14 Best fiction books like Flower Phantoms by Ronald Fraser

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Flower Phantoms

By: Ronald Fraser

4.04

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

"[P]robably the most distinguished writer of English prose in the novel form at present living. He …

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Cover of The Arabian Nights by Anonymous, Richard Francis Burton, A.S. Byatt

1. The Arabian Nights

By: Anonymous , Richard Francis Burton , A.S. Byatt

4.03

Format: 1049 pages, Mass Market Paperback

This volume reproduces the 1932 Modern Library edition, for which Bennett A. Cerf chose the most fa… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
"Experience shapes perception."

-Anonymous, The Arabian Nights

"It is amazing what women in love will do"

-Anonymous, The Arabian Nights

"If you need a hug, give it to someone else."

-Anonymous, The Arabian Nights

"Glory be to Him who changes others and remains Himself unchanged!"

-Anonymous, The Arabian Nights

Cover of The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West, Verlyn Klinkenborg, None, Michelle Dean

2. The Return of the Soldier

By: Rebecca West , Verlyn Klinkenborg , None , Michelle Dean

3.70

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Writing her first novel during World War I, West examines the relationship between three women and … read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
  • british literature
"L'indifferenza significa che gli occhi non hanno più bisogno di cercarsi, le mani di protendersi; né le labbra di unirsi, perché è un'unione in cui non ci si accorge più della separazione dei corpi."

-Rebecca West, The Return of the Soldier

"Perché mai la vita moderna ha generato orrori al cui confronto le vecchie tragedie sembrano spettacoli per bambini? Forse perché l'umanità in cerca di avventura ha cambiato troppo il mondo esterno ch…"

-Rebecca West, The Return of the Soldier

"So I went out alone into a soft day, with the dispelled winter lurking above in high dark clouds under which there ran quick fresh currents of air, and broken shafts of insistent sunshine that spread…"

-Rebecca West, The Return of the Soldier

"Indeed, grief is not the clear melancholy the young believe it. It is like a siege in a tropical city. The skin dries and the throat parches as though one were living in the heat of the desert; water…"

-Rebecca West, The Return of the Soldier

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3. The Marquise of O— and Other Stories

By: Heinrich von Kleist , None , Nigel Reeves

3.54

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

In The Marquise of O-, a virtuous widow finds herself unaccountably pregnant. And although the baff… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
"In M---, an important town in northern Italy, the widowed Marquise of O---, a lady of unblemished reputation and the mother of several well-brought-up children, inserted the following announcement in…"

-Heinrich von Kleist, The Marquise of O— and Other Stories

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4. The Eye of the Heron

By: Ursula K. Le Guin , Virginia Kidd

3.80

Format: 192 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In Victoria on a former prison colony, two exiled groups--the farmers of Shantih and the City dwell… read more

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  • fiction
"Violence gains nothing, killing wins nothing—only sometimes nothing is what people want. Death is what they want. And they get it."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Eye of the Heron

"And so, because he won't let himself be hurt, he does wrong to those he loves best. And then he sees that, and after all, it hurts him."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Eye of the Heron

"The wind and light on rock top hill and his voice and the rest, all the rest. All the days and lights and winds and years that would have been and that would not be. That should be and were not becau…"

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Eye of the Heron

"I like men very much, but sometimes ... they're so stupid, so stuffed with theories .... They go in straight lines only, and won't stop. It's dangerous to do that. It's dangerous to leave everything …"

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Eye of the Heron

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5. The Country of the Pointed Firs

By: Sarah Orne Jewett

3.95

Format: None pages, Paperback

Set in a small, coastal town in Maine, this enduring sequence of intimate stories has assumed its r… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
Cover of The Once and Future King (The Once and Future King #1-4) by T.H. White

6. The Once and Future King (The Once and Future King #1-4)

By: T.H. White

4.67

Format: 48 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Once upon a time, a young boy called "Wart" was tutored by a magician named Merlyn in preparation f… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
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7. Asylum Piece

By: Anna Kavan

4.50

Format: 182 pages, Paperback

This collection of stories, mostly interlinked and largely autobiographical, chart the descent of t… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
  • british literature
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8. The Purple Cloud

By: John Clute , M.P. Shiel

4.00

Format: 199 pages, Paperback

"If now a swell from the Deep has swept over this planetary ship of earth, and I, who alone chanced… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
Cover of Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Robert Maturin, Victor Sage

9. 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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  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
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10. The House of the Seven Gables

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne , Robert S. Levine

4.33

Format: 277 pages, Paperback

In a sleepy little New England village stands a dark, weather-beaten, many-gabled house. This brood… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction

11. The Willows

By: Algernon Blackwood

3.75

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Two friends are midway on a canoe trip down the Danube River. Throughout the story Blackwood person… read more

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12. The Juniper Tree

By: Barbara Comyns

4.14

Format: None pages, Paperback

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13. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket

By: Edgar Allan Poe , Richard Kopley

3.32

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

This rousing sea adventure follows a New England boy, Pym, who stows away on a whaling ship with it… read more

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14. Living Alone

By: None

4.42

Format: None pages, Paperback

Stella Benson (1892-1933) was an English feminist travel writer and novelist. Stella was noted for … read more

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15. The Island of Dr. Moreau

By: H.G. Wells

4.67

Format: 46 pages, Paperback

Ranked among the classic novels of the English language and the inspiration for several unforgettab… read more

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16. L'arte della gioia

By: Goliarda Sapienza

4.34

Format: None pages, Hardcover

L'arte della gioiae un libro postumo: giaceva da vent'anni abbandonato in una cassapanca e, dopo es… read more

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17. Old God's Time

By: Sebastian Barry

3.85

Format: 261 pages, Hardcover

From the two-time Booker Prize finalist author, a dazzlingly written novel exploring love, memory, … read more

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  • fiction
"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-se immòbil, feliç i inútil"

-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time

"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-de immòbil, feliç i inútil"

-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time

"No one minds life as long as they are not trying to leave it. Nor death, as long as they are not dying."

-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time

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18. In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial

By: Mona Chollet

4.10

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Mona Chollet's In Defense of Witches is a celebration by an acclaimed French feminist of the witch … read more

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"En somme, si on voulait être cohérent, il faudrait soit lever le pied sur l'éducation des filles, soit intégrer à leur formation un sérieux entraînement à la guérilla contre le patriarcat, tout en s'…"

-Mona Chollet, In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial

"No obstante, algunas mujeres, vivan o no con hombres, se sientan o no llamadas por una vocación, encuentran otro modo de evitar ser engullidas por el papel de la devota sirvienta: no tener hijos; dar…"

-Mona Chollet, In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial

"Certaines, cependant, qu'elles vivent avec les hommes ou pas, qu'elles se sentent ou non requises par une vocation, trouvent un autre moyen d'échapper à l'engloutissement dans le rôle de la servante …"

-Mona Chollet, In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial

"Il serait temps que les femmes - souvent si peu sûres d'elles, de leurs capacités, de la pertinence de ce qu'elles ont à apporter, de leur droit à une vie pour elles-mêmes - apprennent à se défendre …"

-Mona Chollet, In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial

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19. Pearl

By: Siân Hughes

3.91

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

A haunting debut novel inspired by the medieval poem of the same name Marianne is eight years ol… read more

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  • fiction
  • british literature
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20. Of Dogs and Walls

By: Yūko Tsushima

3.68

Format: 53 pages, Paperback

Two luminous, tender stories from one of Japan's greatest twentieth-century writers, showing how ch… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"Living right in the heart of Tokyo itself is quite like living in the mountains – in the midst of so many people, one hardly sees anyone."

-Yūko Tsushima, Of Dogs and Walls

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21. Flower Phantoms

By: Ronald Fraser

4.04

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

"[P]robably the most distinguished writer of English prose in the novel form at present living. He … read more

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  • classics
  • british literature
  • literature
  • weird fiction
  • fiction

10 Best classics books like Flower Phantoms by Ronald Fraser

Transform Your Habits

The Arabian Nights

Anonymous , Richard Francis Burton , A.S. Byatt

4.03

Transform Your Habits

The Return of the Soldier

Rebecca West , Verlyn Klinkenborg , None , Michelle Dean

3.70

Transform Your Habits

The Marquise of O— and Other Stories

Heinrich von Kleist , None , Nigel Reeves

3.54

Transform Your Habits

The Country of the Pointed Firs

Sarah Orne Jewett

3.95

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11 must-read fiction books like The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Robert S. Levine

Transform Your Habits

The Centaur

Algernon Blackwood

3.46

Transform Your Habits

The Castle of Otranto

Horace Walpole

3.18

Transform Your Habits

Pudd'nhead Wilson (Bantam Classics)

Mark Twain

3.75

Transform Your Habits

Hope Leslie: or, Early Times in the Massachusetts

Carolyn L. Karcher , Catharine Maria Sedgwick

3.37

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