5 best-selling short stories books like The Miller's Prologue and Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer, James Winny

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The Miller's Prologue and Tale

By: Geoffrey Chaucer , James Winny

4.16

Format: 354 pages, Paperback

A well-established and respected series. Texts are in the original Middle English, and each has an …

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1. Everyman

By: Anonymous , Unknown

3.27

Format: 52 pages, Paperback

Everyman is a medieval morality play that was first performed in the late 15th century. The play te… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • school
  • read for school
  • fiction
  • medieval
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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
  • school
  • read for school
  • fiction
"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. A Rose for Emily

By: William Faulkner

3.83

Format: 36 pages, Paperback

Emily is a member of a family in the antebellum Southern aristocracy; after the Civil War, the fami… read more

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  • classics
  • school
  • read for school
  • short stories
  • fiction
"So the next day we all said, “She will kill herself"

-William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily

"She died in one of the downstairs rooms, in a heavy walnut bed with a curtain, her gray head propped on a pillow yellow and moldy with age and lack of sunlight."

-William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily

"When the Negro opened the blinds of one window, they could see that the leather was cracked; and when they sat down, a faint dust rose sluggishly about their thighs, spinning with slow motes in the s…"

-William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily

"We did not say she was crazy then. We believed she had to do that. We remembered all the young men her father had driven away, and we knew that with nothing left, she would have to cling to that whic…"

-William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily

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4. 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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  • poetry
  • classics
  • school
  • read for school
  • fiction
"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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5. Araby

By: James Joyce

3.65

Format: 25 pages, Kindle Edition

A short story from James Joyce's Dubliners. The unnamed protagonist in "Araby" is a boy who is just… read more

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  • classics
  • school
  • read for school
  • short stories
  • fiction
"My body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires."

-James Joyce, Araby

"What innumerable follies laid waste my waking and sleeping thoughts after that evening! I wished to annihilate the tedious intervening days. I chafed against the work of school. At night in my bedroo…"

-James Joyce, Araby

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6. Goblin Market

By: Joyce Carol Oates , William Morris , Laurence Housman , Christina Rossetti , Dante Gabriel Rossetti

3.82

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • fiction
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7. Astrophel and Stella

By: Philip Sidney

3.83

Format: 28 pages,

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • school
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8. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Cleanness, Patience

By: Unknown , J.J. Anderson , A.C. Cawley

3.89

Format: None pages, Paperback

For students of Middle English, Andrew and Waldronincluded on a CD-ROM at the back of the book for … read more

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  • poetry
  • medieval
  • classics
  • fiction
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9. Fantomina; or, Love in a Maze

By: Eliza Fowler Haywood

3.86

Format: 568 pages, Paperback

Eliza Haywood (1693-1756) (born Elizabeth Fowler) was an English writer, actress and publisher. Sin… read more

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  • classics
  • school
  • read for school
  • short stories
  • fiction
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10. Paradise Lost Book 1

By: John Milton

3.66

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

An epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton, Paradise Lost follows the… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • school
  • read for school
  • fiction
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11. 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
  • school
  • read for school
  • fiction
"Fate goes ever as fate must."

-Unknown, Beowulf

"Fate will unwind as it 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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12. Revelations of Divine Love

By: Julian of Norwich , A.C. Spearing , Elizabeth Spearing

4.20

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

One of the first woman authors, Julian of Norwich produced in Revelations of Divine Lovea remarkabl… read more

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  • medieval
  • classics
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13. The Miller's Prologue and Tale

By: Geoffrey Chaucer , James Winny

4.16

Format: 354 pages, Paperback

A well-established and respected series. Texts are in the original Middle English, and each has an … read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • school
  • read for school
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • medieval
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14. 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
  • school
  • read for school
  • fiction
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15. Le Lai de Lanval

By: Marie de France

3.44

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

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  • short stories
  • poetry
  • classics
  • school
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16. The Death of the Author

By: Roland Barthes

4.00

Format: 126 pages,

"The Death of the Author" is a 1967 essay by the French literary critic and theorist Roland Barthes… read more

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17. A Modest Proposal

By: Jonathan Swift

4.06

Format: 663 pages, Paperback

A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland From Being a Burden to Thei… read more

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18. 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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19. The Second Shepherd's Play

By: Wakefield Master

4.42

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Lisl Beer adapted this famous play from the Towley Manuscript of Old English. As observed in FaceBo… read more

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20. Songs of Innocence and of Experience

By: William Blake

4.09

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

Songs of Innocence and of Experience is an collection of poems by William Blake. Note: For a com… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • school
  • fiction
"Cruelty has a human heart, And Jealousy a human face;"

-William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience

"Then cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door."

-William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience

"And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires."

-William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience

"Can I see anothers woe, And not be in sorrow too. Can I see anothers grief, And not seek for kind relief. - On Anothers Sorrow "

-William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience

21. 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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22. Oroonoko

By: Aphra Behn , Janet Todd

3.78

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

When Prince Oroonoko's passion for the virtuous Imoinda arouses the jealousy of his grandfather, th… read more

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23. Cloud 9

By: Caryl Churchill

3.58

Format: 376 pages, Paperback

In colonial Africa, a Victorian English patrician represses the natives, his wife, his children, ho… read more

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24. The Rape of the Lock

By: Alexander Pope

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

A satirical poem that intentionally over-dramatizes an incident in which a lock of a woman's hair i… read more

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25. The Prelude

By: William Wordsworth

3.63

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

This book is the first to present Wordsworth's greatest poem in all three of its separate forms. It… read more

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26. The Mark on the Wall

By: Virginia Woolf

3.84

Format: 95 pages,

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27. Hero and Leander

By: Christopher Marlowe

3.74

Format: 70 pages, Paperback

Marlowe's unfinished masterpiece, as completed by George Chapman (1598). Includes an introduction a… read more

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28. 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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29. Paradise Lost, Book 9

By: John Milton , Steven Croft , Anna Baldwin

4.00

Format: None pages,

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30. Paradise Lost

By: John Milton , John Leonard

3.84

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

John Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. It tells the… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • school
  • fiction
"What hath night to do with sleep?"

-John Milton, Paradise Lost

"Solitude sometimes is best society."

-John Milton, Paradise Lost

"Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n."

-John Milton, Paradise Lost

"Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss."

-John Milton, Paradise Lost

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31. The Wife's Lament

By: Richard Hamer

3.49

Format: 4 pages, Paperback

The Wife's Lament is an Old English poem of 53 lines found in the Exeter Book and generally treated… read more

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  • poetry
  • medieval
  • classics
  • school

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Transform Your Habits

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Anonymous , Unknown

3.27

Transform Your Habits

Dr. Faustus

Christopher Marlowe

3.80

Transform Your Habits

A Rose for Emily

William Faulkner

3.83

Transform Your Habits

Twelfth Night

William Shakespeare , Folger Shakespeare Library

3.95

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Anonymous , Unknown

3.27

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Arden of Faversham

Anonymous , Unknown , Martin White , Tom Lockwood

3.47

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Christopher Marlowe

3.80

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William Congreve

3.31

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