21 Best classics books like The Lake Isle of Innisfree by W.B. Yeats

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The Lake Isle of Innisfree

By: W.B. Yeats

4.01

Format: 1 pages, Kindle Edition

The famous poem “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” by W.B. Yeats.

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Cover of Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley, Theo Gayer-Anderson

1. Ozymandias

By: Percy Bysshe Shelley , Theo Gayer-Anderson

4.29

Format: 36 pages, Paperback

A picture book edition of the classic, Ozymandias, was composed in 1817 by P.B. Shelley. "I met … read more

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  • literature
  • poetry
  • classics
"And on the pedestal these words appear: 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!' Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and…"

-Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ozymandias

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2. Sonnet 73 (That time of year thou mayst in me behold)

By: William Shakespeare

3.87

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

The famous Sonnet 73 by William Shakespeare that starts with the line: "That time of year thou mays… read more

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3. Tess of the D’Urbervilles

By: Thomas Hardy , Tim Dolin , Margaret R. Higonnet

3.83

Format: 518 pages, Paperback

Alternate covers can be found here and here. When Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty t… read more

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  • literature
  • 19th century
  • classics
"Bless thy simplicity, Tess"

-Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles

"One thing he certainly was— sincere."

-Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles

"The roof was a gymnasium for the winds"

-Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles

"Tess was carried along the wings of the hours"

-Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles

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4. I Wander'd Lonely as a Cloud

By: William Wordsworth

4.14

Format: 120 pages,

Introduce young children to the timeless poetry of William Wordsworth, whose traditional verse is a… read more

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  • literature
  • poetry
  • 19th century
  • classics
"I wandered lonely as a cloud"

-William Wordsworth, I Wander'd Lonely as a Cloud

"Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way."

-William Wordsworth, I Wander'd Lonely as a Cloud

"For oft, when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude; And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils."

-William Wordsworth, I Wander'd Lonely as a Cloud

"I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills When all at once I saw a crowd A host of golden daffodils Beside the lake beneath the trees Fluttering and dancing in the breeze."

-William Wordsworth, I Wander'd Lonely as a Cloud

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5. 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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  • literature
  • poetry
  • classics
"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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6. The Yellow Wall-Paper

By: Charlotte Perkins Gilman , Elaine R. Hedges , Elaine Hedges

4.08

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Diagnosed by her physician husband with a “temporary nervous depression—a slight hysterical tendenc… read more

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  • literature
  • 19th century
  • classics
"Its time we woke up,"

-Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper

"This was not life, this was a nightmare."

-Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper

"John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage."

-Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper

"It is so hard to talk with John about my case, because he is so wise, and because he loves me so."

-Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper

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7. The Myth of Sisyphus

By: Albert Camus , Justin O'Brien , James Wood , Justin Obrien

4.18

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselv… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
"A fate is not a punishment."

-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

"there are truths but no truth"

-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

"To will is to stir up paradoxes"

-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

"Le suicide est une solution à l'absurde."

-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

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8. Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)

By: Sophocles , J.E. Thomas , Elizabeth Osborne

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

"...what man wins more happiness than just its shape and the ruin when that shape collapses?" Sopho… read more

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  • classics
Cover of The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

9. 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
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10. The Story of an Hour

By: Kate Chopin

4.07

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

In these four stories, Kate Chopin subtly captures the intricate interior lives of a generation of … read more

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  • literature
  • 19th century
  • classics
"Spring days, and summer days, and all sorts of days that would be her own. She breathed a quick prayer that life might be long. It was only yesterday she had thought with a shudder that life might be…"

-Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour

"there would be no powerful will binding hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow creature…And yet she had loved him- so…"

-Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour

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11. Waiting for Godot

By: Samuel Beckett

3.63

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Cuando en 1953 se estreno en Paris Esperando a Godot, casi nadie sabia quien era Samuel Beckett, sa… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
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12. Lamb to the Slaughter

By: Roald Dahl

3.84

Format: 179 pages,

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  • classics
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13. Ode on a Grecian Urn

By: John Keats

3.44

Format: 213 pages,

"Ode on a Grecian Urn" is a poem written by the English Romantic poet John Keats in May 1819 and pu… read more

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  • 19th century
  • poetry
  • classics
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14. Percy Jackson's Greek Heroes

By: Rick Riordan , John Rocco

3.68

Format: 265 pages, Hardcover

Who cut off Medusa's head? Who was raised by a she-bear? Who tamed Pegasus? It takes a demigod to k… read more

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15. The Waste Land

By: T.S. Eliot , Michael North

3.80

Format: 245 pages, Paperback

The text of Eliot's 1922 masterpiece is accompanied by thorough explanatory annotations as well as … read more

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  • literature
  • poetry
  • classics
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16. Volpone

By: Ben Jonson

4.15

Format: None pages, Paperback

Bitter, satiric comedy in blank verse is one of the great Elizabethan dramatist's finest plays. The… read more

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  • classics
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17. The Tell-Tale Heart

By: Edgar Allan Poe , Byron Glaser , None

4.24

Format: 31 pages, Library Binding

A man confronts himself and an unknown listener with his desire to murder an old man. In this cl… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
"would a madman have been so wise as this?"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart

"And have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the sense?"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart

"If you still think me mad, you will think so no longer when I describe the wise precautions I took for the concealment of the body."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart

"Basta ya de fingir, malvados! -aullé-. ¡Confieso que lo maté! ¡Levanten esos tablones! ¡Ahí… ahí! ¡Donde está latiendo su horrible corazón!"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart

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18. Songs of Innocence and of Experience

By: William Blake

4.09

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

Songs of Innocence and of Experience is an collection of poems by William Blake. Note: For a com… read more

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  • literature
  • poetry
  • classics
"Cruelty has a human heart, And Jealousy a human face;"

-William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience

"Then cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door."

-William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience

"And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires."

-William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience

"Can I see anothers woe, And not be in sorrow too. Can I see anothers grief, And not seek for kind relief. - On Anothers Sorrow "

-William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience

19. Young Goodman Brown

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

3.17

Format: 319 pages, Paperback

Hawthorne's classic tale of a young Puritan's meeting with the Devil. read more

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20. Happy Endings

By: Margaret Atwood

4.12

Format: 440 pages, ebook

Atwood's short story includes six different stories, labeled A to F, which each quickly summarize t… read more

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21. The Crucible

By: Arthur Miller , Christopher Bigsby

3.60

Format: 137 pages, Paperback

"I believe that the reader will discover here the essential nature of one of the strangest and most… read more

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22. The Hollow Men

By: T.S. Eliot

3.88

Format: None pages,

From Wikipedia: The Hollow Men (1925) is a poem by T. S. Eliot. Its themes are, like many of Eliot'… read more

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23. The Cask of Amontillado

By: Edgar Allan Poe

4.08

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

"The Cask of Amontillado" (sometimes spelled "The Casque ..") is a short story written by Edgar All… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
"For the love of God, Montresor!"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado

"He did not perceive that my smile now was at the thought of his immolation."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado

"The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado

"The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could; but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado

24. 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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25. 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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26. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

By: Gustave Doré , Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1.75

Format: 134 pages, Paperback

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner(originally "The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere") is the longest major… read more

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27. The Murders in the Rue Morgue (C. Auguste Dupin, #1)

By: Edgar Allan Poe

3.82

Format: 38 pages, Paperback

".. Rue Morgue" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe first published in "Graham's Magazine" in 1841.… read more

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  • 19th century
  • classics
"The mental features discoursed of as the analytical, are, in themselves, but little susceptible of analysis."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue (C. Auguste Dupin, #1)

"I was deeply interested in the little family history which he detailed to me with all that candor which a Frenchman indulges whenever mere self is the theme."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue (C. Auguste Dupin, #1)

"There are very few persons who have not, at some period of their lives, amused themselves in retracing the steps by which particular conclusions of their own minds have been attained."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue (C. Auguste Dupin, #1)

"You will say, no doubt, using the language of the law, that 'to make out my case,' I should rather undervalue, than insist upon a full estimation of the activity required in this matter. This may be …"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue (C. Auguste Dupin, #1)

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28. 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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  • literature
  • poetry
  • classics
"What hath night to do with sleep?"

-John Milton, Paradise Lost

"Solitude sometimes is best society."

-John Milton, Paradise Lost

"Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n."

-John Milton, Paradise Lost

"Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss."

-John Milton, Paradise Lost

29. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Other Poems

By: T.S. Eliot

4.18

Format: 411 pages, Hardcover

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30. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

By: Lewis Carroll

4.00

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Chris Riddell's brilliant new full-colour illustrated Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland in a sumptuo… read more

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  • literature
  • 19th century
  • classics
"it's only a dream"

-Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

"How long is forever? Sometimes just one second"

-Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

"Sometimes, I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."

-Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

"what is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?"

-Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

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31. The Lake Isle of Innisfree

By: W.B. Yeats

4.01

Format: 1 pages, Kindle Edition

The famous poem “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” by W.B. Yeats. read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • literature
  • 19th century
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