12 best-selling classics books like Il figlio del Corsaro Rosso by Emilio Salgari

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Il figlio del Corsaro Rosso

By: Emilio Salgari

3.77

Format: 270 pages, Paperback

Enrico di Ventimiglia, figlio del Corsaro Rosso e nipote del Corsaro Nero, ha scoperto che suo padr…

If you liked the classics plot in Il figlio del Corsaro Rosso by Emilio Salgari , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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

1. 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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  • historical fiction
  • 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

Cover of The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien (Maigret #4) by Georges Simenon, Linda Coverdale

2. The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien (Maigret #4)

By: Georges Simenon , Linda Coverdale

3.83

Format: 138 pages, Paperback

 A new translation of a haunting tale about the lengths to which people will go to escape from guil… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"Oh, by the way, while I was having a glass of your delicious gueuze beer, I spotted a crook…"

-Georges Simenon, The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien (Maigret #4)

Cover of Pietr the Latvian (Maigret, #1) by Georges Simenon, David Bellos

3. Pietr the Latvian (Maigret, #1)

By: Georges Simenon , David Bellos

3.47

Format: 162 pages, Paperback

The first novel in the famous Inspector Maigret series. What Maigret sought, and what he waited … read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"Sono cose di cui non ci si vanta, cose che a parlarne farebbero sorridere e che pure richiedono una certa dose di eroismo."

-Georges Simenon, Pietr the Latvian (Maigret, #1)

"Arrivava solido come il granito, e da quel momento pareva che tutto dovesse spezzarsi contro di lui, sia che avanzasse, sia che restasse piantato sulle gambe leggermente divaricate."

-Georges Simenon, Pietr the Latvian (Maigret, #1)

Cover of The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, Richard Pevear, John      Lee

4. 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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  • historical fiction
  • 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 Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi, Philip Roth, Stuart J. Woolf

5. Survival in Auschwitz

By: Primo Levi , Philip Roth , Stuart J. Woolf

4.33

Format: 187 pages, Paperback

The true and harrowing account of Primo Levi’s experience at the German concentration camp of Ausch… read more

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  • italian literature
"... infin che un giorno senso non avrà più dire : domani" (...jusqu'à ce qu'un jour dire "demain" n'ait plus de sens)"

-Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz

"…in this place everything is forbidden, not for hidden reasons, but because the camp has been created for that purpose."

-Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz

"...for a country is considered the more civilized the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak or a powerful one too powerful."

-Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz

"Qualcuno, molto tempo fa, ha scritto che anche i libri, come gli esseri umani, hanno un loro destino, imprevedibile, diverso da quello che per loro si desiderava e si attendeva."

-Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz

Cover of The Janissary Tree (Yashim the Eunuch, #1) by Jason Goodwin

6. The Janissary Tree (Yashim the Eunuch, #1)

By: Jason Goodwin

3.74

Format: 410 pages, Paperback

"Jason Goodwin has unleashed his talent on a series of mysteries set in nineteenth-century Istanbul… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

7. The Return of Sherlock Holmes

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

3.41

Format: 94 pages, Hardcover

The Return of Sherlock Holmesis a collection of 13 Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in… read more

Similar categories in Arthur Conan Doyle's The Return of Sherlock Holmes book and Emilio Salgari's Il figlio del Corsaro Rosso

  • classics
  • fiction
Cover of The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen, Anthea Bell, Lisbeth Zwerger

8. The Little Mermaid

By: Hans Christian Andersen , Anthea Bell , Lisbeth Zwerger

3.98

Format: 48 pages, Hardcover

From Book Synopsis: Andersen's fairy tales, which have been translated into more than 125 language… read more

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  • classics
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more."

-Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid

"...and she put a wreath of white lilies round her hair, but every petal of the flowers was half a pearl;"

-Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid

"Never had she danced so beautifully; the sharp knives cut her feet, but she did not feel it, for the pain in her heart was far greater."

-Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid

"At first she was overjoyed that he would be with her, but then she recalled that human people could not live under the water, and he could only visit her father's palace as a dead man."

-Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid

Cover of Dog Day (Petra Delicado Mysteries, #2) by Alicia Giménez Bartlett, Nicholas Caistor

9. Dog Day (Petra Delicado Mysteries, #2)

By: Alicia Giménez Bartlett , Nicholas Caistor

3.98

Format: 269 pages, Paperback

"Gimenez-Bartlett has discovered a world full of dark corners and hidden elements." In this hardboi… read more

Similar categories in Alicia Giménez Bartlett's Dog Day (Petra Delicado Mysteries, #2) book and Emilio Salgari's Il figlio del Corsaro Rosso

  • fiction
Cover of The Mysterious Island (Extraordinary Voyages, #12) by Jules Verne, Caleb Carr, Jordan Stump

10. The Mysterious Island (Extraordinary Voyages, #12)

By: Jules Verne , Caleb Carr , Jordan Stump

3.24

Format: 0 pages, Paperback

Five Union prisoners escape from the siege of Richmond in a balloon, are blown off course and crash… read more

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  • classics
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • adventure
Cover of The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco, Seán Barrett, William Weaver

11. The Name of the Rose

By: Umberto Eco , Seán Barrett , William Weaver

4.14

Format: 552 pages, Paperback

The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother Willi… read more

Similar categories in Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose book and Emilio Salgari's Il figlio del Corsaro Rosso

  • historical fiction
  • classics
  • fiction
  • italian literature
"الكتب ليست مجعولة كي نؤمن بما تقوله ولكن لكي نتحرّى فيها."

-Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

"Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear."

-Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

"The people of God cannot be changed until the outcasts are restored to its body."

-Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

"How peaceful life would be without Love, Adso. How Safe. How Tranquil. And how Dull."

-Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

12. La bella estate

By: Cesare Pavese

4.06

Format: 205 pages, Paperback

"A quei tempi era sempre festa. Bastava uscire di casa e attraversare la strada, per diventare come… read more

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13. Five Weeks in a Balloon (Extraordinary Voyages, #1)

By: Jules Verne

0.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

There was a large audience assembled on the 14th of January, 1862, at the session of the Royal Geog… read more

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14. From the Earth to the Moon

By: Jules Verne

3.76

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

Een in de 19e eeuw geschreven verhaal over een reis naar de maan, waaruit blijkt dat de schrijver i… read more

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  • classics
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • adventure
"Time has no business to keep a whole country in suspense."

-Jules Verne, From the Earth to the Moon

"No sé si los mundos están habitados, y como no lo sé, voy a verlo."

-Jules Verne, From the Earth to the Moon

"It is better for us to see the destination we wish to reach, than the point of departure"

-Jules Verne, From the Earth to the Moon

"In fact they did to others that which they would not they should do to them— that grand principle of immortality upon which rests the whole art of war."

-Jules Verne, From the Earth to the Moon

15. La briscola in cinque

By: Marco Malvaldi

3.97

Format: 434 pages, Paperback

La rivalsa dei pensionati. Da un cassonetto dell'immondizia in un parcheggio periferico, sporge il … read more

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16. The Hypnotist (Joona Linna, #1)

By: Lars Kepler , Ann Long

3.56

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Prepare for The Hypnotistto cast its spell In the frigid clime of Tumba, Sweden, a gruesome triple … read more

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17. Three Men in a Boat (Three Men, #1)

By: Jerome K. Jerome

4.60

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Martyrs to hypochondria and general seediness, J. and his friends George and Harris decide that a j… read more

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18. Ten Years Later

By: Alexandre Dumas

3.73

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later is the third and last of the d'Artagnan Romances, follow… read more

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19. Il metodo del coccodrillo

By: Maurizio de Giovanni

3.31

Format: None pages, Paperback

Napoli, cosi, non l'avevamo vista mai. Una citta borghese, inospitale e caotica, cupa e distratta, … read more

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20. Robin Hood, The Prince of Thieves

By: Alexandre Dumas

3.00

Format: 146 pages, Hardcover

The first volume of Alexandre Dumas' two-part interpretation of the story of Robin Hood, popularize… read more

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21. In Search of the Castaways; or the Children of Captain Grant (Extraordinary Voyages, #5)

By: Jules Verne

3.91

Format: 434 pages, Paperback

ALL that could be discovered, however, on these pieces of paper was a few words here and there, the… read more

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22. The Misty Harbour (Maigret, #15)

By: Georges Simenon , Linda Coverdale

3.99

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

A new translation of Georges Simenon's gripping tale of lost identity. Book sixteen in the new Peng… read more

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Cover of American Pastoral by Philip Roth

23. American Pastoral

By: Philip Roth

3.94

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Pulitzer Prize Winner (1998) In American Pastoral, Philip Roth gives us a novel of unqualified g… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive."

-Philip Roth, American Pastoral

"The tragedy of the man not set up for tragedy—that is every man's tragedy."

-Philip Roth, American Pastoral

"Exhibitionismul inerent unei marturisiri nu face decat sa agraveze suferinta."

-Philip Roth, American Pastoral

"[...] ero una biografia in moto perpetuo, memoria sino al midollo delle ossa."

-Philip Roth, American Pastoral

24. The Black Tulip

By: Alexandre Dumas , Robin Buss

4.34

Format: 592 pages,

'To have discovered the black tulip, to have seen it for a moment...then to lose it, to lose it for… read more

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25. Twenty Years After (The D'Artagnan Romances, #2)

By: Alexandre Dumas , David Coward , Auguste Maquet

4.34

Format: 592 pages, Paperback

'At this game, whoever does not kill is killed.' Twenty Years After(1845), the sequel to The Three … read more

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Cover of Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata, Edward G. Seidensticker

26. Snow Country

By: Yasunari Kawabata , Edward G. Seidensticker

3.59

Format: 175 pages, Paperback

Nobel Prize recipient Yasunari Kawabata's Snow Country is widely considered to be the writer's mast… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"국경의 긴 터널을 빠져나오자, 雪國이었다."

-Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country

"Nothing is so strange when one is in love."

-Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country

"In the moonlight the fine geishalike skin took on the luster of a seashell."

-Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country

"The notes went out crystalline into the clean winter morning, to sound on the far, snowy peaks."

-Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country

27. Elective Affinities

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , David Constantine , None

4.65

Format: None pages, Paperback

Elective Affinitieswas written when Goethe was sixty and long established as Germany's literary gia… read more

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Cover of La portalettere by Francesca Giannone

28. La portalettere

By: Francesca Giannone

4.14

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Salento, giugno 1934. A Lizzanello, un paesino di poche migliaia di anime, una corriera si ferma ne… read more

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  • historical romance
  • historical fiction
  • fiction
  • italian literature
"Si diresse in cucina, aspettandosi che Anna la seguisse per aiutarla. Invece vide che scostava la sedia e si accomodava. Roba da matti, pensò allora, scuotendo il capo. Se c'era un'altra donna tra i …"

-Francesca Giannone, La portalettere

Cover of On the Origin of Species and Other Stories by Kim Bo-young

29. On the Origin of Species and Other Stories

By: Kim Bo-young

4.33

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

The debut English-language collection of one of South Korea's most distinctive and accomplished sci… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of The Good Son by You-Jeong Jeong

30. The Good Son

By: You-Jeong Jeong

3.75

Format: 309 pages, Paperback

'The Talented Mr. Ripley meets The Bad Seed in this breathless, chilling psychological thriller by … read more

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  • fiction
"O destino não perdoa, Pode fechar os olhos de vez em quando, mas não tarda a abri-los."

-You-Jeong Jeong, The Good Son

"I slept in his room for the rest of that year and continued until the spring I turned nine, the year he died."

-You-Jeong Jeong, The Good Son

Cover of Il figlio del Corsaro Rosso by Emilio Salgari

31. Il figlio del Corsaro Rosso

By: Emilio Salgari

3.77

Format: 270 pages, Paperback

Enrico di Ventimiglia, figlio del Corsaro Rosso e nipote del Corsaro Nero, ha scoperto che suo padr… read more

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  • classics
  • adventure
  • pirates
  • historical romance
  • fiction
  • italian literature
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy

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Robinson Crusoe

Virginia Woolf , Daniel Defoe , Gerald McCann

3.68

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Georges Simenon , Linda Coverdale

3.83

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Pietr the Latvian (Maigret, #1)

Georges Simenon , David Bellos

3.47

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4.09

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The Crying of Lot 49

Thomas Pynchon

3.69

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John Updike

4.26

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Don DeLillo

4.81

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