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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Necklace and Other Short Stories
Guy de Maupassant · 119 pages
Père Goriot
Honore de Balzac · 284 pages
Set in the Paris of 1834, this novel tells the story of a 19th century counterpart to King Lear, a father blindly devoted to his daughters.
Tender Is the Night
F. Scott Fitzgerald · 349 pages
A psychiatrist, Dick Diver, treats and eventually marries a wealthy patient, Nicole. Eventually, this marriage destroys him.
La Dame aux Camélias
Alexandre Dumas fils · 215 pages
- Mon avis est qu'on ne peut creer des personnages que lorsque l'on a beaucoup etudie les hommes, comme on ne peut parler une langue qu'a la condition de l'avoir serieusement apprise.
A Tale of Two Cities / Great Expectations
Charles Dickens · 792 pages
[Tale of Two Cities](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL8721465W/A_Tale_of_Two_Cities) After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the ageing Doctor Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There the lives of the two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become e
Remembrance of Things Past: Volume I - Swann's Way & Within a Budding Grove
Marcel Proust · 1,136 pages
Nana
Emile Zola · 463 pages
Overview: Prompted by his theories of heredity and environment, Zola set out to show Nana, "the golden fly", rising out of the underworld to feed on society--a predetermined product of her origins. Nana's latent destructiveness is mirrored in the Empire's, and they reflect each others' disintegration and final collapse in 1890. Built around the book's scientific skeleton is a powerful, sensual atm
Dubliners
James Joyce · 226 pages
James Joyce's disillusion with the publication of Dubliners in 1914 was the result of ten years battling with publishers, resisting their demands to remove swear words, real place names and much else, including two entire stories. Although only 24 when he signed his first publishing contract for the book, Joyce already knew its worth: to alter it in any way would 'retard the course of civilisation
Wessex Tales
Thomas Hardy · 286 pages
A small short story collection - only five stories originally, though two more were added later. The usual Hardy themes were followed; class distinctions, marriage, the relationships between men and women and how they were viewed by society, etc.
Madame de Treymes
Edith Wharton · 102 pages
Madame de Treymes an important, early Edith Wharton novel about the differences between American and European society, published the year she left the United States to take up permanent residency in France. In a masterpiece of brevity, Wharton dramatizes the contrast between the two opposing forces: the simple and proper old brownstone New York, low in style but high in principle, and the achingly
The Little Match Girl
Hans Christian Andersen · 32 pages
Retelling Hans Christian Andersen's classic story of a poor young girl trying to sell matches on a bitterly cold winter night. As she lights her matches one by one for warmth, each small flame reveals comforting visions that momentarily lift her from the harshness of her world. Through these brief illuminations, the story contrasts the cruelty of her reality with the beauty of her hopes and dreams
The American
Henry James, William C. Spengemann · 459 pages
A reprint of Henry James' "The America" that includes a textual history of the novel, background and source materials, and critical articles by James and others.
The Rocking Horse Winner
D.H. Lawrence · 64 pages
A boy growing up in a household where there is no love and no luck but always a shortage of money develops an uncanny ability to pick horse-race winners while furiously riding his wooden rocking-horse.
Suite Française
Irene Nemirovsky · 426 pages
Écrit dans le feu de l'Histoire, Suite française dépeint presque en direct l'Exode de juin 1940, qui brassa dans un désordre tragique des familles françaises de toute sorte, des plus huppées aux plus modestes. Avec bonheur, Irène Némirovsky traque les innombrables petites lâchetés et les fragiles élans de solidarité d'une population en déroute. Cocottes larguées par leur amant, grands bourgeois dé
Down and Out in Paris and London
George Orwell · 213 pages
'You have talked so often of going to the dogs – and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them.' George Orwell's vivid memoir of his time among the desperately poor and destitute in London and Paris is a moving tour of the underworld of society. Here he painstakingly documents a world of unrelenting drudgery and squalor – sleeping in bug-infested hostels and doss houses, working as a dish
Of Human Bondage
W. Somerset Maugham · 582 pages
Of Human Bondage is a moving exploration of loneliness, obsessive love, and a young man's search for meaning and direction in life. Written in the third person, it tells the story of Philip Carey, a self-conscious orphan with a club-foot who learns medicine. Not only is this a significant work in the Bildungsroman tradition, but its largely autobiographical basis gives it a special interest in vie
The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer · 506 pages
A collection of stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer at the end of the 14th century. The tales (mostly in verse, although some are in prose) are told as part of a story-telling contest by a group of pilgrims as they travel together on a journey from Southwark to the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral. In a long list of works, including Troilus and Criseyde, Hous
Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories
Flannery O'Connor · 269 pages
The death of Flanner O'Connor at thirty-nine marked the loss of one of America's most gifted contemporary writers at the height of her powers. This volume is the collection on which she was working at the time of her death. Each of the nine stores carries her highly individual stamp, and could have been writte by no one else. Everything That Rises Must Converge is the most worth memorial that Flan
Jazz Age Stories
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Patrick O'Donnell · 427 pages
Presents a collection of short stories from early twentieth-century author F. Scott Fitzgerald including "The Ice Palace," "May Day," "The Four Fists," and more.