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6 best books like The Prairie (James Fenimore Cooper): Ivanhoe, The Lost World, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Two Years Before the Mast: A Sailor's Life at Sea, Gargantua and Pantagruel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket

Ivanhoe
AuthorWalter Scott
ISBN0140436588
For this novel, Scott moved far away from the setting of his own turbulent time. He went back to the late 12th century, and to England rather than the Scottish settings of all his previous novels. He connected his writing Ivanhoe with his concerns about contemporary events.
Scott drew together the...
The Lost World
AuthorArthur Conan Doyle
ISBN0812967259
Move aside, Sherlock…Sir Arthur has conjured a protagonist who's an even more arrogant assbag than you. 

Everyone...the intrepid, the indefatigable, the insufferable Professor G.E. Challenger…


If, like me, you enjoy characters that are gruff, prideful curmudgeonly...
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
AuthorJames Hogg
ISBN0192835904
Set in early eighteenth-century Scotland, the novel recounts the corruption of a boy of strict Calvinist parentage by a mysterious stranger under whose influence he commits a series of murders. The stranger assures the boy that no sin can affect the salvation of an elect person. The reader, while recognizing...
Two Years Before the Mast: A Sailor's Life at Sea
AuthorRichard Henry Dana Jr.
ISBN1402179626
Two Years Before the Mast is a book by the American author Richard Henry Dana, Jr. written after a two-year sea voyage starting in 1834.

While at Harvard College, Dana had an attack of the measles, which affected his vision. Thinking it might help his sight, Dana, rather than going on a Grand Tour...
Gargantua and Pantagruel
AuthorFrançois Rabelais
ISBN0140445501
The dazzling and exuberant moral stories of Rabelais (c.1471-1553) expose human follies with their mischievous and often obscene humour, while intertwining the realistic with carnivalesque fantasy to make us look afresh at the world.

Gargantua depicts a young giant, reduced to laughable...
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
AuthorEdgar Allan Poe
ISBN0140437487
Poe found the germ of the story he would develop into ARTHUR GORDON PYM in 1836 in a newspaper account of the shipwreck and subsequent rescue of the two men on board. Published in 1838, this rousing sea adventure follows New England boy, Pym, who stows away on a whaling ship with its captain's son, Augustus....
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