6 Best classics books like Land by Pak Kyongni

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Land

By: Pak Kyongni

3.88

Format: 626 pages, Hardcover

Acclaimed as an important piece of modern Korean writing, this book is set against the background o…

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Cover of Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel

1. Sputnik Sweetheart

By: Haruki Murakami , Philip Gabriel

3.83

Format: 229 pages, Paperback

alternate cover can be found here Sumire is in love with a woman seventeen years her senior. But… read more

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  • literature
  • asia
  • fiction
"I feel like I've swallowed a cloudy sky"

-Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

"Ice is cold; roses are red. I’m in love."

-Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

"It was far too hot to think about complicated matters."

-Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

"A percepção não passa da soma dos nossos mal-entendidos."

-Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

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2. Dancing into Battle: A Social History of the Battle of Waterloo

By: Nick Foulkes

4.06

Format: 267 pages, Paperback

Examining a battle that has become one of the most famous in history, this definitive volume chroni… read more

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3. The Well of Loneliness

By: Radclyffe Hall

4.35

Format: None pages, Paperback

First published in 1928, this timeless portrayal of lesbian love is now a classic. The thinly disgu… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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4. Silas Marner

By: George Eliot

3.68

Format: 262 pages, Paperback

Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe is the third novel by George Eliot, published in 1861. An outwa… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Love once, love always"

-George Eliot, Silas Marner

"Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand."

-George Eliot, Silas Marner

"Hurt, he'll never be hurt--he's made to hurt other people."

-George Eliot, Silas Marner

"Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings."

-George Eliot, Silas Marner

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5. Schindler's List

By: Thomas Keneally

4.20

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

In the shadow of Auschwitz, a flamboyant German industrialist grew into a living legend to the Jews… read more

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  • historical
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6. The Last Gentleman

By: Walker Percy

3.57

Format: None pages,

Will Barrett is a 25-year-old wanderer from the South living in New York City, detached from his ro… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
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7. They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

By: Horace McCoy

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

The marathon dance craze flourished during the 1930s, but the underside was a competition and viole… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
Cover of Outlaws of the Marsh (Vol. 1-4) by Luo Guanzhong, Shi Nai'an, Sidney Shapiro

8. Outlaws of the Marsh (Vol. 1-4)

By: Luo Guanzhong , Shi Nai'an , Sidney Shapiro

4.00

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

The Water Marginis one of the "Four Great Classical Novels" of Chinese literature. Based upon the s… read more

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  • classics
  • literature
  • asia
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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9. Fingersmith

By: Sarah Waters

4.02

Format: 592 pages, ebook

Sue Trinder is an orphan, left as an infant in the care of Mrs. Sucksby, a "baby farmer," who raise… read more

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  • historical
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"You pearl!"

-Sarah Waters, Fingersmith

"PIGEON MY ARSE!"

-Sarah Waters, Fingersmith

"It's a curious, wanting thing."

-Sarah Waters, Fingersmith

"She said, 'It is filled with all the words for how I want you."

-Sarah Waters, Fingersmith

10. The Wasp Factory

By: Iain Banks

4.22

Format: None pages, Paperback

Meet Frank Cauldhame. Just sixteen, and unconventional to say the least: Two years after I killed B… read more

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11. The Magus

By: John Fowles

4.37

Format: None pages, Paperback

This daring literary thriller, rich with eroticism and suspense, is one of John Fowles's best-loved… read more

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12. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

By: Italo Calvino , William Weaver

3.90

Format: 216 pages,

If on a Winter's Night a Traveleris a marvel of ingenuity, an experimental text that looks longingl… read more

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13. The Golden Ass

By: Apuleius , Jack Lindsay , None

4.30

Format: 324 pages, Paperback

The Golden Assby Apuleius is a unique, entertaining, and thoroughly readable Latin novel - the only… read more

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14. El hereje

By: Miguel Delibes

3.31

Format: None pages,

En el ano 1517, Martin Lutero fija sus noventa y cinco tesis contra las indulgencias en la puerta d… read more

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15. Gravity's Rainbow

By: Thomas Pynchon , Andrés Ibáñez , None

3.97

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, Gravity's Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustiv… read more

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16. Lord Jim

By: Joseph Conrad

5.00

Format: 30 pages, Paperback

Haunted by the memory of a moment of lost nerve during a disastrous voyage, Jim submits to condemna… read more

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17. Family Matters

By: Rohinton Mistry

3.44

Format: 406 pages, Paperback

Rohinton Mistry's enthralling novel is at once a domestic drama and an intently observed portrait o… read more

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18. The Portrait of a Lady

By: Henry James , Patricia Crick

3.79

Format: 797 pages, Paperback

When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy Aunt Touche… read more

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  • historical
  • adult
"She has only one fault; too many ideas."

-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

"If one is strong, one loves the more strongly."

-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

"It's not my fate to give up--I know it can't be."

-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

"The finer natures were those that shone at the larger times."

-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

19. Kokoro

By: Natsume Sōseki , Edwin McClellan

3.77

Format: None pages,

Hailed by The New Yorker as "rich in understanding and insight,"Kokoro -- "the heart of things"-- i… read more

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20. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

By: Michael Chabon

3.95

Format: None pages,

Joe Kavalier, a young Jewish artist who has also been trained in the art of Houdini-esque escape, h… read more

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21. Land

By: Pak Kyongni

3.88

Format: 626 pages, Hardcover

Acclaimed as an important piece of modern Korean writing, this book is set against the background o… read more

Similar categories in Pak Kyongni's Land book and Pak Kyongni's Land

  • classics
  • literature
  • historical
  • asia
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • asian literature
  • 20th century
  • adult

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Sputnik Sweetheart

Haruki Murakami , Philip Gabriel

3.83

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Radclyffe Hall

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George Eliot

3.68

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Walker Percy

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William Lindsay Gresham , Nick Tosches

3.83

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Jim Thompson

3.61

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Jim Thompson

3.60

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Horace McCoy

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