8 Best school books like De Monfort by Joanna Baillie

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De Monfort

By: Joanna Baillie

3.12

Format: 88 pages, ebook

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Cover of Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë, Angeline Goreau

1. Agnes Grey

By: Anne Brontë , Angeline Goreau

3.71

Format: 226 pages, Paperback

An alternate cover edition can be found here. Drawing heavily from personal experience, Anne Bro… read more

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  • classics
"Dakle,"

-Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey

"No one cares for the exterior."

-Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey

"But, God knows best, I concluded."

-Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey

"If you require perfection, you never will"

-Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey

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2. The Woman in White

By: Wilkie Collins , Matthew Sweet

4.01

Format: 672 pages, Paperback

Librarian note: Alternate covers can be found here and here. 'In one moment, every drop of blood… read more

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  • classics
"I am a bundle of nerves dressed up to look like a man!"

-Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

"... our endurance must end, and our resistance begin, to-day."

-Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

"You don’t have to speak at all— I know what you’d say… - Laura"

-Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

"My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody."

-Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

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3. The Castle of Otranto

By: Horace Walpole

3.18

Format: 125 pages, Paperback

First published pseudonymously in 1764, The Castle of Otranto purported to be a translation of an I… read more

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  • classics
"My soul abhors a falsehood"

-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto

"This life is but a pilgrimage."

-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto

"Heaven mocks the short-sighted views of man."

-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto

"I fear no bad angel, and have offended no good one."

-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto

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4. Manfred

By: Lord Byron

3.79

Format: 84 pages, Paperback

Manfred contains supernatural elements, in keeping with the popularity of the ghost story in Englan… read more

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  • classics
  • plays
  • romanticism
"Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most must mourn the deepest o’er the fatal truth, the Tree of Knowledge is not that of Life."

-Lord Byron, Manfred

"The stars are forth, the moon above the tops Of the snow-shining mountains.—Beautiful! I linger yet with Nature, for the night Hath been to me a more familiar face Than that of man; and in her starry…"

-Lord Byron, Manfred

"The mind which is immortal makes itself Requital for its good or evil thoughts, Is its own origin of ill and end, And its own place and time; its innate sense, When stripped of this mortality, derive…"

-Lord Byron, Manfred

"There is an order Of mortals on the earth, who do become Old in their youth, and die ere middle age, Without the violence of warlike death; Some perishing of pleasure, some of study, Some worn with t…"

-Lord Byron, Manfred

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5. Mrs. Dalloway

By: Virginia Woolf , Maureen Howard

3.79

Format: 194 pages, Hardcover

Heralded as Virginia Woolf's greatest novel, this is a vivid portrait of a single day in a woman's … read more

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  • classics
  • school
"Life stand still here."

-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

"To love makes one solitary."

-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

"What a lark! What a plunge!"

-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

"What does the brain matter compared with the heart?"

-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

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6. Wide Sargasso Sea

By: Jean Rhys

3.59

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Wide Sargasso Sea, a masterpiece of modern fiction, was Jean Rhys’s return to the literary center s… read more

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  • classics
  • school
"When trouble comes, close ranks"

-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea

"I thought I'd try to write her a life"

-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea

"Have all beautiful things sad destinies?"

-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea

"I thought if I told no one it might not be true."

-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea

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7. Confessions of an English Opium Eater

By: Thomas de Quincey , Barry Milligan

4.00

Format: 50 pages, Paperback

A masterpiece of autobiography, and perhaps the first literary memoir of an addict, the Penguin Cla… read more

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  • classics
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8. The Black Cat

By: Edgar Allan Poe

3.40

Format: 300 pages,

"The Black Cat" is one of Edgar Allan Poe's most memorable stories. The tale centers around a black… read more

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  • classics
  • school
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9. A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

By: Adam Phillips , Edmund Burke

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

An eloquent and sometimes even erotic book, the Philosophical Enquiry was long dismissed as a piece… read more

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  • classics
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10. Lover's Vows

By: Elizabeth Inchbald , August von Kotzebue

4.10

Format: 668 pages, Paperback

Lover's Vows (1798) was featured by Jane Austen in her novel Mansfield Park, is one of at least fou… read more

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  • classics
  • plays

11. My Ántonia

By: Willa Cather

4.07

Format: 242 pages, Paperback

Through Jim Burden's endearing, smitten voice, we revisit the remarkable vicissitudes of immigrant … read more

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  • classics
  • school
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12. Zofloya

By: Charlotte Dacre

4.04

Format: None pages, Paperback

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  • classics
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13. Christabel

By: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

4.37

Format: 224 pages,

Christabel is a long narrative poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, in two parts. The story of Christab… read more

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  • classics
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14. As You Like It

By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine

3.59

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

As You Like Itis a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1599 or … read more

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  • plays
  • classics
  • school

15. 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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16. The Chosen

By: Chaim Potok

3.89

Format: 384 pages,

Few stories offer more warmth, wisdom or generosity than this tale of two boys, their fathers, thei… read more

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17. Carmilla

By: J. Sheridan Le Fanu

3.86

Format: 108 pages, Paperback

In an isolated castle deep in the Austrian forest, Laura leads a solitary life with only her ailing… read more

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  • classics
"Love will have its sacrifices. No sacrifice without blood."

-J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

"You are mine, you shall be mine, you and I are one for ever."

-J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

"If your dear heart is wounded, my wild heart bleeds with yours."

-J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

"Darling, darling. I live in you, and you would die for me. I love you so."

-J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

18. The Monk

By: None

4.71

Format: None pages, Paperback

Set in the sinister monastery of the Capuchins in Madrid, this is a violent tale of ambition, murde… read more

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19. 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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20. Houseboy

By: Ferdinand Oyono , John Reed

4.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

Toundi Ondoua, the rural African protagonist of Houseboy, encounters a world of prisms that cast be… read more

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21. The Lonely Londoners

By: Sam Selvon

3.82

Format: 287 pages, Paperback

From the brilliant, sharp, witty pen of Sam Selvon, his classic award-winning novel of immigrant li… read more

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22. Bonjour tristesse

By: Françoise Sagan

3.72

Format: 154 pages, Mass Market Paperback

(English follows French) La villa est magnifique, l'été brûlant, la Méditerranée toute proche. C… read more

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  • classics
"Je serais intelligente, cultivée, un peu détachée, comme Anne."

-Françoise Sagan, Bonjour tristesse

"Il est très vaniteux ou très peu sûr de lui, comme vous voulez."

-Françoise Sagan, Bonjour tristesse

"Bet juk taip malonu paklusti savo impulsams, o paskui gailėtis..."

-Françoise Sagan, Bonjour tristesse

"Et de plus, Cyril m'aimait ... cette pensée suffisait à mon euphorie."

-Françoise Sagan, Bonjour tristesse

23. Adonais

By: Percy Bysshe Shelley

4.43

Format: 250 pages,

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24. The Island of Dr. Moreau

By: H.G. Wells

4.67

Format: 46 pages, Paperback

Ranked among the classic novels of the English language and the inspiration for several unforgettab… read more

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25. The Cenci

By: Percy Bysshe Shelley

3.77

Format: None pages,

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26. Frankenstein: The 1818 Text

By: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

3.87

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

This is a previously-published edition of ISBN 9780143131847. Mary Shelley's seminal novel of t… read more

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  • classics
  • school
"I am malicious because I am miserable"

-Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein: The 1818 Text

"One wondering thought pollutes the day"

-Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein: The 1818 Text

"I looked upon the sea, it was to be my grave"

-Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein: The 1818 Text

"If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!"

-Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein: The 1818 Text

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27. The Last White Man

By: Mohsin Hamid

3.44

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times -bestselling author of Exit West , a story of love, loss, and rediscovery i… read more

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"…the way people act around you, it changes what you are, who you are."

-Mohsin Hamid, The Last White Man

"If he stayed, it would not be for them--need not be for them--but for himself. And yet each day he did stay. Bored and tense, true, but he stayed. And he discovered thereby how badly he wanted to sta…"

-Mohsin Hamid, The Last White Man

"Online you could form your own opinion of what was going on and your opinion was, likely as not, different from the next person's, and there was no real way to determine which of you was right, and t…"

-Mohsin Hamid, The Last White Man

"Anders knew he would soon lose his father, and that impending loss seemed more concrete now, more real, not like air but like a door or a wall, something you could bang against, bang into, and of cou…"

-Mohsin Hamid, The Last White Man

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28. Macbeth

By: William Shakespeare

3.89

Format: None pages, Paperback

What he hears will change everything. Egged on by his wife, he decides to kill in order to gain the… read more

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  • plays
  • classics
  • school
"What, you egg?"

-William Shakespeare, Macbeth

"What's done, is done"

-William Shakespeare, Macbeth

"What's done cannot be undone."

-William Shakespeare, Macbeth

"And nothing is, but what is not."

-William Shakespeare, Macbeth

Cover of Beppo: Uma história veneziana by Lord Byron

29. Beppo: Uma história veneziana

By: Lord Byron

3.59

Format: 170 pages, Paperback

Libro usado en buenas condiciones, por su antiguedad podria contener señales normales de uso read more

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  • romanticism
"It glides along the water looking blackly, Just like a coffin clapt in a canoe, Where none can make out what you say or do."

-Lord Byron, Beppo: Uma história veneziana

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30. De Monfort

By: Joanna Baillie

3.12

Format: 88 pages, ebook

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  • classics
  • school
  • grad school
  • romanticism
  • plays
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31. Casa Guidi Windows

By: Elizabeth Barrett Browning

3.52

Format: None pages, Hardcover

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Agnes Grey

Anne Brontë , Angeline Goreau

3.71

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Wilkie Collins , Matthew Sweet

4.01

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3.18

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4.15

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3.89

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