23 must-read classics books like Paradise Lost, Book 3 by John Milton

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Paradise Lost, Book 3

By: John Milton

3.49

Format: 474 pages, Hardcover

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

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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
  • classics
"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

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2. 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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  • poetry
  • classics
"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

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3. The Home and the World

By: Rabindranath Tagore , Anita Desai , Surendranath Tagore , None , William Radice

3.83

Format: 213 pages, Paperback

Set on a Bengali noble's estate in 1908, this is both a love story and a novel of political awakeni… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
"Mientras estemos en llamas, sepamos arder y bullir"

-Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World

"জীবনটাকে কেঁদে ভাসিয়ে দেওয়ার চেয়ে হেসে উড়িয়ে দেওয়াই ভালো।"

-Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World

"Hasta el océano de las lágrimas tiene otra orilla; si así no fuera, nadie habría llorado nunca"

-Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World

"When at last we have to die it will be time enough to get cold. While we are on fire let us seethe and boil."

-Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World

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4. Tamburlaine the Great

By: Christopher Marlowe

3.33

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

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  • classics
"Time passeth swift away; Our life is frail, and we may die to-day."

-Christopher Marlowe, Tamburlaine the Great

"Yet should there hover in their restless heads One thought, one grace, one wonder at the least, Which into words no virtue can digest."

-Christopher Marlowe, Tamburlaine the Great

"Nay, could their numbers countervail the stars, Or ever-drizzling drops of April showers, Or wither'd leaves that autumn shaketh down, Yet would the Soldan by his conquering power So scatter and cons…"

-Christopher Marlowe, Tamburlaine the Great

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5. A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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

3.95

Format: 298 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Shakespeare's intertwined love polygons begin to get complicated from the start--Demetrius and Lysa… read more

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  • poetry
"My soul is in the sky."

-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

"Farewell, sweet playfellow."

-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

"Lord, what fools these mortals be!"

-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

"Methought I was enamour'd of an ass."

-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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6. Waiting for Godot

By: Samuel Beckett

3.63

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Cuando en 1953 se estreno en Paris Esperando a Godot, casi nadie sabia quien era Samuel Beckett, sa… read more

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  • classics
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7. The Waste Land

By: T.S. Eliot , Michael North

3.80

Format: 245 pages, Paperback

The text of Eliot's 1922 masterpiece is accompanied by thorough explanatory annotations as well as … read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
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8. 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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  • poetry
  • classics
"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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9. Beowulf

By: Unknown , Seamus Heaney

3.49

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
"Fate will unwind as it must!"

-Unknown, Beowulf

"Fate goes ever as fate must."

-Unknown, Beowulf

"Let whoever can win glory before death."

-Unknown, Beowulf

"We all know a boy can't daddy until his daddy's dead."

-Unknown, Beowulf

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10. The Faerie Queene, Book One

By: Edmund Spenser , Andrew Hadfield , None , None , None

3.09

Format: None pages, Paperback

Framed in Spenser's distinctive, opulent stanza and in some of the trappings of epic, Book One of S… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
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11. Manuscript Found in a Bottle

By: Edgar Allan Poe

4.27

Format: 359 pages,

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  • classics
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12. A Tale of Two Cities

By: Charles Dickens , Hablot Knight Browne , Richard Maxwell

3.87

Format: 489 pages, Paperback

A Tale of Two Cities is Charles Dickens’s great historical novel, set against the violent upheaval … read more

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  • classics
"We'll start to forget a place once we left it"

-Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

"Tell the Wind and the Fire where to stop; not me."

-Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

"A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self."

-Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."

-Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

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13. A Descent into the Maelstrom

By: Edgar Allan Poe

3.98

Format: None pages,

Inspired by the Moskstraumen, it is couched as a story within a story, a tale told at the summit of… read more

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  • classics
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14. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

By: Mary Wollstonecraft , Miriam Brody , Bebi Fernández

3.50

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Writing in an age when the call for the rights of man had brought revolution to America and France,… read more

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  • classics
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15. Utopia

By: Paul Turner , Thomas More

3.55

Format: 113 pages, Paperback

In his most famous and controversial book, Utopia, Thomas More imagines a perfect island nation whe… read more

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  • classics
"The change of the word does not alter the matter"

-Paul Turner, Utopia

"Isn't this conception of absolute justice absolutely unjust?"

-Paul Turner, Utopia

"Dünyada kaygısız, rahat yürekle, sevinçle yaşamaktan daha büyük zenginlik olabilir mi?"

-Paul Turner, Utopia

"Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all."

-Paul Turner, Utopia

16. 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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17. 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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18. Persuasion

By: Jane Austen , James Kinsley , Deidre Shauna Lynch

4.15

Format: 249 pages, Paperback

Persuasion is Jane Austen's last completed novel. She began it soon after she had finished Emma, co… read more

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  • classics
"Time will explain."

-Jane Austen, Persuasion

"Give him a book, and he will read all day long."

-Jane Austen, Persuasion

"No one can withstand the charm of such a mystery."

-Jane Austen, Persuasion

"He had an affectionate heart.  He must love somebody."

-Jane Austen, Persuasion

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19. A Doll's House

By: Henrik Ibsen , Michael Meyer

3.76

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

A Doll's House (1879), is a masterpiece of theatrical craft which, for the first time portrayed the… read more

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  • classics
"Laughter's all the damned thing's fit for."

-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

"I must make up my mind which is right – society or I."

-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

"لن تفقدوني طويلاً، فالراحلون سرعان ما ينطوون في زوايا النسيان."

-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

"أنا ارى الناس صنفين .. صنف تعشقه المرأة، وصنف تحب أن تتجاذب معه أطراف الحديث."

-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

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20. 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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  • classics
"[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

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21. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

By: James Joyce , Seamus Deane

3.64

Format: 329 pages, Paperback

The portrayal of Stephen Dedalus's Dublin childhood and youth, his quest for identity through art a… read more

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  • classics
"My heart is quite calm now. I will go back."

-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

"God spoke to you by so many voices but you would not hear."

-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

"Are you not weary of ardent ways? Tell no more of enchanted days."

-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

"He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place."

-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

22. Heart of Darkness

By: Joseph Conrad

3.99

Format: 284 pages, Paperback

Marlow, a seaman and wanderer, recounts his physical and psychological journey in search of the inf… read more

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23. Aeneid Book VI: A New Verse Translation

By: Seamus Heaney , Virgil

4.60

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A masterpiece from one of the greatest poets of the century In a momentous publication, Seamus Hean… read more

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24. The Duchess of Malfi

By: John Webster

3.00

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

More widely studied and more frequently performed than ever before, John Webster's The Duchess of M… read more

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25. 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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26. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Oz, #1)

By: L. Frank Baum , W.W. Denslow

4.00

Format: 154 pages, Paperback

Come along, Toto, she said. We will go to the Emerald City and ask the Great Oz how to get back to … read more

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  • classics
"True courage is in facing danger when you are afraid..."

-L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Oz, #1)

"If we walk far enough," says Dorothy, "we shall sometime come to someplace."

-L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Oz, #1)

"El verdadero valor reside en enfrentarse al peligro aun cuando uno está asustado."

-L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Oz, #1)

"She is protected by the Power of Good, and that is greater than the Power of Evil."

-L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Oz, #1)

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27. 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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  • poetry
  • classics
"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

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28. Sohrab and Rustum

By: Matthew Arnold

3.85

Format: 76 pages, Paperback

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extreme… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
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29. Odyssey Books XIX and XX

By: Homer/Rutherford

4.15

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

The Odyssey, besides being one of the world's first and best adventure stories, is a poem of great … read more

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30. Paradise Lost, Book 3

By: John Milton

3.49

Format: 474 pages, Hardcover

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

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  • classics
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31. The Odyssey, Books 6-8 (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics)

By: Homer

4.45

Format: 380 pages, Paperback

This is the first self-contained edition of Books VI-VIII of the Odyssey--the account of Odysseus' … read more

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11 must-read poetry books like Paradise Lost, Book 3 by John Milton

Transform Your Habits

Antony and Cleopatra

William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine , Cynthia Marshall

3.71

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Dr. Faustus

Christopher Marlowe

3.80

Transform Your Habits

The Home and the World

Rabindranath Tagore , Anita Desai , Surendranath Tagore , None , William Radice

3.83

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream

William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine , Catherine Belsey

3.95

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18 Best classics books like Tamburlaine the Great by Christopher Marlowe

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The Roaring Girl

Thomas Dekker , Thomas Middleton , Elizabeth Cook

3.41

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William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine , Cynthia Marshall

3.71

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Arden of Faversham

Anonymous , Unknown , Martin White , Tom Lockwood

3.47

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Christopher Marlowe

3.33

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