6 Top fiction books like Oedipus: The Tragedies (Stephanides Brothers' Greek Mythology) by Menelaos Stephanides

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Oedipus: The Tragedies (Stephanides Brothers' Greek Mythology)

By: Menelaos Stephanides

4.05

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

The whole tragic story of Oedipus, seen through the prism of the four great classical tragedies (ch…

If you liked the fiction plot in Oedipus: The Tragedies (Stephanides Brothers' Greek Mythology) by Menelaos Stephanides , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. The Art of War

By: Sun Tzu , Thomas Cleary

3.95

Format: 170 pages, Paperback

Twenty-Five Hundred years ago, Sun Tzu wrote this classic book of military strategy based on Chines… read more

Similar categories in Sun Tzu's The Art of War book and Menelaos Stephanides's Oedipus: The Tragedies (Stephanides Brothers' Greek Mythology)

"Never venture, never win!"

-Sun Tzu, The Art of War

"Danger has a bracing effect."

-Sun Tzu, The Art of War

"The wise warrior avoids the battle."

-Sun Tzu, The Art of War

"If his forces are united, separate them."

-Sun Tzu, The Art of War

Cover of The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux, Alexander Teixeira de Mattos

2. The Phantom of the Opera

By: Gaston Leroux , Alexander Teixeira de Mattos

3.96

Format: 360 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published in French as a serial in 1909, The Phantom of the Opera is a riveting story that re… read more

Similar categories in Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera book and Menelaos Stephanides's Oedipus: The Tragedies (Stephanides Brothers' Greek Mythology)

  • fiction
"He laid at my feet his immense, tragic love."

-Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

"All I wanted was to be loved for myself." (Erik)"

-Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

"My lies were as hideous as the monster that had inspired them"

-Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

"I sing only for you! Tonight I gave you my soul, and I'm dead!"

-Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

Cover of Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, Maureen Howard

3. Mrs. Dalloway

By: Virginia Woolf , Maureen Howard

3.79

Format: 194 pages, Hardcover

Heralded as Virginia Woolf's greatest novel, this is a vivid portrait of a single day in a woman's … read more

Similar categories in Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway book and Menelaos Stephanides's Oedipus: The Tragedies (Stephanides Brothers' Greek Mythology)

  • fiction
"Life stand still here."

-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

"To love makes one solitary."

-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

"What a lark! What a plunge!"

-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

"What does the brain matter compared with the heart?"

-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

Cover of Les Fleurs du Mal by Charles Baudelaire, Richard Howard

4. Les Fleurs du Mal

By: Charles Baudelaire , Richard Howard

4.20

Format: 365 pages, Paperback

Charles Baudelaire's 1857 masterwork was scandalous in its day for its portrayals of sex, same-sex … read more

Similar categories in Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal book and Menelaos Stephanides's Oedipus: The Tragedies (Stephanides Brothers' Greek Mythology)

  • fiction
"L'orage rajeunit les fleurs"

-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

"I am the vampire at my own veins."

-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

"Beauty, you walk on corpses, mocking them;"

-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

"My heart is lost; the beasts have eaten it."

-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

Cover of The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli, Adolph Caso, Rufus Goodwin, Benjamin Martinez

5. The Prince

By: Niccolò Machiavelli , Adolph Caso , Rufus Goodwin , Benjamin Martinez

3.84

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Machiavelli needs to be looked at as he really was. Hence: Can Machiavelli, who makes the following… read more

Similar categories in Niccolò Machiavelli's The Prince book and Menelaos Stephanides's Oedipus: The Tragedies (Stephanides Brothers' Greek Mythology)

"Is it better to be loved or feared?"

-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

"He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command"

-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

"Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception."

-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

"It is a common fault of men not to reckon on storms in fair weather."

-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

Cover of The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy, Aylmer Maude

6. The Death of Ivan Ilych

By: Leo Tolstoy , Aylmer Maude

4.13

Format: 86 pages, Paperback

Hailed as one of the world's supreme masterpieces on the subject of death and dying, The Death of I… read more

Similar categories in Leo Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilych book and Menelaos Stephanides's Oedipus: The Tragedies (Stephanides Brothers' Greek Mythology)

  • fiction
"If you look for the working classes in fiction, and especially English fiction, all you find is a hole."

-Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych

"And the further he departed from childhood and the nearer he came to the present the more worthless and doubtful were the joys."

-Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych

"In the depths of his heart he knew that he was dying but, so far from growing used to the idea, he simply did not and could not grasp it."

-Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych

"It can't be that life is so senseless and horrible. But if it really has been so horrible and senseless, why must I die and die in agony? There is something wrong!"

-Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych

Cover of The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Gareth Stedman Jones

7. The Communist Manifesto

By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Gareth Stedman Jones

3.66

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A rousing call to arms whose influence is still felt today Originally published on the eve of th… read more

Similar categories in Karl Marx's The Communist Manifesto book and Menelaos Stephanides's Oedipus: The Tragedies (Stephanides Brothers' Greek Mythology)

"The bourgeois sees in his wife a mere instrument of production."

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

"Study of the past often turns into love of the past and a desire to keep it."

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

"Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps"

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

"The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all."

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

8. Planet of the Apes

By: Pierre Boulle , Xan Fielding

3.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

Em pouco tempo, os desbravadores do espaco descobrem a terrivel verdade: nesse mundo, seus pares hu… read more

Similar categories in Pierre Boulle's Planet of the Apes book and Menelaos Stephanides's Oedipus: The Tragedies (Stephanides Brothers' Greek Mythology)

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9. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

By: Philip K. Dick

4.09

Format: 258 pages, Kindle Edition

It was January 2021, and Rick Deckard had a license to kill. Somewhere among the hordes of humans o… read more

Similar categories in Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? book and Menelaos Stephanides's Oedipus: The Tragedies (Stephanides Brothers' Greek Mythology)

  • fiction
"An android,"

-Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

"Mors certa, vita incerta,"

-Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

"Mankind needs more empathy."

-Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

"Frankly, you look more like a goat man to me."

-Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Cover of Oedipus: The Tragedies (Stephanides Brothers' Greek Mythology) by Menelaos Stephanides

10. Oedipus: The Tragedies (Stephanides Brothers' Greek Mythology)

By: Menelaos Stephanides

4.05

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

The whole tragic story of Oedipus, seen through the prism of the four great classical tragedies (ch… read more

Similar categories in Menelaos Stephanides's Oedipus: The Tragedies (Stephanides Brothers' Greek Mythology) book and Menelaos Stephanides's Oedipus: The Tragedies (Stephanides Brothers' Greek Mythology)

  • fiction
  • mythology

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Charlotte Brontë , Michael Mason

4.15

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3.96

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3.89

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