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10 best books like Three Hearts and Three Lions (Poul Anderson): Elric, The Dying Earth, The King of Elfland's Daughter, Elric of Melniboné, If at First You Don't Succeed, Try, Try Again, The Baker's Boy, The Chronicles of Amber, Witch World, The Face in the Frost, Swords and Deviltry

Elric
AuthorMichael Moorcock
Elric of Melniboné is the haunted, treacherous and doomed albino sorcerer-prince. An introspective weakling in thrall to his black-bladed, soul-eating sword, Stormbringer, he is yet a hero whose bloody adventures and wanderings through brooding, desolate lands leads inexorably to his decisive...
The Dying Earth
AuthorJack Vance
ISBN0671831526

I did not like this book much the first time I read it, but after reading it a second time while visualizing its characters as puppets, I found I liked it much more.

This book—particularly the first three stories—irritated me. I found its wizards to be contemptible creatures, morally...
The King of Elfland's Daughter
AuthorLord Dunsany
In fantasy, I've seen magic used in many ways: as plot device, curio, religious allegory, and the personification of morals, but rarely do I find a book where magic is truly magical. Too often, it's a convenience, a cliche, but for Dunsany, magic is pervasive, mysterious, unknowable, and lovely. He...
Elric of Melniboné
AuthorMichael Moorcock
ISBN0441203981
It is the colour of a bleached skull, his flesh; and the long hair that flows below his shoulders is milk-white. From the tapering, beautiful head stare two slanting eyes, crimson and moody....He is Elric, Emperor of Melnibone, cursed with a keen and cynical intelligence, schooled in the art of sorcery...
If at First You Don't Succeed, Try, Try Again
AuthorZen Cho
This pleasant novelette won the 2019 Hugo Award, and it’s free online. An imugi (a magical serpent that’s an earlier stage of a dragon, at least in this world’s mythology) wants nothing more than to become a full-fledged dragon and live in the heavens. Every thousand years the imugi, Byam, gets...
The Baker's Boy
AuthorJ.V. Jones
ISBN1857233751
THE BOOK OF WORDS is a thrilling new fantasy adventure series, where the lethal conspiracies and deadly intrigues of the mighty can be countered only by the power of magic.

At vast Castle Harvell, Where King Lesketh lies dying, two fates collide. In her regal suite, young Melliandra, the daughter...
The Chronicles of Amber
AuthorRoger Zelazny
ISBN1857987268
Amber is the one real world, casting infinite reflections of itself - shadow worlds, which can be manipulated by those of royal Amberite blood. But the royal family is torn apart by jealousies and suspicion; the disappearance of the patriarch Oberon has intensified the internal conflict by leaving...
Witch World
AuthorAndre Norton
ISBN0441897088
Andre Norton enthralled readers for decades with thrilling tales of people challenged to the limits of their endurance in epic battles of good against evil. None are more memorable than her Witch World novels. Simon Tregarth, a man from our own world, escapes his doom through the gates to the Witch World....
The Face in the Frost
AuthorJohn Bellairs
The Face in the Frost is a fantasy classic, defying categorization with its richly imaginative story of two separate kingdoms of wizards, stymied by a power that is beyond their control. A tall, skinny misfit of a wizard named Prospero lives in the Southern Kingdom a patchwork of feuding duchies and...
Swords and Deviltry
AuthorFritz Leiber
ISBN1595820795
For the first time-the story of how the greatest heroes in fantastic literature first met.

'The two thieves had themselves been robbed by two youths, who eyed each other suspiciously over the sprawled, senseless bodies.

Fafhrd said: 'Our motives for being here seem identical.'...
Stormbringer
AuthorMichael Moorcock
ISBN0441787541

With Stormbringer, Michael Moorcock brings a superior fantasy series to a to formally effective and emotionally satifying conclusion.

I love the Elric series, and sometimes wonder if I rate the books too highly. After all, the prose, ranging from workmanlike to vigorous, is often evocative...
The Well of the Unicorn
AuthorFletcher Pratt
ISBN0345297296
Robbed of lands and heritage by the rapacious Vulkings, young Airar Alvarson had only his limited gift for sorcery to aid him against a world of savage intrigues. Then he met a mysterious sorcerer and was given a strange iron ring -- a ring that led him into a futile conspiracy and soon had him fleeing for...
Titus Alone
AuthorMervyn Peake
ISBN0345730097

Titus Alone has the charms and eccentricities, the verbal and visual beauties of its two formidable predecessors, but it is only about half as long as they are, with extremely short chapters, and it lacks their concentrated richness, their depth and perspective.

Is it a radical departure,...
Rhialto the Marvellous
AuthorJack Vance
ISBN0671559915
Rhialto the Marvellous takes up the personal and political conflicts among a conclave of two dozen magicians of Ascolais and Almery in the 21st Aeon. The shocking appearance of the Llorio the Murtha, a powerful female force from an earlier aeon threatens to unbalance nature by “ensqualming” or...
The Stealer of Souls
AuthorMichael Moorcock
ISBN0583113443
Mighty Elric... Mightier Sword!

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the most unusual hero in the great tradition of heroic fantasy.
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the albino sorcerer and battle-thirsty prince.
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doomed beyond hope to wander a world of barbarism and treachery.
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seeker of impossible...
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