18 best-selling classics books like The Grave: A Poem by Robert Blair

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The Grave: A Poem

By: Robert Blair

4.27

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge…

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Cover of The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith

1. The Book of Disquiet

By: Fernando Pessoa , Richard Zenith

4.41

Format: 544 pages, Paperback

Fernando Pessoa was many writers in one. He attributed his prolific writings to a wide range of alt… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
"My past is everything I failed to be."

-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

"Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life."

-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

"Ah, it's my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me!"

-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

"There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful."

-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

Cover of The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante, Ann Goldstein

2. The Days of Abandonment

By: Elena Ferrante , Ann Goldstein

3.87

Format: 188 pages, Paperback

A national bestseller for almost an entire year, The Days of Abandonment shocked and captivated its… read more

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"I'm dead, but I'm fine."

-Elena Ferrante, The Days of Abandonment

"The hardest things to talk about are the ones we ourselves can't understand."

-Elena Ferrante, The Days of Abandonment

"We don't know anything about people, even those with whom we share everything."

-Elena Ferrante, The Days of Abandonment

"Success depends on the capacity to manipulate the obvious with calculated precision."

-Elena Ferrante, The Days of Abandonment

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3. Ms Ice Sandwich

By: Mieko Kawakami , Louise Heal Kawai

3.78

Format: 92 pages, Paperback

A quixotic and funny tale about first love – from the Akutagawa Prize-winning author. Ms Ice San… read more

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4. Les Fleurs du Mal

By: Charles Baudelaire , Richard Howard

4.20

Format: 365 pages, Paperback

Charles Baudelaire's 1857 masterwork was scandalous in its day for its portrayals of sex, same-sex … read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
"L'orage rajeunit les fleurs"

-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

"I am the vampire at my own veins."

-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

"Beauty, you walk on corpses, mocking them;"

-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

"My heart is lost; the beasts have eaten it."

-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

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5. White Nights

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky

4.06

Format: 82 pages, Paperback

White Nights is a short story by Fyodor Dostoevsky that was published in 1848. Set in St. Petersbur… read more

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  • classics
"E ti chiedi: “Dove sono i tuoi sogni?"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

"Kalbim içimde konuşurken ben susmayı beceremem."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

"Oh, how unbearable is a happy person sometimes!"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

"But how could you live and have no story to tell?"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

Cover of Tartuffe by Martin Sorrell, Molière, Curtis Hidden Page

6. Tartuffe

By: Martin Sorrell , Molière , Curtis Hidden Page

4.14

Format: None pages, Paperback

Condemned and banned for five years in Moliere's day, Tartuffe is a satire on religious hypocrisy. … read more

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

7. 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
Cover of The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Burton Pike

8. The Sorrows of Young Werther

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Burton Pike

3.73

Format: None pages, Paperback

Visiting an idyllic German village, Werther, a sensitive and romantic young man, meets and falls in… read more

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  • classics
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9. 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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  • poetry
  • classics
"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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10. De Profundis

By: Oscar Wilde , Richard Ellmann

4.03

Format: 246 pages,

De Profundis (Latin: "from the depths") is a 50,000 word letter written by Oscar Wilde during his i… read more

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  • classics

11. The Two Gentlemen of Verona

By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine

4.10

Format: None pages, Paperback

The world's leading center for Shakespeare studies Each edition includes: * printed version of the … read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
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12. 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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  • poetry
  • 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

Cover of Sweet Bean Paste by Durian Sukegawa, Alison  Watts

13. Sweet Bean Paste

By: Durian Sukegawa , Alison Watts

3.95

Format: None pages, Paperback

Sentaro has failed: he has a criminal record, drinks too much, and hasn't managed to fulfil his dre… read more

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14. The Dunciad

By: Alexander Pope

3.50

Format: 270 pages,

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  • poetry
  • classics
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15. The Death of Ivan Ilych

By: Leo Tolstoy , Aylmer Maude

4.13

Format: 86 pages, Paperback

Hailed as one of the world's supreme masterpieces on the subject of death and dying, The Death of I… read more

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  • classics
"If you look for the working classes in fiction, and especially English fiction, all you find is a hole."

-Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych

"And the further he departed from childhood and the nearer he came to the present the more worthless and doubtful were the joys."

-Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych

"In the depths of his heart he knew that he was dying but, so far from growing used to the idea, he simply did not and could not grasp it."

-Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych

"It can't be that life is so senseless and horrible. But if it really has been so horrible and senseless, why must I die and die in agony? There is something wrong!"

-Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych

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16. Hamlet

By: William Shakespeare , Richard Andrews , Rex Gibson

4.02

Format: 289 pages, Paperback

Among Shakespeare's plays, "Hamlet" is considered by many his masterpiece. Among actors, the role o… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
"Therein lies the rub."

-William Shakespeare, Hamlet

"Brevity is the soul of wit."

-William Shakespeare, Hamlet

"Conscience doth make cowards of us all."

-William Shakespeare, Hamlet

"A knavish speech sleeps in a fool's ear."

-William Shakespeare, Hamlet

Cover of Henry V by William Shakespeare, Barbara A. Mowat, Paul Werstine

17. Henry V

By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine

4.00

Format: 126 pages, Paperback

Henry Vis Shakespeare's most famous "war play"; it includes the storied English victory over the Fr… read more

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  • classics

18. A Modest Proposal

By: Jonathan Swift

4.06

Format: 663 pages, Paperback

A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland From Being a Burden to Thei… read more

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19. The Garden Party

By: Katherine Mansfield

3.62

Format: None pages, ebook

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge… read more

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20. The Holy Bible: English Standard Version

By: Anonymous

3.91

Format: 241 pages,

Now the complete ESV Bible comes alive in audio format! The new ESVHear the Word Audio Bibleprovide… read more

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21. Lyrical Ballads

By: William Wordsworth , Samuel Taylor Coleridge , None

4.08

Format: None pages, Paperback

The majority of the following poems are to be considered as experiments. They were written chiefly … read more

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22. The Complete Poems

By: John Keats

3.85

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

'I think I shall be among the English Poets after my death,' John Keats soberly prophesied in 1818 … read more

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23. 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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  • poetry
  • classics
  • art
"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

24. The Taming of the Shrew

By: William Shakespeare

3.78

Format: 438 pages,

Renowned as Shakespeare's most boisterous comedy, The Taming of the Shrew is the tale of two young … read more

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25. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

By: Unknown , None , Burton Raffel

4.50

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Written by an anonymous 14th-century poet, this epic poem is recognized as an equal of Chaucer's ma… read more

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26. A Doll's House

By: Henrik Ibsen , Michael Meyer

3.76

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

A Doll's House (1879), is a masterpiece of theatrical craft which, for the first time portrayed the… read more

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  • classics
"Laughter's all the damned thing's fit for."

-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

"I must make up my mind which is right – society or I."

-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

"لن تفقدوني طويلاً، فالراحلون سرعان ما ينطوون في زوايا النسيان."

-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

"أنا ارى الناس صنفين .. صنف تعشقه المرأة، وصنف تحب أن تتجاذب معه أطراف الحديث."

-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

27. 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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28. 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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29. An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures

By: Clarice Lispector

4.27

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

What to make of a writer who follows the metaphysical heights of her great Passion According to GH … read more

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  • classics
"Ah "persona", como não te usar e ser!"

-Clarice Lispector, An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures

"Oh God! Having just one life was so little."

-Clarice Lispector, An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures

"Meu mistério é simples: eu não sei como estar viva."

-Clarice Lispector, An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures

"E digo: eu está apaixonada pelo teu eu. Então nós é."

-Clarice Lispector, An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures

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30. Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

By: Olga Tokarczuk

3.95

Format: 12 pages, Audible Audio

In a remote Polish village, Janina devotes the dark winter days to studying astrology, translating … read more

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"To wielka tajemnica, że każde wyzwanie uruchamia w nas prawdziwie żywotne siły"

-Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

"A man's free to do what he wants with his life, until he falls foul of the banks."

-Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

"There are some things we may not understand, but we can sense them perfectly well."

-Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

"The best conversations are with yourself. At least there's no risk of a misunderstanding."

-Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

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31. The Grave: A Poem

By: Robert Blair

4.27

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge… read more

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  • classics
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9 Best poetry books like The Grave: A Poem by Robert Blair

Transform Your Habits

The Book of Disquiet

Fernando Pessoa , Richard Zenith

4.41

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Les Fleurs du Mal

Charles Baudelaire , Richard Howard

4.20

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King Lear

William Shakespeare , William James Rolfe

3.91

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William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine

4.10

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Pygmalion

George Bernard Shaw

3.89

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A Streetcar Named Desire

Tennessee Williams

3.98

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The Yellow Wall-Paper

Charlotte Perkins Gilman , Elaine R. Hedges , Elaine Hedges

4.08

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

3.95

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