Books like La dame aux camélias
12 books with a reading profile close to La dame aux camélias by Alexandre Dumas fils. Inward-looking; a moderate read.
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Paul and Virginia
Also inward-looking · 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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The Painted Veil
Also inward-looking · 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 · 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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Agnes Grey
by Anne Brontë
Also inward-looking · romance, literary
Agnes Grey follows the daughter of an impoverished clergyman who seeks financial independence by working as a governess for landed families.
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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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Lady Susan
by Jane Austen
romance, literary
Lady Susan Vernon is a widow who uses manipulation and social maneuvering to secure her financial future.
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Lady Chatterley’s Lover
Also inward-looking · 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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Brokeback Mountain
by Annie Proulx
Also inward-looking · romance, literary
Ennis del Mar and Jack Twist are two young ranch hands who spend a summer in 1963 herding sheep on Brokeback Mountain in Wyoming.
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9
Corinne
by Germaine de Staël, Isabel Hill
Also inward-looking · 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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10
Lettres portugaises
by Gabriel de Guilleragues, Mariana Alcoforado
Also inward-looking · romance, literary
Published anonymously in 1669, this epistolary novel consists of five letters written by a Portuguese nun, Mariana Alcoforado, to an absent French officer named Noël Bouton de Chamilly.
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Bonjour tristesse
Also inward-looking · romance, literary
Seventeen-year-old Cécile spends a restless summer on the French Riviera with her widowed father, Raymond, and his current mistress, Elsa.
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A Farewell to Arms
Also inward-looking · 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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