If you liked the classics plot in Tales of Wonder by Lord Dunsany , here is a list of 11 books like this:
1. The Dying Earth (The Dying Earth, #1)
By: Jack Vance
3.89
Format: 156 pages, Paperback
Seekers of wisdom and beauty include lovely lost women, eccentric wizards and man-eating melancholy… read more
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- fiction
- classics
- fantasy
- short stories
"It is thus because it has always been thus. Is not this reason enough?"-Jack Vance, The Dying Earth (The Dying Earth, #1)
"T'sais mounted her horse and set out for Earth, seeking love and beauty."-Jack Vance, The Dying Earth (The Dying Earth, #1)
"To the furthest reach of my memory, Rogol Domedonfors ruled the city. He knew lore of all ages, secrets of fire and light, gravity and countergravity, the knowledge of superphysic numeration, metatha…"-Jack Vance, The Dying Earth (The Dying Earth, #1)
"On the heights above the river Xzan, at the site of certain ancient ruins, Iucounu the Laughing Magician had built a manse to his private taste: an eccentric structure of steep gables, balconies, sky…"-Jack Vance, The Dying Earth (The Dying Earth, #1)
2. Soldier of the Mist (Latro, #1)
By: Gene Wolfe
3.95
Format: 335 pages, Paperback
Gene Wolfe has turned to the fantastic historical world of Greece, in 479 B.C., when the gods walke… read more
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- speculative fiction
- fantasy
- fiction
3. Blood of Elves (The Witcher, #3)
By: Andrzej Sapkowski
3.77
Format: 52 pages, Paperback
The New York Timesbestselling series that inspired the international hit video game: The Witcher. F… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
4. The Importance of Being Earnest
By: Oscar Wilde
2.50
Format: None pages,
Oscar Wilde's madcap farce about mistaken identities, secret engagements, and lovers entanglements … read more
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- classics
- fiction
5. A Wind in the Door (A Wrinkle in Time Quintet, #2)
By: Madeleine L'Engle
4.04
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
A Wind in the Dooris a fantastic adventure story involving Meg Murry, her small brother Charles Wal… read more
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- classics
- fantasy
- fiction
6. Alphabet of Thorn
By: Patricia A. McKillip
4.50
Format: 122 pages,
Deep inside a palace on the edge of the world, the orphan Nepenthe pores over books in the royal li… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
7. Dragonflight (Dragonriders of Pern, #1)
By: Anne McCaffrey
4.09
Format: 299 pages, Paperback
How can one girls save an entire world? To the nobles who live in Benden Weyr, Lessa is nothing … read more
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- classics
- fantasy
- fiction
"My eyes are green, my hair is silver and I freckle; the rest is subject to change without notice."-Anne McCaffrey, Dragonflight (Dragonriders of Pern, #1)
"Dragon kind was no less cruel than mankind. The Dragon, at least, acted from bestial need rather than bestial greed."-Anne McCaffrey, Dragonflight (Dragonriders of Pern, #1)
"Look around you, Lessa of Pern, look around the Weyr with unveiled eyes. Old and hallowed is the Weyr? Yes, but shabby and worn – and disregarded. Yes, you were elated to sit in the Weyrwoman’s great…"-Anne McCaffrey, Dragonflight (Dragonriders of Pern, #1)
8. Spin (Spin, #1)
By: Robert Charles Wilson
3.66
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
One night in October when he was ten years old, Tyler Dupree stood in his back yard and watched the… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
9. The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales
By: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm , Joseph Campbell , James Stern , Padraic Colum , Josef Scharl , Margaret Raine Hunt
3.67
Format: 244 pages, Paperback
For almost two centuries, the stories of magic and myth gathered by the Brothers Grimm have been pa… read more
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- fiction
- classics
- fantasy
- short stories
10. Cugel saga
By: Jack Vance , Monique Lebailly
4.16
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
Pauvre Cugel : alors qu'il pensait tenir sa revanche sur Iucounu, le magicien rieur, le voila renvo… read more
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- classics
- fantasy
- fiction
11. Soldier of Arete (Latro, #2)
By: Gene Wolfe
3.91
Format: 163 pages, Paperback
Of all mortals, Latro was the least favoured - or the most. The wound that had destroyed his memory… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
12. The Silmarillion
By: J.R.R. Tolkien , Christopher Tolkien , Ted Nasmith
4.01
Format: 386 pages, Hardcover
The Silmarillion is an account of the Elder Days, of the First Age of Tolkien’s world. It is the an… read more
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- classics
- fantasy
- fiction
"Nightingales sang about her wherever she went."-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion
"The dawn is brief and the day full often belies its promise."-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion
"All have their worth and each contributes to the worth of the others."-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion
"No ames demasiado la obra de tus manos ni las invenciones de tu corazón."-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion
13. Tales of Ordinary Madness
By: Charles Bukowski
3.40
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Inspired by D.H. Lawrence, Chekhov and Hemingway, Bukowski's writing is passionate, extreme and has… read more
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14. Roverandom
By: J.R.R. Tolkien , Wayne G. Hammond , Christina Scull
3.76
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
A classic children's story by the author of The Hobbit Rover should never have bitten the wizard's … read more
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15. The Eyes of the Overworld (The Dying Earth, #2)
By: Jack Vance
4.01
Format: 275 pages, Paperback
Scoundrel Cugel is sent far away, by a magician he has wronged, to retrieve magical lenses that rev… read more
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16. Tales from the Perilous Realm
By: J.R.R. Tolkien
4.03
Format: 178 pages, Paperback
'Four classic tales from the author of The Hobbit The fat and unheroic Farmer Giles of Ham is calle… read more
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- fiction
- classics
- fantasy
- short stories
"God is the Lord, of angels, and of men... and of elves. Legend and History have met and fused"-J.R.R. Tolkien, Tales from the Perilous Realm
"Bet visą tą laiką Makaliukas Klajūnas laukė pasirodant paštininkės Klyksnės su naujienomis iš žemės (net maži šuniukai žino, kad tai dažniausiai žmogžudystės ir futbolo rungtynių rezultatai, bet kart…"-J.R.R. Tolkien, Tales from the Perilous Realm
"He was kindhearted, in a way. You know the sort of kind heart: it made him uncomfortable more often than it made him do anything; and even when he did anything, it did not prevent him from grumbling,…"-J.R.R. Tolkien, Tales from the Perilous Realm
"Fantasy is a natural human activity. It certainly does not destroy or even insult Reason; and it does not either blunt the appetite for, nor obscure the perception of, scientific veracity. On the con…"-J.R.R. Tolkien, Tales from the Perilous Realm
17. Rhialto the Marvellous (The Dying Earth, #4)
By: Jack Vance
4.14
Format: 200 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Contents: The Murthe (1984) Fader's Waft (1984) Morreion (1973) read more
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18. The Tombs of Atuan (Earthsea Cycle, #2)
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.13
Format: 180 pages, Mass Market Paperback
In this second novel in the Earthsea series, Tenar is chosen as high priestess to the ancient and n… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
"COME HOME, TENAR! COME HOME!"-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Tombs of Atuan (Earthsea Cycle, #2)
"The road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Tombs of Atuan (Earthsea Cycle, #2)
"He had made follow him. He had called her by her name, and she had come crouching to his hand."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Tombs of Atuan (Earthsea Cycle, #2)
"Pride kept her from confiding in the other girls, and caution kept her from confessing to the older women."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Tombs of Atuan (Earthsea Cycle, #2)
19. The Farthest Shore (Earthsea Cycle, #3)
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
Book Three of Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea CycleDarkness threatens to overtake Earthsea: the world … read more
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20. The Silver Warriors (Erekosë, #2)
By: Michael Moorcock
3.75
Format: None pages, Paperback
The second novel in the History of John Daker, The Eternal Champion. Phoenix in Obsidianaka The Sil… read more
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21. A Swiftly Tilting Planet (A Wrinkle in Time Quintet, #3)
By: Madeleine L'Engle
3.74
Format: 70 pages, Mass Market Paperback
In this companion volume to "A Wrinkle In Time" (Newbery Award winner) and "A Wind In The Door" fif… read more
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22. Time and Again (Time, #1)
By: Jack Finney
3.67
Format: 363 pages, Paperback
One of the most beloved tales of our time! Science fiction, mystery, a passionate love story, and a… read more
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23. The Worm Ouroboros
By: E.R. Eddison , Keith Henderson
3.36
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
This is the book that shaped the landscape of contemporary science fiction and fantasy. When The Lo… read more
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24. Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary, together with Sellic Spell
By: J.R.R. Tolkien , Unknown , Christopher Tolkien
3.33
Format: 194 pages, ebook
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25. Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There
By: Lewis Carroll , John Tenniel , Peter Glassman
3.46
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
In 1865, English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898), aka Lewis Carroll, wrote a fantastica… read more
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26. Mistress of Mistresses
By: E.R. Eddison
4.29
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
The second volume in the fantasy classic most often compared with J.R.R. Tolkien The Worm Ouroboros… read more
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27. Paradise Lost
By: John Milton , John Leonard
3.84
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
John Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. It tells the… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
"What hath night to do with sleep?"-John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Solitude sometimes is best society."-John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n."-John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss."-John Milton, Paradise Lost
28. The Book of Three (The Chronicles of Prydain, #1)
By: Lloyd Alexander
3.92
Format: 314 pages, Paperback
Taran wanted to be a hero, and looking after a pig wasn't exactly heroic, even though Hen Wen was a… read more
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29. Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)
By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
4.06
Format: 597 pages, Audible Audio
The astonishing sequel to Children of Time, the award-winning novel of humanity's battle for surviv… read more
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- speculative fiction
- fantasy
- fiction
"We can only observe the present before we go on to destroy the future."-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)
"Complex life was merely the recent froth over a great vat of prokaryotes feeding and dividing and dying."-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)
"Perhaps Senkovi would have approved; he who had once seen himself as the trickster god of the pantheon, before there were no more gods left to trick. Perhaps Senkovi would have recalled ancient human…"-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)
"Meshner has read simplified children’s histories of the spider civilization, vocal in explaining that, these days, everything is fine and male spiders are allowed to play a full role in society. In p…"-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)
30. The Broken Sword
By: Poul Anderson
3.86
Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition
Thor broke the sword Tyrfing to save the roots of Yggdrasil, the tree that binds earth, heaven and … read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
"Happier are all men than the dwellers in Faerie – or the gods, for that matter…Better a life like a falling star, bright across the dark, than a deathlessness that can see naught above or beyond itse…"-Poul Anderson, The Broken Sword
31. Tales of Wonder
By: Lord Dunsany
3.75
Format: 218 pages, Paperback
Short story. read more
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- short stories
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