Books like Agnes Grey
12 books with a reading profile close to Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë. Inward-looking, contemplative and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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The Professor
Also thought-provoking · romance, literary
William Crimsworth rejects a future in the church and an inheritance from his aristocratic uncles to seek financial independence as a teacher in Brussels.
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Paul and Virginia
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · romance, literary
Bernardin de Saint-Pierre narrates the lives of two children raised according to the laws of nature on the remote island of Mauritius.
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3
La dame aux camélias
Also inward-looking · romance, literary
Set in mid-19th-century Paris, this novel recounts the tragic affair between Armand Duval, a young bourgeois lawyer, and Marguerite Gautier, a high-class courtesan known for her constant companion camellias.
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Emma
by Jane Austen
romance, literary
Emma Woodhouse is a wealthy, restless young woman living in the village of Highbury who occupies her time by orchestrating the romantic lives of her neighbors.
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Northanger Abbey
by Jane Austen
romance, literary
Catherine Morland, a sheltered seventeen-year-old with a vivid imagination fueled by Gothic novels, travels to Bath under the chaperonage of the Allen family.
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The Painted Veil
Also inward-looking and contemplative · romance, literary
In 1920s Hong Kong, Kitty Fane enters a loveless marriage with Walter, a reserved bacteriologist, to escape her demanding mother.
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Maurice
by E.M. Forster
Also inward-looking and contemplative · romance, literary
Maurice Hall is a middle-class young man who goes to Cambridge, where he falls in love with Clive Durham, a fellow student.
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8
Lady Chatterley’s Lover
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · romance, literary
Constance Chatterley is a young woman married to Clifford, a baronet paralyzed from the waist down in the First World War.
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Romeo and Juliet
Also inward-looking and contemplative · romance, literary
Set in the Italian city of Verona, this dramatic tragedy follows the lethal animosity between two noble houses, the Montagues and the Capulets.
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Much Ado About Nothing
Also thought-provoking · romance, literary
In the aftermath of a successful military campaign, the Prince of Aragon and his soldiers visit the estate of Leonato in Messina.
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Corinne
by Germaine de Staël, Isabel Hill
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · romance, literary
Set against the backdrop of an eighteenth-century Grand Tour, this novel centers on the intense intellectual and emotional connection between Lord Oswald Nelvil, a grieving Scottish aristocrat, and Corinne, a celebrated…
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Ruy Blas
by Victor Hugo
Also thought-provoking · romance, literary
In seventeenth-century Spain, Don Salluste de Bazan seeks revenge against Queen Maria de Neubourg after she exiles him for refusing to marry a lady-in-waiting.
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