17 must-read classics books like Tartuffe and Other Plays by Molière, Virginia Scott

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Tartuffe and Other Plays

By: Molière , None , Virginia Scott

4.31

Format: None pages, Paperback

Seven plays by the genius of French theater. Including The Ridiculous Precieuses, The School for Hu…

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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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  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
"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 Histories

By: Herodotus , Aubrey de Sélincourt , John M. Marincola

4.01

Format: 716 pages, Paperback

David Grene, one of the best known translators of the Greek classics, splendidly captures the pecul… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
"Hippocleides doesn't care."

-Herodotus, The Histories

"So much, then, for the fish."

-Herodotus, The Histories

"La muerte es para el hombre el más deseado refugio."

-Herodotus, The Histories

"Muchos hombres opulentos son desdichados, y muchos que tienen hacienda moderada son dichosos."

-Herodotus, The Histories

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3. The Grand Sophy

By: Georgette Heyer

4.17

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

When the redoubtable Sir Horace Stanton-Lacy is ordered to South America on business, he leaves his… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"You are shameless!"

-Georgette Heyer, The Grand Sophy

"Mr. Rivenhall said to Sophy, “If this is your doing—!"

-Georgette Heyer, The Grand Sophy

"Do you like pets better than toys and books? I always did, so I thought very likely you would too."

-Georgette Heyer, The Grand Sophy

"I never indulge commonplace thoughts," said Sir Vincent... "Not, at all events, in relation to the Grand Sophy."

-Georgette Heyer, The Grand Sophy

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4. On the Banks of Plum Creek (Little House, #4)

By: Laura Ingalls Wilder , Garth Williams

4.22

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

The adventures of Laura Ingalls and her family continue as they leave their little house on the pra… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"Mary was too scared to move. Laura was too scared to stand to still."

-Laura Ingalls Wilder, On the Banks of Plum Creek (Little House, #4)

"Snow as fine and grainy as sugar covered the windows in and sifted off to the floor and did not melt."

-Laura Ingalls Wilder, On the Banks of Plum Creek (Little House, #4)

"When gloomy clouds across the sky Cast shadows o'er the land, Bright rays of hope illumine my path, For Jesus holds my hand."

-Laura Ingalls Wilder, On the Banks of Plum Creek (Little House, #4)

"All day the storm lasted. The windows were white and the wind never stopped howling and screaming. It was pleasant in the warm house. Laura and Mary did their lessons, then Pa played the fiddle while…"

-Laura Ingalls Wilder, On the Banks of Plum Creek (Little House, #4)

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5. Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey, #2)

By: Dorothy L. Sayers

3.98

Format: 288 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Rustic old Riddlesdale Lodge was a Wimsey family retreat filled with country pleasures and the thri… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"Fou!"

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey, #2)

"Boil my brains!"

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey, #2)

"I am abso-bally-lutely positive"

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey, #2)

"The departure of the church-going element had induced a more humanitarian atmosphere."

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey, #2)

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6. Hannah Coulter

By: Wendell Berry

4.38

Format: 190 pages, Paperback

Hannah Coulter is Wendell Berry's seventh novel and his first to employ the voice of a woman charac… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
"Time doesn't stop. Your life doesn't stop and wait until you get ready to start living it."

-Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter

"And so I learned about grief, and about the absence and emptiness that for a long time make grief unforgettable."

-Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter

"Living right on called for nothing out of the ordinary. We made no changes. We only accepted the changes as they came."

-Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter

"Grandmam came back from that distance in time that separates grandmothers from their grandchildren and made herself a mother to me."

-Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter

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7. Just So Stories

By: Rudyard Kipling

3.73

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Twelve stories about animals, insects, and other subjects include How the Camel Got His Hump. The B… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
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8. The Red Fairy Book

By: Andrew Lang , Leonora Blanche Alleyne Lang

4.11

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

37 tales include Grimms The Three Dwarfs, Mother Hole, The Golden Goose. Also Rapunzel, Jack and th… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
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9. Tartuffe and Other Plays

By: Molière , None , Virginia Scott

4.31

Format: None pages, Paperback

Seven plays by the genius of French theater. Including The Ridiculous Precieuses, The School for Hu… read more

Similar categories in Molière's Tartuffe and Other Plays book and Molière's Tartuffe and Other Plays

  • classics
  • literature
  • france
  • fiction
  • plays
  • comedy
  • drama
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10. Purgatorio (The Divine Comedy, #2)

By: Dante Alighieri , Robert M. Durling

3.33

Format: 170 pages, Paperback

In the early 1300s, Dante Alighieri set out to write the three volumes which make the up The Divine… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
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11. Whose Body? (Lord Peter Wimsey, #1)

By: Dorothy L. Sayers

3.84

Format: 212 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The stark naked body was lying in the tub. Not unusual for a proper bath, but highly irregular for … read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"But if you were investigating a crime,"

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Whose Body? (Lord Peter Wimsey, #1)

"Well, it’s no good jumping at conclusions."

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Whose Body? (Lord Peter Wimsey, #1)

"Oh damn!' said Lord Peter Wimsey at Piccadilly Circus."

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Whose Body? (Lord Peter Wimsey, #1)

"I trust you told her I had succumbed to lethargic encephalitis suddenly, no flowers by request."

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Whose Body? (Lord Peter Wimsey, #1)

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12. Unnatural Death (Lord Peter Wimsey, #3)

By: Dorothy L. Sayers

4.07

Format: 264 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The wealthy Agatha Dawson is dead--a trifle sooner than expected--but there are no apparent signs o… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"It doesn't do for people, especially doctors, to go about 'thinking' things. They may get into frightful trouble."

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Unnatural Death (Lord Peter Wimsey, #3)

"…After all, it isn't really difficult to write books. Especially if you either write a rotten story in good English or a good story in rotten English, which is as far as most people seem to get nowad…"

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Unnatural Death (Lord Peter Wimsey, #3)

"I sleuth, you know. For a hobby. Harmless outlet for natural inquisitiveness, don't you see, which might otherwise strike inward and produce introspection an' suicide. Very natural, healthy pursuit -…"

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Unnatural Death (Lord Peter Wimsey, #3)

"Miss Climpson," said Lord Peter, "is a manifestation of the wasteful way in which this country is run. Look at electricity, Look at water-power. Look at the tides. Look at the sun. Millions of power …"

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Unnatural Death (Lord Peter Wimsey, #3)

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13. Joy in the Morning (Jeeves, #8)

By: P.G. Wodehouse

3.33

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Follow the adventures of Bertie Wooster and his gentleman's gentleman, Jeeves, in this stunning new… read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • comedy

14. Pat of Silver Bush (Pat, #1)

By: L.M. Montgomery

3.85

Format: None pages, Paperback

Patricia Gardiner loved Silver Bush more than anything else in the world. She was born and raised i… read more

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15. The Convenient Marriage

By: Georgette Heyer , Richard Armitage

3.75

Format: 160 pages,

When the Earl of Rule proposes marriage to her sister Lizzie, Horatia offers herself instead. Her s… read more

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16. Miss Lonelyhearts / The Day of the Locust

By: Nathanael West

3.14

Format: 32 pages,

Miss Lonelyhearts Miss Lonelyhearts was a newspaper reporter, so named because he had been assigned… read more

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17. The Code of the Woosters (Jeeves, #7)

By: P.G. Wodehouse

4.27

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Follow the adventures of Bertie Wooster and his gentleman's gentleman, Jeeves, in this stunning new… read more

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18. By the Shores of Silver Lake (Little House, #5)

By: Laura Ingalls Wilder , Garth Williams

3.61

Format: 130 pages, Paperback

Laura and her family are head to the Dakota Territory for a chance to own their own land--and stop … read more

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19. The King's Equal

By: Katherine Paterson , Vladimir Vagin

4.35

Format: 255 pages, Hardcover

A dying king makes his son his heir -- on one condition: the vain Prince Raphael must marry a woman… read more

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20. The Long Winter (Little House, #6)

By: Laura Ingalls Wilder , Garth Williams

4.17

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

On the empty winter prairie, gray clouds to the northwest meant only one thing: a blizzard was seco… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"Politicians, they take pleasure a-prying into a man's affairs and I aimed to please 'em."

-Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Long Winter (Little House, #6)

"These times are too progressive. Everything has changed too fast. Railroads and telegraphs and kerosene and coal stoves -- they're good to have but the trouble is, folks get to depend on 'em."

-Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Long Winter (Little House, #6)

"Beyond them the darkness was like a mist thickening over a flat, white world. Stars twinkled far away around part of its rim. Before him, the black storm climbed rapidly up the sky and in silence des…"

-Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Long Winter (Little House, #6)

"Laura said faintly, 'I thought God takes care of us.' 'He does,' Pa said, 'so far as we do what's right. And He gives us a conscience and brains to know what's right. But He leaves it to us to do as …"

-Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Long Winter (Little House, #6)

21. Gaudy Night (Lord Peter Wimsey, #12)

By: Dorothy L. Sayers

4.00

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

"Gaudy Nightstands out even among Miss Sayers's novels. And Miss Sayers has long stood in a class b… read more

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22. Paradiso (The Divine Comedy, #3)

By: Dante Alighieri , Dorothy L. Sayers , Barbara Reynolds

3.66

Format: None pages, Paperback

Dorothy L. Sayers's landmark translation follows Dante's terza rimastanza's and brings his poetry v… read more

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23. The Black Arrow

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

3.80

Format: 242 pages, Paperback

From the beloved author of Treasure Island Originally serialized in a periodical of boys' adventure… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
"Well! marriage is like death, it comes to all."

-Robert Louis Stevenson, The Black Arrow

"He is one that goes to bed Lancaster and gets up York."

-Robert Louis Stevenson, The Black Arrow

"[H]e began to understand what a wild game we play in life; he began to understand that a thing once done cannot be undone nor changed by saying "I am sorry!"

-Robert Louis Stevenson, The Black Arrow

"Sir knight,’ observed the messenger, with bitterness, ‘while that ye are here, roaring for five hundred pounds, the realm of England is elsewhere being lost and won."

-Robert Louis Stevenson, The Black Arrow

24. Ivanhoe

By: Walter Scott

3.55

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Ivanhoe(1819) was the first of Scott's novels to adopt a purely English subject and was also his fi… read more

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25. The Corinthian

By: Georgette Heyer

3.88

Format: None pages, Paperback

Penelope Creed will do anything to avoid marrying her repulsive cousin. Dressed in boy's clothing, … read more

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26. Howards End

By: E.M. Forster

3.96

Format: 318 pages, Paperback

A már életében klasszikusnak számító angol írónak ez volt a negyedik, a kritikusok szerint a legjob… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
"So never give in,"

-E.M. Forster, Howards End

"Tulips were a tray of jewels."

-E.M. Forster, Howards End

"Love and Truth, their warfare seems eternal."

-E.M. Forster, Howards End

"Death destroys a man: the idea of Death saves him."

-E.M. Forster, Howards End

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27. Beyond Mere Motherhood: Moms Are People Too

By: Cindy Rollins

4.75

Format: 266 pages, Paperback

Being a mom can sometimes feel like an overwhelming job with endless tasks and lofty, unattainable … read more

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"The truth is that all humans are always seeing something, paying attention to something, learning something. Perhaps, we are learning every sort of sexual innuendo known to man by watching endless re…"

-Cindy Rollins, Beyond Mere Motherhood: Moms Are People Too

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28. Have His Carcase (Lord Peter Wimsey, #8)

By: Dorothy L. Sayers

4.11

Format: 499 pages, Kindle Edition

The second Dorothy L. Sayers classic to feature mystery writer Harriet Vane, Have His Carcase. Harr… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"I always have a quotation for everything--it saves original thinking."

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Have His Carcase (Lord Peter Wimsey, #8)

"Novelists and police-inspectors do not always see eye to eye as regards publicity."

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Have His Carcase (Lord Peter Wimsey, #8)

"A solitary rock is always attractive. All right-minded people feel an overwhelming desire to scale and sit upon it."

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Have His Carcase (Lord Peter Wimsey, #8)

"In the mood of relaxation and confidence that follows on being parboiled, it was easy enough to pump Mrs Weldon. A little diplomacy was needed, so as not to betray the ulterior object of the inquiry,…"

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Have His Carcase (Lord Peter Wimsey, #8)

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29. The Medieval Mind of C.S. Lewis: How Great Books Shaped a Great Mind

By: Jason M. Baxter

4.51

Format: None pages, Audio CD

C. S. Lewis had one of the great minds of the twentieth century. Many readers know Lewis as an auth… read more

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  • literature
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30. The Berlin Letters

By: Katherine Reay

4.21

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Near the end of the Cold War, a CIA code breaker discovers a symbol she recognizes from her childho… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of You Are a Tree: And Other Metaphors to Nourish Life, Thought, and Prayer by Joy Marie Clarkson

31. You Are a Tree: And Other Metaphors to Nourish Life, Thought, and Prayer

By: Joy Marie Clarkson

4.10

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

In a world dominated by technology and efficiency, we speak of ourselves as we process things, we … read more

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9 Best literature books like Tartuffe and Other Plays by Molière, Virginia Scott

Transform Your Habits

Agnes Grey

Anne Brontë , Angeline Goreau

3.71

Transform Your Habits

The Histories

Herodotus , Aubrey de Sélincourt , John M. Marincola

4.01

Transform Your Habits

Hannah Coulter

Wendell Berry

4.38

Transform Your Habits

Just So Stories

Rudyard Kipling

3.73

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10 Top fiction books like The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson

Transform Your Habits

The Dragon and the Raven, or, The Days of King Alfred

G.A. Henty

3.90

Transform Your Habits

Adam of the Road

Elizabeth Gray Vining , Robert Lawson , Elizabeth Janet Gray

3.77

Transform Your Habits

The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

Howard Pyle

4.07

Transform Your Habits

Captains Courageous

Rudyard Kipling

3.73

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