Troilus and Criseyde (Oxford Guides to Chaucer)
By: Barry Windeatt
4.02
Format: 414 pages, Paperback
The Oxford Guides to Chaucer are written to summarize what is known about his works and offer inter…
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1. Antony and Cleopatra
By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine , Cynthia Marshall
3.71
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
A romantic tragedy about the relationship between Mark Antony and the Queen of Egypt, including not… read more
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- poetry
"Melt Egypt into Nile!"-William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra
"Make death proud to take us."-William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra
"...make death proud to take us."-William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra
"Thou are the armourer of my heart—"-William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra
2. To the Lighthouse
By: Virginia Woolf
3.80
Format: 209 pages, Paperback
The serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children and assor… read more
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"I have had my vision."-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
"[...] there was only the sound of the sea."-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
"Well, we must wait for the future to show."-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
"The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare."-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
3. 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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"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
4. The Way of the World
By: William Congreve
3.31
Format: 124 pages, Paperback
This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful sca… read more
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"One no more owes one's beauty to a lover than one's wit to an echo"-William Congreve, The Way of the World
5. Troilus and Criseyde
By: Geoffrey Chaucer , Nevill Coghill
3.76
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Considered one of Chaucer’s finest poems, second only to The Canterbury Tales in richness and depth… read more
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- poetry
- medieval
"And after winter folweth grene May."-Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde
"The very eyeballs in your skull look dead."-Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde
"Not knowing, in his misery, for the nonce, What he was doing, he rushed away at once"-Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde
"Thus in this heaven he took his delight And smothered her with kisses upon kisses Till gradually he came to know where bliss is."-Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde
6. Henry V
By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine
4.00
Format: 126 pages, Paperback
Henry Vis Shakespeare's most famous "war play"; it includes the storied English victory over the Fr… read more
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7. H is for Hawk
By: Helen Macdonald
3.65
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Obsession, madness, memory, myth, and history combine to achieve a distinctive blend of nature writ… read more
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8. The Leopard
By: Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa , Archibald Colquhoun
4.01
Format: 319 pages, Paperback
The Sicilian prince Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa (1896-1957) died just after writing The Leopard, h… read more
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"While there’s death there’s hope"-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard
"Cambiare tutto perché niente cambi."-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard
"La eternidad amorosa dura pocos años."-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard
"Nothing could be decently hated except eternity."-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard
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10. 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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11. The History of Mary Prince: A West Indian Slave Narrative
By: Mary Prince
4.11
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Born in Bermuda to a house slave in 1788, Mary Prince suffered the first of many soul-shattering ex… read more
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12. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
By: Unknown , None , Burton Raffel
4.50
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
Written by an anonymous 14th-century poet, this epic poem is recognized as an equal of Chaucer's ma… read more
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13. 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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14. Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded
By: Samuel Richardson , Thomas Keymer , Alice Wakely
3.97
Format: 12 pages, Paperback
One of the most spectacular successes of the flourishing literary marketplace of eighteenth-century… read more
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15. The Winter's Tale
By: William Shakespeare
4.75
Format: 14 pages, Paperback
The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emph… read more
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16. 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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17. Paradise Lost
By: John Milton , John Leonard
3.84
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
John Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. It tells the… read more
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"What hath night to do with sleep?"-John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Solitude sometimes is best society."-John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n."-John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss."-John Milton, Paradise Lost
18. Baumgartner
By: Paul Auster
3.78
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A taut yet expansive novel of love, memory, and grief from Paul Auster, best-selling, award-winning… read more
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"Vivir es sentir dolor, y vivir con miedo al dolor es negarse a vivir"-Paul Auster, Baumgartner
"To live is to feel pain, he told himself, and to live in fear of pain is to refuse to live."-Paul Auster, Baumgartner
"at some point in the coming years, the two books should be combined and reconfigured into a large, one-volume collected poems—a monument of singing pages that will overwhelm the silence of Anna’s gra…"-Paul Auster, Baumgartner
"the story turns out to be so astounding and so powerful that your jaw drops open and you feel that it has changed or enhanced or deepened your understanding of the world, does it matter if the story …"-Paul Auster, Baumgartner
19. The List of Suspicious Things
By: Jennie Godfrey
4.29
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
'What if we decided to try and find him?' 'What on earth are you on about?' she said. 'How are w… read more
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20. Portrait of a Thief
By: Grace D. Li
3.46
Format: 375 pages, Hardcover
Ocean’s Eleven meets The Farewell in Portrait of a Thief, a lush, lyrical heist novel inspired by t… read more
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"We’re children of the diaspora,"-Grace D. Li, Portrait of a Thief
"Art could be beauty, but it was also power."-Grace D. Li, Portrait of a Thief
"She had never liked anything she did not excel at."-Grace D. Li, Portrait of a Thief
"For all that people in power claim to care about looting, it doesn't seem to matter when it's museums doing it."-Grace D. Li, Portrait of a Thief
21. Troilus and Criseyde (Oxford Guides to Chaucer)
By: Barry Windeatt
4.02
Format: 414 pages, Paperback
The Oxford Guides to Chaucer are written to summarize what is known about his works and offer inter… read more
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- poetry
- medieval
- reference
- literary criticism
