18 must-read classics books like Captain Antifer by Jules Verne

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Captain Antifer

By: Jules Verne

3.61

Format: 324 pages, Paperback

Captain Antifer's father had befriended an Egyptian prisoner at Jaff [Jaffa], Kamylk Pasha, and man…

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1. Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)

By: Kim Stanley Robinson

3.86

Format: 572 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In his most ambitious project to date, award-winning author Kim Stanley Robinson utilizes years of … read more

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"Why should I discuss it with you?"

-Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)

"It's the love of right lures men to wrong."

-Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)

"The beauty of Mars exists in the human mind,"

-Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)

"In games there are rules, but in life the rules keep changing."

-Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)

Cover of Robinson Crusoe by Virginia Woolf, Daniel Defoe, Gerald McCann

2. Robinson Crusoe

By: Virginia Woolf , Daniel Defoe , Gerald McCann

3.68

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Daniel Defoe relates the tale of an English sailor marooned on a desert island for nearly three dec… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • adventure
"For sudden Joys, like Griefs, confound at first. "

-Virginia Woolf, Robinson Crusoe

"On a horse? I was married on a horse? Gillian looked like she could kill the groom"

-Virginia Woolf, Robinson Crusoe

"All evils are to be considered with the good that is in them, and with what worse attends them."

-Virginia Woolf, Robinson Crusoe

"for me to think of such a voyage was the most preposterous thing that ever man in such circumstances could be guilty of."

-Virginia Woolf, Robinson Crusoe

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3. Ion

By: Liviu Rebreanu

3.40

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

15h 13mLiviu Rebreanu mărturisea la un moment dat că în lunga perioadă de şapte ani, cât a durat sc… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"Ideea nu poate muri. Ideea e sufletul omului."

-Liviu Rebreanu, Ion

"Daca asta n-a fost iubire, atunci ce-i iubirea?"

-Liviu Rebreanu, Ion

"Patima din glasul lui Ion îl infiora pe Titu. Îndîrjirea, egoismul și cruzimea cu care omul acesta a urmărit o țintă, fără să se uite în dreapta și în stânga, îl infricoșau, dar îl și mișcau. Se gând…"

-Liviu Rebreanu, Ion

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4. Jungle Tales of Tarzan (Tarzan #6)

By: Edgar Rice Burroughs

3.71

Format: 191 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Glorious tales of Tarzan’s early growth to manhood in the forest... Tarzan, the heart of primeval… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • adventure
"[The little black boy] had seen Tarzan bring down a buck, just as Numa, the lion, might have done... Tibo had shuddered at the sight, but he had thrilled, too, and for the first time there entered hi…"

-Edgar Rice Burroughs, Jungle Tales of Tarzan (Tarzan #6)

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5. The Three Musketeers

By: Alexandre Dumas , Richard Pevear , John Lee

4.09

Format: 625 pages, Paperback

First published in 1844, The Three Musketeers is the most famous of Alexandre Dumas' historical nov… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • adventure
"All for one and one for all."

-Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

"Love is the most selfish of all the passions."

-Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

"The merit of all things lies in their difficulty."

-Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

"I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death."

-Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

Cover of The Club Dumas by Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Sonia Soto

6. The Club Dumas

By: Arturo Pérez-Reverte , Sonia Soto

0.00

Format: 798 pages, Paperback

A provocative literary thriller that playfully pays tribute to classic tales of mystery and adventu… read more

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  • fiction
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7. Smoke Bellew

By: Jack London

4.04

Format: None pages, Paperback

Christopher Bellew is a success in the eyes of the world, engaged with the San Francisco paper and … read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • adventure
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8. The Black Star

By: Johnston McCulley

3.24

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Johnston McCulley (1883-1958) was a police reporter before he became proflic and successful writer … read more

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  • fiction
Cover of A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe, None, Cynthia Wall

9. A Journal of the Plague Year

By: Daniel Defoe , None , Cynthia Wall

4.12

Format: None pages, Paperback

In 1665, the Great Plague swept through London, claiming nearly 100,000 lives. In A Journal of the … read more

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  • classics
Cover of The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia by Orlando Figes

10. The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia

By: Orlando Figes

4.81

Format: 539 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of A People's Tragedyand Natasha's Dance, a landmark account of what … read more

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11. The Mark of Zorro (Zorro, #1)

By: Johnston McCulley

3.99

Format: 265 pages, Paperback

Old California, in a bygone era of sprawling haciendas and haughty caballeros, suffers beneath the … read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • adventure
"Ha! A laggard at love-and in your pressence? What ails the man? Is he ill?"

-Johnston McCulley, The Mark of Zorro (Zorro, #1)

"The persecution would cease instantly, for the commands of a Vega were made to be obeyed by all men of whatever rank."

-Johnston McCulley, The Mark of Zorro (Zorro, #1)

"Zorro also is part of the bandido tradition, most closely associated with the possibly mythical Joaquin Murrieta and the historical Tiburcio Vasquez. As well as these local California legendary figur…"

-Johnston McCulley, The Mark of Zorro (Zorro, #1)

Cover of Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens, George Cruikshank, Philip Horne

12. 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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  • 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

Cover of The Old Man Who Read Love Stories by Luis Sepúlveda

13. The Old Man Who Read Love Stories

By: Luis Sepúlveda

4.04

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

In a remote river town deep in the Ecuadoran jungle, Antonio Jose Bolivar seeks refuge in amorous n… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
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14. 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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  • classics
  • 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

Cover of The Circular Study (Mr. Gryce #10) by Anna Katharine Green

15. The Circular Study (Mr. Gryce #10)

By: Anna Katharine Green

4.10

Format: 224 pages,

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  • classics
  • fiction
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16. The Amethyst Box

By: Anna Katharine Green

3.50

Format: None pages,

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  • classics
  • fiction
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17. Treasure Island

By: Robert Louis Stevenson , N.C. Wyeth

3.85

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

"For sheer storytelling delight and pure adventure, Treasure Island has never been surpassed. From … read more

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  • fiction
  • adventure
"Doctors is all swabs."

-Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

"Thems that die'll be the lucky ones."

-Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

"... Bear up until you see you're gaining."

-Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

"We must go on, because we can't turn back."

-Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

Cover of Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham, Maeve Binchy, Benjamin DeMott

18. Of Human Bondage

By: W. Somerset Maugham , Maeve Binchy , Benjamin DeMott

3.99

Format: 380 pages, Paperback

The first and most autobiographical of Maugham's masterpieces. It is the story of Philip Carey, an … read more

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  • classics
  • fiction

19. Good Wives (Little Women, #1.5)

By: Louisa May Alcott

3.95

Format: 620 pages,

NOTE: Little Women is sometimes published in two volumes, entitled Little Women and Good Wives. Amy… read more

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20. Metro 2034 (Metro #2)

By: Dmitry Glukhovsky , M. David Drevs

3.67

Format: 117 pages, Paperback

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21. Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar (Tarzan, #5)

By: Edgar Rice Burroughs

4.27

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of dow… read more

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22. The Case of the Golden Bullet

By: Grace Isabel Colbron , Auguste Groner

3.00

Format: 146 pages, Paperback

Frau. Auguste Groner (1850-1929) co-authored Grace Isobel Colborn (1869-1948) in writing a series o… read more

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23. Laurus

By: None , Lisa Hayden

4.17

Format: 510 pages, Hardcover

It is the late fifteenth century and a village healer in Russia is powerless to help his beloved as… read more

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24. Love of Life

By: Jack London

4.75

Format: 14 pages,

A collection of eight short stories from American author, journalist, and social activist Jack Lond… read more

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25. The Three-Cornered World

By: Natsume Sōseki , None

4.32

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

"An artist abandons city life to wander into the mountains to meditate, but when he decides to stay… read more

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26. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

By: Victor Hugo , Walter J. Cobb

4.02

Format: 510 pages, Paperback

This extraordinary historical French gothic novel, set in Medieval Paris under the twin towers of i… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"Homo homini monstrum"

-Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

"Oh! Everything I loved!"

-Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

"by making himself a priest made himself a demon."

-Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

"a mother who loses her child can no longer believe in God"

-Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

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27. A Princess of Mars (Barsoom, #1)

By: Edgar Rice Burroughs , John Seelye

3.81

Format: 186 pages, Paperback

A Princess of Mars is the first of eleven thrilling novels that comprise Edgar Rice Burroughs' most… read more

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  • fiction
  • adventure
"Mine own people do not care for me, John Carter; I am too unlike them. It is a sad fate, since I must live my life amongst them."

-Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Princess of Mars (Barsoom, #1)

"Twenty years have intervened; for ten of them I lived and fought for Dejah Thoris and her people, and for ten I have lived upon her memory."

-Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Princess of Mars (Barsoom, #1)

"There was one slight, desperate chance, and that I decided I must take--it was for Dejah Thoris, and no man has lived who would not risk a thousand deaths for such as she."

-Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Princess of Mars (Barsoom, #1)

"Day had now given away to night and as we wandered along the great avenue lighted by the two moons of Barsoom, and with Earth looking down upon us out of her luminous green eye, it seemed that we wer…"

-Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Princess of Mars (Barsoom, #1)

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28. Madhouse at the End of the Earth

By: Julian Sancton

4.27

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

In August 1897, the young Belgian commandant Adrien de Gerlache set sail for a three-year expeditio… read more

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  • adventure
"Among the greatest threats future travelers to Mars are likely to face is an interplanetary version of winter over-syndrome. The unknown icescapes around the earth poles, particularly Antarctica, see…"

-Julian Sancton, Madhouse at the End of the Earth

"Cook referred to the symptoms collectively as polar anemia. Researchers today use the term winter over-syndrome. But it's essentially the same thing. A prevailing theory suggests it's a form of hypot…"

-Julian Sancton, Madhouse at the End of the Earth

"But in emphasizing the likelihood of a connection between winter over-syndrome and what is now known as seasonal effective disorder, a variation in mood that correlates with a dwindling of daylight h…"

-Julian Sancton, Madhouse at the End of the Earth

"Note: Dr. Lawrence Polinkis who analyzed clinical data from American men and women at Antarctica's Mcmurdo station Amundsen Scott's South Pole station posits specifically that the memory loss and oth…"

-Julian Sancton, Madhouse at the End of the Earth

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29. Los cuatro jinetes del Apocalipsis

By: Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

3.95

Format: 398 pages, Kindle Edition

Esta edición digital en formato ePub forma parte de un proyecto puesto en marcha por la Biblioteca … read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
Cover of Captain Antifer by Jules Verne

30. Captain Antifer

By: Jules Verne

3.61

Format: 324 pages, Paperback

Captain Antifer's father had befriended an Egyptian prisoner at Jaff [Jaffa], Kamylk Pasha, and man… read more

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20 Best fiction books like Captain Antifer by Jules Verne

Transform Your Habits

Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)

Kim Stanley Robinson

3.86

Transform Your Habits

Robinson Crusoe

Virginia Woolf , Daniel Defoe , Gerald McCann

3.68

Transform Your Habits

Ion

Liviu Rebreanu

3.40

Transform Your Habits

Jungle Tales of Tarzan (Tarzan #6)

Edgar Rice Burroughs

3.71

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20 Top fiction books like Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens, George Cruikshank, Philip Horne

Transform Your Habits

Jane Eyre

Charlotte Brontë , Michael Mason

4.15

Transform Your Habits

Tess of the D’Urbervilles

Thomas Hardy , Tim Dolin , Margaret R. Higonnet

3.83

Transform Your Habits

Robinson Crusoe

Virginia Woolf , Daniel Defoe , Gerald McCann

3.68

Transform Your Habits

Wuthering Heights

Emily Brontë , Richard J. Dunn

3.89

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