+1's for Lord of the Rings (which was written to be a single volume, not a trilogy), for Dune, for Don Quixote, and for Moby Dick.
Also epic:
The Three Musketeers
Les Miserables
As A Driven Leaf, by Milton Steinberg
I, Claudius, by Robert Graves
A Tale of Two Cities
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea
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Dull sublunary lovers love,
Whose soul is sense, cannot admit
Absence, because it doth remove
That thing which elemented it.
(From "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" by John Donne)
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