Books like The Captain's Verses
12 books with a reading profile close to The Captain's Verses by Pablo Neruda. Inward-looking; an easy read.
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Bonjour tristesse
Also inward-looking · romance, classic literature
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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Brokeback Mountain
by Annie Proulx
Also inward-looking · romance, classic literature
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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Maurice
by E.M. Forster
Also inward-looking · romance, classic literature
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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La dame aux camélias
Also inward-looking · romance, classic literature
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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The Painted Veil
Also inward-looking · romance, classic literature
In 1920s Hong Kong, Kitty Fane enters a loveless marriage with Walter, a reserved bacteriologist, to escape her demanding mother.
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Corinne
by Germaine de Staël, Isabel Hill
Also inward-looking · romance, classic literature
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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Lettres portugaises
by Gabriel de Guilleragues, Mariana Alcoforado
Also inward-looking · romance, classic literature
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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A Farewell to Arms
Also inward-looking · romance, classic literature
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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Bilinmeyen Bir Kadının Mektubu
by Stefan Zweig
Also inward-looking · romance, classic literature
A famous Viennese novelist receives a long letter on his birthday from a woman he does not remember.
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Lady Chatterley’s Lover
Also inward-looking · romance, classic literature
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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If Beale Street Could Talk
Also inward-looking · romance, classic literature
Set in 1970s Harlem, the story follows nineteen-year-old Tish Rivers and her fiancé, Fonny Hunt, an aspiring sculptor.
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The Lover
Also inward-looking · romance, classic literature
Set in 1930s French Indochina, the narrative centers on a fifteen-year-old French girl from a financially destitute family who begins a clandestine affair with a wealthy Chinese heir.
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