17 best-selling classics books like Zofloya by Charlotte Dacre

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Zofloya

By: Charlotte Dacre

4.04

Format: None pages, Paperback

If you liked the classics plot in Zofloya by Charlotte Dacre , here is a list of 17 books like this:

Cover of Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft

1. Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman

By: Mary Wollstonecraft

3.44

Format: 138 pages, Paperback

In Maria , Wollstonecraft pursues in fictional form themes set forth in 'A Vindication of the Right… read more

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  • gothic
  • fiction
  • classics
  • literature
"Was not the world a vast prison, and women born slaves?"

-Mary Wollstonecraft, Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman

"She would stand and behold the waves rolling, and think of the voice that could still the tumultuous deep."

-Mary Wollstonecraft, Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman

"Men who are inferior to their fellow men, are always most anxious to establish their superiority over women."

-Mary Wollstonecraft, Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman

"...or like the flash which divides the threatening clouds of angry heaven only to display the horror which darkness shrouded"

-Mary Wollstonecraft, Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman

Cover of The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole

2. 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
"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

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3. Manfred

By: Lord Byron

3.79

Format: 84 pages, Paperback

Manfred contains supernatural elements, in keeping with the popularity of the ghost story in Englan… read more

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  • gothic
  • 19th century
  • classics
  • fiction
"Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most must mourn the deepest o’er the fatal truth, the Tree of Knowledge is not that of Life."

-Lord Byron, Manfred

"The stars are forth, the moon above the tops Of the snow-shining mountains.—Beautiful! I linger yet with Nature, for the night Hath been to me a more familiar face Than that of man; and in her starry…"

-Lord Byron, Manfred

"The mind which is immortal makes itself Requital for its good or evil thoughts, Is its own origin of ill and end, And its own place and time; its innate sense, When stripped of this mortality, derive…"

-Lord Byron, Manfred

"There is an order Of mortals on the earth, who do become Old in their youth, and die ere middle age, Without the violence of warlike death; Some perishing of pleasure, some of study, Some worn with t…"

-Lord Byron, Manfred

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4. A Sicilian Romance

By: Ann Radcliffe

3.39

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

In A Sicilian Romance (1790) Ann Radcliffe began to forge the unique mixture of the psychology of t… read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • literature
  • fiction
  • horror
  • historical fiction
"Wisdom or accident, at length, recall us from our error, and offers to us some object capable of producing a pleasing, yet lasting effect, which effect, therefore, we call happiness. Happiness has th…"

-Ann Radcliffe, A Sicilian Romance

"As I walked over the loose fragments of stone, which lay scattered and surveyed the sublimity and grandeur of the ruins, I recurred, by a natural association of ideas, to the times when these walls s…"

-Ann Radcliffe, A Sicilian Romance

Cover of Confessions of an English Opium Eater by Thomas de Quincey, Barry Milligan

5. Confessions of an English Opium Eater

By: Thomas de Quincey , Barry Milligan

4.00

Format: 50 pages, Paperback

A masterpiece of autobiography, and perhaps the first literary memoir of an addict, the Penguin Cla… read more

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  • literature
  • 19th century
  • classics
Cover of The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

6. The Last Man

By: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

4.02

Format: None pages, Paperback

A futuristic story of tragic love and of the gradual extermination of the human race by plague, The… read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The Body Snatcher by Robert Louis Stevenson

7. The Body Snatcher

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

4.53

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

A young man studying medicine in Edinburgh is asked by his professor to be responsible for receivin… read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • 19th century
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The Romance of the Forest by Ann Radcliffe

8. The Romance of the Forest

By: Ann Radcliffe

4.18

Format: 213 pages,

Set in a Roman Catholic Europe of violent passions and extreme oppression, the novel follows the fa… read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • literature
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe, Jacqueline Howard

9. The Mysteries of Udolpho

By: Ann Radcliffe , Jacqueline Howard

4.18

Format: 213 pages, Paperback

With The Mysteries of Udolpho, Ann Radcliffe raised the Gothic romance to a new level and inspired … read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The Italian: Or the Confessional of the Black Penitents by Ann Radcliffe, Robert Miles

10. 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

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • literature
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The Vampyre and Other Tales of the Macabre by John William Polidori, Robert  Morrison

11. The Vampyre and Other Tales of the Macabre

By: John William Polidori , Robert Morrison

4.00

Format: None pages,

John Polidori's classic tale The Vampyre(1819), was a product of the same ghost-story competition t… read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • fiction
  • horror
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12. 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
Cover of Zofloya by Charlotte Dacre

13. Zofloya

By: Charlotte Dacre

4.04

Format: None pages, Paperback

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • 19th century
  • literature
  • fiction
  • horror
  • historical fiction
Cover of Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Robert Maturin, Victor Sage

14. 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
  • 19th century
  • literature
  • fiction
  • horror

15. 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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16. Wieland and Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist

By: Jay Fliegelman , Charles Brockden Brown

3.69

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

A terrifying account of the fallibility of the human mind and, by extension, of democracy itself, W… read more

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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. Caleb Williams

By: William Godwin , Maurice Hindle

4.33

Format: 57 pages, Paperback

When honest young Caleb Williams comes to work as a secretary for Squire Falkland, he soon begins t… read more

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19. The Open Door

By: Charlotte Riddell

3.60

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

Charlotte Riddell (1832-1906) who also wrote under the pseudonym F. G. Tafford, was one of the most… read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • fiction
  • horror
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

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • 19th century
  • fiction
  • horror
  • historical fiction
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

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  • 19th century
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  • horror
  • historical fiction

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