8 must-read classics books like What is a Classic by Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve

What is a Classic

By: Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve

3.09

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Cover of The Spinoza of Market Street by Isaac Bashevis Singer

1. The Spinoza of Market Street

By: Isaac Bashevis Singer

4.11

Format: 256 pages, Mass Market Paperback

《市场街的斯宾诺莎》为诺贝尔文学奖得主辛格的代表作之一,收录了十部短篇小说和一部中篇小说。沉迷哲学的老鳏夫、畏惧婚姻的花花公子、作茧自缚的骗子、纵欲杀身的情侣……形形色色的凡人与魔鬼在地狱、尘世与天… read more

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Cover of A Passion In The Desert by Honoré de Balzac

2. A Passion In The Desert

By: Honoré de Balzac

3.50

Format: None 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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3. The Pupil

By: Henry James

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

The poor young man hesitated and procrastinated: it cost him such an effort to broach the subject o… read more

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4. A Modest Proposal

By: Jonathan Swift

4.06

Format: 663 pages, Paperback

A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland From Being a Burden to Thei… read more

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5. The Lifted Veil

By: George Eliot

3.47

Format: 1 pages, Paperback

Horror was my familiar. Published the same year as her first novel, Adam Bede, this overlooked work… read more

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6. A Defence of Poetry

By: Philip Sidney , None

3.71

Format: 234 pages, Paperback

Often seen as a key to understanding Elizabethan poetry, Sidney's persuasive treatise follows the r… read more

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7. Mario and the Magician

By: Thomas Mann

3.88

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Mario and the Magician is one of Mann's most political stories. Mann openly criticizes fascism, a c… read more

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8. The School for Scandal

By: Richard Brinsley Sheridan

2.92

Format: None pages, Paperback

"The School for Scandal" is Richard Brinsley Sheridan's classic comedy that pokes fun at London upp… read more

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9. How Should One Read a Book?

By: Virginia Woolf

3.27

Format: None pages,

In 1926 Virginia Woolf wrote an essay entitled, "How Should One Read a Book?" to deliver as a lectu… read more

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10. An Enemy of the People

By: Henrik Ibsen

3.84

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

An Enemy of the people (original Norwegian title: En folkefiende) is an 1882 play by Norwegian play… read more

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11. The Darling

By: Anton Chekhov

4.15

Format: 130 pages,

Olga seems to be the perfect woman: plump, pretty and friendly, and those around her consider her t… read more

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12. Le Médecin Malgré Lui

By: Molière , None

3.72

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

Le Médecin malgré lui est une comédie-farce en trois actes en prose. Sganarelle, bûcheron alcooliq… read more

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"Soit qu'on fasse bien ou soit qu'on fasse mal, on est toujours payé de même sorte."

-Molière, Le Médecin Malgré Lui

"I find that it is the best trade of all; for, whether we manage well or ill, we are paid just the same."

-Molière, Le Médecin Malgré Lui

"C'est une chose admirable, que tous les grands hommes ont toujours du caprice, quelque petit grain de folie mêlé à leur science."

-Molière, Le Médecin Malgré Lui

"A shoemaker, in making a pair of shoes, cannot spoil a scrap of leather without having to bear the loss; but in our business we may spoil a man without its costing us a farthing. The blunders are nev…"

-Molière, Le Médecin Malgré Lui

13. The Man of Destiny

By: George Bernard Shaw

3.64

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) was a worldrenowned Irish author. Born in Dublin, he moved to Londo… read more

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14. The Misanthrope

By: Molière

3.89

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Misanthropeor Le Misanthrope ou l'Atrabilaire amoureuxis a comedy of manners in five acts and i… read more

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15. 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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16. The Cherry Orchard

By: Anton Chekhov , Tom Murphy

4.29

Format: 156 pages, Paperback

Published to tie in with the world premiere at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin In Chekhov's tragi-comedy … read more

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17. The Emperor Jones

By: Eugene O'Neill , None

3.62

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Brutus Jones, a former Pullman car porter wanted in the United States on two murder charges, has es… read more

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18. Господин из Сан-Франциско (Russian Edition)

By: Ivan Bunin

3.67

Format: 29 pages, Kindle Edition

Рассказ, впервые опубликованный в 1915 году. read more

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19. Of the Standard of Taste

By: David Hume

3.34

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Of the Standard of Tasteby David HumeThe great variety of Taste, as well as of opinion, which preva… read more

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"We choose our favourite author as we do our friend, from a conformity of humour and disposition. Mirth or passion, sentiment or reflection; whichever of these most predominates in our temper, it give…"

-David Hume, Of the Standard of Taste

20. What is a Classic

By: Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve

3.09

Format: None pages, None

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Cover of What Is a Classic? by T.S. Eliot

21. What Is a Classic?

By: T.S. Eliot

3.69

Format: 32 pages, school binding

A psycho-analytic interpretation of the life and poetry of the great French symbolist poet. Ilus. read more

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7 must-read classics books like What Is a Classic? by T.S. Eliot

Transform Your Habits

The Yellow Wall-Paper

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

4.07

Transform Your Habits

To the Lighthouse

Virginia Woolf

3.80

Transform Your Habits

Goblin Market

Joyce Carol Oates , William Morris , Laurence Housman , Christina Rossetti , Dante Gabriel Rossetti

3.82

Transform Your Habits

The Birth of Tragedy

Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , Shaun Whiteside

3.99

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