12 best-selling classics books like The Fall River Axe Murders by Angela Carter

The Fall River Axe Murders

By: Angela Carter

3.64

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Cover of Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood

1. Alias Grace

By: Margaret Atwood

4.04

Format: 468 pages, Hardcover

It's 1843, and Grace Marks has been convicted for her involvement in the vicious murders of her emp… read more

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  • classics
"The small details of life often hide a great significance."

-Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace

"If they want a monster so badly they ought to be provided by one."

-Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace

"[...] he often talked to himself and he was the best conversationalist he knew; [...]"

-Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace

"[...] in this world you have to take your bits and ends of kindness where you can find them, as they do not grow on trees."

-Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace

Cover of Everyman by Anonymous, Unknown

2. Everyman

By: Anonymous , Unknown

3.27

Format: 52 pages, Paperback

Everyman is a medieval morality play that was first performed in the late 15th century. The play te… read more

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  • classics
  • read for school
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3. Pygmalion

By: George Bernard Shaw

3.89

Format: 82 pages, Paperback

One of George Bernard Shaw's best-known plays, Pygmalion was a rousing success on the London and Ne… read more

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  • classics
"What you are to do without me I cannot imagine."

-George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion

"Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby"

-George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion

"La vida no consiste en buscarse a sí mismo, sino en crearse a sí mismo"

-George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion

"I'm willing to tell you. I'm wanting to tell you. I'm waiting to tell you."

-George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion

Cover of A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare, Barbara A. Mowat, Paul Werstine, Catherine Belsey

4. A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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

3.95

Format: 298 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Shakespeare's intertwined love polygons begin to get complicated from the start--Demetrius and Lysa… read more

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  • read for school
"My soul is in the sky."

-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

"Farewell, sweet playfellow."

-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

"Lord, what fools these mortals be!"

-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

"Methought I was enamour'd of an ass."

-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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5. The Lottery

By: Shirley Jackson

4.05

Format: 30 pages, Paperback

In a small American town, the local residents are abuzz with excitement and nervousness when they w… read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
  • read for school
"It's not the way it used to be... people ain't the way they used to be."

-Shirley Jackson, The Lottery

"It isn't fair, it isn't right," Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her."

-Shirley Jackson, The Lottery

"The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green."

-Shirley Jackson, The Lottery

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6. 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
  • short stories
Cover of The Jew of Malta by Christopher Marlowe, H. Havelock Ellis

7. The Jew of Malta

By: Christopher Marlowe , H. Havelock Ellis

4.11

Format: None pages, Paperback

The spirit of Machiavelli presides over The Jew of Malta,in which the title character relentlessly … read more

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  • classics
Cover of Utopia by Paul Turner, Thomas More

8. 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
"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

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9. The Homecoming

By: Harold Pinter

3.70

Format: 82 pages, Paperback

When Teddy, a professor in an American university, brings his wife Ruth to visit his old home in Lo… read more

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  • classics
"RUTH: If you take the glass…I’ll take you."

-Harold Pinter, The Homecoming

"Look what I'm lumbered with. One load of cast-iron crap after another." --Harold Pinter: The Homecoming."

-Harold Pinter, The Homecoming

10. 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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11. The Reluctant Landlady

By: Bernadette Strachan

0.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

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12. Through the Tunnel

By: Doris Lessing

4.07

Format: 253 pages, Hardcover

Do your students enjoy a good laugh? Do they like to be scared? Or do they just like a book with a … read more

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Cover of A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen, Michael   Meyer

13. 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
  • read for school
"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

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14. Black Beauty

By: Gail Carson Levine , Anna Sewell

3.99

Format: 245 pages, Mass Market Paperback

As a young horse, Black Beauty is well-loved and happy. But when his owner is forced to sell him, h… read more

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  • classics
"It is good people who make good places."

-Gail Carson Levine, Black Beauty

"Los hombres siempre creen poder mejorar a la Naturaleza y corregir la obra de Dios."

-Gail Carson Levine, Black Beauty

"I have heard men say that seeing is believing; but I should say that feeling is believing;"

-Gail Carson Levine, Black Beauty

"he thought people did not value their animals half enough, nor make friends of them as they ought to do"

-Gail Carson Levine, Black Beauty

15. The Weight of Our Sky

By: Hanna Alkaf

4.23

Format: 690 pages,

Told over the course of the 1969 Chinese and Malay riots in Kuala Lumpur, the novel follows a young… read more

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16. My Sister in This House

By: Wendy Kesselman

4.25

Format: None pages, Paperback

Wendy Kesselman Full Length, Drama New Revised Version Characters: 4 female Combination Interior Se… read more

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17. Mrs. Warren's Profession

By: George Bernard Shaw

4.23

Format: 528 pages, Paperback

Middle-aged Mrs. Warren is a madam, proprietress of a string of successful brothels. Her daughter, … read more

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18. The Country Wife

By: William Wycherley , None

3.91

Format: 318 pages, Paperback

'Cuckolds like lovers should themselves deceive' So concludes one of Wycherley's most revived and m… read more

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Cover of Everyman (Faber Drama) by Carol Ann Duffy

19. Everyman (Faber Drama)

By: Carol Ann Duffy

3.96

Format: 94 pages, Kindle Edition

Everyman is successful, popular and riding high when Death comes calling. Forced to abandon the lif… read more

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  • classics
  • read for school
Cover of My Brother's Husband, All Volumes (Otouto no Otto, #1-4) by Gengoroh Tagame

20. My Brother's Husband, All Volumes (Otouto no Otto, #1-4)

By: Gengoroh Tagame

4.61

Format: 704 pages, Paperback

Yaichi is a work-at-home suburban dad in contemporary Tokyo; formerly married to Natsuki, father to… read more

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21. The Fall River Axe Murders

By: Angela Carter

3.64

Format: None pages, None

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3.27

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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3.95

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Shirley Jackson

4.05

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Henrik Ibsen , Michael Meyer

3.76

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Uoyama

4.15

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Uta Isaki

4.25

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4.24

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Jeannette Arroyo

3.53

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