6 Best fantasy books like The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser, C. Patrick O'Donnell, Thomas P. Roche Jr.

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The Faerie Queene

By: Edmund Spenser , None , C. Patrick O'Donnell , Thomas P. Roche Jr.

3.77

Format: 52 pages, Paperback

The Faerie Queenewas the first epic in English and one of the most influential poems in the languag…

If you liked the fantasy plot in The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser, None, C. Patrick O'Donnell, Thomas P. Roche Jr. , here is a list of 6 books like this:

Cover of The Complete English Poems by John Donne, A.J. Smith

1. The Complete English Poems

By: John Donne , A.J. Smith

4.15

Format: 688 pages, Paperback

Yet it is only this century that Donne has been indisputably established as a great poet—and even, … read more

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  • literature
  • poetry
  • classics
  • fiction
"The day breaks not: it is my heart."

-John Donne, The Complete English Poems

"Love, built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies."

-John Donne, The Complete English Poems

"I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so."

-John Donne, The Complete English Poems

"And to 'scape stormy days, I choose an everlasting night."

-John Donne, The Complete English Poems

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2. The Complete Plays

By: Christopher Marlowe , Robert Lindsey , Frank Romany

4.07

Format: 752 pages, Paperback

The complete plays of Christopher Marlowe, in which the lure of dark forces drives the shifting bal… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • literature
  • fiction
  • 16th century
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3. Dr. Faustus

By: Christopher Marlowe

3.80

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, commonly referred to simply as Doctor… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • literature
  • fiction
  • fantasy
"Hell is just a frame of mind."

-Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus

"Be silent then, for danger is in words."

-Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus

"Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris."

-Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus

"He that loves pleasure must for pleasure fall."

-Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus

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4. Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis

By: Michael Ward

4.33

Format: 347 pages, Hardcover

For over half a century, scholars have laboured to show that C. S. Lewis's famed but apparently dis… read more

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  • literature
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5. Twelfth Night

By: William Shakespeare , Folger Shakespeare Library

3.95

Format: 272 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Named for the twelfth night after Christmas, the end of the Christmas season, Twelfth Night plays w… read more

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  • literature
  • poetry
  • classics
  • fiction
"a raven's heart within a dove."

-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

"I pity you That's a degree to love"

-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

"Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit."

-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

"Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage."

-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

Cover of The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser, None, C. Patrick O'Donnell, Thomas P. Roche Jr.

6. The Faerie Queene

By: Edmund Spenser , None , C. Patrick O'Donnell , Thomas P. Roche Jr.

3.77

Format: 52 pages, Paperback

The Faerie Queenewas the first epic in English and one of the most influential poems in the languag… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • literature
  • fiction
  • epic
  • 16th century
  • fantasy
Cover of Astrophel and Stella by Philip Sidney

7. Astrophel and Stella

By: Philip Sidney

3.83

Format: 28 pages,

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  • literature
  • poetry
  • 16th century
  • classics
Cover of Beowulf by Unknown, Seamus Heaney

8. Beowulf

By: Unknown , Seamus Heaney

3.49

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • literature
  • fiction
  • fantasy
"Fate goes ever as fate must."

-Unknown, Beowulf

"Fate will unwind as it must!"

-Unknown, Beowulf

"Let whoever can win glory before death."

-Unknown, Beowulf

"We all know a boy can't daddy until his daddy's dead."

-Unknown, Beowulf

Cover of Meditations on First Philosophy: With Selections from the Objections and Replies by René Descartes, Bernard Williams, John Cottingham

9. Meditations on First Philosophy: With Selections from the Objections and Replies

By: René Descartes , Bernard Williams , John Cottingham

4.03

Format: 246 pages, Paperback

This authoritative translation by John Cottingham of the Meditations is taken from the much acclaim… read more

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  • classics
Cover of Le Lai de Lanval by Marie de France

10. Le Lai de Lanval

By: Marie de France

3.44

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • fantasy
Cover of Tamburlaine by Stephen Marlowe, Christopher Marlowe, Peter Kavanaugh

11. Tamburlaine

By: Stephen Marlowe , Christopher Marlowe , Peter Kavanaugh

3.96

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

One of the greatest English playwrights, Christopher Marlowe received the scholarly compliment of h… read more

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  • literature
  • poetry
  • classics
  • fiction
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12. Utopia

By: Paul Turner , Thomas More

3.55

Format: 113 pages, Paperback

In his most famous and controversial book, Utopia, Thomas More imagines a perfect island nation whe… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"The change of the word does not alter the matter"

-Paul Turner, Utopia

"Isn't this conception of absolute justice absolutely unjust?"

-Paul Turner, Utopia

"Dünyada kaygısız, rahat yürekle, sevinçle yaşamaktan daha büyük zenginlik olabilir mi?"

-Paul Turner, Utopia

"Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all."

-Paul Turner, Utopia

13. The Book of Margery Kempe

By: Margery Kempe , Lynn Staley

2.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Contexts" collects primary readings that illuminateThe Book of Margery Kempe. Included are excerpt… read more

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14. The Canterbury Tales

By: Geoffrey Chaucer , Nevill Coghill

3.72

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

The procession that crosses Chaucer's pages is as full of life and as richly textured as a medieval… read more

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15. Venus and Adonis

By: William Shakespeare , Christa Jansohn

3.28

Format: 404 pages,

Venus and Adonis is Shakespeare's narrative poem about the love of the goddess Venus for the mortal… read more

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16. 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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17. The Rape of the Lock

By: Alexander Pope

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

A satirical poem that intentionally over-dramatizes an incident in which a lock of a woman's hair i… read more

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18. The Blazing World and Other Writings

By: Margaret Cavendish , None

3.89

Format: None pages, Paperback

Flamboyant, theatrical and ambitious, Margaret Cavendish was one of the seventeenth century's most … read more

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19. 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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20. The Duchess of Malfi

By: John Webster

3.00

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

More widely studied and more frequently performed than ever before, John Webster's The Duchess of M… read more

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21. 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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  • poetry
  • classics
  • literature
  • fiction
  • fantasy
"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

6 must-read fantasy books like The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser, C. Patrick O'Donnell, Thomas P. Roche Jr.

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Dr. Faustus

Christopher Marlowe

3.80

Transform Your Habits

The Faerie Queene

Edmund Spenser , None , C. Patrick O'Donnell , Thomas P. Roche Jr.

3.77

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Beowulf

Unknown , Seamus Heaney

3.49

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Le Lai de Lanval

Marie de France

3.44

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Everyman

Anonymous , Unknown

3.27

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Arden of Faversham

Anonymous , Unknown , Martin White , Tom Lockwood

3.47

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Christopher Marlowe

3.80

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William Congreve

3.31

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