15 Best classics books like The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare, Barbara A. Mowat, Paul Werstine

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The Merchant of Venice

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

3.78

Format: 247 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In this lively comedy of love and money in sixteenth-century Venice, Bassanio wants to impress the …

"He will fence with his own shadow."

-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

"He will fence with his own shadow."

-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

"You speak an infinite deal of nothing."

-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

"You speak an infinite deal of nothing."

-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

If you liked the classics plot in The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare, Barbara A. Mowat, Paul Werstine, None , here is a list of 15 books like this:

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1. Dr. Faustus

By: Christopher Marlowe

3.80

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, commonly referred to simply as Doctor… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • school
  • literature
  • read for school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
"Hell is just a frame of mind."

-Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus

"Be silent then, for danger is in words."

-Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus

"Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris."

-Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus

"He that loves pleasure must for pleasure fall."

-Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus

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2. Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)

By: Sophocles , J.E. Thomas , Elizabeth Osborne

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

"...what man wins more happiness than just its shape and the ruin when that shape collapses?" Sopho… read more

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  • classics
  • school
  • read for school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
Cover of The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

3. The Importance of Being Earnest

By: Oscar Wilde

2.50

Format: None pages,

Oscar Wilde's madcap farce about mistaken identities, secret engagements, and lovers entanglements … read more

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  • classics
  • school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
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4. Waiting for Godot

By: Samuel Beckett

3.63

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Cuando en 1953 se estreno en Paris Esperando a Godot, casi nadie sabia quien era Samuel Beckett, sa… read more

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  • classics
  • school
  • literature
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  • fiction
  • plays
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5. Oliver Twist

By: Charles Dickens , George Cruikshank , Philip Horne

3.88

Format: 608 pages, Paperback

A gripping portrayal of London's dark criminal underbelly, published in Penguin Classics with an in… read more

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  • literature
  • classic literature
  • classics
  • fiction
"Meat, ma'am, meat."

-Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

"Please, sir, I want some more."

-Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

"هناك كتب .. غلافـها أفضل ما فيها"

-Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

"There are a good many books, are there not, my boy?"

-Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

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6. An Experiment with an Air Pump

By: Shelagh Stephenson

4.75

Format: 144 pages,

1799 - On the eve of a new century, the house buzzes with scientific experiments, furtive romance a… read more

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  • classics
  • school
  • read for school
  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
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7. Volpone

By: Ben Jonson

4.15

Format: None pages, Paperback

Bitter, satiric comedy in blank verse is one of the great Elizabethan dramatist's finest plays. The… read more

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  • classics
  • school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
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8. The Jew of Malta

By: Christopher Marlowe , H. Havelock Ellis

4.11

Format: None pages, Paperback

The spirit of Machiavelli presides over The Jew of Malta,in which the title character relentlessly … read more

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  • classics
  • school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama

9. The Canterbury Tales

By: Geoffrey Chaucer , Nevill Coghill

3.72

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

The procession that crosses Chaucer's pages is as full of life and as richly textured as a medieval… read more

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10. Gulliver’s Travels

By: Louis Rhead , Jonathan Swift , William Dean Howells , Robert DeMaria Jr.

3.58

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

A wickedly clever satire uses comic inversions to offer telling insights into the nature of man and… read more

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  • classics
  • school
  • literature
  • classic literature
  • fiction
"Anlamadığınız bir insanı "delidir" diye nitelemek o kadar kolaydır ki!"

-Louis Rhead, Gulliver’s Travels

"we neither of us are able to deliver our conceptions in a manner intelligible to the other."

-Louis Rhead, Gulliver’s Travels

"معظم ابناء جلدتك هم أخبث سلالة من الحشرات المؤذية البغيضة التي سمحت لها الطبيعة بالزحف على وجخ الأرض"

-Louis Rhead, Gulliver’s Travels

"... a wife should be always a reasonable and agreeable companion, because she cannot always be young."

-Louis Rhead, Gulliver’s Travels

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11. Death of a Salesman

By: Arthur Miller

3.57

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

'For a salesman, there is no rock bottom to life. He don't put a bolt to a nut, he don't tell you t… read more

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  • classics
  • school
  • literature
  • read for school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
"I’m tired to the death."

-Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman

"LINDA [with infinite patience]"

-Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman

"Be liked and you will never want."

-Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman

"I'm losing weight, you notice, Pop?"

-Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman

12. Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3)

By: Sophocles , J.E. Thomas

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

The curse placed on Oedipus lingers and haunts a younger generation in this new and brilliant trans… read more

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13. A Doll's House

By: Henrik Ibsen , Michael Meyer

3.76

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

A Doll's House (1879), is a masterpiece of theatrical craft which, for the first time portrayed the… read more

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  • classics
  • school
  • literature
  • read for school
  • theatre
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"Laughter's all the damned thing's fit for."

-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

"I must make up my mind which is right – society or I."

-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

"لن تفقدوني طويلاً، فالراحلون سرعان ما ينطوون في زوايا النسيان."

-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

"أنا ارى الناس صنفين .. صنف تعشقه المرأة، وصنف تحب أن تتجاذب معه أطراف الحديث."

-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

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14. The Merchant of Venice

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

3.78

Format: 247 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In this lively comedy of love and money in sixteenth-century Venice, Bassanio wants to impress the … read more

Similar categories in William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice book and William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice

  • poetry
  • classics
  • school
  • literature
  • classic literature
  • read for school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
"He will fence with his own shadow."

-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

"You speak an infinite deal of nothing."

-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

"The fiend gives the more friendly counsel."

-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

"i buy a thousand pound a year! i buy a rope!"

-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

15. The Rape of the Lock

By: Alexander Pope

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

A satirical poem that intentionally over-dramatizes an incident in which a lock of a woman's hair i… read more

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16. The Duchess of Malfi

By: John Webster

3.00

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

More widely studied and more frequently performed than ever before, John Webster's The Duchess of M… read more

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17. 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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  • poetry
  • classics
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  • fiction
"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

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18. Frankenstein: The 1818 Text

By: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

3.87

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

This is a previously-published edition of ISBN 9780143131847. Mary Shelley's seminal novel of t… read more

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  • school
  • literature
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  • fiction
"I am malicious because I am miserable"

-Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein: The 1818 Text

"One wondering thought pollutes the day"

-Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein: The 1818 Text

"If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!"

-Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein: The 1818 Text

"I looked upon the sea, it was to be my grave"

-Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein: The 1818 Text

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19. Wyzwolenie

By: Stanisław Wyspiański

3.34

Format: 258 pages, Hardcover

Dramat Wyspiańskiego rozliczający się z mitami romantyzmu. Akcja toczy się głównie na deskach teatr… read more

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  • plays
  • classics
  • fiction
  • drama
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20. TREASURE TROVE A COLLECTION OF ICSE POEMS AND SHORT STORIES

By: Evergreen

4.16

Format: None pages, Paperback

TREASURE TROVE A COLLECTION OF ICSE POEMS AND SHORT STORIES [paperback] EVERGREEN,EVER [Jan 01, 201… read more

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  • school
Cover of Jamioł by Henryk Sienkiewicz

21. Jamioł

By: Henryk Sienkiewicz

3.13

Format: None pages, Audiobook

„Jamioł” to ludowe, archaiczne określenie „anioła”. Wbrew pozorom to jednak nie on jest główną post… read more

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Christopher Marlowe

3.80

Transform Your Habits

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Sophocles , J.E. Thomas , Elizabeth Osborne

4.00

Transform Your Habits

The Importance of Being Earnest

Oscar Wilde

2.50

Transform Your Habits

Waiting for Godot

Samuel Beckett

3.63

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George Bernard Shaw

3.89

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A Streetcar Named Desire

Tennessee Williams

3.98

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman , Elaine R. Hedges , Elaine Hedges

4.08

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William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine , Catherine Belsey

3.95

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