Books like Northanger Abbey
12 books with a reading profile close to Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen. Balanced in tone; a moderate read.
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1
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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2
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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3
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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4
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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5
Paul and Virginia
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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6
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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7
Agnes Grey
by Anne Brontë
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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8
All's Well That Ends Well
romance, literary
Helena, the orphaned daughter of a physician, uses her father’s medical secrets to cure the King of France of a terminal fistula.
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9
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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10
A Farewell to Arms
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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11
The Painted Veil
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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12
La dame aux camélias
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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