Books like The Good Soldier
12 books with a reading profile close to The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford. Deep, inward-looking, open-ended and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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Dom Casmurro
Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, literary
Bento Santiago, a retired man living in Rio de Janeiro, writes a memoir to explain why he earned the nickname Dom Casmurro.
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Wide Sargasso Sea
by Jean Rhys
Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, literary
Jean Rhys recontextualizes the silent madwoman from Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre by tracing her origins in the Caribbean.
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Hunger
by Knut Hamsun
Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, literary
Set in late nineteenth-century Kristiania, the narrative follows an unnamed, destitute writer struggling to maintain his dignity while starving.
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Howl and Other Poems
Also deep and inward-looking · literary, classic literature
Published in 1956, this collection centers on the title poem, a frantic catalog of mid-century American struggle.
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Oblomov
Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, literary
Ilya Ilyich Oblomov is a young Russian nobleman who lives in a state of terminal inertia within his dusty St.
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Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction
Also deep and inward-looking · literary, classic literature
J.D.
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Woyzeck
Also deep and inward-looking · literary, classic literature
Franz Woyzeck is a low-ranking soldier stationed in a provincial German town, struggling to provide for his common-law wife, Marie, and their infant son.
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Orlando
Also deep and open-ended · literary, classic literature
The narrative follows Orlando, a young Elizabethan nobleman who begins as a favorite of the court and lives for over three centuries without aging significantly.
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Othello
Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, literary
In seventeenth-century Venice and Cyprus, a high-ranking Moorish general named Othello secretly marries Desdemona, the daughter of a nobleman.
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Ojos de perro azul
Also deep and inward-looking · literary, classic literature
This collection of short stories documents the early development of Gabriel García Márquez’s narrative style before his shift into Macondo.
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, literary
Set on a Mississippi Delta cotton estate, the narrative centers on the Pollitt family during Big Daddy’s sixty-fifth birthday.
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Also deep and open-ended · literary, classic literature
The poem recounts a sailor’s harrowing sea voyage that spirals into disaster after he shoots an albatross without provocation.
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