Books like L'Assommoir
12 books with a reading profile close to L'Assommoir by Émile Zola. Deep and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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1
The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews
Also deep and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
The narrative follows Joseph Andrews, a virtuous footman who is dismissed from service after resisting the aggressive sexual advances of his mistress, Lady Booby.
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2
Kim
Also deep · narrative, literary
Set against the backdrop of late nineteenth-century British India, the story follows Kimball O’Hara, an orphaned white boy living as a street-wise urchin in Lahore.
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3
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
by Victor Hugo, Walter J. Cobb
Also thought-provoking · 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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4
Susan Lenox
Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise follows an illegitimate girl born into a rigid Midwestern environment.
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5
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
Also thought-provoking · 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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6
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
by Ben Fountain
Also deep and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Billy Lynn is a nineteen-year-old American soldier who has become a hero after a firefight in Iraq, which was caught on camera.
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7
The works of Charles Dickens
Also deep and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
This 1877 collection compiles the narrative output of Victorian England’s most prominent novelist, spanning from early sketches to final unfinished manuscripts.
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8
Assommoir
by Émile Zola
Also deep and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
L’Assommoir documents the physical and moral decline of Gervaise Macquart, a laundress striving for domestic stability in the slums of Second Empire Paris.
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9
Pygmalion
Also deep and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Professor Henry Higgins, a specialist in phonetics, bets that he can pass off a Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, as a duchess by altering her speech and manners.
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10
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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11
Hard Times
Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary
In the industrial settlement of Coketown, Thomas Gradgrind raises his children, Louisa and Tom, according to a philosophy of cold rationalism and "Facts." He rejects imagination, emotion, and the arts, viewing human bei…
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
narrative, literary
Joe Kavalier, a magician and escape artist, flees Nazi-occupied Prague and arrives in New York City to live with his cousin, Sammy Clay.
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