21 Top classics books like Poems of the Past and the Present by Thomas Hardy

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Poems of the Past and the Present

By: Thomas Hardy

3.77

Format: 186 pages, Kindle Edition

Poems of the Past and the Present is the second collection of poems by English poet Thomas Hardy, a…

"O sweet To-morrow!— After to-day There will away This sense of sorrow. Then let us borrow Hope, for a gleaming Soon will be streaming, Dimmed by no gray— No gray!"

-Thomas Hardy, Poems of the Past and the Present

"O sweet To-morrow!— After to-day There will away This sense of sorrow. Then let us borrow Hope, for a gleaming Soon will be streaming, Dimmed by no gray— No gray!"

-Thomas Hardy, Poems of the Past and the Present

" How Great My Grief How great my grief, my joys how few, Since first it was my fate to know thee! —Have the slow years not brought to view How great my grief, my joys how few, Nor memory shaped old times anew, Nor loving-kindness helped to show thee How great my grief, my joys how few, Since first it was my fate to know thee?"

-Thomas Hardy, Poems of the Past and the Present

" How Great My Grief How great my grief, my joys how few, Since first it was my fate to know thee! —Have the slow years not brought to view How great my grief, my joys how few, Nor memory shaped old times anew, Nor loving-kindness helped to show thee How great my grief, my joys how few, Since first it was my fate to know thee?"

-Thomas Hardy, Poems of the Past and the Present

If you liked the classics plot in Poems of the Past and the Present by Thomas Hardy , here is a list of 21 books like this:

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1. Wise Blood

By: Flannery O'Connor

3.83

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

(This is an alternate-cover edition for ISBN 9780374530631) The American short story master Flan… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"Jesus died to redeem you,"

-Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood

"It's easier to bleed than sweat, Mr. Motes."

-Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood

"In yourself right now is all the place you've got."

-Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood

"If you want to get anywhere in religion, you got to keep it sweet."

-Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood

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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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  • poetry
  • classics
  • fiction
"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. The Dead

By: James Joyce

3.99

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Often cited as the best work of short fiction ever written, Joyce's story details a New Year's Eve … read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"Like distant music these words that he had written years before were borne towards him from the past."

-James Joyce, The Dead

"Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?"

-James Joyce, The Dead

"In one letter that he had written to her then he had said: 'Why is it that words like these seem to me so dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?"

-James Joyce, The Dead

"Escuchando esta noche los nombres de esos grandes cantantes del pasado me pa­reció, debo confesarlo, que vivimos en época menos espaciosa. Aquéllos se pueden llamar, sin exageración, días espaciosos:…"

-James Joyce, The Dead

Cover of Bleak House by Charles Dickens, Hablot Knight Browne, Nicola Bradbury

4. Bleak House

By: Charles Dickens , Hablot Knight Browne , Nicola Bradbury

4.02

Format: 1017 pages, Paperback

The complex story of a notorious law-suit in which love and inheritance are set against the classic… read more

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  • victorian
  • classics
  • fiction
"You can be nothing better than yourself; be that [...]"

-Charles Dickens, Bleak House

"I find the nights long, for I sleep but little, and think much."

-Charles Dickens, Bleak House

"I am not at all respectable, and I don't want to be. Odd perhaps, but so it is!"

-Charles Dickens, Bleak House

"if the world go wrong, it was, in some off-hand manner, never meant to go right."

-Charles Dickens, Bleak House

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5. Twelfth Night

By: William Shakespeare , Folger Shakespeare Library

3.95

Format: 272 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Named for the twelfth night after Christmas, the end of the Christmas season, Twelfth Night plays w… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • fiction
"a raven's heart within a dove."

-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

"I pity you That's a degree to love"

-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

"Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit."

-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

"Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage."

-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

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6. Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont

By: Elizabeth Taylor , Paul Bailey

4.00

Format: 206 pages, Paperback

Librarian Note: An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found here On a rainy Sunday in Januar… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"Abrió el libro, pero ninguna página parecía ser lo bastante potente para borrar la soledad que sentía."

-Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont

"La catastrofe de la vejez residía en no atreverse a ir a cualquier parte, en resignarse a perder la libertad"

-Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont

"If you don't praise people just sometimes a little early on they die of despair, or turn into Hitlers, you know?"

-Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont

"...pensaba en el amor y en sus espantosas desigualdades. Siempre hay alguien que ofrece la mejilla y otro que la besa."

-Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont

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7. Troilus and Cressida

By: William Shakespeare , Louis B. Wright , Virginia A. LaMar

3.75

Format: 320 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The Arden Shakespeare is the established scholarly edition of Shakespeare's plays. Now in its third… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • fiction
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8. Demons

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky

4.30

Format: 733 pages, Paperback

Alternate Cover Edition ISBN 0679734511. (ISBN13: 9780679734512) Inspired by the true story of a… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"God is the pain of the fear of death"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons

"Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. It's only that."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons

"Marriage is the moral death of every proud soul, of all independence."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons

"...and in fact I've noticed that faith always seems to be less in the daytime"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons

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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
  • fiction
"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. We

By: Yevgeny Zamyatin , Clarence Brown

3.89

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

The exhilarating dystopian novel that inspired George Orwell's 1984 and foreshadowed the worst exce… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"Her smile was a bite, and I was its target."

-Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

"There is no final one; revolutions are infinite."

-Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

"knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith"

-Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

"You're in a bad way! Apparently, you have developed a soul."

-Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

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11. 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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  • poetry
  • classics
  • fiction
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12. Tropic of Cancer

By: Henry Miller

0.00

Format: None pages,

Now hailed as an American classic, Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller's masterpiece, was banned as obsc… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
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13. 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
  • fiction
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14. Pericles

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

3.95

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Folger Shakespeare Library: the world's leading center for Shakespeare studies. Each edition includ… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • fiction
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15. Cymbeline

By: William Shakespeare , Harold Bloom , Gabriele Baldini

3.50

Format: 142 pages, Paperback

Cymbeline also known as Cymbeline, King of Britain or The Tragedy of Cymbeline, is a play by Willia… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • fiction

16. 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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17. The End of the Affair

By: Graham Greene , Monica Ali

3.90

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

"A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses a moment of experience from which to look… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"As long as one suffers one lives."

-Graham Greene, The End of the Affair

"I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist."

-Graham Greene, The End of the Affair

"Why do we have this desire to tease the innocent? Is it envy?"

-Graham Greene, The End of the Affair

"I can never think of you as a friend. You can do without a friend."

-Graham Greene, The End of the Affair

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18. The Pilgrim's Progress

By: John Bunyan

4.06

Format: 324 pages, Paperback

This famous story of man's progress through life in search of salvation remains one of the most ent… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"Follow your heart"

-John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

"Dark clouds bring waters, when the bright bring none."

-John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

"They are my fears of him, too. But who can hinder that which will be?"

-John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

"Now, Mr. Great-heart was a strong man, so he was not afraid of a lion."

-John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

19. 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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20. Oroonoko

By: Aphra Behn , Janet Todd

3.78

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

When Prince Oroonoko's passion for the virtuous Imoinda arouses the jealousy of his grandfather, th… read more

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21. The Red Badge of Courage

By: Stephen Crane

3.68

Format: 330 pages, Paperback

During an unnamed battle, 18-year-old private Henry Fleming survives what he considers to be a lost… read more

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22. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

By: David Hume

4.14

Format: None pages, Paperback

Philosopher David Hume was considered to one of the most important figures in the age of Scottish e… read more

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23. A Good Man Is Hard To Find

By: Flannery O'Connor , Frederick Asals

3.96

Format: 433 pages, Paperback

A Good Man Is Hard to Findis Flannery O'Connor's most famous and most discussed story. O'Connor her… read more

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24. The Red and the Black

By: Stendhal , None

3.86

Format: 577 pages, Paperback

Handsome, ambitious Julien Sorel is determined to rise above his humble provincial origins. Soon re… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"A good book is an event in my life."

-Stendhal, The Red and the Black

"Toute vraie passion ne songe qu'a elle."

-Stendhal, The Red and the Black

"It seems that my destiny is to die dreaming."

-Stendhal, The Red and the Black

"A novel is a mirror walking along a main road."

-Stendhal, The Red and the Black

25. 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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26. Richard II

By: William Shakespeare , Roma Gill , None

3.91

Format: 385 pages, Paperback

Richard II is one of Shakespeare's finest works: lucid, eloquent, and boldly structured. It can be … read more

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27. An Ideal Husband

By: Oscar Wilde

4.33

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Although Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) created a wide range of poetry, essays, and fairy tales (and one n… read more

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28. Measure for Measure

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

4.38

Format: 83 pages, Paperback

Measure for Measureis among the most passionately discussed of Shakespeare's plays. In it, a duke t… read more

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29. Titus Andronicus

By: William Shakespeare

3.68

Format: 268 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Titus Andronicus is one of Shakespeare's earliest and bloodiest tragedies and was hugely successful… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • fiction
"Hark, villains! I will grind your bones to dust. (Act V, Scene 2, 2503)"

-William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus

"Sorrow concealèd, like an oven stopped, Doth burn the heart to cinders where it is."

-William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus

"Villain, what hast thou done? Aaron: That which thou canst not undo. Chiron: Thou hast undone our mother. Aaron: Villain, I have done thy mother."

-William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus

"Now is a time to storm; why art thou still? TITUS ANDRONICUS: Ha, ha, ha! MARCUS ANDRONICUS: Why dost thou laugh? it fits not with this hour. TITUS ANDRONICUS: Why, I have not another tear to shed:"

-William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus

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30. The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding: a Hercule Poirot Short Story (Hercule Poirot, #SS-26)

By: Agatha Christie

4.12

Format: 55 pages, Kindle Edition

Asked to investigate an incident that needs to be dealt with discretion, Poirot reluctantly agrees … read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
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31. Poems of the Past and the Present

By: Thomas Hardy

3.77

Format: 186 pages, Kindle Edition

Poems of the Past and the Present is the second collection of poems by English poet Thomas Hardy, a… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • collections
  • victorian
  • fiction
  • english literature
"O sweet To-morrow!— After to-day There will away This sense of sorrow. Then let us borrow Hope, for a gleaming Soon will be streaming, Dimmed by no gray— No gray!"

-Thomas Hardy, Poems of the Past and the Present

" How Great My Grief How great my grief, my joys how few, Since first it was my fate to know thee! —Have the slow years not brought to view How great my grief, my joys how few, Nor memory shaped old t…"

-Thomas Hardy, Poems of the Past and the Present

" In Tenebris I Wintertime nighs; But my bereavement-pain It cannot bring again: Twice no one dies. Flower-petals flee; But, since it once hath been, No more that severing scene Can harrow me. Birds f…"

-Thomas Hardy, Poems of the Past and the Present

" A Broken Appointment You did not come, And marching Time drew on, and wore me numb,— Yet less for loss of your dear presence there Than that I thus found lacking in your make That high compassion wh…"

-Thomas Hardy, Poems of the Past and the Present

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Flannery O'Connor

3.83

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William Shakespeare

3.55

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James Joyce

3.99

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Charles Dickens , Hablot Knight Browne , Nicola Bradbury

4.02

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Kathryn Davis , Barbara Comyns

3.90

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Muriel Spark

3.83

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Hilary Mantel , Elizabeth Jenkins

3.94

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Dorothy Whipple

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