiction
- fantasy
- mythology
"I say no wealth is worth my life."-Homer, The Iliad
"These were the colloquies in heaven."-Homer, The Iliad
"The sort of words a man says is the sort he hears in return."-Homer, The Iliad
"Antilochus! You're the most appalling driver in the world! Go to hell!"-Homer, The Iliad
28. Troy (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #3)
By: Stephen Fry
4.35
Format: 414 pages, Hardcover
The story of Troy speaks to all of us - the kidnapping of Helen, a queen celebrated for her beauty,… read more
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- ancient history
- greek mythology
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- mythology
"His reward is the eternal fame that is both priceless and worthless"-Stephen Fry, Troy (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #3)
"Bij onze geboorte ligt ons lot al vast, en niemand heeft ooit het zijne kunnen ontlopen (Hektor)"-Stephen Fry, Troy (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #3)
"Forget him. What is treasure? Or Briseis, or honor, or anything? Next to the life of the one I loved best and dearest? My beloved, my only Patroclus."-Stephen Fry, Troy (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #3)
"Zelfs de onsterfelijke goden waren niet bij machte zich te verhouden tot, mee te leven met, nakomelingen te verwekken bij en het lot te bepalen van zo'n aanzwellende schare eerzuchtige, vernuftige en…"-Stephen Fry, Troy (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #3)
29. The Whole Picture: The colonial story of the art in our museums... and why we need to talk about it
By: Alice Procter
4.24
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
If you think art history has to be pale, male and stale - think again. Should museums be made to g… read more
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"I do not believe guilt is inherited, but responsibility is, and there is nobody alive today whose existence has not been shaped by colonialist, racist forces. That is a legacy we all live with, and w…"-Alice Procter, The Whole Picture: The colonial story of the art in our museums... and why we need to talk about it
30. Orpheus in the Underworld
By: Ovid
3.91
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Soon after his marriage to Eurydice, Orpheus loses his bride to a serpent's bite. The tale of Orphe… read more
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- poetry
- classics
- classical studies
- greek mythology
- ancient history
- fiction
- fantasy
- mythology
31. I heard a Fly buzz—when I died—
By: Emily Dickinson
3.77
Format: None pages, None
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