9 best-selling classics books like The Romance of Arthur by James J. Wilhelm

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The Romance of Arthur

By: James J. Wilhelm

4.04

Format: 584 pages, Paperback

The Romance of Arthur, James J. Wilhelm's classic anthology of Arthurian literature, is an essentia…

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Cover of Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table by Robert Graves, Thomas Malory, Keith Baines

1. 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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  • classics
  • literature
  • fiction
  • arthurian
  • medieval
  • fantasy
  • mythology
"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

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2. 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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  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
"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

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3. The Death of King Arthur

By: Unknown , James Cable

4.01

Format: 235 pages, Paperback

Recounting the final days of Arthur, this thirteenth-century French version of the Camelot legend, … read more

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  • classics
  • literature
  • fiction
  • arthurian
  • medieval
  • fantasy
  • mythology
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4. Armadale

By: John Sutherland , Wilkie Collins

3.94

Format: 721 pages, Paperback

When the elderly Allan Armadale makes a terrible confession on his death-bed, he has little idea of… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
"A judge, replied the Empress, is easy to be had, but to get an impartial judge, is a thing so difficult."

-John Sutherland, Armadale

"The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!"

-John Sutherland, Armadale

"...that much gold, and great store of riches makes them mad, insomuch as they endeavour to destroy each other..."

-John Sutherland, Armadale

"Allan found his place for the second time, and fell headlong into the bottomless abyss of the English Law. “Page 280,"

-John Sutherland, Armadale

Cover of The Lais of Marie de France by Marie de France, Glyn S. Burgess, Keith Busby

5. The Lais of Marie de France

By: Marie de France , Glyn S. Burgess , Keith Busby

3.67

Format: None pages, Paperback

This is a prose translation of the lais or poems attributed to Marie de France. Little is known of … read more

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  • medieval
  • classics
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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6. 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
  • fiction
  • classics
  • school
"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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7. The Romance of Arthur: An Anthology of Medieval Texts in Translation

By: James J. Wilhelm

4.19

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Since their first appearance, the three volumes of "The Romance of Arthur" have become the standard… read more

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  • classics
  • school
  • arthurian
  • medieval
  • mythology
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8. Parzival

By: Wolfram von Eschenbach

4.39

Format: 288 pages,

Composed in the early thirteenth century, Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival is the re-creation and … read more

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  • classics
  • literature
  • fiction
  • arthurian
  • mythology

9. The Romance of Tristan, The Tale of Tristan's Madness

By: Béroul , None

3.71

Format: 234 pages, Paperback

This edition contains perhaps the earliest and most elemental version of the tragic legend of Trist… 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 Mill on the Floss

By: George Eliot , A.S. Byatt

3.83

Format: 579 pages, Paperback

'If life had no love in it, what else was there for Maggie?' Brought up at Dorlcote Mill, Maggie… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
"Don't judge a book by its cover"

-George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

"Don't judge a book by its cover."

-George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

"Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure."

-George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

"I desire no future that will break the ties of the past."

-George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

12. 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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13. Dracula's Guest

By: Bram Stoker

4.36

Format: 39 pages,

A passage from the manuscript of Dracula. read more

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14. Perceval, or, The Story of the Grail

By: Chrétien de Troyes , Ruth Harwood Cline

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

In this verse translation of Perceval; or, The Story of the Grail, Ruth Harwood Cline restores to l… read more

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15. The Works of Henry David Thoreau

By: Henry David Thoreau

3.92

Format: 336 pages, Leather Bound

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was cond… read more

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16. Shakespeare's Sonnets

By: William Shakespeare , Katherine Duncan-Jones

4.45

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

T.S. Eliot once wrote that, "Shakespeare gives the greatest width of human passion," and it is this… read more

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17. The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.00

Format: 18 pages,

The weird fiction short stories of H.P. Lovecraft from 1917-1935. Excludes collaborations. The eBoo… read more

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18. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens

By: J.M. Barrie , Arthur Rackham

4.25

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

Before he flew away to Neverland, the little boy who wouldn't grow up dwelt in the heart of London,… read more

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19. Lancelot: The Knight of the Cart

By: Chrétien de Troyes , Burton Raffel , None

3.85

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

In this outstanding new translation of Lancelot, Burton Raffel brings to English language readers t… read more

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20. Saga, Volume 11

By: Brian K. Vaughan

4.26

Format: 153 pages, ebook

While Hazel and her family fight for scraps to survive, the rich and powerful race to forge new all… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
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21. Princess Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower

By: Tamsyn Muir

4.18

Format: 146 pages, ebook

When the witch built the forty-flight tower, she made very sure to do the whole thing properly. Eac… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
"It's also not fair at all that stupidity has gotten you this far. That's another creature you've killed simply by having no brains, which makes anyone with brains feel as if it isn't worth the headac…"

-Tamsyn Muir, Princess Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower

"If one does nothing but think of someone, it takes up all the time you could use to do something about them. I wish nobody thought of me, but did a lot for me instead. It's just like someone else goi…"

-Tamsyn Muir, Princess Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower

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4.02

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4.01

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3.94

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4.00

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