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Books like The Black Prince

Across BRITISH AND IRISH FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR) — 24 books that belong on the same shelf as The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch.

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Top related books to The Black Prince

Read-alikes chosen for how well they continue the mood, themes, and voice of The Black Prince.

Tess of the D’Urbervilles — Thomas Hardy

Tess of the D’Urbervilles

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Essential C. S. Lewis — Clive Staples Lewis

Essential C. S. Lewis

Clive Staples Lewis

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Just So Stories — Rudyard Kipling

Just So Stories

Rudyard Kipling

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Nostromo (The World’s Classics) — Joseph Conrad

Nostromo (The World’s Classics)

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The Go-Between (Penguin Classics) — L. P. Hartley

The Go-Between (Penguin Classics) — L. P. Hartley

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Sybil: Or, The Two Nations (Penguin Classics) — Benjamin Disraeli

Sybil: Or, The Two Nations (Penguin Classics)

Benjamin Disraeli

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Wordsworth: Selected Prose Writings (Penguin Classics) — William Wordsworth

Wordsworth: Selected Prose Writings (Penguin Classics)

William Wordsworth

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Emma — Jane Austen

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Northanger Abbey — Jane Austen

Northanger Abbey

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Anna of the Five Towns — Arnold Bennett

Anna of the Five Towns

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Thomas Carlyle Selected Writings — Thomas Carlyle

Thomas Carlyle Selected Writings

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The Portable Thomas Hardy — Thomas Hardy

The Portable Thomas Hardy

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John Caldigate — Anthony Trollope

Anthony Trollope

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Middlemarch (Critical Studies, Penguin) — Catherine Neale

Middlemarch (Critical Studies, Penguin)

Catherine Neale

Themes: BRITISH AND IRISH FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

The Human Factor — Graham Greene

The Human Factor

Themes: BRITISH AND IRISH FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

Maria Or, The Wrongs of Woman — Mary Wollstonecraft

Maria Or, The Wrongs of Woman

Mary Wollstonecraft

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The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale — Joseph Conrad

The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale

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Something I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You: 13 Stories — Alice Munro

Something I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You: 13 Stories

Themes: BRITISH AND IRISH FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

Life’s Handicap: Being Stories of My Own People — Rudyard Kipling

Life’s Handicap: Being Stories of My Own People

Rudyard Kipling

Themes: BRITISH AND IRISH FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

The Golden Lion of Granpere — Anthony Trollope

The Golden Lion of Granpere

Anthony Trollope

Themes: BRITISH AND IRISH FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol : With 45 Lost Gustave Dore Engravings (1861) and 130 Other Victorian Illustrations — Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol : With 45 Lost Gustave Dore Engravings (1861) and 130 Other Victorian Illustrations

Charles Dickens

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Red Classics Cranford — Elizabeth Gaskell

Red Classics Cranford

Elizabeth Gaskell

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Roxana The Fortunate Mistress — Daniel Defoe

Roxana The Fortunate Mistress

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Collected Short Stories — Aldous Huxley

Collected Short Stories

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This list brings together 24 books that share meaningful common ground with The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch. Connected by BRITISH AND IRISH FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR). Authors featured include Thomas Hardy, Clive Staples Lewis, Rudyard Kipling, Joseph Conrad, and others. Each pick was selected for thematic and literary overlap — not just genre similarity.

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