14 Best classics books like Beowulf: Translated by Seamus Heaney by Unknown

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Beowulf: Translated by Seamus Heaney

By: Unknown

3.67

Format: None pages, Audio CD

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1. How the Marquis Got His Coat Back

By: Neil Gaiman

4.05

Format: 37 pages, Kindle Edition

A Neverwhere short story from one of the brightest, most brilliant writers of our generation - the … read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"The Marquis de Carabas did not trust people. It was bad for business and it could set an unfortunate precedent. He did not trust his friends or his occasional lovers, and he certainly never trusted h…"

-Neil Gaiman, How the Marquis Got His Coat Back

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2. Dr. Faustus

By: Christopher Marlowe

3.80

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, commonly referred to simply as Doctor… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Hell is just a frame of mind."

-Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus

"Be silent then, for danger is in words."

-Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus

"Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris."

-Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus

"He that loves pleasure must for pleasure fall."

-Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus

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3. Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History

By: Dan Flores

3.41

Format: 331 pages, Hardcover

Finalist for thePEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award "A masterly synthesis of scientific … read more

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  • audiobook
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4. The Greatest Salesman in the World

By: Og Mandino

4.02

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Greatest Salesman in the World is a book that serves as a guide to a philosophy of salesmanship… read more

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5. The Bacchae

By: Euripides , Kenneth McLeish , None

3.92

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Euripides' classic drama about the often mortifying consequences of the unbridled--and frequently h… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • fiction
"Cleverness is not wisdom."

-Euripides, The Bacchae

"He who believes needs no explanation."

-Euripides, The Bacchae

"Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish."

-Euripides, The Bacchae

"Prepare yourselves for the roaring voice of the God of Joy!"

-Euripides, The Bacchae

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6. The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

By: Robert Fagles , Aeschylus , William Bedell Stanford

4.01

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Alternate covers of this ISBN here, here, here, here. Most recent cover is here. In the Oresteia… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • fiction
"I cannot not grieve."

-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

"Learning comes through pain."

-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

"Do I not live? Badly, I know, but I live."

-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

"Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know Except pain"

-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

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7. 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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8. The Lais of Marie de France

By: Marie de France , Glyn S. Burgess , Keith Busby

3.67

Format: None pages, Paperback

This is a prose translation of the lais or poems attributed to Marie de France. Little is known of … read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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9. The Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down

By: Colin Woodard

3.67

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The inspiration for the NBC series Crossbones. In the early eighteenth century a number of the grea… read more

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  • audiobook
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10. Endgame

By: Samuel Beckett

4.67

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Samuel Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969; his literary output of plays, no… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
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11. King Solomon's Mines (Allan Quatermain, #1)

By: H. Rider Haggard

3.79

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

H. Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines has entertained generations of readers since its first publ… read more

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  • classics
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"A sharp spear," runs the Kukuana saying, "needs no polish."

-H. Rider Haggard, King Solomon's Mines (Allan Quatermain, #1)

"Everything has an end, if only you live long enough to see it."

-H. Rider Haggard, King Solomon's Mines (Allan Quatermain, #1)

"When one can only do one thing well, one likes to keep up one’s reputation in that thing."

-H. Rider Haggard, King Solomon's Mines (Allan Quatermain, #1)

"Take what life can give you, Ana, and do not trouble about the offerings which are laid in the tombs for time to crumble."

-H. Rider Haggard, King Solomon's Mines (Allan Quatermain, #1)

12. 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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13. Awaken the Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial Destiny!

By: Anthony Robbins , Tony Robbins , Frederick L. Covan

3.78

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Wake up and take control of your life! From the bestselling author of Inner Strength, Unlimited Pow… read more

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14. The Epic of Gilgamesh

By: Anonymous , N.K. Sandars

3.74

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

Miraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as much as four thousand years, the poem of Gilg… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"As for man, his days are numbered, whatever he might do, it is but wind."

-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh

"Now let the gate of sorrow be closed behind me, and let it be sealed with tar and pitch."

-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh

"When all the illusions of personal immortality are stripped away, there is only the act to maintain the freedom to act."

-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh

"Gilgamesh was called a god and a man; Enkidu was an animal and a man. It is the story of their becoming human together."

-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh

15. 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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16. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

By: James Joyce , Seamus Deane

3.64

Format: 329 pages, Paperback

The portrayal of Stephen Dedalus's Dublin childhood and youth, his quest for identity through art a… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"My heart is quite calm now. I will go back."

-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

"God spoke to you by so many voices but you would not hear."

-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

"Are you not weary of ardent ways? Tell no more of enchanted days."

-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

"He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place."

-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

17. Fingerprints of the Gods: The Evidence of Earth's Lost Civilization

By: Graham Hancock , Santha Faiia

4.32

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

The bestselling author of The Sign and the Seal reveals the true origins of civilization. Connectin… read more

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18. Hero and Leander

By: Christopher Marlowe

3.74

Format: 70 pages, Paperback

Marlowe's unfinished masterpiece, as completed by George Chapman (1598). Includes an introduction a… read more

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19. The Jungle Book

By: Rudyard Kipling

3.90

Format: 277 pages, Paperback

'There is no harm in a man's cub.' Best known for the 'Mowgli' stories, Rudyard Kipling's The Ju… read more

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  • classics
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Mark my trail..."

-Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book

"Each dog barks in its own yard."

-Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book

"Go, and peace go with thee. Only, another time do not meddle with my game."

-Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book

"It is better to lie quiet in the mud than to be disturbed on good bedding."

-Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book

20. Sh*t My Dad Says

By: Justin Halpern

3.90

Format: None pages, Hardcover

After being dumped by his longtime girlfriend, twenty-eight-year-old Justin Halpern found himself l… read more

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21. The Odyssey

By: Homer , Robert Fagles , Bernard Knox , E.V. Rieu , None

3.53

Format: 349 pages, Paperback

Literature's grandest evocation of life's journey, at once an ageless human story and an individual… read more

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22. The October Country

By: Ray Bradbury

4.24

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Ray Bradbury's second short story collection is back in print, its chilling encounters with funhous… read more

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23. 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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24. 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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25. The Iliad

By: Homer

3.91

Format: 848 pages, Hardcover

One of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer's Iliad tells the story of the darkes… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"I say no wealth is worth my life."

-Homer, The Iliad

"These were the colloquies in heaven."

-Homer, The Iliad

"The sort of words a man says is the sort he hears in return."

-Homer, The Iliad

"Antilochus! You're the most appalling driver in the world! Go to hell!"

-Homer, The Iliad

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26. Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up

By: Abigail Shrier

4.06

Format: 350 pages, Kindle Edition

In virtually every way that can be measured, Gen Z's mental health is worse than that of previous g… read more

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  • audiobook
"Children’s and adolescents’ sense of self is still developing. They cannot correct the interpretations or recommendations of a therapist."

-Abigail Shrier, Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up

"When I agreed with my therapist, I told her so. When I didn’t, we talked about that. And when I felt I needed to move on, I did. Which is to say: I was an adult in therapy. I had swum life’s choppy w…"

-Abigail Shrier, Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up

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27. Panenka

By: Ronan Hession

4.01

Format: 164 pages, Hardcover

His name was Joseph, but for years they had called him Panenka, a name that was his sadness and his… read more

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  • fiction
"But isn't that what allowing yourself be loved is all about -- letting something greater than fear into your life?"

-Ronan Hession, Panenka

"To him love was no union between two otherwise incomplete halves, but more like the gravity that locked two bodies into the same orbit"

-Ronan Hession, Panenka

"Life should always be like that. Resting safely, with someone looking over you, attending to the little indulgences that loved people enjoy"

-Ronan Hession, Panenka

"Aren't you afraid of failing? Letting everyone down?' Esther thought about it. 'Maybe it's important that other people learn how to handle disappointment."

-Ronan Hession, Panenka

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28. Fierce Fairytales: Poems and Stories to Stir Your Soul

By: Nikita Gill

4.02

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Poet, writer, and Instagram sensation Nikita Gill returns with a collection of fairytales poeticall… read more

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  • poetry
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"That idea...it was you. You are the universe’s fairytale come true."

-Nikita Gill, Fierce Fairytales: Poems and Stories to Stir Your Soul

"She wears strength and darkness equally well, The girl has always been half goddess, half hell"

-Nikita Gill, Fierce Fairytales: Poems and Stories to Stir Your Soul

"They pull at a thread of pain left by someone in your mind, and sew an entire ghost out of you."

-Nikita Gill, Fierce Fairytales: Poems and Stories to Stir Your Soul

"Out there may be monsters, my dear. But in you still lives the dragon you should always believe in."

-Nikita Gill, Fierce Fairytales: Poems and Stories to Stir Your Soul

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29. Selected Letters

By: Marcus Tullius Cicero

4.00

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

The greatest orator in Roman history, Marcus Tullius Cicero remained one of the republic's chief su… read more

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  • classics
"Nemo est qui tibi sapientius suadere possit te ipso: numquam labere, si te audies. ( Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself: if you heed yourself, you'll never go wrong. )"

-Marcus Tullius Cicero, Selected Letters

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30. Beowulf: Translated by Seamus Heaney

By: Unknown

3.67

Format: None pages, Audio CD

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16 Best fiction books like Beowulf: Translated by Seamus Heaney by Unknown

Transform Your Habits

How the Marquis Got His Coat Back

Neil Gaiman

4.05

Transform Your Habits

Dr. Faustus

Christopher Marlowe

3.80

Transform Your Habits

The Bacchae

Euripides , Kenneth McLeish , None

3.92

Transform Your Habits

The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

Robert Fagles , Aeschylus , William Bedell Stanford

4.01

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23 must-read classics books like The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

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Robinson Crusoe

Virginia Woolf , Daniel Defoe , Gerald McCann

3.68

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The Wind in the Willows

Kenneth Grahame , Gillian Avery

4.02

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The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

Howard Pyle

4.07

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Pinocchio

John Boyne , Unknown , Monteiro Lobato , Carlo Collodi

3.85

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