11 best-selling classics books like Fragments by Sappho

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Fragments

By: Sappho

3.90

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Book by Sappho

"I desire And I crave."

-Sappho, Fragments

"I desire And I crave."

-Sappho, Fragments

"I desire And I crave."

-Sappho, Fragments

"I desire And I crave."

-Sappho, Fragments

If you liked the classics plot in Fragments by Sappho , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. Antología Poética

By: Alejandra Pizarnik

4.16

Format: 84 pages, Paperback

Spanish read more

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  • poetry
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2. The Canterville Ghost

By: Oscar Wilde , Inga Moore

3.88

Format: 126 pages, Hardcover

This is Oscar Wilde's tale of the American family moved into a British mansion, Canterville Chase, … read more

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  • classics
"Love is stronger than death is"

-Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost

"Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!"

-Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost

"You can have your secret as long as I have your heart[.]"

-Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost

"To his alert mind and ears, every experience was education."

-Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost

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3. Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

By: Anne Carson , Stesichorus

4.27

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

The award-winning poet Anne Carson reinvents a genre in Autobiography of Red, a stunning work that … read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
"Under the seams runs the pain."

-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

"There is no person without a world."

-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

"Don't want to be free want to be with you."

-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

"Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary."

-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

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4. The Lover

By: Marguerite Duras , Barbara Bray , Maxine Hong Kingston

3.72

Format: 117 pages, Paperback

Set against the backdrop of French colonial Vietnam, The Lover reveals the intimacies and intricaci… read more

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  • classics
"He says he’s lonely, horribly lonely because of this love he feels for her. She says she’s lonely too. She doesn’t say why."

-Marguerite Duras, The Lover

"The air was blue, you could hold it in your hand. Blue. The sky was the continual throbbing of the brilliance of the light."

-Marguerite Duras, The Lover

"When it's in a book I don't think it'll hurt any more ...exist any more. One of the things writing does is wipe things out. Replace them."

-Marguerite Duras, The Lover

"You didn't have to attract desire. Either it was in the woman who aroused it or it didn't exist. Either it was there at first glance or else it had never been."

-Marguerite Duras, The Lover

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5. Madame Bovary

By: Gustave Flaubert , Margaret Mauldon , Malcolm Bowie , Mark Overstall

3.70

Format: 329 pages, Paperback

Madame Bovary is the debut novel of French writer Gustave Flaubert, published in 1856. The characte… read more

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  • classics
"Every notary carries about inside him the debris of a poet."

-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

"Speech is a rolling-mill that always thins out the sentiment."

-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

"How oft the warmth of the sun above Makes a pretty young girl dream of love."

-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

"For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat."

-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

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6. In Praise of Shadows

By: Edward G. Seidensticker , Jun'ichirō Tanizaki , Thomas J. Harper , Charles Moore , None

4.75

Format: 335 pages, Paperback

An essay on aesthetics by the Japanese novelist, this book explores architecture, jade, food, and e… read more

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7. The Sorrows of Young Werther

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Burton Pike

3.73

Format: None pages, Paperback

Visiting an idyllic German village, Werther, a sensitive and romantic young man, meets and falls in… read more

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  • classics
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8. Upstream: Selected Essays

By: Mary Oliver

2.43

Format: None pages,

Comprising a selection of essays, Upstreamfinds beloved poet Mary Oliver reflecting on her astonish… read more

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  • poetry
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9. Derniers Remords Avant L'oubli

By: Jean-Luc Lagarce

4.05

Format: 144 pages,

Un dimanche a la campagne, Pierre, Paul et Helene, trois amis de jeunesse, se retrouvent avec leur … read more

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10. The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories

By: Carson McCullers

3.93

Format: None pages, Paperback

A classic work that has charmed generations of readers, this collection assembles Carson McCullers'… read more

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  • classics
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11. Faust: First Part

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Peter Salm

4.21

Format: None pages, Paperback

Goethe's masterpiece and perhaps the greatest work in German literature, Faust has made the legenda… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
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12. Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

By: Aeschylus , Patricia E. Easterling , John Harrison , Judith Affleck , None

3.83

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Treating ancient plays as living drama. Classical Greek drama is brought vividly to life in this se… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
"Every medicine is vain."

-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

"A curse burns bright on crime."

-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

"There is no avoidance in delay."

-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

"In war, the first casualty is truth."

-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

13. The High Queen (The Mists of Avalon, #2)

By: Marion Zimmer Bradley

3.76

Format: 205 pages, Audiobook

This imaginative return to the Arthurian legend as told from its pagan priestesses continues with B… read more

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14. Diary of a Madman

By: Nikolai Gogol

4.02

Format: 64 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (1809-1852), although Russian, was born in the village of Sorochyntsi in … read more

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  • classics
"Woman is in love with the devil."

-Nikolai Gogol, Diary of a Madman

"Today an extraordinary adventure took place"

-Nikolai Gogol, Diary of a Madman

"My heart is beating as though it were waiting for something."

-Nikolai Gogol, Diary of a Madman

"La gloire ne peut apporter de joie à qui l'a volée: elle ne fait palpiter que les cœurs dignes d'elle."

-Nikolai Gogol, Diary of a Madman

15. The Tempest

By: William Shakespeare

4.27

Format: 127 pages,

In The Tempest, long considered one of Shakespeare's most lyrical plays, Prospero--a magician on an… read more

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16. The Glass Menagerie

By: Tennessee Williams

4.90

Format: None pages, Paperback

The story of a mother, her son and daughter, and her daughter's suitor that brings to life human be… read more

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17. Selected Poems

By: John Donne

3.24

Format: 324 pages, Paperback

Rich selection of 73 works from the Songs and Sonnets, Elegies, Holy Sonnets and other verse forms … read more

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18. The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex/Oedipus at Colonus/Antigone (The Theban Plays, #1–3)

By: Sophocles , Robert Fitzgerald , Dudley Fitts , None

5.00

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

(1939 translation) read more

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19. The Young Man

By: Annie Ernaux

3.61

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Annie Ernaux's most recent book, dazzling and breat… read more

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20. Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.87

Format: 190 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER. The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road returns with the second v… read more

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"I would like to belong but I dont."

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

"The notion of nothing is an inconceivable notion"

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

"Love is quite possibly a mental disorder itself."

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

"Rage is only for what you believe can be fixed. All the rest is grief."

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

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21. Kairos

By: Jenny Erpenbeck

3.46

Format: 379 pages, Hardcover

Die neunzehnjährige Katharina und Hans, ein verheirateter Mann Mitte fünfzig, begegnen sich Ende de… read more

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"She would like a shallow life, swift and shallow, till some day she can start again. Get through her time fast until then. And when will that be? Then."

-Jenny Erpenbeck, Kairos

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22. Evil Flowers: Stories

By: Gunnhild Øyehaug

3.66

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed, award-winning author of Present Tense Machine and Knots, a collection of playfu… read more

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23. Om udregning af rumfang I

By: Solvej Balle

3.71

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

''Om udregning af rumfang I'' er første del af Solvej Balles roman i syv dele, der hører til i genr… read more

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24. Changer : méthode

By: Édouard Louis

4.31

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

« Une question s’est imposée au centre de ma vie, elle a concentré toutes mes réflexions, occupé to… read more

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25. Giæver og Iunker

By: Erlend Loe

3.86

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Gamle Giæver bruker sine siste dager på jorda til å orientere unge Giæver om familiehistorien, om p… read more

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26. Kvit, norsk mann

By: Brynjulf Jung Tjønn

4.53

Format: 93 pages, Hardcover

Kvit, norsk mann er ei samling vonde og kloke – men tidvis også morosame – dikt om norsk oppvekst o… read more

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  • poetry
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27. Odes (Ricardo Reis)

By: Fernando Pessoa

4.23

Format: 129 pages, Paperback

Ricardo Reis foi o segundo heterônimo criado por Fernando Pessoa, depois de Alberto Caeiro e antes … read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
"A vida passa e não fica, nada deixa e nunca regressa."

-Fernando Pessoa, Odes (Ricardo Reis)

"Só esta liberdade nos concedem Os deuses: submetermo-nos Ao seu domínio por vontade nossa. Mais vale assim fazermos Porque só na ilusão da liberdade A liberdade existe."

-Fernando Pessoa, Odes (Ricardo Reis)

"Não sei se é amor que tens, ou amor que finges, O que me dás. Dás-mo. Tanto me basta. Já que o não sou por tempo, Seja eu jovem por erro. Pouco os deuses nos dão, e o pouco é falso. Porém, se o dão, …"

-Fernando Pessoa, Odes (Ricardo Reis)

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28. Skinnende døde

By: Mazdak Shafieian

3.86

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

Det er år 1366 etter den iranske solkalenderen, og 1987 etter den gregorianske, og jeg er syv år, l… read more

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29. Innerst i hjertet har jeg min forstand. Biografien om Georg Johannesen.

By: Alfred Fidjestøl

4.29

Format: 592 pages, Hardcover

Ein mann på tvers av si samtid. Lyrikar Georg Johannesen kunne vere ein nådelaus polemikar som g… read more

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30. Fragments

By: Sappho

3.90

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

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  • poetry
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"I desire And I crave."

-Sappho, Fragments

"Dawn with arms of roses"

-Sappho, Fragments

"I am weary of all your words and soft, strange ways."

-Sappho, Fragments

"And with precious and royal perfume you anointed yourself."

-Sappho, Fragments

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Alejandra Pizarnik

4.16

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Anne Carson , Stesichorus

4.27

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Mary Oliver

2.43

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4.21

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3.95

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3.71

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Iida Turpeinen

4.38

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Saara Turunen

3.74

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