11 must-read fiction books like Sketches of Young Ladies, Young Gentlemen, and Young Couples by Charles Dickens

Cover of Sketches of Young Ladies, Young Gentlemen, and Young Couples by Charles Dickens

Sketches of Young Ladies, Young Gentlemen, and Young Couples

By: Charles Dickens

3.70

Format: 324 pages, Paperback

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge…

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Cover of Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy, Tim Dolin, Margaret R. Higonnet

1. Tess of the D’Urbervilles

By: Thomas Hardy , Tim Dolin , Margaret R. Higonnet

3.83

Format: 518 pages, Paperback

Alternate covers can be found here and here. When Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty t… read more

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  • victorian
  • historical
  • classics
  • fiction
"Bless thy simplicity, Tess"

-Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles

"One thing he certainly was— sincere."

-Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles

"The roof was a gymnasium for the winds"

-Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles

"Tess was carried along the wings of the hours"

-Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles

Cover of Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke, Franz Xaver Kappus, Reginald Snell

2. Letters to a Young Poet

By: Rainer Maria Rilke , Franz Xaver Kappus , Reginald Snell

4.29

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

In 1903, a student at a military academy sent some of his verses to a well-known Austrian poet, req… read more

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  • classics
"Everything is gestation and then birthing."

-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

"Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. ...live in the question."

-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

"A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it."

-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

"Perhaps all dragons in our lives are really princesses just waiting to see us just once being beautiful and courageous."

-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

Cover of Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville

3. Bartleby the Scrivener

By: Herman Melville

3.93

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Academics hail it as the beginning of modernism, but to readers around the world—even those daunted… read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
"I would prefer not to."

-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

"To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain."

-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

"Bartleby in a singularly mild, firm voice, replied, “I would prefer not to."

-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

"At present I would prefer not to be a little reasonable,' was his mildly cadaverous reply."

-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

Cover of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald

4. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

By: F. Scott Fitzgerald

3.34

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Today, F. Scott Fitzgerald is known for his novels, but in his lifetime, his fame stemmed from his … read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
Cover of Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde

5. Lady Windermere's Fan

By: Oscar Wilde

3.66

Format: 146 pages, Paperback

Beautiful, aristocratic, an adored wife and young mother, Lady Windermere is 'a fascinating puritan… read more

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  • classics
  • humor
  • fiction

6. The Prophet

By: Kahlil Gibran

4.01

Format: 511 pages, Paperback

Kahlil Gibran's masterpiece, The Prophet, is one of the most beloved classics of our time. Publishe… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
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7. The Three Strangers

By: Thomas Hardy

4.04

Format: 9 pages,

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • short stories

8. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

By: Laurence Sterne , Melvyn New

3.90

Format: 256 pages,

Laurence Sterne's great masterpiece of bawdy humour and rich satire defies any attempt to categoriz… read more

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9. Budapeste

By: Chico Buarque

4.03

Format: 606 pages, paperback

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10. A Group of Noble Dames

By: Thomas Hardy

3.86

Format: None pages, Paperback

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11. My Father as I Recall Him

By: Mamie Dickens

3.56

Format: None pages,

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12. The Fall of the House of Usher

By: Edgar Allan Poe

3.87

Format: 36 pages, Paperback

Take the plunge. Dive into this classic from the singular mind of Edgar Allan Poe, who is widely re… read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
"[Son] cœur est un luth suspendu; Sitôt qu'on le touche il résonne. — De Béranger "

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher

"A cadaverousness of complexion; an eye large, liquid and very luminous...finely molded chin, speaking, in its want of prominence, of a want of moral energy."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher

"It was, perhaps, the narrow limits to which he thus confined himself upon the guitar, which gave birth, in great measure, to the fantastic character of his performances."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher

"Er is geen twijfel mogelijk dat mijn bewustzijn van de snelle groei van mijn bijgeloof (want waarom zou ik het niet zo noemen?) de groei alleen maar scheen te versnellen. Dat is, zoals ik al lange ti…"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher

13. The Frozen Deep

By: Wilkie Collins

4.40

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

Exchanging vows of love with sailor Frank Aldersley the night before his departure, Clara Burnham i… read more

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14. The Book of Imaginary Beings

By: Jorge Luis Borges , Peter Sís , Andrew Hurley , Margarita Guerrero

0.00

Format: 400 pages,

Jorge Luis Borges is generally acknowledged to be not only the greatest living writer in the Spanis… read more

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15. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

By: Gustave Doré , Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1.75

Format: 134 pages, Paperback

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner(originally "The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere") is the longest major… read more

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16. The Crime of Father Amaro

By: Margaret Jull Costa , Eça de Queirós

3.95

Format: 132 pages, Paperback

Eca de Queirs's novel is a lurid satire of clerical corruption in a town in Portugal during a perio… read more

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17. The Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion

By: Thomas Hardy

4.67

Format: 523 pages, Paperback

It was nearly ninety years ago. The British uniform of the period, with its immense epaulettes, que… read more

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18. Far from the Madding Crowd

By: Thomas Hardy , Rosemarie Morgan , Shannon Russell

3.73

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . Independent and spirited Bathsh… read more

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19. The Withered Arm

By: Thomas Hardy , None

3.93

Format: 265 pages, Paperback

<<Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) publico catorce novelas, una cincuentena de cuentos y mas de mil poemas.… read more

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20. O Retorno

By: Dulce Maria Cardoso

4.29

Format: 271 pages, Hardcover

1975, Luanda. A descolonização instiga ódios e guerras. Os brancos debandam e em poucos meses chega… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
"Não há nada por que nos rirmos mas se nos rirmos não estamos sozinhos. A maneira de a directora falar não dá vontade de rir, se não estivéssemos nesta situação não nos teríamos começado a rir. Tempos…"

-Dulce Maria Cardoso, O Retorno

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21. The Cemetery of Untold Stories

By: Julia Alvarez

3.68

Format: 243 pages, Hardcover

Literary icon Julia Alvarez returns with an inventive and emotional novel about storytelling itself… read more

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  • fiction

22. The Son's Veto

By: Thomas Hardy

3.41

Format: 8 pages, None

As the strains proceeded many of the listeners observed the chaired lady, whose back hair, by reaso… read more

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  • short stories
  • classics
  • fiction
Cover of The Fiddler of the Reels by Thomas Hardy

23. The Fiddler of the Reels

By: Thomas Hardy

3.13

Format: 60 pages, Paperback

The Fiddler of the Reels and Other Stories (Dover Thrift Editions) by Thomas Hardy As popular today… read more

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  • short stories
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24. An Imaginative Woman

By: Thomas Hardy

3.73

Format: 36 pages, Paperback

A short story written by Thomas Hardy was published in Wessex Tales collection in 1888. Thomas Hard… read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
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25. To Please His Wife

By: Thomas Hardy

3.65

Format: None pages, Paperback

The interior of St. James's Church, in Havenpool Town, was slowly darkening under the close clouds … read more

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  • short stories
Cover of Sketches of Young Ladies, Young Gentlemen, and Young Couples by Charles Dickens

26. Sketches of Young Ladies, Young Gentlemen, and Young Couples

By: Charles Dickens

3.70

Format: 324 pages, Paperback

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge… read more

Similar categories in Charles Dickens's Sketches of Young Ladies, Young Gentlemen, and Young Couples book and Charles Dickens's Sketches of Young Ladies, Young Gentlemen, and Young Couples

  • classics
  • historical
  • humor
  • victorian
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • comedy
Cover of What the Shepherd Saw by Thomas Hardy

27. What the Shepherd Saw

By: Thomas Hardy

3.68

Format: 30 pages, Paperback

It might have been about eleven o'clock when he awoke. He was so surprised at awaking without, appa… read more

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  • short stories

12 Best classics books like Sketches of Young Ladies, Young Gentlemen, and Young Couples by Charles Dickens

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4.29

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Paulo Coelho , Alan R. Clarke , James Noel Smith

3.91

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4.02

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Fyodor Dostoevsky

4.06

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