19 must-read classics books like Nero (The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, #6) by Suetonius

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Nero (The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, #6)

By: Suetonius

3.91

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

This new edition of Suetonius' "Nero" is updated to take account of research on Suetonius. It inclu…

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1. Antony and Cleopatra

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

3.71

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A romantic tragedy about the relationship between Mark Antony and the Queen of Egypt, including not… read more

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  • classics
"Melt Egypt into Nile!"

-William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

"Make death proud to take us."

-William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

"...make death proud to take us."

-William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

"Thou are the armourer of my heart—"

-William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

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2. The Merry Wives of Windsor

By: William Shakespeare

3.55

Format: 156 pages, Paperback

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteer… read more

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  • classics
"Better three hours too soon than a minute too late."

-William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor

"Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness."

-William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor

"I assure thee: setting the attractions of my good parts aside I have no other charms."

-William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor

"I think the devil will not have me damned, lest the oil that's in me should set hell on fire."

-William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor

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3. Snow White

By: Camille Rose Garcia , Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm , Ειρήνη Μάρρα

4.03

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

Designed for children learning to read, this book retells "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" in live… read more

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  • classics
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4. The Comedy of Errors

By: William Shakespeare

3.72

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Excerpt from Die Kom�die der Irrungen Geste Grayorum or the History of the High and mighty Princ… read more

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"Why should their liberty than ours be more?"

-William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors

"El tiempo es insolvente y debe más de lo que tiene."

-William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors

"Mi corazón ora por él, aunque mi lengua lo maldiga."

-William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors

"¡A cuántos tontos enamorados esclaviza la locura de los celos!"

-William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors

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5. Electra

By: Euripides , Janet Lempke

2.86

Format: 358 pages, Paperback

Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly recreate the… read more

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  • classics
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6. Carmen

By: Prosper Mérimée

2.50

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Carmen is a novella by Prosper Merimee, written & 1st published in 1845. It has been adapted into a… read more

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  • classics
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7. Exodus

By: Anonymous

3.00

Format: None pages,

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  • history
  • classics
  • nonfiction
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8. Henry VIII

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

3.50

Format: None pages,

Henry VIII is a history play generally believed to be a collaboration between William Shakespeare a… read more

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  • classics
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9. Julius Caesar

By: William Shakespeare , Roma Gill

3.70

Format: 175 pages, Paperback

The Oxford School Shakespeare has become the preferred introduction to the literary legacy of the g… read more

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"Et tu, Brute?"

-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

"Beware the ides of March."

-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

"Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!"

-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

"Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come"

-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

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10. The Annals of Imperial Rome

By: Michael Grant , Tacitus

4.33

Format: 25 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In "The Annals of Imperial Rome", his last and greatest work, Tacitus (AD c.55-c.117) covers the pe… read more

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  • history
  • classics
  • nonfiction

11. Germania

By: Tacitus , None

3.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

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12. Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

By: Aeschylus , Patricia E. Easterling , John Harrison , Judith Affleck , None

3.83

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Treating ancient plays as living drama. Classical Greek drama is brought vividly to life in this se… read more

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  • classics
"Every medicine is vain."

-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

"A curse burns bright on crime."

-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

"There is no avoidance in delay."

-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

"In war, the first casualty is truth."

-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

13. All's Well That Ends Well

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

3.99

Format: 273 pages,

In the acclaimed BBC Radio Shakespeare series, each play is introduced by Richard Eyre, former Dire… read more

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14. The Elements of Style

By: E.B. White , William Strunk Jr.

4.18

Format: 105 pages, Hardcover

This style manual offers practical advice on improving writing skills. Throughout, the emphasis is … read more

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  • classics
  • nonfiction
"He owned"

-E.B. White, The Elements of Style

"To achieve style, begin by affecting none."

-E.B. White, The Elements of Style

"Writers will often find themselves steering by stars that are disturbingly in motion."

-E.B. White, The Elements of Style

"When you say something, make sure you have said it. The chances of your having said it are only fair."

-E.B. White, The Elements of Style

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15. 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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"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

16. Alcestis

By: William Arrowsmith , Euripides

3.84

Format: 467 pages, Paperback

"The Alcestis would hardly confirm its author's right to be acclaimed 'the most tragic of the poets… read more

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17. Lady Susan

By: Jane Austen , Robert William Chapman

3.65

Format: 180 pages, Paperback

Beautiful, flirtatious, and recently widowed, Lady Susan Vernon seeks an advantageous second marria… read more

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"I have not yet tranquillised myself enough to see Frederica."

-Jane Austen, Lady Susan

"I shall ever despise the man who can be gratified by the passion which he never wished to inspire, nor solicited the avowal of."

-Jane Austen, Lady Susan

"How little the general report of any one ought to be credited, since no character, however upright, can escape the malevolence of slander."

-Jane Austen, Lady Susan

"...though I always imagined from her increasing friendship for us since her husband's death that we should, at some future period, be obliged to receive her."

-Jane Austen, Lady Susan

18. Letters from a Stoic

By: Seneca , Robin Campbell

4.75

Format: 118 pages, Paperback

The power and wealth which Seneca the Younger (c.4 B.C. - A.D. 65) acquired as Nero's minister were… read more

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19. A Christmas Carol

By: Charles Dickens

4.08

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

'If I had my way, every idiot who goes around with Merry Christmas on his lips, would be boiled wit… read more

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"Hallo, my fine fellow!"

-Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

"God bless us, every one!"

-Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

"And how did little Tim behave?"

-Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

"Marley was dead: to begin with."

-Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

20. Timon of Athens

By: William Shakespeare , Thomas Middleton

3.89

Format: None pages, Paperback

Timon of Athensis a bitterly intriguing study of a fabulously rich man who wastes his wealth on his… read more

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21. The Winter's Tale

By: William Shakespeare

4.75

Format: 14 pages, Paperback

The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emph… read more

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22. The Symposium

By: Plato , Christopher Gill

4.09

Format: 90 pages, Paperback

A fascinating discussion on sex, gender, and human instincts, as relevant today as ever. In the … read more

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  • history
  • classics
  • nonfiction
"The truth about eros is terrifying."

-Plato, The Symposium

"At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet"

-Plato, The Symposium

"Ali,srecnice moj,mozda sam ja nista,a ti to ne primecujes."

-Plato, The Symposium

"καὶ οὗτος ἄρα καὶ ἄλλος πᾶς ὁ ἐπιθυμῶν τοῦ μὴ ἐτοίμου ἐπιθυμεῖ"

-Plato, The Symposium

23. 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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24. Poems and Fragments

By: Sappho , Stanley Lombardo , Pamela Gordon

3.98

Format: None pages, Paperback

Little remains today of the writings of the archaic Greek poet Sappho (fl. late 7th and early 6th c… read more

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25. Genesis

By: Anonymous

3.95

Format: None pages,

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26. Medea

By: Euripides , Rex Warner

3.42

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

One of the most powerful and enduring of Greek tragedies, Medeacenters on the myth of Jason, leader… read more

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27. The Art of Love

By: David Malouf , Ovid , James Michie

4.33

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

De los clasicos de la literatura, Ovidio nos deleita con una lirica que habla del mas puro de los s… read more

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28. Agrippina: Empress, Exile, Hustler, Whore

By: Emma Southon

4.22

Format: 285 pages, None

They said she was a tyrant. A murderer, and the most wicked woman in history. She kicked her way… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • classics
  • biography
  • history
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29. Agricola

By: Tacitus

3.68

Format: 370 pages, Paperback

The first work of any great historian has always commanded attention, and Tacitus was ancient Rome'… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • classics
  • biography
  • history
"Whatever is unknown is thought grandiose."

-Tacitus, Agricola

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30. Nero (The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, #6)

By: Suetonius

3.91

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

This new edition of Suetonius' "Nero" is updated to take account of research on Suetonius. It inclu… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • classics
  • biography
  • history
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31. The Aeneid

By: Virgil

3.87

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

The founding epic of Rome, rendered in a fluid, metrical translation that sings Virgil’s stately ve… read more

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  • classics
"Death's brother, sleep."

-Virgil, The Aeneid

"No help or hope of help existed."

-Virgil, The Aeneid

"Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit."

-Virgil, The Aeneid

"Non ignora mali, miseris succurrere disco."

-Virgil, The Aeneid

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4.26

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