Books like 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Illustrated): The Classic Edition with Original Illustrations'
Readers who enjoyed Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Illustrated): The Classic Edition with Original Illustrations by Jules Verne, Lewis Page Mercier, Catherine Miles & Milo Winter also liked the following books featuring the same tropes, story themes, relationship dynamics and character types.
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Ponniyin Selvan - Part 3 by Kalki
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThis ebook is a product of Kizhakku pathippagam, which is a imprint of New Horizon Media Private Limited (NHM)... -
![Disney's The Little Mermaid (A Little Golden Book) by Michael Teitelbaum]()
Disney's The Little Mermaid (A Little Golden Book) by Michael Teitelbaum
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsMore than anything else, Princess Ariel longs to visit the world of humans... -
![Bay of Fear by Kathryn Le Veque]()
Bay of Fear by Kathryn Le Veque
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA classic Medieval-Gothic love story complete with ghostly wanderings, a spooky castle, and a damsel in distress. Baiadepaura Castle on the storm-swept cliffs of Cornwall is a place where scary things go bump in the knight! **************** In the Dark Ages on a remote coast of Cornwall, there was a legend of a wicked lord who was boiled to death for his deeds... -
![Legacy by Sheridan Anne]()
Legacy by Sheridan Anne
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDeath was to become me.Death was my fate.But I’ve never been one to follow the rules.Zade, Cross, Dalton, and Sawyer stormed into my life with their cocky grins and bad attitudes. And for a while, I believed they were going to protect me. But nothing could prepare me for what’s to come.I need to run, need to get away from Empire, but there’s nowhere I can go where they won’t find me... -
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![The Man Who Laughs by Victor Hugo]()
The Man Who Laughs by Victor Hugo
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsVictor Hugo's The Man Who Laughs (first published under the French title L'Homme qui Rit in April 1869) is a sad and sordid tale -- not the sort of tale of the moment Hugo was known for. It starts on the night of January 29, 1690, a ten-year-old boy abandoned -- the stern men who've kept him since infancy have wearied of him... -
![Moonraker's Bride by Madeleine Brent]()
Moonraker's Bride by Madeleine Brent
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsBorn in a Mission in China, Lucy Waring finds herself with fifteen small children to feed and care for. The way she tackles this task leads to her being thrown into the grim prison of Chengfu, where she meets Nicholas Sabine - a man about to die.He asks her a cryptic riddle, the mystery of which echoes through all that befalls her in the months that follow..Categorized as:
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![The Hardest Ride by Gordon L. Rottman]()
The Hardest Ride by Gordon L. Rottman
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsBook 1 in the bestselling “Ride” series, which won the Western Fictioneers Peacemaker Award for Best Western Novel 2014 Western Fictioneers Peacemaker Award Finalist for Best First Western Novel 2014 Western Writers of America Spur Award Finalist for Best Traditional Western Novel for 2013. The Texas-Mexico border, the winter of 1886—The Great Die Up. A raw rift separates Mexicans and Anglos...Categorized as:
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![Arabian Love Poems by Nizar Qabbani, Bassam K. Frangieh]()
Arabian Love Poems by Nizar Qabbani, Bassam K. Frangieh
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThis translation of Nizar Kabbani's poetry is accompanied by the striking Arabic texts of the poems, penned by Kabbani especially for this collection. Kabbani was a poet of great simplicity - direct, spontaneous, musical, using the language of everyday life. He was a ceasless campaigner for women's rights, and his verses praise the beauty of the female body, and of love... -
![Condemned & Admired: The Earl's Cunning Wife by Bree Wolf]()
Condemned & Admired: The Earl's Cunning Wife by Bree Wolf
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA French privateer’s daughter. A marquess’s son. And a chance encounter on the high seas. Twelve years ago, Lady Silcox fled England with her six-year-old daughter Violet to spare her the life she herself had been forced into: an arranged marriage to an older man... -
![The Hidden Hand by E.D.E.N. Southworth]()
The Hidden Hand by E.D.E.N. Southworth
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsE.D.E.N. Southworth was one of the most popular and prolific writers of the nineteenth century and her Capitola Black, or Black Cap—a cross-dressing, adventure-seeking girl-woman—was so well-loved that the book was serialized three times between 1859 and 1888 and was dramatized in forty different versions...Categorized as:
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![Chander & Sudha by Dharamvir Bharati]()
Chander & Sudha by Dharamvir Bharati
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn the idyllic university town, young women daydreamed as they lay on the grass and gazed up at the clouds. Young men took morning walks at Alfred Park. Hot summer afternoons were for drinking sherbet and eating watermelons, and evenings for reading poetry. It was also a time of stifling social mores, and love was an unattainableideal seldom realized... -
![Marble Dance by Lygia Fagundes Telles]()
Marble Dance by Lygia Fagundes Telles
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThis haunting psychological portrait of three sisters--Virginia, Octavia, and Bruna--explores the pleasures and torments of sexuality in the world of the wealthy Brazilian... -
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The Captain's Verses by Pablo Neruda
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsNew Directions celebrates the Pablo Neruda Centennial. In celebration of the 100th anniversary of Pablo Neruda's birth, New Directions is pleased to announce the reissue of a classic work in a timeless translation by Donald D. Walsh and fully bilingual... -
![Don't Speak by Dyan Layne]()
Don't Speak by Dyan Layne
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe heart always knows what it wants.Molly wants him. He wants her.She loves him the mostest. Aidan loves her more.Even though he shouldn’t.He’s heard the whispers. Nothing but a tragedy. A freak who hasn’t spoken since he was five.And her stepbrother.The heart always knows what it wants.He loved her anyway.But their world isn’t safe.Nightmares are real. The boogeyman exists... -
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![The Far Horizon by Marsha Canham]()
The Far Horizon by Marsha Canham
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Far Horizon is the fourth and final installment in the Award-Winning Pirate Wolf series. The series follows the Dante family through forty years of turbulent sea adventures, beginning with the patriarch fighting alongside Sir Francis Drake, and ending with Jonas Dante's pursuit of revenge.Jonas Dante is the eldest son of Simon Dante, the infamous Pirate Wolf... -
![Going Hard by Jayne Rylon]()
Going Hard by Jayne Rylon
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis book can be read as a standalone book in the Divemasters world. Three SCUBA instructors, who happen to be sexual dominants, are about to take the ultimate plunge. If you’re extraordinarily lucky, you’ll be invited to join them on The Divemaster, where work and pleasure go hand in hand... -
![Bulldog by Delta James]()
Bulldog by Delta James
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsShe wears the collar because she is his. She is his because her body knew its master.The moment Olivia Miles resorted to fighting dirty in a fencing match, Lord Nigel Pederson decided to teach her a shameful lesson, but as her quivering bottom reddened under his punishing hand the arousal pooling between her thighs made it clear she needs to be mastered completely... -
![Beautiful Devil by Piper Stone]()
Beautiful Devil by Piper Stone
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsI made my name and my fortune carrying out every hit with absolute precision. But this time it wasn’t a job, it was personal, and something went horribly wrong. This time there was a witness... -
![Ravenous Predator by Piper Stone]()
Ravenous Predator by Piper Stone
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFor years I’ve run my family’s organization in Philadelphia, ruling the city’s underworld with an iron first. I thought no one would dare to steal from me… until someone did. Now she must pay... -
![Primal Instinct by Piper Stone]()
Primal Instinct by Piper Stone
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsI was sent to Alaska to gather evidence against corporations dumping toxic chemicals into the ocean... -
![The Owl and the Pussycat by Edward Lear]()
The Owl and the Pussycat by Edward Lear
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsEdward Lear's nonsense poem about two unlikely sweethearts--an elegant owl and a beautiful cat--has found a perfect match in artist Jan Brett. She traveled to the Caribbean (the land where the Bong-tree grows, perhaps?) to research her illustrations as well as the settings, costume details, plants, and fish native to the area... -
![Lady and the Tramp by Walt Disney Company]()
Lady and the Tramp by Walt Disney Company
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsLady, a pampered Cocker Spaniel, loves living with Jim Dear and Darling. Then one day the couple goes away on vacation and leaves the mean Aunt Sarah in charge. When Lady becomes frightened and runs away, Tramp, the neighborhood mutt, takes her under his paw... -
![Angelique, the Road to Versailles by Anne Golon]()
Angelique, the Road to Versailles by Anne Golon
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsHistorical Romance Large Print Edition For Ang lique, 17th-century Paris is a city of wild love and vicious hatred. Penniless, alone and sworn to take revenge on those who were responsible for her husband s death, she plunges into the dangerous underworld of the city to the nightmare Court of Miracles, a world of deformity, degradation, violence and lust...Categorized as:
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![The Reliance by M.L. Tyndall]()
The Reliance by M.L. Tyndall
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsTormented by his wife's apparent demise, Edmund Merrick sails away to drown his sorrows--only to find himself trapped in the dark world of a demented Frenchman. When his mind clears from its rum-induced haze, will Edmund find the will to escape? Seemingly abandoned by her husband, Charlisse is thrown into the clutches of the vengeful pirate Kent...Categorized as:
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![Playing the Part by Jen Turano]()
Playing the Part by Jen Turano
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsLucetta Plum is an actress on the rise in New York City, but is forced to abandon her starring role when a fan's interest turns threatening. Lucinda's widowed friend, Abigail Hart, is delighted at the opportunity to meddle in Lucetta's life and promptly whisks her away to her grandson's estate to hide out... -
![Angelique: The Marquise of Angels by Anne Golon]()
Angelique: The Marquise of Angels by Anne Golon
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe story begins in 1648 during a time of insurrection, terror and revolt in a divided France. Angélique de Sance de Monteloup, a vibrant twelve-year-old tomboy, is the daughter of a simple nobleman impoverished by taxes and other burdens...Categorized as:
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![Lady Sun: Marni MacRae by Marni MacRae]()
Lady Sun: Marni MacRae by Marni MacRae
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSophia has booked the vacation of a lifetime. A week on a deserted island. Hoping for a retreat and recharge from her life in the middle of a Northwest winter, she sets out to enjoy seclusion and sun in paradise. Flying halfway around the world, Sophia boards the yacht chartered to take her to the secluded island in the Maldives. There she meets Lucas, a fellow vacationer... -
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Used by Marlee Wray
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLaurelHe's a beautiful monster. An infamous criminal assassin with such stunning good looks they take my breath away. I should know better than to cross him, but I'm trapped. And my shocking punishment at his hands is rough and shameful.TrickShe's the perfect bait. The law wants me in jail. My enemies want me dead. And someone's found just the right weapon to use against me..Categorized as:
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![Damaged Doll by Jennifer Bene]()
Damaged Doll by Jennifer Bene
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe long-awaited sequel to Breaking Beth is finally coming July 2022, pre-order now! "I'm too broken for love." After everything Beth has been through, all she wants is to feel normal.To be normal.But the weight of her past won't let her go easily. "Wanting her is wrong." All Jake wants is to be a hero.To save as many as he can from the monsters of this world... -
![Stolen Princess by Julia Sykes]()
Stolen Princess by Julia Sykes
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“You are a monster, Max.”Max Ferrara warned me that he was a monster, but I didn’t want to believe him. I wanted to heal the scarred mafia prince and surrender to the fiery chemistry we shared.Until he crushed my heart, and then I finally understood. He’s loyal to his criminal family, no matter how much I wish he were a good man...Categorized as:
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![Angelique in Love by Anne Golon]()
Angelique in Love by Anne Golon
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFleeing the ruthless persecution of Louis XIV, Angelique, the most hunted woman in France, is finally forced to seek refuge on the high seas. With the outcast Huguenots, she embarks for the New World aboard a mysterious pirate vessel whose masked, enigmatic commander is Rescator, Black-sheathed spectre of her past... -
![Angelique in Revolt by Anne Golon, Marguerite Barnett]()
Angelique in Revolt by Anne Golon, Marguerite Barnett
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe beautiful setting of the Poitou region makes a stunning contrast with the story which often boils over into bloody violence. The political situation is destined to bring multiple tragedies for Angélique and, after enjoying a moment of revenge, finds that she is pregnant with an unwanted daughter...Categorized as:
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![Ten Years Later, Vol. 1: A Lover and His Mistress by Alexandre Dumas]()
Ten Years Later, Vol. 1: A Lover and His Mistress by Alexandre Dumas
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe serial chronicles the adventures of D'Artagnan -- a young swordsman intent on joining the king's musketeers. Young D'Artagnan becomes embroiled in court intrigues, international politics, and ill-fated affairs between royal lovers. The book at hand is the second volume of the third serial...Categorized as:
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![Tregaron's Daughter by Madeleine Brent]()
Tregaron's Daughter by Madeleine Brent
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsExcitement, drama and suspense were only part of Cadi Tregaron's new life. It had been a sunny afternoon when she glanced from the cliff where she sat reading and saw below her in the sea a sight that would change her life... -
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![The Bracelet of Garnets and Other Stories by Aleksandr Kuprin, Leo Pasvolsky]()
The Bracelet of Garnets and Other Stories by Aleksandr Kuprin, Leo Pasvolsky
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThis scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages... -
![Two Twisted Crowns by Rachel Gillig]()
Two Twisted Crowns by Rachel Gillig
Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsIn the luscious, dark sequel to One Dark Window, Elspeth must face the consequences of what she's wrought - perfect for readers of Hannah Whitten's For the Wolf and Alexis Henderson's The Year of the Witching.Elspeth and Ravyn have gathered most of the twelve Providence Cards, but the last, and most important one remains to be found: The Twin Alders... -
![Demon by Mikhail Lermontov]()
Demon by Mikhail Lermontov
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThis book contains the Russian text of Lermontov's Demon, edited with an English language introduction and... -
![For Love of the Phantom by Davyne DeSye]()
For Love of the Phantom by Davyne DeSye
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJoin the Phantom, Christine and Raoul in this unabashedly romantic sequel to one of the best loved stories of all times!This sequel to Gaston Leroux's Phantom of the Opera begins just after Christine and Raoul leave the Phantom in his lair in the basement of the Opera House... -
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Alpha's Loyalty by Lola Gabriel
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAfter breaking out of prison, Rayven must learn to trust Scout. He’s a hot as hell alpha with dark secrets that unravel as they try to prove her innocence. When Rayven Stark finds herself in the wrong place at the wrong time, she is accused of the murder of a man she doesn't even know. Even though she insists that she is innocent, she is arrested... -
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![Dark Descent into Desire by J.J. Sorel]()
Dark Descent into Desire by J.J. Sorel
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHiding his past behind a veneer of sophistication and mystique, billionaire Blake Sinclair is extremely handsome, and by his own admission, an ineligible bachelor who doesn’t do relationships. Romance for him is art and beauty. But sex is sex. And he needs lots of it. He doesn’t connect the two. He’s never witnessed love in its finer form, for his youth was crippled by a difficult upbringing... -
![Shades by Marguerite Poland]()
Shades by Marguerite Poland
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSt Matthias Mission 1902: 'There are men who know that when you are finished with this war of yours and have raised your flag to the glory of your Empire - the one that we, as black men, are supposed to revere for having bestowed on us education, faith, prosperity and all the other high-sounding gifts - that you will sell us out - perhaps against the advance of metaphorical cattle - and say it... -
![Bride Of Pendorric / The Shadow Of Lynx / King Of The Castle / Mistress Of Mellyn by Victoria Holt]()
Bride Of Pendorric / The Shadow Of Lynx / King Of The Castle / Mistress Of Mellyn by Victoria Holt
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBride of Pendorric-Swept into marriage by the dashing young heir of Pendorric, Favel was dazed with happiness - until she realized someone wanted her to join the other legendary "Brides of Pendorric," who had all died so mysteriously, and so tragically. The Shadow of the Lynx-To be hated by Lynx would be terrifying and to be loved by him perhaps even more so... -
![The Short Stories of Lucy Maud Montgomery from 1907-1908 by L.M. Montgomery]()
The Short Stories of Lucy Maud Montgomery from 1907-1908 by L.M. Montgomery
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLucy Maud Montgomery was born at Clifton (now New London), Prince Edward Island, Canada, on November 30, 1874. She achieved international fame in her lifetime, putting Prince Edward Island and Canada on the world literary map. Best known for her "Anne of Green Gables" books, she was also a prolific writer of short stories and poetry...Categorized as:
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![Logan by Carole Mortimer]()
Logan by Carole Mortimer
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLOGAN (Steele Protectors 1) is the 1st book in USA Today and Amazon #1 Bestselling Author, Carole Mortimer’s, BRAND NEW Contemporary Romantic Suspense series. Author’s Note: Beware of the very sexy & very alpha Steele brothers. These books are HOT! LOGAN Steele is having a bad day. Well…after being shot, and almost dying, he’s having a bad month... -
![Savage Hero by Logan Fox]()
Savage Hero by Logan Fox
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsI should have killed her. Instead, I kept her.What does the son of a drug lord usually do with the assassin who tried to kill his father?I'll tell you what they don't do.They don't kidnap them. They don't lock them up and keep them as a pet.But I've always been ruled by my impulses, by my need for violence and release.Nyx Gray only has herself to blame for landing on my radar... -
![In the Shadows by Julie Mellon]()
In the Shadows by Julie Mellon
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRescuing the damsel in distress might be the most challenging obstacle he’s ever faced.It was supposed to be a mundane week with simple surveillance, but Jason Powell’s assignment takes a drastic turn when a tiny sprite of a woman turns up at the Tip of the Spear safe house. The woman’s tale of woe stems from one bad decision to date the wrong man... -
![The Reign of Osiris by Anne Rice, Christopher Rice]()
The Reign of Osiris by Anne Rice, Christopher Rice
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe gilded adventures of Ramses the Damned, iconic creation of the legendary Anne Rice, continue in this breathtakingly suspenseful tale of a titanic supernatural power unleashed on the eve of war... -
![Tangled up in Lace by Charlotte Byrd]()
Tangled up in Lace by Charlotte Byrd
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsOur love isn’t like everyone else’s. I used to be a recluse, but no more. She helped me fight my dark past. Now, it’s my turn to help her. But she’s not here. I have to find her. I have to show her what I’m willing to do for her. She’s not impressed by my money and wealth and this is one thing I can’t buy... -
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Kodiak by Delta James
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHe's the biggest, baddest bear around... and he's claimed me as his mate.I didn't need to go to Kodiak Island to find a beast like him in the wild. He found me.He stripped me, spanked me, and then took me roughly and savagely.I ran from him, the thought of another night of brutal, desperate climaxes and quivering, screaming surrender far too shameful to contemplate...
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