23 must-read classics books like The Meaning of Shakespeare, Volume 1 by Harold Clarke Goddard

The Meaning of Shakespeare, Volume 1

By: None , Harold Clarke Goddard

3.88

Format: None pages, Paperback

In two magnificent and authoritative volumes, Harold C. Goddard takes readers on a tour through the…

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Cover of Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë, Angeline Goreau

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
"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

Cover of Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare, Barbara A. Mowat, Paul Werstine, Cynthia Marshall

2. 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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  • literature
  • theatre
  • classics
  • plays
"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

Cover of St. Francis of Assisi by G.K. Chesterton, Joseph F. Girzone

3. St. Francis of Assisi

By: G.K. Chesterton , Joseph F. Girzone

3.94

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Francis of Assisi is, after Mary of Nazareth, perhaps the greatest saint in the Christian calendar,… read more

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  • classics
  • nonfiction
"The moment sex ceases to be a servant it becomes a tyrant."

-G.K. Chesterton, St. Francis of Assisi

"The objection to an aristocracy is that it is a priesthood without a god."

-G.K. Chesterton, St. Francis of Assisi

"The modern mind is hard to please; and it generally calls the way of Godfrey ferocious and the way of Francis fanatical. That is, it calls any moral method unpractical, when it has just called any pr…"

-G.K. Chesterton, St. Francis of Assisi

"I beseech you, little brothers, that you be as wise as brother Daisy and brother dandelion; for never do they lie awake thinking of tomorrow, yet they have gold crowns like kings and emperors or like…"

-G.K. Chesterton, St. Francis of Assisi

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4. The Comedy of Errors

By: William Shakespeare

3.72

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Excerpt from Die Kom�die der Irrungen Geste Grayorum or the History of the High and mighty Princ… read more

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"Why should their liberty than ours be more?"

-William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors

"El tiempo es insolvente y debe más de lo que tiene."

-William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors

"Mi corazón ora por él, aunque mi lengua lo maldiga."

-William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors

"¡A cuántos tontos enamorados esclaviza la locura de los celos!"

-William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors

Cover of Pinocchio by John Boyne, Unknown, Monteiro Lobato, Carlo Collodi

5. Pinocchio

By: John Boyne , Unknown , Monteiro Lobato , Carlo Collodi

3.85

Format: 262 pages, Paperback

A timeless classic to be read over and over. This is the story of Pinocchio, filled with harrowi… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
"Hunger is the best cook."

-John Boyne, Pinocchio

"A conscience is that still small voice that people won't listen to."

-John Boyne, Pinocchio

"Would it be possible to find a more ungrateful boy, or one with less heart than I have!"

-John Boyne, Pinocchio

"Laziness is a serious illness and one must cure it immediately; yes, even from early childhood. If not, it will kill you in the end."

-John Boyne, Pinocchio

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6. A Lantern in Her Hand

By: Bess Streeter Aldrich

4.18

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

🎧Listening Length = 10 hours and 45 minutes Part of: Bison Book (4 titles) Perfect for fans of … read more

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  • classics
"You have to dream things out. It keeps a kind of an ideal before you. You see it first in your mind and then you set about to try to make it like the ideal. If you want a garden,-why, I guess you've …"

-Bess Streeter Aldrich, A Lantern in Her Hand

"What makes it smell so sweet?" they wanted to know. "Because everything,--every little wild plum-blossom, every little tiny crocus and anemone and violet and every tree-bud and grass-blade is working…"

-Bess Streeter Aldrich, A Lantern in Her Hand

"Abbie would stop in her work and utter a prayer for him,—and, sent as it were from the bow of a mother's watchful care, bound by the cord of a mother's love, the little winged arrow on its flight mus…"

-Bess Streeter Aldrich, A Lantern in Her Hand

"Far into the evening they sat around the old coal burner talking and laughing, with tears not far behind the laughter - the state legislator and the banker, the artist, the singer, and the college te…"

-Bess Streeter Aldrich, A Lantern in Her Hand

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7. Invisible Man

By: Ralph Ellison

3.91

Format: 581 pages, Paperback

First published in 1952 and immediately hailed as a masterpiece, Invisible Man is one of those rare… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
"When I discover who I am, I’ll be free."

-Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

"You're very insistent, but I'm very busy."

-Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

"I could hardly get to sleep for dreaming of revenge."

-Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

"They could laugh at him but they couldn't ignore him"

-Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

Cover of A Preface to Paradise Lost by C.S. Lewis

8. A Preface to Paradise Lost

By: C.S. Lewis

4.27

Format: 143 pages, Paperback

Examines the style, content, structure, and themes of Milton's classic within the context of Wester… read more

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  • classics
  • literature
  • nonfiction
  • criticism
  • literary criticism
"To follow the vocation does not mean happiness: but once it has been heard, there is no happiness for those who do not follow."

-C.S. Lewis, A Preface to Paradise Lost

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9. Poetics

By: Aristotle , Malcolm Heath

3.59

Format: None pages, Paperback

'The plot is the source and the soul of tragedy' In his near-contemporary account of Greek tragedy,… read more

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  • classics
  • nonfiction
  • literary criticism
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10. Consider This: Charlotte Mason and the Classical Tradition

By: Karen Glass

4.36

Format: 224 pages,

The educators of ancient Greece and Rome gave the world a vision of what education should be. The m… read more

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  • classics
  • nonfiction
Cover of King Edward III by William Shakespeare, Giorgio Melchiori

11. King Edward III

By: William Shakespeare , Giorgio Melchiori

3.93

Format: None pages, Paperback

Edward III is a major addition to the Shakespearean canon, being included for the first time in an … read more

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  • classics
  • plays
Cover of The Inimitable Jeeves (Jeeves, #2) by P.G. Wodehouse

12. The Inimitable Jeeves (Jeeves, #2)

By: P.G. Wodehouse

4.20

Format: 225 pages, Paperback

When Bingo Little falls in love at a Camberwell subscription dance and Bertie Wooster drops into th… read more

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  • classics
"Warm-hearted! I should think he has to wear asbestos vests!"

-P.G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves (Jeeves, #2)

"The kid is a pest, a wart, and a pot of poison, and should be strangled!"

-P.G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves (Jeeves, #2)

"My God, man!" I gargled. "The cravat! The gent's neckwear! Why? For what reason?"

-P.G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves (Jeeves, #2)

"I thought Eustace *was* a horrible accident, and Claude about the same, but I didn't say so."

-P.G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves (Jeeves, #2)

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13. Till We Have Faces

By: C.S. Lewis

4.08

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

In this timeless tale of two mortal princesses- one beautiful and one unattractive- C.S. Lewis rewo… read more

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  • classics
Cover of Henry VIII by William Shakespeare, Barbara A. Mowat, Paul Werstine

14. Henry VIII

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

3.50

Format: None pages,

Henry VIII is a history play generally believed to be a collaboration between William Shakespeare a… read more

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  • classics
  • plays

15. The Meaning of Shakespeare, Volume 1

By: None , Harold Clarke Goddard

3.88

Format: None pages, Paperback

In two magnificent and authoritative volumes, Harold C. Goddard takes readers on a tour through the… read more

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  • classics
  • literature
  • theatre
  • nonfiction
  • criticism
  • plays
  • literary criticism
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16. Julius Caesar

By: William Shakespeare , Roma Gill

3.70

Format: 175 pages, Paperback

The Oxford School Shakespeare has become the preferred introduction to the literary legacy of the g… read more

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  • classics
  • plays
"Et tu, Brute?"

-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

"Beware the ides of March."

-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

"Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!"

-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

"Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come"

-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

Cover of The Two Noble Kinsmen by William Shakespeare, Lois Potter

17. The Two Noble Kinsmen

By: William Shakespeare , Lois Potter

3.95

Format: 161 pages, Paperback

The content of this edition include a list of the illustrations featured within the text and a pref… read more

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  • theatre
  • classics
  • plays
Cover of Pericles by William Shakespeare, Barbara A. Mowat, Paul Werstine

18. Pericles

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

3.95

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Folger Shakespeare Library: the world's leading center for Shakespeare studies. Each edition includ… read more

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  • theatre
  • classics
  • plays
Cover of Cymbeline by William Shakespeare, Harold Bloom, Gabriele Baldini

19. Cymbeline

By: William Shakespeare , Harold Bloom , Gabriele Baldini

3.50

Format: 142 pages, Paperback

Cymbeline also known as Cymbeline, King of Britain or The Tragedy of Cymbeline, is a play by Willia… read more

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  • theatre
  • classics
  • plays
Cover of As You Like It by William Shakespeare, Barbara A. Mowat, Paul Werstine

20. As You Like It

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

3.59

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

As You Like Itis a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1599 or … read more

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  • theatre
  • classics
  • plays

21. 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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22. Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)

By: C.S. Lewis

3.93

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

In the first novel of C.S. Lewis's classic science fiction trilogy, Dr Ransom, a Cambridge academic… read more

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  • classics
"The love of knowledge is a kind of madness."

-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)

"A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered."

-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)

"There I drank life because death was in the pool. That was the best of drinks save one."

-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)

"And I say also this. I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes."

-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)

23. The King of the Golden River

By: John Ruskin , None

3.44

Format: 326 pages,

Little gem of Victorian literature, written in 1842 and published in 1851, tells a tale of the two … read more

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24. Timon of Athens

By: William Shakespeare , Thomas Middleton

3.89

Format: None pages, Paperback

Timon of Athensis a bitterly intriguing study of a fabulously rich man who wastes his wealth on his… read more

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25. Much Ado About Nothing

By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine , Gail Kern Paster , None

3.92

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

The action is set in Sicily, where Don Pedro, Prince of Aragon, has recently defeated his half-brot… read more

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26. The Winter's Tale

By: William Shakespeare

4.75

Format: 14 pages, Paperback

The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emph… read more

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27. Measure for Measure

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

4.38

Format: 83 pages, Paperback

Measure for Measureis among the most passionately discussed of Shakespeare's plays. In it, a duke t… read more

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28. 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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  • literature
  • classics
"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

Cover of Howards End by E.M. Forster

29. 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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  • classics
"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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30. In Vital Harmony: Charlotte Mason and the Natural Laws of Education

By: Karen Glass

4.69

Format: 186 pages, Paperback

Charlotte Mason looked at the world and saw that it was governed by universal laws, such as the law… read more

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  • nonfiction
"One popular trend in education is to emphasize “STEM"

-Karen Glass, In Vital Harmony: Charlotte Mason and the Natural Laws of Education

"Faith Is Required to Act upon an Idea. Miss Mason rejected the receptacle view of the mind and embraced the analogy that the mind is a living, spiritual entity that is hungry and must be fed in order…"

-Karen Glass, In Vital Harmony: Charlotte Mason and the Natural Laws of Education

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