10 must-read fiction books like The Female Quixote by Charlotte Lennox, Margaret Anne Doody, Margaret Dalziel, Duncan Isles

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The Female Quixote

By: Charlotte Lennox , Margaret Anne Doody , Margaret Dalziel , Duncan Isles

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Female Quixote, a vivacious and ironical novel parodying the style of Cervantes, portrays Arabe…

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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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  • 18th century
  • classics
  • fiction
  • british 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

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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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  • 18th century
  • classics
  • fiction
  • british literature
"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. Belinda

By: Maria Edgeworth , Kathryn J. Kirkpatrick

3.66

Format: 544 pages, Paperback

The lively comedy of this novel in which a young woman comes of age amid the distractions and tempt… read more

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  • romance
  • classics
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • 18th century
"I wish," said the old lady, "for her own sake, for the sake of her family, and for the sake of her reputation, that my lady Delacour had fewer admirers, and more friends." "Women, who have met with s…"

-Maria Edgeworth, Belinda

Cover of Cecilia by None, Margaret Anne Doody, Peter Sabor, Frances Burney, Annie Ellis

4. Cecilia

By: None , Margaret Anne Doody , Peter Sabor , Frances Burney , Annie Ellis

3.77

Format: 1056 pages, Paperback

Cecilia is an heiress, but she can only keep her fortune if her husband will consent to take her su… read more

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  • romance
  • classics
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • 18th century
"...let me counsel you to remember that a lady, whether so called form birth or only from fortune, should never degrade herself by being put on a level with writers, and such sort of people."

-None, Cecilia

"One indulgence alone from time to time I allow myself, - 'tis Music! which has power to delight me even to rapture! it quiets all anxiety, it carries me out of myself, I forget through it every calam…"

-None, Cecilia

"This only unconcerned spectator in the midst of the apparent general bustle, was Mr Meadows; who viewed all that passed without troubling himself to interfere, and with an air of the most evident car…"

-None, Cecilia

"Her next solicitude was to furnish herself with a well-chosen collection of books: and this employment, which to a lover of literature, young and ardent in its pursuit, is perhaps the mind's first lu…"

-None, Cecilia

Cover of The Female Quixote by Charlotte Lennox, Margaret Anne Doody, Margaret Dalziel, Duncan Isles

5. The Female Quixote

By: Charlotte Lennox , Margaret Anne Doody , Margaret Dalziel , Duncan Isles

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Female Quixote, a vivacious and ironical novel parodying the style of Cervantes, portrays Arabe… read more

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  • romance
  • classics
  • british literature
  • humor
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • 18th century
Cover of Roxana by Daniel Defoe, John Mullan

6. 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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  • classics
  • british literature
  • 18th century
  • historical fiction
  • fiction
Cover of Fantomina; or, Love in a Maze by Eliza Fowler Haywood

7. Fantomina; or, Love in a Maze

By: Eliza Fowler Haywood

3.86

Format: 568 pages, Paperback

Eliza Haywood (1693-1756) (born Elizabeth Fowler) was an English writer, actress and publisher. Sin… read more

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  • romance
  • 18th century
  • classics
  • fiction
Cover of The Woman of Colour by Lyndon J. Dominique

8. The Woman of Colour

By: Lyndon J. Dominique

4.18

Format: None pages, Paperback

In The Woman of Colour, Olivia Fairfield, the biracial heroine and orphaned daughter of an English … read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Wittgenstein's Mistress by David Foster Wallace, Steven Moore, David Markson

9. Wittgenstein's Mistress

By: David Foster Wallace , Steven Moore , David Markson

3.32

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

Wittgenstein's Mistress is a novel unlike anything David Markson - or anyone else - has ever writte… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Collected Poems, 1909-1962 by T.S. Eliot

10. Collected Poems, 1909-1962

By: T.S. Eliot

4.12

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

There is no more authoritative collection of the poetry that Eliot himself wished to preserve than … read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • british literature

11. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

By: Laurence Sterne , Melvyn New

3.90

Format: 256 pages,

Laurence Sterne's great masterpiece of bawdy humour and rich satire defies any attempt to categoriz… read more

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12. Fanny Hill, or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure

By: John Cleland

2.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

Fanny Hill, also known as Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, has been a notorious novel since it first… read more

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13. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

By: Unknown , None , Burton Raffel

4.50

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Written by an anonymous 14th-century poet, this epic poem is recognized as an equal of Chaucer's ma… read more

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14. Evelina

By: None , Edward A. Bloom

3.88

Format: None pages, Paperback

Frances Burney's first and most enduringly popular novel is a vivid, satirical, and seductive accou… read more

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15. The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia

By: Samuel Johnson , None

4.27

Format: 127 pages, Paperback

Rasselas--regarded as Johnson's most creative work--presents the story of the journey of Rasselas a… read more

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16. Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded

By: Samuel Richardson , Thomas Keymer , Alice Wakely

3.97

Format: 12 pages, Paperback

One of the most spectacular successes of the flourishing literary marketplace of eighteenth-century… read more

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17. A Simple Story

By: Elizabeth Inchbald

2.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

When Miss Milner announces her passion for her guardian, a Catholic priest, she breaks through the … read more

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18. Millenium Hall

By: Gary Kelly , None

3.96

Format: 236 pages, Paperback

"With this splendid edition Gary Kelly has recovered a central document of Enlightenment British fe… read more

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19. The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle

By: Tobias Smollett

2.97

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle is a picaresque novel by the Scottish author Tobias Smollett. It… read more

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20. Love in Excess

By: Eliza Fowler Haywood , None

3.68

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

"This readable edition of Haywood's blockbuster novel is an important addition to our understanding… read more

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21. Joseph Andrews

By: Henry Fielding

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Joseph Andrews refuses Lady Booby's advances, she discharges him, and Joseph and his old tutor, Par… read more

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9 Top classics books like The Female Quixote by Charlotte Lennox, Margaret Anne Doody, Margaret Dalziel, Duncan Isles

Transform Your Habits

Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman

Mary Wollstonecraft

3.44

Transform Your Habits

The Castle of Otranto

Horace Walpole

3.18

Transform Your Habits

Belinda

Maria Edgeworth , Kathryn J. Kirkpatrick

3.66

Transform Your Habits

Cecilia

None , Margaret Anne Doody , Peter Sabor , Frances Burney , Annie Ellis

3.77

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17 must-read fiction books like Collected Poems, 1909-1962 by T.S. Eliot

Transform Your Habits

The Complete English Poems

John Donne , A.J. Smith

4.15

Transform Your Habits

Poetry and Prose

Walt Whitman , Justin Kaplan

4.30

Transform Your Habits

100 Selected Poems

E.E. Cummings

4.29

Transform Your Habits

The Collected Poems

Wallace Stevens

4.27

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