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10 best books like Figures of Earth (James Branch Cabell): The Blue Star, Zothique, Don Rodriguez: Chronicles of Shadow Valley, The Well At The World's End: Volume I, The Song of Rhiannon, The Boats of the 'Glen Carrig', Kai Lung's Golden Hours, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair Literature Unit Study C S Lewis Narnia, The Lost Continent: The Story of Atlantis, Land of Unreason

The Blue Star
AuthorFletcher Pratt
ISBN0345298527
Lalette Asterhax could not escape her destiny. She was a hereditary witch in a world where witchcraft was banned by ecclesiastical and temporal powers. And any man who possessed her would then gain possession of her precious Blue Star…and all the powers it could bestow. Rodvard Bergelin was a reluctant...
Zothique
AuthorClark Ashton Smith
ISBN0345219384
Tales of Zothique is a collection of fantasy short stories by Clark Ashton Smith, and edited by Lin Carter. It was first published in paperback by Ballantine Books as the sixteenth volume of its celebrated Ballantine Adult Fantasy series in June 1970. It was the first themed collection of Smith's works...
Don Rodriguez: Chronicles of Shadow Valley
AuthorLord Dunsany
After long and patient research I am still unable to give to the reader of these Chronicles the exact date of the times that they tell of. Were it merely a matter of history there could be no doubts about the period; but where magic is concerned, to however slight an extent, there must always be some element...
The Well At The World's End: Volume I
AuthorWilliam Morris
ISBN1587150883
Possibly the second true "imaginary world" fantasy novel (the possible first being Morris' The Wood beyond the World). Also, for a long time one of the longest -- 220,000 words, more-or-less, so longer than just about anything up until a certain Oxford professor started writing about a certain trip...
The Song of Rhiannon
AuthorEvangeline Walton
ISBN0020264739
The Song of Rhiannon, a retelling of the Third Branch of the Mabinogion, isn't as powerful as The Children of Llyr, which is a relief, in a way. There's a time of healing for the characters, as well as what they suffer during the action of the story, and there's a happy end for them as well. It continues to follow...
The Boats of the 'Glen Carrig'
AuthorWilliam Hope Hodgson
ISBN1557423954
The Glen Carrig, a sailing ship hits an unseen, large, sharp rock just under the surface of this uncharted ocean in 1757, the survivors of the disastrous sinking float for five days, their precious food supply diminishing, (and hope fades) in two lifeboats, on the sixth a tremendous storm strikes the...
Kai Lung's Golden Hours
AuthorErnest Bramah
ISBN1587152096
Kai Lung's Golden Hours By Ernest Bramah. Preface: Hilaire Belloc. Man is born to make. His business is to construct; to plan; to carry out the plan: to fit together, and to produce a finished thing. That human art in which it is most difficult to achieve this end and in which it is far easier to neglect it...
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair Literature Unit Study C S Lewis Narnia
AuthorTeresa Lilly
This is a unit study only. It does NOT include the novel.

To get this unit in a full PDF with cut outs to create a lapbook,
order it directly from the publisher.

This unit study offers many wonderful activities to use while having students read the
book. There are between 6 and...
The Lost Continent: The Story of Atlantis
AuthorCharles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne
ISBN0330239465
This obscure adventure novel, though popular in its time, is quite entertaining, not exactly literature and that term has been greatly overused, a yardstick... if you like H. Rider Haggard who influenced this author, you'll have an enjoyable read. To me a book is good or bad anything else is superfluous...The...
Land of Unreason
AuthorL. Sprague de Camp
ISBN0440147360
On Midsummer's Eve, as everybody knows, you should leave a bowl of milk out for the fairies. Unfortunately - or fortunately - Fred Barber, an American diplomat convalescing in Yorkshire, didn't take the obligation with proper seriousness. He swapped the milk for a stiff dose of Scotch. So he had only...
The Mezentian Gate
AuthorE.R. Eddison
ISBN0345272218
OK, this one is also complicated ... Not so much the broad strokes of the story, this time, though; rather, it's the structure of the book. Unfortunately, Eddison died before completing it; fortunately, he did leave enough notes to allow the book to be understandable even in partial form. Apparently,...
Lady in Gil
AuthorRebecca Bradley
ISBN0441007090

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4 stars

Tigrallef, happily reclusive scholar and memorian becomes a lot less happy when called to stand in for his more ... physical brother as the land of Gil's  official Hero. Woefully unprepared, he's sent off to Gil to track down a divinely powerful...
Earl Aubec and Other Stories
AuthorMichael Moorcock
ISBN1565049861
This is the 14th volume in the acclaimed Eternal Champion series by Michael Moorcock. The series collects in newly edited and revised form all the tales of this fantasy master's most famous meta-character, the Eternal Champion. Some aspects of this champion are beloved by countless readers of fantasy,...
Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451
AuthorHarold Bloom
ISBN0791059294
Back in my undergraduate days I was lucky enough to hear Ray Bradbury speak in person. (He was a keynote speaker at a conference for college newspaper staffers). He was so funny and so inspirational that decades later I still have the notes I took during his speech and during the workshop the next day. This...
Lord Prestimion
AuthorRobert Silverberg
ISBN0061058106
Colorful, beautifully-written but thin planetary romance

This is Silverberg's sixth Majipoor book, and it's a bit thin. I've read and liked the previous five -- this is Jack Vance "Big Planet" country: big, colorful landscapes, strange flora & fauna, teeming cities, richly-caparisoned...
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