6 must-read 19th century books like The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats

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The Eve of St. Agnes

By: John Keats

3.68

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

'Hoodwink'd in faery fancy...' This volume contains a selection of Keats's greatest verse - inc…

"Upon the honey’d middle of the night,"

-John Keats, The Eve of St. Agnes

If you liked the 19th century plot in The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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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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  • poetry
  • classics
  • literature
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • fantasy
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2. Ozymandias

By: Percy Bysshe Shelley , Theo Gayer-Anderson

4.29

Format: 36 pages, Paperback

A picture book edition of the classic, Ozymandias, was composed in 1817 by P.B. Shelley. "I met … read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • literature
  • fiction
  • romanticism
"And on the pedestal these words appear: 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!' Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and…"

-Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ozymandias

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3. 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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  • romance
  • poetry
  • classics
  • literature
  • 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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4. 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
  • classics
"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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5. The Eve of St. Agnes

By: John Keats

3.68

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

'Hoodwink'd in faery fancy...' This volume contains a selection of Keats's greatest verse - inc… read more

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  • romance
  • poetry
  • gothic
  • classics
  • literature
  • 19th century
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • romanticism
  • fantasy
"Upon the honey’d middle of the night,"

-John Keats, The Eve of St. Agnes

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6. Alone on the Beach at Night

By: Walt Whitman

3.22

Format: 55 pages, Paperback

'All nations, colors, barbarisms, civilizations, languages...' A selection taken from Walt Whit… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • literature
  • 19th century
  • short stories
  • fiction
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7. A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees

By: Yoshida Kenkō , Meredith McKinney

3.74

Format: 51 pages, Paperback

'It is a most wonderful comfort to sit alone beneath a lamp, book spread before you, and commune wi… read more

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  • literature
  • poetry
  • classics
  • short stories
"It is the ephemeral nature of things that makes them wonderful."

-Yoshida Kenkō, A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees

"After all, things thought but left unsaid only fester inside you."

-Yoshida Kenkō, A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees

"Knowledge leads to deception; talent and ability only serve to increase earthly desires."

-Yoshida Kenkō, A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees

"I have relinquished all that ties me to the world, but the one thing that still haunts me is the beauty of the sky"

-Yoshida Kenkō, A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees

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8. Three Tang Dynasty Poets

By: Wang Wei , Du Fu , Li Bai

3.35

Format: 64 pages, Mass Market Paperback

'Can I bear to leave these blue hills?' A generous selection from three of the greatest and mos… read more

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  • literature
  • poetry
  • classics
  • fiction
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9. 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
  • 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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10. 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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  • romance
  • poetry
  • classics
  • 19th century
  • literature
  • short stories
  • fiction
"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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11. 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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  • romance
  • classics
  • 19th century
  • literature
  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of Travels in the Land of Serpents and Pearls by Marco Polo

12. Travels in the Land of Serpents and Pearls

By: Marco Polo

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

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  • classics
  • short stories
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13. Caligula

By: Suetonius

4.00

Format: 10 pages, Paperback

'Because of his baldness and hairiness, he announced it was a capital offence for anyone either to … read more

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  • classics
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14. As Kingfishers Catch Fire

By: Gerard Manley Hopkins

4.25

Format: None pages, Paperback

'O let them be left, wildness and wet' As Kingfishers Catch Fire is a selection of Gerard Manley Ho… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • literature
  • 19th century
  • short stories
  • fiction
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15. Aphorisms on Love and Hate

By: Friedrich Nietzsche

4.40

Format: None pages, Paperback

'We must learn to love, learn to be kind, and this from our earliest youth ... Likewise, hatred mus… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • short stories
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16. 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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  • 19th century
  • classics
  • short stories

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. 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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19. Mrs Rosie and the Priest

By: Giovanni Boccaccio

3.85

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Four hilarious and provocative stories from Boccaccio's Decameron, featuring cuckolded husbands, cr… 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. Come Close

By: Sappho

3.85

Format: 370 pages, Paperback

'Yes, we did many things, then - all Beautiful ...' Lyrical, powerful poems about love, sexuality, … read more

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23. The Saga of Gunnlaug Serpent-tongue

By: Anonymous

4.03

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

'In two I'll slice the hair-seat / of Helga's kiss-gulper' In this epic tale from the Viking Age th… read more

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24. 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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25. 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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26. 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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27. 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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28. Jason and Medea

By: Apollonius of Rhodes

5.00

Format: 30 pages, Paperback

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29. 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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30. The Night is Darkening Round Me

By: Emily Brontë

3.81

Format: None pages, Paperback

'... ever-present, phantom thing; My slave, my comrade, and my king' Some of Emily Bronte's most ex… read more

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31. Lips Too Chilled

By: Matsuo Bashō , Lucien Stryk

3.81

Format: None pages, Paperback

'Nothing more lonely -' A selection of Basho's most magical haiku Introducing Little Black Classics… read more

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