10 Top classics books like The Silver Mine by Selma Lagerlöf

Cover of The Silver Mine by Selma Lagerlöf

The Silver Mine

By: Selma Lagerlöf

3.60

Format: 25 pages, Paperback

“Good day!” said Per Persson. “Do you come from Falun now?” “I do,” said the parson. “And now I mus…

If you liked the classics plot in The Silver Mine by Selma Lagerlöf , here is a list of 10 books like this:

Cover of Daisy Miller by Henry James

1. Daisy Miller

By: Henry James

3.37

Format: 164 pages, Paperback

It was in Rome during the autumn of 1877; a friend then living there but settled now in a South les… read more

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  • short stories
  • classics
  • fiction
"I have never allowed a gentleman to dictate to me, or to interfere with anything I do."

-Henry James, Daisy Miller

"In such hours as this what have we to do with pain? That is not the deepest thing; there is something deeper."

-Henry James, Daisy Miller

"The news that Daisy Miller was surrounded by half a dozen wonderful mustaches checked Winterbourne's impulse to go straightway to see her."

-Henry James, Daisy Miller

"The historic atmosphere was there, certainly; but the historic atmosphere, scientifically considered, was no better than a villainous miasma"

-Henry James, Daisy Miller

Cover of The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster, Art Spiegelman

2. The New York Trilogy

By: Paul Auster , Art Spiegelman

4.36

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

Paul Auster's signature work, The New York Trilogy, consists of three interlocking novels: City of … read more

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  • fiction
Cover of We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, Clarence Brown

3. We

By: Yevgeny Zamyatin , Clarence Brown

3.89

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

The exhilarating dystopian novel that inspired George Orwell's 1984 and foreshadowed the worst exce… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"Her smile was a bite, and I was its target."

-Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

"There is no final one; revolutions are infinite."

-Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

"knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith"

-Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

"You're in a bad way! Apparently, you have developed a soul."

-Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

Cover of Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast by Oscar Wilde

4. Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast

By: Oscar Wilde

4.30

Format: None pages,

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  • short stories
  • classics
Cover of İnsan Ne İle Yaşar? by Leo Tolstoy, Lev Tolstoy

5. İnsan Ne İle Yaşar?

By: Leo Tolstoy , Lev Tolstoy

1.00

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

"Insan Ne Ile Yasar" unlu dusunur ve yazar Tolstoy'un okuyucunun manevi dunyasina hitap eden hikaye… read more

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  • short stories
  • classics
  • fiction
Cover of Mannen på stranden by Henning Mankell

6. Mannen på stranden

By: Henning Mankell

3.91

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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7. Autumn

By: Ali Smith

4.26

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A breathtakingly inventive new novel from the Man Booker-shortlisted and Baileys Prize-winning auth… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Ella gör sig fri by Karin Boye

8. Ella gör sig fri

By: Karin Boye

3.66

Format: 162 pages, Paperback

"Han sag upp och nickade, da hon kom in. I sjalva verket skulle det gjort henne detsamma, i vilket … read more

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  • short stories
  • classics
  • fiction
Cover of All Creatures Great and Small (All Creatures Great and Small, #1-2) by James Herriot

9. All Creatures Great and Small (All Creatures Great and Small, #1-2)

By: James Herriot

3.59

Format: 251 pages,

The classic multimillion copy bestseller Delve into the magical, unforgettable world of James Herri… read more

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  • classics

10. The Garden Party

By: Katherine Mansfield

3.62

Format: None pages, ebook

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge… read more

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11. Lady Susan

By: Jane Austen , Robert William Chapman

3.65

Format: 180 pages, Paperback

Beautiful, flirtatious, and recently widowed, Lady Susan Vernon seeks an advantageous second marria… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"I have not yet tranquillised myself enough to see Frederica."

-Jane Austen, Lady Susan

"I shall ever despise the man who can be gratified by the passion which he never wished to inspire, nor solicited the avowal of."

-Jane Austen, Lady Susan

"How little the general report of any one ought to be credited, since no character, however upright, can escape the malevolence of slander."

-Jane Austen, Lady Susan

"...though I always imagined from her increasing friendship for us since her husband's death that we should, at some future period, be obliged to receive her."

-Jane Austen, Lady Susan

12. Hur jag tillbringar mina dagar och nätter

By: Håkan Nesser

4.75

Format: 118 pages, Paperback

Nar jag kande henne hette hon Clara. Clara Maxwell. Har hon aldrig namnt det? Forfattaren Maarten k… read more

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13. Down and Out in Paris and London

By: George Orwell

4.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

This unusual fictional account - in good part autobiographical - narrates without self-pity and oft… read more

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14. Strange Weather in Tokyo

By: Hiromi Kawakami

4.29

Format: None pages, Paperback

Tsukiko is drinking alone in her local sake bar when by chance she meets one of her old high school… read more

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15. Secret Rendezvous

By: Kōbō Abe , Juliet Winters Carpenter

4.19

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

From the acclaimed author of Woman in the Dunescomes Secret Rendezvous,the bizarrely erotic and com… read more

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16. Snöblandat regn

By: Stig Dagerman

4.25

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

Stig Dagerman ar en av fyrtiotalismens mest betydande forfattare, och med teman som klasskamp och m… read more

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17. Letter to His Father

By: Franz Kafka , Max Brod , Eithne Wilkins , Ernst Kaiser , Willem van Toorn , Gerda Meijerink

3.53

Format: 349 pages,

This is the bilingual edition with German verso, English recto. read more

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18. The Silk Roads: A New History of the World

By: Peter Frankopan

3.77

Format: None pages,

From the rise and fall of empires in China, Persia, and Rome itself to the spread of Buddhism and a… read more

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Cover of Winter (Seasonal, #2) by Ali Smith

19. Winter (Seasonal, #2)

By: Ali Smith

3.82

Format: 322 pages, Hardcover

The dazzling second novel in Ali Smith’s essential Seasonal Quartet—from the Baileys Prize-winning,… read more

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  • fiction
"Everywhere’s a here, isn’t it?"

-Ali Smith, Winter (Seasonal, #2)

"Are we at mercy of technology or is technology at mercy of us?"

-Ali Smith, Winter (Seasonal, #2)

"Mind and matter are mysterious and, when they come together, bounteous."

-Ali Smith, Winter (Seasonal, #2)

"You can’t expect to live in the world like the world’s your private myth."

-Ali Smith, Winter (Seasonal, #2)

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20. Mr Salary

By: Sally Rooney

3.78

Format: 33 pages, Paperback

My love for him felt so total and so annihilating that it was often impossible for me to see him cl… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
"My love for him felt so total and so annihilating that it was often impossible for me to see him clearly at all."

-Sally Rooney, Mr Salary

"He watched me at first but then looked away. "Would it be a major bereavement for you if I died?" I said. "The most major one I can think of, yeah." "Nobody else would grieve."

-Sally Rooney, Mr Salary

"Death was, of course, the most ordinary thing that could happen, at some level I knew that. Still, I had stood there waiting to see the body in the river, ignoring the real living bodies all around m…"

-Sally Rooney, Mr Salary

"Nothing inside my body was trying to kill me. Death was, of course, the most ordinary thing that could happen, at some level I knew that. Still, I had stood there waiting to see the body in the river…"

-Sally Rooney, Mr Salary

Cover of Abroad in Japan: Ten Years In The Land Of The Rising Sun by Chris  Broad

21. Abroad in Japan: Ten Years In The Land Of The Rising Sun

By: Chris Broad

4.18

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

When Englishman Chris Broad landed in a rural village in northern Japan he wondered if he'd made a … read more

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Cover of Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths by Natalie Haynes

22. Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths

By: Natalie Haynes

4.24

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The Greek myths are one of the most important cultural foundation-stones of the modern world. St… read more

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  • short stories
  • classics
"For my mum, who has always thought that a woman with an axe was more interesting than a princess"

-Natalie Haynes, Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths

"Medusa wasn't always a monster, Helen of Troy wasn't always an adulterer, Pandora wasn't ever a villain."

-Natalie Haynes, Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths

"The greatest virtue, in other words, that an Athenian woman could aspire to was not to be registered, almost not to exist."

-Natalie Haynes, Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths

"The guiding principle when searching for the cause of everything wrong in the world has been, all too often: _cherchez la femme_."

-Natalie Haynes, Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths

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23. Kudos

By: Rachel Cusk

3.89

Format: 236 pages, ebook

En un avión, una mujer escucha a su vecino de vuelo contarle la historia de su vida: su trabajo, su… read more

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  • fiction
"Perhaps it follows, he said, that people who live in the sun don't take responsibility for their own happiness."

-Rachel Cusk, Kudos

"We invent these systems with the aim of ensuring fairness, she said, and yet the human situation is so complex that it always evades our attempts to encompass it."

-Rachel Cusk, Kudos

"You asked me earlier,' she said to me, 'whether I believed that justice was merely a personal illusion. I don't have the answer to that,' she said, 'but I know that it is to be feared, feared in ever…"

-Rachel Cusk, Kudos

"We live with an almost superstitious belief in our own differences, she said, and Luis has shown that those differences are not the result of some divine mystery but are merely the consequence of our…"

-Rachel Cusk, Kudos

Cover of The Trio by Johanna Hedman

24. The Trio

By: Johanna Hedman

3.60

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Sophisticated, mature and richly atmospheric, a debut novel about three young people navigating th… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1) by Stephen Fry

25. Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1)

By: Stephen Fry

4.26

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Mythos is a modern collection of Greek myths, stylishly retold by legendary writer, actor, and come… read more

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  • short stories
  • classics
"Green fingers are better than gold."

-Stephen Fry, Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1)

"Goodness me. You don’t ask for the moon, do you?"

-Stephen Fry, Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1)

"Gaia visited her daughter Mnemosyne, who was busy being unpronounceable."

-Stephen Fry, Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1)

"For the world seems never to offer anything worthwhile without also providing a dreadful opposite."

-Stephen Fry, Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1)

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26. Migrän

By: Arne Dahl

2.78

Format: 21 pages, ebook

– Tänk, säger Simon. Och jag tänker. Jag försöker jobba mig djupt in i min överhettade hjärna. D… read more

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  • short stories
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27. Anywhere Out of the World

By: Karin Tidbeck

3.32

Format: 30 pages, Paperback

The walk from the bus stop was short, but it felt like being in the middle of nowhere. The summer h… read more

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  • short stories
Cover of The Silver Mine by Selma Lagerlöf

28. The Silver Mine

By: Selma Lagerlöf

3.60

Format: 25 pages, Paperback

“Good day!” said Per Persson. “Do you come from Falun now?” “I do,” said the parson. “And now I mus… read more

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  • short stories
  • classics
  • fiction
Cover of Frictions by August Strindberg

29. Frictions

By: August Strindberg

2.58

Format: 25 pages, Paperback

And he fell on his knees and worshipped her; he said that he did not care if the administration of … read more

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  • short stories
Cover of Most Beloved Sister and Mirabelle by Astrid Lindgren

30. Most Beloved Sister and Mirabelle

By: Astrid Lindgren

3.71

Format: 19 pages, Paperback

Then Lalla-Lee grabbed my arm very tightly and said: “Most Beloved Sister, there is one thing you m… read more

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  • short stories

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