Novels Like The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

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1. 

   The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

   by Mark Twain · Completed · 46 chapters

   Adventure · Comedy

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2. 

   Don Quixote

   by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra · Completed · 139 chapters

   Comedy · Adventure

   An aging gentleman, drunk on romances of chivalry, renames himself Don Quixote and rides out with his neighbor Sancho Panza to right wrongs across Spain....

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3. 

   Gulliver’s Travels

   by Jonathan Swift · Completed · 41 chapters

   Comedy

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4. 

   The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

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5. 

   Candide

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6. 

   Vanity Fair

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7. 

   The Decameron

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   In the time of a devastating pandemic, seven women and three men withdraw to a country estate outside Florence to give themselves a diversion from the death...

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8. 

   The Wheels of Chance

   by H. G. Wells · Completed · 26 chapters

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