Books like The Old Curiosity Shop
12 books with a reading profile close to The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens. Balanced in tone; a moderate read.
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1
Evangeline
narrative, literary
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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2
Susan Lenox
narrative, literary
Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise follows an illegitimate girl born into a rigid Midwestern environment.
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3
Pickwick Papers
narrative, literary
Samuel Pickwick, a retired businessman and amateur scientist, establishes the Pickwick Club to document his travels across the English countryside with three companions: Winkle, Snodgrass, and Tupman.
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4
O Pioneers!
by Willa Cather
narrative, literary
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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5
Iki Sehrin Hikayesi
narrative, literary
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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6
Empire Falls
narrative, literary
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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7
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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8
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
by Victor Hugo, Walter J. Cobb
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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9
The Marriage Portrait
narrative, literary
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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10
Shirley
narrative, literary
Set in Yorkshire during the Napoleonic Wars, the narrative centers on the industrial unrest caused by the Orders in Council and the introduction of textile machinery.
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11
The Book of Longings
narrative, literary
Ana is the daughter of a wealthy advisor to Herod Antipas, living in a patriarchal society that forbids women from reading and writing.
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12
My Ántonia
by Willa Cather
narrative, literary
Jim Burden moves to the Nebraska frontier to live with his grandparents, where he befriends Ántonia Shimerda, the eldest daughter of Bohemian immigrants.
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