8 Best classics books like Daisy Miller and The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

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Daisy Miller and The Turn of the Screw

By: Henry James

4.33

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

Travelling in Europe with her family, Daisy Miller, an exquisitely beautiful young American woman, …

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1. The Woman in White

By: Wilkie Collins , Matthew Sweet

4.01

Format: 672 pages, Paperback

Librarian note: Alternate covers can be found here and here. 'In one moment, every drop of blood… read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • literature
  • horror
  • mystery
"I am a bundle of nerves dressed up to look like a man!"

-Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

"... our endurance must end, and our resistance begin, to-day."

-Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

"You don’t have to speak at all— I know what you’d say… - Laura"

-Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

"My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody."

-Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

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2. Barry Lyndon

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

3.74

Format: 336 pages,

Set in late 18th century Europe the adventures and mis-adventures of a minor member of the Irish ge… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
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3. Daisy Miller and The Turn of the Screw

By: Henry James

4.33

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

Travelling in Europe with her family, Daisy Miller, an exquisitely beautiful young American woman, … read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • literature
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
Cover of Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Robert Maturin, Victor Sage

4. Melmoth the Wanderer

By: Charles Robert Maturin , Victor Sage

3.68

Format: None pages, Paperback

Created by an Irish clergyman, Melmoth is one of the most fiendish characters in literature. In a s… read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • literature
  • fiction
  • horror
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5. Happy Days

By: Samuel Beckett

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

In 'Happy Days, ' Beckett pursues his relentless search for the meaning of existence, probing the t… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction

6. The Murders in the Rue Morgue and Other Tales

By: Edgar Allan Poe

3.95

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

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7. The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

By: Angela Carter

3.92

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

From familiar fairy tales and legends - Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss in Boots, Beauty and the B… read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
"Her hair falls down like tears"

-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

"ordered me a sky from a florist"

-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

"My spite was sharp as broken glass"

-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

"My father lost me to the Beast at cards"

-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

8. Un om sfârşit

By: Giovanni Papini , Ștefan Augustin Doinaș

4.57

Format: 102 pages, Paperback

Romanul autobiografic "Un om sfirsit" este cea mai cunoscuta lucrare a lui Giovanni Papini. Cartea … read more

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9. Song of Myself

By: Walt Whitman

4.20

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

One of Walt Whitman's most loved and greatest poems, "Song of Myself" is an optimistic and inspirat… read more

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10. The Complete Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

4.62

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The celebrated cases of Sherlock Holmes read more

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11. The Odd Women

By: George Gissing

4.41

Format: None pages, Paperback

A novel of social realism, The Odd Womenreflects the major sexual and cultural issues of the late n… read more

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12. My Son the Fanatic

By: Hanif Kureishi

4.30

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

Set in a northern industrial town, this screenplay presents the dismay experienced by a Pakistani f… read more

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13. The Complete Cosmicomics

By: Italo Calvino , Tim Parks , William Weaver , Martin L. McLaughlin

4.47

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The definitive edition of Calvino's cosmicomics, bringing together all of these enchanting stories-… read more

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14. Madame Hayat

By: Ahmet Altan

4.07

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Fazil, le jeune narrateur de ce livre, part faire des études de lettres loin de chez lui. Devenu bo… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Sheine Lende (Elatsoe, #0) by Darcie Little Badger

15. Sheine Lende (Elatsoe, #0)

By: Darcie Little Badger

4.29

Format: 391 pages, Hardcover

Darcie Little Badger's Elatsoe launched her career and in the years since has become a beloved favo… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
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16. Crudo

By: Olivia Laing

3.19

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A brilliant, funny, and emphatically raw novel of love on the brink of the apocalypse, from the acc… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
"What a waste, what a crime, to wreck a world so abundantly full of different kinds of flowers."

-Olivia Laing, Crudo

"She missed the sense of time as something serious and diminishing, she didn't like living in the permanent present of the id."

-Olivia Laing, Crudo

"He read last, and when he got to a line about an entire bowl she gasped. Every word came out clean. We're a monstrous pair of crows, devoted to a single being."

-Olivia Laing, Crudo

"40, not a bad run in the history of human existence but she’d really rather it all kept going, water in the taps, whales in the oceans, fruit and duvets, the whole sumptuous parade, she was into it t…"

-Olivia Laing, Crudo

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17. La ţigănci & Pe strada Mîntuleasa (The Gypsy / Mîntuleasa Street)

By: Mircea Eliade

4.11

Format: 321 pages, Unknown Binding

Nuvela ilustrează o alegorie a morţii sau a drumului spre moarte. read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
"Ai fost un prost. Nu trebuia s-o visezi, trebuia s-o iubeşti."

-Mircea Eliade, La ţigănci & Pe strada Mîntuleasa (The Gypsy / Mîntuleasa Street)

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18. The Vigilante

By: John Steinbeck

3.50

Format: 55 pages, Paperback

'Everything was dead, everything unreal; the dark mob was made up of stiff lay-figures' One of A… read more

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  • classics
  • literature
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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19. Singulariteten

By: Balsam Karam

3.81

Format: 234 pages, Hardcover

En kvinna letar efter sitt barn. Hon letar längs cornichen där dottern brukade arbeta. Hon letar ti… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
Cover of Silent Spring Revolution: John F. Kennedy, Rachel Carson, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and the Great Environmental Awakening by Douglas Brinkley

20. Silent Spring Revolution: John F. Kennedy, Rachel Carson, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and the Great Environmental Awakening

By: Douglas Brinkley

4.35

Format: 896 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author and acclaimed historian Douglas Brinkley chronicles the rise of e… read more

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21. The Strange Adventures of H

By: Sarah Burton

4.16

Format: 381 pages, Paperback

Orphaned young, H is sent to live with her doting aunt in London. H's life is a happy one until her… read more

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  • fiction
"I recalled how cruel the plague had made people to each other, and was obliged to concede that there is no disaster which can befall humanity, that we will not fail to make worse by our own hands, fo…"

-Sarah Burton, The Strange Adventures of H

"It was as if everyone in the whole world had departed, leaving me alone in it, and I thought this must be what Hell is like. Not hot and full of pain and confusion, but cool and grey and empty, where…"

-Sarah Burton, The Strange Adventures of H

"I would check myself and wonder if I had already contracted the plague, as in such strange countries my thoughts rambled. But then I decided it was merely the times that made us strange , and we must…"

-Sarah Burton, The Strange Adventures of H

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William Makepeace Thackeray

3.74

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Daisy Miller and The Turn of the Screw

Henry James

4.33

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Melmoth the Wanderer

Charles Robert Maturin , Victor Sage

3.68

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Samuel Beckett

5.00

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Horace Walpole

3.18

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4.15

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J. Sheridan Le Fanu

4.00

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4.02

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