Books like All's Well That Ends Well
12 books with a reading profile close to All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare. Deep; a moderate read.
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1
Lady Chatterley’s Lover
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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2
Much Ado About Nothing
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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3
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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4
Wuthering Heights
by Emily Brontë
Also deep · romance, literary
Set against the desolate Yorkshire moors, this novel follows the volatile connection between Catherine Earnshaw and the foundling Heathcliff.
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5
Emma
by Jane Austen
Also deep · 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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6
Antony and Cleopatra
Also deep · romance, literary
This tragedy chronicles the political and romantic alliance between Mark Antony, a Roman triumvir, and Cleopatra, the Queen of Egypt.
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Ruy Blas
by Victor Hugo
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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8
This Side of Paradise
Also deep · romance, literary
Set in the years surrounding World War I, the narrative follows Amory Blaine, a wealthy and egoistic Midwesterner, from his pampered childhood through his education at Princeton University.
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9
The House of Mirth
Also deep · romance, literary
Lily Bart is a beautiful but impoverished socialite navigating the rigid hierarchy of Gilded Age New York.
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10
Corinne
by Germaine de Staël, Isabel Hill
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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11
The Professor
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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12
A Farewell to Arms
Also deep · romance, literary
Frederic Henry, an American paramedic serving with the Italian army during World War I, experiences the collapse of the front following the retreat from Caporetto.
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