Popular European Fantasy Books
Find fantasy books written by authors from Europe for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge. (311)
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El Principito by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ES
FranceDescription:
Un aviador encuentra un hombrecito de una otra planeta que busca lo que es lo más importante de la vida. [An aviator whose plane is forced down in the Sahara Desert encounters a little man from a small planet who describes his adventures in the universe seeking the secret of what is really important in life.].
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El Prncipe Feliz y otros cuentos by Oscar Wilde ES
IrelandDescription:
El príncipe feliz y otros cuentos, es una colección de cuentos escrita en 1888 por Oscar Wilde. Contiene cinco cuentos, de los cuales algunos, son conocidos mundialmente como. El gigante egoísta, El ruiseñor y la rosa La historia trata de un joven estudiante enamorado de una chica. Necesitaba una rosa roja para impresionarla y que así ella fuera al baile con él. Sólo tenía rosas blancas en su jardín, entonces se puso a llorar. Un ruiseñor le vio y este, ilusionado con la idea de que el joven pueda encontrar el amor verdadero, toma la decisión de sacrificar su vida para teñir una rosa roja con ... continue
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Elder Race by Adrian Tchaikovsky EN
Country: Europe / 
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
In Adrian Tchaikovsky's Elder Race, a junior anthropologist on a distant planet must help the locals he has sworn to study to save a planet from an unbeatable foe. Lynesse is the lowly Fourth Daughter of the queen, and always getting in the way. But a demon is terrorizing the land, and now she’s an adult (albeit barely) and although she still gets in the way, she understands that the only way to save her people is to invoke the pact between her family and the Elder sorcerer who has inhabited the local tower for as long as her people have lived here (though none in living memory has approached ... continue
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Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl EN
WalesDescription:
The adventures of Mr. Fox and three mean farmers who want to destroy the fox and his family.
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Fat-Frumos din lacrima by Mihai Eminescu RO
RomaniaDescription:
Mihai Eminescu is considered Romania's greatest poet. The Tear-Drop Prince is his only children's story and is popular throughout Romania. This is the tale of the Prince searching for true love, adventure and honour. Eminescu was born in 1850 and died in 1889. As a Romantic poet, his language reflects the sweetness in his language. The cover is illustrated by Emil Childescu and translated into English by A.I. Marin in 2011.
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Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe DE
GermanyDescription:
Den store tragedien om alkymisten og filosofen Faust er en av hjørnesteinenei tysk - og europeisk - litteratur. Det sentrale motivet er pakten Faust har inngått med djevelen: Faust skal få hjelp til å nå alle sine mål, men han skal miste sin sjel til det onde dersom han fristes til å holde fast ved øyeblikket og glemmer sin sannhetssøken og streben etter erkjennelse.
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Feuertaufe by Andrzej Sapkowski DE
PolandDescription:
In Nilfgaard wird die Verlobung des Kaisers mit Cirilla, Thronerbin von Cintra, proklamiert. Aber handelt es sich wirklich um die echte Ciri? GeraltGeralt macht sich auf den Weg nach Nilfgaard. Imner wieder zeigen ihm Wahrträume, dass Ciri in höchster Gefahr schwebt.
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First Lessons by Lina J. Potter EN
RussiaDescription:
A brilliant Medical school graduate Aliya, a sporty and active girl, dies suddenly in a car crash... only to find herself reborn in a completely different body, in the middle of a dilapidated castle during Medieval times. While confused and dismayed, Aliya realizes she has been given another chance at life -- so she rolls up her sleeves and gets to work on restoring her new castle and her new life. Aliya has an unusual and difficult goal: reborn as Countess Lilian; she must learn to adjust to an unfamiliar world while trying to introduce the daily conveniences from her familiar modern world. S... continue
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Flatland : A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin Abbott Abbott EN
EnglandDescription:
A humorous examination with serious overtones of the concepts of space, time, and dimension.
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For Love of Distant Shores (Tales of the Apt #3) by Adrian Tchaikovsky EN
Description:
A narrative reminiscent of Phileas Fogg meets Professor Challenger, featuring the exploits of scientist-cum-adventurer Doctor Ludweg Phinagler, as recorded by his (semi-)faithful assistant, Fosse. A maverick academic, Phinagler, mounts a series of expeditions, confronting ancient mysteries and deadly dangers.