15 best-selling classics books like Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Broadview Literary Texts) by William Godwin

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Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Broadview Literary Texts)

By: William Godwin

3.70

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

William Godwin's memoir of his wife, Mary Wollstonecraft, marks a transition in Godwin's philosophi…

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1. The Voyage Out (The Virginia Woolf Library)

By: Virginia Woolf

3.75

Format: 375 pages, Paperback

Woolf’s first novel is a haunting book, full of light and shadow. It takes Mr. and Mrs. Ambrose and… read more

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  • feminism
  • classics
  • british literature
"I want to write a novel about Silence," he said; “the things people don’t say."

-Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out (The Virginia Woolf Library)

"J'ai un faible pour les gens qui ne se décident pas à commencer quelque chose."

-Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out (The Virginia Woolf Library)

"I can’t imagine anything nicer than to sit out in the moonlight and listen to music—"

-Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out (The Virginia Woolf Library)

"Ce qu'on attend de l'être avec qui l'on vit c'est qu'il vous maintienne au niveau le plus élevé de vous-même."

-Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out (The Virginia Woolf Library)

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2. Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman

By: Mary Wollstonecraft

3.44

Format: 138 pages, Paperback

In Maria , Wollstonecraft pursues in fictional form themes set forth in 'A Vindication of the Right… read more

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  • feminism
  • classics
  • philosophy
  • british literature
"Was not the world a vast prison, and women born slaves?"

-Mary Wollstonecraft, Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman

"She would stand and behold the waves rolling, and think of the voice that could still the tumultuous deep."

-Mary Wollstonecraft, Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman

"Men who are inferior to their fellow men, are always most anxious to establish their superiority over women."

-Mary Wollstonecraft, Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman

"...or like the flash which divides the threatening clouds of angry heaven only to display the horror which darkness shrouded"

-Mary Wollstonecraft, Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman

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3. The Doll's House

By: Katherine Mansfield

3.52

Format: 12 pages,

The Doll's House is a short story by Katherine Mansfield. It was first published in The Nation and … read more

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  • classics
  • british literature
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4. A Pale View of Hills

By: Kazuo Ishiguro

3.79

Format: 183 pages, Paperback

Librarian note: This a previously-published edition of ISBN 9780571225378. In his highly acclaim… read more

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"Sisters are supposed to be people you’re close to, aren’t they. You may not like them much, but you’re still close to them."

-Kazuo Ishiguro, A Pale View of Hills

"It doesn’t matter how old someone is, it’s what they’ve experienced that counts. People can get to be a hundred and not experience a thing."

-Kazuo Ishiguro, A Pale View of Hills

"I’ve come to appreciate cooking over the years. It’s an art, I’m convinced of it, just as noble as painting or poetry. It’s not appreciated simply because the product disappears so quickly"

-Kazuo Ishiguro, A Pale View of Hills

"The Americans, they never understood the way things were in Japan. Not for one moment have they understood. Their ways may be fine for Americans, but in Japan things are different, very different."

-Kazuo Ishiguro, A Pale View of Hills

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5. Vanity Fair

By: William Makepeace Thackeray , John Carey

4.28

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Edited by John Carey. Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero is a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray… read more

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  • classics
  • british literature
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6. Poetics

By: Aristotle , Malcolm Heath

3.59

Format: None pages, Paperback

'The plot is the source and the soul of tragedy' In his near-contemporary account of Greek tragedy,… read more

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  • philosophy
  • classics
  • nonfiction
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7. Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown

By: Virginia Woolf

3.98

Format: 269 pages,

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  • classics
  • nonfiction
  • british literature

8. Between the Acts

By: Virginia Woolf

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

In Woolf's last novel, the action takes place on one summer's day at a country house in the heart o… read more

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  • classics
  • british literature
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9. The Vampyre; A Tale

By: John William Polidori

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Vampyreis a short story by John William Polidori. It is based on a fragment written by Lord Byr… read more

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  • classics
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10. Dream Story

By: Frederic Raphael , Arthur Schnitzler , J.M.Q. Davies

3.76

Format: 117 pages, Paperback

Like his Viennese contemporary Sigmund Freud, the doctor and dramatist Arthur Schnitzler (1862-1931… read more

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  • classics
"El imperativo urgente del momento era huir, al menos por un tiempo, al sueño y al olvido."

-Frederic Raphael, Dream Story

"متأكدة بقدر حدسي أن حقيقة ليلة، بل حتى حقيقة حياة إنسان بأكملها، لا تعني في الوقت ذاته حقيقته الداخلية."

-Frederic Raphael, Dream Story

"بدا له أنه لو وقف وحده سافِر الوجه بين كل هؤلاء المقنَّعين، فسيكون الأمر أسوأ آلاف المرات من أن يقف فجأة عاريًا بين اللابسين"

-Frederic Raphael, Dream Story

"Am I sure? Only as sure as I am that the reality of one night, let alone that of a whole lifetime, can ever be the whole truth."

-Frederic Raphael, Dream Story

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11. The Hours

By: None , Michael Cunningham

4.16

Format: None pages, Paperback

Passionate, profound, and deeply moving, "The Hours" is the story of three women: Clarissa Vaughan,… read more

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  • classics
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12. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

By: Mary Wollstonecraft , Miriam Brody , Bebi Fernández

3.50

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Writing in an age when the call for the rights of man had brought revolution to America and France,… read more

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  • classics
  • history
  • feminism
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction

13. 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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14. Zadig

By: Voltaire

0.00

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Dans ce siecle du voyage et de la philosophie, Zadig entreprend son apprentissage dans un univers p… read more

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15. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: Written by Himself

By: Olaudah Equiano , Robert J. Allison

3.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

Widely admired for its vivid accounts of the slave trade, Olaudah Equiano's autobiography -- the fi… read more

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16. Brown Girl Dreaming

By: Jacqueline Woodson

4.27

Format: 412 pages, Hardcover

Jacqueline Woodson, one of today's finest writers, tells the moving story of her childhood in mesme… read more

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17. The Gentle Spirit

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky

3.89

Format: 86 pages, Paperback

In this compelling study of despair, based on a real-life incident, a pawnbroker mourns the loss of… read more

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  • classics
"I'm a master of speaking silently—all my life I've spoken silently and I've lived through entire tragedies in silence."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gentle Spirit

"Oh, I have always been proud, I always wanted all or nothing! You see it was just because I am not one who will accept half a happiness, but always wanted all"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gentle Spirit

"I worked it through with pride,I almost spoke without words, and i'm masterly at speaking without words.All my life I have spoken without words, and I have passed through whole tragedies on my own ac…"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gentle Spirit

"Listen! This is where it began but I keep getting muddled... The fact of the matter is that I now want to recall everything, every trifle, every little detail. I still want to collect my thoughts and…"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gentle Spirit

18. Carthage

By: Joyce Carol Oates

4.05

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

A young girl's disappearance rocks a community and a family, in this stirring examination of grief,… read more

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19. The Awakening

By: Kate Chopin

3.68

Format: 195 pages, Paperback

When first published in 1899, The Awakening shocked readers with its honest treatment of female mar… read more

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  • feminism
  • classics
"The morning was full of sunlight and hope."

-Kate Chopin, The Awakening

"She had resolved to never take another step backward."

-Kate Chopin, The Awakening

"She wanted to destroy something. The crash and clatter were what she wanted to hear."

-Kate Chopin, The Awakening

"She felt that her speech was voicing the incoherency her thoughts, and stopped abruptly."

-Kate Chopin, The Awakening

20. La felicidad conyugal

By: Leo Tolstoy , Selma Ancira

4.20

Format: 141 pages, Paperback

En esta bellisima historia, Tolstoi nos habla del amor y del matrimonio a traves de la historia de … read more

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21. The Kindly Ones (A Dance to the Music of Time, #6)

By: Anthony Powell

4.23

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A Dance to the Music of Time – his brilliant 12-novel sequence, which chronicles the lives of over … read more

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  • classics
  • british literature

22. Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark

By: Mary Wollstonecraft

4.45

Format: 864 pages, Paperback

Originally published in 1796, Mary Wollstonecraft's account of her trip to Denmark, Norway, and Swe… read more

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23. Queen Mab, a Philosophical Poem, with Notes. [Reputed to Have Been Given by the Author to W. Francis. Wanting the Title-Leaf, Dedication and

By: Percy Bysshe Shelley

4.00

Format: None pages,

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24. Mathilda

By: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

4.10

Format: 322 pages, Paperback

Mary Shelley's "Matilda" - suppressed for over a century - tells the story of a woman alienated fro… read more

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25. Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

By: Claire Dederer

3.79

Format: 257 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the New York Times best seller Poser and the acclaimed memoir Love and Trouble, … read more

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  • history
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"Biography used to be something you sought out, yearned for, actively pursued. Now it falls on your head all day long."

-Claire Dederer, Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

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26. Liv Strömquists astrologi

By: Liv Strömquist

3.55

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Sabies que Melania Trump és Taure, el signe més resistent de tots? I que Boris Johnson és Bessons, … read more

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  • nonfiction
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27. El peligro de la historia única

By: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

4.21

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

La TED talk más popular de Chimamanda, con más de doce millones de reproducciones. «Las historias i… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Así es como se crea una historia única, se muestra a un pueblo solo como una cosa, una única cosa, una y otra vez, y al final lo conviertes en eso."

-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, El peligro de la historia única

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28. Folk som sår i snö

By: Tina Harnesk

3.86

Format: 315 pages, Hardcover

Ingen ska komma och berätta för Máriddja när hon ska dö och ingen kan dra ur 85-åringen sanningen o… read more

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29. Laon and Cythna (Broadview Editions)

By: Percy Bysshe Shelley

3.59

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Laon and Cythna is one of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s most celebrated, and most controversial, literary … read more

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30. Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Broadview Literary Texts)

By: William Godwin

3.70

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

William Godwin's memoir of his wife, Mary Wollstonecraft, marks a transition in Godwin's philosophi… read more

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  • memoir
  • british literature
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  • philosophy
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Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman

Mary Wollstonecraft

3.44

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3.59

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3.50

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3.79

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Emma Hamberg

3.45

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Lisa Ridzén

4.26

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Annika Norlin

4.16

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Andrev Walden

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