13 Top classics books like The Italian: Or the Confessional of the Black Penitents by Ann Radcliffe, Robert Miles

Cover of The Italian: Or the Confessional of the Black Penitents by Ann Radcliffe, Robert Miles

The Italian: Or the Confessional of the Black Penitents

By: Ann Radcliffe , Robert Miles

4.18

Format: 213 pages,

From the first moment Vincentio di Vivaldi, a young nobleman, sets eyes on the veiled figure of Ell…

If you liked the classics plot in The Italian: Or the Confessional of the Black Penitents by Ann Radcliffe, Robert Miles , here is a list of 13 books like this:

Cover of The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole

1. The Castle of Otranto

By: Horace Walpole

3.18

Format: 125 pages, Paperback

First published pseudonymously in 1764, The Castle of Otranto purported to be a translation of an I… read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • literature
  • fiction
  • horror
  • 18th century
"My soul abhors a falsehood"

-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto

"This life is but a pilgrimage."

-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto

"Heaven mocks the short-sighted views of man."

-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto

"I fear no bad angel, and have offended no good one."

-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto

Cover of The Old English Baron by Clara Reeve, James Trainer

2. The Old English Baron

By: Clara Reeve , James Trainer

3.00

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

When Sir Philip Harclay returns to England after a long absence, he finds that his childhood friend… read more

Similar categories in Clara Reeve's The Old English Baron book and Ann Radcliffe's The Italian: Or the Confessional of the Black Penitents

  • romance
  • gothic
  • classics
  • fiction
  • horror
  • 18th century
Cover of Armadale by John Sutherland, Wilkie Collins

3. 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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  • gothic
  • fiction
  • classics
  • literature
"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 Roxana by Daniel Defoe, John Mullan

4. Roxana

By: Daniel Defoe , John Mullan

4.09

Format: None pages, Paperback

Roxana (1724), Defoe's last and darkest novel, is the autobiography of a woman who has traded her v… read more

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  • literature
  • 18th century
  • classics
  • fiction
Cover of The Italian: Or the Confessional of the Black Penitents by Ann Radcliffe, Robert Miles

5. The Italian: Or the Confessional of the Black Penitents

By: Ann Radcliffe , Robert Miles

4.18

Format: 213 pages,

From the first moment Vincentio di Vivaldi, a young nobleman, sets eyes on the veiled figure of Ell… read more

Similar categories in Ann Radcliffe's The Italian: Or the Confessional of the Black Penitents book and Ann Radcliffe's The Italian: Or the Confessional of the Black Penitents

  • romance
  • gothic
  • classics
  • literature
  • fiction
  • horror
  • 18th century
Cover of The Vampyre; A Tale by John William Polidori

6. The Vampyre; A Tale

By: John William Polidori

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Vampyreis a short story by John William Polidori. It is based on a fragment written by Lord Byr… read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Vathek by William Beckford

7. Vathek

By: William Beckford

3.50

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

Beckford's Gothic novel, Vathek, an Arabian tale, was originally written in French when the author … read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • literature
  • fiction
  • horror
  • 18th century
Cover of Zofloya by Charlotte Dacre

8. Zofloya

By: Charlotte Dacre

4.04

Format: None pages, Paperback

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • literature
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Robert Maturin, Victor Sage

9. Melmoth the Wanderer

By: Charles Robert Maturin , Victor Sage

3.68

Format: None pages, Paperback

Created by an Irish clergyman, Melmoth is one of the most fiendish characters in literature. In a s… read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • literature
  • fiction
  • horror

10. Uncle Silas

By: J. Sheridan Le Fanu , Victor Sage

4.26

Format: 91 pages, Paperback

One of the most significant and intriguing Gothic novels of the Victorian period and is enjoyed tod… read more

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Cover of Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen, Alfred J. MacAdam

11. Northanger Abbey

By: Jane Austen , Alfred J. MacAdam

3.85

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

A wonderfully entertaining coming-of-age story, Northanger Abbey is often referred to as Jane Auste… read more

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  • gothic
  • fiction
  • classics
  • literature
"I have no talent for certainty."

-Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

"Every moment has its pleasures and its hope."

-Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

"But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea."

-Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

"I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible."

-Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

12. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

By: James Hogg , John Carey

3.88

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

James Hogg wrote about the supernatural powerfully and convincingly, especially in his best-known n… read more

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13. Lyrical Ballads

By: William Wordsworth , Samuel Taylor Coleridge , None

4.08

Format: None pages, Paperback

The majority of the following poems are to be considered as experiments. They were written chiefly … read more

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14. Wieland, or, The Transformation

By: Charles Brockden Brown

3.69

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Excerpt from Wieland or the Transformation Genius and knowledge command respect; but superior geniu… read more

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15. Lady Audley's Secret

By: Mary Elizabeth Braddon

4.10

Format: None pages, Paperback

This Victorian bestseller, along with Braddon's other famous novel, Aurora Floyd, established her a… read more

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16. Carmilla

By: J. Sheridan Le Fanu

3.86

Format: 108 pages, Paperback

In an isolated castle deep in the Austrian forest, Laura leads a solitary life with only her ailing… read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • fiction
  • horror
"Love will have its sacrifices. No sacrifice without blood."

-J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

"You are mine, you shall be mine, you and I are one for ever."

-J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

"If your dear heart is wounded, my wild heart bleeds with yours."

-J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

"Darling, darling. I live in you, and you would die for me. I love you so."

-J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

17. The Monk

By: None

4.71

Format: None pages, Paperback

Set in the sinister monastery of the Capuchins in Madrid, this is a violent tale of ambition, murde… read more

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18. No Name

By: Wilkie Collins , None

4.07

Format: None pages, Paperback

'Mr Vanstone's daughters are Nobody's Children'. Magdalen Vanstone and her sister Norah learn the t… read more

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19. Castle Rackrent

By: Maria Edgeworth

3.79

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Set in Ireland prior to its achieving legislative independence from Britain in 1782, Castle Rackren… read more

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Cover of The Blood of the Vampire: An independent woman in Europe with White-Black mixed race heritage by Florence Marryat

20. The Blood of the Vampire: An independent woman in Europe with White-Black mixed race heritage

By: Florence Marryat

3.64

Format: None pages, Paperback

Harriet Brandt defies conventional categories, and does not fit socially although she is carefree a… read more

Similar categories in Florence Marryat's The Blood of the Vampire: An independent woman in Europe with White-Black mixed race heritage book and Ann Radcliffe's The Italian: Or the Confessional of the Black Penitents

  • gothic
  • classics
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The Black Vampyre: A Legend of St. Domingo by Uriah Derick d'Arcy

21. The Black Vampyre: A Legend of St. Domingo

By: Uriah Derick d'Arcy

2.99

Format: 59 pages, ebook

In April of 1819, a London periodical, the New Monthly Magazine, published “The Vampyre: A Tale by … read more

Similar categories in Uriah Derick d'Arcy's The Black Vampyre: A Legend of St. Domingo book and Ann Radcliffe's The Italian: Or the Confessional of the Black Penitents

  • gothic
  • classics
  • fiction
  • horror

13 Top fiction books like The Italian: Or the Confessional of the Black Penitents by Ann Radcliffe, Robert Miles

Transform Your Habits

The Castle of Otranto

Horace Walpole

3.18

Transform Your Habits

The Old English Baron

Clara Reeve , James Trainer

3.00

Transform Your Habits

Armadale

John Sutherland , Wilkie Collins

3.94

Transform Your Habits

Roxana

Daniel Defoe , John Mullan

4.09

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13 must-read fiction books like Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Robert Maturin, Victor Sage

Transform Your Habits

The Castle of Otranto

Horace Walpole

3.18

Transform Your Habits

Les Chants de Maldoror

Comte de Lautréamont , Guy Wernham

4.15

Transform Your Habits

In a Glass Darkly

J. Sheridan Le Fanu

4.00

Transform Your Habits

The Last Man

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

4.02

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