14 best-selling 19th century books like War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, Louise Maude, Aylmer Maude, Henry Gifford

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War and Peace

By: Leo Tolstoy , Louise Maude , Aylmer Maude , Henry Gifford

4.16

Format: 1392 pages, Paperback

In Russia's struggle with Napoleon, Tolstoy saw a tragedy that involved all mankind. War and Pe…

"God is the same everywhere."

-Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

"God is the same everywhere."

-Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

"Kings are the slaves of history."

-Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

"Kings are the slaves of history."

-Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

If you liked the 19th century plot in War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, Louise Maude, Aylmer Maude, Henry Gifford , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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1. 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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"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

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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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"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. Demons

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky

4.30

Format: 733 pages, Paperback

Alternate Cover Edition ISBN 0679734511. (ISBN13: 9780679734512) Inspired by the true story of a… read more

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"God is the pain of the fear of death"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons

"Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. It's only that."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons

"Marriage is the moral death of every proud soul, of all independence."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons

"...and in fact I've noticed that faith always seems to be less in the daytime"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons

Cover of Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Roberto González Echevarría, John Rutherford

4. Don Quixote

By: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra , Roberto González Echevarría , John Rutherford

3.66

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading chivalric romances, that he determines to become a k… read more

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5. Oliver Twist

By: Charles Dickens , George Cruikshank , Philip Horne

3.88

Format: 608 pages, Paperback

A gripping portrayal of London's dark criminal underbelly, published in Penguin Classics with an in… read more

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"Meat, ma'am, meat."

-Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

"Please, sir, I want some more."

-Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

"هناك كتب .. غلافـها أفضل ما فيها"

-Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

"There are a good many books, are there not, my boy?"

-Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

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6. The Count of Monte Cristo

By: Alexandre Dumas , Robin Buss

4.30

Format: 1276 pages, Paperback

Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantès is confined to the grim fortress o… read more

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"I am a Count, Not a Saint."

-Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

"He who has a partner has a master."

-Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

"Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy."

-Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

"On what slender threads do life and fortune hang… !"

-Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

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7. A Tale of Two Cities

By: Charles Dickens , Hablot Knight Browne , Richard Maxwell

3.87

Format: 489 pages, Paperback

A Tale of Two Cities is Charles Dickens’s great historical novel, set against the violent upheaval … read more

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"We'll start to forget a place once we left it"

-Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

"Tell the Wind and the Fire where to stop; not me."

-Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

"A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self."

-Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."

-Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

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8. Les Misérables

By: Victor Hugo , Lee Fahnestock , Norman MacAfee

4.20

Format: 1463 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Victor Hugo's tale of injustice, heroism and love follows the fortunes of Jean Valjean, an escaped … read more

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"Be happy without picking flaws."

-Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

"Those who do not weep, do not see."

-Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

"Sleep comes more easily than it returns."

-Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

"Not being heard is no reason for silence."

-Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

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9. Crimen y castigo

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky

3.50

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

Esta novela, una de las mas grandes e imperecederas de la literatura universal, contiene dos de los… read more

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10. The Brothers Karamazov

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky

4.37

Format: 796 pages, Paperback

The Brothers Karamazov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry… read more

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"How good life is when one does something good and just!"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

"Forgive me... for my love - for ruining you with my love."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

"Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

"What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

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11. The Idiot

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Constance Garnett , Joseph Frank , Alan Myers , Anna Brailovsky

4.21

Format: 667 pages, Paperback

Returning to Russia from a sanitarium in Switzerland, the Christ-like epileptic Prince Myshkin find… read more

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"I'm drunk but truthful."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

"Beauty will save the world."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

"The Russian soul is a dark place."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

"She is passion embodied, a flower of melodrama in eternal bloom."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

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12. Fathers and Sons

By: Ivan Turgenev , None , None

3.99

Format: 244 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Bazarov—a gifted, impatient, and caustic young man—has journeyed from school to the home of his fri… read more

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"He has no faith in principles, only in frogs."

-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

"Death's an old story, but new for each person."

-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

"I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze."

-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

"However, I know myself as a very unhappy person."

-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

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13. Great Expectations

By: Charles Dickens

3.79

Format: 544 pages, Paperback

Great Expectations charts the progress of Pip from childhood through often painful experiences to a… read more

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"We need never be ashamed of our tears."

-Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

"You are in every line I have ever read."

-Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

"It is the most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home."

-Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

"Take the pencil and write under my name, 'I forgive her."

-Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

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14. Notes from Underground

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Norman Dietz , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky , Boris de Schlœzer , Emanuela Guercetti , None , Donald Fanger , None , None , None

4.17

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

Dostoevsky’s most revolutionary novel, Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between ninet… read more

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"l'homme de la nature et de la verite"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

"I'll go this minute!' Of course, I remained."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

"إذ ما العذاب والألم ... سوى المحرك الوحيد للوعي."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

"To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

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15. Middlemarch

By: Michel Faber , George Eliot

4.02

Format: 912 pages, Mass Market Paperback

"People are almost always better than their neighbours think they are" George Eliot’s most ambit… read more

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"After all, the true seeing is within."

-Michel Faber, Middlemarch

"I protest against any absolute conclusion."

-Michel Faber, Middlemarch

"I shall do everything it becomes me to do."

-Michel Faber, Middlemarch

"What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?"

-Michel Faber, Middlemarch

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16. One Hundred Years of Solitude

By: Gabriel García Márquez , Gregory Rabassa

4.12

Format: 417 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The brilliant, bestselling, landmark novel that tells the story of the Buendia family, and chronicl… read more

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"Cease, cows, life is short."

-Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

"There is always something left to love."

-Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

"Children inherit their parents' madness."

-Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

"بدأ يدرك كم يحب فى الواقع الأشخاص الذين كرههم أكثر من سواهم ."

-Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

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17. Eugene Onegin

By: Alexander Pushkin , James E. Falen

4.10

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Eugene Onegin is the master work of the poet whom Russians regard as the fountainhead of their lite… read more

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"He's happy now, he's almost sane."

-Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin

"Habit is heaven's gift to us: a substitute for happiness."

-Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin

"My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you..."

-Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin

"I'm only writing this to show That I stopped sinning long ago."

-Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin

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18. War and Peace

By: Leo Tolstoy , Louise Maude , Aylmer Maude , Henry Gifford

4.16

Format: 1392 pages, Paperback

In Russia's struggle with Napoleon, Tolstoy saw a tragedy that involved all mankind. War and Pe… read more

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"God is the same everywhere."

-Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

"Kings are the slaves of history."

-Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

"Everything depends on upbringing. "

-Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

"We are asleep until we fall in Love!"

-Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

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19. Moby-Dick or, The Whale

By: Herman Melville , Tom Quirk , Andrew Delbanco

3.55

Format: 720 pages, Paperback

"It is the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships' cables and hawsers. A Polar … read more

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"Call me Ishmael."

-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

"Ignorance is the parent of fear"

-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

"Ignorance is the parent of fear."

-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

"Speak, thou vast and venerable head,"

-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

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20. The Master and Margarita

By: Mikhail Bulgakov , None , Katherine Tiernan O'Connor , None

4.29

Format: 372 pages, Paperback

The first complete, annotated English Translation of Mikhail Bulgakov's comic masterpiece. An au… read more

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"Cowardice is the most terrible of vices."

-Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

"manuscripts don't burn" - "(рукописи не горят)"

-Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

"The tongue may hide the truth but the eyes—never!"

-Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

"Злых людей нет на свете, есть только люди несчастливые."

-Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

Cover of Tolstoy Together: 85 Days of War and Peace with Yiyun Li by Yiyun Li

21. Tolstoy Together: 85 Days of War and Peace with Yiyun Li

By: Yiyun Li

4.23

Format: 256 pages, ebook

From the acclaimed author of Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life, a book about th… read more

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20 must-read fiction books like War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, Louise Maude, Aylmer Maude, Henry Gifford

Transform Your Habits

The Three Musketeers

Alexandre Dumas , Richard Pevear , John Lee

4.09

Transform Your Habits

Dead Souls

Nikolai Gogol , Robert A. Maguire

3.98

Transform Your Habits

Demons

Fyodor Dostoevsky , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky

4.30

Transform Your Habits

Don Quixote

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra , Roberto González Echevarría , John Rutherford

3.66

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18 must-read fiction books like The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky

Transform Your Habits

The Stranger

Albert Camus , Matthew Ward , Stuart Gilbert , None

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Dead Souls

Nikolai Gogol , Robert A. Maguire

3.98

Transform Your Habits

The Plague

Albert Camus , Stuart Gilbert

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Don Quixote

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra , Roberto González Echevarría , John Rutherford

3.66

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