12 must-read classics books like O Bobo by Alexandre Herculano

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O Bobo

By: Alexandre Herculano

3.63

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

O Bobo é um romance histórico inicialmente publicado na revista O Panorama, em 1843, refundido e am…

If you liked the classics plot in O Bobo by Alexandre Herculano , here is a list of 12 books like this:

Cover of Aparição by Vergílio Ferreira

1. Aparição

By: Vergílio Ferreira

3.69

Format: 273 pages, Paperback

Aparição é um romance de Vergílio Ferreira que discute teorias filosóficas relacionadas com o exist… read more

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  • classics
  • portuguese literature
  • portugal
"Um assassino é um sub-homem, não um super-homem."

-Vergílio Ferreira, Aparição

"De que nadas a vida se sustenta! O necessário, sim, o necessário é que o futuro os habite - mesmo em ilusão."

-Vergílio Ferreira, Aparição

"Ah, ter a evidência ácida do milagre que sou, de como infinitamente é necessário que eu esteja vivo, e ver depois, em fulgor, que tenho de morrer."

-Vergílio Ferreira, Aparição

"Entendo a tua loucura, meu bom moço, a tua perplexidade diante do poder que te nasceu nas mãos. Mas como não aprendeste que é mais forte criar uma flor (um parafuso...) do que destruir um império"

-Vergílio Ferreira, Aparição

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2. Dead Souls

By: Nikolai Gogol , Robert A. Maguire

3.98

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in a provincial town and visits a succession of landowner… read more

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  • classics
"Keep not money, but keep good people's company."

-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls

"Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young."

-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls

"A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe."

-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls

"A Russian peasant scratching the back of his head means many different things."

-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls

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3. Brighton Rock

By: J.M. Coetzee , Graham Greene

3.73

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has kill… read more

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  • classics
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4. The Nose

By: Nikolai Gogol , Ronald Wilks

4.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

'Strangely enough, I mistook it for a gentleman at first. Fortunately I had my spectacles with me s… read more

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  • classics
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5. Palestine

By: None , Joe Sacco

4.16

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Prior to Safe Area Gorazde: The War In Eastern Bosnia 1992-1995--Joe Sacco's breakthrough novel of … read more

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  • history
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6. Contos Da Montanha

By: Miguel Torga

4.03

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

Composto por 23 contos, neste livro Miguel Torga apresenta aos seus leitores textos que assentam ma… read more

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  • classics
  • portuguese literature
  • portugal
Cover of Jesus Cristo Bebia Cerveja by Afonso Cruz

7. Jesus Cristo Bebia Cerveja

By: Afonso Cruz

4.02

Format: 424 pages, Paperback

"Parece que a morte vem sempre a tona da agua.", frases como estas marcam o tom do novo e esperado … read more

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  • portugal
  • portuguese literature
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8. Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands

By: Jorge Amado , Harriet de Onís

4.35

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

It surprises no one that the charming but wayward Vadinho dos Guimaraes-a gambler notorious for nev… read more

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  • classics
  • portuguese literature
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9. Memoirs of Hadrian

By: Marguerite Yourcenar , Grace Frick

4.23

Format: 347 pages, Paperback

Both an exploration of character and a reflection on the meaning of history, Memoirs of Hadrian has… read more

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  • classics
"And it was at about this time that I began to feel myself divine."

-Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian

"La morale è una convenzione privata; il decoro è una faccenda pubblica."

-Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian

"I was willing to yield to nostalgia, that melancholy residue of desire."

-Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian

"Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul..."

-Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian

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10. Os Maias

By: Eça de Queirós , Ester de Lemos

3.99

Format: 681 pages, Paperback

Os Maias é uma das obras mais conhecidas do escritor português Eça de Queiroz. O livro foi publicad… read more

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  • classics
  • portuguese literature
  • portugal
"Não vale a pena viver."

-Eça de Queirós, Os Maias

"Ainda têm um pedaço de pão e manteiga para lhe barrar por cima"

-Eça de Queirós, Os Maias

"Aos políticos: «menos liberalismo e mais carácter»; aos homens de letras: «menos eloquência e mais ideia»; aos cidadãos em geral: «menos progresso e mais moral»."

-Eça de Queirós, Os Maias

"Nada desejar e nada recear... Não se abandonar a uma esperança - nem a um desapontamento. Tudo aceitar o que vem e o que foge, com a tranquilidade com que se acolhem as naturais mudanças de dias agre…"

-Eça de Queirós, Os Maias

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11. The Devil's Advocate

By: Morris L. West , Kenneth Woodward

3.71

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Devil's Advocate, Morris West's best-selling novel, is a deft exploration of the meaning of fai… read more

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  • classics

12. Dentro do Segredo

By: José Luís Peixoto

4.26

Format: None pages, Paperback

Desde o interior da ditadura mais repressiva do mundo, desde um pais coberto por absoluto isolament… read more

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13. Baltasar and Blimunda

By: José Saramago , Giovanni Pontiero

3.95

Format: None pages, Paperback

From the recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature, a "brilliant...enchanting novel" (New Yor… read more

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14. The Lusiads

By: Luís de Camões , Landeg White

3.94

Format: 450 pages, Paperback

1998 is the quincentenary of Vasco da Gama's voyage via southern Africa to India, the voyage celebr… read more

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15. Casino Royale (James Bond, #1)

By: Ian Fleming

3.74

Format: 192 pages, Mass Market Paperback

British Secret Service agent James Bond, a.k.a. 007, is sent to France to play in a high-stakes bac… read more

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  • classics
"Mine’s Bond – James Bond."

-Ian Fleming, Casino Royale (James Bond, #1)

"Everyone has the revolver of resignation in his pocket."

-Ian Fleming, Casino Royale (James Bond, #1)

"In his mind he fingered the necklace of the days to come."

-Ian Fleming, Casino Royale (James Bond, #1)

"Like all harsh, cold men, he was easily tipped over into sentiment."

-Ian Fleming, Casino Royale (James Bond, #1)

16. Equador

By: Miguel Sousa Tavares

3.86

Format: 536 pages, Paperback

It is 1905 and Luis Bernardo Valenca, a thirty-seven-year-old bachelor and owner of a small shippin… read more

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17. Le Malade imaginaire

By: Molière

3.63

Format: 255 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Le Malade imaginaire est la dernière comédie et en même temps la dernière pièce écrite par Molière.… read more

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  • classics
"La musique est accoutumée à ne point faire ce qu'on veut."

-Molière, Le Malade imaginaire

"Presque tous les hommes meurent de leurs remèdes, et non pas de leurs maladies."

-Molière, Le Malade imaginaire

18. All the Names

By: Margaret Jull Costa , José Saramago

3.24

Format: 324 pages, Paperback

Senhor Jose is a low-grade clerk in the city's Central Registry, where the living and the dead shar… read more

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19. The Crime of Father Amaro

By: Margaret Jull Costa , Eça de Queirós

3.95

Format: 132 pages, Paperback

Eca de Queirs's novel is a lurid satire of clerical corruption in a town in Portugal during a perio… read more

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20. Ponha o Seu Dinheiro a Trabalhar para Si 7 passos para aprender a investir e atingir a liberdade financeira

By: Bárbara Barroso

4.23

Format: 317 pages, Paperback

O dinheiro parado num depósito à ordem e a prazo não rende. Pelo contrário, a cada dia que passa vo… read more

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"Fazer o que é obrigatório é cumprir os mínimos. Fazer além do esperado é posicionar-se para o pódio. Se quer ter sucesso, entregue valor além do esperado. Exceda-se!"

-Bárbara Barroso, Ponha o Seu Dinheiro a Trabalhar para Si 7 passos para aprender a investir e atingir a liberdade financeira

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21. O Bobo

By: Alexandre Herculano

3.63

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

O Bobo é um romance histórico inicialmente publicado na revista O Panorama, em 1843, refundido e am… read more

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  • classics
  • history
  • portuguese literature
  • portugal

6 Best portuguese literature books like O Bobo by Alexandre Herculano

Transform Your Habits

Aparição

Vergílio Ferreira

3.69

Transform Your Habits

Contos Da Montanha

Miguel Torga

4.03

Transform Your Habits

Jesus Cristo Bebia Cerveja

Afonso Cruz

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands

Jorge Amado , Harriet de Onís

4.35

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9 Best fiction books like Brighton Rock by J.M. Coetzee, Graham Greene

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Tess of the D’Urbervilles

Thomas Hardy , Tim Dolin , Margaret R. Higonnet

3.83

Transform Your Habits

A Handful of Dust

Evelyn Waugh

3.76

Transform Your Habits

Brighton Rock

J.M. Coetzee , Graham Greene

3.73

Transform Your Habits

Lucky Jim

Kingsley Amis , David Lodge

4.73

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