King Arthur: The Making of the Legend
By: Nicholas J. Higham
3.71
Format: 380 pages, Hardcover
According to legend, King Arthur saved Britain from the Saxons and reigned over it gloriously somet…
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1. The Wind in the Willows
By: Kenneth Grahame , Gillian Avery
4.02
Format: 197 pages, Paperback
“All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he… read more
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"...Absorbed in the new scents, the sounds, and the sunlight..."-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
"Badger hates Society, and invitations, and dinner, and all that sort of thing."-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
"There’s nothing––absolutely nothing––half so much worth doing as messing about in boats."-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
"After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working."-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
2. Y Gododdin
By: None , Aneirin; A. O. H. Jarman
4.21
Format: 205 pages, Hardcover
English, Welsh (translation) read more
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"He fed ravens on the fortress wall though he was no Arthur."-None, Y Gododdin
3. Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table
By: Robert Graves , Thomas Malory , Keith Baines
3.92
Format: 512 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Presents the story of King Arthur, his knights of the Round Table, the sword Excalibur, and his tra… read more
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"Ah Gawaine, Gawaine, ye have betrayed me; for never shall my court be amended by you, but ye will never be sorry for me as I am for you"-Robert Graves, Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table
"Yet some men say in many parts of England that King Arthur is not dead, but had by the will of our Lord Jesu into another place; and men say that he shall come again, and he shall win the holy cross."-Robert Graves, Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table
"Yet some men say in many parts of England that King Arthur is not dead, but had by the will of our Lord Jesu into another place. And men say that he shall come again, and he shall win the the Holy Cr…"-Robert Graves, Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table
"...and then the threw the sword as far into the water as he might; and there came an arm and a hand above the water and met it, and caught it, and so shook it thrice and brandished, and then vanished…"-Robert Graves, Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table
4. Bleak House
By: Charles Dickens , Hablot Knight Browne , Nicola Bradbury
4.02
Format: 1017 pages, Paperback
The complex story of a notorious law-suit in which love and inheritance are set against the classic… read more
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"You can be nothing better than yourself; be that [...]"-Charles Dickens, Bleak House
"I find the nights long, for I sleep but little, and think much."-Charles Dickens, Bleak House
"I am not at all respectable, and I don't want to be. Odd perhaps, but so it is!"-Charles Dickens, Bleak House
"if the world go wrong, it was, in some off-hand manner, never meant to go right."-Charles Dickens, Bleak House
5. Troilus and Cressida
By: William Shakespeare , Louis B. Wright , Virginia A. LaMar
3.75
Format: 320 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The Arden Shakespeare is the established scholarly edition of Shakespeare's plays. Now in its third… read more
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6. The Isles: A History
By: Norman Davies
2.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
Written by one of the most brilliant and provocative historians at work today, The Islesis a revolu… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
7. The Mabinogion
By: Unknown , Jeffrey Gantz
3.75
Format: None pages, Paperback
On the bank of the river he saw a tall tree: from roots to crown one half was aflame and the other … read more
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8. The Social Contract
By: Jean-Jacques Rousseau , Maurice Cranston
3.78
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
"Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains." These are the famous opening words of a trea… read more
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"The truth brings no man a fortune"-Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
"L'homme est né libre, et partout il est dans les fers."-Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
"Liberty may be gained, but can never be recovered." (Bk2:8)"-Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
"Renunciar a la libertad es renunciar a la condición de hombre."-Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
9. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
By: James Hogg , John Carey
3.88
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
James Hogg wrote about the supernatural powerfully and convincingly, especially in his best-known n… read more
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10. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
By: Unknown , None , Burton Raffel
4.50
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
Written by an anonymous 14th-century poet, this epic poem is recognized as an equal of Chaucer's ma… read more
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11. The History of the Kings of Britain
By: Lewis Thorpe , Geoffrey of Monmouth
4.19
Format: 208 pages,
Completed in 1136, The History of the Kings of Britaintraces the story of the realm from its suppos… read more
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12. The Life of Merlin
By: Geoffrey of Monmouth , None
3.69
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Geoffrey of Monmouth's Life of Merlin. read more
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13. The Winter King (The Warlord Chronicles, #1)
By: Bernard Cornwell
4.26
Format: 431 pages, Paperback
Uther, the High King, has died, leaving the infant Mordred as his only heir. His uncle, the loyal a… read more
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"I do understand that you can look into someone’s eyes,"-Bernard Cornwell, The Winter King (The Warlord Chronicles, #1)
"Mais tarde, muito mais tarde, aprendi que a alegria e o medo são exatamente a mesma coisa."-Bernard Cornwell, The Winter King (The Warlord Chronicles, #1)
"Dizem que este Deus (deus cristão) é do perdão. Melhor ofender um desses do que qualquer outro."-Bernard Cornwell, The Winter King (The Warlord Chronicles, #1)
"I don't believe he was as bad as you make him sound. Igraine protested. No, I think he was worse."-Bernard Cornwell, The Winter King (The Warlord Chronicles, #1)
14. Excalibur (The Warlord Chronicles, #3)
By: Bernard Cornwell
4.43
Format: 436 pages, Paperback
In The Winter King and Enemy of God Bernard Cornwell demonstrated his astonishing ability to make t… read more
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- medieval
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"Il tempo è una storia e io voglio essere colui che la racconta, non colui che la crea."-Bernard Cornwell, Excalibur (The Warlord Chronicles, #3)
"Quando a gente está com problemas é útil descobrir alguém que esteve na mesma dificuldade."-Bernard Cornwell, Excalibur (The Warlord Chronicles, #3)
"Se gli uomini possono comprare la legge, diceva sempre Artù, allora la legge diventa inutile."-Bernard Cornwell, Excalibur (The Warlord Chronicles, #3)
"Dreams are like songs. Their task is not to offer an exact image of the world, but a suggestion of it."-Bernard Cornwell, Excalibur (The Warlord Chronicles, #3)
15. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
By: Susanna Clarke
1.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Sophisticated, witty, and ingeniously convincing, Susanna Clarke's magisterial novel weaves magic i… read more
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16. The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
By: Ian Mortimer
4.01
Format: 319 pages, Hardcover
Imagine you could get into a time machine and travel back to the 14th century. This text sets out t… read more
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- medieval
- nonfiction
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- medieval history
"Justice is a relative concept in all ages. The fourteenth century is no exception."-Ian Mortimer, The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
"You might find it alarming to think that your doctor will not actually need to see you in person but might make a diagnosis based on the position of the stars, the colour and smell of your urine, and…"-Ian Mortimer, The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
"So, as long as you can get enough to eat, and can avoid all the various lethal infections, the dangers of childbirth, lead poisoning, and the extreme violence, you should live a long time. All you ha…"-Ian Mortimer, The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
"Collectively they remind us that history is much more than an education process. Understanding the past is a matter of experience as well as knowledge, a striving to make spiritual, emotional, poetic…"-Ian Mortimer, The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
17. The Saga of the Volsungs
By: Anonymous , Jesse L. Byock
4.32
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Based on Viking Age poems, The Saga of the Volsungs combines mythology, legend and sheer human dram… read more
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18. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
By: Mark Twain
2.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP A nineteenth-century American travels back… read more
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19. Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
By: David Mitchell
4.16
Format: 433 pages, ebook
A rollicking history of England's earliest kings and queens, a story of narcissists, excessive behe… read more
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"The defeat of the Armada in 1588 was Elizabeth's high point. Things went downhill after that. Militarily the triumph against Spain was rather undermined the following year when Elizabeth sent her own…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"There were a couple of positives: in 1554, the Queen Regent's Prerogative Act was passed which made explicit, for the first time, that when a woman inherited the throne - became the sovereign, queen …"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Standing jaggedly on Senlac Hill, where Harold Godwinson died, possibly as a result of having taken an arrow to the eye - though possibly more boringly than that, some historians have felt constraine…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Queen Mary was known as Bloody Mary because of the large number of people she killed. And also because of misogyny. She was the first properly crowned woman to rule as queen regnant, not just queen c…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
20. Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar
By: Tom Holland
4.15
Format: 496 pages, Kindle Edition
Author and historian Tom Holland returns to his roots in Roman history and the audience he cultivat… read more
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- history
21. Essex Dogs (Essex Dogs, #1)
By: Dan Jones
3.92
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling historian makes his historical fiction debut with an explosive novel… read more
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"What matters is that you did not know the story. And the reason you did not...is that our ancestor William - through his deeds of arms, his force of personality and his vast conquests - had achieved …"-Dan Jones, Essex Dogs (Essex Dogs, #1)
22. Among the Bros: A Fraternity Crime Story
By: Max Marshall
3.50
Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition
A brilliant young investigative journalist traces a murder and a multi-million-dollar drug ring, le… read more
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23. The Mists of Avalon (Avalon, #1)
By: Marion Zimmer Bradley
4.13
Format: 1009 pages, Kindle Edition
Here is the magical legend of King Arthur, vividly retold through the eyes and lives of the women w… read more
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- mythology
"All gods are one god."-Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon (Avalon, #1)
"Love is the only prayer I know."-Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon (Avalon, #1)
"They have not forgotten the Mysteries,"-Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon (Avalon, #1)
"And as men believe, so their world goes." - Merlin"-Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon (Avalon, #1)
24. My Death
By: Lisa Tuttle
3.98
Format: 93 pages, Paperback
A widowed writer begins to work on a biography of a novelist and artist—and soon uncovers bizarre p… read more
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25. The Kingdom of Prep: The Inside Story of the Rise and (Near) Fall of J.Crew
By: Maggie Bullock
4.02
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
One of Vogue's most anticipated books of 2023. A quintessentially American fashion narrative abo… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
26. Notre-Dame: A Short History of the Meaning of Cathedrals
By: Ken Follett
3.86
Format: 80 pages, Kindle Edition
“The wonderful cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris, one of the greatest achievements of European civil… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"I'm not a religious believer, yet despite that I go to church. I love the architecture, the music, the words of the Bible, and the sense of sharing something profound with other people. I have long f…"-Ken Follett, Notre-Dame: A Short History of the Meaning of Cathedrals
27. The First Kingdom: Britain in the Age of Arthur
By: Max Adams
3.77
Format: 545 pages, Kindle Edition
The bestselling author of The King in the North turns his attention to the obscure era of British h… read more
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- medieval history
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28. A Bright Ray of Darkness
By: Ethan Hawke
3.72
Format: 237 pages, Hardcover
The blistering story of a young man making his Broadway debut in Henry IV just as his marriage impl… read more
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"the theater is the living consciousness of the world."-Ethan Hawke, A Bright Ray of Darkness
"the actual joy of acting lies in the absence of personality."-Ethan Hawke, A Bright Ray of Darkness
"a man needs to aspire to greatness and if he gives up on his hope for excellence, his soul dies"-Ethan Hawke, A Bright Ray of Darkness
"It’s our job to transform literature into an event. We do this with why and how. Why our character speaks and how our character speaks."-Ethan Hawke, A Bright Ray of Darkness
29. Breaking Bread with the Dead: A Reader's Guide to a More Tranquil Mind
By: Alan Jacobs
3.92
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
From the author of How to Think and The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction, a literary g… read more
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- history
"When we look to the past ... what we are always looking for is whatever "is better than we are" ... The future cannot teach us because we are the ones who must imagine it."-Alan Jacobs, Breaking Bread with the Dead: A Reader's Guide to a More Tranquil Mind
30. The Book of Taliesin: Poems of Warfare and Praise in an Enchanted Britain
By: Gwyneth Lewis
4.15
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
The great work of Welsh literature, translated in full for the first time in over 100 years by two … read more
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- medieval history
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"I saw mighty men On their way to battle, I saw blood on the ground As the swords rush forward, The dawn's wings growing blue As the spears took flight."-Gwyneth Lewis, The Book of Taliesin: Poems of Warfare and Praise in an Enchanted Britain
"It is death's || sad sleep || that I grieve. For the court, || and Cunedda's || shroud. I long for || a sea inlet, || for the sea's flow, For the herd || and hearth || I'm longing."-Gwyneth Lewis, The Book of Taliesin: Poems of Warfare and Praise in an Enchanted Britain
"From sea's wide spring || out flows the tide: It advances, retreats, || it smashes, crushes. The lament for Cú Roí || has distressed me; The cold silencing, of a hard man || full of passion: I've sel…"-Gwyneth Lewis, The Book of Taliesin: Poems of Warfare and Praise in an Enchanted Britain
31. King Arthur: The Making of the Legend
By: Nicholas J. Higham
3.71
Format: 380 pages, Hardcover
According to legend, King Arthur saved Britain from the Saxons and reigned over it gloriously somet… read more
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