18 books like Magicians of the Gods

What to read after Magicians of the Gods — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

Goethe & the Greeks Trevelyan, Humphrey Baron Trevelyan · 1941 · 323p · ≈ 10h · Challenging Shares: Ancient Civilization, Civilization

Monde primitif, analysé et comparé avec le monde moderne .. Antoine Court de Gébelin · 1773 · 567p · ≈ 18h · Demanding Il gioco dei tarocchi, testo coltissimo quanto fantasioso, è contenuto nell’ottavo volume (1781) di Monde primitif analysé et comparé avec le monde moderne, monumentale opera di mitologia comparata scritta da Antoine Court de Gébelin, pastore protestante, massone ed erudito vicino agli illuministi. Senza questo piccolo saggio, quello che nel Settecento era un semplice gioco di carte non si… Shares: Ancient Civilization, Civilization, History

Les grands mythes fondateurs Florence Braunstein-Silvestre · 1995 · 190p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Shares: Ancient Civilization, Civilization, History

Coach Art Williams · 2006 · 321p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Now, for the first time, the complete story of A.L. Williams, told by the Coach himself! Art Williams shares the inspirational story of what it took to build a tiny "peanut" of a company into an industry giant. Full of heroes and villains, amazing victories and dashing defeats, this book is a must-read for anyone who's ever dreamed of building a team, of winning big, of doing what others said… Shares: Histoire, History

Le vicomte de Bragelonne, ou, dix ans plus tard Alexandre Dumas · 1848 · ★ 4.0 · 462p · ≈ 15h · Challenging In the months of March-July in 1844, in the magazine Le Siecle, the first portion of a story appeared, penned by the celebrated playwright Alexandre Dumas. It was based, he claimed, on some manuscripts he had found a year earlier in the Bibliotheque Nationale while researching a history he planned to write on Louis XIV. They chronicled the adventures of a young man named D'Artagnan who, upon… Shares: Histoire, History

Der Untergang des Abendlandes Oswald Spengler · 1918 · ★ 4.1 · 647p · ≈ 21h · Challenging Spengler's work describes how we have entered into a centuries-long "world-historical" phase comparable to late antiquity, and his controversial ideas spark debate over the meaning of historiography. Shares: Civilization, Histoire, History

Deadly Wedding Kate Parker · 2016 · 313p · ≈ 10h · Moderate New Cover. Corrections to Americanisms. Same great story. It's a challenge finding a killer when everyone in the family wanted the old man dead.Spring, 1938. Olivia Denis is ridiculed by her aristocratic, wealthy cousins. A weekend spent in their ancient mansion for an extravagant wedding feels like torture.On the morning of the wedding, the bride's grandfather is found brutally murdered. Then… Shares: Histoire, History

A Study of History Arnold J. Toynbee · 1900 · ★ 4.2 · 12p · ≈ 24m · Challenging A masterful attempt to describe a universal history. Staggering depth of scholarship and breath of thought. Shares: Civilization, Histoire, History

The lays of ancient Rome, with Ivry and the armada Thomas Babington Macaulay · 1851 · 188p · ≈ 6h · Challenging Shares: Histoire, History

White Nights Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 1961 · ★ 4.1 · 239p · ≈ 7h · Moderate White Nights by Fyodor Dostoyevsky is a poignant short story about love, loneliness, and fleeting human connections. Set in St. Petersburg during the ethereal "white nights" of summer, it follows a dreamy, solitary narrator who meets a young woman named Nastenka. Over four nights, he shares his fantasies and feelings, while she confides her longing for a lost lover. As the narrator falls in love… Shares: Histoire, History

The Queen's Man Sharon Kay Penman · 1996 · ★ 3.9 · 291p · ≈ 9h · Moderate The 12th Century sleuth, Justin de Quincy, investigates a murder which could shed light on a plot to usurp the crown of England. Prince John is scheming to unseat his brother, King Richard the Lionheart, who went missing as he was returning from a crusade. Shares: Civilization, History

A history of England in a series of letters from a nobleman to his son Oliver Goldsmith · 1764 · 512p · ≈ 17h · Demanding Book digitized by Google from the library of Oxford University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. Shares: Civilization, Histoire, History

Medieval Ghost Stories Andrew Joynes · 2001 · 176p · ≈ 5h · Moderate "Medieval Ghost Stories is a collection of ghostly occurences from the eighth to the fourteenth centuries; they have been found in monastic chronicles and preaching manuals, in sagas and heroic poetry, and in medieval romances. In a religious age, the tales bore a peculiar freight of spooks and spirituality which can still make hair stand on end; unfailingly, these stories give a fascinating and… Shares: Civilization, History

Hedendomen i historiens spegel Catharina Raudvere · 2005 · 205p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Bilden av det förgångna tolkas alltid genom de tankemönster samtiden tillhandahåller, och olika tider har därför skapat skiftande biler av historien. I Hedendomen i historiens spegel tecknar författarna en bild av hur fornnordiska texter fått olika betydelse under skilda epoker. För att kunna använda den norröna litteraturen med dess personligheter och händelser, myter och ritualer som källa… Shares: Civilization, History

Tíminn og eldurinnEinar Pálsson.

Tíminn og eldurinn Einar Pálsson. · 1972 · 430p · ≈ 14h · Moderate Shares: Civilization, History

The road to Little Dribbling Bill Bryson · 2015 · ★ 3.9 · 486p · ≈ 16h · Moderate Twenty years ago, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to discover and celebrate that green and pleasant land. The result was Notes from a Small Island, one of the bestselling travel books ever written. Now he has traveled about Britain again, by bus and train and rental car and on foot, to see what has changed -- and what hasn't. Following a route he dubs the Bryson Line, from Bognor Regis… Shares: Civilization, History

Plays Francis Beaumont · 1778 · 475p · ≈ 15h · Demanding The text of the present volume was passed for press by Arnold Glover and some progress had been made in his lifetime in the collection of the material given in the Appendix. Mrs. Glover’s help has again been most valuable in the completion of the work. The Elder Brother is printed entirely in prose in the Second Folio, and I have therefore printed in the Appendix the play in verse, as it appeared… Shares: Histoire, History

By Right of Conquest G. A. Henty · 1890 · 378p · ≈ 12h · Challenging Roger Harkshaw and his father, Reuben, want to go to Mexico and try to establish trade with the natives. So, they climb on the  merchant ship Swan. But, the ship wrecks and Roger is the only survived, in Pre-Columbian Mexico. At the beginning, the natives treat him as a God, but they soon decide that he would be the perfect sacrifice for their real gods. For that purpose Roger is sent to a… Shares: Histoire, History

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