18 Best classics books like The Terrors of the Night by Thomas Nashe

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The Terrors of the Night

By: Thomas Nashe

2.28

Format: 54 pages, Paperback

'...dreaming of bears, or fire, or water...' The greatest of Elizabethan pamphleteers, Nashe ha…

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1. Circles of Hell

By: Dante Alighieri , Robin Kirkpatrick

4.22

Format: None pages, Paperback

'I truly thought I'd never make it back.' Ten of the most memorable and most terrifying cantos from… read more

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  • classics
  • literature
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • fantasy
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2. Gooseberries and other stories

By: Anton Chekhov , Constance Garnett

3.76

Format: None pages, ebook

"Oh, good God," he kept saying with great relish. "Good God..." 'Gooseberries' is accompanied h… read more

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  • classics
  • literature
  • philosophy
  • short stories
  • fiction
"The Lie which elates us is dearer than a thousand sober truths"

-Anton Chekhov, Gooseberries and other stories

"The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths."

-Anton Chekhov, Gooseberries and other stories

"Человеку нужно не три аршина земли, не усадьба, а весь земной шар, вся природа, где на просторе он мог бы проявить все свойства и особенности своего свободного духа."

-Anton Chekhov, Gooseberries and other stories

"Happiness does not exist, nor should it, and if there is any meaning or purpose in life, they are not in our peddling little happiness, but in something reasonable and grand. Do good!"

-Anton Chekhov, Gooseberries and other stories

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3. The Terrors of the Night

By: Thomas Nashe

2.28

Format: 54 pages, Paperback

'...dreaming of bears, or fire, or water...' The greatest of Elizabethan pamphleteers, Nashe ha… read more

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  • classics
  • horror
  • literature
  • philosophy
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • english literature
  • essays
  • 16th century
  • fantasy
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4. How We Weep and Laugh at the Same Thing

By: Michel de Montaigne

3.50

Format: 55 pages, Paperback

'No one characteristic clasps us purely and universally in its embrace.' A selection of charming… read more

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  • philosophy
  • classics
  • essays
  • short stories
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5. The Steel Flea

By: Nikolai Leskov

3.63

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

He gave orders that they were not to get any hot glum pudding in flames, for fear the spirits in th… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
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6. A Hippo Banquet

By: Mary H. Kingsley

3.10

Format: 52 pages, Paperback

'While engaged on this hunt I felt the earth quiver under my feet, and heard a soft big soughing so… read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
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7. The Old Nurse's Story

By: Elizabeth Gaskell

3.64

Format: 53 pages, Paperback

Even in the stillness of that dead-cold weather, I had heard no sound of little battering hands upo… read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror
"You know, my dears, that your mother was an orphan, and an only child; and I dare say you have heard that your grandfather was a clergyman up in Westmoreland, where I come from."

-Elizabeth Gaskell, The Old Nurse's Story

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8. Remember, Body...

By: Constantinos P. Cavafy

3.66

Format: 54 pages, Paperback

'All those excessive, useless regrets...' A collection of nostalgic, erotic poetry from one of … read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
"You’ve been wholly transformed into feeling, for me."

-Constantinos P. Cavafy, Remember, Body...

"I have gazed so much on beauty that my eyes overflow with it."

-Constantinos P. Cavafy, Remember, Body...

"I have fashioned you in joy and in sorrow, / through so many happenings, out of so many things."

-Constantinos P. Cavafy, Remember, Body...

"Memory, keep those eyes just as they were. / And memory, whatever you can salvage of that passion of mine, / whatever you can, bring back to me tonight."

-Constantinos P. Cavafy, Remember, Body...

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9. How to Use Your Enemies

By: Baltasar Gracián , Gracián Baltasar

3.64

Format: 54 pages, Paperback

'Better mad with the crowd than sane all alone' In these witty, Machiavellian aphorisms, unlike… read more

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  • literature
  • philosophy
  • classics
  • essays
"Deal with people from whom you can learn"

-Baltasar Gracián, How to Use Your Enemies

"Cautious silence is the refuge of good sense"

-Baltasar Gracián, How to Use Your Enemies

"What passion rushes to flatter, time is slow to disillusion us about."

-Baltasar Gracián, How to Use Your Enemies

"Not all truths can be spoken: some because they are important to me, others to someone else."

-Baltasar Gracián, How to Use Your Enemies

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10. Wailing Ghosts

By: Pu Songling , John Minford

3.25

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

'...revealing great shining fangs more than three inches long.' Some of the most macabre and wo… read more

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  • classics
  • literature
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
"Strange that a man could succeed in hanging himself from a millet stalk. Let this be a warning to libertines and pranksters."

-Pu Songling, Wailing Ghosts

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11. Woman Much Missed

By: Thomas Hardy

3.59

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

'Woman much missed, how you call to me, call to me...' After the death of his wife Emma, a grief… read more

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  • classics
  • literature
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • english literature
"Soon will be growing Green blades from her mound, And daisies be showing Like stars on the ground, Till she form part of them - Ay - the sweet heart of them, Loved beyond measure With a child's pleas…"

-Thomas Hardy, Woman Much Missed

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12. Femme Fatale

By: Guy de Maupassant

3.56

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

A selection of Maupassant's brilliant, glittering stories set in the Parisian beau monde and Norman… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
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13. The Maldive Shark

By: Herman Melville

4.81

Format: 539 pages, Paperback

'No voice, no low, no howl is heard; the chief sound of life here is a hiss.' Stories and poems by … read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • short stories
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14. The Nose

By: Nikolai Gogol , Ronald Wilks

4.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

'Strangely enough, I mistook it for a gentleman at first. Fortunately I had my spectacles with me s… read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
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15. I Hate and I Love

By: Catullus

3.06

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

Dazzling modern lyrical poems from Catullus - by turns smutty, abusive, romantic and deeply moving.… read more

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  • classics
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16. The Wife of Bath

By: Geoffrey Chaucer , Peter G. Beidler

4.23

Format: 343 pages, Paperback

Adopted at more than 1,000 colleges and universities, Bedford/St. Martin's innovative Case Studies … read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • short stories

17. The Atheist’s Mass

By: Honoré de Balzac

4.19

Format: 144 pages,

THIS 26 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Country Doctor; Quest of the Absolute and Other N… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
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18. Traffic

By: John Ruskin

3.70

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

'You shall have thousands of gold pieces;--thousands of thousands--millions--mountains of gold: whe… read more

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  • classics
  • essays
  • short stories

19. Olalla

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

3.98

Format: 296 pages,

'Is it me you love, friend? or the race that made me?' Stevenson's chilling Victorian gothic novell… read more

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20. The Beautifull Cassandra

By: Jane Austen

3.62

Format: 320 pages,

'She has many rare and charming qualities, but Sobriety is not one of them.' A selection of Austen'… read more

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21. Well, they are gone, and here must I remain

By: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

3.62

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

'Ye Ice-Falls! Ye that from the mountain's brow Adown enormous ravines slope amain -...' A selectio… read more

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22. Sketchy, Doubtful, Incomplete Jottings

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

3.62

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

'I can promise to be candid, not, however, to be impartial.' A selection of the most insightful max… read more

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23. The Great Winglebury Duel

By: Charles Dickens

3.62

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

'Desperate-minded villain!' Two of Dickens' hilarious early stories from Sketches by Boz: 'The Grea… read more

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24. The Tinderbox

By: Hans Christian Andersen

3.49

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

'There sat the dog with eyes as big as mill wheels' Though criticised for their anarchic immorality… read more

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25. Trimalchio's Feast

By: Petronius

2.82

Format: 3 pages, Paperback

'I blush to say what happened next.' A satirical portrait of a drunken, orgiastic Roman banquet, ho… read more

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26. Of Street Piemen

By: Henry Mayhew

4.04

Format: 431 pages, Paperback

...a good bit of spice to give the critlings a flavour, and plenty of treacle to make the mince-mea… read more

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27. The Nightingales are Drunk

By: Hafez , Dick Davis

3.57

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

'Drunk or sober, king or soldier, none will be excluded' Sensual, profound, delighted, wise, Hafez'… read more

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28. The Gate of the Hundred Sorrows

By: Rudyard Kipling

5.00

Format: 30 pages, Paperback

'Mind you, it was a pukka, respectable opium-house, and not one of those stifling, sweltering chand… read more

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29. Jason and Medea

By: Apollonius of Rhodes

5.00

Format: 30 pages, Paperback

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30. How a Ghastly Story Was Brought to Light by a Common or Garden Butcher's Dog

By: Johann Peter Hebel

3.86

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

'The devil gave the woman a nudge: "Look at that belt full of money peeping out from under the butc… read more

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31. The Figure in the Carpet

By: Henry James

4.17

Format: 267 pages, Paperback

Short story by the prolific American-born author and literary critic of the late 19th and early 20t… read more

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