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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Chaperone
Laura Moriarty · 419 pages
"A novel about the friendship between an adolescent, pre-movie-star Louise Brooks, and the 36-year-old woman who chaperones her to New York City for a summer, in 1922, and how it changes both their lives"--
The Fire-Dwellers
Margaret Laurence · 308 pages
Stacey McAindra vit à Vancouver. Elle a 39 ans et incarne la femme au foyer moderne auprès d'un époux insociable et de leurs quatre enfants. En dépit d'une position sociale contraignante, elle s'octroie des petits plaisirs non sans culpabiliser. Pour alimenter la monotonie de son quotidien, elle convoque son passé, cherchant à ne pas répéter les erreurs de sa mère et de sa soeur.
The Awakening
Kate Chopin · 190 pages
The Awakening is a novel by Kate Chopin, first published in 1899. Set in New Orleans and on the Louisiana Gulf coast at the end of the 19th century, the plot centers on Edna Pontellier and her struggle between her increasingly unorthodox views on femininity and motherhood with the prevailing social attitudes of the turn-of-the-century American South. It is one of the earliest American novels that
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
Rebecca Miller · 239 pages
Pippa seems to have everything in life. But suddenly she finds her world beginning to unravel. Amid the buzzing lawnmowers and suburban coffee mornings, she starts to wonder how she came to be in this place. The answer is a story of wild youth, unexpected encounters, affairs and betrayals, and the dangerous security of marriage. It brilliantly reveals the challenges of modern life - and all the po
The Forty Rules of Love
Elif Shafak, lyf shfq · 354 pages
The Atomic Weight of Love
Elizabeth J. Church · 352 pages
Capturing "the claustrophobic eras of 1940s and 1950s America, The Atomic Weight of Love also examines the changing roles of women during the decades that followed. And in Meridian Wallace we find an unforgettable heroine whose metamorphosis shows how the womens movement opened up the world for a whole generation."--Book jacket.
The Mermaid Chair
Sue Monk Kidd · 335 pages
It's about a woman named Jessie Sullivan who has to return to her former home Egret island to take care of her mother. Within a monastery resides a chair carved with mermaids that supposedly was dedicated to a mermaid.Jessie meet a monk and falls for him although she is already married.....
Open House
Elizabeth Berg · 241 pages
Five Days
Douglas Kennedy · 416 pages
For twenty years, Laura has been a good wife and mother. She's supported her husband through redundancy, she's worried about her son, she's encouraged her daughter. She has been constant, caring and selfless. She's stopped thinking about her own dreams, the places she'd like to go and the books she'd like to talk about. But a chance meeting with a man in a hotel lobby - and the five days that foll
The Vacationers
Emma Straub · 372 pages
Celebrating their thirty-fifth anniversary and their daughter's high-school graduation during a two-week vacation in Mallorca, Franny and Jim Post confront old secrets, hurts, and rivalries that reveal sides of themselves they try to conceal.
While I Was Gone
Sue Miller · 291 pages
The Engagements
J. Courtney Sullivan · 383 pages
"The story of four couples linked over several decades by one diamond ring, and the woman who launched the most famous diamond campaign in the world"--
Theatre
W. Somerset Maugham · 292 pages
Julia Lambert is in her prime, the greatest actress in England. Off stage, however, she is bored with her handsome husband, coquettish and undisciplined. She is at first flattered and amused by the attentions of a shy and eager young fan, but before long Julia is amazed to find herself falling wildly, dangerously, in love.Julia Lambert is in her prime, the greatest actress in England. Off stage, h
Breathing Lessons
Anne Tyler · 328 pages
While driving to the funeral of a friend, a couple married twenty-eight years examine the expectations and disappointments of their marriage.
The Doctor's Daughter
Hilma Wolitzer · 288 pages
Alice Brill struggles to come to terms with the hidden truths of her life--her unrealized aspirations as a writer, her lackadaisical marriage, her troubled younger son, and her father, who is slipping into senility in a nursing home.
The Summer Before the Dark
Doris Lessing · 248 pages
With her children grown and her husband away in America for several months, Kate Brown finds herself alone for the first time in twenty years.
The Jane Austen Book Club
Karen Joy Fowler · 296 pages
"In California's Central Valley, five women and one man join together to discuss Jane Austen's novels. Over the six months they meet, marriages are tested, affairs begin, unsuitable arrangements become suitable, and love happens." "Dedicated Austen readers will delight in unearthing the echoes of Austen that run through this novel, but many readers will simply enjoy the vision and voice that, desp
The Rainbow
D.H. Lawrence · 494 pages
(Brangwen Family #1) Lush with imagery, this is the story of three generations of Brangwen women living during the decline of English rural life. Banned upon publication, it explores the most taboo subjects of its time: marriage, physical love, and one family's sexual mores.
The Professor's House
Willa Cather · 283 pages
The professor's house was published in 1925, when she was fifty-two. At the time she was an author with a worldwide reputation, having won the Pulitzer Prize in 1923 for One of ours. Reaching the top of her profession had produced a letdown, and she later wrote that around the time she won the Pulitzer she had felt that for her the world had broken in two. The situation of the professor in this no
Rabbit Novels: Rabbit, Run and Rabbit Redux
John Updike · 640 pages
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Anne Bronte · 416 pages
**Librarian note: Alternate cover editions for this ISBN are: "Woman in white dress" (with the title on white and black background), "Woman at the easel" on a black and blue background, and "Furniture, easel and window".** ***Anne Brontë's second novel is a passionate and courageous challenge to the conventions supposedly upheld by Victorian society and reflected in circulating-library fiction.
Four Major Plays: A Doll's House / Ghosts / Hedda Gabler / The Master Builder
Henrik Ibsen · 384 pages
Henrik Ibsen's famous Victorian-Era plays 'A Doll's House', 'Ghosts', 'Hedda Gabler', and 'The Master Builder' are translated from Norwegian to English by James McFarlane and Jens Arup. This edition includes an introduction by James McFarlane, select bibliography, and a chronology of Henrik Ibsen.
Pavilion of Women: A Novel of Life in the Women's Quarters
Pearl S. Buck · 316 pages
A los cuarenta años, Madame Wu, esposa de un miembro de una de las dinastías de terratenientes más consideradas de China, abandona voluntariamente la vida matrimonial y busca una concubina para su marido. Su decisión cambia la vida de todos los que la rodean... A las puertas de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, la familia se enfrenta a la encrucijada entre tradición, comunismo y pensamiento occidental, c
Main Street
Sinclair Lewis · 451 pages
The first of his major novels of the 1920s, Sinclair Lewis's Main Street satirizes the manners of the American Middle West. Here is the story of Carol Kennicott, who, to be accepted, must adapt to the ways of Gopher Prairie, Minnesota. This groundbreaking novel attacks conformism, commercialism, moneygrubbing, and the decline in what Lewis saw as the American ideals of freedom and respect for indi