Books like Evangeline
12 books with a reading profile close to Evangeline by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Balanced in tone; a moderate read.
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1
The Old Curiosity Shop
narrative, literary
Nell Trent lives in a London warehouse filled with dusty antiquities, cared for by her grandfather.
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2
Susan Lenox
narrative, literary
Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise follows an illegitimate girl born into a rigid Midwestern environment.
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3
Pickwick Papers
narrative, literary
Samuel Pickwick, a retired businessman and amateur scientist, establishes the Pickwick Club to document his travels across the English countryside with three companions: Winkle, Snodgrass, and Tupman.
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4
O Pioneers!
by Willa Cather
narrative, literary
Alexandra Bergson, a Swedish-American immigrant in late nineteenth-century Nebraska, inherits her father’s struggling farm amid a harsh prairie landscape.
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5
Hamlet: Screenplay, Introduction And Film Diary
narrative, literary
This volume provides the complete shooting script for Kenneth Branagh’s 1996 film adaptation of William Shakespeare’s tragedy.
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6
The Red Badge of Courage
narrative, literary
Henry Fleming is a young Union private during the American Civil War who enlists with romanticized visions of heroic combat.
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7
Empire Falls
narrative, literary
Miles Roby manages the Empire Grill, a greasy spoon in a decaying Maine logging town owned by the wealthy Whiting family.
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8
The Marriage Portrait
narrative, literary
In sixteenth-century Florence, Lucrezia di Cosimo de' Medici is forced to marry Alfonso II d'Este, Duke of Ferrara, following the sudden death of her older sister.
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9
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
by Victor Hugo, Walter J. Cobb
narrative, literary
In fifteenth-century Paris, the deformed bell-ringer Quasimodo lives within the stone walls of Notre-Dame Cathedral under the guardianship of Archdeacon Claude Frollo.
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10
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
narrative, literary
Set along the Mississippi River in the mid-19th century, these interconnected novels follow the lives of two boys navigating the constraints of antebellum society.
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11
Shirley
narrative, literary
Set in Yorkshire during the Napoleonic Wars, the narrative centers on the industrial unrest caused by the Orders in Council and the introduction of textile machinery.
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12
Mademoiselle Fifi
narrative, literary
Set during the Prussian occupation of France in the 1870s, this collection centers on the titular novella about a cruel Prussian officer nicknamed Mademoiselle Fifi for his effeminate mannerisms.
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