8 best-selling fiction books like Fragments of Ancient Poetry by James MacPherson

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Fragments of Ancient Poetry

By: James MacPherson

3.23

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Son of the noble Fingal, Oscian, Prince of men! what tears run down the cheeks of age? what shades …

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Cover of Letters of Two Brides by Honoré de Balzac

1. Letters of Two Brides

By: Honoré de Balzac

3.80

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

By the French author, who, along with Flaubert, is generally regarded as a founding-father of reali… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"En toute autre chose, la duplicité, le manque de foi, les promesses inexécutées rencontrent des juges, et les juges infligent des châtiments; mais il n'en est pas ainsi pour l'amour, qui doit être à …"

-Honoré de Balzac, Letters of Two Brides

"I see in marriage, as it at present exists, two opposing forces which it was the task of the lawgiver to reconcile. ... The laws were made by old men—any woman can see that—and they have been prudent…"

-Honoré de Balzac, Letters of Two Brides

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2. Confessions of an English Opium Eater

By: Thomas de Quincey , Barry Milligan

4.00

Format: 50 pages, Paperback

A masterpiece of autobiography, and perhaps the first literary memoir of an addict, the Penguin Cla… read more

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  • classics
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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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  • 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. Utopia

By: Paul Turner , Thomas More

3.55

Format: 113 pages, Paperback

In his most famous and controversial book, Utopia, Thomas More imagines a perfect island nation whe… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"The change of the word does not alter the matter"

-Paul Turner, Utopia

"Isn't this conception of absolute justice absolutely unjust?"

-Paul Turner, Utopia

"Dünyada kaygısız, rahat yürekle, sevinçle yaşamaktan daha büyük zenginlik olabilir mi?"

-Paul Turner, Utopia

"Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all."

-Paul Turner, Utopia

5. The Grand Inquisitor

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky

4.75

Format: None pages,

The Grand Inquisitor is a parable told by Ivan to Alyosha in Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel, The Brother… read more

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6. 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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  • poetry
  • classics
  • fiction
"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

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7. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

By: James Joyce , Seamus Deane

3.64

Format: 329 pages, Paperback

The portrayal of Stephen Dedalus's Dublin childhood and youth, his quest for identity through art a… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"My heart is quite calm now. I will go back."

-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

"God spoke to you by so many voices but you would not hear."

-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

"Are you not weary of ardent ways? Tell no more of enchanted days."

-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

"He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place."

-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

8. 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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9. 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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10. 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

(1939 translation) read more

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11. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

By: William Blake

3.72

Format: 294 pages, Paperback

Once regarded as a brilliant eccentric whose works skirted the outer fringes of English art and lit… read more

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12. The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)

By: Nghi Vo

3.95

Format: 119 pages, Kindle Edition

A young royal from the far north is sent south for a political marriage in an empire reminiscent of… read more

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  • fiction
"Angry mothers raise daughters fierce enough to fight wolves."

-Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)

"[,,,] if you want to understand people who have gone, that's what you look at, isn't it? Their offal. Their leavings."

-Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)

"The abbey at Singing Hills would say that if a record cannot be perfect, it should at least be present. Better for it to exist than for it to be perfect and only in your mind."

-Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)

"... He was unimportant, the least of In-yo's spies and couriers, but—" Almost Brilliant fluttered her wings in the dying light. "I understand. I will remember Sukai for you, and so will my children a…"

-Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)

Cover of The Six Deaths of the Saint (Into Shadow, #3) by Alix E. Harrow

13. The Six Deaths of the Saint (Into Shadow, #3)

By: Alix E. Harrow

4.33

Format: 31 pages, Kindle Edition

The Saint of War spares the life of a servant girl so she can fulfill her destiny as the kingdom’s … read more

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  • fiction
"He doesn’t move or speak, but he doesn’t need to. I know his desires by the pace of his breath and the tilt of his shoulders, by the shape of his jaw and the heat of his gaze. I know him, and in know…"

-Alix E. Harrow, The Six Deaths of the Saint (Into Shadow, #3)

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14. Fragments of Ancient Poetry

By: James MacPherson

3.23

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Son of the noble Fingal, Oscian, Prince of men! what tears run down the cheeks of age? what shades … read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • mythology
  • fiction

7 must-read classics books like Fragments of Ancient Poetry by James MacPherson

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Letters of Two Brides

Honoré de Balzac

3.80

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Confessions of an English Opium Eater

Thomas de Quincey , Barry Milligan

4.00

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The Three Musketeers

Alexandre Dumas , Richard Pevear , John Lee

4.09

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Utopia

Paul Turner , Thomas More

3.55

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All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)

Martha Wells

4.15

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Seanan McGuire

4.09

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The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1)

Malka Ann Older

3.64

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T. Kingfisher

4.00

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