14 must-read classics books like The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Package 2: Volumes C, D, and E by Nina Baym

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The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Package 2: Volumes C, D, and E

By: Nina Baym

4.12

Format: 3364 pages, Paperback

Firmly grounded in the core strengths that have made it the best-selling undergraduate survey in th…

If you liked the classics plot in The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Package 2: Volumes C, D, and E by Nina Baym , here is a list of 14 books like this:

Cover of The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories by Henry James, None

1. The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories

By: Henry James , None

3.65

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A young, inexperienced governess is charged with the care of Miles and Flora, two small children ab… read more

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  • classics
  • school
  • literature
  • short stories
  • fiction
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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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  • poetry
  • classics
  • school
  • literature
  • fiction
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3. The Yellow Wall-Paper

By: Charlotte Perkins Gilman , Elaine R. Hedges , Elaine Hedges

4.08

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Diagnosed by her physician husband with a “temporary nervous depression—a slight hysterical tendenc… read more

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"Its time we woke up,"

-Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper

"This was not life, this was a nightmare."

-Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper

"John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage."

-Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper

"It is so hard to talk with John about my case, because he is so wise, and because he loves me so."

-Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper

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4. The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945

By: Saul Friedländer

4.24

Format: 870 pages, Hardcover

With The Years of Extermination, Saul Friedländer completes his major historical work on Nazi Germa… read more

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"Esa sensación de extrañeza me parece que refleja la percepción por parte de las desventuradas víctimas del régimen, al menos durante los años treinta, de una realidad tan absurda como ominosa, de un …"

-Saul Friedländer, The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945

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5. Lysistrata

By: Aristophanes , Sarah Ruden

3.87

Format: 132 pages, Paperback

Aristophanes' comic masterpiece of war and sex remains one of the greatest plays ever written. Led … read more

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  • school
"Sənət çörək arxasınca qaçarsa, alçalar"

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

"Lysistrata: To seize the treasury; no more money, no more war."

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

"Queste donne micidiali, non si può vivere nè con loro nè senza di loro."

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

"Chorus of old men: How true the saying: 'Tis impossible to live with the baggages, impossible to live without 'em."

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

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6. Hedda Gabler

By: Henrik Ibsen , William Archer

3.93

Format: None pages, Paperback

Hedda Gabler, the daughter of a deceased General, marries dull George Tesman and foresees a life of… read more

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  • classics
  • school
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7. The Comedians

By: Paul Theroux , Graham Greene

3.00

Format: 50 pages, Paperback

Three men meet on a ship bound for Haiti, a world in the grip of the corrupt "Papa Doc" and the Ton… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
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8. Death in Venice

By: Thomas Mann , Michael Cunningham , Michael Henry Heim

3.74

Format: 142 pages, Paperback

The world-famous masterpiece by Nobel laureate Thomas Mann -- here in a new translation by Michael … read more

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  • classics
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"Nothing gladdens a writer more than a thought that can become pure feeling and a feeling that can become pure thought."

-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

"Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph."

-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

"Denn der Mensch liebt und ehrt den Menschen , solange er ihn nicht zu beurteilen vermag, und die Sehnsucht ist ein Erzeunis mangelhafter Erkenntnis."

-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

"Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden."

-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

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9. Grave Surprise (Harper Connelly, #2)

By: Charlaine Harris

4.50

Format: 182 pages,

When I was fifteen, I was struck by a bolt of lightning through an open window of the trailer where… read more

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  • fiction
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10. Mansfield Park

By: Jane Austen

3.87

Format: 488 pages, Paperback

Taken from the poverty of her parents' home in Portsmouth, Fanny Price is brought up with her rich … read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"I was quiet, but I was not blind."

-Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

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11. Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?: Selected Early Stories

By: Joyce Carol Oates

3.69

Format: 88 pages, Hardcover

The sixties and seventies witnessed the emergence of Joyce Carol Oates as one of America's foremost… read more

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  • short stories
  • classics
  • school
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12. Royal Airs (Elemental Blessings, #2)

By: Sharon Shinn

4.43

Format: 230 pages, ebook

"Master storyteller Sharon Shinn created the thrilling and enchanting world of Welce in her acclaim… read more

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  • fiction
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13. The Autobiography of William Butler Yeats

By: W.B. Yeats

4.19

Format: 144 pages,

Subtitle: Consisting of Reveries over Childhood and Youth; The Trembling of the Veil; and Dramatis … read more

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  • poetry
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14. The House of the Seven Gables

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne , Robert S. Levine

4.33

Format: 277 pages, Paperback

In a sleepy little New England village stands a dark, weather-beaten, many-gabled house. This brood… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
  • american
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15. The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic

By: R.K. Narayan , Pankaj Mishra , John Lee

4.21

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • fiction

16. Bulfinch's Mythology

By: Thomas Bulfinch

4.33

Format: 700 pages, Paperback

For almost a century and a half, Bulfinch's Mythology has been the text by which the great tales of… read more

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17. C.P. Cavafy: Collected Poems

By: Constantinos P. Cavafy , Edmund Keeley , Philip Sherrard , George Savidis

4.38

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

C. P. Cavafy (1863 - 1933) lived in relative obscurity in Alexandria, and a collected edition of hi… read more

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"Άλλα ζητεί η ψυχή σου, γι’ άλλα κλαίει·"

-Constantinos P. Cavafy, C.P. Cavafy: Collected Poems

"Η Ιθάκη σ’ έδωσε τ’ ωραίο ταξείδι. Χωρίς αυτήν δεν θάβγαινες στον δρόμο."

-Constantinos P. Cavafy, C.P. Cavafy: Collected Poems

"Vuelve a menudo y tómame, en la noche, cuando los labios y la piel recuerdan..."

-Constantinos P. Cavafy, C.P. Cavafy: Collected Poems

"Aunque sea con engaños, que me ilusione ahora: pero que no sienta el vacío de mi vida. (Septiembre de 1903)"

-Constantinos P. Cavafy, C.P. Cavafy: Collected Poems

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18. Northanger Abbey

By: Jane Austen , Alfred J. MacAdam

3.85

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

A wonderfully entertaining coming-of-age story, Northanger Abbey is often referred to as Jane Auste… read more

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"I have no talent for certainty."

-Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

"Every moment has its pleasures and its hope."

-Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

"But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea."

-Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

"I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible."

-Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

19. How to Murder a Millionaire (Blackbird Sisters Mystery, #1)

By: Nancy Martin

3.40

Format: None pages,

Nora Blackbird, society columnist and down-and-almost-out former debutante, reclaims her place with… read more

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20. The Best Early Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald

By: F. Scott Fitzgerald , Roxana Robinson , None

4.15

Format: 130 pages, Paperback

Edited and with an Introduction by Bryant Mangum Foreword by Roxana Robinson Benediction * Head and… read more

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21. On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts

By: Thomas de Quincey

3.86

Format: 368 pages,

'People begin to see that something more goes to the composition of a fine murder than two blockhea… read more

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22. Beyond the Pleasure Principle

By: Sigmund Freud , James Strachey

2.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

In reasoned progression he outlined core psychoanalytic concepts, such as repression, free associat… read more

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23. The Queen of Spades

By: Alexander Pushkin , None

2.18

Format: 166 pages, Paperback

The Queen of Spades(Russian: Pikovaya dama) is an acclaimed short story by Alexander Pushkin about … read more

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24. Nightwood

By: T.S. Eliot , Jeanette Winterson , Djuna Barnes

4.07

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Nightwood, Djuna Barnes' strange and sinuous tour de force, "belongs to that small class of books t… read more

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25. The Complete Works

By: William Shakespeare

4.28

Format: None pages, Leather Bound

The tempest -- Two gentlemen of Verona -- Merry wives of Windsor -- Twelfth night, or, What you wil… read more

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26. Secrets (PsyCop, #4)

By: Jordan Castillo Price

3.96

Format: 464 pages,

Victor Bayne's job as a PsyCop involves tracking down dead people and getting them to spill their g… read more

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27. The Complete Stories and Poems

By: Edgar Allan Poe

3.72

Format: 294 pages,

The life of American writer Edgar Allan Poe was characterized by a dramatic series of successes and… read more

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28. The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3)

By: Stephen Graham Jones

4.21

Format: 455 pages, Hardcover

The final installment in the most lauded trilogy in the history of horror literature It’s been f… read more

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"I used to be all about the final girl standing on top of a pile of the dead at the end of the movie, her face dripping blood, her chest heaving, her eyes fierce. Now I’m all about holding the door of…"

-Stephen Graham Jones, The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3)

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29. The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

4.26

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Featuring a new introduction by Ken Liu, this revised edition of Ursula K. Le Guin’s first full-len… read more

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  • literature
"In many college English courses the words “myth"

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy

"I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy

"The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world, and your fellow men, and your own feelings, and your destiny."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy

"Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy

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30. Southernmost Murder

By: C.S. Poe

4.09

Format: 253 pages, ebook

Aubrey Grant lives in the tropical paradise of Old Town, Key West, has a cute cottage, a sweet mope… read more

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31. The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Package 2: Volumes C, D, and E

By: Nina Baym

4.12

Format: 3364 pages, Paperback

Firmly grounded in the core strengths that have made it the best-selling undergraduate survey in th… read more

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17 Top fiction books like The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Package 2: Volumes C, D, and E by Nina Baym

Transform Your Habits

The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories

Henry James , None

3.65

Transform Your Habits

Everyman

Anonymous , Unknown

3.27

Transform Your Habits

The Yellow Wall-Paper

Charlotte Perkins Gilman , Elaine R. Hedges , Elaine Hedges

4.08

Transform Your Habits

Lysistrata

Aristophanes , Sarah Ruden

3.87

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11 must-read fiction books like The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Robert S. Levine

Transform Your Habits

The Centaur

Algernon Blackwood

3.46

Transform Your Habits

The Castle of Otranto

Horace Walpole

3.18

Transform Your Habits

Pudd'nhead Wilson (Bantam Classics)

Mark Twain

3.75

Transform Your Habits

Hope Leslie: or, Early Times in the Massachusetts

Carolyn L. Karcher , Catharine Maria Sedgwick

3.37

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