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Books like Age of chivalry; or, King Arthur and his knights

Loved Age of chivalry; or, King Arthur and his knights by Thomas Bulfinch? Here are 10 books with a similar appeal — drawn mostly from romance, ranked by how confidently we'd recommend them next.

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    The three clerks

    Anthony Trollope · 1858 · Romance

    Set in the 1850s, The Three Clerks exposes and probes the relationships between three clerks and the three sisters who became their wives. At the same time it satirizes the Civil Service examinations

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    Framley Parsonage

    Anthony Trollope · 1861 · Romance

    The Chronicles of Barsetshire, Book 4: Framley Parsonage When young Mark Robarts was leaving college, his father might well declare that all men began to say all good things to him, and to extol his f

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    Ragged Dick

    Jr. Horatio Alger · 1868 · Romance

    "Ragged Dick" was contributed as a serial story to the pages of the Schoolmate, a well-known juvenile magazine, during the year 1867. While in course of publication, it was received with so many evide

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    Far from the Madding Crowd

    Thomas Hardy · 1874 · Romance

    Independent and spirited Bathsheba Everdene has come to Weatherbury to take up her position as a farmer on the largest estate in the area. Her bold presence draws three very different suitors: the gen

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    Rose in Bloom

    Louisa May Alcott · 1876 · Romance

    In this sequel to Eight Cousins, Rose Campbell returns to the "Aunt Hill" after two years of traveling around the world. Suddenly, she is surrounded by male admirers, all expecting her to marry them.

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    Typee

    Herman Melville · 1840 · Romance

    At one time the most popular of Melville's works, Typee was known as a travelogue that idealized and romanticized a mysterious South Sea island for readers in the ruthless, industrial, "civilized" wor

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    The Return of the Native

    Thomas Hardy · 1878 · Romance

    The native of the title is Clym Yeobright, who returns to the area from the bright society of Paris and, as any reader of Hardy knows, all is not smooth. He is quickly taken by and marries the one wom

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    Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas

    Machado de Assis · 1881 · Romance

    Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas é um romance escrito por Machado de Assis, desenvolvido em princípio como folhetim, de março a dezembro de 1880, na Revista Brasileira, para, no ano seguinte, ser publi

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    Mademoiselle Fifi

    Guy de Maupassant · 1882 · Romance

    The title story of this collection is, like many of the others, set during the Franco-Prussian war. As in so many of Maupassant’s stories he explores class barriers and looks at the contrasts between

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    Mademoiselle de Maupin

    Théophile Gautier · 1834 · Romance

    Une des choses les plus burlesques de la glorieuse epoque ou nous avons le bonheur de vivre est incontestablement la rehabilitation de la vertu entreprise par tous les journaux, de quelque couleur qu'

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