10 Top classics books like The Broadview Anthology of British Literature: Volume 1: The Medieval Period by Joseph Laurence Black

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The Broadview Anthology of British Literature: Volume 1: The Medieval Period

By: Joseph Laurence Black

3.85

Format: 845 pages, Paperback

In all six of its volumes The Broadview Anthology of British Literature presents British literature…

If you liked the classics plot in The Broadview Anthology of British Literature: Volume 1: The Medieval Period by Joseph Laurence Black , here is a list of 10 books like this:

Cover of Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, Maureen Howard

1. Mrs. Dalloway

By: Virginia Woolf , Maureen Howard

3.79

Format: 194 pages, Hardcover

Heralded as Virginia Woolf's greatest novel, this is a vivid portrait of a single day in a woman's … read more

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  • classics
  • school
"Life stand still here."

-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

"What a lark! What a plunge!"

-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

"To love makes one solitary."

-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

"What does the brain matter compared with the heart?"

-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

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2. 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
  • school
  • read for school
"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

Cover of The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco, Seán Barrett, William Weaver

3. The Name of the Rose

By: Umberto Eco , Seán Barrett , William Weaver

4.14

Format: 552 pages, Paperback

The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother Willi… read more

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  • classics
"الكتب ليست مجعولة كي نؤمن بما تقوله ولكن لكي نتحرّى فيها."

-Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

"Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear."

-Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

"The people of God cannot be changed until the outcasts are restored to its body."

-Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

"How peaceful life would be without Love, Adso. How Safe. How Tranquil. And how Dull."

-Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

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4. The Talented Mr. Ripley (Ripley, #1)

By: Patricia Highsmith

4.20

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Since his debut in 1955, Tom Ripley has evolved into the ultimate bad boy sociopath, influencing co… read more

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  • classics
Cover of Richard III by William Shakespeare, John Jowett

5. Richard III

By: William Shakespeare , John Jowett

3.37

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Richard III is one of Shakespeare's most popular plays on the stage and has been adapted successful… read more

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  • classics
  • school
  • drama
Cover of Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel

6. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

By: Alison Bechdel

4.08

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

In this graphic memoir, Alison Bechdel charts her fraught relationship with her late father.Distant… read more

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"Who embalms the Undertaker when he dies?"

-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

"Feminism is the theory. Lesbianism is the practice."

-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

"Mom, how come you never go outside?" "I told you, I'm a vampire."

-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

"It was not a triumphal return. Home, as I had known it, was gone."

-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

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7. As I Lay Dying

By: William Faulkner

3.72

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

As I Lay Dying is Faulkner’s harrowing account of the Bundren family’s odyssey across the Mississip… read more

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  • classics
  • school
"vomiting the crying"

-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

"But peace is my heart: I know it is."

-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

"it's better to build a tight chicken coop than a shoddy courthouse."

-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

"sometimes i lose faith in human nature for a time; i am assailed by doubt."

-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

Cover of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, E.W. Kemble, John Seelye, Guy Cardwell

8. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

By: Mark Twain , E.W. Kemble , John Seelye , Guy Cardwell

3.83

Format: 327 pages, Paperback

A nineteenth-century boy from a Mississippi River town recounts his adventures as he travels down t… read more

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  • classics
  • school
"งั้นก็เอาละ เราจะลงนรก..."

-Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

"Confound it, it's foolish, Tom"

-Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

"He had a dream and it shot him."

-Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

"Tom Sawyer said I was a numskull."

-Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

9. 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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10. Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)

By: Chinua Achebe

3.73

Format: 215 pages, Paperback

A simple story of a "strong man" whose life is dominated by fear and anger, Things Fall Apart is wr… read more

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  • classics
  • school
  • read for school
"Let us not reason like cowards,"

-Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)

"There is no story that is not true."

-Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)

"عندما يضئ القمر يشعر الكسيح برغبة قوية إلى المشي"

-Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)

"إذا نظر امرؤ إلى فم ملك, ظن أنه لم يرضع قط من ثدي أمه"

-Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)

11. Beloved

By: Toni Morrison

4.24

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a … read more

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12. My Body

By: Emily Ratajkowski

4.01

Format: 239 pages, Hardcover

A deeply honest investigation of what it means to be a woman and a commodity. Emily Ratajkowski… read more

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"I will remain as the real Emily; the Emily who owns the high-art Emily, and the one who wrote this essay, too. She will continue to carve out control where she can find it. (Buying Myself Back)"

-Emily Ratajkowski, My Body

"I will proclaim all of my mistakes and contradictions, for all the women who cannot do so, for all the women we've called muses without learning their names, whose silence we mistook for consent. (Me…"

-Emily Ratajkowski, My Body

"I was also ashamed. I hated myself for trying to impress you. It didn’t feel as if I’d hustled you to get on in life. Instead, it felt as if I’d betrayed and fetishized myself to be appealing to you.…"

-Emily Ratajkowski, My Body

"In my early twenties, it had never occurred to me that the women who gained their power from beauty were indebted to the men whose desire granted them that power in the first place. Those men were th…"

-Emily Ratajkowski, My Body

Cover of Concrete Rose (The Hate U Give, #0) by Angie Thomas

13. Concrete Rose (The Hate U Give, #0)

By: Angie Thomas

4.39

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

International phenomenon Angie Thomas revisits Garden Heights seventeen years before the events of … read more

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"So is Iesha."

-Angie Thomas, Concrete Rose (The Hate U Give, #0)

"Roses can bloom in the hardest conditions."

-Angie Thomas, Concrete Rose (The Hate U Give, #0)

"No matter where you come from, you're always worth more than you think,"

-Angie Thomas, Concrete Rose (The Hate U Give, #0)

"Living your life based off what other people think, ain’t living at all."

-Angie Thomas, Concrete Rose (The Hate U Give, #0)

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14. One of Us Is Back (One of Us Is Lying, #3)

By: Karen M. McManus

3.96

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

The explosive third and final thrilling instalment in the acclaimed One of Us... series. Ever since… read more

Similar categories in Karen M. McManus's One of Us Is Back (One of Us Is Lying, #3) book and Joseph Laurence Black's The Broadview Anthology of British Literature: Volume 1: The Medieval Period

"What is Bayview best known for? Revenge."

-Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Back (One of Us Is Lying, #3)

"There has to be a whole other level of pain when your soul gets ripped in half."

-Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Back (One of Us Is Lying, #3)

"It's unreal how fast the inner voice you thought was gone can jump back into your head to tell you how much you suck."

-Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Back (One of Us Is Lying, #3)

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15. The Broadview Anthology of British Literature: Volume 1: The Medieval Period

By: Joseph Laurence Black

3.85

Format: 845 pages, Paperback

In all six of its volumes The Broadview Anthology of British Literature presents British literature… read more

Similar categories in Joseph Laurence Black's The Broadview Anthology of British Literature: Volume 1: The Medieval Period book and Joseph Laurence Black's The Broadview Anthology of British Literature: Volume 1: The Medieval Period

  • poetry
  • classics
  • history
  • school
  • anthologies
  • read for school
  • reference
  • medieval
  • textbooks
  • drama
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16. Mary Wroth: The Countess of Montgomery's Urania (Abridged) (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies) (Volume 403)

By: Mary Wroth

3.21

Format: 292 pages, Paperback

The first romance written by an Englishwoman, 'Mary Wroth's Countess of Montgomery's Urania' is a l… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics

7 Best school books like The Broadview Anthology of British Literature: Volume 1: The Medieval Period by Joseph Laurence Black

Transform Your Habits

Mrs. Dalloway

Virginia Woolf , Maureen Howard

3.79

Transform Your Habits

King Lear

William Shakespeare , William James Rolfe

3.91

Transform Your Habits

Richard III

William Shakespeare , John Jowett

3.37

Transform Your Habits

As I Lay Dying

William Faulkner

3.72

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19 Top fiction books like Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1) by Chinua Achebe

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Song of Solomon

Toni Morrison

4.14

Transform Your Habits

The Bluest Eye

Toni Morrison

4.12

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The Stranger

Albert Camus , Matthew Ward , Stuart Gilbert , None

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Wide Sargasso Sea

Jean Rhys

3.59

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