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The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 323 times as epics)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,208,162 ratings — published -800
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 250 times as epics)
avg rating 3.93 — 515,690 ratings — published -800
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 201 times as epics)
avg rating 3.50 — 349,538 ratings — published 1000
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 180 times as epics)
avg rating 3.88 — 144,919 ratings — published -19
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 172 times as epics)
avg rating 3.76 — 120,494 ratings — published -2000
Paradise Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 122 times as epics)
avg rating 3.86 — 184,181 ratings — published 1667
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
by (shelved 99 times as epics)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,757,931 ratings — published 1996
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as epics)
avg rating 4.09 — 174,494 ratings — published 1320
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 80 times as epics)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,181,978 ratings — published 1954
A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, #2)
by (shelved 76 times as epics)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,029,457 ratings — published 1998
Inferno (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 65 times as epics)
avg rating 4.03 — 208,311 ratings — published 1321
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as epics)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,501,773 ratings — published 1937
The Song of Roland (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as epics)
avg rating 3.50 — 19,441 ratings — published 1115
A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, #3)
by (shelved 63 times as epics)
avg rating 4.55 — 852,462 ratings — published 2000
A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire, #4)
by (shelved 59 times as epics)
avg rating 4.17 — 797,838 ratings — published 2005
Metamorphoses (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as epics)
avg rating 4.10 — 79,035 ratings — published 8
The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1)
by (shelved 57 times as epics)
avg rating 4.66 — 686,468 ratings — published 2010
The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)
by (shelved 53 times as epics)
avg rating 4.50 — 1,141,988 ratings — published 1954
Mahabharata (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as epics)
avg rating 4.32 — 12,240 ratings — published 1951
The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)
by (shelved 50 times as epics)
avg rating 4.58 — 1,055,436 ratings — published 1955
A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5)
by (shelved 50 times as epics)
avg rating 4.34 — 743,332 ratings — published 2011
The Kalevala (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as epics)
avg rating 4.05 — 6,165 ratings — published 1835
The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as epics)
avg rating 4.07 — 13,316 ratings — published 1957
The Nibelungenlied (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as epics)
avg rating 3.82 — 9,015 ratings — published 1200
The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)
by (shelved 44 times as epics)
avg rating 4.52 — 1,093,431 ratings — published 2007
The Lord of the Rings (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as epics)
avg rating 4.54 — 735,982 ratings — published 1959
The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
by (shelved 41 times as epics)
avg rating 4.35 — 838,546 ratings — published 1989
Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as epics)
avg rating 4.52 — 5,733 ratings — published 1010
The Eye of the World (The Wheel of Time, #1)
by (shelved 40 times as epics)
avg rating 4.19 — 599,224 ratings — published 1990
War and Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as epics)
avg rating 4.17 — 369,199 ratings — published 1869
Words of Radiance (The Stormlight Archive, #2)
by (shelved 39 times as epics)
avg rating 4.76 — 500,497 ratings — published 2014
Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
by (shelved 39 times as epics)
avg rating 4.49 — 1,005,588 ratings — published 2006
The Faerie Queene (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as epics)
avg rating 3.59 — 17,387 ratings — published 1590
Jason and the Golden Fleece (The Argonautica)
by (shelved 35 times as epics)
avg rating 3.82 — 11,527 ratings — published -250
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as epics)
avg rating 3.76 — 78,663 ratings — published 1375
The Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as epics)
avg rating 4.26 — 12,643 ratings — published 1270
Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
by (shelved 34 times as epics)
avg rating 4.58 — 251,375 ratings — published 1985
Shōgun (Asian Saga, #1)
by (shelved 33 times as epics)
avg rating 4.41 — 215,050 ratings — published 1975
The Bhagavad Gita (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as epics)
avg rating 4.19 — 82,465 ratings — published -400
The Well of Ascension (Mistborn, #2)
by (shelved 32 times as epics)
avg rating 4.38 — 675,950 ratings — published 2007
Don Quixote (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as epics)
avg rating 3.91 — 308,285 ratings — published 1615
The Silmarillion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as epics)
avg rating 4.04 — 339,926 ratings — published 1977
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as epics)
avg rating 3.57 — 621,002 ratings — published 1851
Gone With the Wind (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as epics)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,261,143 ratings — published 1936
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as epics)
avg rating 4.10 — 942,078 ratings — published 1878
The Prose Edda: Norse Mythology (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as epics)
avg rating 4.15 — 15,916 ratings — published 1220
Les Misérables (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as epics)
avg rating 4.21 — 849,034 ratings — published 1862
The Lusiads (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as epics)
avg rating 3.98 — 9,527 ratings — published 1572
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
by (shelved 29 times as epics)
avg rating 4.62 — 4,145,203 ratings — published 2007
“Per ogni mito narrato, c'è un mito non narrato e innominato che gli accenna dall'ombra, affiorando per allusioni, schegge, coincidenze, senza che mai un autore osi raccontarlo di seguito come una singola storia.”
― Le nozze di Cadmo e Armonia
― Le nozze di Cadmo e Armonia
“Tolkien, who created this marvellous vehicle, doesn't go anywhere in it. He just sits where he is. What I mean by that is that he always seems to be looking backwards, to a greater and more golden past; and what's more he doesn't allow girls or women any important part in the story at all. Life is bigger and more interesting than The Lord of the Rings thinks it is.”
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