Books like The Birth of Venus
12 books with a reading profile close to The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant. Balanced in tone; a moderate read.
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1
By Any Other Name
by Jodi Picoult
narrative, classic literature
This novel follows two women separated by centuries who both navigate the constraints placed on female authorship.
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2
Daughter of Fortune
narrative, classic literature
In mid-nineteenth-century Valparaiso, Eliza Sommers is raised as a foundling by a rigid British family.
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3
The Palace of Illusions
narrative, classic literature
This retelling of the Mahabharata is narrated by Panchaali, also called Draupadi, who emerges from a sacrificial fire to marry the five Pandava brothers.
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4
The Queen's Gambit
by Walter Tevis
narrative, classic literature
Eight-year-old Beth Harmon enters a Kentucky orphanage following her mother’s death, where she discovers a twin fixation on state-administered sedatives and the game of chess.
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5
Empire Falls
narrative, classic literature
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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6
Post Office
narrative, classic literature
Henry Chinaski is a hard-drinking, hard-gambling, constantly broke man who takes a job as a substitute mail carrier in Los Angeles.
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7
Iki Sehrin Hikayesi
narrative, classic literature
Set against the violent backdrop of the French Revolution, this narrative follows Charles Darnay, a French aristocrat seeking to escape his family heritage, and Sydney Carton, a cynical English lawyer.
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Hamlet: Screenplay, Introduction And Film Diary
narrative, classic literature
This volume provides the complete shooting script for Kenneth Branagh’s 1996 film adaptation of William Shakespeare’s tragedy.
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9
O Pioneers!
by Willa Cather
narrative, classic literature
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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10
Peace Like a River
by Leif Enger
narrative, classic literature
Set in 1962 Minnesota, the story follows eleven-year-old Reuben Land, an asthmatic boy who believes his father, Jeremiah, performs literal miracles.
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11
The Marriage Portrait
narrative, classic literature
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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Evangeline
narrative, classic literature
Set in 1755 during the Expulsion of the Acadians, this epic poem follows the separation of two lovers, Evangeline Bellefontaine and Gabriel Lajeunesse.
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