7 Best history books like The story of Abraham Lincoln by Mary Agnes Hamilton

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The story of Abraham Lincoln

By: Mary Agnes Hamilton

3.57

Format: 148 pages, Paperback

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections…

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1. The Art of Money Getting: Golden Rules for Making Money

By: P.T. Barnum

3.80

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

The Art of Money Getting was written by P. T. Barnum, who is widely known as an important historica… read more

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  • history
"Let your motto then always be 'Excelsior', for by living up to it there is no such word as fail."

-P.T. Barnum, The Art of Money Getting: Golden Rules for Making Money

"Go in confidence, study the rules, and above all things, study human nature for the proper study of mankind is man and you will find that while expanding the intellect and the muscles your enlarged e…"

-P.T. Barnum, The Art of Money Getting: Golden Rules for Making Money

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2. Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

By: Neil Postman , Andrew Postman

4.15

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

Television has conditioned us to tolerate visually entertaining material measured out in spoonfuls … read more

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  • history
"The written word endures, the spoken word disappears"

-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

"We rarely talk about television, only about what’s on television"

-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

"Writing is defined as "a conversation with no one and yet with everyone."

-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

"With television, we vault ourselves into a continuous, incoherent present."

-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

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3. Testament of Youth

By: Vera Brittain , Mark Bostridge

4.10

Format: 688 pages, Paperback

Much of what we know and feel about the First World War we owe to Vera Brittain's elegiac yet unspa… read more

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  • history
  • biography
" The Lament of the Demobilised “Four Years,"

-Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth

"I look wildly for facts and I can only find arguments."

-Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth

"Als je eenmaal van de bergtop omlaag hebt gekeken, is het moeilijk om tevreden in de vallei te blijven..."

-Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth

"I know of no place where the wind can be as icy and the damp so penetrating as in Oxford round about Easter time."

-Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth

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4. The Secret Adversary (Tommy and Tuppence Mysteries, #1)

By: Agatha Christie

3.85

Format: 266 pages, Paperback

Tommy Beresford and Prudence 'Tuppence' Cowley are young, in love… and flat broke. Just after Great… read more

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"It's dangerous to know too much."

-Agatha Christie, The Secret Adversary (Tommy and Tuppence Mysteries, #1)

"Youth is a failing only too easily outgrown."

-Agatha Christie, The Secret Adversary (Tommy and Tuppence Mysteries, #1)

"Shades of Pelmanism!’ said Tommy, and relapsed into silence."

-Agatha Christie, The Secret Adversary (Tommy and Tuppence Mysteries, #1)

"Never tell all you know-not even to the person you know best."

-Agatha Christie, The Secret Adversary (Tommy and Tuppence Mysteries, #1)

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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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"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. The Importance of Being Earnest

By: Oscar Wilde

2.50

Format: None pages,

Oscar Wilde's madcap farce about mistaken identities, secret engagements, and lovers entanglements … read more

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7. The Chimes

By: Charles Dickens

3.54

Format: 230 pages,

"The Chimes" is Charles Dickens 1844 novella that concerns the disillusionment of Toby "Trotty" Vec… read more

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8. The Sign of Four

By: Arthur Conan Doyle , Peter Ackroyd , Ed Glinert

4.00

Format: 162 pages, Paperback

As a dense yellow fog swirls through the streets of London, a deep melancholy has descended on Sher… read more

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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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"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. Geronimo: My Life

By: S.M. Barrett , Geronimo

4.64

Format: None pages, Paperback

In this, one of Native American history's most extraordinary documents, a legendary warrior and sha… read more

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  • history
  • biography
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11. Silas Marner

By: George Eliot

3.68

Format: 262 pages, Paperback

Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe is the third novel by George Eliot, published in 1861. An outwa… read more

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"Love once, love always"

-George Eliot, Silas Marner

"Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand."

-George Eliot, Silas Marner

"Hurt, he'll never be hurt--he's made to hurt other people."

-George Eliot, Silas Marner

"Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings."

-George Eliot, Silas Marner

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12. Third Girl (Hercule Poirot, #35)

By: Agatha Christie

3.78

Format: 377 pages, Paperback

Poirot is approached by a girl who shared a flat with two other girls in London. She is convinced s… read more

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13. At Bertram's Hotel (Miss Marple, #11)

By: Agatha Christie

3.78

Format: 377 pages, Paperback

An old-fashioned London Hotel is not quite as reputable as it makes out! When Miss Marple comes up … read more

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14. The Invisible Man

By: H.G. Wells , Дмитро Паламарчук

3.64

Format: 192 pages, Mass Market Paperback

This masterpiece of science fiction is the fascinating story of Griffin, a scientist who creates a … read more

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"But giving drugs to a cat is no joke, Kemp!"

-H.G. Wells, The Invisible Man

"I never blame anyone," said Kemp. "It's quite out of fashion."

-H.G. Wells, The Invisible Man

"Very well," said the Voice, in a tone of relief. "Then I'm going to throw flints at you till you think differently."

-H.G. Wells, The Invisible Man

"And there it was, on a shabby bed in a tawdry, ill-lighted bedroom, surrounded by a crowd of ignorant and excited people, broken and wounded, betrayed and unpitied, that Griffin, the first of all men…"

-H.G. Wells, The Invisible Man

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15. Joy in the Morning (Jeeves, #8)

By: P.G. Wodehouse

3.33

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Follow the adventures of Bertie Wooster and his gentleman's gentleman, Jeeves, in this stunning new… read more

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16. Swallows and Amazons (Swallows and Amazons, #1)

By: Arthur Ransome

4.01

Format: 315 pages, Paperback

The first title in Arthur Ransome's classic series, originally published in 1930: for children, for… read more

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"Better drowned than duffers, if not duffers won't drown."

-Arthur Ransome, Swallows and Amazons (Swallows and Amazons, #1)

"But the big hills up at the lake helped to make him feel that the houseboat man did not matter. The hills had been there before Captain Flint. They would be there for ever. That, somehow was comforti…"

-Arthur Ransome, Swallows and Amazons (Swallows and Amazons, #1)

17. A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story

By: Linda Sue Park

4.01

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A Long Walk to Waterbegins as two stories, told in alternating sections, about a girl in Sudan in 2… read more

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18. The Communist Manifesto

By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Gareth Stedman Jones

3.66

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A rousing call to arms whose influence is still felt today Originally published on the eve of th… read more

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  • history
"The bourgeois sees in his wife a mere instrument of production."

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

"Study of the past often turns into love of the past and a desire to keep it."

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

"Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps"

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

"The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all."

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

19. A Morbid Taste for Bones (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #1)

By: Ellis Peters

4.39

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Ellis Peters' introduction to the murderous medieval world of Brother Cadfael... A Morbid Taste for… read more

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20. A Christmas Carol

By: Charles Dickens

4.08

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

'If I had my way, every idiot who goes around with Merry Christmas on his lips, would be boiled wit… read more

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"Hallo, my fine fellow!"

-Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

"God bless us, every one!"

-Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

"And how did little Tim behave?"

-Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

"Marley was dead: to begin with."

-Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

21. Your Invisible Power: A Presentation of the Mental Science of Thomas Troward

By: Geneviève Behrend

4.08

Format: None pages, Paperback

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1921 Edition. read more

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22. All Quiet on the Western Front

By: Erich Maria Remarque , A.W. Wheen

5.00

Format: 172 pages, Mass Market Paperback

This is the testament of Paul Baumer, who enlists with his classmates in the German army of World W… read more

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23. The Story of My Life

By: Helen Keller

3.88

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

An American classic rediscovered by each generation, The Story of My Lifeis Helen Keller's account … read more

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24. Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There

By: Lewis Carroll , John Tenniel , Peter Glassman

3.46

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

In 1865, English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898), aka Lewis Carroll, wrote a fantastica… read more

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25. The Little Duke

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

4.13

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful sca… read more

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  • history
  • biography

26. Death in a White Tie (Roderick Alleyn, #7)

By: Ngaio Marsh

3.46

Format: None pages, Paperback

A body in the back of a taxi begins an elegantly constructed mystery, perhaps the finest of Marsh's… read more

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27. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

4.21

Format: 539 pages, Hardcover

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes are overshadowed by the event with which they close - the meeting of… read more

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28. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

By: Lewis Carroll

4.00

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Chris Riddell's brilliant new full-colour illustrated Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland in a sumptuo… read more

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"it's only a dream"

-Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

"How long is forever? Sometimes just one second"

-Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

"Sometimes, I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."

-Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

"what is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?"

-Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

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29. Midwinter Murder: Fireside Tales from the Queen of Mystery

By: Agatha Christie

3.83

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

An all-new collection of winter-themed stories from the Queen of Mystery, just in time for the holi… read more

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30. The story of Abraham Lincoln

By: Mary Agnes Hamilton

3.57

Format: 148 pages, Paperback

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections… read more

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  • history
  • biography

14 must-read fiction books like The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

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Pygmalion

George Bernard Shaw

3.89

Transform Your Habits

A Streetcar Named Desire

Tennessee Williams

3.98

Transform Your Habits

The Yellow Wall-Paper

Charlotte Perkins Gilman , Elaine R. Hedges , Elaine Hedges

4.08

Transform Your Habits

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3.95

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